| Editor's Preface(for 1886 edition) |
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| Address By William Lilly |
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| Henry Coley's Address To The Reader |
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| The Table or Contents of The Several Considerations of Guido Bonatus |
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| 1. To consider what moves a man to propose a Question |
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| 2. The course the Querent should take when he goes to an Astrologer |
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| 3. How many ways the Planets operate in Inferiors |
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| 4. Of the causes assisting to accomplish things |
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| 5. How many ways such states of the Moon does happen |
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| 6. Another way of the Planets being debilitated not much defferent |
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| 7. To beware of those things that lead an Artist into error |
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| 8. To see how many Considerations thou shouldst use |
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| 9. To consider the helpers or hinderers of a business |
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| 10. The Fixed Stars that so hinder or help |
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| 11. To consider the Infortunes, what they signify |
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| 12. What the Fortunes signify |
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| 13. What the Sun signifies |
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| 14. What Mercury and the Moon signifies |
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| 15. How the Planets make their Impressions on Inferiors |
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| 16. Whether the Significator be afflicted by either of the Infortunes |
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| 17. Whether the Planet be free from Impediment |
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| 18. Whether a Planet is in the Angles of the Inferiors |
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| 19. Whether the Moon be void of course |
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| 20. Whether the Moon or Significator be joined to any of the Planets |
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| 21. From what Planet the Moon separates |
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| 22. Whom she next applies to |
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| 23. Her condition as joined |
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| 24. Whether a Planet be in his declension |
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| 25. Whether a Planet be Retrograde or Stationary |
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| 26. Whether Stationary to Retrogradation or Direction |
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| 27. Whether the Infortunes be Significators |
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| 28. Whether the Significator be slow |
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| 29. Whether the Moon be in Corporal Conjunction with any Planet |
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| 30. Whether the Significator or Moon be past 29th degree of the Sign they are in |
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| 31. When one Planet applies to the Conjunction of another |
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| 32. If an Infortune be Significator, his condition |
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| 33. Whether an Infortune be Significator |
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| 34. On what to ground Judgement |
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| 35. Whether a Planet be in Signs agreeable |
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| 36. When the Infortunes signify Impediment |
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| 37. Whether Fortunes are Significators |
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| 38. If Significators are Cadent |
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| 39. Whether the Significator be in Reception |
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| 40. If an Infortune be Peregrine |
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| 41. Whether an Infortune be Significator |
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| 42. Whether a Fortune be Significator |
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| 43. If Fortunes and Infortunes be in Malignant Places |
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| 44. If the Significator be in his own House |
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| 45. Whether Infortunes are in Angles of the Ascendant |
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| 46. Whether the Significator be a Fortune or Infortune |
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| 47. Whether the Significator be in his proper Light |
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| 48. Whether if an Infortune be Significator, the evil shall be avoided |
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| 49. Whether one of the Infortunes be Significator |
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| 50. To consider the Ascendant or Moon |
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| 51. Whether the Significator be Cadent |
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| 52. When the three Inferior Planets come from under the Sun's beams |
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| 53. Whether the Significator be under the Sun's beams |
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| 54. Whether one of the Superior Planets is 12th degree distant from the Sun |
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| 55. Whether the Significator be Peregrine |
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| 56. Whether the Significator give virtue to any of the other Planets |
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| 57. Whether the Significator be in the VIII.from the Ascendant |
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| 58. Whether a Significator be settled in the Sign wherein he is |
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| 59. Whether the Significator be 15th degree behind the cusp of an Angle |
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| 60. Whether the Significator be in a Fixed, Moveable, or Common Sign |
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| 61. Whether the Lord of the Ascendant and Moon be with Dragon's Head or Tail |
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| 62. Whether the Moon be void of course |
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| 63. Whether she be far from joining with the Infortunes |
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| 64. Whether she be in Cancer, Taurus, or Pisces |
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| 65. Whether the Lord of the VII. be afflicted |
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| 66. When the Infortunes threaten ill |
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| 67. Whether any Eclipse be near |
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| 68. In Questions of Sickness whether the Lord of the VII. be free |
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| 69. In Journies whether the Significators be equal |
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| 70. Whether the Lord of the New or Full Moon preventional, be in any of the Angles of the thing enquired about |
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| 71. Whereabout the Significator happens in the Figure |
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| 72. Whether the Question be of a Journey |
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| 73. Whether it signify good or ill |
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| 74. Whether a Planet be Stationary to Retrogradation |
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| 75. Whether the Moon be afflicted |
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| 76. From what Planet the Moon separates and to whom she is joined |
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| 77. Whether the Significator or the Moon be in opposition to their own Houses |
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| 78. To observe the Sign signifying the thing enquired about |
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| 79. To observe whether the Significator or the Moon be joined to Fortunes or Infortunes |
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| 80. In what Sign the Significator of the thing enquired after is |
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| 81. Whether the Significator be in an Angle, Succedent, or Cadent House |
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| 82. Whether the Significator receive virtue from any Plane |
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| 83. Whether the Fortunes and Infortunes be equally strong |
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| 84. Whether the Fortunes be strongest |
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| 85. Whether Part of Fortune fall well or ill |
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| 86. Whether an Infortune behold the Significator |
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| 87. To observe the Novenary of the Moon |
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| 88. What Planet the Moon separates from |
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| 89. To observe the Duodenary of the Moon |
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| 90. Whether the Lords of the Houses where the Sun and Moon are, etc., are oriental |
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| 91. Whether Mars be in an Angle |
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| 92. Whether the Significator of death apply to the Native Significator |
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| 93. Of what kind of thing the Question is |
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| 94. Whether the Significator be Cadent |
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| 95. Whether the Planets signifying the thing enquired, join mutually |
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| 96. Whether the Significator and Moon be in Angles |
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| 97. In what climate before the Question is proposed |
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| 98. Whether the meaning of the Question be signified by conjunction or aspect |
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| 99. What the issue of the Question will be |
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| 100. To observe the Benevolent Fixed Stars |
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| 101. Which is the Killing Planet or destroyer of Life, etc. |
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| 102. How to find what it signifies |
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| 103. In what House the Part of Fortune, is |
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| 104. Whether the Significator be in his VII. House |
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| 105. Whether the Infortune unfortunate be in the VII. |
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| 106. Whether a Fortune fortunate be there |
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| 107. Whether Mars be in the II. or X. |
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| 108. Whether any Planet behold two Houses |
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| 109. Whether the Lord of the V. be in the VII. afflicted |
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| 110. Whether Scorpio ascend |
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| 111. Whether Dragon's Tail be in the VII. |
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| 112. If Virgo ascend |
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| 113. Whether any of the Infortunes be in the IX. afflicted |
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| 114. Whether a Fortune be Lord of the VIII. |
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| 115. Whether the VIII. or its Lord be afflicted |
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| 116. Which of the Houses are afflicted |
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| 117. In which House the Dragon's Tail is |
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| 118. In which House a Fortune fortunate is |
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| 119. If the Lord of the II. be in the VII. |
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| 120. Whether any of the Lords of the III.,IV.,V.,VI.,IX.,X.,XI.,orXII. be in the Seventh |
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| 121. Whether the Moon be in the VIII. |
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| 122. Whether the Part of Fortune be in the first ten degrees of the IV. House |
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| 123. Whether the Sun and Moon be in conjunction |
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| 124. To observe the Significator of substance |
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| 125. To note what sign ascends |
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| 126. Whether Mercury be Significator in a Nativity |
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| 127. Whether the Lord of the Ascendant at Birth be an Infortune |
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| 128. Whether the Ascendant be a Sign resembling man |
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| 129. Whether the Moon be in opposition to Sun and with nebulous stars |
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| 130. Whether the Moon be with Mercury |
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| 131. Whether in a man's Nativity the Luminaries be in Masculine Signs |
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| 132. Whether Mars be corporally joined to a Fixed Star of his own nature |
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| 133. Whether Gemini or Sagittarius ascend |
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| 134. Whether Mars and Venus be in the VI. |
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| 135. Whether the Lord of the Ascendant and the Moon, Jupiter, or Venus and they be in the ascendant |
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| 136. Whether the Sun and Moon are in their Exaltations |
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| 137. Whether Mercury be with Saturn |
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| 138. Whether in a Nativity the two Infortunes are in term of the IV. House |
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| 139. In what House the Dragon's Tail is |
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| 140. Whether the Significator be weak |
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| 141. What gifts are bestowed by the Fixed Stars |
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| 142. What by the Planets |
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| 143. To observe the Method of judging |
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| 144. When the Significators show their intent obscurely |
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| 145. Whether in a Diurnal Nativity Cor Leonis be in the Ascendant |
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| 146. To observe who shall partake in the dominion with the Significators |
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| A TABLE OF THE APHORISMS OF JEROM CARDAN. |
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| 1. General Aphorisms ............................................................ 23 Aphorisms |
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| 2. Aphorisms relating to Nativities.................................. 100 Aphorisms |
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| 3. Aphorisms relating to Revolutions............................... 20 Aphorisms |
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| 4. Aphorisms relating to Diseases.................................... 44 Aphorisms |
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| 5. Aphorisms relating to Elections.................................... 16 Aphorisms |
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| 6. Aphorisms relating to Eclipses and Comets........... 14 Aphorisms |
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| 7. Aphorisms touching Weather, Meteors, etc. ..........12 Aphoprisms |
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| 8. Aphorisms relating to Husbandry .................................. 8 Aphorisms |
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| 9. Aphorisms relating to General Accidents................... 8 Aphorisms |
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| A Table of 50 of the principal Fixed Stars |
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