A new and complete illustration of the occult sciences Volume 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1795 Excerpt: ...Sol lord of the geniture, or flrong in the afcendant, makes the native aim at fovereignty, rule, and dominion; who, quod capax, will be very, famous; the fame if Aries, Leo, or Sagittarius, afcend, and the Sun be ftrong and in trine with Jupiter. Sol in the afcendant makes a great boafter and very proud perfon j Mars there, denotes a notorious liar, romancer, and inventor of fables, and a contriver of mifchief, given over to perjury, violence, and cruelty. Sol or Luna in quartile oroppofition to Saturn or Mars from angles, chiefly the medium cceli, mews a violent death; if to Mars only, and in humane figns, the native will be flain by the hands of his enemies; if to Saturn, he will either have a great fall, be imprifoned, or ftarved to death in a prifon. Sol and Luna afftifted in watery or airy figns affli6l the native greatly with the gout. Sol and Luna in conjunction of Venus in Cancer or Capricorn give the native a great fancy and a large underftanding. If Sol, Luna, or the medium coeli, be directed to the conjunction, fextile, or trine, of Jupiter or Venus, the native, if in years, generally marries. Sol, Luna, or the afcendant, being Hyleg, directed to the conjun6tion, quartile, or oppoiition, of Saturn, and the direction being in Aries, Cancer, or Leo, the native rarely efcapes death when thefe directions come up, becaufe thofe figns reprefent the moft vital parts in man's body, and Saturn in the oppofite figns has moft power to do mifchief. Sol and Mercury in conjunction in the third or fourth makes the perfon fkilful in occult arts and fciences. Sol, Luna, or the afcendant, in a geniture of fliort life directed to the Dragon's Tail, generally proves mortal. Venus, lady of the geniture, or ftrong in the afcendant, makes the native a great lover of pl...