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 XV.

The Brother of the former Borne A. C. 1589. Apr. 24. at 4. in the Morning.

HEre wee give you the different Faces of either Hand.

1. In his Right Hand the Epatica is visible, but passeth not the Concave thereof. And therefore it showes his shortnesse of Life: espe∣cially, because a certaine Line is transversly let fall from the Vitall, to the end of the Epa∣tica, as it were interrupting the Progresse thereof.

The vitall of the Left Hand, receiveth a Line arising from the Tuberculum of Saturne. The Place of the Vitall, thereby touch'd and al∣most Broken, appertaines to the 25. yeare of his Age, or thereabout, wherein without Doubt the Horoscope comes by Direction to the Body of Saturne. Indeed Venus is present, but in a strange signe: whence the Native shall then very hardly escape. The Oblique Ascention 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Saturne is 54. degr. 36. Min. that is, the 5. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Gemini.

2. In the Left Hand the Epatica is wanting, 〈…〉〈…〉 Lines (almost Parallel) are let fall 〈…〉〈…〉 to the Mensall: which argue 〈…〉〈…〉 and an evill compo∣sure

thereof: likewise a Pravity both of Wit and Behaviour.

3. But although Venus (in the very Cuspe of the Horoscope) by reason of her South Latitude, 1. degr. 12. min. doth produce no slow Inge∣nuity: yet being in the House of Mars, or a Forraigne Signe, shee will encline the Native to all manner of wickednesse, [Petulancy, Lasciviousnesse, Inconstancy, &c.] Mars Lord of the Geniture (Venus participating) Afflict∣ing Mercury (in Taurus and Retrograde) by an Angular Opposition, the same. Therefore hee denoteth, or rather maketh him Contentious, Disobedient, violent, unfaithfull, &c. All which are manifestly seen by the Evill Disposition of the Lines in his Hand.

4. The Cephalica of the Left Hand, increa∣seth the strength of his Wit, wherewith the Tuberculum of Mercury agreeth, though slen∣derly, because it is Marked with two Incisures, at the least, in the utmost part of his Hand. Venus presents three sufficiently clear Incisures in her Region: the rest I found Incult.

[illustration] depiction of palm of hand with markings.

5. Mars hath a Sister appearing in the Right Hand; but none in the Left. This begetteth wrath, and incites the Native to Warlike Arts, as to be an Engineer, or a Gun-smith, making Warlike Armes and Instruments of all kinds: Only this, when Mars is not An∣gular, and in his owne House, you shall finde no Effects of him in the Hand: yet being Retrograde hee possesses Men with unhappy Malice, and threatens some Adversities,

especially in Old Age. And therefore when hee neither showes a Proper Line in both Hands, nor exhibites in one a Line that is decently drawn, you may safely adjudge his Decrees Imperfect, and lesse Prosperous.

6. In the Left Hand, the vitall is variously touch'd: wherefore number yee so many Fu∣ture Diseases, about the 7, 14, 25, 32, &c. yeare of his Age.

7. A treble Crosse about the vitall, by the Place of Mars, confirmes the Assistance of Mars: But in Uxorious matters, it argues Crosse Fortune, and a bad Belief. In the Nati∣vity, Venus is shrewdly suspected for her Po∣siture, especially for that her Dispositor is resi∣dent in the West Angle.

8. The Saturnia descending by an unacu∣stomed Path, plainly showes a Corrupt Na∣ture.

9. The same Line passing above the Re∣stricta, to the Region of the Moone, is also a Signe of Adversities, and secret Enemies. And verily there is almost nothing observed in this Geniture, that disposes to a Prosperous Fortune.

10. The two Lines in the Tuberculum of the Moone, premonstrate Journeys: as doe also the Moon in the 9. and Mercury in the first House.

11. Jupiter is most dejectedly Collocated: yet hath he adorned his seate with a little Line. He makes a Triangle in Earthly Signes, the Moone shining by a Sinister Aspect unto him the Sun and Mercury by a Dexter. Where∣fore, he asswageth and strangely declineth all Misfortune, especially such as appertaine to the Impediments of the Mind.

12. The Sun is Angular, and Riseth exactly with the Pleiades, in a Trine to Iupiter.

And therefore you see a small Crosse under his Mount, notifying, that this Man shall not altogether live obscure. This Diversity of Lines in the Hands, floweth from a troubled Imagination of the Macrocosme, as we shall show in its due Place.