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Will the Querent
succeed in an Ac-
tion to recover Da-
mages which he is
about to commence?

December 16,

]824. .
Horary.

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TO THE EDITOR OF « THE SPIRIT OF
PARTRIDGE.”

Sir, | |
Tue inclosed horary figure relates toa matter —
in which I have very much at stake, if you will favour me
with your judgment, you will muéh oblige au admirer of
your Work, aud

Monday Morning, | A YOUNG ASTROLOGER.
December 20th, 1824. |

JUDGMENT
ON THE ANNEXED FIGURE.

Tuer ascendant and its lord, with the Moon, are signifi-
cators of the querent; and the seventh and its lord, are
sigtificators of the adversary. Here we find the Moon in
sextile to Mercury and Herschel, and separating from a
square of Mars (lord of the tenth and disposer of the Moon *
applying to a partile square of Jupiter (lord of the niuth,
and disposer of the Sun, lord of the ascendant). The Sua,

. lord of the ascendant, is posited in tlie fifth, separatiug
from a trine of Jupiter (lord of the ninth), who is retrograde

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in the ascendant, in opposition to Mars (lord of the teuth
and disposer of the Moon) all of which are exceedingly un-
" favourable towards the querent gaining the suit, Se-.
condly, we observe that Saturn, lord of the seventh, above
the Earth, retrograde in his own dignities, in reception
* with Mercury, and disposing of Mercury, Herschel, Veuus,
and Mars; and Saturn in sextile to Jupiter and in trine
to Mars, is by no means favourable to the querent ;
therefore, on the whole we should recommend the querent
to defer this intended action, as we feel certain he would
lose money by the suit, :

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Further Remarks on the Figure.

Mars, lord of the tenth (significator of the judge and
disposer of the Moon), in opposition to the ascendant .and
in trine to Saturn (his disposer) lord of the seventh, is,

= without doubt, a most favourable symbol that the quesited

, would gain the suit. Also b in x to %, and in A to
£» lords of the quesited's 11th and 4th, signifies the
same.

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EFFECTS OF ASPECTS.

(Continued from Page 301.]
The Conjunction of Saturn and Mercury,

Ir Saturn be significator, makes the querent subtle and
crafty, fond of researches into antiquity, one of consider»

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able learning, and much gravity, though not always of the
most agreeable manners. If Mercury be siguificator, he
is dull, suspicious, mean, cowardly, calculating and co-
vetous ; ; should he turn his attention to literature, he may
gain some knowledge, although with great labour, and
should he be an author, his writings may bring him into
some disgrace. |

The Conjunction of Saturn with the Moon.

If Saturn be significator, makes the person restless, un-
settled in his purposes, and often changing his residences
not very fortunate, though he may sometimes benefit by
the populace and the lower order of women “If the Moon
be significator, he is poor, miserable, and dejected, of un- `
pleasant manners aud sullen ‘disposition, extremely unfor-
tunate, and though possessing scarcely any property, he is
uncommonly covetous; with much suspicious caution, he
frequently commits the most unaccountable errors in
affairs of the greatest importance, as, through excess of
prudence, he is very likely te doubt and deliberate in the
anomeut for action. |

The Conjunction-of Jupiter and Mars,

The latter being significator, the querent is bold, proud,
and ambitious, fond of martial enterprises and exploits, a
good soldier or surgeon, though he may lose much hy
strife and contention, and sometimes receive wounds in
quarrels. lf Jupiter be siguificator, he is good, pious, and
just; he ig eminently successful in the law or. the church,
nd often makes a fortune by these means. .

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The Conjunction of Jupiter and the Sun,

Wf Jupiter be siguificator, renders the querent weak,
eredulous, and servile; he iucurs the displeasure of men
in power, by whom he is much oppressed, and often
ruined; he has bad health, and is generally a vain loqua-
cious character, indulging in fanciful speculations about
religion and other matters, for which he is totally unqua-
lified. If Jupiter be significator, his power is so mucii
destroyed by the power of the Sun, that he has but very
little effect, though some say the person will be very re-
ligious —— | |

The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus,

' W Jupiter be significator, ptoibises the greatest happi-
mess; the querent is highly favoured by the female sex,
by whose nieatis he gains great advancement; he is rich,
prosperous, and fortunate, very healthy, ahd greatly ad-
mired and respected. If Venus be significator, it denotes
great beauty of person, tiches, honouts, ecclesiastical pre-
ferment; the petson so represented js truly virtuous,
pious, kind, and beneficent to all, with the greatest good-
ness of heaft, and a dispositiói that will command univer-
sal esteem ahd love, — '

' Thè Conjunction of Jupftef and Mercury.

If Jupiter be éignificator, makes a man of great learn-
ing, a good lawyer or divine, of éxcellent abilities and
much information, If Mercury be significator, he is mile.
humane, religious, fond of literature, possessing an elegaut.
mind and a geutle engaging disposition; he is raised to.

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eminence, and, protected by powerful patrons, he ac-
‘cumulates great riches, and is in general extremely
fortunate.

The Conjunction of the Moon and J upiter.

If the latter be significator, makes the person so repre-
sented restless aud changeable, though seldom sutliciently
settled to accumulate much wealth; he is on the whole
very fortunate, he often gaius considerably by marriage,
and is a' general favourite with the fair sex; he is a great
traveller, and is eminently successful in maritime affairs.
If the Moon be significator, he is fortunate in ecclesiastical
affairs ; he obtains great wealth, though he is liable to lose
some of this by canting hypocritical persons, who impose
upon. the natural kindness and generosity of his disposition ;
he has, however, too inuch good fortune to be injured by
these persons to any extent.

The Conjunction of Mars with the Sun,

If the Sun be significator, makes the querent brave, but
headstrong and violent; he will perhaps attain some con-
siderable rank in the army or navy, but he will be fre-
quently wounded, and most probably die in battle, or be
killed by some accident, or he may fall a victim to some
contagious fever. When Mars is significator, he is in
danger from fire, lightning, or infectious fevers; it has
been said in this case, and perhaps with great truth, “ he
has the favour of kings and princes, and it may be their
frowns too, to his utter undoing; he may rise vsum but
perhaps to a precipice.”

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The Conjunction of Mars and Venus,

If Mars be significator, makes the querent kind and
gentle on the whole, though sometimes rather hasty; he
is moderately fortunate, extremely fond of women, and
not always very particular as to their respectability. If
Venus be significator, he is wicked and debauched,
a companion of prostitutes, from whom he geavrally re-
ceives great injury; a drunkard, generally brawling in
taverns and alehouscs; though he may sometimes meet with
good fortune, he will qüickly dissipate whatever property
he may possess in the company of the most worthless of
mankind. . | i

` The Conjunction of Mars with Mercury,

If Mars be significator, represents the querent as pos-
. sessed of considerable ability, a skilful mechanic or a good
mathematician, one ef an. acute, sarcastic wit; if in the
army or wavy, for which he is well qualified, he obtains
great reputation for his bravery, and is distinguished still
more for the policy of his measures; he is never very scru-
pulous as to the means he employs, and will pay but little
respect to the possessions or persons of others, when he
cau gain any advantage by sacrificing them to his own
interest. If Mercury be significator, he makes a cheat or
swindler, a thief, robber, a treacherous miscreant, a fre-
queuter of gaming-houses, rash, furious, and blood-
thirsty. i

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The Corjunction of Mars and the Moon,

If Mars be significator, makes one of an unsettled life
and temper, and a favourite of females; he'is frequently a
waudering adventurer, more remarkable for the variety of
his fortune than his.success or his abilities. Ifthe Moon
be significator, he is a bold, enterpriring character, fre
quently in in great danger of a violeut death, a gcod surgeon
or soldier, though seldom noted for much humanity ; ifa
woman, she is likely to be agduded;

The Conjunction of the Sun and Venus,

If the Sun he significator, denotes one of soft and effemi-
nate manners, a pleasing address, a great admirer of the
ladies; ; he is top much given to extravagance and dissipa-
tion. . If Venus be significator, he is of short life, unfortuy
pate, and oppressed, too sickly to make much exertion,
very proud and extravagaut.

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A TABLE
Showing the Moon's distance from the Sun.

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Explanation to the Table.

As. all astronomical calculations-are made by counting .
the number of signé, &c.. we thought the. above Table
would be aeceptable to a young. beginner. Example,.
suppose (*) to be 20 degrees in II, and the ¢ in f) 20 de-
grees. Here the q is two signs distance from the ©,’
had the C been 27 degrees in yp, she would have been.
7. signs and 7 degrees distance from the ©, This Teble:

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will be found useful to those who use the @ in horary
questions ; for, so far asthe ( is distant from the ©, so far
is the @ from the ascendant; therefore, if the ascendant
were tip 20 degrees, the ( 7 signus 7 degrees distance from
the ©, as before mentioned, the G would, aecording to the
common way of taking it, fall in m 7 degrees. i

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FULFILMENT OF A PREDICTION
Relative io the Restoration of the Bourbon Family.

In the Astrologers Magazine for February 1798, the
month succeeding that in which Louis the Sixteenth of
France met his fate on the scaffold, are the following ob-
servations, which may serve as a convincing proof of the
verity of astrology.

Speaking of the figure erected for the time of that un-
fortunate monarch’s decapitation, the writer says, ** In this
scheme we find' the cusp ef the fifth house in the radix
culminating; the lord of the fifth radically strong in his.
own domal dignities, and here lord of the tenth, and po-
sited in the ascendant, and in the strongest of all reccp--
tions with Mars, lord thereof, from all of which it is suf-
ficiently clear to me, That Royalty is still to remain with
the house of Bourbon, who shall once more ascend the
throne of Franee. But as the lord of the tenth is weak,
and disposed of by Mars in the 12th, it will be a limited:
monarchy; and as Mercury, lord of the third, is posited in.
the tenth, I judge the King's brother will be Regent.

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PARTRIDGE'S OPUS REFORMATUM.
EXTRACT XV.

Anno 1654 —He made peace with the Dutch, sent a
fleet to the West Indies, under the command of Pen, made
a league with Sweden, &c.; he had now the Sun to the
Sextile of Venus in mundo dd. but in the second table the
(2 ad * %, and indeed either of them may be allowed
such an effect.

- Anno 1655.—His army in the West Indies was destroyed
by the oversight of the commander ; the fleet took Jamaica; `
. he received addresses from divers parts of the nation, and
he appoints a committee to provide relief for the poor
Protestants in Piedmont. He had now his Moon directed
to the Trine of Mars in Zediaco S. I. but a very ill
revolution, Mars on his ascendant in square to the Moon.

` Anno 1656.—There was a plot against his life by some
of his guard, and also to set White-hall on fire; but it was
discovered, and Sindercom apprehended, and also cou-
demned for it, but died in the Tower; and as it was supposed
he poisoned himself. The protector also called a parliament,
er something like it, who confirmed ‘him in his title and
power that he had before: He had now his Sun ad D &
in Zodiaco, and te the parallel of Jupiter in Zodiaco also; -
which are very like the effects of this year, In his revo-
hition he had his Sun in conjunction with Jupiter and trine
of Saturn, and the Moon in trine to the Sun and Jupiter,.
and in conjunction with Saturn.

Anno 1657.—He sent forces into Flanders to fight the-

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Spaniards, he took Dunkirk; &c. He had now the Moon
ad x b in Zodiaco S. L. and the Sun ad O b in Zodiaco
likewise. In the revolution he had his Moon ow the
radical ascendant m trine to Saturn.

But in Anno 1658.— After the great success of his army
in Flanders, the confirmation of his title, and many other
public affairs of state being dispatchcd by him; as the
relief of the persecuted: Protestants in Poland and Bohemia,.
his preserving those in Piedmont from the French perse-
cution, &c. On September the 3d, he died of an inter--
mitting fever, having been sick about a month, and was.
taken at Hampton-court, to which place he resorted once-
a week. I know some pretend he was poisoned, and also
say they knew the man, which was one of the physicians ;. -
and so let him be for me, for that doth. not concern my
business here in hand: If his doctor did poison him, and.
then brag of it, I think be was a very ill man; for what-
ever Oliver was, either as to his power, principles, or
religion, if very bad i all, was no authority for him tø-
commit a private murder, nor any way extequate his
crimes of murder and blood ;. but aggravated and ‘made
more hainous, as being done by his physician ; which would;
be of ill consequence, shouid such things grow into custom.
and approbation; and whoever should encourage such a
thing, would be very unwilling to suffer by the same way
themselves: therefore in a word, if the physician did do.
it, l think he was the worst of men. About June this
year, the Moon, who is giver of life, came to the parallel of.
Mars in Mundo Motu Converso ; and about the latter end.
of August following, he had the Moon to the parallel of:

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Mars in mundo motu directo: and this followed by the
Moon to her own square in Zodiaco Sine lat. the Moon to
the parallel of Saturn in mundo motu directo & motu
Converso; the Moon to the square of Satürn in mundo
motu Converso, also to the square of Mars in mundo motu
Conserso. Thus you see he had seven directions vioient
and malefick (and not one good direction between) to kill
kim: which not only in this, but in any other case to the
Giver of Life, shall do the same without shamming in the
asceudant to the square of Mars, as our Popish conjurer
you see hath done; and yet at the same time take the con-
fidence to tell the world tho Horoscope was Giver of Life,
when the Sun is but cleven degrees 33 minutes distant
from the ascendant, which according to all the Astrological
authors that I have read, is, and ought to be Giver of Life.
As you may see in Ptolomy's Quadriparti, lib. 3, cap. 18,
Campanella, lib. 4, cap. 4, artic. 2, with many others that
I would desire the worthy gentleman to look over, and
examine them well, and after he hath done that to resolve
us what he means by that expression in his Doctrine of
Nativities, pag. 258, where he says, the Sun cannot te
giver of life, if he were in an aphetical place, because the
birth is nocturnal. Methinks it sounds a little odd.

But yet further to clear this point about the Hileg;
because I have mentioned my suthority for it, I will also
prove it plainly from my author’s words, with the book
and chapter, lest he may reassume his accustomed gift of
impudence, and deny my quotations, as he did in his reply
to my almanack of 1687, when those quotations were real!y
true, as these are. The translation that 1 use, is that of

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Melancthion, which is the best translation of Ptolomy ia.
being, and hath I think given the trnest' meaning of
Ptolomy's words; and if you please but to look into the
eleventh chapter of that Quadripartite, aud the third book,
^ you will there find these words:—Cum autem querimus in
his locis potentissimum, primus erit Medium Cali, deinde
Horoscopus, postea undecima domus succedens Medio Celis
deinde occasins, postea Nonus domus dAntecedens Medium
Celi. ln this chapter he is labouring to prove, and also
to lay down by rule the place ofthe prorogator; and after.
he hath spent some time to show the prorogatory place
in general, he comes in the words beforementioned to the
particulars, and which of them do precede in power and
-order ; and therefore, says he, when we inquire who is
most powerful in these places, the first in order is the
mid-heaven; next after that the ascendant, then the
eleventh house, then the seventh, and last of all the ninth.
And the reason why he is so particular in this case, is
because the Sun and Moon may be sometimes both in
prorogatory places, and both contend for priority ; there-
fore in such a case these rules are to be considered aiid
compared with those ofthe 13th chapter of the same book ;
by which it may be decided which of the two have the
yeal power of Hileg, or giver of life. Hence certainly our
author by taking such pains and care to Jay down particular
rules how to elect the giver of life, did intend-a greater use
to be made of it, than any of our late pretenders, I per-
ceive, are aware of,-which seems more plain from the first
paragraph of the 14th chapter, where he discourseth
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judgeth to be Anareta, yet he allows none to be directed
to that point, but the Hilcg, or giver of tife ; and, therefore,
lie begins that chapter with these words :—Znvento Proro-
gatore, duo modi sumendi sunt, &c,

Now, if this doctrine be true, aud that the professors of .
this science will be pleased to allow the great Ptolomy a
share in their good opinions; then this lying oracle of
ours is quite out of doors, and besides the mark in his own
trade, when he tells the world, that the Suu cannot be
giver of life, if he were in au apblelical place; as iu the
page before quoted. For wheu he allows the ascendant
in Cromwell's nativity, the power of Hileg, aud the Sun at
, the same time within 12 degrees of the cusp, and locally
in it, seems to me a substantial piece of nonsence, quite
contradictory to tlie most approved authors in beiug, who
_ allow all of them, that the ascendant is the second place in
power to entertain the prorogator; and that the Sun there
is also certainly Hileg, if the Moon is not abovethe earth.
So that should I insist on no other reason but this, it would
be sufficient to prove the figure and time of his nativity
false ; and this because he makes that imaginary. direction
of the ascendant to the square of Mars, the only one to
piove the truth ofthe whole calculation. For if we should
allow such a direction in that figure, as the Sun to the
square of Mars, (which indeed there is none before he
should be ninety-one years of age) yet it.is wholely mis-
applied, and a power’ given to it quite distinct from the
order of nature, and the authority of authors; the ascend-
ant not having power to kill when the Sun is in the
horoscope, or any other place, giver of life. 1 bave been

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the ptainer and fuller in this point, because it is the pris-
cipal foundation of nativities, and the only thing first to
be kuown in the directions and predictions about life and
sickness, and the only thing neglected and forgotten at
this time among tlje professors, both oid and young ; they
having only the name of it, but nothing of its power and
use; but I have spoken enough, if understood ; and more
will be to no purpose, if not understood. . NR l
But again, in this nativity that he hath published and
asserted for truth, there is another notorious error, and
that is, he lets the Sun pass by the square of Mars, the
square of Saturn, and botly of Japiter, lord of the eighth
house iu the fourth, that fatal place as they call it; and
kills him with the ascendant to one single direction only.
Now, if we should allow that the ascendant had power;
and did kill by direction to the square of Mars; why
should not the Sun to those three fatal directions before-
mentioned, give the native the same effect of death long
before, as they did now? I khow<ho reason to the con-
trary, according to that sort of astrology which is common
among most of thé professors, but especially used by this.
our famous and most renowned nativity maker; as may
appear by those ingenious and learned treatises that he.
hath befriended the world with, being filled with abund-
ance of errors and contradictions. But te- return to our
business again; at the time of this gteat hero’s death,
besides the directions mentioned as the true natural causes.
thereof; there were other things worth out consideration
that did concur as coticothitants to the same; aid the first
was his revolution for that year, aud indeed a very ret.

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markable one it was, if we consider it well and fully. And
seeing I have mentioned something of revolutions, I wii]
also speak a word or two of their use and abuse. The
professors of this age make a great bustle about the exact
time of a revolution, that is, to find the exact minute and
second when the Sun comes to his radical place, for which
purpose they have inyented a great many fooleries, and to
little purpose; but when this exact and critical time’ is
obtained, and a figure set, they gravely tell us of strange
and prodigious effects that the planets have by beiug iu
‘particular houses therein; that the horoscope aud mid-
heaven of a. revolutional figure, is of a great siguification
both to the nafive's life and reputation. Nay, they are
now grown fo that perfection in tbeir trade of this kind,
that they work directions in that figure like as they do in
the Radix; to which purpose also they have made usa
measure of time, with other kincs of tables to compicte
their folly, and render their art ridiculous. When indeed
the aucient and moge autheutic authors have taken no
notice of such things as these; and Piotomy himself hath
not above four lines in his four books that have any relation
to the revolutions in nativities; and therefore how they
came by ail these whims, it would be worth while to con-
sider, (for we have not ove word about them iu Firmicus
oue of the oldest astrologers we have, that came after
Ptofomy,) and perhaps may find a spare sheet in my next
treatise, to unriddle the juggles that they have jumbled
- together to cheat themselves, and the rest of mankind.
For I doassure you, there is nothing iu their method of
revolution, neither can they fetch their authority further

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back than Origanus, Argol, Schoner, Hispalensis, Junctines’
and two or three more of tiem that have taken it upon
very slender authority, and they that still follow, do every
one endeavour to improve the errors of him that went
before. For 1 will now soberly ask one question, and
that is, to tell me what they have found ia the revolutional .
directions, that was not as plainly discovered by the trau-
sists in the revolution, aud the returns? If so, what should
we go to make abundauce of confusion when it may be
done with less trouble? And to be plain with you, the:
truth and mystery of revolutions doth really consist in
nothing else but the transits and returns of the planets fo
the radical points and parts of the nativity, and to the
places of direction. And to this end there is no need of
abundance of labour to gain the exact time of the Suns”
return fo his radical Mace; if you miss ten minutes of it in
time, it will be no great matter of error in your judgment,’
if you understand your business. And to say the truth
the radical figure may very well servefor every revolutiou
throughout the native's whole life, placing the planets in
the degrees of those signs that they shall be found in at
the time of the San's return to his radical place, or nepr it.’ -
And after this manner I will give the figure of this great
native's final revolution, and it is as followeth :—

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NOTICE.

In consequence of the difficulty of making the calculations:
for the Astronomical Tables in the short space uf a week, with
the correctness so essentially necessary, we beg leave to in-
form our readers, that, Tor the present, at least, ** The Spirit of

` Partridge” will appear once a Fortnight after No. 16, instead of

Weekly as before,
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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
M. C. will find a Letter for hiin at our publisher's,
M. £z S. isreceived, and will be attended to shortly.

J. H. is perfectly right, respecting the Motion of Direction.

Q. G. R. is informed that the Work he alludes to, i$ not a
work fit fora young beginner ;«e.he had better have Wilson's
Astrological Dictionary. |

M. S. F.’s cannot be attended to as requested, as the Na-
tivity will require too inuch labour in calcuiation.
^ Miss G. will find the New Astronomical Diagram very use-

ful in explaining r the Aspects of the Planets,
P. 8, will ind the New Tranelation of Ptolomy very aiaerent

from Sibley’s.
ERRATA.
No. XV. p. 301, 1. 1, for end, read ends,
I, 4, for assists, read assist.
p. 303, l. 2, after decumbiture, leave oul or.

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