NAMEThe Moon we find called by the Ancients, Lucina, Cynthia, Diana, Phoebe,
Latona, Noctiluca, Prosperpina; she is neerest to the Earth of all the Planets;
her colour in the Element is vulgarly known:
House She hath the Sign Cancer for her house, and Capricorn
for her detriment; she is exalted in 3. Taurus, and hath her fal in 3 grad.
Scorpio; she governeth the Earthly Triplicity by night, viz. Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn.
Triplicity, Terms and Face [Note Lilly uses a different set of
triplicity rulerships than I do] The Sun and she have no Terms assigned them.
In the twelve Signs she hath these degrees for her
Decanate or Face.
Nature She is Feminine, Nocturnal Planet, Cold,
Moyst and Flegmatique.
Manners & Actions, when well dignified. She signifieth one
of composed
Manners, a soft, tender creature, a Lover of all honest and ingenuous Sciences, a
Searcher of, and Delighter in Novelties, naturally propense to frit and shift his
Habitation, unstedfast, wholly caring for the present Times, Timorous, Prodigal,
and easily Frighted, however loving Peace, and to live free from the cares of this
Life, if a Mechannick, the man learnes many Occupations, and frequently wil be
tampering with many wayes to trade in.
When ill dignified. A meer Vagabond, idleperson,
hating Labour, a Drunkard, a Sot, one
of no Spirit or Forecast, delighting to live beggarly and carefly, one content
in no condition of Life, either good or il.
Corporature She generally presenteth a man of fair stature,
whitely coloured,
the Face round, gray Eyes, and a little Touring; much Hair both on the Head, Face,
and other parts; usually one Eye a little larger then the other; short Hands and
fleshy, the whole Body inclining to be fleshy, plump, corpulent and flegmatique:
if she be impedited of the Sun in a Nativity or Question, she usually signifies
some blemish in, or neer the Eye: a blemish neer the Eye, if she be impedited in
Succedant Houses; in the Sight, if she be unfortunate in Angles and with fixed
Starres, called Nebulose.
Quality of Men and Profession. She signifieth
Queens, Countesses, Ladies, all
manner of Women; as also the common People, Travellers, Pilgrims, Sailors,
Fishermen, Fish-mongers, Brewers, Tapsters, Vintners, Letter-carriers, Coach-men,
Hunts-men, Messengers, (some say the Popes Legates) Marriners, Millers, Ale-wives,
Malstors, Drunkards, Oister-wives, Fisher-women, Chare-women, Tripe-women, and
generally such Women as carry Commodities in the Streets; as also, Midwives,
Nurses, &c, Hackney-men, Water-men, Water-bearers.
SICKNESSES. Apoplexies, Palsie, the Chollick, the Belly-ache,
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Disease in the Left Side, Stones, the Bladder and members of Generation, the
Men-stries and Liver; in Women Dropsies, Fluxes of Belly, all cold Rheumatick
Diseases, cold Stomack, the Gout in the Rists and Feet, Sciatica, Chollick,
Worms in Children and men, Rheumes or Hutts in the Eyes, viz. in the Left of
Men, and Right of Women: Sursets, rotten Coughs, Convultion fits, the Falling
sicknesse, Kings-evil, Apostems, smal Pox and Measels.
COLOUR & SAVOURS. Of Colours the White, or pale
Yellowish White, pale
Green, or a little of the Silver-colour. Of Saviours, the Fresh, or without
any flavour, such as is in Hearbs before they be ripe, or such as doe moysten
the Brain, &C.
HEARBS & PLANTS
Those Hearbs which are subject to the Moon have
soft and thick juicy leaves, of a waterish or a little sweetish taste, they
love to grow in watry places, and grow quickly into a juicy magnitude; and are.
The Colwort, Cabbage, , Melon, Gourd, Pompion, Onion, Mandrake,
Poppy, Lettice, Rape, the Linden-tree, Mushroomes, Endine, all Trees or
Hearbs who have round, shady, great
spreading Leaves, and are little Fruitful.
BEASTS & BIRDS All such Beasts, or the like, as live in
the water; as Frogs, the Otter, Snailes, &c. the Weasel, the
Cunny, all Sea Fowls, Coockoe, Geese and Duck, the Night-Owle.
FISHES The Oyster and Cockle, all She-fish, the Crab and
Lobster, Tortoise, Eeles.
PLACES. Fields, Fountains, Baths, Havens of the Sea, Highwayes
and Desertplaces,
Port Towns, Rivers, Fish-ponds, standing Pools, Boggy places, Common-shoars, little
Brooks, Springs.
WEATHER. With Saturn cold Ayre; with Jupiter Serene; with Mars
Winds red Clouds;
with the Sun according to the Season; with Venus and Mercury Showres and Winds.
WIND In Hermetical operation, she delighteth towards the North,
and usually
when she is the strongest Planet in the Scheam, viz. in any Lunation, she stirs
up Wind, according to the nature of the Planet she next applies unto.
DAY OF THE WEEK Her day is Monday the first hour and
the eight, after the rise of the Sun.
The Nodes of the Moon [Note: the North Node of the Moon is known
as the Caput Draconis, the Head of the Dragon and the South Node as the
Cauda Draconis, the
Tail of the Dragon. The Nodes are the points where the orbit of the Moon intersects
the Ecliptic, the orbit of the Sun.]
The Head of the Dragon is Masculine, of the nature of Jupiter and
Venus, and
of himself a Fortune; yet the Ancients doe say, that being in Conjunction with
the good he is good, and in conjunction with the evil Planets they account him evil.
The Tayle of the Dragon is Feminine by Nature, and clean
contrary to the Head; for he is evil when joyned with good Planets, and good when
in conjunction with the malignant Planets. This is the constant opinion of all
the Ancients, but upon what reason grounded I know not; I ever found the North
Node equivalent to either of the Fortunes, and when joyned with the evil Planets
to lessen their malevolent signification; when joyned with the good to increase
the good promised by them:
For the Tayle of the Dragon, I always in my practise
found when he was joyned with the evil Planets; their malice or the evil intended
thereby was doubled and trebled, or extreamly augmented, &c. and when he chanced
to be conjunction with any of the Fortunes who were significators in the question,
though the matter by the principal significator was fairely promised, and likely
to be perfected in a smal time; yet did there ever fal out many rubs and disturbances,
much wrangling and great controversie, that the businesse was many times given over
for desperate ere a perfect conclusion could be had; and unlesse the principal
significators were Angular and wel fortified with essential dignities, many times
unexpectedly the whole matter came to nothing.
