In treating of the. different effects of the twelve houses of heaven, we have mentioned, that the north and south angles of the figure or nativity, are given as the significators of the, native's parents,. To these, must be joined the for the principal significator of the father and paternal kindred, and the for the mother and all maternal relatives, and as these are situated so will be their fate. Ptolemy, in his system, also observes and , but these the author rejects as incongruous to reason.

Independent of these, the angles signify all relatives in a general way; for when a celestial direction of death, or of any particular trouble takes place in. any horoscope, the student will observe that the effects will extend themselves in distant rami-fications, both in good and evil (as " one evil seldom comes alone"), to a remarkable distance which time and experience alone can decypher. In these cases Saturn and Mars act most powerfully according to their periodical circuits; especially when either of these planets are. found posited in common signs or ; in the radical horoscope,, - and, in every instance, the nativity of the first-born is to be preferred in this mode of judgment.