On the Consideration of the Quintessence

until the moon falls to the angle of the earth where it begins to descend until the moon again arrives. And by these points of the moon, twice a day, the flux and reflux occur, and this happens in this world because the sun is moved over the points of the aspect of the heaven and varies, from which the flux and reflux follows the moon and not the sun. And the moon does not only exert a singular influence upon the waters, but above that invisible line; just as man universally, like water, is moved possibly "movetur" naturally in the earth—because it loves and familiarly flows back to another, and as it is applied to the drink of the earth to the depth—I say infallibly that it brings it about that the influence of the moon upon the head, upon the neck, and upon the chest of man, just as the stars of Aries, Taurus, and Gemini exert a singular influence upon conception, so here every singular thing? appears more [to be] helped by God to receive humors from the neck down to the chest and from the infirm members; and thus I say concerning Pisces, which draw humors from the knees, ankles, and feet, because they regard [the body] singularly, influencing according to the acceptance of aspects and properties, and thus it must be said of the others. Likewise, if it should arrive at the fourth part of the heart.