Qualities of the Sign
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 Signe, mute
and slow of Voyce, Fruitful, Northerne.
Diseases It signifies Imperfections all over, or in
the Brest, Stomack and Paps, weak Digesnion, cold Stomack, Ptifick, salt
Flegms, roten Coughs, dropsicall Humours, Impostumations in the Stomach.
Places Cancer
signifieth The sea, great Rivers,
Navigable Waters; but in the Inland Countries it notes places neer Rivers,
Brooks Springs, Wels, Cellars in Houses, Wash-houses, Marsh grounds, Ditches
with Rushes, Sedges, Sea banks, Trenches, Cisternes.
Shape and Description Gene4rally a low and smal stature, the upper
parts of more bignesse then the lower, a round Visage; sickly, pale, a whitely
Complexion, the Haire a sad browne, little Eyes, prone to have many Children,
if a Woman.
Kingdoms, Countries
and Cities subject to Cancer
Scotland, Zealand, Holland, Prussia, Algier, Constantinople, Venice,
Millan, Genoa, Amsterdam, Yorke, Magdeburg, Wittenburg, Saint-Lucas, Cadiz.
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William
Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647)
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