Prognostic for the Year 1488

at the twenty-eighth degree of Leo, with the twenty-eighth degree of Sagittarius ascending. The greater luminary, however, will be eclipsed by about seven points, with the moon impeding its light, at the sixth degree of Leo on the twentieth day of July at the second hour and seventeenth minute, with the twenty-second degree of Scorpio ascending, and Mars running in the tenth house, etc.

The effects of the eclipses will be manifest in buildings, foundations, possessions, and in those who have reached the years of manhood, and also those whose horoscopes they infect. For those who in their nativity have the twenty-eighth degree of Leo as an ascendant or the sixth degree of Leo will experience no small inconveniences from the eclipse, or those whose hylech the life-giving planet or place in a natal chart is at either the sixth or twenty-eighth degree of Leo. Those also who have the sixth or twenty-eighth degree of Leo as the ascendant of the annual revolution will feel no small troubles. Others whose cusp of the tenth house is the sixth or twenty-eighth degree of Leo will find scandals, disparagement, and confusion; they will be expelled from their honors with great confusion, and some will pay for their scandals with danger of death.

Kings and magnates will find much misfortune, since lunar eclipses in fiery signs portend this. Therefore, Mars, as a significator in both the solar and lunar eclipse, will bring about detriments arising from dryness; he will excite wars and battles among men. He will stir up hot illnesses, especially tertian fevers, sudden death, and plague in many places. He will bring not only these evils, but many others. For many burnings, robberies, and waylayings will happen by his influence. In the air, there will be extreme heat and hot wind, which is lethal, and the dissolution of bodies, lightning, and a scarcity of rain. In the sea also, sudden sinkings of ships will happen through combinations of winds, or through lightning, or through dryness. In rivers, there will happen a diminution of waters, the drying up of springs, and a detriment to potable water. In