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You must know, every Signe containes in longitude thirty degrees, and every degree sixty minutes, &c. the beginning is from Aries, and so in order one Signe after another: so the whole Zodiack containes 360 degrees, the second degree of Taurus is the two and thirtieth degree of the Zodiack, the tenth of Taurus is the fortieth, and so in order all throughout the twelve signes; yet you must ever account the Aspects from the degree of the Zodiack wherein the Planet is, as if Saturn be in ten degrees of Gemini, and I would know to what degree of the Ecliptick he casteth his sinister Sextile Aspect; reckoning from Aries to the 10th degree of Gemini, I find Saturn to be in the 70th degree of the Zodiack, according to his longitude; if I adde 60 degrees more to 70, they make 130, which answers to the 10th degree of the Signe Leo, to which Saturn casteth his Sextile Apsect, or to any Planet in that degree.

When two Planets are equally distant one from each other, 60 degrees, we say they are in Sextile Apsect, and note it with this character *.

When two Planets are 90 degrees distant one from another, we call that Aspect a Quartill

(Square) Aspect, and write it thus, #

When two Planets are 120 degrees distant, we say they are in Trine Aspect, and we write it thus

$.

When two Planets are 180 degrees distant, we call that Aspect Opposition, and character the

Aspect thus

[SYMBOL],

When two planets are in one and the same degree and minute of any signe, we say they are in Conjunction, and write it thus !.

So then if you find Saturn in the 1st degree of Aries, and Moon or any other Planet in the 1st degree of Gemini, you shall say they are in a Sextile Aspect, for they are distant one from another 60 degrees, and this Aspect is indifferent good.

If Saturn or any other Planet be in the 1st degree of Aries, and another Planet in the 1st degree of Cancer, you must say they are in a Square Aspect, because there is 90 degrees of the Zodiack betwixt them: this Aspect is of enmity and not good.

If Saturn be in the 1st degree of Aries, and any Planet in the

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