Of a Ship, and Whatever are in Her,

Her Safety or Destruction.

The Ancients do put this question to those concerning the 9th house, and I
conceive for no other reason, than because it must be granted, that all Ships
are made for travel and journeys:
however, in regard the most part of the judgment concerning its safety or
ruin is derived from the Ascendant and his Lord, and the Moon, I thought fit
to place this judgment as belonging to the 1st house.

Generally, the Signe ascending and the Moon are Significators of the Ship,
and what goods are in her: if in the question demanded you find all these
unfortunate, that is, if a malevolent Planet by position be placed in the
Ascendant, he having dignities in the 8th; or if you find the Lord of the
Ascendant in the 8th, in any configuration with the Lord of the 8th, 12th, 4th
or 6th, or the Moon combust, or under the earth, you may judge the Ship is
lost, and the men drowned, (unless you find reception betwixt themselves)
for then the Ship was casually Shipwrecked, and some of the sea men did
escape: but if you find the preceding Significators all of them free from
misfortune, both men and goods are all safe; the more safe if any reception
be. But if the Ascendant and the Moon be infortunate, and the Lord of the
Ascendant fortunate, the Ships like to be drowned, but the men will be
saved: Some for better knowledge and discovery of what part of the Ship
was like to be freest from danger, have divided the several parts of the Ship,
and have assigned to every of the
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twelve Signes, a part or place of the Ship, by which if any damage was to
come to the Ship, they could or might better prevent it.

Unto Aries they give the Brest of the Ship.

To Taurus what is under the Brest a little towards the Water.
To Gemini the Roother or Sterne of the Ship.
To Cancer the Bottome or Floor of the Ship.
To Leo the top of the Ship above Water.
To Virgo the Belly of it.
To Libra that part which sometimes is above, and sometimes below the
Water, or betwixt Wind and Water,
To Scorpio that part where the Seamen are lodged, or so their Office.
To Sagittarius the Mariners themselves,
To Capricorn the ends of the Ship.
To Aquarius the Master or Captaine of the Ship.
To Pisces the Oares.

At the time when the Question is asked concerning the well or ill being of the
Ship, see which of these Signes, or how many of them are fortunate, or hath
the Moon or the Lord thereof fortunate, it’s an argument those parts of the
Ship so signified, will have no defect, or need repaire thereof, or the Ship will
receive any detriment in those parts: but which of these Signes you find
unfortunate, or in what Signes you find the Moon or Lord of the Signe where
she is, unfortunate, in that place or part of the Ship assigne impediment and
misfortune, and thereof give warning.

But when the Querent shall demand of any Ship which is setting forth, and
the state of that Ship ere she return, and what may be hoped of her in her
voyage, then behold the Angles of the Figure, and see if the fortunate
Planets are therein posited, or falling into Angles, and the infortunes remote
from Angles, Cadent, Combust or under the Sun Beams, then you may judge
the Ship will goe safe to the place intended, with all the Goods and Loading
in her: But if you find the infortunates in Angles, or Succeeding Houses, there
will chance some hinderance unto the Ship, and it shall be in that part which
the Signe signifies where the unfortunate Planet is; if the same infortunate
be Saturn, the
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Ship will be split, and all the men drowned, or receive hurt by some bruise,
or running a ground: but if it be Mars, and he in any of his Essentiall
Dignities, or behold a place where he hath any Dignity or be in an Earthly
Signe, he shall then signify the same which Saturn did, or very great danger
and damage to the Ship: But if the Fortunes cast their benevolent rayes or
aspect to the places where Mars or Saturn are, and the Lords of the four
Angles of the Figure, and especially, or more properly, the Ascendant, and
the Lord of that house or Signe where the Moon is in be free, then it’s an
argument, the Ship shall labor hard, and suffer much damage, yet
notwithstanding the greater part both of Goods and Men shall be preserved.
But if Mars does afflict the Lords of the Angles, the Dispositor of the Moon;
the Mariners will be in great fear of their enemies, or of Pyrates or Sea-
robbers, shall even tremble from feare of them: and if there also unto this
evill configuration chance any other affliction in the Signes, there will happen
among the Mariners Blood-shed, Controversies, quarrelling one with another,
theeving and robbing each other, purloyning the Goods of the Ship; and this
judgment will prove more certaine if the unfortunate Planets be in the Signes
which fall to be in the Division of the upper part of the Ship, towards the
height or top of her.

If Saturn in the like nature doe afflict, as was before recited of Mars, there
will be many thefts committed in the Ship, but no bloodshed; the Goods of
the Ship consume, no body knowing which way.

If the unfortunate Signes (viz. those which are afflicted by the presence of
Saturn or South Node) be those which signifie the bottome or that part of the
Ship which is under Water, it’s an argument of the breaking and drowning
thereof, or receiving some dangerous Leak: if the Signes so unfortunate be in
the Midheaven, and Mars unfortunating them, it’s like the Ship will be burned
by fire, thunder or lightning, or matter falling out of the Aire into the Ship;
this shall then take place when the Signes are Fiery, and near violent fixed
Stars.

If that Signe wherein Mars or the unfortunate Planet be the Signe of the 4th
house, it notes firing of the Ship in the bottome of her; but if Mars be there,
and the Signe humane, viz. either
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Gemini, Libra or Aquarius, that fire or burning of the Ship shall proceed from
a fight with Enemies, or they shall cast into her or shall teare the Ship in
pieces in grapling with her, and the fire shall in that part of the Ship first take
hold, signified by the Signe wherein an Infortunate was at time of asking the
Question.

If Saturn instead of Mars does denunciate dammage, and be placed in the

Mid-heaven, the Ship shall receive prejudice by contrary Winds, and by leaks
in the Ship, by rending or using of bad sailes; and this misfortune shall be
greater or lesser, according to the potency of the Significator of that
misfortune, and remotenesse of the Fortunes.

If the same Infortune be in the 7th house, and he be Saturn, the latter part of
the Ship will be in danger of misfortune, and the Sterne of the Ship will be
broke.

Moreover, if any infortune be in the Ascendant, some losse will be in the

fore-part of the Ship, greater of lesse, according to the quality or strength of
the Significator thereof; or if the Lord of the Ascendant be Retrograde, the
Ship will proceed forward a while, but either returne or put into some harbor
within a little time after her setting forth; and if the Lord of the Ascendant be
in a Moveable Signe and Retrograde, and the Lord of the 4th also, viz.
Retrograde, the Ship will returne againe crossed by contrary Winds, to the
very Port from which she first set out: and if the Lord of the Ascendant have
no other impediments than Retrogradation, there will be no losse by the
returne of it; but if to Retrogradation some other misfortune happen, the
Ship returnes to amend something amisse, and was also in danger.

Besides, if the Lord of the 8th shall infortunate the Lord of the Ascendant,
especially if the Lord of the Ascendant be in the 8th, there will come hurt to
the Ship according to the nature of the Planet afflicting: as if the same Planet
that is Lord of the 8th house doe impedite the Lord of the house of the Moon,
the Lord of the Ascendant and the Moon, it imports the death of the Master
or Governour of the Ship, and of his Mate and principall Officers of the Ship:
and if the Part of Fortune and the Lord of the 2nd house be unfortunate, it
pronounceth losse in sale of those Goods in the Ship, or ill venting of them,
or that they will not come
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to a good market; but if either North Node, Jupiter or Venus be in the

2nd house, or Lord thereof, or Dispositors of the Signe the Part Of
Fortune is in, there will be good profits from the Voyage of that Ship,
and sale of Goods therein the more the Significators are essentially
strong, the more profit may be expected.

If the Lord of the Ascendant and the Lord of the house of the Moon be
slow of course, and those Planets that dispose of them, then it’s
probable the Ship will be slow in her motion, and make a long Voyage
of it: but if the aforesaid Significators be quick in motion, the Ship shall
make good speed to the Port intended, and will returne home again in
shorter time then is expected.

And if it happen that there be an Opposition or Square aspect betwixt

the Lord of the Ascendant and the Lord of that Signe who disposeth the
Moon, and this aspect be without reception, then will there be much
discord among the Saylors, and much controversie betwixt the
Merchant and them; wherein, he shall prevaile that is most dignified;
that is, the Sea-men if the Lord of the Ascendant be strongest; the
Merchant, if the Lord of the house where the Moon is be best fortified.

If the lord of the 2nd be removed from his 2nd (that is, if Taurus be the
cusp of the 2nd, and Venus further removed then Gemini) or if the Lord
of the 2nd be removed from the 2nd house wherein the Moon is in, (as
if she be in Virgo, and the Lord of the 2nd not in Libra, or if the
Disposer of the Part Of Fortune be not with it, then the Ship-men will
have scarsity of Provisions of Victuals and Food: if these Planets or Part
Of Fortune be in Watry Signes, want of fresh water will most annoy the
Saylors: if the Significators be in Earthly or Airey Signes, want of Food,
Victuals and Fire will oppresse them: This is the manner by which the
Ancients did judge of the good or ill successe of a Ship, concerning her
Voyage at her first going forth.