cause it was not in favourable aspect to the first one, and while a favourable star (Jupiter or Venus) would here point to great riches, a questionable character like Mercury might make a thief and a vagabond of the new-born infant. Similarly the other houses had each a separate signification; the third refers to brothers, friends, or journeys; the fourth, or most northern house (imum cœlum), refers to parents, because it is in quadrature with the first house, and therefore closely allied to it; the fifth (bona fortuna) tells about children, and is a very favourable house, because it is in aspectus trigonus with the first one, and Venus placed here would have great effect. The sixth house is a bad one (mala fortuna), because it has no aspect to the first, and, perhaps on this account, is allotted to servants, health, women, &c. The seventh and easternmost house, opposite the first, refers to marriage; the eighth is a bad one (no aspect) and refers to death, and here only the moon is favourable. The ninth house is intimately connected with the first (aspectus trigonus), and the sun is here of particular value; this house deals with religion and journeys. The tenth house (medium cœli) gives information about life, deeds, country, residence, &c. The eleventh (bonus dæmon), is in aspectus sextilis with the first, and is generally speaking a favourable house; but at a birth in the night, Saturn would here cause cowardice and poverty, and for a person born in the daytime, Mars would here induce loss of property. The twelfth house is, like the second, a bad one (malus dæmon), and tells of enemies and illnesses. Having drawn all these "houses" on a diagram and inserted the planets in them, the astrologer proceeded to examine the aspects of the latter (conjunction, opposition, quadrature, &c.[1]), and make out the prognosticum by means of rules, as
- ↑ Of these conjunction, aspectus trigonus and sextilis were favourable, opposition and quadrature unfavourable.
