Prognosticon for 1489

The divider is Mercury. This profection exalts the Turks against the Arabs. For Leo was in that conjunction the sign of the tenth house. And these and the Spaniards are under Leo.

The profection of the conjunction of the changed triplicity from airy to watery which was on the 22nd of October 1365: which signified that ecclesiastics had occupied the temporal dominion of the city: and the advent of tyrants: and the exaltation of private individuals. It arrives this year at the 8th degree of Pisces. Its lord is Jupiter: of whom I said that, being combust, he signifies the inundation of rivers and rains.

The profection from the ascendant of that year is to the 21st degree of Aquarius: of which I said that it also signifies strong winds.

The profection from the ascendant of the aforesaid conjunction is to the 11th degree of Scorpio: it exalts tyrants: and indicates floods of waters and frauds. And the Genoese to war and seditions: and similarly the infidels. The degree of the division is to the 21st degree of Virgo. The divider is Jupiter.

The profection of the junction of Saturn and Jupiter which was in 1444: was in Cancer, and it arrives at the 11th degree and 30 minutes of Pisces: it signifies rains and the inundations of rivers.

The profection from the ascendant of said conjunction is to the 16th degree and 30 minutes of Taurus: it signifies the death of animals: and the destruction of seeds.

The profection from the ascendant of that year is to the 13th degree and 30 minutes of Taurus, it signifies the same.

The profection of their conjunction which was in 1464 arrives at the 6th degree of Pisces. In which the Florentines changed their state, with some being expelled.

The profection of its ascendant is toward the 18th degree of Scorpio: perhaps a naval apparatus is to be made by the Scorpionians: it signifies betrayals and very harsh falls of rains.

The profection of that year is to the 4th degree of Taurus: of which I spoke.

The profection of their conjunction which was in 1484, and was the sixth in the order of that triplicity: arrives this year at the 24th degree of Pisces: its lord Jupiter is combust by the sun: of which we spoke.