Prognosticon for 1485 and 1486

the nobles and other rulers, expressing what I feel, though not in sealed terms. Seventh and lastly, regarding the solar eclipse and the conjunctions of the sun and moon and the oppositions, and the lucky and unlucky days for acting, and in all these things may God be our helper. The sun will illuminate this year, 1485, on the 10th day of March, at 16 hours and 1 minute post meridiem original: "horis post meridie xvi. z m. j.", at the angle of the East, with the 3rd degree of Aquarius ascending, 46 minutes, whose lord, Saturn, moving in the middle of the heaven, because it is retrograde, concedes the dominion to Jupiter because it wanders in Jupiter's hospice. And because Aquarius is a fixed sign, there would be no need for another revolution were it not followed by the solar eclipse which will take place on the 16th day of March, at 4 hours and 34 minutes post meridiem, which forces the judgment of the entire year to change. The opposition, however, preceding the entry of the sun into Aries, will be on the first day of the month of March, at 2 hours and 45 minutes post meridiem, in which Mars assumes the dominion for itself, and from this, Ptolemy orders the significations of the year to be assumed more from Saturn, from its entry into Aries.

In the beginning, almighty Father, that You might bend the world with laws and the laborious mass of the world might remain, You fixed stars and powerful forms in the sky, from all sides to vary the earthly mass every year, and to agitate the diverse shifts and times of things, and instituting sacred rotations to hang from Yourself. Therefore, supreme faith is in Him to be able to do all things, for from nothing, God, You created the world on high, hanging over the hall of the spacious vertex, looking upon all lands and the humans lying there, feeding them with the etheric motion by which all things are ruled. Give, I pray, help to the prophet, so that I might be able to reveal what the stars report and the causes of the hidden things at the same time. For, having not allowed minds to grow sluggish through shadows, through the pronouncements of the sky and the labors of the sun, pitying from on high the human condition, You have given signs by which to see the unspeakable misfortunes of men, and which labors they might flee or seek again, and which day would not have been happy enough, and which sad.