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
are ten 1. THe Habit of the body hot in touch dry lean hard and hairy 2. The colour of the face yellow 3. A Natural siccity of the mouth and tongue 4. The Natural thrist great and frequent 5. The Mobility Activity and inquietude of the body 6. The Pulse hard swift and beating oft 7. The spittle bitter 8. The dreams are most of yellow things of brawles fightings and quarrels 9. The Urine Subtile thin and yellow 10. The Nutriment converting most to yellow Choller The properties of a Flegmatick Constitution are chiefly ten 1. THe Habit of the body cold and moist in touch soft fat grosse and not hairy 2. A Constant natural whiteness or wanness in the face 3. The superfluity of mois excrements as spittle and snot 4. The Urine white and gross 5. The pulse weak slow and rare 6. The Appetite of thirst little seldom desiring drink 7. The dreams most usually of white things floods inundations and all actions or accidents belonging to water 8. Sleep much and frequent 9. A slow unapt dulness of the body to exercise 10. The Chyle most converted into flegm The Signes of a Sanguine constitution in eleven particulars 1 THe Habit of the body hot and moist in touch fleshy soft and hairy 2. The colour of the body fresh sanguine and lively 3. A natural and constant blush in the face 4. A Plenitude and natural swelling of the veines 5. The Pulse moist soft and full 6. The urine red and grosse 7. The Spittle sweet 8. Dreames most commonly of Red things of Beauty of Feasting Dancing Musick and all jovial Recreations 9. A Continued habit of pleasantness and Affabilliy 10. Often affecting Jests Mirth and Laughter 11. The food converting most into blood The Signes and Symptomes of a Melancholy temperament 1. THe Body in Touch Cold Dry Hard Leane and Smooth 2. The Body of a Dark Dull Gloomy Leaden-Colour 3. The spittle little in quantity and sowre 4. The urine subtil blewish and pale 5. Pulse little rare and hard 6. The dreams often of black and terrible things as of Spirits Ghosts of Infernal Apprehensions of Choaking Heading or Hanging 7. Much sorrowful and subject to greeving 8. Much and often oppressed with fear 9. A Stability in Cogitations and constancy in performance of the thing intended 10. The Dyet increasing Melancholly The Brain and Heart are the two Regal and Principal parts of man of which Nature renders divers Physiognomical Symptomes which be observed as followeth Signes of a hot brain are 1. A Natural Heat and redness in the face 2. The sudden growth of hair 3. The Hairs hard crisping or very black and quickly growing bald Signes of a cold brain are 1. A Natural wan paleness in the face 2. The slow growth of hair 3. The hair straight flag thin and oftimes yellowish Signes of a dry brain are 1. A Paucity of the Excrements in the eyes nose eares and pallat 2. Hair hard and quickly bald 3. A quick sharpness of the outward sences and the sleep seldome and little Signes of a moist brain are 1. The superfluity of Excrements at the Eyes Nose ears and pallat 2. The Hair Soft and long continuing 3. A Lazy Dull Stupidity of the outward Sences The Symptomes of the Heart being hot exceeding the temperament are 1. A Great and frequent respiration 2. A strong swift and frequent pulse 3. A large and hairy rough brest 4. Alacrity to action 5. Hasty and rash anger Signes of a frigid and cold temper of the Head Are 1. The respiration small and rare 2. The pulse small slow and rare 3. The breast narrow and smooth or at least covered with small and faint hairs 4. A dulness to action 5. Anger slow and moderate The Symptomes of a dry heart Are 1. The pulse sharp and hard 2. Anger long continuing and implacable The moist heart hath these Symtomes of discovery 1. The Pulse sharp and hard 2. Anger quickly passing and transient Pleasant Physiognomical Observations from the quantity of the body THe Body very small signifies a man partly Ingenious partly fit for Action and partly Loquacious the reason is because the Vital Spirits in a small body are the more contracted and therefore the more strong and in a little Body so small is the space between the heart and the brain that the Vital Spirit doth with much Celerity ascend from whence it comes to pass that Nature oft-times supplies in wit what is wanting in Body and from hence it is that Creatures of small body are so ingenious as the Ant the Bee the Spider and the like And Hystory informs us that many Wise Prudent Stout and Couragious men were of small sttature in antient time as Ulisses Alexander the Great Horace Aristotle and many others and on the other side for the most part a Big and Large Stature is a signe of a Dull Slow and timorous person the cause hereof appears because the Vital Spirits in a great Body are dilated and dispersed and great is the distance between the heart and the brain so that the spirits cannot easily or without prejudice make their ascent as for example the Crane being a fowle of big body and long neck is of a Heartless Fearful Foolish Condition and Ajax is reported to have been large of body and furious and foolishly disposed in his mind and lastly a body of midle Stature that is neither over-tall nor over-short is a signe of mean Nature and best composed manners The Application of this Doctrine is rightly made when the Physiognomical Rules and Signes are rightly applied to the Inclinations and Natural habits of men concerning which observe this caution when you see a man suspected of any vice or supposed to be naturally indued with any vertue have recourse to these rules and behold Him and you shall see All or Most part of those signes of Virtue or Vice shall herewith concurre Observe these following Rules and you may judge of any man according to his Intellectual Moral and Artificial Habits THe Intellectual Habits are wisdome and pudence with their opposites The Moral Habits are Virtues and Vices The Artificial Habits are Arts Liberal and Mechanical And first of the Animal faculties and Intellectual-Habits amongst which I praemise Ingenuity or Wit understanding thereby in this place an Aptitude to apprehend any thing the fancy moves to which is either Theorical Practical or Poeticall according to and after the various Disciplines unto each appertaining A Good ingenuity or wit is considerable in General or Speciall THe Physiognomical Signes of a Good Genius Signes of a good genious in general are 1. A straight erect body rightly proportioned neither over tall nor short 2. The Habit of the body mean betwixt Fat and Lean. 3. The Flesh Naturally soft 4. The Skin subtil being a medium betwixt soft smooth and rough 5. The Colour and Complexion of the body White verging to a little blush of Redness 6. The Hairs between Hard and Soft Crisping and Straight
so Legitimate a ground for a good Election CHAP. II. Of many things Generally to be Noted about Elections COncerning the Elections of times generally these things offer themselves to our consideration First Elections of time profit not only for the obtaining of good in our daily actions and the useful profitable and happy management of good received and obtained but also is profitable as to the shunning and avoiding of any Eminent Evils feared for he that would concilliate to himself the favour of his Prince contract a happy designed Marriage or would build a House Castle or City it Superlatively profiteth him to make choise of such fit and congruent times that are only proper to such particular affaires in which the Caelestial Influences may favour and fortunate him in those undertakings for the Celestial Influences only affect the person by himself principally about those things which are said to be affected or moved by accident for the fortune of Building a House â—â—â—eth not in the State and Poâ—â—â—on of Heaven considered in it self 〈◊〉 the hour in which the House begâ—â— to be built which should be assumed if the Caelestial Influence did principally and by it self affect the Subject made and Operated but considered in respect of the Artichect and him that causeth that House to be built for so it 's possible the Position of Heaven to be Fortunate in the first sense and Unfortunate in the second acceptation From whence that House may be rendred Unhappy to him that oweth or enjoys it and the same Reason we may conceive in all other things In like manner he that would prevent an Eminent Disease presignified by the Stars to him Having found the time thereof by Directions and the Revolutions of Sun and Moon may choose a fit time by this Art before the Disease invade Nature in which he may let Blood if necessary or safely Purge those Noxious Humors afflicting As also a King fearing War from another Prince may hereby before the beginning of the War take up those grounds and resolutions by consulting a fit and proper time of acting and by consulting with and acting by those men that are fortunately affected and disposed consilliate a laudable Peace or prosper in a fortunate honourable War the same reason is of any eminent controversie in which life or goods are concerned and the event feared Secondly any Man may as for himself so for any other Person Elect a Congruent and fit time as well to Good as to an Evil end to Good as if one would procure Dignity for his Son or the like To Evil as if one should study design the Ruine of another in Life or in Goods as often times it comes to pass by evil men over much abusing their Authority to the prejudice of others as he that contrives Evil will Sagaciously consult the Nativity of his Adversary and the time when Evil Directions Revolutions or Transits accomplish their effects then will he take his time to Ruine him by Play Quarels Contentions Law-suits Wars or by Implicating him in Dangerous and pernicious Designs and will Oppose Encounter him in Combat War or the like at such a time when himself is Fortunated by the Stars and the other Unfortunate The same Reason is there of one King undertakeing or waging War against another King the Event Depends not upon the justness of the Cause so much as the time undertaking the same neither doth he wisely undertake a War that doth it upon the Ground of some slight Directions Signifâ—ing Good when as the Revolutions are strongly unfortunate and as he fortifies himself so he must deal in the contrary with his Enemy he must Elect a time when the Position of the Heavens do Infortunate the Enemy and Fortunate himself therefore it comes to pass that it is of great concernment to know the genitures of the Generals and cheif Officers that lead an Army and Command in chief by the knowledge of which through a good Election of time a desired end may be obtained and these things not heeded and understood are often times the causes of most Unfortunate Accidents and the ruine of Good undertakings Thirdly for the making an apt and fit Election of time for the more happy Contracting of Matrimony These two things are required First that the Nativity have good Signification of Marriage Secondly That the time of the Contract or Marriage be backt with congruent Directions Revolutions and Transits of the Radical Significators either of these failing Election profiteth not much although it seemingly promise never so much good Fortune for Elections are not able to avert the Radical Significations nor truely the Radical Directions and Revolutions The Radical Significations may be considered in a Supreans an Infime and a Mediate Degree as also the Significations of Elections ad agendum respecting Action as if those grounds taken form the Nativity agree with the Rules of Election in the supream highest degree great and quick shall the effects following be conformable to either signification if in the Infime and lowest degree it shall be the meaner or as it were Fortunate in appearance only if in the Mediate degree the effects shall be answerable proportionably the Superlative degree of the one with the inferior degree of the other shall produce something more then the capacity of the Lowest degree wil admit and with the mediate degree above the Medium cheifly if the Supream degree be taken from the Natal Signification The fourth principal of this Doctrine referring to Practice consists in this that those things which we intend to do and act in are to be begun in that moment of time signified by the Caelestial Elective constitution of the Heavens for the whole vertue of an Election consists in that very proper Position of the Heavens which is made choice of conformable and congruent to the end of the thing intended otherwise the virtue is dissolved by a continued motion of the Heavens and your desired and wished success is lost and perished As for Example to Elect a time to make a Fortunate Journey or Voyage The ninth house is to be Fortified by the Position of fortunate Planets therein which by a little delay of time the swift motion of the Heavens all those Significators are devolved into the Eight House where Death and Danger of life is portended and in like manner those fortunate Positions of the Planets which are Located in the first House for the health Sanity of body and minde are quickly by the swift foot of time revolved into the Twelfth House which hath the signification of Mischiefs Diseases therefore seeing the whole consists in that nicity of proper time Elected all things relating to the business in hand ought to be made ready and prepared that nothing be to be done but to observe the exact Moment of time which is not to be taken by common vulgar Clocks and Dials which ofttimes vary half an hour or more from the true
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
the Angles of your figure unless he the Lord of the Radical Ascendant or signifie the thing you desire to begin 6. The Nativity being not known Virgo and Pises are generally thought the best Ascendants so that the Luminaries be in Angles or succedants 7. In every operation see that the Lord of the Ascendant be Angular or at leastwise in a succedent House 8. In the time of a conjunction the Luminaryes with a fortune in the Ascendant very good for the Inception of any particular business 9. Not good to designe a day or hour to any one to perfect his designes in unless first the intention of the Querent concerning the thing he quesites be resolvedly free 10. In every Election erect your Figure according to the proper Latitude of the place where the question is made for from the diversification of Climates followes a diversification of Ascendants and in like manner different Aspects and so by consequence different directions for the alteration of Latitudes alters the circles and circular motion which heedfully observe 11. If you are necessitated to begin a work that you cannot defer cause that the Ascendant and Lord thereof be free from Affliction and a Fortune in an Angle especially the first or 10th 12. In the undertaking of great Affairs and the beginning of weighty Acttions cause that the Luminaries be in the terms of the fortunes Aspecting themselves and that the Lords of those terms have the signification of the work in Action 13. Make no address to King or Princes to Petition or obtain any suite of them the Moon existing in Aquary or Pisces 14. In every Election Aptate Sol and the Planet significator of the thing quesited the part of Fortune also and his Lord the fourth House and the Planets in whose houses these significators are found 15. Address your self to Princes for Favours when the head of the Dragon is in the tenth with ♃ the ☽ also applying thereto or seperate from ♃ and applying to the Lord of the Ascendant or the same to the Moon the Scots it s suppos'd did excel in this Policy in King Iames his time 16. In Election of times for Superiour Officers the Signs of the Superiour Planets and of the Sun are commended to Ascend In Elections for popular Inferiours the Signs of the Inferiour Planets and the Moon 17. The Aspects of the ☽ to ♂ are not commended although from the Houses of ♀ nor to ♃ from the Houses of ☿ for here is Apertio portarum their Houses are opposite 18. A cheif Observation it is in every Election for good that the ☽ be Fortunate and in a good place without the unhappy Aspects of unfortunate Stars 19. More certain shall you make a sure and Fortunate Election for him whose Nativity you know then if you be thereof Ignorant 20. In Elections for men Coaptate Masculine Signes for women Feminine Signes but so as they be without the Aspects of Malevolent Stars and in like manner a Planet of either Gender suitable to the Nature of either Person and Action 21. Every Signe according to the diversity of the Region may have various Signification from what it hath in another Region 22. The Debillitys of the Fortunate Planets are of greater prejudice then of the Malevolents 23. The Caelestiall bodys opperate according to their magnitudes their clarity and Natures 24. In every Election choose your Significators Congruent in Nature to the thing required 25. You may not Debillitate the Significators of the Nativity especially If they were strong in the Radix 26. In Election if you cannot aptate and fortifie what you would do what you can be sure not to neglect the Planets Significators of your business 27. The Eminent fixed Stars in the first and 10th Houses are not to be omitted which should rightly be if posible of the Nature of the thing intended 28. It s very requisite the Lord of the Nativity be placed in the most Eminent Significant place of Heaven as also the Lord of the current Revolution be Fortunated and the Planets that receive them with the Lord of the houre and part of Fortune and if posible place the Radical Ascendant in the first tenth or eleventh Houses and all free from the Infortunes and their Aspects 29. The time of effecting your desired ends may be known from the Significator thereof and the application he hath to other Planets or from the ☽ to the degrees of a Fortunate Significant star the distance of Degrees according to the Nature of the thing and Signe shall signify Days Houres Months or Years the same doth the Moon shew when she applys to the House Signifying the thing sought all which according to the Nature of the places and Signes are to be weighed 30. Put a Child to Nurse the ☽ joyned to or Aspecting ♀ from Taurus or ♎ and if ♀ be descending in her Eccentrique or Epicicle it is the better 31. Weane a Child and take it from the Nurse the ☽ receding from the ☉ 90. degrees at least to 167. degrees the ☽ may not be in any of the Houses of ♀ for then the Mother will not part with it through indulgency but if in ♎ the Child will willingly forsake the Brest and farther observv that if the ☽ and the Lord of the Ascendant be in Earthly Signes at the time of its weaning as ♉ â™ or ♑ the Child shall cheifly love Sallets Roots and such things as grow on the Earth if in ♌ it shall cheifly affect the eating of flesh if in ♋ â™ or ♓ it will ever after delight in eating fish but if in ♊ it cheifly loves Tame Domestick Fowls as Geese Ducks Capons and the like Quere Whether many of our Churchwardens were not weaned under this Poâ—â—Sion if in ♈ ♎ or Scorpio they indifferently love every thing that is good if in â™’ they much affect Wild Foul and if this were duly observed we might discerne some reason why one loves one thing and hates another c. but no more of this till a farther opportunity 32. In cutting nailes from hands or feet observe the position of the ☽ though this with many through their Ignorance be a subject of laughter yet the reason why the Nailes grow thick crooked deformed and suffer many distasteful accidents is from hence of which rationally much might be said the neatness and deformity of the nailes are of no small consideration to prevent deformity let not the ☽ be in ♊ ♓ nor Aries nor afflicted with the â–¡ or ☠of ♄ or ♂ these are the most considerable afflictions 33. If you desire secresy in Counsel or to do that which should not be discovered act when the ☽ is combust or under the ☉ beames rather applying than separating 34. When the significator of a thing in reference to time shall be between the ascendant and the 10th house it shall signifie hours or days answering the degrees if between the 11th and 7th weeks or months if between the