Those who have the benevolent planets, Jupiter and Venus, well posited in either the ascendant or the mid-heaven at birth will always be much beloved during the whole course of their lives. He who is born with the sun in trine to Jupiter is fond of rule, and very famous in his generation. Venus in square to Saturn at a birth causes the native to be sensual and given to unnatural vices. All the planets, or most of them above the earth, make the native eminent and famous, and if all should be well-dignified, he will--like a comet--outshine all others in the world's esteem. If, on the contrary, all the planets are under the earth at a birth, the native will be of a falling fame and fortune, or if they promise by their natures honour, dignity and fortune (that is, if they appear essentially dignified in nocturnal genitures), these good things will only come in the latter part of the native's life. Jupiter in conjunction with the Moon in a watery sign gives drunkenness. Venus in conjunction, trine or sextile to the Moon, gives happy marriage, but in square to the Moon, prodigality, indolence and drunkenness. Saturn in square to Mars means a malicious and murderous temperament, and liability to imprisonment. It is advantageous to make choice of days and hours at a time well constituted by the nativity. Should the time be adverse, the choice will in no respect avail, however favourable an issue it may chance to promise. A sagacious mind improves the operation of the heavens, as a skilful farmer by cultivation improves nature. Part II. CHIROMANCY "God has placed signs in the hands of all men, that every man may know his work."--Job xxxvii. 7 (_St. Hierom's Translation_). CHAPTER XV. CHIROMANCY AND ITS ORIGIN