Prognostication for the Year 1472

marte de proximo fiendam.

¶ Word 9. Concerning the state of those of whom Jupiter is the significator.
Jupiter-types, such as nobles, generous and magnificent men, judges, prelates, legal experts, legates of the Apostolic See, archbishops, and sub-delegates of the holy orthodox faith, and all those learned in divine sciences, the sanguine and conversational—and generally all those of whom Jupiter is the significator and bilech a term for the lord of the nativity or the governing planet of a birth chart—will be very poorly disposed this year. For the most part, they will be deceitful and will conduct their affairs with trickery. They will suffer various infirmities from corruption, such that many of them will die. Some will be covered by ruin. Some will fall into the enmities of high-ranking men. For some, prisons may threaten. Others will feel the dangers of rivers because their significator is in a watery sign, rendered unfortunate by retrograde motion, together with the Moon in the house of infirmity, and because of his conjunction occurring shortly in the month of August with Mars in the sign of Leo, and the square of the Sun to him—I say at the time of the other conjunction of the two unfortunates Saturn and Mars, similarly to occur shortly in the month of November, and the exit of Jupiter himself from the house of jurisdiction and into his detriment. Finally, because of Jupiter’s fall in the house of death at the time of the solar eclipse occurring in the month of May. Therefore, etc.

¶ Word 10. Concerning the state of those of whom Mars is the significator.
Martial-types, such as soldiers, captains of armies, leaders of wars, aides to kings and princes, tyrants, miners, alchemists, surgeons, goldsmiths, all mechanics using fire in their crafts, those obsessed with anger, forgers, the litigious, pirates, cruel, wrathful, furious, cunning, and deceptive men, red-haired, choleric, and universally all those of whom Mars is the almurem the planet with the most dignity in a chart in the nativity, will fare moderately this year. They will commit many fornications and adulteries, they will be loved by women, and they will make changes here and there; there will be envy and malice among them. And if it happens that they set out on long journeys, these will not be profitable but harmful to them. A certain great and renowned soldier in Italy will end his days because Mars, their significator and lord of the house of the greater journey, is found in the third house, conjunct with Venus by an orb of rays, in his detriment and received by her from her own house. Likewise, because of his conjunction with Jupiter and also because of his conjunction with Saturn, which will occur shortly—namely the first in the month of August and the second in the month of November, as was said a little above.

¶ Word 11. Concerning the state of those of whom the Sun is the significator.
Solar-types, such as kings, princes, dukes, men of the highest status, powerful, wealthy, secular, honorable, and magnanimous men, hunters, choleric, ruddy, and bald men, and all those of whom the Sun is the significator and bilech, will not be well disposed this year. They will be oppressed by various disturbances, and they will endure bad and melancholic illnesses because of the Sun being eclipsed in past years, and about to be eclipsed in the present in the month of May, and from the diametrical rays of Saturn to the Sun itself in the figure of the ingress.

¶ Word 12. Concerning the state of those of whom Venus is the significatrix.
Venereal-types, such as women, girls, virgins, eunuchs, singers, organists, zither players, flute players, those who play musical instruments, adulterers, fornicators, lechers, pursuers of lovers, delicious, voluptuous men, those who love various ornaments, and above all those who are inflamed by the rays of Venus, will pass through this year well, and in their journeys...