When fortunate: good and clear marks near this mount, stars, etc. These
persons are successful in journeys and messages and great prosperity in
foreign countries; to a female felicity and happiness in bearing
children.
Ominous signs placed here show death and affliction in childbirth.
Description: the persons will be famous, honest and honourable, with
well-set large bodies proportioned and pleasant. They travel by land and
sea, and causes them to desire to lie or walk by the side of
water—rivers and running waters.
When unfortunate principally known by pale and confused line on the
mount of the Moon.
The mount flat, soft and small, she causes persons to be inconstant in
life and actions.
Diseases: affects the brain, stomach and belly, and occasions paralysis,
epilepsy, cancer, spots on the body, gripings and severe colds.
THE PLANET SATURN. THE MOUNT OF SATURN. COUNSELS, MATHEMATICIANS, GRAVE
THINKERS, INVENTORS, ETC.
When fortunate: when the line of Saturn runs uniformly and clear to his
mount or ♄ marked thereon.
Saturn unfortunate when there are confused lines on his mount or
contrary or unfortunate signs thereon.
Saturn fortunate: men are silent, provident; good and profound, not
always rich, counsels, grave meditators, somewhat melancholy, and
generally have a foolish way of laughing and jesting.
Description: they generally have a slender body, and rather tall, pale
and feeble.
Hair brown or blackish colour, yet sometimes sandy. The eyes are sunken.
Trades, etc.: they are fortunate in agriculture, in minerals of all
kinds, as mines, etc. They are somewhat careless of their wives and less
addicted to sexual excesses, are more grasping and tenacious than is
just.
When Saturn is unfortunate he makes persons sorrowful, laborious,
sordid, humble, covetous, unfaithful, liars, unfortunate, malicious,
oppressed with continual griefs and calamities.
Diseases: he gives dangerous diseases, colds, coughs, melancholy,
hypochondriacal complaints, dropsy, gout, falling sickness, quartan and
hectic fevers.
Accidents: he produces falls from houses, imprisonment and danger of
drowning.
A deep line running from the space between the forefinger and middle
finger to the line of Fortune and cutting or interrupting it, signifies
a wound or disease in the lower part of the abdomen.
THE PLANET MERCURY. THE MOUNT OF MERCURY. STUDY, RESEARCH, SCIENCES,
SPEAKING, ETC.
When this planet is fortunate, men are ingenious, studious, scientific
and searchers after secrets.
Professions, trades, etc., according to his dignity: he produces
orators, poets, eloquent speakers, persons ready to learn anything,
mathematicians, merchants, sometimes crafty, variable people.
When unfortunate he produces persons full of levity, liars, prattlers,
thieves, cheats, inconstant, faithless, traitors, etc.
Diseases: he produces madness, fury, acute fevers, etc.
Signs of deceit and danger to life: the mensa sharpened by the concourse
of the line of Fortune and the line of Life or the Liver line. The best
sign is the mensa diverging, open at both ends and forming the figure ≍.
Perfection of wit and science: a star placed (or other clearly-formed
flowers or flag) in the mensa especially under the mount of Mercury or
the Sun.