50 JEROME CARDAN 



you come to the eighth. After this you shall enter the 

 kingdom of God.' I read this dream as follows. My 

 father's soul is my tutelary spirit. What could be dearer 

 or more delightful ? The Moon signifies Grammar ; 

 Mercury Geometry and Arithmetic; Venus Music, the 

 Art of Divination, and Poetry ; the Sun the Moral, and 

 Jupiter the Natural, World; Mars Medicine; Saturn Agri- 

 culture, the knowledge of plants, and other minor arts. 

 The eighth star stands for a gleaning of all mundane 

 things, natural science, and various other studies. After 

 dealing with these I shall at last find my rest with the 

 Prince of Heaven." 1 



1 De Vita Propria, ch. xxxvii. p. 121. 



