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Womaii enquiring be with child. 4. Ifflie be impreg- nated of a Boy or Girl? 5. Shall fhehave Twins J 6. When will the birth be ? 7. Of a Mellenger fent of a meflage, 8. Shall the Querent gain or loof« by play ?
If JVhether a'^7'tnanJhaU have Children ?
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NOw he that knows how to refolve thefc queftion^j cannot be to feek to refolve any that belongs unto this Houfe. Behold now the firft Houfe , which ia this Figure isAcquifitioi Ifithadbeenin the fifth,orm the fourth or fixth Houfes, theQn.€rentftiouldhavfe E c € Children
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Children 5 and if none of thefe happen, behold what Figure (miles upon the firft, fifth andfeventh Hoiifes 5 and if that be a gaod Figure , it's an argument that the Querent may have Children. Another teftimonyof Children is if the fecond goeth into the fifth Houfc ; that being a good Figure: and the firft and feveiith promifc hopeful Children.
Cauda Vraconis , Career or Triflitia in the fifth, or beholding the fifth, generally denies Iflue: If B^r- zabels Idea's and Figures be in D or cP, it portends the (ame»
11. In J^hat time may the Woman conceive ?
SOme hold that if the firft go into the fifth, the Que- rent may conceive in the firft year : If in the fecond, the fecond year: If in the tenth, the third year : If in the feventh, the fourth year : If in the fourth Houfe, the fifth year. Conlider whether the Figures that are Significators of days, weeks,months and years are ftrong or weak j andfo you may judge of the time.
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If a Woman enquiringhe mth ch'ilde*
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Fthe Figures, ^e«« or Ideas of Geomancy concur, you judge as followeth. And liHifmaelh Idea's and Figures , the natural Sig- nificators of children , be either of them in the firft Houfc, or fifth, feventhor eleventh Houfes, no ways af- fliftcd by ill Afpefts, it denotes the Querent to be with ] childc. Ill Figures in the fifth Houfe, as ZazaUnd Barzaheh Figures, or Cauda Draconk 5 the woman en-; quiring is not with childc.
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Boo kill. The Femple of i^ifdome , 5 i
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Is the Woman impregnated of Boy or Girl ?
TTO refolve this queftion, yon muft obferve the firft Hoiife, the Ruler that gives vertue to that Idea and Figiirejand the fifth Houfe ;and thatPailer> Intelligence or Angel of God , that is fent amongft other to govern the Earth : See what is there : If thefirft and fifth Fi- gures, Idea's and Pvi:lers be Mafciiline, the Querent iS with childe of a Boy : If Femininej fhe then goeth with 2 Girl : And this is certain, if Feminine Figures in Fe- minine Houfes, behold the firft and fifth with good A- fpeft : The like may be judged, if Mafculine Figures in Mafculine Houfes, if they behold the firft and fifth Houfes.
Amongft the powerful MeflengersofGod^fevenruIe the Stars, the twelve Signes^and the twelve Houfes in the Heavens;and feven are commanded to govern the Earth, & all things therein contained, according to the faying of one Ahemfi: otpano Axn, or 'ano Katxi, asTPa ANa3
AstPA KATa, HANOANa, nANTOTTO KATfi, AATTA AABB,
KAi ETTTXE. That is : Heaven above^ Heave?i beneath ; Stars above , Stars beneath ; all that is above^ is alfi heaneth : underftand this, and be happj.
And God commanded them to fet his Idea upon all things in Heaven above, and in the Earth beneath,and iri theWarter under the Earth; and they obeyed, and it was even fo. And God commanded thefe Meffengers, Intelligences or Rulers, Idea's to every Species>_»nd to every thing, both in Heaven and in Earth 3 and every Species hath it's Idea, Natural and Divine. Now the Natural Idea's and Figures receive the influences of the Divine, and of the Meffengers : And thefe Mcffengf rs have twelve particular Ideals which they delight in, and
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thefc twelve arc fet over the twelve parts of the Earth which they govern : and of thefe fome are called Maf- culine^and other Feminme^ the Mafculine are Zazel^Hif" tnaely Barzahel and Sorath ; the Feminine are Kedemel zndHafmodai: Tafhthartharath is convertible in nature ; and is either Mafculine or Feminine according to, the Figures company and afpeft that are with him , and be- hold him.
We told you before in the firft Book what Idea's were Mafculine 5 an4 which were Feminine. Now we will tell you the Natural difpofition of the Figures: Fuer^ Alhus^ Fortidna Major and Mi?ior^ Caput Vraconis^ Amiffioy Acquifitiodin(\Trtftitia^xtM.2i^c\i\\nt: PueVa, Populusjria^ Co?2JunrtioJ[luheuSy Cauda Vraconis^ C^rcer^ L^titiay are Feminine ; The(e being heeded^ the fex is cafily difcovered.
Shall jhe have T'mns^ or more then one ?
GOnfider what Figure is in the firft Houfe, and what is in the fifth Houfe, &c. For if the Idea's be in Bi*corporeal or double-bodied Figures, the Querent may have two Children.
Fruitful Figures in the firft and fifth, in good Afpeft of good Figures and fruitful, it is then poffible the Que- rent may have three Children.
The time when the Birth will be, the Figures figni- fie in their number and nature, moveable, common or fixed.
VL Of a MeJJengerfent of an Errand^ &c.
IF any one enquire of you cbncerning a Meflenger, &c. Give the firft Houfe and his Figure to him that fent the Meflenger 5 the feventh Houfe and that Figure
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