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Natures and Complexions

Nature : Corruptor, enemy and destroyer of life and man.
Dirunal or Nocturnal : Diurnal[1]
Sex : Masculine[1]
Influence : Greater Malevolent or Infortune[1]
Temperament : Cold & Dry[1]
Element : Earth
Complexion : Melancholic[1]
Condition : Slow in effects, ponderous, terrible in all aspects.
Color : Leaden, swarthy, pale.[1]

Properties of Men, gifts, and profession

Appearance : Generally gives a body of a middle stature, a complexion swarthy, pale and muddy; his eyes are little; a down cast unpleasing look; lowering eyebrows; broad forehead; nose flat; lips thick; holds his head forward, or stooping; he goes shoveling with his feet; his ears are great; hair black or very dark; his beard (if any) is very thin; every way a lumpish, heavy, and unpleasing person.[1]

       Note, that the orientality, occidentality, latitude, star, & etc. of the Planets, do somewhat alter their descriptions, and this is worthy of observation as well in question as Nativities, that when Saturn is occidental, he gives a shorter stature, and a little more fleshy; but when oriental, more black and lean with less hair, and that more curling. If he hath South latitude, he makes the Native more fat and fleshy; but if North inclined to leanness, and less active.

Types of Men : He is the patron of old men generally, as grandfathers and fathers. He also hath signification of husbandmen, day laborers, clowns and beggars; brick makers, plumbers, molesters, scavengers, colliers, gardener and chandlers; sextons and curriers; miners and tanners; sectarists, monks and Jesuits.[1]

Behavoir of Men : Well dignified; the person or Native represented by him, is grave and sober; he performs all his actions with judgment and discretion. He hath a sharp fancy, and strong imagination, and is very studious. Ill dignified; ill dignified, then the Native is malicious, envious, covetous, jealous, timorous; a mere lying, repining and dissembling fellow, and of a mistrustful, sordid, sluggish, and suspicious disposition.[1]

Saturnine Rulerships

Rulerships : Possessions, buildings, tillage, inheritance, it causeth imprisonment and secret enemies.
Direction : Septentrional
House of Joy : 12th
Age : Oldness
Season : Autumn
Day : Saturday
Colors : Black, pale, or wan, dark, lead.
Stones : Black stones
Metal : Lead
Savors : Sharp & Astringent
Regions : Bauieres, Saxony, Romany, Constance, and the first climate.
Particular Places : Caves, lakes, ponds, close places, old & ruinous houses, solitary places, obscure deserts, and stinking places.

Members & Diseases

Members : The spleen, his great residence, the right ear, the bones, the teeth, the retentive faculty through the whole body.[2]

Diseases : Dropsy’s, consumptions, deafness, leprosy, stone, scurvy, canker, quatrain agues, weakness in generation, toothache; and all melancholy distempers.[2]

Duration of Sickness : Long enduring diseases, chronic.

 
 
References

[1] John Gadbury, Genethliacal Astrology, p110.
[2] John Partridge, Mikropanastron, p21-22.
[3] A Brief and Most Easy Intro. to the Judgment of Stars