Reader week 8

Question 1

Humors: melancholy

Answer 1

• Black bile
• cold and dry
• earth
• Saturn (studious and bookish) (greater evil)

Question 2

Humors: phlegmatic

Answer 2

• phlegm
• cold and wet
• water
• Moon/Venus (lesser fortune)

Question 3

Humors: choleric

Answer 3

• yellow bile
• hot and dry
• fire
• Mars (lesser evil)
• -> sharp-witted, cunning, crafty, vengeful, lecherous

Question 4

Humors: Sanguin

Answer 4

• Blood
• hot and wet
• air
• Jupiter (greater fortune)
• -> red-faced, healthy, vigorous, confident
• -> young people feel this more

Question 5

Fire signs

Answer 5

• Aries
• Leo
• Sagittarius

Question 6

Earth signs

Answer 6

• Taurus
• Virgo
• Capricorn

Question 7

Air signs

Answer 7

• Gemini
• Libra
• Aquarius

Question 8

Water signs

Answer 8

• Cancer
• Scorpio
• Pisces

Question 9

Nightingale

Answer 9

• Lucina
• heralds dawn with a song
• ever-watchful guardian
• tempers sleepless labor of her long nights work by the sweetness of her song
• -> poor but honest working woman

Question 10

Weasel

Answer 10

• cunning
• moves from place to place within a house
• lies in a different lair every night
• skilled in medicine
• -> signify willingness to accept gods word, but put it away in the wrong place b/c of love of earthly things

Question 11

Swallow

Answer 11

• Hirundo
• sweeps in twisting, winding circles
• clever at nest building
• second sight (leaves nest before it falls)
• small but devout state of mind

Question 12

Duck

Answer 12

• Anas
• constant application to swimming
• gives name to the Goose (goose also swims)
• mark the watches of night by cackling
• sensitive to smells