The planets also administer not a little judgment from their respective
places, for if they are happy and benevolent, good things are portended,
but being unhappy and froward, judge the contrary. Here we must also note
that these planets are termed benevolent, in whose tubercula and places
the accustomed lines are found equal, their characters fair and
proportionable, as a cross, stars, three or four parallel lines, ladders,
little branches, a quadrangular, the character of Jupiter. But the froward
and unfortunate are those planets whose tubercula and places are deformed
with troubled lines and uncouth figures; as a lame and interrupted
semi-circle gridirons the character of Saturn. This is to be duly observed
in the lines of the hand. Now, as touching the planets, let us proceed
according to the general rules of art.