Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed, or, A familiar, easy and new method whereby to judge of the most general accidents of mans life from the lines of the hand withal its dimensions and significations as also that most useful piece of astrology (long since promised) concerning elections for every particular occasion, now plainly manifested from rational principles of art, not published till now / by Richard Saunders ...

Of those perticular Significations, that referr to the 12th. House.

• 1. THe first observation we shall make shall be in refference to the reconciliation of E∣nemies; Therefore when you would reconcile persons that are at discord and enmity, aptate and fortify the Ascendant and his Lord, Debillitate the 7th. House and Lord thereof, let the Lord of the Ascendant have some Amiable aspect to some For∣tune, if posible, and Debillitate the Lord of the 12th. House, causing him to be Cadent, and if the 12th. House be unfortunate it is the bet∣ter, and fortify Mercury.
• 2. In Expelling Malignant Spirits or any Diabollical possession, aptate the Ascendant, Lord thereof, and the Moon, let not the Ascendant be Cancer, Lee, nor Aquary, nor the moon in any of them, but in what

• Sign else you posite the Moon in, let her be strong, free, and Fortu∣nate,
• 3. For Fishing, if you Elect a time good and convenient for that purpose, let the Ascendant be a common Sign, fortify and aptate the Lord thereof, or let the Sign be of the watry triplicity, the Moon and the Lord of the 7th. unfortunate, and their Dispositers afflicted by Saturne or Mars.
• 4. If you would Elect a time for Dice-play that you might win, let not a fixed Sign be in the Ascendant but let the Lord of the first be strong and well fortified, the Lord of the 7th. House weak and afflicted, and posite the Lord of the 8th. House in the second or first Houses, or recei∣ved in some Dignities, or aspect with the Lords of the first or second, but let not the Lord of the 7th. or 8th. receive the Lord of the second, and always see the Moon, seperate from one fortune and apply to another fortune, and its best the moon be above the Earth Fortunate and strong, and let him that will win al∣ways

• have her in his minde.
• 5. In Hunting aptate the Moon, but cheifly the Lord of the hour, and let the Moon be Cadent from the Ascendant, and not behold it.
• 6. When any person would wa∣ger on a Race to be run by any Crea∣ture, either Rational or irrational, and desiring to win, and conquer the other party, and to that end would choose and Elect an fit and prosper∣ous hour to bring his ends to pass, to this purpose aptate the Ascendant and Lord thereof, the moon also, and Lord of the House in which she is, and the Planet to which she joyns her self by aspect; In like manner fortify the part of fortune, and Dispositer thereof, and its ne∣cessary that the Lord of the first and the moon, or one of them behold the part of fortune, and after you have aptated these, put the Lord of the houre in the Ascendant, at that instant the Beast, or Party that is to run first sets his foot out of doors, upon the first remove towards the Race.
• 7. In the next place as to the

• Number of them that Run, from one to twelve, if a number run toge∣ther, to know which shall from the first to the twelfth, first come to the Mark or end of the Race; observe this Method viz. If you posite the Lord of the hour in the first House (as is aforesaid) then the first shall come first to the end of the Race, if the Lord of the hour be posited in the 10th. House, the second shall win, if in the 11th. House, the third, if in the 7th. the 4th. if in the 5th. House the 5th, shall first attaine the end of the Race, if in the 9th. the 6th. if in the third the 7th. if in the second the 8th. if in the 8th. house the Lord of the hour be posited the 9th. shall win, if in the 6th. the 10th if the Lord of the hour be in the 12th. or fourth houses, that Beast or Man shall come last to the end of the Race, or Equivolent to the last.
• 8. But if in Election of time you cannot aptate and fortify all Signifi∣cators according to these Rules, aptate the Lord of the hour, the Lord of the Ascendant, and the

• Moon, and if your Time will not permit you to do this, be sure to aptate the Lord of the hour, by po∣siting him in the first, and aptate the Moon likewise: Alkindus is of o∣pinion, that the Moon is best apta∣ted in Sagitary, or the first half of Libra, and you must take great heed that the Lord of the Ascendant, or Lord of the hour, or the Moon, be not in any of their falls, for then it is to be feared that the Horse, his Rider, or both, will fall and sustaine prejudice.
• 9. When any person would Elect a time to buy a good Horse, or other serviceable Beast, or to Back him & came him, first aptate the Ascendant and his Lord, and the Moon, and it is good that she be joyned to a for∣tune that is direct, Oriental, and ascending in the Circle of his Auge, but if not all this, at least let the for∣tune be direct, and be careful, that the ☽ nor that fortune be not joyned to any infortune, either by body or aspect, for that possesseth the Beast with timidity and fears, if this evil position should be at the buying

• of the Beast, it threatens loss, and a bad market, if it shall be at the Backing or taming of him, the issue will not answer your intention, but that the Beast will be abused, and by so much the worse is the Significati∣on if any impediment shall be in the 12th, House, but take notice of this necessary observation, if the Horse you buy be already Backt, or the Beast already tamed, then let the Ascendant at the purchase there∣of be a Common Sign, and the Moon in Taurus or Lee, and let her be joyned to a Planet direct, which is Septentrional ascending, or at least Meridional ascending, these shall signify that the Horse or Beast shall augment, and increase both in body and price, but if the Planet to whom the ☽ is joyned, or aspected, be Re∣trograde, this signifies that the Beast shall augment somewhat in price, but not much, but shall be dimini∣shed in body, and if the Planet shall be direct, and descending, or either Septentrional or Meridional, this signifys that the Beast shall be in∣creased in body, but diminished in

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• price and vallue; In like manner if it shall be Meridional and descending, the Beast shall be diminishing both in body and price, and so much the more as it shall be the more Meridi∣onal: This concerns Tame Beasts that are broke for the masters use; the next consideration reffers to un∣tamed Beasts that are wild, for these aptate your Ascendant a Common Sign, and let the moon be in a moveable Sign, joyned too, or a∣specting any of the Fortunes, consi∣dering the conditions as to assention and descention, to Direction and Retrogradation, as is before said.
• 10. This general Consideration offereth it self worth our Noting; That is, would any one buy a Horse, Ox, or any other Animal with in∣tent to gaine and profit thereby, the moon existing from the beginning of Cancer, to the end of Sagitary, he shall not gaine, but lose thereby, for he shall buy dear and sell cheap but if he buy the moon existing from the beginning of Capricorne to the end of Gemini, he will experience the contrary, for he will buy cheap and

• sell deer, and it is the opinion of good Authors, that this Rule holds not only in Beasts and Cattel, but in all things that any one can buy or sell whatsoever, always, not preter∣mitting or forgetting that Fortunes meliorate, and augment the good, and diminish the evil of a thing, and contrary the infortunes, always augment the evil, and dimish the good, every one both good and bad, according to his nature, and accord∣ing to the vertue and power they have, to help, or hurt, to augment, or diminish.
• 11. The next consideration is to shew how to Elect a fit & conveni∣ent time & hour, wherein the King, or any person may with the more facillity, take or Debilitate his Ene∣my, and this is best done when the 12th House is unfortunated, and weak, and the Lord thereof unfor∣tunated also, and this affliction to the 12th House and Lord thereof, shall be the better if it be caused by the Lord of the Ascendant, but if this may not be, choose a time to prosecute a Theif, or Enemy, when

• the ☽ is afflicted by the Sun, and the Sun strong & free from affliction, and if the moon be afflicted from any o∣ther, and not from the Sun it is as well: It is the Judgement of Ata∣barus, that when a Prince would take and suprise an Enemy of less force then himself, let him state the moon in ☍, or ☌, or in via Combusta, or with the ☊ or ☋ of the Dragon, or in the Ascendant because the Ascendant is inimiced by reason of Opposition, or let the moon be aspect∣ed by the Infortunes, or before her Eclipse three days, & let the Sun be safe & free from the Malevolency of Infortunes, & a fortune, or fortunes, aspect or possess the mid-heaven, this is for a certaine Rule, that the more the moon is infortunated, and afflicted, the more and the grea∣ter prejudice, befalleth the Enemy, by reason the moon hath populer sig∣nification, and is Significatrix of vulgar, inferiour Relations, and Ser∣vants: Thus have we finished with according to Brevity as premised, the Judgement of the best Authors and our own experience, the Elections of

• the Twelve Houses; For which, Laudatus, & Benedictus, sit deus, in sacula seculorum.