Help needed with this Latin text

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Hi,

Could anyone give me a translation of the following – I have only just started Latin (still at the amo, amas, amat level), and this is beyond me, but I really need to know what this means:

“Quo docetur quatenus Coelestium prognosticorum significatione procedant. Et quod voluntas solius hominis propria illis nequaquam subjiciatur: modo sensuum titillationibus, & cupiditatum illectamentis non acquieuerit.”

Note – From a sixteenth century English book, so the Latin may be a bit odd. Since it is a transcription from a tiny quarto book, there may be some mis-transcriptions, so please make some allowance for that. It has something to do with astronomy/astrology, so I guess prognosticorum means something about astrological prognostications or predictions, but that is as much as I can guess. Please help!

Many thanks,

Munna

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Hi munna, I am really bad at translating this sort of thing but I will try to make some sense of it. (it is not entirely literal, so please no one correct me unless you see something critically wrong or can clear it up better)

And this teaches us the extent to which they proceed by the patterns of the celestial omens. And that the individual will of one man is not at all subordinated to them: just that he will not be satisfied with the tickling of the senses, and the allures of his pleasures.

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Hi Benissimus,

Thanks for that – its exactly what I needed!

– Munna