The friendly and unfriendly Aspects

[p. 74] Nor is't enough to know the Signs alone,The Planets Stations must be justly known,And all Heaven's parts, because the Site and LineAnd Aspect change the Influence of the Sign:Thus when Oppos'd the Signs this Influence bear,In Trine a different they are known to share,In Sextile this, another when in Square.And thus the Sky now gives, now takes awayThe Influence, now it points, now blunts the RayHere Hate infects them, when they thence remove;They lose that Hate, or change the Rage to Love.

For Signs, or when they rise, or culminate,Or set, send down a different sort of Fate.To Hatred Signs oppos'd in Site incline,The Quadrates Kinsmen aid, and Friends the Trine;The Reason's obvious: The Celestial RoundObserve, there Signs of the same kind are foundIn each fourth place: In each fourth Sign appearThe several Seasons that command the Year;Thus Aries gives the Spring, flat Cancer glowsWith Summer's Heat; the generous Bowl o'reflowsIn Libra, Caper scatters Winter's Snows.

Besides, by Signs in double Forms exprestEach fourth Celestial place is found possest,Two Fishes glide; two smiling Boys embrace,A double Figure we in Virgo trace,The Centaur's double with a single Face.Next Simple Signs with their refulgent StarsFill each fourth space, and still are found in Squares.Without a Rival Taurus fills his Throne,The dreadful Lion shakes his Mane alone,Th' ²⁶unbodied Scorpion no Companion fears,And still the Urn a simple Sign appears.

[p. 75] Therefore to each fourth place the Stars assign'dIn Time agree, in Number, or in Kind;This makes them Kindred Signs, and these presideO're Kinsmen's Minds, and their Affections guide.But those four Signs on which the Hinges moveBelong to Neighbours, and direct their Love.The other Square with all its Stars attendsOn Guests, Acquaintance, and remoter Friends.Thus all the Signs as they are plac't obtainTheir Rule, and with unequal Vigor reign.For tho' the Site and Form of Squares they bear,They work not like the other Signs in Square;For whilst the Cardinals more Force confess,The rest, which we from Number nam'd expressDouble or Simple Signs, still work with less.

Trines

The Line extended thro' the larger spaceWith Trines determines, and makes out their place,Presides o're Friends, whose mutual Faiths supplyThe room of Blood, and draw a closer Tie;For as it measures a long space, to joynThe distant, stretching out from Sign to Sign.So those, whom Nature doth in spight remove,It brings together; and knits in Bands of Love,And these before the others most commend,For tho' the nearest Kinsmen oft pretendDeluding Kindness; who deceives a Friend?

[p. 76] No Sign nor Planet serves it self alone,Each blends the others Vertues with its own.Mixing their Force, and interchang'd they reign,Signs Planets bound, and Planets Signs again.All this my Muse shall orderly reveal,And keep the Method she begun so well;She'll sing what Parts the several Signs require,In what the Planets spread commanding Fire;This must be shown, if in your search for FateThe Signs of Love you'd know from those of Hate.