n is like to be misaffected with pernicious
humours, to be melancholy, lunatic, or mad," Cardan adds, _quarta luna
natos_, eclipses, earthquakes. Garcaeus and Leovitius will have the chief
judgment to be taken from the lord of the geniture, or where there is an
aspect between the moon and Mercury, and neither behold the horoscope, or
Saturn and Mars shall be lord of the present conjunction or opposition in
Sagittarius or Pisces, of the sun or moon, such persons are commonly
epileptic, dote, demoniacal, melancholy: but see more of these aphorisms in
the above-named Pontanus. Garcaeus, _cap. 23. de Jud. genitur. Schoner.
lib. 1. cap. 8_, which he hath gathered out of [1290]Ptolemy, Albubater,
and some other Arabians, Junctine, Ranzovius, Lindhout, Origen, &c. But
these men you will reject peradventure, as astrologers, and therefore
partial judges; then hear the testimony of physicians, Galenists
themselves. [1291]Carto confesseth the influence of stars to have a great
hand to this peculiar disease, so doth Jason Pratensis, Lonicerius
_praefat. de Apoplexia_, Ficinus, Fernelius, &c. [1292]P. Cnemander
acknowledgeth the stars an universal cause, the particular from parents,
and the use of the six non-natural things. Baptista Port. _mag. l. 1. c.
10, 12, 15_, will have them causes to every particular _individium_.
Instances and examples, to evince the truth of those aphorisms, are common
amongst those astrologian treatises. Cardan, in his thirty-seventh
geniture, gives instance in Matth. Bolognius. _Camerar. hor. natalit.
centur. 7. genit. 6. et 7._ of Daniel Gare, and others; but see Garcaeus,
_cap. 33._ Luc. Gauricus, _Tract. 6. de Azemenis_, &c. The time of this
melancholy is, when the significators of any geniture are directed
according to art, as the hor: moon, hylech, &c. to the hostile beams or
terms of [Symbol: Saturn] and [Symbol: Mars] especially, or any fixed star
of their nature, or if [Symbol: Saturn] by his revolution or transitus,
shall offend any of those radical promissors in the geniture.

Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy,
which because Joh. de Indagine, and Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse his
mathematician, not long since in his Chiromancy; Baptista Porta, in his
celestial Physiognomy, have proved to hold great affinity with astrology,
to satisfy the curious, I am the more willing to insert.

The general notions [1293]physiognomers give, be these; "black colour
argues na