Longevity judgment done. (phew)
ok finally we have an algorithm for how Lilly handles longevity questions. This is a mix of what he instructs us to do (before getting into a specific chart) and what he actually does, which is mindboggling in many ways. This is just *one* question of 4 or 5 that he answers for this chart.
For questions of longevity, "whether he live long yea or nay"
0. Look for considerations against judgment. (I personally use only VOC Moon for now)
1. List essential *and* accidental dignities, including aspects made, of the ascendant *point* *and* the Ruler of the Ascendant and the Moon. This is easily done by working through Lilly's chart and assigning a score. An extremely dignified LoA/Moon/Ascendant indicates good logevity, and badly dignified, the contrary, with intermediate results possible.
2. Make a list of hard aspects (including conjunction/bodily presence) the lords of the 6th, 8th, 12th make into the 1st house, and Lord of the Ascendant, and the Moon. (though Lilly ignores one such aspect present in this chart.)
3. Make a list of the aspects made by the Moon at least one before and one after the point of time the chart was cast for. Interpret.
4. Weigh the relative 'potency' of benefics against the malefics, decide which of the two pairs is stronger in the chart. (wow, this is new, I've never seen this anywhere)
I don't understand the "Sun above the Earth" criterion. Is Lilly using Sect?
In my next post, I'll apply to this procedure to a horary chart I made.
Next Lilly tackles the question of where the querent should live.
To what part of the Kingdom, he might best apply himself to live in
in modern English, where should he go to maximize success
Lilly takes the house position of the Lord of Ascendant, here Sun in 9th House, and concludes that the querent needs to take a long journey, that being one of the significances of the 9th house.
Essentially he takes London/the place of the horary chart to be 'the centre' and from there determines the direction of travel to be South East thus.
South because "the quarter of heaven where the Lord of the Ascendant is in is the South" . Lilly uses the Ascendant as the East, MC as South, DSC as West and IC as North. Here the position of the Sun is the 9th house which is arguable nearest the MC, so South
East because " because the sign where the Sun is in the East" - this seems to be because Aries (the Sun is in 4 Aries) is associated with the East
So first, house then sign - so South then East, so South East.
Then he looks for various cities and towns that fall under Aries. I don't think this works for modern cities (maybe countries. India is supposed to be Capricornian somehow),and in these days of globe spanning airlines, judging where a querent should land up is probably too tough so I'll skip this bit. Just noting the technique aspects here.
also the Sun (lord of the ascendant) is 2 degrees (ish) distant from the 9th house cusp, and so "He departed two months hence ( calculated from the present moment?)". Not sure what the general principle is, here.