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Ch .25. OfChironiantkal Signatures. 4 7
thumb towards the root or mount of Jupiter is calr-
ed Line* Jovialis or the life-line: that from the
wriii to the root ©r mount of Saturn^ Lines Sdisa -
nialis : but if it points to the root or mount of So!t
Linea Solaris, if to Mercury, Linea Mercurialis : that
which goes from Linea Jovialis to the mount of Luna*
Linea Lunarvs-, or the natural line: the other great
line above it is called Linea Stetiata, or the line of
sortune, because it limits the mounts of the Planets,
and is imprelsed with various vertues in those places
according to the nature of the Planet whose mount it
runs under or sets a boundary unto: Lasrly, the space
between the natural line and the line of fortune is call-
ed Men/a, the Table
IV. All other lines (hall either proceed out o/ths
sides of the former, or else from some proper mount.
V. Every line great or small, long or short, hath a
certain beginning or root, from which it rises-, and a
certain end or point to which it tends.
VI. The distance between both ends, is the way of
its pafsage j in which way, it either crolTes some o-
ther line, or else is crossed : if it do neither, its iigni-
sication is continual, and ought so much the more to
be taken notice of.
VII. Every mount hath a proper signirlcation,
which it receives from the significations of its proper
Planet, being abstra&ly considered : the same under-
hand of all the principal lines aforesaid.
VIII. Saturn is the Author of Age, Inheritances,
Melancholly, Malice, Sorrow, Milery, Calamities,
Enemies, Imprisonrnents,Sickness, Diseases, Perplexi-
ties, Cares, Poverty, CrosTes, Death, and whatsoever
evil can befall humane life : he signifies Fathers, Old
Men, Labourers, Dyers, Smiths, and Jesuits.
IX. Jupiter is the Author of Health, Strength,
D 4, Mo-
thumb towards the root or mount of Jupiter is calr-
ed Line* Jovialis or the life-line: that from the
wriii to the root ©r mount of Saturn^ Lines Sdisa -
nialis : but if it points to the root or mount of So!t
Linea Solaris, if to Mercury, Linea Mercurialis : that
which goes from Linea Jovialis to the mount of Luna*
Linea Lunarvs-, or the natural line: the other great
line above it is called Linea Stetiata, or the line of
sortune, because it limits the mounts of the Planets,
and is imprelsed with various vertues in those places
according to the nature of the Planet whose mount it
runs under or sets a boundary unto: Lasrly, the space
between the natural line and the line of fortune is call-
ed Men/a, the Table
IV. All other lines (hall either proceed out o/ths
sides of the former, or else from some proper mount.
V. Every line great or small, long or short, hath a
certain beginning or root, from which it rises-, and a
certain end or point to which it tends.
VI. The distance between both ends, is the way of
its pafsage j in which way, it either crolTes some o-
ther line, or else is crossed : if it do neither, its iigni-
sication is continual, and ought so much the more to
be taken notice of.
VII. Every mount hath a proper signirlcation,
which it receives from the significations of its proper
Planet, being abstra&ly considered : the same under-
hand of all the principal lines aforesaid.
VIII. Saturn is the Author of Age, Inheritances,
Melancholly, Malice, Sorrow, Milery, Calamities,
Enemies, Imprisonrnents,Sickness, Diseases, Perplexi-
ties, Cares, Poverty, CrosTes, Death, and whatsoever
evil can befall humane life : he signifies Fathers, Old
Men, Labourers, Dyers, Smiths, and Jesuits.
IX. Jupiter is the Author of Health, Strength,
D 4, Mo-