The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. collected into one volume / by John Gadbvry ...

Example I. One Born at Uratislavia, in the Year of Christ, 1567. August 17. Hor. 12.10′. in the Afternoon.

HE is promised Long-Life, and seldom to be troubled with Diseases: His Complexion (for the most part) Phlegmatick.

Mercury Angular, and in his own House, denotes his Ingenuity.

The Mid-Heaven Irradiated by the Trine of Ju∣piter, an Affluence of Joyful, and easily-attained Ho∣nours, without Impediments.

Mars in the 12. and in the House of Mercury, whom he Afflicts by a Quartile, obstructs his Muse, by Martial Men, especially: And such as are given to Merchandize, &c.

V••nus is excellently well and Fortunately Placed, for Marriage, and Plenty of Children.

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We find an increase of Riches, by Marriage, so likewise from his own Services, and Offices, Honestly undertaken, on the behalf of others: No Testimony of Imprisonment, or a violent Death: Yet some Mis∣fortune to be taken heed of, proceeding, either by the means of Thieves, or by some of the greater sort of Beasts: Frequent Journeyings in his First, and Middle-Age, and those Famous, Honourable, and Gainful.

Now, if we Trace these things by the Lineaments of the Hand, we shall find an agreement.

1. For, in the first place, the Mons V••neris nota∣bly Furrowed, shews, that Venus had the best Positure in the Geniture. Hence we must gather the significa∣tions of Venus, to compleat the Judgment.

2. There are three clear Lines in the First Joynt of the Little-finger, which tell us the Dominion of Mercury: The like, the Triangle so aptly described. Whence we conjecture a most Excellent Wit, and Commendable Behaviour.

3. The Sun's Place hath its little Lines not foolishly Posited, which contribute Honours: And the like doth the Partile Sextile of Jupiter and the Sun, who is Angular in the Geniture.

4. Saturn (by the Incisures of his Mount) shews Adversities, some Diseases; yet those but Light and Easie.

5. The Breadth of the Mensa confirms the Libe∣rality of Nature.

6. The Saturnia extending to the Epatica, shews an Honest Behaviour, Good Judgment, a Long Life.

7. The Mons Jovis decently adorn'd with Incisures, the Height of Honours.

8. The Cross near the Ferient, promises Happy and Honourable Journeys: Otherwise the Region of the Moon were here untill'd.

9. The Cross in the Mensa under the Annular, con∣tributes Honours, and good Fortune: But insomuch as it is cut by the same, (being let down through the Epatica) it threatens loss of House-hold Goods in his Old Age.

To be short, the Principal Lines being endowed with the best Conformity, demonstrate strength in the Principal Members of the Body, as also appears by the Geniture: For, it is not our purpose to draw, or examine all the Incisures in General, especially the l••ast of all, running through the Fingers or the Re∣stricta: We hold it sufficient, that we have Rightly applied the significations of the Principal Lines and

Characters to the Planets and Stars in the Geniture and their Significations: So, that the rest may be ver•• ••ell referred to the Readers own Ingenuity.