PALMISTRY The SECRETS thereof DISCLOSED Or a Familiar Easy and New Method whereby to judge of the most General Accidents of mans Life from the Lines of the hand withal its Dimentions and Significations As also that Most Useful Piece of Astrology long since promised concerning ELECTIONS for every particular Occasion now plainly manifested from Rational Principles of ART not Published till now By RICHARD SAUNDERS Author of the former Book of Chyromancy and Phisiognomy Cuique sua est Tempestas et tempus cuique voluntati sub Caelis Eccle. Cap. 3. verse 1. to 12. Tempus est potentius Legibus LONDON Printed by H. B. for G. Sawbridge at the Signe of the Bible upon Lud-Gate Hill 1663. TO THE READER Negotia humana Astris indigent Nihil tam humanum est tamque jucundum quam ea cognoscere et scire quae natura inter arcana sua condidit nihil tam praestans ac magnificum quam dei maximum opus intelligere ac contemplari THerefore rejecting all execrable vanities of Magick which are neither Divine or Natural but Diabolical rejecting all Heathen Superstitious conceits as also the opinions of them that affirm all future events to proceed from the Stars by a fatal necessity on which ground they peremptorily and proudly run into excess as also refragating and exploding on the contrary their opinion that deny any future events can be predicted by Humane and Natural Science viz. Astrology Chyromancy and Phisiognomy whiles they affix this only and alone to the Divine will they infinitely derogate from his immense liberallity and bounty for certainly if God in his superlative Munificence hath granted to the Coelestial bodies and Elementary virtues a continued faculty and power of Production dayly generating a new as appears in Minerals Vegetables Animals and Man himself and hath given to the Fowles of Heaven and to the Beasts on Earth such a Sagacity by the instinct of Nature that they can by a certain motion of their bodies praenuntiate of the Changes Perturbations Serenity and various temperaments of the Ayr what then Shall the Almighty deny to man which only bears his own Image whom alone he hath inspired and indued with a divine Soul to know so much of future things as mear Animals Shall not He more superlatively Elargiate to man this Divine propertie of Fore-knowledge then to Fowles and Animals Far be it from us to think the contrary there is no man so meanly read in Scripture and History but may see eminent Tracts of this Learning amongst the Patriarchs Noah foretold the Flood God inspiring him from the Conjunction of the grand Superiours in Cancer some years praeceding the same and in all Ages have famous Phylosophers And Divines Flourished that have Highly Honoured and Advanced Astronomy Astrology Chyromancy and Physiognomy all in Effect but the same even the productions of the Heavenly Influences for as saith Cajetan Sup. Psal 104. Caelum est vehiculum Divinae Virtutis quo mediante motu lumine c. Heaven is a vehicle of Divine Power and Virtue by the motion and influence of which stellified bodies as second causes Deus cuncta haec inferiora elementaria corpora ordinat atque disponit The Almighty ordereth and disposeth all sublunary Elementary bodies as Divinity and Astrology groundedly averre and as he hath Expanded the most glorious peice of Nature the Firmament and decorated it with such Variety of Beauty and different influences so he hath exposed it to our eye and given us erected countenances above all the Creation to be Viewed Studied and Contemplated which being known viz. the disposition of the Heavens there will be no difficulty but that we may with facility Prenote and Predict the Future contingencies of the World for in this voluminous Universal Book of Nature he hath miraculously Described and Ingraven as it were all Future accidents that are within the compass of Natures bounds Unde Caeli enarrant gloriam Dei opera ejus annuntia Firmanentum and as they proclaim the glory of the Creator so they are to us for signes of suture contingencies not absolutely Necessitating cur Natures to this or that but strongly inclining and so consequently Disposing our Wills the Active productions of which are the subjects of fore-knowledge being future in time the which future events are considerable under three notions The first of them which have a certain determinate and infallible Cause as the motion of the Heavens the rising and setting of the Signes the Conjunction of the Planets the Eclipses of the Luminares and the like of these may be had a certain infallible Praecognition which being had the Effects clearly discover themselves in the general Accidents of the World as Warre Famine Pestilence Peace Plenty and Barronness the mutations of Sects and Kingdoms the great Perturbations of the Ayr the Commotions of Elements Earth-quakes and the like all which from age to age are dayly acted by a Syderial motive power which because they equally depend upon an invariable uniform motion of the Heaven the Expert Astrologer cannot easily deviate from the Truth unless the second causes be miraculously impeded by the prime cause which is God himself but those Actions which the Almighty doth absolutely by his imediate power besides or against the order of second causes are very Rare and never acted in the World but upon some superlative occasion not usual as the Eclipse of the Sun at our Saviours death which made Dionysius Areopagita break forth into this Extasy not knowing any thing of the Stupendious death of Christ Aut tota Mundi machina resolvitur vel Deus Naturae patitur because this Eclipse was near a Full Moon besides the course of second causes as also in Joshuahs time the retrogradation of the Sun against Nature c. Secondly other future contingencies are in the world which have an indeterminate and fallible cause such are the operations and actions of men meerly purely and simply voluntary these are said to have neither a determinate verity nor a dererminate falsity the will of man being indeterminate as saith the Phylosopher and therefore vertible to either because to him that purposeth this or that there may occurre many impediments wherefore seeing the Soul of man is more Noble then the visible Heavens nor can any corporeal created substance act upon the same necessarily which is Spiritual therefore it follows that the Caelestial Influences cannot change the Soul nor work thereupon unless indirectly and contingently by inclining the same from whence we may conclude that Arts or any Humane Science in respect of the Voluntary Actions of the Mind are in their Foreknowledge onely Conjectural In a Third Series we may consider things that have a Cause determinated and most part certain yet therewith is somewhat fallible as namely those Actions which partly depend on our Wills and partly on the Caelestial Influx and this because man hath a two-fold Nature in him One Caelestial and Aetherial that is to say an Intellectual
of Palmistry producing New and Experienced Aphorismes not formerly published the better to facillitate those who are desirous to spend time in these so pleasing Studies In a Word He hath vindicated the Art from Superstition and judiciously by the portracture of a few hands discovered Chyromancy in it's intire natural and Pristine verity more faithfully and more easy to be apprehended then either Taisner or any other Author As for his Book of Elections he hath therein followed the Tract of the Antients clearing many doubts and Ambiguities in their Writings making all things more plain and easy then they did for which the Ingenious are obliged unto him and will doubtlesse own his industry for such his discovery and explaining those Knotty pieces he met with in their Labours I do Heartily approve of both his Labours and as the meanest in the Number of Astrologers give him my Suffrage and thanks for his paines and am his Assured Friend William Lilly THE FIRST PART Treating of PALMISTRY WHEREIN I first present to my Reader various Pleasant and profitable conclusions of Chiromancy alias Palmistry drawn from the Theorick and Practick parts thereof Not before Imprinted AMongst the several species of Physical Divinations Chyroscopia merrits not the least or last place it being a most Noble and Antient Science as antient as Man himself Chiroscopia I say that is the consideration by inspection of the inward part or Palm of the hand as it is distinctly differenced by Characters and Lines from which if we Divine or Judge it is called Chiromantia that is Divination from and by the lines of the hands even as Metopomantia from the lines of the Forehead This Science informeth us to know and discerne by the hand the Complexions and Constitutions of Bodies the Sufferings and Sorrows of Humane life the felicity and infelicity thereof and in fine all things good or bad that may befal or betide man or woman Naturally in the course of this their Pilgrimage The Subject of this Science is that part of the humane body as I said before the hands in the which are contained the foresaid Lineaments which are called lines for the similitude and participation they have with a Line which is defined by Euclid to be a Longitude without Latitude or profundity the extream parts of which are indivisible points per se or as Phylosophy hath it i. e. Linea est Magnitudo longa non lata cujus partes puncto copulantus A Line is a magnitude having only length composed only of punctos or points by addition and this is the subject of our ensuing Discourse from which lines in the hand of man most excellent and singular Speculations and conclusions are drawn that is to say from their Longitude Latitude Profundity Rectitude Obliquity Intercision Application Opposition Conjunction Separation continuity discontinuity Proportion Disproportion Lucidity Apparency Pallidity Rubedity Fuscedtiy which is a Cloudy darkness of colour nigredity Asperity Mollicity Feminine Tenderness from their Position Colligation and Form as of a Triangle Quadrangle circumscription of Circle and Semicircle there is also observable in the hands Crosses Stars Rayes Branches Letters Ascensions and Descensions Right and torted as we shall shew more cleerly in their due places but amongst all this diversity of lines which are found in the hand some only are principal as namely the Vital line the Natural the Hepatick and the Mensal which Lines have a most beautiful and profitable speculation and are most dilligently to be heeded in men of sound Bodies and well composed Temperaments the good Position and constitution of the line of Life shew the heart is good the life long and comfortable and the like by the natural line is seen the good disposition of the head and brain and those accidents thereto relating from the Hepatick Line is judged the constitution of the Liver and its consequent Accidents from the Mensal line the state and disposition of the whole body is clearly perceived and by the Harmonical correspondency of the lines whether to Health Infirmity or Sickness and from these all the condition and state of Fortune good or bad as to Riches or Poverty for Riches are meerly the consequents of careful and fortunate ingenuity and Poverty the Products of supine careless selfish stupidity To proceed there are many other Lines then these four to be seen and found in the han is as the Learned Cardinal Morbeth observes either from nature therein inserted or from the Coelestial Influences altering and changing in the hand according to the mutable configuration of the Planets in their Revolutions as they are annually or otherwise changed and suffer mutations as by experience is suffently comprobated of which colligation of the Planets of this most renownedly honourd Science the famous Hermes wrote a most ellegant Treatise which Aristotle afterwards found in a Temple upon an Altar Dedicated to Hermes written in Golden Letters as witnesseth the same Aristotle which Book he presented to his Disciple the Great Allexander with infinite joy and exultation as a Present of most inestimable worth and value more worth in his learned esteem then all his Conquests Tully in his Book De Divinatione mentioneth many waies of Prognosticating things to come but amongst all he gives the precedent Honour to Astrology and Chyromancy by which the courses fluxes and refluxes of the Celestial bodies are known and the Phylosopher in the first of his Meteors saith Motus Coeli est perpetuus est principium causa omnium motuum inferiorum i. e. The motion of the Heavens is perpetual is the beginning Original and cause of all inferior sublunary motions and in his second Book of De Generatione Corruptione the motion of the heavens and of all the other Planets in an Oblike Circle are the proper Physical causes of Generation and Corruption and in his Book De secretis secretorum in that Chapter where he shews how the King ought to govern by Astrology He saith Oh Rex clementissime fi fieri potest non surgas nec sedeas nec comedas neque bibas nec penitus aliquid facias sine consilio periti in Astrorum Arte Oh most Grations King as much as in you lies neither rise nor rest neither eat nor drink nor do any other action without the Counsell of those expert in the gubernation and power of the Stats and in the 12. Chapter writing to Alexander the Great Scias certe quod nil vacui otiosi facit Deus gloriosus sed omnia fact a sunt ex causa probabili certissima ratione Know for certain saith the Philosopher that the Glorious God hath made nothing in vain but all things are concluded within the limits of most sure Reason and are produced from certain causes to which opinion the greatest Philosophers agree as well Modern as Antient as Instance the unparraleld learned Sir Kenelm Digbey in his Observations on Religio Medici Pag. 28. I beleive saith he that all Causes are so immediately
Soul but the Other compact of the Substance of the Elements which is a frail and mortal Body from hence it follows that Man is Necessarily acted by two principles the Caelestial Influx and the humane Will and so mans Operations and Actions are found mixt and various the foot-steps of which our following Subject of Chiroscopia alias Palmistry doth not obscurely trace out as Aristotle avers Deus Natura nihil efficiant frustra it follows then that not lightly at all-adventure in vain and without Reason are the Lines impressed in the hands of Men and Women but principally they depend upon the Caelestial Influx and the Formate Principles of the Microcosme Therefore according to the Number of the Seven Planets in the hollow and inside of the hand are the seven mounts Efficted which produce the grounds of Chyroscopia and from the Lines posited in the same compass the Artist foreknoweth of the Complexions Manners and Ingenuities of persons their Fortunes likewise and Infortunes This Natural Laudable and harmless Science wants not its Patrons and Praises in all ages Quid Utilius esse potest quam scire futura Quid Jucundius quam divinitatis alicujus hac in parte participem esse Quidnam Astrologus bonus aliud est quam conciliorum quae in Coelo fiunt participes saith Cardanus and Sophocles ceterum cum hoc nectar sit haec Deorum Ambrosia cur non merito etiam faelicissimi erunt qui vel hoc poculi genus aut sibi gustaverint Quamobrem necesse est Astrologian omni alia disciplina Jucundiorem Diviniorem esse at vero etiam vtiliorem fore quis dubitet cum et futura si prospera sunt sequi doceat si adversa vel vitare vel Aequius ferre namquae diu quisque ante praeviderit levius feret And Divine writ gives it its suffrage Job 37. Cap. ver 7. Manum cujusque hominis obsignat ut recognoscat omnes operarios suos according to Tremelius and according to Jerome and the septuagist signat in manu omnium hominum ut singuli noverint opera sua Although the Sence of this hath been variously explicated by Antient and Modern Divines yet observable it is that from the very Contemners of Palmistry respecting the Original the holy tongue and consulting the most learned Doctors of the Hebrews they all conclude this can no otherwise but ought to be understood of the signification and use of this Science of Palmistry The knowledge of the Chiromantick principles is chiefly attained by rightly understanding the qualities of the four Elements from the commixtion of which divers kinds in generation are produced yet so as one Element alwayes Predominates and one is most Subservient and the other have their Co-operations Amongst the which as the most Noble Qualities Heat and Moisture are the active formatives in Nature Calidity and Humidity equally proportionately joyn'd compose the most superlative constitution fully protending and dilating the parts but if Heat much exceed moisture in composition so that it passe into a siccity it much protends the body but little dilates it causing a long slender meager form even as frigidity mixt with Humidity products a Body spread broad but short but heat and moisture predominating confer to the body a due longitude and latitude of parts Frigidity with Humidity predominating inpedes the natural heat and vigor from whence bodies are formed fat and grosse but not long but siccity and frigidity prevailing cause long but not dilated bodies by reason of the want of moisture and the impediments of natural heat therefore Aristotle affirms the soetum much to increase in Longitude and extend by reason of the superabounding heat predominating in the Embrio because it much extends the Materia which self same thing is conspicuously discernable in vegetables for Herbs that are hot and moist extend their leaves much in longitude and latitude the more hot the longer the stalks which bring forth the leaves by how much the more any thing hath of heat by so much it is the more contracted extended in length and by how much the more it hath of moisture by so much the more it is shorter and broader as is observable in Plants the hotter they are the more narrower and longer leaves they bear the more Humid and Moist the shorter and broader These things being throughly pensitated from the lines found in the hands of Men and Women the Complexion and the Properties of nature is inquired as lines long and broad shew a callid and hot complexion lines long and small indicate a hot and dry complexion lines grosse and short intimate a super-abounding of evil noxious humours in the Body and a cold constitution Lines slender small and disjoyned plainly demonstrate a cold and dry temperament By this small hint I hope the Reader will see the Usefulness of this Science in respect of all People and especially Physitians whose studies ought principally to be conversant about the Temperaments and Complexions and as to particulars the utillity of praescience is very great for Incognitum malum non evitatur cognitum tamen potest evitari si praesciatur maxime a remotis Against unknown Dangers is no prevention but Evils foreseen beforehand may easily be avoided as if a man as Jacol apprehend a Dearth to ensue a War in his Country Pestilence or any Evil at hand he may make Provision before hand by a Removal or otherwise and avert so great evils from Himself His insinite might I be both from Scripture and Hystory to shew Examples herein of Prudent Persons in all Ages but as my Scope commands Brevity so the Ingenious cannot but Indulge me a Cessation from that labour Having thus far asserted the laudable utillity of Christian Prudent Science let me warn my Reader of those Sycophants and Delusive Ignorants through whose Sides this pretious Science is dayly wounded such spawn of shame that impudently make Profession of Art not onely in several Countryes but lurk in Obscure corners in and about this Famous City many Illitterate peices of Non-sence and Impudence of the Female kind whose Ignorance transcends the Vulgar Gypsies and Impudence sufficient to out face a whippingpost Ptolomy in his time complain'd of such and Cardan found a Generation Quicum saith he non sint videri volunt lucrique cupiditate Artem profitentur quam vix a limine salutarunt such though they were not yet would seem to be Artists and for Lucres sake professe it though they had not saluted the thresholds thereof Haly mentions One before His time that Affirmed when Cor. Leonis in such a Year came to the fifteenth Degree of Leo it would set the World on Flame through excesse of Heat the consequence of which was it was the most cruel cold and sharpest Winter known before and Petrus Aretinus mentions such an Ignoramus in his time that predicted a great Flood or rather a deluge in the Month of February 1524. Which so frighted the people notwithstanding the
chained to their effects as if a perfect knowing Nature get hold but of one link it will drive the intire series or Pedigree of the whole to each utmost end so that in truth there is no fortuirness or contingency of Things in resect of themselves but only in respect of us that are ignorant of their certain and necessary causes from hence Aristotle proceeds in his exhortation Ideoque nil magni tentes praeter concilium alicujus in scientia Astrorum periti nec insipientium dictis fidem adhibeas qui dicunt scientiam Astrorum it a difficilem quod nemo ad ipsius cognitionem pervenire possit This scruple many quaking judgements make at this day but he proceeds Nesciunt quid dicunt quia apud potentiam intellectus nihil est difficile cuncta sunt scibilia secundam viam rationis and proceeds sunt alij non minus stulti There is another Generation no less foolishly sottish then the former meaning the Fatalists Dicentes Deum cuncta praevidisse praeordinasse ab aeterno cuncta futura de necessitate evenire unde dicunt quod nil prodest futura praecognosâ—ere ex quo debeant necessario evenire Quid ergo valet scientia stellarum Astrologiae chiromantiae quib us futura praecognoscuntur he answers Errant similiter terpitur falluntur quia quamvis quaedam sunt necessario futura tamensi praesciantur levius tolerantur prudentius declinantur sic quodammodo evitantur quia eo ipso quoque futura sunt in nostra sunt notitia pervide discrete transeunt sine molestia maxima lesione verbi gratia quando homines futurans AE is hyemalis tempestatem nimis frigidam praecognoscentes remedia tempori provident si pest is intali loco futura sit sic de aliis And the Famous Petrus Apponensis otherwise called Consiliator who flourished in the Year of Christ 819. wrote a most pithy and elegant learned Tract of Chiromancy alias Palmistry I might instance Iob and many places in the sacred Scriptures as also produce multitudes of famous Authors and honourers of this Science of all Ages and of all Countries both Divines and Philosophers but I am here forc'd to brevity and this already is indifferent well performed in my Subject of Chiromancy Printed in 1652. for Nath. Brooks in Cornhil London and if any thing be wanting shall God sparing life be supplyed in the next Edition at large But to proceed great is the consent ad identitatem between this Science of Chiromancy and Astronomy by reason of the inseperable connexion and cognation of the superior bodies with the inferior the Macrocosme with the Microsme all the great Masters in Chiromancy have unanimously in judging observed this Herauldry to blazen the hand and Lines by the Planets and Signes alwaies observing the same as to method and signification and good reason for all agree that the Impression of the Lines are caused by the superior bodies at the formation and birth and so answerably in the actions of humane life illustrate each other and confirme each others significations yet if to our apprehension either is more certain in its predictions It may be said of Chiromancy as having its principles and grounds not so remote from our apprehensions as Astronomy Much to be lamented is it to see such cheating Deluding Impostors silly Women ignorant Quacks who swarm in every place City and Country to undertake and be dayly conversant in this so Sublime and Noble a science from whose ignorant and false delusive Oracles and misgrounded judgements much Infamy and Reproach hath adhered to this so Sublime a Subject and no wonder for the persons pretending the profession of it as Gypsies and other fordid Quacks men and women through whose imposturisme this Noble Science hath been much wounded and the credit thereof much impaired which hath been the long and serious Study and Contemplation of the greatest Sages and Masters in Philosophy as not to be attained otherwise for it comprehends the summe of all Physical Notions as the Nature of Elements Simple their infinite differences in reference to composition the qualification and composure of the body both internal and external and all Anatomical conclusions and simetrical proportions as shall in due place be observed and is not here matter for the most learned capacities the most laborious and serious studies and the longest measure of life to comprehend this so Sublime a Subject From hence then be excluded all those cursed Imposturisms which the Divel acteth In the persons of ignorant Impostures Men and Women to obscure the works of God and to deceive poor miserable easie believing creatures from hence be excluded all those Deceivers and deceptious persons who willingly or malitiously through Superstitious Exercises Spels or inchantments of which Monsters there are many at this day attempt and endeavour to presage to the ignorant of future things all which impious and superstitious presages and Prophesies I seriously abhor detest there being not the least of my Chiroscopia common with them It being only conversant within the Limits of Nature and bounded with Physical limitations wanting all things of Imposturism and Superstition and taken from Physical causes and effects and from Natural and ordinary Signes not at least bordering upon ignorance and Non-sence All men know that man is composed of a twofold Nature that is to say a Celestial and Aetherial as the Rational soul and a corpus carducum mortale a mortal frail body composed of the Elements therefore being agitated and acted from these two different principals to wit the Celestial infiux and the humane wil it comes to pass that his operations are rendred mixed and various The Tract Signs and footsteps of which operations our Chiroscopia doth not obscurely demonstrate to every judicious eye cum igitur teste Philosopho primo de coelo mundo Deus Natura nihil efficiant frustra seeing that God and Nature have made nothing in vain id est Natura Naturans natura naturata Haec que propositio universalis non solum a Philosophis verum a Theologis approbatur this being a received maxime both with Philosophers and Divines Sequitur non temere frustra lineas in manibus hominum esse impress a presertim quia ex influxu celesti ipsius microcosmi principiis dependet It follows then that not inconsiderately and in vain are such various Lines impressed in the hands of men and women principally seeing that they depend on the celestial influence and the principals of the Microcosm But farther to remove that detracting and vulgar opinion of them which say that the lines of the hand are caused by the constriction and plication thereof The falcity of which opinion every one may more clear then the Sun discern by his own hands for can one and the same plication or folding of the hand constitute Stars Triangles Quadrangles Crosses and marks of several different forms in the hand neither is their
unfortunate but that it too much fortifies Nature against the medicine 5. An apt time to prosecute a Fugitive is when the ☽ is debillitated and afflicted by the Lord of the first for that imports his Captivity 6. In ingaging against a general Distemper that invades the whole body let the Ascendant be ♎ or a Human Sign if a perticular Disease afflicting some perticular part of the body posite the Sign signifying that member in the first and the Lord thereof free from impediments not afflicted and the Planet Governing that part of the body free likewise and then apply your remidy which when you do for the expulsion of any greif let the moon be in the first joyn'd to a fortune and the Ascendant ♎ or ♠none of the infortunes in Angles nor the Moon besieged by them nor otherways unfortunate which if this cannot all be at least place the Moon in a good Aspect with the forunes and in the Sign governing that member you desire to cure if the cure can be without incission 7. In those cases where any Instrument of Iron is useful let the moon increase in Light and Number fortunately aspected from ♃ or ♀ free from all impediments of ♂ and let the Lord of the first in the first or the 10th be joyned to the Lord of the 10th House 8. Phlebetomis forbids Mars his presence in the Ascendant and ♊ in the first or the moon therein but aptate the Ascendant and his Lord and see that ♄ be not therein the ☽ also free from affliction and in good aspect with ♂ so that he be not in ♉ nor ♋ nor septentironal Ascending in his Ange and let the Lord of the House of the Moon behold him from good places 9. Beware of the hour of the ☉ ♄ and ♂ in bleeding as also that the latter part of ♎ be not Ascending 10. In the time of letting blood put not in the Ascendant the Sign of the 6.8 or 12. in the Nativity nor the Sign in which an infortune was in the Birth neither let the moon be in them 11. In Laxative medicines aptate the Ascendant and his Lord and posite the Moon in the last half of ♎ or beginning of ♠and the Lord of the House of the moon and of the Ascendant free from affliction provide also that the Ascendant be a Meridional Sign and that it be not a Ruminating Sign where the Moon is or the Lord of the Ascendant 12. In provoking of Vomit let the Ascendant the moon and Lord thereof be in Ruminating Signs let not the Lord of the Ascendant be going to his exaltation thus you may safely administer your Physick 13. Bathing requires the moon be in Aries or ♠joyned to ♃ the ☉ or Venus or in a good aspect of them 14. In buying or hiring of Servants posited the moon in ♉ or in the second mediety of ♠and let the Horoscope be a Human Signe and the Lord thereof in a Human Sign and beware you have not ♈ ♌ ♠or ♑ on the 6th House nor the moon nor the Lord of the first nor the Lord of the 6th in any the foresaid Signs for Aries indicates a negligent careless Servant ♌ a proud prodigal self conceited fool and wastful Seorpto an angry peevish peice and a lyer and Capricoru shews he shall wast and consume his Masters goods 15. In curing the Eys let the moon be increasing in Light and Number and free from the Aspects of the infortunes 16. In buying of small Domestick Cattle let the Ascendant and moon be in a Sign signifying that Animal you intend to bny fortunate and in reception with the Planet Lord of that Sign 17. In big Cattel it is good the moon be in ♉ or the second half of ♠in smaller Cattel let her if possible be in ♈ or ♑ or otherwise in ♉ More particular Elections of Times for Physitians and Physick 18. THat Physitian who first visits his Patient in the hour of Saturn his Patient shall either be long sick or long in curing and will suffer much pain and inconvenience in his cure nor shall he be cured until both Physitian and Patient almost dispaire 19. He that first enters upon a cure in the hour of Mars shall finde his Patient disaffected to him and partly disdain or reject his medicines his person slighted and his pains ill rewarded 20. He that first visits his Patient in the hour of Venus or Iupiter shall have good words of the sick be well esteemed and paid for his pains though he faile of the cure yet shall he receive no prejudice thereby I mean in point of Estimation The verity of these few particulers will prompt the ingenious to farther inquisition As To take notice of the Crisis according to which diversity of distempers appears as also with Hippocrates to observe the Cosmical rising of many Stars violently hot of which nature are these Procyon Syrius Pygasus Equus Capella Hercules Antares Pallitium and others which are proper causes of Epidemical Diseases Phlebetomy being of such consequence to the Body humane It is of necessity that there be a skilful judicious and circumspect considerration had as to the causes and ends inducing thereunto As whether it be proper for the Patient to bleed for the evacuating of some naughty superfluous pecant humour for otherwise blood letting is of dangerous consequence and openeth away to many inconveniences and infirmities And note generally that it is not convenient for a lean and weak man and a very fat and grosse man to be let blood neither for a Child under 14. years of age nor an old man above fifty and six Moreover let not blood when the Moon is either in ♊ or Leo for the one hath power of the Armes the other of the Heart to which some late writers I know not for what reason have added the latter halfe of Libra but the other Signs are good for Phlebetomy acording to this following method For the Complexions let blood the Phlegmatick the ☽ being in ♈ or ♠For the Complexions let blood the Melancholick the ☽ being in ♎ or ♒ For the Complexions let blood the Cholerick the ☽ being in ♋ or ♓ For the Complexions let blood the Sanguine the ☽ being in ♉ ♠or ♑ For his Age let blood in his Youth from the change to the first Quarter For his Age let blood in his Middle Age from the first Quarter to the Full. For his Age let blood in his Elder Age from the full to the last Quarter For his Age let blood in his Old Age from the last Quarter to the change Times of the Year Spring good Harvest indifferent Times of the day Morning after Sun rising fasting afternoon after perfect digestion the Air temperate the wind not South Not good to let blood AT the change of the moon nor two days before nor after ☌ ☠or □ of ♄ ♂ ♃ forbiddeth the opening of a Veir four hours before and 10 hours after
Enemy and to compound Enmity but its evil in purchase of Land or bargains for Houses and to take Physical Potions as also to begin or attempt that thing of which he feareth the event or hath lately had ill success therein because he shall fall in the same inconvenience again 6. The Moon being in this Mansion good to take Physick for Women to deck themselves with Ornaments and new Attire it s affirmed that the Raine that salls when the Moon is in this Mansion doth more good then ordinary yet not good for travel by Land Dorothius affirmes that Marriages that are contracted in this time shall a while continue in concord and unity and afterwards Discord and disagree the Servant that is bought or hired in this time shall be a Deceiver a Fugitive and a deceiver of his Master he which enters a Ship to voyage therein he shall safely and quickly arive at his Port and very speedily returne but for Partnership and contracts to be made herein not good for fraud and deceit shall be practised on both hands he which is cast into Prison a long time continues therein c. 7. The Eastern Phylosophers tells us the Moon being in this Mansion it s not good to sow any seed neither to travel nor to lend any thing to another neither to attempt any thing against an other person of prejudice other Authors tells us its good for him that sets saile at this time for he shall quickly go to his own liking and speedily returne Parties that joyn society at this time shall be deceptious and false the one to the other the Party imprisoned stays long by it not good to cut haire or to make or put on New cloaths because he is in danger to be drowned or to dye with them good for all things of strength and fortification good to change seed Wheat and the like good to furnish a house with Bedding and the like that one may peaceably injoy and quietly sleep in the same 8. The Antients say its good herein to contract Matrimony any part or League of friendship because the parties shall be helpful to each other not good for travel nor for new Cloaths nor bravery good to lay the foundation of a Building because of durabillity and continuance not good to trust or lend any thing any person imprisoned by the command of his superiours will suffer long durance and his release very difficult 9. Not good for releasing a Prisoner or dismissing Captives good for sowing and Planting good to besiege any place Town or Castle indifferent for Journey and travel as also for Merchandizing for buying and selling those Buildings whose foundations are then laid shall long endure those Parties that then contract society and friendship shall be profitable and helpful each to other Partners will much advance each others gain good to cut haire or wooll not good for new Cloaths nor for Imprisonment 10. The Moon passing this Mansion its good to begin any Building to let out Land and Gardens for sowing and Planting for Marriage for putting on new Cloaths for Ornaments of Women and for Travel but not good to lend for Dorothius saith he which lends at this time shall either never receive his Mony again or else with great loss and tedious vexation and he which enters a Ship in this time shall have a Laborius dangerous and troublesome Voyage and be long before he obtains his Port It s good for buying or hiring of Servants and Beasts they will be strong and of good Stomacks But the moon passing the latter part of this Mansion which is the beginning of Virgo although they will eat much yet will be subject to some impediment in the stomack will be stubborn and disobedient 11. The moon in this Mansion its good to Plough to sow to Travel to marry both Widdows and Virgins to dismiss Captives and to set Servants free and to hire or buy Servants for they will be honest and just he which enters his Ship to begin his Voyage shall experience a slow voyage he will suffer much dammage which shall then be cast into Prison yet at last shall obtain a good end good to take Physick to put on new Apparrel to lay foundations for Building to Solicite and Petition the Prince Magistrate or Noble person good for mirth and Recreations and to cut haire and deck the head and body 12. The moon passing this Mansion its good to marry Widdows or the like but not good in the Marriage of Virgins by reason Discontents will arise which may cause seperation they will not long abide together Good for Physick to Plant and sow but not to travel neither depose any goods or money in the trust of any one the Servant that you take will be trusty and faithful and love well his Master Fortunate to him which then enters his Ship and to them that contract association and Partnership for they shall much benefit each other he which shall be taken as Prisoner shall quickly escape and be delivered 13. In this Mansion its good to dig Wells Pits and Quaries bad for Travel good to cure Infirmities of body proceeding from Ventosity and Windy causes and not otherwise Dorothius is of opinion that those who then marry shall not long continue in unity and concord but disagree he which lends money at this time shall be in danger of losing it unfortunate to all that begin Travel by Land or Sea if any enter into society of friendship or Partnership they will defraud each other and disagree good to remove from House to House to neer habitations if you aptate the second House his Lord and the Planet signifying the Place to which you remove good to buy and sell all but beasts to make requests of good turns to any one as also to hire Servants but not good to cut haire or any thing you would have grow again 14. It s not good for travel nor Physick the moon passing this Mansion nor for any mercenary business neither for sowing nor for new Cloaths nor the Ornaments of Women its unhappy for Marriage because discord will quickly grow It s a good time to buy or hire Servants because then they will be faithful diligent and just but they which contract partnership shall discord between themselves and have a suspicious jealousy each of other he which is cast into Prison there is hope of a speedy deliverance 15. The moon residing in this mansion it s very good to buy beasts and such Cattle as are kept in Flocks and to put them to pasture good to be cloathed with new apparel and to lay siedge to any strong place he which supposeth he marrieth a Virgin is apt to be deceived and mistaken a building begun shall be firm and durable he which enters his Ship shall experience much anxitey and sorrow before he come out bad to contract general friendship for they shall have continual discord good to compose differences and Law controversies