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

Example II. Another Born (Spurcè puta) in the Countrey of Uratislavia, of Ignoble Parents, in the Year 1590. Feb. 2. New Stile, Hor. 1.30′. Afternoon.

AS soon as I saw this Child (in my Travels) I desired to know the time of his Birth: For he was hardly Four Years Old, and looked with an ex∣ceeding free and comely Face: And perceiving him Illegitimate, I did the more diligently observe and de∣scribe the Lineaments of his Hand; And how exactly they agree with the Stars in his Geniture, shall be the next presented to our Enquiry.

We find Four or Five of the Planets Excellently well dignified; in which respect, it might fitly be cal∣led, A Regal Geniture. Venus her self is in her Exal∣tation, and more than so, in mutual Reception with Jupiter, from Houses. The like Reception there is betwixt Saturn and Mercury. Mars is in his Triplicity, and very strong in that part of Heaven. Sol, Saturn, and Jupiter make a Triangle, in Airy Signs, and so doth the Part of Fortune.

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1. They all premonstrate not only length of Life, and constancy of Health, but also an absolute Wit, and a Mind that is Noble.

In his Hand you find an Excellent Concinnity of Lines, and the places thereof admirably well adorn'd [viz.] The Tubercula of Venus and Jupiter, then the Taberculum of Mercury, and lastly, the Moons: Ye behold a conspicuous Sister of Mars: Whereby we may pronounce him a most Fortunate and Formidable Warriour.

2. Mercury inclines him to all manner of Sciences, and gives a Profound Wit.

3. The Region of Jupiter is grac'd with his proper Character. So you see, in the Geniture, the gre••••

Dominion of Jupiter with the Virgins Spike, not with∣out the Reception of Venus.

4. In like manner the Tuberculum of Venus, beau∣tified with convenient Incisures. And therefore in describing the Genius of the Native, we must make 2 Mixture of the significations of Mars, Venus, Ju∣piter, and Mercury.

5. Saturn letting down Three Little Lines from his Tuberculum, and therewith cutting the Thoral, de∣nounce Sickness in his Old Age, Poverty also and Needi∣••ess.

6. The Capaciousness of the Mensa, shews the Goodness of his Nature.

7. The Via Solis designs him to Honours, but (be∣ing touched by Diminutive Lines) not without some slender Impediments.

8. The Line of Saturn Ascending (by a straight Path) even to the Middle-finger, confirms the Excel∣lency of the former Judgments.

9. The Ferient tells of Journeys: And the like are signified in the Geniture, by the Positure of the Moon in the West-Angle: So also by the Trine of Mercury to Saturn, Lord of the Ninth House.

10. The Epatica (having a Breach in the End thereof) denotes a Change of the manner of his Life, in Old Age, &c. The Excellent Reception of the Pla∣nets disposing of the 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12th. Houses, what further concerns the State and Condition of the Native.