SEPTEMBER, 1650.

EIther upon the very latter end of August, or very beginning of September, 1650. ♂ transists the place of ☉ at the ☌; I assure you gentle Clergy the Magistrate begins to smell out your knavery, why will not you give Caesar his due? Caesar hath gi­ven you more then yours, and if you be not the wiser, he will give you a Rope to boot; tis wisdom and honesty, not Sophismes must save you: Now I expect a Rout in Scotland, prehaps great Guns and little Guns, together with all their Oatmeal and Salt lost: If our Ships be Northward, a hundred to one if they meet not with a Prize. The States of Holland this Month begin to smell a great RAT, Are you not all wise enough to make a Trap big e­nough for him? The 8. 16. 22. and 29. dayes of this Month, or either of them, may prove Fatal both to Scotland and the rest of the Places subject to the Effects of this Conjunction.

The truth is, It was my Opinion divers years before the last ☌ of ♄ and ♃, that that Conjunction was the fore-runner of an alteration both in Church and Common-wealth; and it is some­thing observable, That the Sun in this Conjunction is upon the very degree of the 8 House in that; it may signifie the time at [Page] hand, of a strange Epidemical, nay mortal Disease to the Clergy; I would they would learn to be wise, but they (say Astrologers) are under ♃, and I beleeve they have more of ♃ in them then of ♀, Anglice, more Money then Wit, that I may not say Honesty.

OCTOBER, 1650.

I expect more wonders this Month to be either agitated or tran­sacted, or prepared for transaction by our State, then either our eyes or the eyes of our Fathers, grand-Fathers, or great-grand-Fathers ever saw, ever dreamt of: I hope for, (and indeed the Heavens promise no less) a Rectification of the Law, I never looked for it before, there is need enough of it: Tis a sad thing men must trot up from the remotest parts of the Nation to Lon­don about every trivial Suit in Law: be quiet brother Commo­ner, this Month promiseth thee much Redress that way; I doubt if the State should fall a Rectifying the Clergy, they would Re­ctifie the greatest part of them away, and set them to Preach a­gaist Astrology to the Posts.

NOVEMBER, 1650.

THere was a small Eclips of the Moon the last Month, and but a very small one neither, and that small one according to Ptolomy, will be a great while ere it begin to operate: Origanus he questions Ptolomy, in this particular, and so indeed do I; The Angles being fixed may indeed seem somewhat to retard its Ope­ration; yet is the Eclipse Angular, and the Luminary Eclipsed in her exaltation; Must the glory of a Queen be Eclipsed? The Figure of the Eclipse is almost the same with that of the Conjun­ction of ♄ and ♂, the which ☌ shall according Guido Bonatus operate speedily because they are Oriental, and therefore tis pro­bable they are more like to help forwards the Effects of the E­clips, then the Eclips is to retard theirs: The Commonalty lack Mony, and such an evil Spirit as entered into the Herd of Swin, possesseth the Presbyterian with a madness to undo himself.

[Page]The beginning of this Month seems to speak fair for an Ac­commodation between us and the Scots; I fear the News is too good to be true; and tis very probable their yong King being a CHIP of the old BLOCK, may prove as good an Alchymist as his Father, viz. To sublimate all Treaties into Air: I wish from my heart Venice were so wise to make Agreement with the Otto­man Family. Scotland ♄ is Retrograde, and so art thou; take heed of the 6. 13. 26 dayes of October: the 2. 16. and 29 of this Month; it is time for thee to enter into those few poor Garri­sons thou hast, thou by this time findest by experience, That the Field conduceth not to thy health, but troubles thee with a Ver­tigo, viz. To turn thy Face where thy Arse was. Farwel Irish Rebel.

DECEMBER, 1650.

IF the season of the year were sutable, this would be a Month of grand Action in the Field; Well, let it be as it is, we shall make it up in grand Consultations at home: I expect many Fo­menters of the Scotch Divisions to be found out here, and they no small Fools neither: Who ere loseth the Hangman gets; tis an ill wind blows no body to profit: Bitter Divisions at home, bitter Weather abroad; let a Plaister of Patience mixed with a little Oyl of Contentment salve up our Sores.

The 11 day ☉ enters ♑, the latter end of ♉ ascends, ♑ 28. mediates the Heaven, ☿ is weak, the ☽ applies to him, he is ☿ still, and my Brethren of the Commonalty lack no Wit this quarter, though they may happily want Money.

This having premised, I come to this present Year, 1651. A general Judgment on which I shall give you when I come to March.

JANUARY, 1651.

NOw Mars hath newly left the Square of Saturn, and his Square to the place he was in at the Conjunction; now Mars marches through the Ninth House of the Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter, it is something strange that so many Influences should threaten the Clergy; who knows but that is the reason they rail so at Astro­logy? we use to do so when we were School-boyes against those that told tales of us. The propinquity of this Month to the for­mer or latter of the last year (if you will conclude the year at Christmass, which perhaps was first invented because they would end it merrily) is such, that this Month cannot chuse but partici­pate of the evil Influence of the former; I find Mars in his de­triment, though with Spica Virginis, a benevolent fixed Star, as if some honest minded People should labor to pacifie his fury; but he is in the Ninth of the Conjunction of Saturn and Iupi­ter, in the Twelfth of the Conjunction of himself and Saturn, in the Seventh of the inition of this present Parliament, as if the Clergy should go about to Oppose the State; nay, to set the World together by the ears: Oh Heavens! What the Pigmies assault Hercules again! Learn your duty (Clergy) from an A­strologer, it is not allotted you to be Statesmen, your Office is to teach Jesus Christ, and he was, he is the Prince of Peace, your Commission reaches no further, if you go beyond your Com­mission, look to suffer for breach of it; if you be pressed in Spirit, then teach that Jesus is THE Christ, meddle with your Charge, but 'twas the Costome of your Fathers before you, go on in your Sins, they will be the sooner full, and your Judgment the sooner come; beleeve me, the time hastens when People will be Priest-ridden no longer.

I had forgotten that the last Month threatens great Dissention in Scotland, great ones against great ones: Do! fall out, and Fight to, it shall not trouble me.

[Page]The Sea is extream dangerous, the Merchant loseth much, who can help it? we have much ado to crush those, who make Fancy, Lust and Apetite a Religion, because they have no better, and yet beleeve me this Month is in probability like to end better then it began.

I would willingly have ended this Month, but when I remem­ber Charls the First lost his head on the latter end of this Month let me give a timely Admonition to his Son; Oh! that he would be but so wise to hear: I question not, but some will have the Honesty to him, or the Malice against me, to tell him of it. It is only, Ier. 45. 4, 5. alittle applyed to his Person; Iehovan hath said thus, That which I have built will I destroy, and that which I have planted will I pluck up, even thy whole Family; and seekest thou great things to thy self? seek them not. If I speak to wise men, this is enough.

FEBRUARY, 1651.

HOw merrily doth this Month begin with my brother Com­moner? The Nation smiles, every one is merry with his Mistriss, and think the worst is past; I wish it were from my heart, Latet hoc sub melle venenum: Our Souldiers and our E­nemies plot Mischief one against another, when we poor Com­monors know it not, neither is it fit we should, it is not our pla­ces; and if every one had kept the place God set him in, this Na­tion had not been in the picle tis in; let me mind my Physick, let the Plow-man mind his Plow, and the Clergy-man mind his Bible; we know not, neither was ever any man able to tell us, what Sin it was the Devils first Committed, only, Iude 6. God spared not the Angels that left their station: Let not us leave ours to turn Statesmen: I am confident, were it Pride, or Am­bition as Priests tels us, some of themselves are as deeply guilty of it Qucad posse, as Lucifer could be.

Mars falls Retrograde: Treaties break off: 'Tis the SWORD must end the Difference when all's done: The Magistrate out­wits both the Scot, and Iack Presbyter his Son: Our neighbor [Page] Kingdoms are afraid of us, they have cause enough; we fear nei­ther what they, nor the Devil can do against us: Once more, Presbyterian, let me advise thee to be wise; why shouldest thou bring thy self into a Premunire, and fall before thy time? Be wise, or else thy Motto shall be, Miserum est suisse.

MARCH, 1651.

TIs a thousand pound to a penny, if there be not some diffe­rence in this Annual Scheam between me and others; if [Page] they would be loth to be denyed their own Judgments, why should they be loth to deny me mine? Be it, Sol entring Aries, or Ceres entring Libra, tis all one.

The very Degree of M. C. in the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars is Ascendent in the Revolution; ☋ on the Cusp of I. C. jupiter in the latter end of the House, who is Lord of the year the Moon combust in the Eight, in Pisces. The degree of the Eight House in the Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter, is not far off from the Ascendent in the Revolution, nor the place of the Sun in that Conjunction from the Eigth House in the Re­volution: I want Paper and Time to make all these speak En­glish; let the great ones whom it concerns beware.

☋ in the Fourth, shews much search after hid Treasure, and to as much purpose as to go about to piss down Pauls: vast ex­pence of Money that way, and incuring much displeasure by over curious Inventions; Inventions did I say? I would have said Searchings.

I cannot but conclude some, nay much good to the Commo­nalty this year, for if the Lord of the year be well seated, as here he is, he signifies a good fruitful year, Prosperity and good for­tune: Surely Justice will this year come down again from Hea­ven to visit the Earth: Peace, Plenty, and Prosperity seems to attend the English Nation, I aspire to no Kingdom; I am a­fraid to take a Publick Office for fear I should turn Knave as o­thers have done.

Iupiter being Lord of the year, Oriental, shew a hot and moist Spring, a wholsom Air, inclining generally to cleerness, gentle Northren blasts, by which, both Seeds and living Creatures are comforted.

I will not deny but the Sun is very neer approaching to the Quartile of Saturn from Cardinal Signs, which according to Guldo Bonatus threatens such Places as are under the Sun & Leo, viz. Room, Italy, Gallia Togata, &c. If the Pestilence rage in those Places this year, I cannot help it.

My own Opinion is, That the year will be far more plentiful then healthful; mens bodies will be vexed exceedingly with Coughs, Catharrs, Asthmaes, and other Diseases proceeding of cold and moysture, will be Epidemical, and of long continuance.

[Page]Much Contention concerning Lands, perhaps Deceits and Conycatching betwixt Father and Son about some such business: It signifies death of Women, and Queens be no other Creatures: indeed in all probability there may die three Women for one Man this year.

I shall weave in the rest of my Judgments Monthly.

When Saturn passeth by Transit the degree of his Conjuncti­on with Mars, he unhapily meets with the Quartile of the Sun: On this pass without memorable Action? It happens in the Twelfth House of the Revolution: but the Ninth of that Con­junction: Sol being in the Ninth of the Revolution, tis but a scurvy Trade to be a Pyrate, and in truth not much beter to be a Presbyterian, both suffer deeply; So let all thine Enemies perish, o Lord: For the Sun hath no sooner left the Square of Saturn, but he applyes to the Trine of Iupiter: Justice will speedily take place, which is the hearty prayer of all true English-men: At the time of the Square of Sol and Saturn, the Moon is just in the place of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars; sure without a Miracle, I shall hardly fail: About this time shall our Parliament find out who hath Cheated them and us all this time: A faithful Friend may now be discerned from a Flatterer: When Achan is taken away, the Children of Israel may expect to prosper: About this time our Parliament shall want no Enemies, nor scarce get a good word among the vulgar; Oppression will make a wise man mad: How happy might our States be, if they would but ease the Commonalty alittle of their extream Taxes: And my Advice to my Brethren of the Commonalty is, That they would be quiet; tis quietness and not Tumults best beseems them: He that strives against the Parliament shall find (as some about this time will) that he strives against the stream: Must the latter end of this Month produce a Sea fight? Well! If it do, look to it France, for thou wilt suffer: Beware Portugale: There's not a Nation under the Moon shall offend us, and escape unpunished.

APRIL, 1651.

THe Sun is Eclipsed this Month upon the very last degree of Aries, but it is in the night, therefore not to be seen of us, unless we could see through the Earth, which is impossible; and that's the reason so few rich and learned men see Christ, because the Devil hath dawbed up their eyes with the World: This may be beheld by such as sayl through Mare Pacificum, and those that inhabit the parts Adjacent.

It is probable many of my Prognosticks last Month, may come to maturity, or be visible this Month, and towards the middle of it; at which time the Sun passeth the Tenth House in the Revo­lution: Much rainy weather, not without some sharp winds, are like to begin this Month, Thunder and Storms end it: Adulte­ries enough may be found out, and the Statute against such Mis­demeanors executed. Take heed Pope, thou art but a man.

MAY, 1651.

ME thinks this Month begins merrily as it should do; and yet it being Cookoo-time, Citizens Servants will be subject to run away apace; beleeve me, they will find but an untoward time with them, untoward dealings by them: Beware France, thy turn comes next; let but us alone this year, if thou wantest Employments at home, or canst find time to molest us next year, do it and spare not: I think our STATE will lack Money to Eter­nity. Robbing abroad, scurrilous seditious Libels at home, with as many Lies as Lines in them conclude the Month; Men are Phrenitick, or as the Vulgar call it, Frantick: Miserable is that mans life that lives by inventing Lies.

JUNE, 1651.

SOL enters ♋ in the Seventh House, the Moon being in ♌ in reception with him; ♂ corrupts the Tenth by his pre­sence: The ☽ having left the ⚹ of ♂ applyes to the □ of ♀ who [Page] is in ⚹ to ☿ as though the beginning of the Summer should be molested with Wind and Rain, unseasonable weather hath the Country Farmer cause enough to fear, to the prejudice of his Hay, Let him stay till the Sun shines; yet if this were the worst it might be born Majus opus moveo: This Month ☉ cuts the de­gree of the ☌ of ♄ and ♂, ♄ comes to another □ of ♂, and ☉ to the body of ♄; and the two Fortunes when they should be helping are at ods one with another.

Surely the Devil or Robin Goodfellow is in the Scots: Scot­land! Scotland! Doest not thou see how thy Clergy cheats thee! If ever mortal men were mad to be undone, you are of that num­ber: And you Clergy-men of my Country England, You have already smarted for medling with that you had nothing to do with: And those moderate Souls in the Countries, of which are some of your Trade, have smarted for your sakes: And now, be­cause no warning would serve your turn, your House is left to you desolate: How osten hath Mr Lilly warned you of yonr downfal, and you would take none? Now you may sing Lacrymae instead of a Psalm: Algier and Tunis smart for their Piracy: Holland and Zealand thrive not what ere the matter is: And Amsterdam (which Town I exceedingly love and respect) might have been wiser then to have lost the wit she so dearly bought: The Acti­ons of the latter end of this Month and the beginning of the next amaze all Europe, I had almost said, The World: If any hap­pen to be Headless about this time, they will fall the lighter.

JULY, 1651.

IF any ask how this Month will begin, the Answer is ready, viz. Just as the last ended, finding out Knaves, such as set the Nation together by the ears, such as sowed the seed of Sedition in stead of the Truth; such as Wdidows and Fatherless Chil­dren daily pray against; such as one day shall dearly answer for the Blood that hath bin spilt in this Civil War; such as have en­deavored to Make themselves by Marring others; such as thought Justice had taken Opium, and would never awake more: and the [Page] Answer is as ready if you ask how the Month shall continue and end? for unless the Sixth, Fourtenth, or Twentieth dayes cause a Batel Northward, to crown our Friends and Armies with Lau­rel, it will both Continue and End in Execution of Justice upon Malefactors. If we have no Enemies about this time, which I can hardly be brought to beleeve, I am vilely afraid we shall fall out amongst our selves (which the Lord defend us from) Let the Army score their Valor upon the heads of their Enemies in the name of God, but let Peace and quietness be amongst themselves, for though Discord make a Harmony in Musick, yet it doth not so in an Army.

AUGUST, 1651.

ON the very beginning of this Month, the Sun cuts the As­cendent of the year, and the mid-Heaven of the Conjun­ction of Saturn and Mars; and sure the honest Commoner be­gins to love the Parliament: Many see now who hath done them good, and preserved them and theirs from Egiptian Bondage: the Winds are high, and not without Thunder and Lightning about the 14 or 15 dayes of this Month: Mars cuts the degree ascen­ding at his Conjunction, threatning some Epidemical Disease of his own Nature, I pray God it be easie to be cured; Head-ach and Feavers are very rife, I could almost afford to be afraid of a scurvy fashion called poysoning of men about this time, the Lord grant my fears to be in vain; the Month ends with Luxurious living amongst too too many, which will cause virulency, and so make work for the Chyrurgians. The latter end of the Month looks as though the Heavens promised a Reconciliation of some Differences between the Commonalty and their Masters, or Ser­vants, which you will.

SEPTEMBER, 1651.

SOL enters Libra, at which time he is in the Southern Angle, Venus upon the cusp of the Tenth, both of them weak, and [Page] old Saturn is in the Ninth, all this doth not much trouble me, were not Iupiter and Mars in Conjunction in the Ascendent, any body that pleaseth may set the Figure, I gave you the time at the beginning of the Ephemeris; and as I was thinking what the Effects of this Conjunction might be, I concluded to be a little Critical; and first to consider what Sign they meet in, which I find to be Sagittary.

I suppose the sign to be violent, I know Origanus, and from him M^r Lilly hold the contrary, and that Aries, Scorpio, Capricorn Aquary and Libra, are the only violent signs: I admire how they, or any body for them, can make Libra, which is the Emblem of Equity, to be Violent! It is as strange to me, as how they can take on to make Mars and Venus friends, whose Houses, Na­tures, and qualities, and what not, are opposite.

Again, I am loth to be altogether so led by the Nose by Pto­lomy, as not consider a little the Summer, and Autumnal, and Winter quarters though the sign Ascending in the Spring were fixed, it is possible they may not be so efficacious, yet my mind gives me, That there is some heed to be taken of them.

Taurus descends upon the Sixth House at Sol his entrance in­to Libra, and Venus is in Trine to it from the Tenth, and there­fore Sickness is not very like to be the Effects of it, and yet some Effects out of question twill have: Haly saith, It signifies Strife, War, Mortality, and the Death of some King in that part signi­fied by the sign in which they are joyned. I think Spain is under Sagittary. I pray God it stir not up a new War this Quarter a­bout the Eastern parts of this Nation; Have not Kent & Essex had enough of it yet, they say Iupiter signifies the Clergy, if he do, then are they in ill Case, head-aches are very rife, and mens heads full of Consultations; some smart deeply in Estate.

OCTOBER, 1651.

THe last day of last Month, Sol transists the degree of Mars, in the Revolution; God send us Peace: 'tis pitty Brethren [Page] should not agree; certainly the worlds mad, and therefore 'twill not live long: On the fourth day the Sun is Eclipsed, 'tis above the Earth, yet they say not visible to us, but to those about Bra­sil, &c. It may be though we see it not, yet we may feel the Ef­fects of it in some measure: the truth is, were it not for the things before mentioned, this Month would look with a pretty quiet face, and seems to promise some fair accord amongst our selves, which the Lord grant us, and then let Men and Divels be our Opposers.

NOVEMBER, 1651.

THis Month begins serenely, tis pitty tis not likely to hold; I hope my Brother Commoner will like the Law a little better then he was wont to do; if not, (which is not likely) let but Neighbors live quietly, and there will be the less need of it.

This Month cannot, nor wil not leave us till it have set Saturn and Mars together by the ears: Is not Scotland quiet yet? or have they not been beaten enough? Iockey, Iockey, if God gives thee Physick once more, he will give thee such as shall ei­ther Mend thee, or End thee. The Islands Orkades seem now to suffer, which till this time have been pretty quiet: old Matters are rubbed up in Scotland: neither is Oxford free from wrangling.

DECEMBER, 1651.

THe Sun begins to shine on the beginning of this Month, affording us seasonable weather, temperate Actions, but sud­dainly the wind riseth high, and mens brains are entoxicated; they sit by the Fire and ponder in the Winter what they will do next Spring; invent Tales and Lies, by a second kind of Tran­substantiation convert Fictions and Fables into Truth: neither can Women agree well with their Husbands, who can help it? if the Sheets cannot make them, Friends, I cannot: bitter cold weather ends this year, and begins the next.