Lilly now gives an example of the "will I be rich?" query.
The querent, a merchant of London, asks
1. If he should be rich or subsist of himself without marriage?
2. By what means he should attain wealth?
3. The Time When?
4. If it would continue.
Chart cast for July 26 1634 NS 11:05 AM London
Tropical, Regiomontanus
ASC 14 Libra 20
H2 07 Scorpio 04
H3 07 Sagittarius 42
IC 18 Capricorn 47
H5 26 Aquarius 18
H6 22 Pisces 52
Sun 23 Leo 14
Moon 19 Leo 05
Mercury 17 Leo 14
Venus 25 Leo 31
Mars 16 Libra 13
Jupiter 17 Cancer 36
Saturn 15 Sagittarius 24 Retrograde
North Node 21 Pisces 16
PoF 00 Scorpio 11
First Lilly examines the diurnal motion of each planet and decides if it is low or fast.
To understand this first we make a table of the mean motions of planets.
from
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/gl/slow.html
Sun 00 degrees 59 minutes
Moon 13 degrees 10 minutes 36 seconds
Mercury 01 degrees 23 minutes
Venus 01 degrees 12 minutes
Mars 00 degrees 31 minutes
Jupiter 00 degrees 05 minutes
Saturn 00 degrees 02 minutes
and for completeness, though Lilly doesn't use them
Uranus 42 seconds
Neptune 24 seconds
Pluto 15 seconds
I think what Lilly is doing here is taking the motion of a planet in the 24 hours enclosing the horary chart moment and then deciding if it is fast or slow by comparing against their average moment
So for this chart he says
Sun moves 57 minutes, therefore slow
Moon moves 11 degrees, therefore slow
Mercury - not calculated!
Venus moves 1 degree 13 minutes so swift
Mars moves 35 minutes, greater than average, so swift
Jupiter moves 13 minutes , as compared to average of 5 minutes, so very swift
Saturn moves 2 minutes, therefore he is slow (hmm he seems to be using an average motion less than 2 minutes)
Occidental Oriental status
In this chart,
Mercury is occidental
Venus is occidental
Mars is occidental
Jupiter is oriental
Saturn is occidental
Now he examines the dignities of the Planets. as per Lilly's dignity calculation table.
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/dig5.html
Saturn in 15 Sagittarius .
By Lilly's table we have
Positives
3d house + 1
Not combust +5
Total = 5 + 1 = 6
Negatives
Peregrine -5
Retrograde -5
Occidental -2
Slow -2
Total = - ( 5 + 5 + 2 + 2) = -14
Total score = 6 - 14 = -8.
Jupiter is in 17 Cancer
Positives
1. Exaltation +4
2. Direct +4
3. Swift +2
4. Free from combustion +5
5. In the 10th +5
No negatives (but Lilly says, that since there is a square with Mars, there should be a negative, though the aspect is not partile - fwiw I think it is pretty close)
and so on.
In the end he has these scores
Saturn -8
Jupiter 20
Mars 9
Sun 8
Venus 18
Mercury 13
Moon 5
The Part of Fortune is technically in the 1st, but near the 2nd cusp, so Lilly asks us to treat PoF as being in the second
Lilly hasn't detailed how he came up with his judgment of the PoF, ("hath therefore but
3 testimonies of strength, which taken from 5 Debilities, Part Of Fortune is found weak by 2
testimonies:") but there is a table earlier in the book which he uses to 'score' the PoF
there are couple of oddities.
1. He assigns a positive score to the PoF not being combust/under the beams, with no negative score for being so.
(hmm I didn't know *parts* could be combust. That doesn't make any sense)
also i'm not sure why PoF should be weak in *Virgo* (the other weak signs are ruled by Saturn or Mars - though again he says PoF 'neither gets nor loses' in Aries, but still has a score of 5. I have no idea how to interpret this.
I think the takeaway here, is that before rushing to judgment on a horary (or natal) first do an evaluation of each planet and lot in it.
(to be cont'd)