Signs that See, Hear, Love, or Hate

[p. 67] But Stars have proper Laws, and Signs maintainAn Intercourse, and Compact in their Reign;Some Hear each other, some each other See,Some fight and Hate, whilst some in Leagues agree:Some Foreign Passions cautiously remove,But make Themselves the Object of their Love.Thus Signs in Sex by Nature closely join'dAre Foes, whilst Signs in Sex oppos'd are kind;And Signs, whose opposite Position tendsTo Disagreement, breed the greatest Friends.When God ordain'd this mighty Frame to rise,He setled these Affections in the Skies,That some might Hear, and some each other See:Some Hate and fight, and some in Leagues agree;Some Love themselves alone; All this appearsIn Man, who take their Tempers from the Stars,

[p. 68] The Ram, as it becomes the Prince of Stars,Is his own Council, and Himself he bears;He Libra sees, but unsuccessful provesIn loving Taurus, for in vain he Loves;Taurus (for Aries finds but cold returnsFor all those Fires with which he freely burns;Nay more, by Treachery all his Love's repaid)Sees, Hears the Fishes, and adores the Maid:Thus from the Tyrian Pastures lin'd with JoveHe bore Europa, and still keeps his Love:

The Twins see Leo, and they hear the UrnPouring out his Streams, but for the Fishes burn.The Crab (as Caper adverse in the Skies)First makes himself the Object of his Eyes;He loves Aquarius Urn, and then repaysThe friendly Goat by hearkning to his Rays.The Lion sees the Twins embracing Fires,He hears the Centaur, and the Goat admires:Mischief the Maid for Sagittarius brews,She hears the Scorpion, and the Bull she views.But Libra hears her self, her Mind appliesTo following Scorpio, to the Ram her Eyes:The Scorpion sees the Fish, the Maid he hears;To Leo Sagittarius bends his Ears;To young Aquarius he his Eyes resigns,His Love prefers the Maid to other Signs.

The Goat admires, and loves himself alone,(For since at ²³Caesar's Birth Serene he shone;What Glory can be greater than his own?He hears the Crab: Aquarius hears the Twins,And sees the Centaur, and amidst the SignsThe towring Crab alone his Mind can move,And is the only Object of his Love.Whilst Pisces to the Bull their Ears apply,And view the Scorpion with a longing Eye.

[p. 69] These Powers the Tempers of their Births define,Each carries the Affection of his Sign;These love to See and love to Hear create,And all the Intercourse of Love and Hate:Hence some embrace, and some as odly flyEach other; Love and Hate, but know not why.

Thus far of single Signs: But Trines engageWith Trines, and all the Heaven is full of Rage:Signs War in Bodies, and in Parties fight,As adverse in their Manners, as in Site:The Ram, Lion, Centaur joyn'd in Trine opposeThe Heavenly Scales, and to their Trine are Foes.And this on two Accounts; Three Signs to ThreeShine opposite, and who can hope to seeTwo differing Natures, ²⁴Man and Beast agree?)For he that holds the Scales Celestial, bearsA Humane Shape, a Brute the Lion wears,And therefore yields, for Reason's Force controulsBrute Strength, and Bodies still submit to Souls.The Lion conquer'd to the Skies was thrown,And fleecy Aries flead before he shone;The Centaur's Forepart still commands the rest,So much the Humane Form exceeds the Beast.No wonder therefore that with great SuccessThe Scales fight Aries, and his Trine oppress.

But this we may in one short rule comprise,For view the Signs that fill the round of Skies,And those that are in Humane Forms exprestAre conquering Foes to all the shapes of Beast.But yet their Hate not equally extends,Signs have their proper Foes, as well as Friends;The Ram's Productions Friendly Leagues refuseTo all the Fishes, Maid, or Scales produce:What Scorpio, Cancer, Pisces, Scales createAre Foes to Taurus, and his Births they hate:Whilst those Productions that the Twins designAre Enemies to Aries, and his Trine.

[p. 70] Against the Crab and Bull the Goat declares,And Virgo too, and Libra feels his Wars:Nor shall (could I write curious Verse, my MuseTo shew her Art in Precepts would refuse;I teach an Art, and 'tis by all confestInstruction when 'tis plainest than 'tis best:)The furious Lion rous'd with desperate RageWith fewer Enemies than the Ram engage.

The double Centaur with his threatning BowAffrights the Maid, the Bull that bends his Brow,With Caper, and with Pisces is her Foe.O're Libra's Sign a Crowd of Foes prevails,The Icy Goat, the Crab which square the Scales,With those of Aries Trine consent to hateThe Scales of Libra, and her Rays rebate.Nor doth the Sign of fiery Scorpio findFoes less in number, or of better Mind;The Urn, Twins, Lion, Bull, the Scales, the MaidHe frights; and they of him are equally afraid:Nor can the Centaur's Bow his Peace defend,The Twins, Urn, Virgin force his Sign to bendBy Nature's Law, nor are the Scales his Friend.The same oppress thy Sign with equal HateContracted Caper, and thy Force rebate.

[p. 71] Whilst those that are in Brutal Forms exprestAfflict the Urn, and all his Trine molest.The neighbouring Fish the Urn with Hate pursues,And those the Maid, and those the Twins produce.And those that own the Centaur's angry StarHe treats as Foes, and still afflicts with War.These Rules are true, but somewhat else definesThe Friendship and the Enmity of Signs:Thus Thirds are Foes, for with a squinting RayThey view each other, and their Hate convey:Signs opposite, whatever place they fillAverse to Peace, and are unfriendly still:Thus Sevenths their adverse Sevenths are doom'd to loath,And Thirds from both, and which are Trines to both:Nor is it strange that Trines unfriendly proveWhen Kin to Signs that are averse to Love.