Aries, Cancer, Libra and Aquaries, are to be
avoided in Marriage; yet I conceive
(with some of the Ancients) Libra may be chosen for betrothing or contracting,
though not for marrying.
Taurus from the first degree to the
twentieth is good, from the twentieth to
the end bad. The first fifteen degrees of Gemini are good, the last bad.
The whole sign of Leo is good, only it causeth the one to deceive the other
of their substance.
Virgo signifieth the woman shall soon
lose her husband; wherefore it may be
beneficial to her, though pernicious to him, women seldom loving so affectionately as men.
The first fifteen degrees of Scorpio
are good to Marry a Maid or Virgin in, for
that it denotes she will be obedient, good and chaste, also loving to her husband:
but the latter fifteen degrees are altogether to be rejected in that it causeth the
Woman to be of disposition quite contrary; viz. lewd, a Brawler, Perfidious,
unconstant, envious, malitious and disobedient, &c.
Sagittary is indifferent, as some of the
Ancients hold; I for my part cannot agree to reject it.
The first ten degrees of Capricorn
are to be neglected, yet the other two
last faces are good, and signifie the woman shall be loving and tractable
to the will and desire of the man, and they are better in a Widow then a
Maid, excepting they cause but few children.
Note that the Moon in Aquaries
at the time of Marriage, causeth the woman
to be of a manly spirit and disobedient to her husband.
Pisces is good, in that it denotes
the woman to be loving and just;
yet it will also cause her to be addicted to twatling and prating,
which will now and then lessen the mans love towards her.
