Early modern European · 1647
Christian Astrology
modestly treated of in three books
In Lilly's table of the planets' fortitudes and debilities, being retrograde counts as a debility of 5 and being direct as a fortitude of 4. In horary questions he treats a retrograde or impeded lord of the 7th house, and Saturn retrograde in the ascendant, as grounds for caution before judgement; in questions of illness, a retrograde planet signifying the disease means its prolongation and relapse.
- Author
- William Lilly
- Date
- 1647
- Original language
- English
- Key term
- Retrograde; Direct (the words printed in the table of fortitudes and debilities)
- Kind
- Astrological
- Planets
- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Editions
One edition.
| Year | Edition | © |
|---|---|---|
| 1647 | William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647); 2nd ed. 1659 | PD |
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References
- Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), table of fortitudes and debilities, Source Library
- Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), cautions before judgement, Source Library
- Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), illness and relapse, Source Library
- Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), illness and relapse (second passage), Source Library
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