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

Example VIII. A certain Man Born on the Confines of Bohe∣mia, in the Year of Christ 1588. the 8th. day of November (New stile) at 8 a Clock, 45 Min. 40 Sec. in the Afternoon: The Latitude of the Place 50 Deg. 30 Min.

THIS Geniture is Fortunate, as are also the Linea∣ments of the Hand.

1. The Moon Partilly Posited in the Horoscope, in Trine of Mercury, demonstrates an Excellent Wit: So also the Reception of Mercury and Mars, from Houses. The like Venus being Angular, and in her own House: And lastly, the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars in the House of Mercury, they embracing the Moon by a Sextile. The like is signified by the Cephalica, extending it self to the Tuberculum of Mercury: So likewise by the Finger and Tuberculum of Mercury, they exhibiting not undecent little Lines. Herewith 〈◊〉〈◊〉 th•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 i•• ••elf, and those very fair Characters in the Places of Jupiter, Venus, and the Sun.

2. Venus is conspicuous in her Furrows, as being Angular (at the Birth) in her own House.

3. The Trine of the Sun and Mercury, (in Watry Signs) to the Cuspe of the South-Angle, and Horoscope it self (where we meet with the Moon) and also the Part of Fortune Salutes him with Honours, and wish'd-for success of all things. Such a Trine is seldom met with. It promotes a Prosperous Fortune. Unto these let be added Venus Angular in Libra, &c. The

Regions of the Sun, Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon, are excellently Beautified in the Hand: And a double Triangle therein wonderfully occurring; one of which is form'd of the Vital, Epatick, and Cephalick Lines: The other, by the Cephalick, Mensal, and Vital, if you add the little Line of the Vital, which runs thence to the Tuberculum of Jupiter.

The Two Parallel Rules assist notably in Point of Marriage, Honours, Ingenuity, and Affairs: One of which is made by the Line that passes from the In∣terval of the Index and Medius, to the Mensal, touch∣ing the same, below the Interval of the Medius and Annular; and thence Protracted to the Interval of the Auricular and Annular; (some by such a Line Prophesie Incest;) the other from the Line falling from the Pollex, upon the middle of the Vital, and running thence by a Right Angle through the Cavity of the Hand, to the Natural Mean. All these things do plainly presage a most Excellent Man in all man∣ner of Sciences, especially the Mathematicks. And this very same judgment, manifestly ariseth from the Geniture, by the Situation of Mercury in Scorpio, the Positure of the Moon in the Horoscope, in her own House, and the Trine of Mercury. Lastly, by the Reception of Houses betwixt Mars and Mercury. Be∣sides, the Sextile of Mars and Mercury, &c. argues Celerity: The which are so manifest to the Intelligent, they cannot be look'd upon and conferr'd without Admiration.

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5. The Region of the Moon, presenting a very clear Line, betokeneth Journeys: The Moon Angular, in a Moveable sign, the same: So also Mercury recei∣ved of Mars, Lord of the Third.

6. The Vital, and that Line which runs from the Tuberculum of Saturn through the Hand, unto the Region of the Moon, do seem to resemble a Scale, or Ladder, of an Excellent bigness, and that by a No∣table Tract: In which Scale are every where found Transverse Lines, requisite to the shape thereof. This presages a wonderful and formidable Tract of Dig∣nities, but not without great Envy.

7. As touching Riches, what need we say more? There are no Dignities, no Kingly and Magnificent

Affairs, wherein an Affluence of all things is wanting-Venus Centrally in the 4th. House, contributes Ho∣nourable Possessions in his Old Age, and no little Fame after his Death: You see how her Tuberculum even Luxuriates with accustomed Incisures.

8. The Vital diversly cut, concerns no small or light Infirmities. In the fifth Year of his Age, he was sick of the Small Pox. The rest you may judge to fall out in the 11, 21, 25, and 43 Years of his Age, or thereabout.

9. Moreover, Saturn projecting (in his Region) an Incisure, through the Mensal, bodes a Disease in the lower part of the Belly: (I suppose the Stone in the Bladder, &c.) As therefore this Geniture of it self is happy; so are likewise the Lineaments of his Hand, and the Conveniency in the Lines themselves, which was to be Proved.