Keiromantia [sic] or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq.

Example XI.

Another borne at Angusta (a City of the Van∣dalls) in the yeare 1581. the 11. day of May, at one of the Clock in the Morning.

1. ALthough Iupiter be in his Fall▪ and in a Dejected place of the Figure, yet in that he assumes the Lordship of the Geniture,

and is the first that receives the Moon into his Imbracement, hee leave not his Tuberculum untill'd. Whosoever thou beest that art Ad∣dicted to Astrology, and wouldst know the Principall Lord of the Geniture: observe (a∣bove all others) that Planet which first Re∣ceives the Moone (as before we have said) into Conjunction with him, and so powreth upon her his Celestiall Moisture: which thing you shall understand more plainly elsewhere.

2. Mercury participates in the Rule of the Geniture, (for that he Receiveth the Moone) is collocated in his own House, and in a Good Place of the Figure: the which he also signi∣fies in his Mount, notwithstanding hee is Re∣trograde. Saturne in the Horoscope, in his own House, and Triplicity, augmenteth and amply∣fieth the Depth of his Wit.

3. Saturne partily Afflicting the Lumina∣ries, by Maligne Aspects, and from a violent Signe, the Sun also not farre distant from Pa∣lalitium, or the Bulls Eye, (a malevolent Fix∣ed Starre) denounces a violent Death, or great danger thereof: whereof the troubled Character upon the Region of Saturne is an Argument: for thereon shall such Characters appeare, either in some other forme, or else more Clearely, when the Evill ap∣proacheth.

[illustration] depiction of palm of hand with markings.

4. We doe judge the Integrity of Behavi∣our from the Saturnia, terminating at the Na∣turall Meane. Venus in her own House, Irradi∣ating the Moone by a Trine, begets a Na∣turall shamefastnesse, the which is seconded by Jupiter, who (as we told you) hath the Domi∣nion in this Geniture: Mercury (if not Su∣periour to him,) is certainly his equall in Go∣vernment.

5. The Tuberculum of the Sun presenting al∣most

the Character of Saturne, is not ac∣counted very Fortunate, for that it betoken∣eth many Enemies, without Cause, Envy ac∣companing. The Luminaries (so greatly in∣fested of Saturne) presage the same. As often as the Sun's Place beareth the Greeke Letter, Χ, (so, that the Line cutting that which is errected on his Tuberculum, descendeth from the Intervall of the Auricular and Annular, the like whereof the Cingulum Veneris usually describeth;) you may most certainly adjudge Difficulty of Businesses, through the Envy of Men.

6. Venus forming three little Cleare Lines on her Mount, augments his Revenue in some Measure, by the Meanes of a Wife, as is Clear∣ly evinc'd by her Pos••ture in the Second, with the Part of Fortune.

7. The Vitall vitiated in three Places, by the Transite of three little Lines, threatens three sufficiently Grievous Diseases, about the 32^th. 40^th and 45^th yeares of his Age. If you bring the Horoscope to the Quartile of Mars, and in like manner the Moon to the Quartile of Mars and Saturne, you shall surely produce the years before nominated.