Vox stellarum: or, the voyce of the stars being a brief and easie introduction to the knowledge of the number, names and characters of the planets and signs, aspects and anticions: the division of heaven, and how to erect a figure thereof, either by a table of houses or by a table of right and oblique ascentions: an exact and true description of the planets and signs, with the countries, cities or towns under them. Likewise, how to judge of the affairs of the world, by revolutions, eclipses, great conjunctions and blazing stars. Also, something touching the Popish Plot, and other remarkable affairs of the year, 1678. By William Knight, student in astrology and physick.

CHAP. XIII. The Description of the Twelve Signs, and first of ♈.

VVHich describes a Person of a middle stature, lean and spare, but big bones, strong limbs, long face, sharp hazle eyes, blackish eye-brows, light yellowish hair, or sandy red, crisping or curling: a swarthy brown complexion, long neck, thick shoulders, and short feet.

Conditions,

Very Apprehensive, Witty, Ingenious, Aspiring, Cholerick and Violent.

Places,

Sandy dry hilly Grounds, brick and lime Kills, unfrequented places, places where small Cattle feed, and Stables where they are kept, Downs where Flocks of Sheep feed, Sheep-pens, new plow'd land, and Ground newly taken in; in a House, the Covering, Ceiling, Chimney, Places where Arms lay, Black-Smiths and Gun-Smiths Shops.

Colour, white mixed with red; Quar∣ter, East.

♉,

Gives one of a short stature, thick truss body, a full face, broad forehead, wide nostrils, big eyes, thick lips, wide mouth, a dark swarthy complexion, black hair, thick harsh and curling; a fat short neck, fleshy hands, large buttocks; and every way a Tuskinly Person.

Conditions,

A reserved subtle Disposition, a little given to Deceit, however very laborious and industrious.

Places,

Stables, Ox or Cow-houses, Grounds where Oxen and Cows feed, Corn-Fields, plain Grounds, and such where Trees have lately been grub'd up, Meadows and Fields remote from Houses; in a House Cellars, or low Rooms, Vaults, &c.

Colour, white mixed Cittrine; Quar∣ter, South by East.

♊,

Denotes one of an upright, streight and tall stature, strong and active body, oval visage, a wanton hazle eye, brown san∣guine complexion, black or sad brown hair, short and curling, long arms and legs.

Conditions,

They are of a sharp and ready under∣standing, a lover of Art, but of double intentions.

Places,

High Grounds, Mountains, Copses, Store-houses, Barns; in a House, Wain∣scot-rooms, Halls, Parler, middle Cham∣bers, Dining-rooms, Chests, Coffers, Trunks, Plastring or Walls, &c.

Colour, white mixed with red; Quar∣ter, West by South.

♋,

Gives a Person of a low and small sta∣ture, yet broad shoulders, a round visage, or oval; little grey eyes, a sickly pale

complexion, black or sad brown hair.

Conditions.

A timerous spirit, subject to fears, un∣constant, wavering, rash.

Places,

The Sea, large Rivers, all navigable Waters, Harbours for Ships, Brooks, deep and clear Ponds, Springs, Wells, Ditches of store of Running-water, or such Places where Sedges grow, Marsh-grounds, Fenns; in a House Cisterns, Drink-house, Milk-house, and the like.

Colour, green or russet; Quarter, North.

♌,

Describes one of a tall, large and fair stature, a strong well knit portly body, a round head, oval visage, goggle eyes, grey or light hazle, a fierce countenance or sprightly look, quick-sighted, ruddy or sanguine complexion, somewhat mixed with obsucrity, yellow or dark flaxen-hair, curling; broad shoulders and narrow sides.

Conditions,

A Heroick Spirit, valiant and active, majestical, imperious, some say tyrannical and cruel, yet they grant he is sober and discreet: but I think those are not very sober tricks, that be acted with tyranni∣calness and cruelty.

Places,

Woods, Forests, Parks, Deserts, Rocks, Craggy Places, Stony ways, King's Palaces, Castles, Forts, Stoves, Furnaces, Ovens, Dog-Kennel, &c.

Colour, red or green; Quarter, East and by North.

♍,

Gives one of a moderate tall stature, a straight slender body, handsomely compo∣sed, a long visage, a lovely brown com∣plexion, but no great Beauty; long black hair, not much curling, a small and shrill voice.

Conditions.

An excellent Wit, studious, a good Ora∣tor, judicious, and ingenious, a cunning subtle politick man, a well-willer to War; Ah, but they have some Vices as well as all those Vertues.

Places,

Corn-fields, Corn-ricks, Barns, Mault-house, Granaries, Dairy-house, Places where Cheese or Butter is stored up; in a House, a Study or Library of Books, Maps, &c.

Colour, black speckled with blew; Quarter, South by West.

♎

Describes a tall slender Person, a round lovely and beautiful visage, a fine sanguine complexion, yellowish hair, or flaxen, long and smooth; grey eyes, in age they have pimples or red spots in the face.

Conditions,

Humane, affable, just and prone to Acts

of Charity, but inconstant, and conceited of their abilities.

Places,

Sandy gravelly Fields, Sides of Hills, tops of Mountains, Grounds where hawk∣ing and hunting is used, Churches, Wind∣mills, and Fields or Places where they stand, Barns remote from Dwellings, strag∣ling Out-houses, Cooper's Work-house, Saw-pits; in a House Upper-rooms, Chambers, Cock-lofts, Balconeys, and the like.

Quarter, West; Colour, black, dark crimson, or tawny.

♏,

Gives one of a middle stature, a strong corpulent body, broad face, a duskish mud∣dy complexion, a sad dark hair, much and crisping; a short thick neck, hairy body, and bow-legged.

Conditions,

Bold, active, ingenious, covetous, but of a good understanding, some say false and deceitful.

Places,

Muddy and moorsh Grounds, Lakes Boggs, Quagmires, Ditches of stand∣ing water, places where Adders, Snakes, Toads, Frogs and Serpents use: Or∣chards, Gardens, Vineyards; in a House, the Kitchin, Wash-house, Sink, &c.

Colour, brown; Quarter, North and by East.

♐,

Denotes a Person of a tall stature, or above a middle size, a strong and comely body, long full visage, ruddy sanguine complexion, a stately countenance, broad forehead, grey eyes, chesnut coloured hair, a handsome conformity in all the Members.

Qualities,

They are of good conditions, valiant, fears nothing, generous, good horse∣men.

Places,

Stables for War-horses, or other Hor∣ses, Ox-houses, the highest places in Lands, Hills, barren Ground, Brick-kills, ferny

Ground, stony places; in a house near the fire, and where Arms lay; upper-rooms.

Colour, yellow, or green sanguine; Quarter, East by South.

♑,

Gives one of a little stature, a dry spare and slender body, long lean and thin visage, little head, narrow chin, small beard, a whitely swarth complexion, black hair, long neck, and streight breast.

Conditions,

Ingenious, valiant, but inconstant, and they do say much given to the flesh.

Places,

Sheep-pens, Ground where Goats feed, fallow Grounds, barren Fields, bushy Places, Dung-hills in the Fields, Houses where small Beasts are kept, or Calves rear'd, likewise where Implements of Cattle are laid, or Saylers Tackle for Ships are stored; and such places as the Husband man's Tools be laid in; in a House, low rooms, dark places, near the Ground or Threshold.

Colour, black, russet, or sworth brown; Quarter, South.

♒,

Describes one of a middle stature, a strong body, fleshy and well composed, longish visage, a sanguine complexion, sandy flaxen hair, and a clear skin.

Conditions,

Humane, affable, not always so; con∣stant, grave and sober in their opinion.

Places,

Stone-Quarries, Mines, new plowed Land, or digg'd, uneven places, Conduits; in a House, the Roofs, Eves and Win∣dows.

Colour, skie or blew; Quarter, West and by North.

♓,

Gives one of a short low stature, fleshy body, a broad face, palish complexion, light brown hair, a home-spun person, somewhat incurvetting with the head.

Conditions,

A stuttering idle person, but no ways hurtful, yet some say a bold pretender to Religion, and a meer Hypocrite.

Places,

Fish-ponds, Decoys, Water-mills-moorish slabby Grounds, where Wild-Fowl use; small Rivers, trickling Springs, Caves, Hermitage places, Moats about Houses, or Towns, Pomps, Bear-casks.

Colour, white glittering; Quarter, North by West.