Image 009, folio 3a, A Prognostication; astrological weather forecasting
| A prognostication fo.3 | ||||
| a cloude, signifyeth rayne. Further, the Sunne at the setting playnelye seene | ||||
| without any cloude, declareth a fayre nighte to ensue. | ||||
| Heere note, Ptolome* willeth we diligentlye to observe the circle, or circles aboute | ||||
| the sunne. If it be cleare, and the circle of no continuance, beholde fayre weather: | ||||
| If manye of them, winde. | ||||
| Windes more vehemente ore signified, if that the circles bee somewhat red, heere and | ||||
| there broken: but these obscured, thicke, and blacke, looke for colde, winde, and snowe. | ||||
| What is spoken of the sunne, touching the circles, the same is ment of ye moone. | ||||
| Note heere that greater windes chaunce in the daye, then in the nighte. | ||||
| How weather is declared by the colour of the moone, | ||||
| and by the nature of the signe wherein shee is. | ||||
| If the moone in the third of her chaunge, yea, three dayes before the full, or in the | ||||
| middes of the quarter bee founde of pure lighte, nothing compassinge her, the ende | ||||
| direct up, shee promiseth fayre weather, but bent to red colour, provoketh | ||||
| winde. The moone pale or somewhat outlined to blacke, obscure or thicke, threat- | ||||
| neth rayne. | ||||
| Allso by the nature of the sygne, weather my be iudged, thus accordinge to Stefleri- | ||||
| nus, Monte regius, Leupoldus, and famous Guido Bonatus*, with others well travailed | ||||
| in the mutations of ayre. | ||||
| Hote* | Consider the nature of the signe where the moone is at the chaunge, quarter and | |||
| Earthye | full. If shee bee it hot and dry signed, as Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, in winter a | |||
| Airye | good token of fayre weather: In summer a greate signification of immoderate heate: | |||
| Watrie | if in earthye, colde and drye signes, as Taurus, Virgo, and Capricornus, in winter | |||
| iudge colde, froste, and snowe to ensue: but in summer temperate weather. In ayry | ||||
| and windy signes, as Gemini, Librar, and Aquarius, much winde. If in watry, colde | ||||
| and moyste signes, as Cancer, Scopio, and Pisces, in winter wet weather: In | ||||
| summer a pleasaunte temperature. | ||||
| Allso, the sunne in Aquary: the moone at the chaunge there, or in Sagittarie, or at | ||||
| the full in Leo, betokeneth rayne. The sunne in Pisces or Aries: the moone in Virgo, | ||||
| Libra, or Sagittarie, signifieth rayne, especiallye in watrye dwellings. The moone | ||||
| in Aquarius or Pisces, looke for chaunge of weather, then chiefely shee tronblesth ye | ||||
| ayre. The moone allso at the chaunge, or rather at the full, in Aries, Libra, Scor- | ||||
| pio or Pisces, tempestuous weather followeth. The Sunne in Aquary, in Aries, Libra, | ||||
| or Scorpio, but chiefely in Leone: the moone then at the full, and that after rayne or | ||||
| mislings, looke for lightninge, thunder, &c. To conclude, the moone in Cancer, Leo, | ||||
| Capricornus, or Aquarius, ayded, with anye aspecte, but chieflye with opposition | ||||
| or quadrat of Venus, rayne followeth. | ||||
| The iudgment of ye Weather | ||||
| by starres. | ||||
| Beholde the starres whose magnitude you know best. If they appeare of much | ||||
| lighte, in bignes greate, more blasenge then they are commonly it betokeneth | ||||
| great winde or moysture in that parte where they shewe: in winter, colde & | ||||
| froste. When starres seeme to runne in the elements, it sheweth wind. Afirme | ||||
| allso alteration | ||||
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