Qualities of the sign
Virgo It’s an earthly, cold,
melancholly, barren, feminine, nocturnall, Southerne Signe; the house and
exaltation of Mercury, of the earthly triplicity.
Places Virgo
Signifieth It signifieth a Study
where Books are, a Closet, a Dairy-house, Corne-fields, Granaries, Malt-houses,
Hayricks or of Barley, Wheat or Pease, or a place where Cheese and Butter is
preserved and stored up.
Diseases The Wormes, Winde, Cholicke, all
Obstructions in the bowels and miseraics, croking of the Guts, infirmesse in
the Stones, any disease in the belly.
Kingdoms, Countries
and Cities subject to Virgo Greece,
the south part thereof, Croatia, the Athenian territory, Messopotamia, Affrica,
the South-West of France, Paris, Hierusalem, Rhodes, Lyons, Thoulouse, Basil,
Heidelberg.
Shape and Description A slender Body of mean height, but decently
composed; a ruddy browne complexion, blacke hayre, well-pfavoured or lovely,
but no beautifull creature, a small shrill voyce, all members inclining to
brevity; a witty discreet soule, judicious and excellently well spoken,
studious and given to History, whether Man or Woman; it produceth a care,
understanding, if Mercury be in this Signe, and Moon in Cancer, but somewhat unstable.
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William
Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647)
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