The first house shews life, the second wealth doth give; The third how brethren, fourth how parents live; Issue the fifth; the sixth diseases bring; The seventh wedlock, and the eighth death’s sting; The ninth religion; the tenth honour shews; Friendship the eleventh, and twelfth our woes. _Table of the Twelve Houses._ Astrologers draw their table of the TWELVE HOUSES into a triple quadrangle prepared for the purpose, of which there are four principal angles, two of them falling equally upon the horizon, and the other two upon the meridian, which angles are sudivided into 12 triangles for the 12 houses, in which they place the 12 signs of the Zodiac, to each of which is attributed a particular quality,—viz. 1.— ARIES, denoted by the sign ♈︎, is, in their extravagant opinion, a masculine, diurnal, cardinal, equinoctial, easterly sign, hot and dry,—the day house of Mars. 2.— TAURUS, ♉︎, is a feminine, nocturnal, melancholy, bestial, furious sign—cold and dry. 3.— GEMINI, ♊︎, is a masculine sign, hot and moist, diurnal, aërial, human, double-bodied, &c. 4.— CANCER, ♋︎, is a feminine, nocturnal, phlegmatic sign, by nature cold and moist, the only house of Luna. 5.— LEO, ♌︎, is a sign, masculine, diurnal, bestial, choleric and barren; a commanding, kingly sign—hot and dry, the only house of the sun. 6.— VIRGO, ♍︎, is a feminine, nocturnal, melancholy, and barren sign. 7.— LIBRA, ♎︎, is a sign masculine, cardinal, equinoctial, diurnal, sanguine and human, hot and moist. 8.— SCORPIO, ♏︎, is a feminine, nocturnal, cold and phlegmatic northern sign. 9.— SAGITTARIUS, ♐︎, is a sign masculine, choleric, and diurnal, by nature hot and dry. 10.— CAPRICORN, ♑︎, is a feminine, nocturnal, melancholy, solstitial, moveable, cardinal, and southern sign. 11.— AQUARIUS, ♒︎, is a masculine, diurnal, fixed, sanguine, and human sign. 12.— PISCES, ♓︎, is a feminine, nocturnal, phlegmatic, northerly double-bodied sign, the last of the twelve. Having thus housed their signs and directed them in their operations, they afterwards come to enquire of their tenants, what planet and fixed stars they have for LODGERS, at the moment of the nativity of such person; from whence they draw conclusions with regard to the future incident of that person’s life. For if at the time of that person’s nativity they find Mercury in 27° 52 min. of Aquarius, and in the _sextile aspect_ of the horoscope, they pretend to foretel that that infant will be a person of great sagacity, genius, and understanding; and therefore capable of learning the most sublime sciences.