Lilly's Library

Worked horary case studies

Real questions from William Lilly's Christian Astrology (1647), re-cast through Querens's own deterministic rules engine so you can check the engine's verdict against Lilly's own -- including the cases where they disagree.

• Fish stolen

  Stolen goods (2nd house) · Christian Astrology, Chap. LIV, p.397 (1647 ed.)

  Partly recovered, exactly as a graded reading would predict.

  Lilly's verdict: Favorable, with difficulty — engine agrees

• A lady, if marry the gentleman desired

  Marriage (7th house) · Christian Astrology, Chap. LIX, p.385 (1647 ed.)

  A translation of light revived a match she'd already driven away.

  Lilly's verdict: Favorable — engine agrees

• If the querent should ever have children

  Children (5th house) · Christian Astrology, Chap. XLI-XLII, p.238 (1647 ed.)

  An unusually firm 'never' -- and the engine agrees, prohibition and all.

  Lilly's verdict: Unfavorable — engine agrees

• If have the portion promised

  Money owed (2nd house) · Christian Astrology, Chap. LXXIII, p.421 (1647 ed.)

  A despairing querent, reassured a debt would still be paid -- and it was.

  Lilly's verdict: Favorable, with difficulty — engine agrees

• An absent brother, when he would come home

  Short journey (3rd house) · Christian Astrology, Chap. XXX, p.196 (1647 ed.)

  Weeks of silence in wartime -- Lilly read the two brothers' trine and called him safe and homeward.

  Lilly's verdict: Favorable, with difficulty — engine agrees

• If the querent shall be rich or poor

  Wealth (2nd house) · Christian Astrology, Chap. XXVIII, p.177 (1647 ed.)

  Riches promised by a translation of light -- won with labour, and through the wife Lilly foretold.

  Lilly's verdict: Favorable — engine agrees

• If he should obtain the parsonage desired

  Religious preferment (9th house) · Christian Astrology, Chap. LXXIX, p.437 (1647 ed.)

  Lilly advised against it; the priest pressed on regardless and lost.

  Lilly's verdict: Unfavorable — engine diverges

• If she should marry the man desired

  Marriage (7th house) · Christian Astrology, Chap. LX, p.389 (1647 ed.)

  A translation of light carried the match through, exactly as read.

  Lilly's verdict: Favorable — engine diverges

• A ship at sea, if lost

  Long voyage (9th house) · Christian Astrology, p.162 (1647 ed.)

  Storms, silence, and refused insurance -- Lilly read her as damaged, not lost.

  Lilly's verdict: Favorable — engine diverges

• A dog missing, where?

  Lost animal (6th house) · Christian Astrology, Chap. LXII, p.395 (1647 ed.)

  Found by the very timing Lilly predicted from the Moon's next aspects.

  Lilly's verdict: Favorable — engine diverges

• Two armies engaged, which shall overcome?

  Contest with an adversary (7th house) · Christian Astrology, Chap. LXV, p.399 (1647 ed.)

  A strong significator against a fallen, burnt one -- Lilly called the victory, and history agreed.

  Lilly's verdict: Favorable — engine diverges