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1. Venus, Mercury, and Jupiter Rule the Geniture; and therefore you see their Regions in the Hand decently enough adorned.
2. Hence therefore we Prognosticate a happy Wit, and other things that flow from Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury.
3. The Triangle drawn with the best Conformity, helps the Ingenuity, and all the Endowments both of Body and Mind.
4. The Region also of the Moon shews her Domi∣nion, the same being marked with no despicable In∣cisures, it occasioneth Prosperous Journeys, addeth splendour both to the Body, and Manners of the Na∣tive, and gains the Favour of Women; which very thing the Moon (in Cancer, and in the 10th. House of the Heavens) most plainly demonstrates.
5. The Lines of Jupiter are somewhat troubled, and therefore his Condition is but indifferent: Yet gives he Honours not contemptible, although with some Difficulties, some Impediments.
6. The Conjunction of Venus and Mercury in the House of Venus, and in a Partile Trine of Jupiter, is accounted very Fortunate. For thereby his Mind is excellently inclined unto all such Arts as are dedicated to Venus and Mercury. I see he will prove a most Eloquent Man. The two Parallel Lines (which are drawn in the Form of a Scale, or Ladder, from the Region of Mercury, to that of Venus) do clearly ma∣nifest this Conjunction, and the very same judgment. We have almost the same Scale or Ladder in the 15th. Example, which gave that Native the Benefit of a Voluble Tongue, and a quick Pronunciation.
7. Saturn hath Ominous Signatures upon his Tu∣berculum, intimating Wounds and other grievous Ac∣cidents: And the Line which runneth underneath the same from the Thoral, to the Concave of the Hand, threatens a fall from an High Place, or Drowning. The same is Denounced by the Sun in the Geniture, who is Afflicted of Saturn by his Conjunction with him, near to the Hyades: Mars (Lord of the Eight House) being in his Detriment.
8. The Vital is thrice touched: First, by a Line running from the Cephalica: But because it breaks not the Vital, we suppose the Disease (thereby signi∣fied) will not be so grievous, as otherwise: The Moon comes, by Direction, to the Quartile of Mars, about the 18th. Year of his Age. Besides, the Progress of the Horoscope to the Body of Mars, about the 47th. Year will agree to the other Incisures. And lastly, the Progression of the Moon to the Square of Saturn, about the 54th. Year; in all which Years, the Native must take heed of a violent Death.
9. The Mensa excellently Rased, confirms the goodness of Wit, and Temperament, and the con∣tinuance of a plentiful Fortune, &c.
But here it is to be Noted, by every one desirous of this Knowledge; that in the precedent Examples, the Incisures and small Lines, are not all of them Delinea∣ted, partly, for that they were exceedingly slender, and partly, because they could not be described so accu∣rately as requisite. Besides, we must observe, that even of those Lines which we have posited, some ought to be more obscure and slender: Others more clear and conspicuous; and therefore good Caution must be had, when we would apply them to other Examples. The Skill of the Engraver can never follow the form of the Lines so precisely, as they present themselves in the Hand. Moreover, we have often omitted some Accommodations in the Geniture; lest their sig∣nifications (as considered in themselves) might Nau∣seat the Readers.