_Of the Manner of Death._--If the Hyleg and Ascendant should be well-aspected and if either Jupiter, Venus, Mercury or the Moon well-dignified should appear in the eighth house the native will die a natural death. If either the Sun or Moon should be badly aspected by Mars or Saturn in the eighth house it is significant of a violent or remarkable death. Saturn causes lingering deaths and Mars those which are sudden. _Saturn_ indicates death by chronic diseases, rheumatism, ague and paralysis. _Jupiter_ (when not well-aspected at birth) may become a promittor, or cause of death, by apoplexy, inflammation of the lungs, spasms, or gout. _Mars_ indicates death by acute or eruptive fevers, small-pox, all kinds of hæmorrhage, burns, suicides and wounds from iron, over which metal he presides. _Venus_ produces death by cancer, scurvy, dysentery, or wasting away and putrid diseases. If violence attends she causes death by poisoning. _Mercury_ kills by madness, epilepsy, coughs and obstructions. If violence concur he brings death by accident in sport or by robbers. _The Moon._--When the Ascendant or [Sun] be Hyleg, the Moon will assist in causing death by cold phlegmatic diseases and if she be placed in [Cancer], [Scorpio], or [Pisces], by drowning. _The Sun_ will assist to cause death by his ill aspects to the Ascendant or [Moon] if they be Hyleg and then he acts like Mars, and if in _Leo_, will produce death by fire, if other testimonies agree. The benefics cannot cause death of _themselves_; and even their [Opposition] aspects will frequently save life when they fall amidst a train of evil directions. But if the malefic influence is too powerful for them to avert, then they cause death in the various manners above described. [Illustration: _A Dogge Missing--where?_ _FACSIMILE OF A MAP OF A HORARY QUESTION FROM LILLY'S ASTROLOGY._ _To face Chapter XII._] CHAPTER XII. CONCERNING DIRECTIONS AND HORARY QUESTIONS We have seen in the chapter on the judgment of a nativity that by the consideration of the position of the planets and of the Sun and Moon in the twelve houses, what the _general_ fortune of the native will be in the whole course of his life; but the art of Direction measures out the time into years, months, weeks and days and thus informs us when we may expect in _particular_ what is _generally_ promised us in the nativity.