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Cancer in Renaissance Astrology
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Cancer, the Crab


The Nature, Description, and Diseases signified by Cancer.

from William Lilly's Christian Astrology
(1st ed. 1647, reprinted 1985 Regulus).





Page 95

CHAPTER XVI.

The Nature, Description, and Diseases signified by Cancer.




QUALITY AND PROPERTY OF CANCER. Cancer is the onely house of the Moon, and is the first Sign of the Watry or Northern Triplicity, is Watry, Cold, Moyst, Flegmatick, Feminine, Nocturnal, Moveable, a Solstice Sign mute and slow of Voyce, Fruitful, Northern.

DISEASES. It signifies Imperfections allover, or in the Brest, Stomack and Paps, weak Digestion, cold Stomack, Ptisick, salt Flegms, rotten Coughs, dropsicall Humours, Impostumations in the Stomack, Cancers which ever are in the Brest.

PLACES. The Sea, great Rivers, Navigable Waters; but in the Inland Countries it notes places neer Rivers, Brooks, Springs, Wels, Sellars in Houses, Wash-houses, Marsh grounds, Ditches with Rushes, Sedges, Sea banks, Trenches, Cisternes.

SHAPE AND DESCRIPTION. Generally a low and small stature, the upper parts of more bigness then the lower, a round Visage; sickly pale, a whitely Complexion, the Hair a sad brown, little Eyes, prone to have many Children, if a Woman.

KINGDOMS, COUNTRIES & CITIES. Scotland, Zealand, Holland, Prusia, Tunis, Algier, Constantinople, Venice, Millan, Genoa, Amsterdam, Yorke, Magdeberg, Wittenberg, Saint Lucas, Cadiz.



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