53.
The tenth house signifies honour, dignities, preferment, calling, offices, trade, Magistrates, Kings, Princes, Governours, advancement, renown, profession, and the mother; Captains and Conductors in War; help, succour.
54.
The eleventh House signifies friends, acquaintance, hope, the things we desire, companions, counsel of friends, all the benefit gotten by the tenth house; good angels, &c.
55.
The twelfth house signifies private and secret enemies, evil spirits, prisons, captivity, bondage, slavery, torment, treason, villainy, horses, and all beasts fit for labour.
56.
In all Questions, look whether the Ascendent or his Lord be in the degree of any Eclipse at hand: for then though the matter be in never so fair a way, it will receive prejudice when it is least expected, and hardly ever be concluded.
57.
Seldome comes good end of a Question, when the Moon is impedited. Judge accordingly, if neither Fortunes give her good aspect; namely, danger of death in War, ill success in journeys, ill end of Marriage, and the like, according as the Question is.
58.
If the Lord of the Ascendent be opposite to it, or in Square to it; also, if the Moon be opposite to her own house or exaltation, the Querent is careless, and cares not which end goes forward.
59.
If the Significator of the thing demanded be impedited, consider what Planet impedites him: and from the house he is in, and Lord of, you may finde the cause and persons hindering the business.
60.
The neerer the Significator is to an angle, the more good you may expect: less, if he be in a succeeding house: little or nothing, if he be in a cadent, unless the matter of the Question be such as belongs to that cadent house he is in.
Aphorisms For Resolving Horary Questions (61 – 80)
61.
In any matter promised by any aspect, consider diligently whether there be not any frustration: if there be, there will be hinderance by persons signified by the Planet frustrating.
62.
In every Question, consider part of Fortune: if it be will dignified, the Querent get by thing or men signified by the house it is in: if ill dignified, let him expect loss from such. The like may be said of Jupiter and Venus.
63.
Beware of men and things belonging to that house where the Dragons tail is: seldom times but the Querent receives loss, damage, slanders, or scandal, by men or things signified by that house.
64.
Judge not rashly of the Conjunction of two Planets, before you have considered what signe they are in: for if it be a signe of their own nature, it increaseth their signification; if not, the contrary.
65.
Also consider the nature of the signe, whether humane, violent, &c. fixed or moveable, &c. and order your judgement accordingly.
66.
Of this, and all significators, whether they be with fixed Stars of or against their own natures: for the one mightily increaseth, the other retards their significations.
67.
Figures of Horary Questions are either true or false, according to the intent of the Querent.
68.
Beware of Questions when Mars is in the Ascendant, or when Scorpio ariseth: for it is a signe of falsity.
69.
A Radical Figure resembles either the nativity, or the revolution of the nativity of the Querent.
70.
In a Question truly Radical, there is a sympathy between the matter propounded, and the position of the heavens at the time of the posposition. This is the most absolute way to judge of the radicalness of a Figure.
71.
Love and Hatred cause errour in judgment: the one magnifies trifles, the other depresseth great matters. Ye see what impartial men Astrologers ought to be.
72.
When benevolent Planets are Lords of the eighth or twelfth houses, and ill dignified, the Querent shall receive damage from reputed honest men.
73.
A man had need have a special care of his judgement, when the seventh house of his Lord are impedited.
74.
The seventh house and his Lord are Significators for the Artist; and therefore when they are afflicted, his judgement is subject to be clouded.
75.
The matter of any Question is obscured, when the Planet signifying the thing is either under the earth, or under the sun-beams.
76.
But if the Planet signifying the thing, be out of combustion, direct, and in the tenth house, the business lies as clear as the noon-day.
77.
Do not judge rashly that the absent party is dead: it may be he is but drunk.
78.
Do not rashly judge a man is wounded: it may be he was let blood.
79.
Do not judge rashly that a man shall finde hid treasures: it may be he may but take something to pledge. The figures of these Questions are alike; and by these you may finde out many others of like nature.
80.
In all Questions, see what dignity the Lord of the Ascendent had in the precedent Lunation; and order your judgement accordingly.
Aphorisms For Resolving Horary Questions (81 – 100)
81.
Also the Revolution of the Nativity, if it can be had, will profit much; viz. by considering the strength of the Lord of the Ascendent then.
82.
If the Figures of the New and Full Moon precendent and subsequent to your Question be the same, and the Ascendent of your Question the same with them, defer your judgement till another time.
83.
Significations for the Unkle are taken from the sixth house; for the Grand-father, from the seventh.
84.
Note what Planet is Lord of the Figure, and according to this quality and place, you may judge of the thoughts of the Querent.
85.
In all Questions, regard the next subsequent Lunation: for matters are subject to vary at every Lunation.
By Lunation, I mean the Conjunction of the Luminaries.
86.
The matter in question will soon be performed, when the Lord of the Lunation is Cardinal.
87.
Determine nothing before thou know the intent of the Querent. For if he know not what to ask, how canst thou tell what to answer?
88.
Judge not upon light motions of the Querent. A Question fit to be judged, ought to be premeditated by the Querent.
89.
Mars spoils matters by too much hastiness: Saturn, by slowness.
90.
A Planet within sixteen minutes of the Sun, is in Cazimi, and exceeding strong.
91.
Observe whether the Ascendent, or his significator, be in the place of any Eclispse at hand: if it be, though the matter for the present be in never so fair a way, it will receive prejudice when least expected, and hardly ever be concluded.
92.
Very seldom there coms any good of the Question, when the Moon is impedited.
93.
When Significators are in houses of their own nature, they bring the matter to pass with much ease.
94.
When the Lord of the eight is infortunate in the eighth, the Querent hath debts he will never get in.