Chapter I: Part I: Astrology

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I. ASTROLOGY 4

II. THE ALPHABET OF ASTROLOGY 12

III. CONCERNING THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC 17

IV. OF THE NATURES OF THE SEVEN PLANETS AND OF THEIR
ESSENTIAL AND ACCIDENTAL DIGNITIES 23

V. OF THE INFLUENCES OF THE SEVEN PLANETS 34

VI. CONCERNING THE TWELVE HOUSES OF HEAVEN AND THEIR POWERS 50

VII. AN EXPLANATION OF VARIOUS TERMS USED IN ASTROLOGY 54

VIII. OF THE FIGURE OF THE HEAVENS 59

IX. OF THE INFLUENCES OF THE FIXED STARS 65

X. OF THE EFFECT OF EACH PLANET IN EACH OF THE TWELVE
HOUSES 70

XI. ON FORMING A GENERAL JUDGMENT ON A NATIVITY 76

XII. CONCERNING DIRECTIONS AND HORARY QUESTIONS 92

XIII. SOLAR HOROSCOPES 103

XIV. APHORISMS CULLED FROM THE WORKS OF PTOLEMY AND OTHER
ANCIENT ASTROLOGERS 120

PART II.

CHIROMANCY

XV. CHIROMANCY AND ITS ORIGIN 125

XVI. CONCERNING THE PRINCIPAL LINES IN THE HAND AND THE
MOUNTS 129

XVII. THE LINE OF LIFE 137

XVIII. THE LINE OF HEART AND LINE OF HEAD 143

XIX. THE SATURNIAN LINE 150

XX. THE LINE OF THE SUN AND LINE OF HEALTH 155

XXI. ON THE RING OF VENUS, THE WRIST LINES AND THE LETTER
M TO BE SEEN IN MOST HANDS 160

XXII. CONCERNING CHANCE LINES; THAT IS, LINES WHICH ARE
SOMETIMES--BUT ONLY RARELY--SEEN ON ANY HAND 166

XXIII. CONCERNING THE FINGERS AND THUMB AND NAILS 169

XXIV. OF THE VARIOUS MARKS TO BE SEEN ON THE HAND 177

XXV. THE TRIANGLE, THE QUADRANGLE AND THE HAPPY HAND 182