I confess in this Judgement my Author is very faulty; he is dead, and I shall not make known his faults. However . . .

 

Chapter VI.

The way to set a figure of 16 houses.

The way of setting this figure differs nothing from the former, save only that the heavens are divided into twice as many parts. 

The manner of erecting it is this: the true place of the Moon being taken at the decumbiture, place that upon the cusp of the ascendant as though it were ascending at the time, to which add 22 degrees 30 minutes, and you have the first intercidental time; 22.30 being added to that shows the first judicial time. As many more being added to that shows the second intercidental time, and as many added to them brings about the first crisis. This shall be clearly showed in this example. 

The history of this second observation is of a certain person (some monk or friar a hundred to one else) who in 1640, December the ninth, stilo novo was take with a fever and shivering at eight of the clock in the morning; the next day, the shivering left him, the fever remaining, the fever seeming like a hemitritaer or double-tertian, or a causos, which is a continual burning fever. Which of them soever it was, this is certain: it arose from some choleric matter. 

The second day, it had another access, and the third a worse than that.

The place of the Moon at the decumbiture was in a preterited trine of Saturn. The Moon applied to the sextile of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. 

The fifteenth day of the same month if December, appears the first crisis, and though to sweat well many medicines were applied, and those powerful, yet the fever gave not way an inch, because the Moon applied to Mars, and the Sun to Saturn though by good aspects; neither was it mitigated till the eighteenth day, at which time the Moon applied to Mercury, Venus and Jupiter.

Here was that aphorism of Hippocrates ratified, Chap. 5 Aphor. 15, that if the Moon be not afflicted at the decumbiture, yet if she be with the beams of the malevolents at the crisis, a good crisis is not to be expected, but health will be staved off. 

An astrological judgement upon the figure.

I confess in this judgement my author is very faulty; he is dead, and I shall not make known his faults. However, this is true: in this figure, Capricorn is upon the cusp of the ascendant, and it is a movable sign; therefore, the disease is likely to be short.

Saturn, lord of it, is very potent and strong in his own house, and swift in course. There's a second argument:

Both fortunes in the ascendant may well make up a third.

The Moon applying to the fortunes makes up a fourth. This is enough; only the quartile of the Sun and Mars shows the sickness of choler.

I could give you mine own observations upon this disease, if I could; but let it alone and leave every man to his own heuretes.