Thomas Gataker B.D. his vindication of the annotations by him published upon these words,…

Lastly, to pass by all other, is not the judgement of Genitures, whereof they are termed Genethliaei, a principal part of this pretended Art? and doth not the prediction of casual Events grounded upon the Constellations at the time of mens Nativities, which have no relation at all to the Constitutions of the body; possess a large room, and fill either page usually in their judgements of Genitures? Nor were it a hard matter indeed to fill up not some few pages, but many large folios with instances of this Nature. But I will content my self with a few, and those out of one Author, Rodolph Goclein the younger, (in whose steps Master Swan treads much) a stout maintainer of, and sedulous practitioner in this pretended Art and Trade, as the like in other vanities of the same stamp with this. In his Uranoscopie, among many other, in the first place he presents us with the geniture of a young man a Dane, that suffered death for a murder: That, saith he, having erected a Figure of his Nativity, who could not but see, to be portended by the Stars, from the combination of Mars with a violent Star called the head of Algol? For the Luminaries having Mars mingled with the head of Medusa (a Monster which they have given a room in the Heavens) doth signify according to our Astrological Aphorisms, (which must pass for Divine Dictates) such as are to be beheaded: (not hanged then belike) and our jovial men could not prevail to save him, interceding for his life, because Jupiter was but weak in his geniture, and in an abject part of Heaven: nor could the Women, albeit they also assayed what they could, do him any good, because Saturn made the mischief the more, being retrograde in the ascendent, and Mars seated in his essential dignity, &c. An other geniture he gives us of an other murderer. In this Mars, saith he, culminating in the West with the Stars of Cancer, did strongly signify bloodshed, and meeting his Horoscope, did besides murder to be committed by him, portend imprisonment for it, which for six Months he sustained: yet for this Trigon of the Moon, Mercury, and Saturn ⟨p. 145⟩and Jupiter then Lord of the twelfth House, great Jovial men interceding for him, he was at length set at liberty.

Lastly, to passe by all other, is not the judgement of Genitures, whereof they are termed Genethliaei, a principal part of this pretended Art? and doth not the prediction of casual Events grounded upon the Constellations at the time of mens Nativities, which have no relation at all to the Constitutions of the bodie; possesse a large room, and fill either page usually in their judgements of Genitures? Nor were it a hard matter indeed to fil up not some few pages, but many large folioes with instances of this Nature. But I will content my self with a few, and those out of one Autor, Rodolph Goclein the younger, (in whose steps Master Swan treades much) a stout maintainer of, and sedulous practitioner in this pretended Art and Trade, as the like in other vanities of the same stamp with this. In his Ʋranoscopie, among many other, in the first place he presents us with the geniture of a young man a Dane, that suffered death for a murther: That, saith he, having erected a Figure of his Nativitie, who could not but see, to be portended by the Stars, from the combination of Mars with a violent Star called the head of Algol? For the Luminaries having Mars mingled with the head of Medusa (a Monster which they have given a room in the Heavens) doth signifie according to our Astrological Aphorismes, (which must passe for Divine Dictates) such as ar to be beheaded: (not hanged then belike) and our jovial men could not prevail to save him, interceeding for his life, because Jupiter was but weak in his geniture, and in an abject part of Heaven: nor could the VVomen, albeit they also assayed what they could, doe him any good, because Saturn made the mischief the more, being retrograde in the ascendent, and Mars seated in his essential dignitie, &c. An other geniture he gives us of an other murtherer. In this Mars, saith he, culminating in the West with the Stars of Cancer, did strongly signifie bloodshed, and meeting his Horoscope, did besides murther to be committed by him, portend imprisonment for it, which for six Moneths he sustained: yet for this Trigon of the Moon, Mercury, and Saturn