Near the place of the application of Saturn and Mars, on the twenty-seventh day of November of the said year seventy-one, there was an eclipse of the moon, beset between the said infortunes. The sign of Gemini was therefore made unfortunate by the two greater infortunes. In all these said applications, the master and almubtas the planet with the most dignity in a specific place of the place of the eclipse and the place of the application of Saturn and Mars was also unfortunate, namely Mercury. In all the said applications, he was weak, retrograde, under the rays, peregrine a planet with no essential dignity, and in the first, combust, and with these, in the eclipse, he was cast off by the opposing rays of the said infortunes and by the opposing rays of the moon in its illumination after the eclipse. I have noted these down as principles and beginnings of the significations. For I shall determine all of them according to the condition prefigured in these applications; I now leave aside more particular inquiries.

ON THE MOTION OF THE COMET

On the Ides of January, a comet was seen under Libra with the stars of Virgo. Its head was of slow motion until it approached Alramek Arcturus. It accelerated its course through the legs of the Wreather/Bootes, toward his left, departing from which it described forty degrees of a great circle in one natural day. When it was in the middle of Cancer, it was furthest from the zodiacal circle by seventy-seven degrees, and then it went between the two poles of the zodiac and the equinoctial, up to between the feet of Cepheus, then through the breast of Cassiopeia, over the belly of Andromeda, then proceeding along the length of the Northern Fish, where it again slowed its motion significantly. It approached the zodiac, crossing it near the middle of Aries, until the heliacal setting, with the stars of Cetus, hid it from us in the last days of February. With this proper motion, it described a portion of a great circle that went into the north, and with this, it moved against the succession of signs, from Libra until Aries. In the end and in the beginning, it was proportionately slow, but in the middle of its application, it moved most swiftly, almost four signs in one day from the end of Virgo until the beginning of Gemini. And according to the nature ascribed to it, it ought to have continued the motion until it returned to Libra and appeared, and perhaps it was moved in such a way, because at its setting it was still of great quantity; nevertheless, because of its figure relative to the sun, and especially in the northern regions, it could only be seen a little at the end of its appearance toward the south in the days of April, if it had kept the regularity of its motion.

ON THE MOTION OF THE TAIL

The tail, however, being less mobile, continuously looking at the stars of Gemini, circled them, never deviating from them throughout the whole time of its appearance. Therefore, in its first appearance, it extended its tail to the occident because the stars of Gemini were situated there. In the end, it being located under Aries, because of the proximity of the sun, it only appeared in the occident, extending the tail toward the east because in this situation the stars of Gemini were placed. But in the middle of the application, when it went between the two poles, it turned the tail toward the south where the stars of Gemini were at that time, and it happened on the same night that, immediately after the setting of the sun, the tail looked toward the east; as midnight approached, it looked toward the south; after midnight, it looked toward the west.

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