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Anima Astrologiae or A Guide for
Astrologers by William Lilly 1676
The 97th is to Consider, in what climate thou receivest the
Question; for judgment must be varied as the ascensions of countries and
climates differ, there being not the order in the ascensions or elevations
of signs, in one climate as in another, nor the same Ascendant in one
region as in another.4
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NOTE BY LILLY.‘Beware
therefore of a mistake here, for it will be very unhandsome and
blameworthy; for whatever part thou travellest towards, from one region to
another, whether from the East to the West, from the North to the South,
or contrarily, your Ascendant will be changed from one degree from East to
West in Longitude and e contra, and from the North to South, and the
contrary. But some jocund fools or monks, in their cups, may arise and
say, If your judgments are changed according to the situation of Nations
they are false. But there is no talking to such brutes, they neither
understand nor believe, nor is anything probable to them: Yet there are
some very learned men amongst them, such as ‘Contradus Brixiensis, ‘a
preaching Friar, who excellently understands Art and practiseth it
honestly. Want of heeding what I have said hath made
98.Whether the meaning of the question be signified
by conjunction or aspect |
