Questions of the fifth House
If you would know whether a woman be with
Child, or whether she will have any children, or not, look if the Lord
of the Ascendent be in the seventh, or the Lord of the fifth in the
first, or the Lord of the first in the fifth, or if the Lord of the
fifth be in the seventh, or if the Lord of the seventh be in the fifth,
or the Moon with them; or if good Planets be in the first, or the
fifth, or with the Lord of the fifth, or * R * in Angles, she is with
child, or may have children; but if you finde none of them, but evil
Planets in the same places, she neither is with childe, neither will she
have any children: and if there be both good and evil Planets in the
said places, then happily she may have children, but they will not live;
but if Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces shall be in the first or
fifth House, she may have children; but if Leo and Virgo
be there, she is not with child, neither shall she ever have any
children; or if the Lord of the fifth shall be in them Houses.
And if
you would know, within how many years she shall have children, look
where you finde the Lord of the fifth; for in that year she shall have
issue; if he be in the first, in the first year; if in the second, in
the second year; and so you may number unto the twelfth House. And if
mean Signes be in the Ascendent, she that is with child hath twins in
her wombe, which will live, if a good Planet be in the first; and if an
evil Planet, they will die; and if there be one good and another evil,
one shall live, and another die; and if a mean Signe shall be ascending,
and Mars in that Signe, the mother shall die, and not the childe;
if Saturn, both the mother and child shall die; and if the
Dragons Tail be there, its possible they will both die; but the
infant shall not escape; and if the Dragons Tail be so in the
first, and the tenth House fallen: the mother shall die; likewise if
Mars and the Moon, or Mars and Saturn be in the
first, seventh or tenth, the mother shall die.
Whether the party with child shall
miscarry, or not. Consider if a moveable Signe be ascending, because if
it be so she will miscarry.
If you would know whether a woman shall
bring forth a man-child, or a woman-child; behold the Ascendent and his
Lord, which if he be Masculine and in a Masculine Signe, or in a
Masculine quarter of the Figure, it is a male-childe; but if the Lord of
the Ascendent be feminine, and in a feminine Signe, or in a feminine
quarter of the Circle, it will be a woman-child; and so you shall
consider also of the Moon. Consider also if more of the Planets
be in Masculine Signes, then it will be a male-childe; and if many
Planets be in feminine Signes, then it is a female childe.
And if
you would know whether the child be legitimate or adulterate; see if
Saturn, Mars or the Dragons Tail be in the fifth, or with the
Lord of the fifth; because if it be so it is adulterate; bur if a good
Planet shall be there, it is legitimate: and if the Lord of the first,
be in the fifth, or with his Lord, it is legitimate; and so likewise if
the Lord of the fifth be found in the first or with the Lord of the
first.
If you desire to know whether rumours be
true or false, see if you finde Saturn, Mars or the Dragons
Tail, in the Ascendent; because if they be so then the rumours are
false; but if you finde the Sun, Jupiter or the Dragons Head
there, then they are true; and if there be Masculine Planets in
Masculine Signes, & feminine Planets in feminine Signes, then they are
true; and if both good and evil Planets be there, then they are Partly
true and Partly false; and if there be a good Signe with the Planet, is
testifies the truth; and if the Planet fall with an evil Signe, then it
is false; likewise if Mercury be in the first, the news is false:
but if the Moon be in the first in a feminine signe, or joyned
with the Lord of the Ascendent in a feminine Signe, then the rumours
are true; also if good Planets be in the first, fifth or ninth, and
feminine Signes, they are true; but if otherwise, they are not.
