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The "Astrologer's Magazine"

{Established 1890)

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO OCCULT

THOUGHT AND THE STUDY OF HUMANITY

BE WISE—"Knowledge puts an end to pain "

VOLUME XVIII. NEW SERIES

[Old Serits, XXXII.]

Containing' all the numbera for the year 1921.

Editors—Mrs ALAN LEO

and
VIVIAN E. ROBSON, B.Sc.

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1921
 CONTENTS.—VOL. XVIII.

Answers to Questions 58, 93, 219, 314

Astrology and Mental Derangement: by A Nurse 43, 90, 118, 155,
183, 212, 246
Astrology and Personal Fate (Karma): by Alan Leo - 360
Astronomy for Astrologers : by Vivian E. Robson 143, 178, 205,
242, 281, 311, 343, 378
Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn 50, 264
Correspondence 60, 94, 124, 158, 188,
220,252,315,346,380
Crucible' 121
Dark Side of the Moon : by W. H. Scott 173,208,249, 284
Death of Mr Sinnett 225
Dictionary of Astrology : by Vivian E. Robson 31, 63, 95, 127, 159,
191,223,255,287,319, 351,383
Editor's Observatory:—
New Vear, Horseracinj, Miners' Strike, King of Greece, Prizes, i; Institute.
Perfect horoscope, Sign Ideals. New Star. 33; The Astrological Year, New
Theory of Universe, 63; W in K. $ and V, League of Nations, 97; Miners
Strike. Capitalism. World horoscope. 129; Aspects, Co-operation, Prize, 161:
Astrological Psychology. Degree Influence, Alterations, Asteroids, 193 ; Death
of Mr Sinnett, 225 ; Weather, Sounds. Planes and Planets, Horoscopes of
Towns, 237; Astrology and Generation, As above so below, Separateness or
Unity. Mrs Besant's Birthday, 289; Part of Fortune, Motor Cars and the
Zodiac, Problem. 321; Christmas Greetings, Moon's Vagaries.Problem, 353.
Esoteric Astrology: by Alan Leo - 72, 140, 231, 301
Horoscope and Eyesight; by Chas. Carter 19
Horoscopes:—
President Harding, 8: Napoleon, 134; A Pseudo-Christ, 169; Milton, 198;
Mrs Victoria Woodhull Martin, 270 ; Emerson. 277 ; German President, 297.
Horoscopes of Towns and Cities : by Vivian E. Robson 55
 CONTENTS iii
PAOE
International Astrology - 5,37,68,101,132,164,196,
228, 260, 293, 324, 356
Irish Problem : by Vivian E. Robson 29
Leo and Aries Cots 186
Letters from Planetary Representatives : by Sothis 116
Mission of Astrology to the World : by Bessie Leo 146
Modern Astrology Fund 57
Music and the Horoscope : by Chas. Carter - 110
Notes on Paralysis and Epilepsy: by Chas. Carter 373
Notes on Progressed Angles: by G. R. Warwick 87
Past Karma in a Present Horoscope : by Alan Leo 39
Perihelion Longitude : by H. S. Green 305, 337
Planets and the Weather: by Percy Maurice 11
Professions and Occupations : by Duncan Macnaughton
47, 151,275,333
Psychic Prediction 217
Puzzle Horoscope 216
Seven Rays of Development; by Bessie Leo 328
Song of the Zodiac: by El Hylal 17
Studies in Astrology : by P. J. Harwood 239
Sun-Spots and Magnetic Storms: by H. S. Green 236
Sympathetic Aspects: by Vivian E. Robson 113
Thinker—Mercury: by Bessie Leo 201
Time of Quickening: by H. S. Green 77, 105
Venus—Its Influence in the World : by Bessie Leo 82
Virgo—Her Sensitiveness and Purity : by W, H. Scott 341
Wheel-Sphere of Brahm : by Esta 24
IV
JUDGMENT OF ASPECTS
Aeroplane Accident, 49
Armistice Day, 28
Autumn Quarter, 260
Big Conjunction in Aries, 93
Church Council, 377
Eclipses, 59, 101, 103, 207
Explosions, 49
Eyes, 19
Home Rule, 30, 54
Horoscopes:—
Louis Napoleon, 49: Sir W. R.
Richmond. 109; Dunstable, 122;
Lord Reading, 187 ; Belfast, 259 ;
Caruso, 300; Bismarck, 369 ; Emperor
of Russia, 370.
Insanity, 90
Jupiter conjunction Uranus, 98, 101
Jupiter opposition Uranus, 211, 218,
238, 280
King Constantine, 54
King of Greece, Death, 4
League of Nations, 100
Mars conjunction Jupiter, 325
Mars conjunction Neptune, 229, 323
Mars square Uranus, 118, 120
Miners' Strike, 3, 130
INDEX OF SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Air Conference, 46
Alan Leo. Poem, 230
Astrologer as Envoy, 92
Astrological Conference, 304
Austin Dobson, 345
Ball Lightning, 274
Burial of Unknown Warrior, 23
Cholera in Russia, 259
Church Council, 377
Comets, 71, 132,219, 241
Diploma of Efficiency, 355
Drought, 327
Murders in Ireland, 200
Neptune trine Uranus, 99
New Moons, 5, 37, 70, 132, 166,
197, 228, 262, 358
Novelists, 151
Past Karma, 41
President Harding, 8
Prince Henry's Fall 123
Prince Louis of Battenberg, 336
Progressed Square, Sun and
Moon, 184, 253
Reprisals, 54
Riots, 81, 104, 291
Russo-Turkish War, 89
Sinn Fein Conference, 377
Sleeping Sickness, 109
Spring Quarter, 68
Summer Quarter, 164
Telephones, 109
Venus conjunction Neptune, 265
Venus in Taurus, 233, 263
Weather, 46, 62, 187, 227, 257,
274
Winter Quarter, 86, 356
Women and Diaconate, 187
Duchess of Edinburgh, Death, 46
Earthquakes, 42, 46
Eclipses, 7, 23, 46, 59, 207, 215,
286
Explosion at New York, 49
Fire in London, 260
Home Rule Bill, 54
Hungary and Sagittarius, 56
Indian Plays, 292
Ireland, 218, 233
King Constantine at Athens, 54
King Peter's Death, 314
 INDEX OF SHORT PARAGRAPHS
League of Nations, 49, 238
Life on the Moon 355
Lord Mayor of Cork, 42
Marriage, Attractions to, 177
Marriage of King Boris, 67
Mars square Jupiter, 4, 18
Medical Astrology, 168
Members of Parliament, Deaths,
327
Meteors on the Sun, 332
Mundane Astrology and Houses,
190
New Star or Comet, 313
People of the Zodiac. Poem, 150
Pisces and Alexandria, 241
Plagues and Planets, 207
Planet or Comet, 42
V
Rain, 222, 227
Rainmaking in U.S.A., 133
Review, 245
Russo-Turkish War, 89
Saturn. Poem, 7
Saturn and Falls, 327
Shield of Achilles, 10
Sinn Fein Conference, 377
Sleeping Sickness, 109
Solar Revolutions, 89
Symbols of Astrology, 76
Telephone Troubles, 109
Turkey and Labour Conference,
123
Twins, 62, 92
Virgo's Lesser Angel, 355
Weather, 42, 46, 62, 67
 VI
Reference Inbex
TO
VOL. XVIII., NEW SERIES; (XXXII., OLD SERIES)
Ascendant and First Hodse :—330.
Aspects, Sympathetic:—113.
Astrology and Chance 58.
Astrology and Horse Racing ;—2.
Astrology and Insanity :—43.
Babies, future Births:—207.
Birth op New Era:—52.
Birth Statistics :—61.
Birth Time, Importance of :—239.
Black Magic :—2.
Cadent and Setting Planets :—118.
Calendar :—58.
Cancer and Molecules;—209.
Cancer and the Sea :—315.
Chronology, Note on :—93.
Colour and Astrology :—275.
Comet's Tail and Earth :—313.
Conference, Astrological ;—304.
Conquest of the Air :—97,
Countries, Rulers of:—128
Creative Arts:—85.
Cyclic Laws :—364.
Daily Motion of Planets :—160.
Degrees, Sympathetic:—113.
Diseases and Planets :—256.
Divorce and Astrology 289.
Divorce Court :—16.
Draco and Tarot Cards ;—319.
Dumb Signs, why so called ;—319.
Dunstable Horoscope :—122.
Eclipses, Effect of :—293.
Eclipses, how Formed:—^320:
Elections, how Made:—351.
Elevations :—352.
Emerson and Bulwer Lytton :—278.
Enmities, Planetary :—383.
Epilepsy :—375.
Evil Power of Mars conjunction Son ;—49.
Examples of Karma :—369.
Explosions, Fourth House :—49.
Eye Troubles :—19.
Fate and Afflictions ;—40.
Fate and Freewill :—360.
Fixed Stars, Value of:—213.
Freedom and Neptune :—346, 347.
Freewill, Definition of :—360.
Future, Uranus in Aries, 1927;—99.
Future of Religion and Science :—98.
Great Pyramid ;—47.
Harmony's Rule :—361.
Horoscope for January i :—159.
Horoscopes of Towns :—55.
Hospitals for Insane :—43.
Interpretation, Difficulty of;—142.
Ireland's Horoscope ;—29.
Isis, the Planet :—213.
Jupiter and Uranus in Aquarius, 1914 ;—98.
Jupiter conjunction Saturn and Plague; —
267.
Karma, Article on ;—360.
Karma, Three Classes of :—368.
Keys to Wisdom :—2:9.
 REFERENCE INDEX
Ladder of Consciousness :—75.
Latitude and Directions :—380.
League of Nations :—99.
Lords of Karua ;—366.
Love of Sea;—315.
Marriage Harmonv :—177.
Mars and War 362.
Mars conjunction Neptune and Aircraft:—
323-
Mars conjunction Saturn in Libra ;—325.
Mars conjunction Uranus :—6.
Mars, Neptune and Mental Disease:—90.
Mars opposition Saturn :—38.
Mars, Rule of :—366.
Medical Astrology ;—168.
Meteorology :—333.
Meteors and Weather ;—332.
Milton's Horoscope:—198.
Miners' Strike;—3. 119.
Mission of Venus :—83.
Monster Creations :—209.
Moon Scare :—354.
Moon's rate of Motion :—354.
Motor Car and Zodiac:—322.
Musical Ability :—110.
Music and Astrology;—252.
Music and the Horoscope:—221.
Musician, Painter or Poet :—110.
Mysteries, The;—188.
Napoleon's Horoscope ;—134.
Napoleon's Rising Sign :—60.
National Health ;—132.
Neptune and Divine Wisdom :—54.
Neptune and Fourth House :—284.
Neptune and New Teaching :—53.
Neptune in Leo, trine Moon:—347.
Neptune, New Ideas about :—346.
Neptune trine Uranus, 1939 ;—99.
New Star, The :—36.
Numbers, Meaning of ;—58.
Ogdoau, Symbol of ;—365.
Origin of Universe:—66.
VU
Parallel of Asc., and M.C. :—314.
Paralysis:—373.
Part of Fortune :—214, 316, 321.
Past Karma :—39.
People of the Zodiac ;—150.
Perfect Horoscope :—34.
Pin, Zodiac of;—322.
Planes, Elements and Gunas :—72.
Planets and Weather :—11.
Pole, Meaning of term :—313.
Pons-Winnecke Comet:—71.
Prenatal Epoch :—124.
Problem, Astrological :—355.
Puzzle Horoscope ;—216.
Rainmaking in U.S.A. :—133.
Religion and Astrology;—147.
Retrograde Planets:—94, 121, 124. 317,
348. 380.
Revolution and Socialism:—52.
Rivers and Lakes. Ruler of :—315.
Rulership of Countries :—128.
Ruling our Stars :—363.
Ruling Planet, The ;—40.
Ruling Power of Venus :—84.
Saturn and Aquarius :—347.
Saturn and Karma :—367.
Saturn and Uranus :—291.
Saturian Character ;—329.
Sea, Hatred of:—315.
Sea, Ruler of :—315.'
Sex Passion :—330.
Ships' Horoscopes:—430.
Sidereal Time :—282.
Signs, How they Rise :—312.
Signs of Zodiac and Neptune ;—346.
Six Houses only in Horoscope :—349.
Sounds, Planetary :—258.
Summer Time in Germany:—94.
Sun Spots;—133,
Tables of Houses ;—312.
Tarot Death Card;—319,
Telephones and Railways :—log.
Temples in Egypt ;—10.
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Thodghts are Things :—368.
Threefold Man:—140.
Threefold Man and the Signs:—74.
Time, Calculating :—311.
Towns, Horoscopes op :—259.
Twins and Ailments :—62.
Two Classes op Astrologers :—291.
Uranus Autocracy, Neptune Democracy :—98,
Uranus in Pisces;—97.
REFERENCE INDEX
Venus and Rain :—327.
Venus conjunction Saturn ;—345.
Venus in the Horoscope :—83.
Venus, Libra, Taurus;—86.
Virgo, Women and Children :—341.
Wkather and Astrology :—257.
Workers' Unrest:—130.
World Horoscope, The:—131, 316.
Years of the World;—65,
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N°w S^is1"] JANUARY. 1921. [no.

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A Happy and Prosperous New Year to every reader of MODERN

Astrology, all over the World; this good wish goes forth for the
Thirty-first time, for Modern Astrology, then called
The Astrologer s
"^Year* ' MAGAZINE, was founded in the
year 1890, so it can now lay claim to thirty-one years of
useful work for the World.
Its founder, Alan Leo, loved his Magazine, it was to him the
" child of his heart" and he spared neither time, money nor effort on
its production. He, as you know, has passed over to the other side,
but I his companion and co-worker for over twenty-seven years am
still in touch with " his mind," for thought transference is not limited to
the Physical Plane alone, and he and I often practised telepathy in this
life, when we were apart from each other physically; and so proved
its truth for ourselves as I daresay many of our readers have likewise
done, and thus discovered the enormous power of thought, of which
Astrology is such a wonderful exponent.
I have received from many of my readers many kind letters of
appreciation regarding Modern Astrology and I thank them one
and all, as also for all donations towards its upkeep. We hope this
year to put before our readers some valuable papers on Astro-
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Meteorology, marriage, the pre-natal epoch, etc., and everything

possible will be done to make Modern Astrology attractive and
up to date ; the same writers will go on writing for it; while several
new friends have promised valuable contributions.
♦ *
I have received the following letter from a correspondent:
" After reading a few of your Manuals of Astrology I decided to read
your interesting Magazine, In the very first number I am surprised to see
an advertisement ot a book by which one may make use of
Aatrolotfv and Astrology to win money at racing. I am not an anti-racing
Horse Racing crank, and I have spent several enjoyable afternoons at race
meetings. All sportsmen will deplore this very unsportsman-
like method of attempting to win money. It is well known in
Tattersall's rules of betting that there must be a chance for both parties to a
bet, to win, otherwise it is no bet. The punter who uses this method is not
playing fair, any more than a jockey who backs himself to win after squaring
his opponents ; for which practice if found out he would he ' warned off.'
" As one interested in Occult Science I think yon will agree with me that
using occult means for selfish gain can only bring disaster, and is merely
degenerating into Black Magic. The eyes of the world are always on you,
only waiting for an opportunity to discredit yon. I should like to know your
opinion, and I venture to sav that many more of your readers will be equally
anxious to know whether this method meets with your approval or not."
The observations contained in this letter are of interest from
more than one point of view. In the first place it is impossible for an
editor to exclude all advertisements with which he is not in personal
agreement; if he did he would be guaranteeing the genuineness and
value not only of his own but of all those inserted by strangers, and
this is quite impracticable. • All an editor can be expected to do is to
exclude advertisements that he has reason to think are fraudulent.
Black Magic is usually understood to be occult power or
knowledge used for selfish purposes; but information contained in a
book that can be bought and read by all the world cannot seriously be
called occult. If the information about the chances of a horse winning
a race depended upon the exercise of clairvoyance or some equally
rare faculty, this would certainly be verging upon the black art.
The use of Astrology in horse racing and Stock Exchange
gambling I regard as most undesirable and unworthy. I have never
so used it myself nor did Mr Alan Leo, and I may add that I do not
believe any system will be successful. It is one thing to explain
after the event why a horse won, and quite another to make your
calculations beforehand, to bet on them for every race omitting none.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 3
and then at the end of a period sufficiently long to test the system—
say three or six months—to show a balance on'the right side. Anyone
who did this would in my opinion go bankrupt.
Readers who are interested should read what Raphael writes on
this subject in his 1921 Almanac ; I am in general agreement.
Having said this, it is only fair to add that if there really are any
astrological laws underlying racing and speculation, I do not see why
they should not be elucidated and published as being of general
interest. It is gambling and betting by means of them that is
objectionable.

The Miners' Strike, which came to an end on November 3rd

had extended over a considerable period since it was first discussed.
As far back as August 25th, the Miners balloted on the
The Biners' question of a National Strike ; in the map for the Sun's
Strike
entry into Cancer at the Summer Quarter the Moon and
Saturn were elevated in conjunction in Virgo, both in opposition to
Uranus in Pisces ; Saturn at Virgo 6034,, Moon at Virgo 10o52',
and Uranus at Pisces 5037'^ ; and on the day the ballot began the
Sun was at Virgo 1057' applying to the opposition of the place of
Uranus and the conjunction with that of Saturn at the Quarter. On
September 2nd, when they decided to hand in their notices, the Sun
was at Virgo 904T, only one degree from the place of the Moon at
the Quarter. When the strike ended on November 3rd, the Sun was
in Scorpio 10o+6' in sextile to the places of Saturn and the Moon and in
trine to that of Uranus at the Summer Quarter, while Mars had
reached Capricorn and was throwing good aspects to the same
planets. A good deal of the trouble came from extremists animated
by the democratic communistic spirit, which was shown by Neptune
rising in Leo 11039' at the August New Moon in square to Mars at
Scorpio in the fourth house; at the Autumn Quarter Neptune
was culminating in Leo 12059' in opposition to the Moon in Aquarius
4031' on the fourth cusp; it was rising again at the October New
Moon ; and on the day the strike ended, November 3rd, the Moon was
at Leo 13o10' in conjunction with Neptune, and Venus was in trine to
both of them. Much more might be added by way of comment, but
space forbids.
4 MODERN ASTROLOGY

King Alexander of Greece died on October 25 from blood

poisoning, the bite of a monkey. He was born 2/8/'93, and at death
his Sun was separating from the conjunction with
^Greece Venus and applying to that of Mars—the planet of
violence and poisons—in Virgo. In the map for the
Autumn Quarter U ranus was on the fourth cusp opposing the midheaven
at Athens and 150° from the Sun; at the October New Moon the
same planet was just setting; at the eclipse of the Moon in October
Mars was culminating in Capricorn as lord of the eighth house (death
of the king); and at the eclipse of the Sun of November Mercury was
setting in square to Uranus in the midheaven, thus indicating the
foreign troubles which developed as a result of the opposition offered
by some of the nations to the return of King Constantine.
So many changes have taken place in the political and territorial
subdivisions of ancient Greece that it is not easy to be confident
which sign rules over modern Greece. Virgo rules Thessaly and the
Morea; Capricorn rules Albania and Bosnia; and Taurus is said to
include the Grecian Archipelago. All these are signs of the earthy
triplicity ; and Virgo contained Jupiter opposed by Uranus, and Saturn
squared by Mars at the Libra Ingress; Capricorn contained Mars in
square to the Moon on the day of the King's death ; and the lunar
eclipse fell in Taurus in opposition to the King's Uranus in Scorpio.
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On September 23rd the German Finance Minister stated the German
Hahiliiies to amount to the bu^e sum of twelve hundred million pounds,
making it a serious problem whether this can ever be paid. The map for
tlie Autumn Quarter at Berlin showed Mars in the second or money bouse
in square to Jupiter and Saturn in the midheaven. We predicted that this
would " trouble the government over financial affairs " (p. 262).
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The New Moon falls on the cjisp of the second house at London, in
conjunction with Mercury in Capricorn and in trine to Jupiter and
Saturn in Virgo in the ninth house, fortunate positions for money
matters, trade, the government and the nation generally; commerce,
business, the cost of living, the wages and position of workers, and
financial prospects all round should improve under these influences;
changes in taxation in some respects, reorganisation of government
officials or servants, and changes in the government will take place.
In agreement with the nature of the signs, these tendencies will be
felt over a large part of the world, and will not be confined to one
country.
The other position of importance is the close conjunction of
Venus, Mars, and Uranus in Pisces on the cusp of the third house in
semi-square to the Sun and Moon. This shows danger of strikes and
disputes in connection with railways, the post office, and workers who
come under the third house; there may be accidents, attacks upon
individuals, cases of incendiarism, and other criminal outbreaks from
this combination. Such a conjunction will result in scandals in sex
matters, changes in divorce laws, health laws, regulations, and
administration; hospitals, charitable movements, prisons and the
detective service will be subject to changes and receive new impetus
in some directions but will also be in danger of hostile criticism and
6 MODERN ASTROLOGY
opposition. This will be felt in many parts of the world; Spain,
Portugal, and Egypt will be affected through the sign Pisces. The
conjunction will be rising in Persia and Afghanistan, culminating
near Japan and in the east of Australia, and setting off the west coast
of North America.
At Berlin, and from here to Petrograd and Constantinople, the
luminaries will be in the Ascendant, being very near the cusp at the
latter city; and this will strengthen governments and those in authority,
will help to compose religious and other differences, and will be
favourable for trade. But Mars, Uranus and Venus in the second
house all over this region will bring serious troubles through money
and taxation.
At Calcutta the luminaries will be in the midheaven, and as they
are in Capricorn, the sign ruling India, this will prosper the whole
nation and benefit the ruling power. The conjunction in Pisces on
the twelfth cusp warns against criminal conspiracies and agitations
on the part of the disaffected and extremist agitators directed against
prominent persons.
At Washington the luminaries will be on the cusp of the fourth
house in trine to Jupiter and Saturn on the twelfth cusp; and the
conjunction in Pisces will fall in the fifth house. This will be
beneficial for the land, mines, and housing ; the government will be
strong and legislation will be in the interests of the people and
democracy; the country will be taking an active part in foreign
questions; expenditure and the cost of living will be high. There is
danger of losses in theatres and places of entertainment, the interests
of the young will suffer, there will be assaults upon children and
much immorality.
The Conjunction of Mars and Uranus
This takes place at Pisces 3o10' on 9/1/1921, 9.20 a.m., only
four hours after the New Moon ; and after what has previously been
said, not much need be added here. The two planets, with Venus
close by at Pisces 2056', will be intercepted in the Ascendant at
London and Paris. They will rise in Germany, Switzerland, North
Italy, and Algeria; will culminate in the east of India; will set off
the east coast of New Zealand, and will be on the nadir in North
 INTERNATIONAI. ASTROLOGY /
America near Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Galveston, and south Mexico.
The conjunction falls as under in the following horoscopes :
Queen Mary 4 King of Spain s Asc
Prince of Wales rf j a Q Queen „ si
Queen of Holland eG King of Sweden sJ
King of lielgium 6 t H. H. Asquith 85

SATURN
Thou hast fettered the father who gave thee existence, and marked with a
limit the paths for bis feet;
Thou givest the God we have formed us to worship, with hearts that are
humble and bosoms that beat;
Thou buildest Him altars where nations assemble, and shrines where the
great of the world may adore,
Thou breathest upon them and lo they are ruins and lost in forgotten abysses
of yore.
Dark tempter of Gods and destroyer of mortals, how strong are the bando
and triumphant the feet
That have trodden in safety thy valley of shadows, unveiled thine illusion
and learned thy deceit.
Thou, God, art the weariless foe of the Gods, and when peace shall succeed
to the struggle and roar
Thou wilt rise with the jubilant cry of the victor, exultant and clad in the
spoils of the war.
With features transfigured and garments of grandeur, the palm for the hand
and the crown for the brow,
Thy spirit will rise with the spleudour of light, which is dark with illusion
and mystery now.
The infinite calm of the soul that has conquered will shine from the deeps of
thy radiant eyes;
Thy wisdom at one with the word of creation, thy dwelling the measureless
dome of the skies.
The heart of eternity beats in thy bosom, its purpose above and its passion
below
Will be perfect through suffering and strong through contention, and wrought
into love through the fire of the foe.
The war of dissension will pass from thy spirit; uplifted the victor; awarded
the prize;
The veil will be rent and the temple be shattered, and forth from their
darkness the dead will arise.
H. S. Green.
Under the eclipse of the Moon on October 27 we predicted that in
Central Europe " sea traffic and trade will increase and the country will
benefit abroad.'" An agreement was reached between Italy and Jugo-Slavia
on the Adriatic Question, and a treaty was signed on November 12. At the
November Lunation the two luminaries were within orbs of the cusp of the
seventh house at Rome and well aspected, but Mercury was also in that
house in square to Uranus, complicating affairs, and the treaty was
immediately followed by the seizure of two islands by the poet soldier
D'Annunzio that had been ceded to Jugo-Slavia.
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In our November issue we successfully predicted the election of
Senator Harding, basing our conclusions upon the data of his birth
kindly supplied by a correspondent. These data are as follows: 2nd
November, 1865, 2.30 p.m., Blooming Grove, Morrow Co., Ohio,
Lat. 39N34, Long. 83W19. We have not had time to rectify the
 THE HOROSCOPE OF PRESIDENT HARDING g
map, and the above horoscope shows the positions of the planets and
signs at 2.30 p.m.
To another correspondent we are indebted for the following pen-
picture of Pres. Harding which appeared in a New York newspaper
at about the time of the election.
" Height—An inch over six feet.
Weight—One hundred and ninety pounds.
Carriage—Erect, with shoulders well squared, giving an impression of
being even bigger than he is.
Features—Face, an almost perfect ellipse, save for a double chin;
complexion, ver^ ruddy; eyes dark and shaded by heavy black brows, with
heavy, rather disfiguring, pouches beneath them. Hair (worn parted at the
right) very grey but still thick. Nose, long and aquiline, broad at the
nostrils. Mouth, broad, with lips inclined to purse.
Manner—Suave and friendly; good hand clasp, which he is inclined to
prolong in what has been called the 'political manner.' Specialises rather
in remembering personal matters and is fond of such flatteries as ' That's a
true Crawford nose you've inherited.' In professional conversation talks
frequently 'off the record,' or with the proviso, ' Now let's be just party (or
newspaper) men together.'
•Dress—Somewhat fastidious. In the Senate wears business suits
eschewing the frock coat and soft hat of tradition. Is really at home in
evening clothes, and makes up for it on the golf course by wearing true
knockabouts.
Speech—Deep and pleasing voice. On the platform is decidedly popular,
with a decided habit of carefully turned phrase and period. On the
Chautauqua circuit has a rating comparable with those of W. J. Bryan and
A. J. Beveridge."
The influence of Jupiter, lord of the Ascendant, in Sagittarius,
and the most elevated planet in the map, is evidently very marked, as
one would expect to be the case.
The presence of no less than four planets in Scorpio, together
•with the Moon in Taurus denotes an inflexible will, and accounts for
Pres. Harding's intense determination, by which he succeeded in
raising himself to the position he now occupies, though in this matter
also, Jupiter no doubt played an important part. The conjunction of
the Sun, Mercury, and Mars will give him tremendous energy and
enthusiasm, but the latter will be apt occasionally to manifest in
rather ill-advised ways owing to the semisquare of Jupiter. His
mind will be exceedingly quick to grasp a point and will be very
retentive.
From the mutable nature of the Ascendant and the sign
containing the ruler we may judge that Pres. Harding is able to adapt
himself to his environment or audience, but there is also the likelihood
10 MODERN ASTROLOGY
of a tendency to vacillation or hesitation, which would be followed by
the quick decision of Mercury conjunction Mars and adhered to with
the persistence of Scorpio even if it were ill-advised. This tendency
may cause trouble or, at least, adverse criticism, for Mercury is in
sesquiquadrate with Uranus in the fourth house in Cancer.
The Sun is besieged by Mars and Saturn and so is the Moon by
opposition. It is fortunate for Pres. Harding that neither of these
bodies is hyleg, though even so their influence will make itself felt in
the end.
From a political point of view the position of Uranus is not very
good although it is in favourable aspect with the luminaries. Its
opposition to Jupiter, though not strong in itself, is considerably
strengthened by the close parallel, and is likely to make itself felt
during his period of office, which will terminate suddenly and under
peculiar circumstances. From various indications, of which some are
based upon other data, it seems likely that Pres. Harding will not be
in office longer than from two to three years.
V. E. R.
The Shield of Achilles
In The Student, June, 1868, there appeared a paper written by Mr R. A.
Proctor, on " A New Theory of Achilles' Shield," from which we extract the
following passages:
" In Egypt there are temples of vast antiquity, having a dome, on which
a zodiac—or, more correctly, a celestial hemisphere—is sculptured with
constellation figures. And we now learn, from ancient Babylonian and
Assyrian sculptures, that these Egyptian zodiacs are in all probability
merely copies (more or less perfect) of yet more ancient Chaldaean zodiacs.
One of these Babylonian sculptures is figured in Kawlinson's ' Ancient
Monarchies.' It seems probable that in a country where Sabaeanism, or
star-worship, was the prevailing form of religion, yet more imposing
proportions would be given to such zodiacs than in Egypt.
" My theory, then, respecting the Shield of Achilles is this:—I conceive
that Homer, in bis Eastern travels, visited imposing temples devoted to
astronomical observation and star-worship; and that nearly every line in
both ' shields ' is borrowed from a poem in which he described a temple of
this sort, its domed zodiac, and those illustrations of the labours of diflerent
seasons and of military or judicial procedures which the astrological
proclivities of star-worshippers led them to associate with the different
constellations."
[From Alan Leo's Scrap-book)
Whate'er thou lovest, man, that too become thou must;
God, if thou lovest God; dust, if thou lovest dust.
Goo is omnipotent because all loving. Were there any that God loved
not that creature could resist him.
 XI

&ij£ planets anb tij< ISEtatijtr

By Percy Maurice

III.
Let us now open the Nautical Almanac for 1920 and extract on s
slip of paper the planetary positions at noon of 29th May, with a view
to investigating the terrible catastrophe at Louth. It is desirable to
extract the moon's position not only for the day of investigation, but
also for the next day. Then the track can be drawn on the chart for
the 24 hours motion of the moon. Take the positions to the nearest
minute—we cannot profess to work more accurately than that.
From page 51 we learn the following for the sun:
4 hours 24 minutes R.A. and 21 degrees 37 min. North declination.
From the same page and line we find Sidereal Time of Greenwich
on that day at noon was 4 hours 27 minutes.
The two positions for the Moon are on page 61, namely:
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13 59 R.A. South 13 24
14 47 16 16
The planets proper are on a series of pages commencing with 149
and the positions are ;
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Mercury 4 41 North 23 16
Venus 3 44 N. 19 1
Mars 13 19 S. 8 21
Jupiter 9 1 N. 17 52
Saturn 10 31 N. 11 19
Uranus 22 31 S. 10 10
Neptune 8 46 N. 17 59
Remember that four minutes of Right Ascension
one degree.
Place two pieces of fresh paper on the boards. Rule the
equator line and rule a vertical line for the S.T. of Greenwich at noon
(six and three-quarter degrees to the left of 4 hours Right Ascension
mark on the scale).
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
Lay the set-square on the boards with the edge X Y resting on the
edge E F of the scale. If we slide the set-square along the scale,
it will be easy to ascertain any point north or south of the equator
(as shown on the set-square scale) situate at any point of Right
ascension (as shown on the scale E F).
It will be desirable to mark on the charts all four O.P.'s for each
of the heavenly bodies, and in case the student should imagine this is
a lengthy process, he may be assured that such is not the case. In
trying to wrest from Nature one of her profound secrets we shall not
be likely to begrudge a quartet of an hour in making out an important
chart.
Accuracy of work will be greatly promoted by fixing a needle at
the end of a penholder, and using it to mark the planets' places.
When found, a hole should be pierced in the paper, a pencil cross
made over the hole, and the symbol of the planet added.
The Zenith place of the Sun will be six degrees to the left of
figure 4 on the R. A. scale, and twenty-one and a half degrees north of
the equator. The sub-zenith position will have the same R.A. but
will be south of the equator, so before moving the set-square, this
second point is marked by the needle. The Nadir and Sub-Nadir
points of the Sun will be 12 hours different, i.e. six degrees to the
left of 16 R.A., and the declinations will be just the same as for Sub-
Zenith and Zenith. And so with all the bodies.
Assuming that all places have now been marked, let us proceed.
The writer has not very exact information concerning the Louth
catastrophe but so far as he can learn, the main outburst occurred
towards tea-time. The latitude of Louth is 53 degrees 20 minutes
and it is almost on the meridian of Greenwich. Therefore, Louth
would travel across the boards from right to left in company with
Greenwich, but about one-fifth of an inch more North of the equator.
Louth's rate of travel would of course be 15 degrees per hour and by
3.36 p.m. Greenwich time (4.36 p.m. Summer time) Louth would
have arrived at a point 54 degrees to the left of our vertical line which
is marked " Greenwich noon," and it would be north of the equator by
53i tenths of an inch.
We must now ask (l) whether about this time any O.P.'s were
situatedat 57idegreesor 88 degrees from the place on theboards where
 THE PLANETS AND THE WEATHER 13
Louth would have reached, and (2) in which case, whether the said
O.P.'s were themselves situated at similar distances from other O.P.'s
so as to link them into a kind of planetary battery.
(iV.S.—By 57j degrees is meant that distance of " equatorial
longitude," i.e. 3,450 nautical miles: 88 degrees is 5,280 nautical miles.)
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To answer our questions promptly and without calculations we
need some pieces of cardboard shaped like Pattern Y (Figure 4) and
Pattern Z (Figure 5). The appropriate one of Pattern Y is marked
" 53o20, North Latitude : 88 degrees arc." This has been so designed
that if, whilst it lies flat on the boards, the edge A B is pressed against
the edge G H of the lath in Figure 2, then every point on the curved
14 MODERN ASTROLOGY
edge will indicate a place on the earth's surface which is 5,280 nautical
miles from the point showing through the small holeW. The centre of
this hole is SSj degrees north of the equator, i.e. 53i tenths of an
inch above the line.
Slide the card along the upper scale until the curve G C cuts
through, and just passes the place of Mars (Nadir), touches Mercury
(sub-zenith) and Sun (sub-zenith) whilst at the same moment the curve
P C touches Venus (sub-nadir). We shall find now that the centre of
hole W is 54 degrees to the left of our vertical line marked " Greenwich
noon," which is where Louth would have arrived at 3.36 G.M.T.
Hence, Mars, Mercury, Sun and Venus were casting arcs intersecting,
at Louth.
Now substitute for the cardboard measurer another one marked
"53j degrees North Latitude, 57i degrees arc" taking care to place
it so that the top edge A B presses against the lath, and that hole W
is over the same spot of the boards as was its predecessor. We shall
find that the curved edge touches Venus (Zenith). This increases the
number of the circular planetary paths which intersected at Louth.
Neptune and Jupiter are very nearly parallel to Venus and this
would tend to make them co-operate, for during the rotation of the
earth, the O P of one would affect the atmosphere according to its
nature, and when the next arrived there would be a joint effect.
We now need a cardboard measurer shaped like Pattern Z and
marked " 10 degrees North Latitude: 57i degrees arc." This also
bas a small hole W cut in it. If we place the card on the boards, so
that the Nadir O P of Uranus peeps through the hole, whilst the top
and bottom edges of the card are parallel with the scales, then we
shall find that the curved edge cuts the Moon's Zenith track at the
point the Moon would have reached about 3.36 p.m. Now take a
card, Pattern Z, "20 degrees North Lat. 88 degrees arc" and let the
Sun's Zenith O P peep through the hole. It will be found that the
curved edge reaches to Saturn and Uranus which are in close
conjunction.
So on this memorable day, at Louth, the Sun was co-operating
with every one of the planets, and something very startling could be
expected when the combination was fired by the Moon. The writer
does not wish to claim that he could have foretold the event. He
 THE PLANETS AND THE WEATHER 15

PATTERN Y. 57i° ARC ^ARC

HOLE "W" IS NORTH OF EQUATOR BY
■ bo" 35° 40° 45° 50° 53 i" 55° 60' 60°
F.N. 6.75 6.95 7.15 7-3 7-4 7-45 7-5 7-5 7-6 15.6
L.O. 6-55 6.7 6.75 6.8 6.95 6.85 6.9 6.8 6.75 13.6
63 6.4 6.35 6.35 6.3 6.25 6.3 6.1 59 *2.35
Subsequent 6.1 6.1 595 5-85 5.65 5-55 5.6 5-35 4-8 11.3
Lints 5-3 5-72 5-55 5-35 5.05 4-77 4-75 4-5 3-75 10.35
5-5 5-3 5-1 4.75 4-3 4.0 3 2 3-5 1.9 95
Equator 5-15 4-9 4-5 4.0 3.25 3-o 2-5 1-9 8.6
4-75 4-35 3.70 30 1-7 1-4 7.65
4-25 3-7 3.0 1.65 6.75
3-7 2.9 1.65 5-55
2.9 1.65 425
1.65 23
PATTERN Z. 57r ARC
HOLE '• W " IS NORTH OF EQUATOR BY
0° 5° 10° 15° 20° 25'
F.N. 5-2 5-5 58 6.05 63 6.55
L.O. 5-35 5.62 5.85 6.05 6.22 6,4
5-47 5-67 5-85 6.02 6.15 6.25
Succetiiug 5.62 5-75 5-85 597 60 6. J
Litits 5-7 5.77 3.82 5.87 5 9 5-9
5-72 5 75 5-75 5-75 5-7 565
Equator 5-75 5-7 5-7 5 6 5-5 5-35
5-72 565 5-6 5-47 5-22 50
5-7 5-6 5-45 5-25 5-0 4-65
5.62 5-4 5-25 4-92 4.6 4.15
5-47 5.25 5-0 4.65 4.22 3-7
5-35 5° 4-7 42 3-7 2.9
5 2 4-7 4-32 3-7 2-9 1.6
PATTERN Z. 88° ARC
HOLE " W " IS NORTH OF EQUATOR BY
0° 5' 10° 15° 20° *5° 30° 35° 4°° 45° 5o° 5ii° 53J0 55°
P.N. 8.8 9.05 9.4 965 9-95 IO-35 10.6 11.0 11.6 12.15 12.95 13.1 13.55 13-9
L.O. £.8 9.0 9-3 9-5 975 10.1 10.3 io.6 11.02 11.4 11.95 12.15 12.4 12.8
SeKteiing 8.8 8.95 9.2 935 9.6 9-75 995 10.1 10.45 io.75 11.15 11*3 11.55 n.7
Lines 8.8 8.9 9.1 9.25 9.4 9-55 96 9-75 10.0 10.3 10.5 10.6 io.75 io.g
8.8 8.85 go 9 05 925 9-3 9.35 95 9-55 9.72 9.9 9-9 IO.I 10.15
8.8 8.82 8.9 8.9 9.05 9.1 9.1 9.1 9-1 9.2 9.25 925 9-35 94
Equator 8.8 88 8.8 8.8 8.8 8.8 8.8 8-75 8.7 8.75 8.65 8.65 865 8.6
8.8 8.72 8-7 8.65 8.65 8.6 8.45 8-35 8.27 8.1 8.0 7.97 7-95 7-9
8.8 87 8.6 8.52 8.42 8.32 8.15 8.1 7.85 7.72 7-4 7.3 7.2 7-1
8.8 8.63 8.52 8.45 8.2 8.05 7.8 7-55 7-3 7.o5 6,7 6-55 6.45 6.25
8.8 8.6 8.4 8.2 7-95 7-77 7-45 7-2 6.8 6.47 5-95 5-8 5-6 5-3
8.8 8.52 8.3 8.05 7-75 7-5 7.o5 6.65 6.25 5-7 5o 4-7 4-45 4-2
8.8 8.5 8.2 7 8 7-5 7-15 6.7 6.2 5 85 4-95 3 9 3.6 3° 2.2
x6 MODERN ASTROLOGY

does not know exactly at what point in time such a combination would
explode, and it might have been 50 miles either north or south of
Louth for anything he could have told to the contrary. Exact
prophecy will be a matter for subtle calculation, but if the readers of
Modern Astrology will record the exact times when "stunts"
take place, and co-operate in even approximate measurements, we
shall soon be in a position to do more successful prognosticating than
has been the case up to now.
Hovj to make cardboard measurers. Take a sheet of cardboard
exactly nine inches from top edge to bottom edge and place it on the
boards; it will just fit between the scales. Call the top edge A B.
Rule a vertical line E C down the middle, and a horizontal line, F G
just three inches from A B. The six inches from F G downwards
should be divided into twelve horizontal strata, each half an inch wide,
by ruling eleven horizontal lines. If now, the student is told the length
of the top half-line F N, and the length of the next half-line L O and
so on, he will have no difficulty in marking the points F, L, P, etc.,
and he can then draw the curve by filling them in. The lengths of
these half-lines are given in the table.
The position of the centre of hole W on the central line depends on
the latitude for which the card is being prepared. If this is 5 degrees
North latitude, hole W will be five and a half inches from E. If the
latitude is 20 degrees north, then W will be four inches from E. If the
latitude is 53j degrees, then W will be merely six and a half tenths of
an inch from E. From E to the equator will of course be six inches.
In the case of cards of Pattern Y, the point C will always be distant
from the centre of hole W either 57i tenths or 88 tenths of an inch as
the case may be. In plotting out the curves, where a length is quoted,
for example, as 3.87 inches this should be read as " three inches, eight-
tenths, and three-quarters of another tenth of an inch."
If any real interest is taken in this matter, calculations will be
made for latitudes other than those named in the table.
(The End.)

The Divorce Court at London re opened on October izth with the

heaviest list on record in the history of the country. This was the day of
the New Moon; Venus was in Scorpio in the fourth bouse in square to
Neptune rising.
 17

it he ^oitg of the ^obtac.

By El Hvlal.
" Oh Aries," cried slow Taurus How she fumes and foams and fusses
" Why will you fidget so ? Forever after me.
You're one eternal clatter When I think she's gone," quoth Leo,
And all the time you chatter, " On the tide borne out to sea.
Forever on the go! She's back before I've turu'dmy back
While I plod on," said Taurus — I'll boil her for my tea 1 "
" And finish all I do. •' I wish," cried Virgo, angrily,
You must be starting something " You wouldn't lash your tail,
Yet seem to get through nothing I've Mercury to reckon with.
Why will you hurry so ? " And you've knocked me off my nail.
But Aries merely pouted You may see big 1" scoff ed Virgo
And tossed her head and shouted But as everybody knows
" I must be on the go! You miss the thing that really
I start what others finish, Is underneath your nose ! "
How progress would diminish Then Libra very sweetly
If all of us were slow ! Caressed the Lion's mane;
Stay by yonr woods and day springs She laid her head upon it
Leave me to engineer things And patted it again.
I'm born of fire "To lead him is so easy,
So I fly higher." He's the nicest of us all,
Then as Taurus snorted nettled A mere matter of adjustment
Young Gemini just settled Like the nail upon the wall.
On his sister's heated nose. Here is Scorpio now rising
He tickled her serenely With a nasty little sting ;
With his wings of gold and blue Yet when it's sheathed, believe me
And teased her so unbearingly There's not another thing
And taunted her so daringly So beneficent and harmless
That she bellowed—then he flew As that nasty little sting."
Away, away, and laughed at her With a hiss they saw that Scorpio
Blew cooling winds and fled from her. By Libra's shining scale
" I'll bruise your wings," cried Taurus Had reared up straight in front of
" Such flimsy, fragile things them,
Are made for show, believe me, Poor Virgo turned quite pale.
As for Aries, you shall see me Yet so gentle was his hissing
Toss her, flaming, into Cancer " That it almost seemed like swishing
But there came a timid answer As of water with his tail.
"If you please consider me, He neither spoke nor looked at them,
Here is Leo fiercely prowling He hardly seemed to notice them,
Who ferociously starts howling And this was just as well,
When it's time to find his meat— For while he pointed upwards
If my claws stick in his feet." His tail plunged down in Hell.
" You see," moaned Cancer hopelessly An arrow sped like lightning
" Though I can get out of reach, Which dropped upon his head
The wave that takes me out of it, While Sagittarius rising
Returns me to the beach 1" Quite thought to see him dead.
" What a fuss she makes !" growled " He stood so straight," the Archer
Leo said,
«' It's ridiculous to see, " He was a first-rate mark.
i8 MOUEKK ASTROLOGY
The way his head just flattened out
Was really quite a lark."
'• It's so like you," said Capricorn,
"To aim without due thought—
I own you have ability
But sadly need stability
You're always after sport! "
" Oh fie," cried Sagittarius,
" Pray stabilize yourself
My job's to fire the muses
I'm here to light the fuses
Pray stabilize yourself!
Play with your bricks and mortar
Make pies of earth and water,
But I go free, so let me be."
" Don't mind him," begged Aquarius,
" He must let off his sparks,
They're sure to peg him down a bit
He's lost so many marks."
But Capricorn just snorted,
Not liking to be thwarted
He looked another way,
So bis shadow passed away.
" The heat" cried green Aquarius
" Is far too much for me,
I cannot bear it on my bead.
I should not like to bear it said
That 1 was Nebulous—you see
I may be rather hazy
And perhaps a little lazy
Over names and dates and places."
Murmured Pisces with her smile
" You'd be perfect with some braces
And some phosphorus meanwhile
In a dose of half a grain
Just to stimulate the brain
Might be very good indeed,
But we beg you not to feed
On the phosphorus in us."
Pleaded Pisces in a fuss.
" We who never learn to store
Loose ourselves upon the shore
In the wave that breaks and scatters
As though nothing really matters,
In the graceful word that flatters,
Id the soft elusive gleam
Of the Real through the dream.
Thus we hover iu the spray,
Thus we splash and break away,
Nor are we ever certain,
Till the dropping of the curtain,
That we are not merely actors in a play,
Whether things are what they seem,
Or more nearly as we dream.
While we drift and wander idly down
the stream.
So we bid you all good-night
Ere yon pass into the light
Of our neighbour's fiery furnace on the
right."

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At the Autumn Quarter Mars was in the second bouse at London in
square to Jupiter and Saturn; and at the New Moon of October 12 Saturn,
lord of the sixth, was in the second squared by Mars. We pointed out that
expenses would continue high and the demands of the workers cause trouble.
The miners' strike followed, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that
this could not fail to increase the cost of living through decline in the value
of the pound and decreased exports.
 19

Cljt Horoscope aitb (Koesigbt

By C. E. O. Carter, B.A.

The Ancients, while not often very precise in their astrological

writings on disease, have left us some valuable information as to the
stellar configurations that usually accompany visual trouble. In fact
most modern authors have added very little to what Lilly and other
early students have told us.
In general, blindness and other less serious eye-troubles are
indicated by the presence of one or both of the Luminaries near one
or more of certain fixed stars, the evil being seldom great unless the
Luminary so posited is also afflicted by a malefic planet. The malady
is usually more severe if the Luminary in question is also in an angle
of the nativity.
The Stars that have the worst reputation in this regard are the
Pleiades, that lovely cluster in 29 Taurus that is one of the favourites
of owners of small telescopes; Antares and Aldebaran, two stars of
the first magnitude that oppose each other in 8 Sagittarius and 8
Gemini; and the Asselli, in 6 Leo. Lilly also mentions that the
beginnings of the signs Cancer and Capricorn are evil in this manner,
and, as I hope to show, this is certainly correct.
Modern authors have also observed that Aries and Libra, and
Taurus and Aquarius are also productive of optical defects, if one of
the Lights is afflicted therein. Should the Sun and Moon be in square
in the last two, or in opposition in the first two, trouble is usually
noticeable.
In the course of examining a good number of natal maps of
persons who have suffered in this manner the above rules have been
found to be fully justified, but one or two original observations seem
also to merit notice.
One is the importance of the planet Mercury from this standpoint,
probably because of his rule over the nervous system and over the five
senses, in a general way.
Another is, that the middle of all four Mutable Signs seems very
important in respec of the sight—in 19 examples dealt with hereafter
20 MODERN ASTROLOGY

these points are more or less significantly tenanted in 16. The

Antares-Aldebaran positions run close with 15; the Pleiades with 13;
the Asselli with 13 each, and Cancer-Capricorn with 10.
A further feature is, that while in the case of the Pleiades the
afflicting planet or Luminary is usually in conjunction or opposition
with them, Antares and Aldebaran often have no planet or Luminary
near them, but are afflicted by square, as for example by the presence
of Mars in 6 Virgo (Case No. 13). The same is true, perhaps to a
lesser extent, of the Asselli.
Dealing with the cases briefly, the first is No. 629 in 1001
Nativities. The Native lost both eyes separately. Here Jupiter is
in 7 Pisces, squaring the Antares-Aldebaran line. Mars is conjunction
Saturn on the Pleiades, and the Sun is 15° from 3 and '? and Q D
near the middle of the mutable sign Gemini. Mercury is in 2 Cancer
square Neptune and 15 degrees from Uranus. I may mention that I
have strong reason for supposing that 15° is a bad aspect of consider-
able importance. In this case, the Asselli are the only one of the five
points with which I am dealing that is not afflicted.
Case No. 2 is No. 684 from the same Manual. Here inflamma-
tion caused the loss of sight in both eyes, one being restored by
operation. Here all 5 points are under affliction. Mars is conjunction
Antares and Neptune is in 16 Gemini; Uranus in 22i Scorpio is
opposite the Pleiades ; the Sun is with Mercury in 2 Cancer square the
Moon, and the Moon is in affliction with Jupiter on the Asselli.
Case No. 3 is from Sepharial's "Manual." The Moon in ^ is
opposite Saturn in T. Uranus is in '"K in square with Antares-
Aldebaran. The Pleiades rise square Mercury, and the Sun is near
the Asselli square Mars. Venus and Jupiter are opposed in the middle
of Virgo-Pisces. A case of inflammation.
Case No. 4 is that of the poet Philip Marston, who lost his sight
from cataract. Mercury in ujl is opposite Neptune in Pisces and both
square Antares-Aldebaran. The Moon is opposite Uranus in the
beginning of Taurus-Scorpio, in square with the Asselli and the
"hypothetical " Isisin 4 Aquarius.
Case No. 5 is one of myopia, from Mr Daath's Manual on
Medical Astrology (No. 3). Neptune is in close conjunction with the
Pleiades; the middle of Virgo rises squared by Mars from Gemini
 THE HOROSCOPE AND EYESIGHT 21

and the same planet afflicts the Sun in 5 Cancer by the 15 degree
aspect. Uranus is square the Sun ; Mercury is near the Asselli.
Case No. 6 is that of a lady born 5.40 p.m., 20/8/85 near Belfast.
She was born with only one eye. The Moon is in close opposition to
Saturn in 3 Capricorn and Uranus squares both; Neptune is near the
Pleiades in square with the Sun ; Mercury and Jupiter are afflicted by
Isis in the middle of Virgo.
Case No. 7 is from Dr Pearce; the Native was blind in one
eye by accident. Here the chief affliction is the conjunction of the
Sun with Uranus in Aries, but the Moon is in 3 Cancer, and Neptune
is in quartile with Antares-Aldebaran. Saturn is near the centre of
Pisces.
Case No. 8 is No. 843 from 1001 Nativities. Mercury is
opposite the ascendant and in square with Antares-Aldebaran. Moon
is afflicted in 7 Capricorn; Saturn is in 15i Sagittarius and Mars is
square the Pleiades. The Native was blind, dumb and imbecile.
Case No. 9 is from Mr Daath (No. 4). The Native was blind
from birth. Mars is in 5i Capricorn in square with Mercury ;
Neptune and Jupiter are in opposition in square with the Asselli and
the Sun and Venus are in the middle of Virgo. The Moon is
afflicted in Aquarius.
Case No. 10 is from Sepharial. The Moon is opposite the
Asselli square Neptune; the Sun opposite Jupiter near the Pleiades;
Mercury is in 16 Gemini square the ascendant and Saturn is in
7 Pisces squaring Antares-Aldebaran. The Native suffered from
inflammation of the eyes.
Case No. 11 from Mr Daath's Manual (No. 1) shows the Asselli
rising; Mercury is conjunction Saturn in the middleof Gemini square
Mars and Uranus—a case that seems to show the importance of the
mid-Mutable Sign position rather strongly. An example of extreme
myopia and astigmatism.
Case No. 12, of blindness, also from Daath (No. 2) is attributed
by the author to the Moon rising in Libra afflicted by the Sun, Saturn
and Uranus. These afflictions are not, however, very severe, but we
find Mars badly afflicted in 14 Gemini, square Neptune nearly exact,
opposition Jupiter and 15 degrees from Saturn on the Pleiades
Venus is afflicted on the Asselli by the square of Uranus.
 22 MODEUN ASTROLOGY
Cases Nos. 13 to 18 are from the late Mr Heindel's valuable
Message of the Stars and are Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 30, 31, 32 in that
work. In Case No. 13 the ascendant and Moon are conjunction the
Asselli; Mars is in 6 Virgo square Antares-Aldebaran, and Uranus is
in 1 Cancer. It is mentioned as a case of eye-trouble.
No. 14 has the Sun near Antares square Mars in 7 Virgo;
Saturn is near the Pleiades; Uranus in 9 Taurus square the Asselli.
Mercury and Neptune are in affliction in the centre of the Mutables.
The ascendant is near Aldebaran. Native had very weak eyes.
No. 15 has the Moon near Antares ; Mercury, Saturn and Neptune
are all in affliction in the middle of the Mutable Signs. One eye was
blind, the other nearly so.
No. 16 shows the Moon near the opposition of theAsselli. Jupiter
and Uranus are in conjunction with Antares and square Mercury. The
Sun and ascendant are near the centre of Virgo, and Saturn and
Neptune, at the end of Gemini, perhaps come under the "beginning
of Cancer-Capricorn " category. Mr Heindel says that there is
" danger " to the sight but does not mention actual trouble.
No. 17 is a case of almost complete blindness. Ascendant is
conjunction Aldebaran. The Sun is with the Pleiades square
Uranus, and Jupiter opposite the Asselli square Neptune.
No. 18. Complete blindness due to inflammation. The Sun is
with Antares, Mars is in 14 Sagittarius and Mercury and Saturn are
opposite the Pleiades, squared by Jupiter.
No. 19. The Nativity of a child born January 1st, 1836, at
Portsmouth, 24 Cancer rising. The child had no eyes when born, only
slight marks being visible where they should have been. Bis in 15
H; $ 6 7 W, is O Antares-Aldebaran ; ^ □ the Pleiades, and
S d V 8 the Asselli. Thus all 5 points are heavily afflicted. This
example is from Raphael's Prophetic Messenger for 1844.
It would not be difficult for me to add further examples, derived
from private sources, to the above list, but I have preferred to deal
mainly with severe cases and such as are given in well-known
astrological works. I have not troubled to mention aspects or positions
that require any extension of the usual rules regarding " orbs of
influences," in fact I have judged it best to be conservative in this
respect. Serious complaints or defects require something more con-
 THE HOROSCOPE AND EYESIGHT 23
vtncing than a conjunction that is 10 or 12 degrees apart, or a quincunx
that is 3 or 4! Indeed the above instances seem to show that in most
cases of grave trouble the astrological indications are emphatic, nor is
there any need to suppose that a proper knowledge of Astrology would
not in many cases, by causing the sufferer to give prompt attention to
the first signs of danger, prevent serious consequences.
The more exact our knowledge becomes the easier will it be to do
this.1

The eclipse of the Moon in the fourth degree of Taurus in October fell
in tbe second or money bouse at London, and many financial troubles and
changes followed. The miners' strike was responsible for many millions lost
in wages not earned and trade at a standstill not only at tbe mines but in
other industries dependant upon coal; tbe increasing rates were felt
everywhere, and the Council Elections of November 1 turned largely upon
this question all over the kingdom ; a new Treasury Loan was issued on the
same date, and a Bill was introduced into Parliament by tbe Ministry of
Health which among other expensive changes, puts Hospitals on the County
Council Rates. Mars was in tbe second bouse in tbeQuarterly Map squaring
Jupiter and Saturn on the eleventh cusp, Parliament; and Mercury, lord of
the eleventh, was with Venus in the twelfth house, hospitals.
Armistice Day was celebrated on November n by the burial of the
"Unknown Warrior" in Westminster Abbey and by the unveiling of the
Cenotaph in Whitehall, public functions attended by tbe King and hundreds
of thousands of people. At the New Moon of the day before Mars was
culminating, strong in tbe sign of its exaltation Capricorn and with some very
good aspects * 0 and 3), A If and tp : one interpretation of this position is the
popularity and prominence for good of martial persons and events, and this
is in harmony with the celebration. At ir a.m. when the function began,
Capricorn was rising containing Mars aspected as above and lord of tbe
mid-beaven ; Saturn, lord of tbe ascendant, was in tbe eighth bouse, death,
with good aspects to the Snn, Moon, Mercury and Mars.
After the method of fixing the German Indemnity bad been in dispute
between Great Britain and France for three months, an agreement was
reached, and a Note embodying it was handed to tbe British Ambassador in
Parison November 12. The New Moon of two days before fell in the seventh
house, ruling foreign affairs, and was very well aspected. Our remarks upon
this position will be found on p. 326, where we predicted dauger but a
fortunate outcome.
1
[Since the receipt of the above article Mr Carter has sent the following
note:
" I have observed that in all or nearly all cases of complete or nearly
complete blindness there is severe 12th house affliction, as one might well
expect. The ruler seems nearly always in strong bad aspect with a malefic
and more particularly with Saturn or Uranus.
" This house has of course been noted in connection with deafness. In
both cases one would expect a 3rd house affliction, for blindness inhibits
walking about, and deafness conversation."—En.J
 ©fee of f8ral;m

By Esta

The fading light, the " peculiar tint of yellow green " in the sky,
and physical weariness, made the artist yield to the man ; and Arnold
Tessier was looking idly from his window, when a step on the stair
made him turn to the door. He saw there one who was a stranger to
him, but a sensation, gone as soon as it came, brought a feeling of
familiarity. He looked again and the eyes meeting his penetrated
further than the physical brain—the stranger also had evidently
internally recognised him. But he spoke in a natural manner asking
if M. Tessier intended to have any one else share his atelier, as his
co-tenant had removed.
" I had meant not to do so for a few weeks, but"—Evidently a
favourable impression had been made, and the tall dark man did not
wait for the completion of the sentence, but asked if he might sit
down for a few minutes while M. Tessier thought it over. He was
willing to pay whatever was asked and he would be a very quiet
tenant as he needed privacy, and would not have callers. He gave
the name of a prominent lawyer for reference, and a card on which
his own was written—Paul L'Etrange.
The saffron hue faded from the sky, and in the dusk Arnold
forced himself to speak. " I am not sure I shall make myself
intelligible, for I feel strangely dualistic. One voice says ' Refuse,
you promised yourself a time of solitude to recover balance.'
Another, ' The atmosphere is peaceful, the promise of healing is in it.
Be grateful that help is sent.' How can I decide in a few minutes
which is the voice of my guardian angel ? "
Paul L'Etrange turned from his outward gazing, the smile in
his eyes deepened, and the whole expression of his face was full of
tenderness.
" I, too, have felt, and can understand. If you will find me a
room near where I can spend the night, you can decide in the
morning."
 THE WHEEL-SPHERE OF BRAHM 25
" Would a camp bed and rugs be enough ? I can let you have
them. I was going to make coffee, and I hope you will take a cup."
Arnold's voice sounded strangely in his own ears, and the words
he spoke were not what he intended.
" I should be grateful for both. I can sleep anywhere when as
tired as I am now."
" And I can sleep nowhere," said Arnold, almost involuntarily.
There was no immediate reply, but when the coffee was disposed of
and the promised bed and rugs were placed, it was forthcoming.
" I have some power to help you, if you can trust me, " said the
man who called himself Paul L'Etrange, " I do not exert it unless
the need is great, but I can see that you ought to sleep. Shall I tell
you to fall asleep at ten, and waken at seven in the morning ? "
" From Purgatory to Paradise,—or, should I say Nirvana ? " he
replied, " If I can close my eyes without seeing what banishes sleep I
shall bless you indeed."
" You must then place yourself in a comfortable position before
the hour, as you will probably waken without changing it. The
power I exercise is a natural gift, but any abuse of it re-acts on me,
so for my own sake I am careful. I should be helped by a study of
your birth hour to find from it the natural forces there prevailing—
Can you give me the data ? Then to-morrow I can tell you more."
Arnold Tessier took a bible from the shelf, and pointed to the
writing on a fly-leaf. " This morning at sunrise my little baby came
to me." The date followed and the name of a town in England.
" The 21st of August—then Regulus would be rising with the
sun. A strong position, but I will tell you more after I have studied
the positions of the chart." 1
Arnold returned the book to the shelf, and took from a drawer
two paintings. " If you can indeed make me sleep, please keep these
from my sight until I ask for them. Is there anything for me
to do ? "
1
The Hcroscopi ef Arnold Ttssitr :
x xi xii i ii iii
a 16 D25 (029 A27 1517 i 13
O i i 1 <r II k V
iliSJ IBI? A18 016 nil »25 w 12J npi3 BI6JIV
 MODEKN ASTKOLOGY

" You wish to sleep—I simply exert my will upon yours that you
are to do this; so you see the only thing is not to oppose me."
" I am then ready—but first I may tell you that in your hand is
the portrait of the girl I love. My friend loved her too. They are
married. The other painting is of the home I intended to make
for her."
As if Nature also assisted Arnold had scarcely laid down before
he sank into deep sleep. Paul L'Etrange found his impromptu bed
enticing, and was not long before he, too, rested.
A jug of steaming coffee and hot rolls were on the table, when
Arnold came from his inner room shortly after seven the next
morning.
"Magician! From whence did you conjure them?" he
exclaimed.
" I knew you would waken hungry, and made friends downstairs.
Now eat and drink and we will talk later."
It was to Arnold's eyes a peculiar symbolical wheel that his new
friends showed him. "This is your horoscope of birth. Imagine
yourself the small circle in the centre, and your body drawing into
itself forces from the outer rings. You may think of the larger circle
as the great Oversoul from which you supply your needs. The
middle ring is marked by the centres of force where the planets make
sensitive points; their far away magnetism yet penetrating your tiny
body. The distant Sun is most powerful; the Moon, the nearest,
comes second. It would take me too long just now to explain why,
but I can see from these positionsthatthe soul of the world and your own
are in harmony, but your spiritual self has some hard lessons to learn.
The Moon by progression has this year brought into activity the
means of trying your strength. Now exert your will and face life
bravely for when the Moon comes to the same place she occupied at
birth changes will come and you may gain that which yon then
desire;—but I think when it is so you will find it is not what you
desire after all. This world is a great training school, and what we
are inclined to call evil in our lives is just what we need as incentive
to our exertions, as a teacher in a gymnasium raises the bar to
make it more difficult when the student is ready for further
achievement."
 THE WHEEL-SPHERE OF BRAHM

"Stay with me and teach me more and I will do it.- Even now
I feel a new idea rising, and will paint it while the impulse lasts."
It was the first of the snow paintings for which he was afterwards
famous.
The house he had meant for his home was sketched and out-
lines of trees and distant hills: but all was clothed in white, " mystic,
wonderful "; all except one window on which the invisible setting Sun
shed a glowing fiery radiance, tinting the snow a delicate rose-pink.
This he gave to Paul L'Etrange, and with fresh vigour started again
his interrupted career.
* *
It was about five years later that an English lady who had been
staying with a young widow in North France was leaving for home.
She knew the straitened circumstances of the widow and wondered if
two pictures which had taken her fancy, and for which she was willing
to pay well, would be sold to her. Mdme Duchfene said she would be
very thankful for the money, but they were a present to her husband
from an artist friend, and it was not etiquette to sell without
permission. If Madame would wait she would go to the artist and
ask him.
So it came to pass that once again Arnold Tessier was attracted
by the sound of approaching steps, and turned to see in the doorway
the face he had loved so well.
" Why, Madelaine ! Is it you ? And in black—Where is your
husband ? "
" It is two years since I have been alone. I am very poor,
Arnold; and I came to ask you a favour." She paused a moment,
and the colour mounted in her face, as she lifted her eyes to him.
" Will you give me permission to sell the pictures you gave us. An
English lady wishes to buy and the money would help me so much."
In her nervous condition Madelaine did not notice the trembling
of the hands that led her to a seat, nor see the eyes bent in tenderness
over her; but when he spoke his voice, vibrant with passion,
betrayed him.
" I thought it was over, Madelaine, but the sight of you brings
back the past. I have always loved you—Now that you are lonely
will you let me take care of you ? "
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

It was so long since loving words had been spoken to her, and
the struggle bad been severe—she looked at him, and in another
moment her head was in the warm shelter of his caress.
^ -T"
The English lady has the pictures, and I have seen them, alss
others of Arnold Tessier's paintings—the most hauntingly lovely snow
scenes. For he died not many years after his marriage. One of the
last things he said to Paul L'Etrange speaks of tragedy: "You were
right. I had my desire, and though my wife has been always good
my soul has been hungry. But for your teachings during these years
I must have failed her. I think she does not suspect."
Paul L'Etrange had always felt that it was the artist's love of
delicate tints and classic features, not the inner self that had loved
the rather insipid character; and as he stood with me looking at the
pictures she had brought to England to sell, he said ; " It was Jupiter
and the Sun in adverse aspect that taught him more than all the
benefic influences. Blessed be adversity."

Proteus, the son of Neptune, the Sea-god, kept his father's flocks. He
knew the future, but he would not tell. To escape being asked he assumed
endless mutations of forms. This Greek fable embodies a great truth. All
things have and do come out of One. They issue from a single course by
adaptation. Despite infinite variety at the surface, the Monad with all his
masks working the metemsychosis of nature is always there. Fly,
caterpillar, grub, egg, the rays, part from one orb, however they may
diverge and fall by infinite diameters. That One is Force. It is the main-
spring of all forces. It pervades everything subtile or solid. Such is the
admirable synthesis of the genesis of worlds as given in Hermetic books.
And it is also said, " as below, so above, and vice versa." This signifies that
the universe is composed of symmetrical and adverse elements. The
universe, active and passive, or the God-world hermaphrodite, is in fact one
of the oldest dogmas of philosophy and of natural theology. All people
have consecrated it in their cult, their mysteries, their cosmogony. The
first Gods of all mythologies, the first kings of all histories, were Heaven
and Earth ; because after the primitive conception of young humanity all
?henomena appeared to issue from these two primordial opposite elements,
n the most ancient treatise on "The Nature of the Universe," Oscellus of
Lucania, a Pythagorean philosopher, lays down the eternal necessity of two
principles. Macrobius, Aristotle and Orpheus affirm that nothing would
have taken birth if the First Cause had not united in itself the Generative
element of both the sexes. The Lingam in India, Phallus and Gteis in the
Sanctuaries of Eleusis in Greece are symbols of the perpetual child-birth
of Nature and of universal fecundity. Everywhere the First Cause is the
onion of the Active and the Passive. The sacred philosophies start from
this fundamental notion of one principle actings, the other receiving the
action and modifying it.
(From Aian Leo's Scrap-book)
 Irish ^rohlrm

By Vivian E. Robson, B.Sc.

In studying the problem of Ireland from an astrological point of

view, we are faced at the outset by the manifest imperfections of
present-day Mundane Astrology. The usual basis for the year's
predictions is the map for the entry of the Sun into Aries and this is
supplemented by figures for the various lunations, important con-
junctions, eclipses, and the other quarterly maps. As I have more
than once pointed out, such a method is wholly inadequate to the
needs of the subject. That it indicates events there is no doubt, but
the indications are frequently trivial, and rarely, if ever, do they
sufiice to show us the relative magnitude of the event. Thus, the
indications of the Great War were clear enough, but who would have
predicted its magnitude? Furthermore, no astrologer succeeded in
predicting its finish except after a long series of guesses, one of which
was bound to come right in the end. The map for the entry of the
Sun into Aries was called by the ancients the " Annual Revolution of
the Years of the World," and this name gives the clue to its real
status. It is simply and solely a Solar Revolution, or the annual
return of the Sun to its position in the radical horoscope. No
astrologer would dream of calculating an individual's Solar Revolution
for a given year and judging it quite irrespective of the horoscope of
birth or the current directions, and yet that is what every astrologer is
doing when he undertakes Mundane predictions. The only excuse he
can bring forward is that the " radical map," or world horoscope, is
unknown, but, although this is so, it is easy to find figures of more
Importance than that of the Sun in Aries, such, for example, as those
for the conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter.
To obtain any real light on the state of Ireland we must turn to
the horoscope for the Union of that country with Great Britain, which
is its radical map until Home Rule gives it another. The Union took
place on 1st Jan., 1801, at 0.0 a.m., the positions being as follows:
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
x xi xii ii iii
asg.zo JI15 1514 ^y.lo 142 t3
V3IO.II 5x19.28 217.36 =•16.32 a 11.47 •!lI-59^ ^123.18!^ =i2.i6 71118.46
One of the outstanding features in this map is the opposition of
Mars, in the ruling sign of Ireland, to Neptune in Scorpio, a position
redolent of plots, intrigues, bloodshed, and murder. Uranus is rising
in square to the Sun in the fourth house, which threatens upheavals
and a sudden breaking apart of the Union, while Venus, the ruling
planet of Ireland, and here the significator of the "Young Ireland"
party, is heavily afflicted.
To find the present position of affairs we must treat this map as
a birth horoscope and direct it in accordance with the ordinary rules.
The progressed positions as at 1st July 1921 are as follows;
x xi xii i ii iii
mil 22 219 V35 =25 Til
0B5S2M'; IJi IJI
b 10.35 'T14.8 1112.48 1x9.48 1x27.3 Jl.17.11 tt)!28.38I5i 11118.16!^
The chief directions are : 0Pb r, October 1920 ; <? 2 0r, March
1921; and Ocii?r, October 1922; while next year the Midheaven
comes to the ex-act opposition of Mars. Little wonder, therefore,
that with such directions in force there is trouble in Ireland! By
Primary Arcs the Moon is now conjoined with Neptune, while Mars
opposed the Midheaven last March.
We can now see the significance of the map for the entry of the
Sun into Aries in 1920. The radical place of Mars (bl2) was
exactly setting. Mars in the quarterly figure was within two degrees
of this point; the Sun and Moon opposed the radical Uranus ; Mercury
was in exact opposition to the progressed Uranus; Venus and Uranus
were in sesquiquadrate with the radical Moon ; and finally Jupiter and
Neptune squared the radical Mars.
To make matters worse the eclipse of 10th November fell exactly
on the place of Neptune and brought to light a number of plots,
though perhaps they would have been more successful had there been
no eclipse. This also accounts for the damage done at Liverpool, as
the Ascendant of that city is ill 18.
From this map it is clear that the Union is neariug its end and
that though the severance may come in about June 1922 or even
earlier, it cannot be delayed beyond 1924.
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY 31
about December 2ist each year (Winter Solstice). It occupies from 270° to
300° in the circle of the zodiac.
Caput A1.G01.. See Algol.
Caput Draconis. The Dragon's Head (JJ). The Moon's ascending
node, or the point where it crosses the ecliptic in its passage from South to
North latitude. This point has a retrograde motion of 3' per diem.
Cardinal. Important or fundamental.
Cardinnl Houses are the ist, 10th, 7th and 4th. They are usually termed
Angles.
Cardinal Points. The north, south, east and west points of the compass.
Cardinal Signs T, So, and Vy, which occupy the cardinal points, east,
north, west, and south respectively.
Carina. (The Keel). A subdivision of the constellation Argo, introduced
by La Caille (1752).
Cassiopeia. (The Seated Lady). One of the 48 original constellations,
and situated in the Northern hemisphere. According to Ptolemy it is of the
nature of Ij and } , and P. Christian states that it confers a haughty nature,
exaggerated umour-propre and egoism. Among the Kabalists it is associated
with the Hebrew letter belli, and the second Tarot Trump.
Castes. The four castes of India are related to the triplicities of signs ;
the Shudra, or labouring caste, to the earthy signs ; the Vaishya, or merchant
caste, to the watery signs; the Kshattriya, or fighting caste, to the fiery
signs: and the Brahman, or priestly caste, to the airy signs.
Casting the Horoscope. A technical expression denoting the
mathematical process of obtaining an exact chart of the planetary and
zodiacal positions at the moment for which the horoscope is required.
Castor (Alpha Geiiiinoriiin). A second magnitude fixed star of the
nature of $. It is said to give an evil disposition and to cause danger to
the eyes, disgrace and violence. Its position on 1 Jan. 1918 was ; Long.
0519.5; Lat. 9N52; Deol. 3SN4 ; H.A. ii303o'.
Cauda Draconis. The Dragon's Tail ((3). The Moon's descending
node, or the point where it crosses the ecliptic in its passage from North to
South latitude. It is opposite Capul Draconis (q.v.).
Cazimi. A term used to denote the position of a planet when within
17' of the body of the Sun. It is sometimes termed "in the heart of the
Sun." This position is said to fortily the planet aud to strengthen its
infiuence.
Centaurus. (The Centaur). One of the 48 original constellations, and
situated in the southern hemisphere. According to Ptolemy the stars in the
human part of the constellation figure are of the nature of ? and and
the bright stars in the animal part, of 5 and If.. P. Christian states that
Centaurus confers a love of arms, a hard heart, and an inclination to
revenge.
Cestil«quy. A hundred sayings or aphorisms. The Centiloqny of
Ptolemy is the most famous, but there are others by Bethem, Hermes, and
more recently, Alan Leo.
Cephbus. One of the 48 original constellations, and situated in the
northern hemisphere. According to Ptolemy it is of the nature of (7 and 14.,
and according to P. Christian it indicates exposure to cruel trials. The
Kabalists associate it with the Hebrew letter shin, and the twenty-second
Tarot Trump.
Cerberus. A subdivision of the constellation Hercules introduced by
Helvelius (1690), but now obsolete.
Ceres. The largest of the Asteroids, or Minor Planets. It is said to
influence cereals, and to have some affinity with the sign Virgo.
Cetui. (The Whale). One of the 48 original constellations, and
32 MODERN ASTROLOGY
situated in the southern hemisphere. According to Ptolemy it is of the
nature of and P. Christian states that it denotes idleness.
Chaldean Order op Planets. An arrangement of the planets in the
order of their velocities, beginning with the slowest. The order is J,
0i Si 5iE- The Chaldsan order is followed in the division of the day into
planetary hours and periods, and in the Western system of decanates and
other subdivisions of signs.
ChaM/ELEOn. One of the constellations of the southern hemisphere,
introduced by Bayer (1604).
Chandra. The Moon in Hindu Astrology.
Changeable Signs, i. A name sometimes applied to the Cardinal
signs (q.v.).
2. According to the ancients the changeable signs are b, D , Sb, njZi ' '
and Itf, because their nature is said to change according to their position.
Thus y in the east is rather hot, and in the west cold ; n in the east is hot
and dry, and in the west cold and moist; Sb in the east is hot and dry, and
in the west hot and moist; ajj in the east is rather hot, and in the west cold
and moist; f in the east is cold and moist, and in the west hot and dry; and
in the east is cold and dry, and in the west cold and moist. These
distinctions are now disregarded.
Character. The general type of character given by each of the planets
is as follows :
Sun. Proud, honourable, honest, dignified, ambitious, courageous,
strong-willed.
Moon. Easy-going, good humoured, sensitive, timid, changeable,
imaginative, romantic.
Mercury. Argumentative, ingenious, resourceful, fond of knowledge,
witty, talkative, restless.
Venus. Good natured, cheerful, fond of pleasure, sociable, artistic,
affectionate.
Mars. Courageous, enterprising, combative, rash, quick tempered,
proud, destructive.
Jupiter. Humane, generous, philanthropic, jovial, religious, often proud.
Saturn. Serious, reserved, patient, steady, cold, selfish, miserly, jealous,
faithful.
Uranus. Original, independent, abrupt, erratic, eccentric, inventive,
sarcastic.
Neptune. ./Esthetic, sensitive, mystical, emotional, subtle, deceitful,
dreamy.
The characters given by the signs are as follows:
Aries. Courageous, energetic, impulsive, ambitious, proud, combative,
rash, hot headed.
Taurus. Obstinate,persevering, sociable, affectionate, practical, indolent.
Gemini. Fond of books, knowledge and languages, musical, dexterous,
witty, intellectual, cruel.
Cancer. Changeable, sympathetic, fond of home, impressionable, often
grasping.
Leo. Ambitious, proud, self-confident, generous, honourable, fond of
children, warm-hearted.
Virgo. Critical, very methodical, ingenious, quiet, retiring,dexterous.
Libra. Cheerful, fond of company and pleasure, affectionate, changeable,
good-natured.
Scorpio. Practical, courageous, very determined, obstinate, strong likes
and dislikes, critical, jealous, angry, revengeful.
Sagittarius. Generous, cheerful, good-hearted, impulsive, enterprising,
Candid.
Founded August 1890 wider the title of
"THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE"

Moderi>

Astrology
A Journal devoted to the search for truth concerning A strology

Vol. XVIII,] FEBRUARY, 1921. [No. 2

(Kbxtor's ©bsertratorg

Last October with a glad heart I reopened and reorganised the

Institute of Astrology that Alan Leo founded in 1916—at last I had
found a permanent home where students and teachers
The Institute could meet, and lessons in Astrology, and education of
the young in the priceless science of Self Knowledge
proceed. The rooms in Upper Woburn Place are expensive and I had
to pay sixty pounds a year for the rental to secure a room large and
commodious enough for the use of Astrology—a home for the Institute.
We commenced by a nightly class on Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays, and an afternoon class by myself. For this
we charge the large sum of not quite five pence a week—one guinea
a year—so it should be well within the means of all. I advertised this
fact in Light, Psychic Gazette, Occult Review, and our own magazine.
As a result my own class consisted of seven ; no one came on Tuesday
night, or Wednesday, though qualified teachers waited in attendance;
Mr Carter's class on Thursday night was fairly well attended (about nine)..
To Mr Robson's advanced class came four, and yet three or four letters
come to me weekly, the writers piteously asking to be taught Astrology
and saying they regard the science of Astrology as a guide and help in
life. " We want to learn," they cry, and we respond by giving our help
34 MODERN ASTROLOGV

freely, all of us, for the love we bore its Founder, the late Alan Leo,
and also as a form of service to the world. Well I am but human and
I confess to a great disappointment in finding so few students ! What
is the matter ?
Are people sincere in wanting tuition, or is it laziness, and no
desire to turn out on a bad winter's night ? Anyway, there is the
Institute, a living memorial to Alan Leo, and I, his wife, can do no
more !
Here and now is the opportunity and it rests with readers of
Modern Astrology and others to take advantage of it, both for their
own benefit and for that of others with whom they will come in touch
subsequently. Failing this, the opportunity may lapse, for we are all
busy people and are not likely to waste our time over classes that are
not wanted.
* * *
I had a letter the other day asking me what we Astrologers
thought constituted a perfect horoscope! This is not an easy question
to answer in a manner that will be acceptable to the
mInds s uden s
foposcope f f i owing to the different standpoints,
or motives prompting the question. To understand
perfection we must be free from bias and prejudice; there are also
many stages of perfection before an all round perfection can be
reached.
A lover of Mankind, a humanitarian, may be deficient in Will
power, and a man of mindful Will, resolute, active and strong may be
deficient in wisdom.
There are three sides to the triangle of perfection and until Will,
Wisdom and Love are one in expression, all round perfection is not
achieved.
I think until Natal Astrology is thoroughly understood we cannot
fully realise what a perfect horoscope should be.
There is a secret attached to the right interpretation of horoscopes.
It is perhaps discerned by the student who endeavours to find the
Soul or the Self behind every horoscope. The art of synthesis, the
power to balance the whole, comes only by constant practice and by
possession of the Astrological Temperament; for Astrologers are born
—they are not made !
 THE EDITOK S OBSERVATORY 35
Readers know that I accept the philosophy of rebirth or reincarna-
tion as the only satisfactory solution of the mystery of the evolution of
the soul. Behind every human personality is the true
^ the^igns0^ 'rnrnor^al Self which has put on that outer expression of
itself for use in the world during one's lifetime. The
word personality is from the Latin " persona " a mask, and it provokes
the question, what is it that speaks through the mask ? It is the inner
Self, the pure or transcendental Ego of psychology who has passed
through hundreds of births and personalities in the past, during which
he has gained experience and evolved the faculties that make him what
he is to-day. He comes upon the stage of life to-day partly to do work
and partly to gain additional experience that he may place at the
service of the world. If we could look at the astrological world from
the standpoint of the inner Self we should see a very different picture
from that which presents itself to the everyday personality ; and we
should discover that .the motives which animate different astrologers
vary widely. I do not mean that they differ in the sense of
worthy or unworthy, but that the purpose and outlook vary amongst
those who are equally worthy and sincere. The Ego looks further
forward into the future than the most capable astrologer, and has
decided to realize a certain ideal, towards which he bends all his
energies and to the perfecting of which he devotes life after life.
With some this ideal is practical work for the world and the
service of mankind, and the Ego through his personality takes up
Astrology only as a means to this end ; he sees that it is capable of
useful developments in various directions that the outer world little
guesses at present, and that it can be used for the practical shaping of
human life and the helping of men, when it has outgrown its present
imperfections. This is the ideal of the Cardinal Signs.
With others it is rather the gaining of wisdom and the teaching of
■that wisdom to others that attracts them. It is true that wisdom
when gained has to be applied practically in the world and used to
benefit all, but these Egos see that wisdom must first be gained before
wise actions can be performed, and that without it the actions are
unwise and harmful. This is the ideal of the Mutable or Common
:Signs.
A third group are evolving through the feelings; using that word
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

to cover everything from human affection, friendship, brotherhood, up

to the spiritual love and ecstasy of the mystic for the divine. It is
feeling that prompts these souls to work; and Astrology is for them
partly a channel for love and devotion and partly a means to an end
that lies a long way in the future, Astrology as a religion, under the
Planetary Archangels. This is the ideal for fixed signs.
Reader, what does your Ego urge you to do, and are you doing it ?
B. L.
* ^
Mr H. S. Green sends the following note : A Nova or new star has
been found on photographic plates that were taken in 1914 but which
were not sufficiently examined until a comparison of plates
was ma e n
Saglttarii ^ ' November, 1920, at Harvard Observatory.
Longitude t 29.57 ; Declin. 31° S 45'; R.A. 269° 56';
Latitude 8PS 18'. It was at its brightest Aug. 11/12, 1914; magnitude 8.
As this star appeared shortly before the Great War it is of interest to
turn back and see what was its position in the mundane maps of
that year. In the map for the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus
on March 4, it was less than two degrees below the Ascendant at
London, f 28.16, and just above the cusp at Berlin, with Mars
setting in opposition at Cancer 7°45'. In the map for the Sun's entry
into Aries on March 21, it was in the sixth house from London to
Vienna in square to th* Sun in the mid-heaven. In the map for the
Sun's entry into Cancer, June 22, it was in the fifth house at Berlin in
opposition to the Sun, and in trine to Mars rising in Leo 27° 44'. If
referred to the New Moon of July 23, which immediately preceded the
outbreak of war, it fell in the sixth house in opposition to Saturn, lord
of the seventh, in the twelfth at Gemini 26° 39'. In the map for the
Sun's entry into Libra, Sept. 23, it was only one degree from the cusp
of the seventh house at London, f 28° 36', in opposition to Saturn
rising in Cancer 1° 54' and in square to the Sun. It fell as under in
well-known horoscopes:
King George V. £(£□]) President Wilson o j/
Prince of Wales ff O Q <f Pope Benedict ej
Kaiser William II. □ <f Crown Prince of
King of Belgium << <r □ Asc.1 Germany rf J) in Asc.
President PoincarS 01 Lord Kitchener rf J O
Czar rfSP Gen. Joffre □j
Tsarevitch d$ D. Lloyd George □ if
Francis Joseph, Emperor
Austria □ Asc □
 37

internattcinal ^strologg
New Moon
8 Feb., 1921, 0.37 a.m.
X XI XII 1 11 111
(0 SI 25 1928 it 22 III 10 ' 9 1316
(2) nj 9 - 9 n 2 hi 19 } 19 1328
(3) "*25 ^=25 ni 18 ' 7 Vila 5=19
(4 5527 ^24 m n 1124 *25 5=13
(5) m 28 f 23 Wi8 5516 K24 T29
(6) U II IB 15 16 HIH - 9 in. 8
(i) London (2) Berlin (3) Constantinople (4) Petrograd (5) Calcutta
(6) Washington
OD5 V g ll i? IJV
55518.44 H4.18 T5.28 K26.2 1517.1523.451^ 4.41 Si 12.12a.
The sign Scorpio is rising over almost the whole of Europe from
London to Petrograd except in the south east, Turkey and the Balkans,
where Sagittarius rises. There is no planet in the Ascendant, so that
Mars is important, and it is weak in Pisces, separating from the
opposition of Jupiter and Saturn, and with no good aspect; it is on
the cusp of the fifth house at London, and close to the fourth cusp
near Petrograd and Constantinople. The Sun and Moon are in
opposition to Neptune, and there is only one good aspect of any
importance in the map, namely the trine of Venus to Neptune. Such
unfortunate positions are sure to be followed by a disturbed period and
misfortunes in many parts of the world.
Governments and ruling powers, even those that are democratic,
will be seriously troubled ; there will be parliamentary changes, the
fall of ministries, statesmen, and persons in power generally; even
the most democratic labour leaders will not find it an easy time. The
danger seems to be most severe, so far as Europe is concerned, in
east Europe, where Saturn will culminate with Mars in opposition.
Bloodshed, rioting, turbulence, and assassination will follow, with
danger of war where these planets are angular.
At London parliament will be very disturbed ; new legislation
making great changes will be introduced ; there will' be attacks upon
prominent men, and conflict and opposition within the various parties.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

and the government will be fortunate if it escapes defeat. The-

indications for France are similar. There will be trouble for the
authorities in east France, Belgium, Holland and west Germany where
Uranus and Mercury will be in conjunction near the cusp of the fourth
house. Jupiter will be approaching the midheaven at Berlin and
Vienna and may exercise a more peaceful influence and improve trade
and money matters, but it is not strong. At home some member of
parliament will die and persons prominent in the various legislatures
or high in the nations will die in Europe. There will be increased
literary activity, new inventions will be made.
At Calcutta the Sun and Moon will rise strengthening the governing
power and the country generally, but there will be a good deal of
opposition to the government from the discontented and extremists,
and some foreign complications. Striking new legislation will be
introduced, new ideas brought forward, new methods introduced, new
departures made. Money matters will not be fortunate, the death
rate will be high, there will be attacks upon prominent persons and
murders.
At Washington Jupiter and Saturn will rise with Mars setting.
International questions will be very troublesome, a serious difficulty
with a foreign country will develop and threaten a rupture. Labour
troubles will abound, and the health of the nation will not be good.
Spain and Portugal will suffer from the opposition of the luminaries
to Neptune near the meridian, for this opposition will be close at
Madrid and Lisbon. Instability, reversal, and failure of policy will
threaten governments and persons in authority.
Probably the worst aspect in the map is the opposition of Mars
in Pisces to Saturn in Virgo. Where these are angular it will be
unfortunate for rulers, governments, and persons in authority, even
those in popular democratic movements ; there will be a tendency to
turbulence, insubordination, riot, crime, and discontent: the labour
world will suffer. Saturn will rise and Mars set near Newfoundland
and Quebec and off the east coast of North America; Saturn will
culminate with Mars on the lower meridian in east Europe, the Balkans,
Egypt, and Asia Minor ; and Saturn will set with Mars rising in the
east of China and near Perth in Western Australia.
 |)sBf Harm a in s ^rrsint ^orosropr

By Alan Leo

Astrology reveals through the nativity of the current life the-

personal characteristics, fate and fortune of each individual. Behind
the natal horoscope there is the genescope, or conceptional horoscope,
and this may be made to disclose as much of the past karma as the
Lords of Karma have caused to be built into the prenatal epoch.
Without entering into the very subtle and technical details
connected with the genescope, it may be simply stated that the Moon's,
place at this epoch decides the ascending sign and ruling planet at the
moment of physical birth ; with very rare exceptions it is the ruling
planet that represents the personal ego, while all the other planets-
represent the karma of the current life.
Each ruling planet, although more or less complex in its expression,
contains a certain number of distinctive features by which we may
recognise the personal ray of the ego and the comparatively permanent
state of consciousness; the rising sign denoting the form and physical
conditions. The past karma reflected in the nativity, in so far as
environment, parentage, marriage, children, friends, education, avoca-
tion, and monetary and social prospects are concerned, is denoted by
the house divisions of the horoscope and the signs upon the cusp of
them with their lords or rulers. The past karma, in so far as the
attitude of mind and responsiveness are concerned, is denoted by the
ruling planet and its geometrical relationship to all the other planets.
Inherited or past karma is termed bad or good, fate and fortune,
according to its painful or pleasurable vibrations, and may be
astrologically summed up in the so-called " malefic and benefic "
planets, Mars, Saturn, Venus and Jupiter; Mercury is always neutral
in itself.
The painful experiences connected with Mars are the results of
uncontrolled impulses, uncurbed passions, and the abuse of force and
energy; those of Saturn are the result of inertia, coldness, fear,.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

isolation, irresponsibility, and selfishness that disregards the feelings of

•others, etc., etc.
The pleasurable experiences connected with Venus are associated
with loving kindness, attractiveness, desire to give pleasure to others,
etc., those of Jupiter are connected with the social and religious life,
philanthropy, hospitality and good will, etc.
The horoscope at birth shows a constant action and reaction
between the personal self and all that is outside the self, summed up
in environment; therefore to understand the past karma that may be
liberated in the present horoscope we must invest the personality with
certain characteristics inherited from the past, as denoted by the ruling
planet and its vibratory power, and endeavour to realise how far it is
subject to the environment or has power over it.
We may tabulate the vibrations of the ruling planet, apart from
its own inherent nature, as follows: masculine or feminine; positive
or negative; fixed or changeable; dualistic or indecisive; also the
plane on which it is most responsive or inert, such as the physical,
emotional, mental or moral; and finally the house of the horoscope
that it dominates or claims as its own, and whether it is harmonious or
discordant therein. If the ruling planet rises, it has a totally different
effect upon the environment from what it has when it sets; if above
the earth, a difference from any position held below; also angular,
succedent or cadent positions have a marked effect on the ruling planet.
The so-called "afflictions " in a nativity will in the main coincide
with fate, and the benefic aspects with good fortune; but it will be
necessary to know the attitude of the personal ego to environment
before deciding whether it will be good or ill.
Considering the wonderful variations there are in karmic dis-
abilities in each individual life, it is hardly wise to particularise with
regard to character and destiny when a general summing up as to the
effects of "afflictions" should suffice. We may tabulate them as
follows, as reflected in the present horoscope.

Past Karma Present Horoscope

Cruelty, violence, malevolence, selfishness, Mars

callous, injustice, covetous, hatred, etc. afflicting
Saturn
 PAST KARMA IN A PRESENT HOROSCOPE 41
Past Karma Present Horoscope
Jupiter
Hypocrisy, imposing on incredulity, religious afflicting
injustice, social disorganization, etc.
Saturn
Mercury
Dishonesty, treachery, false representation,
afflicting
cowardly action, perfidy, etc.
Saturn
Mercury
Untruthfulness, discordance, exaggeration,
afflicting
slander, malicious speech, etc.
Mars
Lack of consciousness, waste, inordinate Mars
conceit, dissipation, extravagance, afflicting
excess of feeling, etc. Jupiter
Anarchism, ruthless destruction, disloyalty, Mars
suicidal mania, murderous inclinations, afflicting
etc. Uranus
Mars
Sensuality, carelessness, abuse of emotion
afflicting
and affection, etc.
Venus
Mars
Gross deceptions, unnatural practices afflicting
Neptune
The above are a few of the afflictions to be found in a horoscope
of the present, and the past causes that correspond with these. The
benefic influences produce pleasurable effects of a harmonious nature,
and it is the astrologer's function to decide what is really benefic or
malefic; for some benefic influences produce adverse after-effects, and
some malefic aspects may conceal good effects, showing good out of
so-called evil. It is not the benefic or malefic aspects that count so
much as positions, and the subject is far too vast for one to deal with
the innumerable combinations in a horoscope that lead up to causes
producing far-reaching results.
As a general rule the majority of karmic disabilities coming under
the influence of Mars are those due to impulsive thought, speech and
action of the past; and those under Saturn are due to failure to realise
responsibility. Karmic benefits are mainly due to Venus and Jupiter
and have arisen out of generous.feelings and^kind actions; but even
these may have some undesirable results if used for selfish or personal
ends. It would require too much explanation to show how strongly
motive affects the results of past karma, also to enter into the
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

peculiarities of karma arising out of the influence of Uranus and

Neptune; but sufficient has been said to show the value of a careful
study of the horoscope of the present life in order to understand past
karma.1
Alan Leo

The Lord Mayor of Cork died at Brixton Prison on October 25, at

5-40 a.m., G.M.T. after bis long fast of seventy-four days. On referring to
the map for the Autumn Quarter (p. 261) it will be seen that Mercury and
Venus (lord of the eighth bouse, death) were in the twelfth, prison, with the
Sun not far from the cusp as ruler of the tenth. The New Moon of October
12, if referred to the Quarterly map, felt in that twelfth bouse in Libra near
the place of Venus ; moreover this place was rising at the hour and minute
of death, which was just before sunrise, the rising of the Sun in exact trine
to Uranus showing the strength of will and determination exerted by the
dying man and also the way in which public attention was focussed upon
the event.
The signs Taurus and Scorpio are well known as productive of
earthquakes when eclipses occur therein, and the shocks usually occur in
those areas where the eclipse is near the line of the horizon or the meridian,
but especially when near the fourth cusp. The lunar eclipse of October 27
fell in Taurus and the solar eclipse of November 10 in Scorpio. On
December 16 violent earthquakes were felt in China, where thousands of
people were killed, and in Argentina where there were also many fatalities ;
Japan was also affected. The solar 0
eclipse culminated in Argentina 650W,
and was on the nadir in China 115 E, and on the day of the shock Mars
was transiting near the place of the eclipse.
Planet or Comet ?—An object has been discovered that it is difficult
to class. In appearance it looks like a small planet, but its orbit is so
elliptical that it is almost cometary. At Perihelion it approaches the orbit
of Mars, and at Aphelion it is not far from the orbit of Saturn. The object,
which was discovered at Bergedorf on October 31, is at present called
Minor Planet 1920 H.Z. It is now of the thirteenth magnitude, and will be
in Perihelion in March next.
Comet.-»-A comet was discovered at theCape, on Dec 13, with Longitude
SL 19° g', Declin 90 S j', RA 1330 49', Lat 250 S 18'. It was of magnitude
loi and was moving northward.
The very mild weather in this country at Christmas coincided with
Mars and Venus on the fourth cusp in opposition to Neptune at the Sun's
entry into Capricorn at London on December 22.
1
This article by the late Alan Leo was written for a paper in India, in 1916.
I am glad to be able to reproduce it for the benefit of readers of Mooern
Astrology.—B. L.
 43

JUtrologiT an5 iHcntal derangement

Practical Essays by a Nurse

Foreword
As a foreword to these articles I should like to give an idea of the
circumstances which led me to write them, as being in some sort an
Apologia. Soon after I had finished my Science course at Oxford,
I was brought in contact with one or two cases of mental affliction.
They touched me profoundly; the more perhaps, as I seemed to
possess in some degree a power of soothing and ' managing' them.
At that time also I took up the study of Astrology; and endeavouring
to apply to it the scientific methods of my training, I filled note-books
with the slow results of personal observation.
This study I continued when later on I took a post in a private
asylum. This was fifteen years ago. In 1914 I wrote an article in
The English-womany expressing strong views upon the terrible
suffering inflicted in many cases under the existing ' Hospital' routine.
Since then, happily, there has been some awakening on the part both
of the public and the medical profession, to the many injustices and
dangers of the present system; and the recent proposal to maintain
'homes of recovery' for uncertified patients under the District
Councils is a favourable sign. But no body of opinion is yet
enlightened enough to realise the help which Astrology can bring to
bear upon the cases themselves. Many a one is lost for the want of
right treatment at the right time. Many a distracted mother, husband
or friend, powerless before the overwhelming perplexities that such
cases bring about, would find in the patient's horoscope and directions
light and guidance which nothing else can give. Realising these
things so strongly, I have at length ventured to make public a few of
•the results of my long years of study in the hope that it may be
helpful to some. All serious students recognise that in the important
matter of directions, much is still to be learnt. My fellow students
3
"The Treatment of the Unsound," by Sister Eirene. May, 1914.
44 MODERN ASTROLOGY

therefore will pardon an additional chapter upon less specialised

ground with a few hints which are sometimes overlooked by beginners.
It need hardly be said that these articles can in no way compete with
the admirable text books published by the promoters of Modern
Astrology ; and as these are in existence, no technical matters need
be dealt with here. These essays are merely a contribution of
the ' personal equation' in a bye path along which the author would
fain see other pilgrims travelling, with desire to alleviate some of the
darkest destinies which fall to the lot of man.

I. Of the balanced mind

From every point of the planetary chain, of course some
influences directly affecting the mind are registered; but in the
judgment of a horoscope there is no doubt that special attention
should be paid to the aspects of Saturn, Mercury, Uranus and Mars.
In fact, despite what some astrologers have said concerning the
secondary value of the ' mutual' aspects, there is overwhelming
evidence to shew that it is the aspects of the planets to each other
which largely indicate the mental qualities, good or ill.
The " worst cases" in my note books invariably yield up
afflictions between Saturn and Mercury, and—most fatal of all—
between Uranus and Mars. But we will deal with these later on.
At the outset, in a study of mental disease it is perhaps most useful
to have a contrast map as an example of the perfectly balanced mind.
The remarkable and fortunate horoscope No. 1 has been chosen
to illustrate several important points.
Horoscope No., i. Nata 12. April, 1869. 3 a.m., London,
x xi xii i ii iii
#7.10 725 ^13 T9 ^15
0 1/9 t i If b lllV
T22.14.20 T22.47 T4.57 T15.16 1116.50 T26.2 716.553?. 1113.36 T17.12
Deck. 8N40 4N33 0S9 4N40 18N20 9N5 21S6 23N11 5Nr8
Aquarius rises, sextile in degree to two out of the six planets con-
joined in Aries in the second house; sextile also to the Ruler Saturn in
Midheaven. The temperament may be said to be a blend of the
Aquarian and the very strong Aries influences. Badly aspected, these
Aries planets might easily have shewn the less loveable qualities of the
sign, its hardness and selfishness; but the mutual aspects come,as it were.
 ASTROLOGY AND MENTAL DERANGEMENT 45
to the rescue. Saturn, though retrograde, is angular, and in Sagittarius;
a sign wherein the love of justice always seems to be added to his active
gifts of sober industry, patience and 'grit.' He is trine to Mars,
Neptune, Venus, Sun and Moon. An enlarged orb (10) would give
a trine also to Jupiter. These are immense indications of mental
stability, and the character is, in fact, exactly what we should expect.
The native holds a high public position, and her life has been one
long, triumphant conquest over the ill-health and other troubles
indicated by the afflicted Uranus: she is the incarnation of the
philosopher in action. The steady judgment, the cool nerve, the
unflinching moral courage which characterise her are all typical of
the planetary positions. It is not the mind of the Sage ; still less of
the mystic. No religious influences are thrown from the ninth house.
The problems of the universe will never keep her awake. But the
horoscope is a great example of practical brain force expressing
itself in perfect equilibrium. Note also the effect of the conjunctions
all in the second house. This house has more to do with mentality
than is commonly recognised. We may often judge from it the
prevailing habit of thought, and from it also the inhibitions restraining
the native's liberty. Here, though the conjunction of Neptune with
the luminaries is a doubtful sign, it has been overbalanced by the
fine influences of Jupiter and Venus. The prevailing ' thoughts' have
been equable, cheerful and humane.
Note also that the evil aspects of Uranus affect the Sun, Moon
and Venus, but escape the square of Mercury. The influences have
materialised through the environment and health, but not through
the mind. We shall have a case later in which Uranus squaring
Mercury from the ninth has been the predominant mental factor, so
this point is worth noting. Any square of Uranus to Mercury
produces eccentric and ' advanced' ideas or conduct. There is.
nothing of this kind in the map before us. The semi-square of
Mercury and Mars tends to quickness of temper, but that is all. The
native would never run off the lines in any direction. She is too
balanced, too faithful, too sane. The characteristic of the map is not
^genius (which seems more often associated with ^ or n rising), but
practical efficiency and strength.
To sum up. Good aspects between Saturn, Mercury and Jupiter
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

are the strongest indications of mental balance (provided of course-

that the Moon be not seriously afflicted). Uranus adds a powerful
testimony if he is in the first, third, or ninth. The influence of
Neptune is uncertain; but I have some strong testimony of an
unfavourable influence in conjunction with an afflicted Moon
(particularly in Gemini), but this will be under discussion later.
(To be continued)

There was an earthquake at Cairo on October rst, at 4.10 a.m.

Standard Time. Mars was on the cusp of the fourth house at the time in
exact square to Saturn rising in Virgo ; and this was the chief cause of the
shock, but it was probably helped by the passage of the Moon through the
sign Taurus, which is associated with earthquakes, in square and parallel
with Neptune. At the Autumn Quarter Mars was in the ascendant in
square to Saturn in the midheaven at Cairo. A shock was also felt in the
Upper Loire District of France on October 3rd, when the Moon had
reached the opposition of Mars and square of Saturn, reinforcing the
influence of the aspect.
The eclipse of the Moon of October 27 fell in the second or money
house at London, and at the solstice of December Mercury was in the
second house in square to Jupiter on the cusp of the eleventh, ruling
Parliament. Many protests were made against the high rate of expenditure
of the country and government extravagance. On December 14 the Health
Bill was defeated in the House of Lords largely on account of the expense
involved. On December 20 Farrow's Bank, with branches all over (he.
Kingdom, suspended payment, and as a consequence three men responsible
for its conduct were arrested.
The culmination of Venus with rainy aspects at the
September New Moon was followed by floods in Switzerland and great
damage done through the bursting of a glacier " pocket." Switzerland is
ruled by the sign Virgo, which contained five of the heavenly bodies at the
New Moon, among them being Jupiter strongly aspected (8 (?□<?)• The
violence of the result and the damage were more due to the strong cross
aspects between Jupiter, Uranus, and Mars than to the much milder aspects
to Venus.
The first Air Conference opened at London on October 12th. This was
the day of the New Moon, which fell very appropriately in the airy sign
Libra and in the third or travelling bouse, which corresponds to the airy
sign Gemini. During the same month came news of various inventions for
improving air traffic. The two luminaries were in sextile to Neptune rising,
and on October 15 Mr H. A. Rigby of East Croydon crossed the English
Channel on a water bicycle of his own invention.
The death of the Duchess of Edinburgh, widow of the late Duke who
was the son of Queen Victoria, accompanied the Lunar Eclipse of October,
when the Sun was in Scorpio in the eighth or death house opposed by the
Moon.
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$)rafes2iana anifr ODrcupationa

By Duncan Macnaughton, M.A., W.S.

V. Sculpture

A SCULPTOR is one who has an appreciation of the beautiful

SL13) in form and outline (n f 1). He desires to reproduce his,
ideas of the Beautiful, and the most usual method employed is by
chipping (Vii 6) a shapeless stone 19+b 1^22) until it assumes
the shape that he desires. There is also the method of moulding some-
metal such as bronze.
•sr SI 13 are degrees which are found in artistic conceptions of all
kinds, whether of the sculptor, the painter, the poet, or the musician..
of 1-3 are degrees of form and outline. Many painters have a
fine appreciation of colour and a poor conception of line. Sir David
Wilkie was one of those who made a special study of line, and his-
paintings are an excellent example of beauty and accuracy of outline-
He had 5 ruler of the Asc, in 1 in sextile to b in 1 and trine to
2* in T 5.
If ^6 are degrees present in miners' horoscopes. In other blends
they indicate bites. The miner, as it were, bites into the coal with his
pick, and the sculptor into the stone with his chisel.' CV=2=19+ b '•4,22
indicates stone, whether large or small.
J. A. F., born at Dreghorn, Ayrshire, 1.45 a.m., 1st Feb., 1900, was-
injured by a fall of stone in a pit and died on 23rd September, 1918.
The © was in 12 afflicting the Asc. and ttl 13, a degree of pressure,
while the progressed i? was in ~ 23 afflicting •4.22 and thus com-
bining the T19 influence. ruler of the Asc. 14, was in t 114
semi-square the progressed D in ^ 26. The 6th cusp Campanus was
progressed 0 W •
One of the most remarkable stone erections in the world is the
Great Pyramid in Egypt. Prof Smyth reasoned that the lentrance-
passage must have been designed to point !at « Draconis at midnigh t
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of the autumnal equinox, about B.C. 2170. If this is approximately the

correct date of the erection of the Great Pyramid it is astrologically
of great interest, for 22, one of the degrees of stone, was at the M.C.
of the World Horoscope in the period from about 2225 B.C. to
2153 B.C.
Pompeius Tarcon of Venice {Not. Nat. 506) had M.C. •sr 13.
He had b in "V 19 sextile bf, and the Oin h22 trine i? in 1|5,22.
The 5 was in n 1.
Two different horoscopes are given of Michael Angelo {Not. Nat.
472 and 470). In Not. Nat. 472 Y was in 1)121 at the M.C. in sextile
to the 5 and trine to the O. ? was in sextile to ^ , and n 1 received
a trine from U in ^ 3.
J. Pittendrigh Macgillivray, one of Scotland's foremost sculptors
at the present day, was born at Kintore at 7 p.m., on 30th May, 1856
H122 was on the Asc. with bf ruler in 8 22 sextile W in ?€20 on
the 4th cusp. in ^5 and in *^4 in benefic aspect to n ^ 1
though in square to S in 552.
J. H. Foley, born 24th May, 1818, had ^ in n 0i ci O in n3
•and * i? in S12. TIQ received a trine from *§ in t 19.
Sir J. E. Boehme, born 4th July, 1834, had U in n 1 a ? in ~ 1.
One of the earliest dates in the history of sculpture was when
"Bezaleel and Aholiab built the tabernacle in the wilderness, and made all
the vessels and ornaments." The stated date is about 1491 B.C. but there
is no conclusive proof of this, t 2 was then on the^M.C. of the World.
Horoscope, t 1 was on the M.C. from about 1577 B.C. to 1505 B.C.
t 1 was on the 9a cusp of the World Horoscope from about
497 B.C. to 425 B.C. It was at that time that Phidias, the greatest of
•the Greek sculptors, flourished.
Donatello, earliest among the modern sculptors, lived from 1386 to
1466. 13 of the Zodiac were then in exact sextile and trine to
n ^ 1 of the Constellations.
•^■S113 were on the 11th and 5th cusps from about 1446 to
1520 A.D. Michael Angelo flourished from 1474 to 1564, so that the
first 46 years of his life would fall in that period. Neither of the
published horoscopes gives this degree prominent in his nativity. The
26th degree of ~ of the Zodiac was then on ~ 13 of the Constellations,
and he has this degree well aspected, S being in ~ 24 and ? in T25.
 PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS 49
Archseologists place the period of Minoan civilisation in Crete in
the third millennium B.C. V19 was on the 3rd cusp of the World
Horoscope (corresponding to n 0 of the Constellations) in the period
from about 2441 B.C. to 2369 B.C. This would be a very favourable
influence for sculpture, and possibly the sculptor, Daedalus, flourished
at that time.
T19 was on the 2nd cusp of the World Horoscope in the period
from 281 B.C. to 209 B.C. The Pergamus School of Sculpture flourished
at that time.
It is now on the Asc. of the World Horoscope, -^19 being on
the 7th. In November, 1888, was in =2= 19 in sextile to b , and W
was in n 1. A sculptor would be born at that period who will come
into prominence at some time in the near future.

On September i6th, about noon, a great explosion occurred at New

York in the Wall Street neighbourhood; it is said to have been the result
of a bomb plot; many lives were lost and much damage was done. The
indications of danger of this sort were shown more clearly in the map for
the opposition of Jupiter and Uranus (mentioned in September, p. 263) than
at the New Moon. Uranus was then in the fourth house at New York,
which house when afflicted has to do with explosions, and it was opposition
Jupiter in the tenth house and square Mars on the second cusp. The
affliction was from common signs, which are recognised as influencing the
United States.
The International Financial Conference of the League of Nations
opened at Brussels on September 24th and a series of sittings was devoted
to the present financial condition of Europe and the best means of remedying
it. In the map for the Autumn Quarter Mars was in the second or money
house (*D^ ,□ b > A1') from London to Petrograd, and we pointed out
that money problems of various kinds would be sure to arise.
On September 25th an "aero-bus" containing six people fell to the
ground not far from London, and all six were killed. On this day the Moon
was in conjuuction with Uranus and opposition to Jupiter. The accident
happened about noon, summer time (11 a.m. GMT); Saturn, the planet
traditionally associated with falls, was just culminating in parallel declination
with the Moon and in square to Mars in the ascendant.
In the nativity of Louis Napoleon, born oh S2m i8» a.m., 20 April, 1808 at
Paris the Sun was in exact conjunction with the planet Mars in the sign
Aries in the third bouse. Commenting upon this horoscope in the year
1852 2adkiel said : " Such men, so vastly potent to do evil, when they arise
in the world become a curse to their Race and are evidently instruments in
the hands of the Almighty to punish nations for their offences."
(From Alan Leo's Scrap-book)
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THE conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn takes place at intervals of

twenty years and has always been regarded by astrologers as very
important in national affairs. The last conjunction took place on
28 Nov., 1901, 4.36 p.m., and the map for it may be found in full in
 THE CONJUNCTION OF JUPITER AND SATURN 51
the manual on Mundane Astrology1; it preceded the conclusion of the
Boer War.
The present conjunction will take place on 10 Sept., 1921, 411 14m
26s.26 a.m.,G.M.T., when the two planets will be placed in the twenty-
seventh degree of the sign Virgo, or VH 26° 35' 0".6, and the map for
London will be as given here: R.A.M.C. d" 29m 4' or 52° 16'.
In case any student may observe a difference of a few seconds
between the time of conjunction as given here and that stated in any
other publication it may be as well to explain that either of two
methods of computing the time may be employed. Knowing the
position of each planet at the noon before and the noon after the
conjunction, the time may be calculated in the usual way, and that is
the method that has been employed in the present map. But some
prefer to take an average or mean motion for a few days before and
after the date of conjunction. For those who wish to calculate the
time for themselves the following positions for Greenwich Mean Noon
are given, from the Cotmaissanca des Temps, 1921.
11 Longitude f? Longitude
q r It O f It
Sept 7 lyG 1 35.9 176 i5 16.0
9 176 27 17.G 176 31 0.3
„ 11 176 53 3.2 176 45 47.7
.. 13 177 18 52.1 177 o 37.5
In view of the great importance that has been attributed to the
conjunction of these two planets in the past, all students who are
interested in the subject are invited to send in a short account of the
. effects which they anticipate will follow. MSS. should be sent to the
Editor of Modern Astrology, and should reach this office not later
than the end of June.
As an introduction to the subject, an account of the effects likely
to be produced is appended here, written by a well-known correspondent
who prefers to remain anonymous. It was received by us in November,
1920.

The Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

This conjunction is the last of a series of planetary configurations
which began with the great conjunction in Sagittarius at the eclipse of
1
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Astrology.
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December, 1899, and to which series the 1910 Cross, the conjunction
of Jupiter and Uranus in 1914, of Saturn and Neptune in 1917, the
opposition of Saturn to Uranus in 1918, and the conjunction of Jupiter
and Neptune in 1919 all belong. These horoscopes have all helped
to materialise on to the physical plane what was indicated by the first
of the series, when Neptune in the midheaven was in opposition to the
whole group of the remaining planets and luminaries near the nadir.
This map signified the Divine plan for the birth of a new era, when
■the influence of Neptune would be forced on a reluctant world. The
1910 Cross signified the struggle that was to come, and the inevitable
downfall of the reign of force, tyranny, orthodoxy, hypocrisy and
restrictive influences—symbolised by the lower vibrations of Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.
The conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus strengthened the ruling
classes of all nations for the war which was then imminent, and enabled
the business men to make their huge profits ; for Uranus on the material
plane represents organisers and " big business " generally.
The opposition of Uranus and Saturn prefigured the breaking up
of existing conditions and the growing discontent of the people ; the
conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune the gradual disintegration of the
Jupiter influence, the undermining of the power of the ruling classes
and of conventional thought by the growing influence of socialism and
new ideas.
The present map indicates the completion of the task and the
accomplishment of the revolution. During the period ruled by this
figure the influence of Neptune on the physical plane will become
dominant. Coming events cast their shadows, and it may well be that
the year 1921 will see the revolution in England an accomplished fact.
Turning to an analysisof the map we find that the Moon, indicating
the masses, is in Sagittarius, the sign of revolt and rebelliousness, on
the cusp of the Sun's house (the fifth)—gathering force from the trine
of Mars from which it is separating, as it also is from the square of
Jupiter and Saturn. Taken into consideration with other aspects this
seems to signify that the people will acquire the power hitherto exercised
by the ruling classes, and that the struggle will be over before the
actual date of this conjunction. The Sun, though rising, is in Virgo
•the sixth house sign, and the Sun is weakest in the sixth house, which
 THE CONJUNCTION OF JUPITER AND SATURN 53..

is the house, of service or servitude. Practically, the Sun and Moon

change places, or in other words " the first shall be last and the last
first." Moreover the Sun is separating from opposition to Uranus,
which indicates loss of power and, in natal astrology, unexpected and
sudden events of an unpleasant nature.
On the other hand the Moon is moving from quintile to sextile
aspect with Uranus ; and this gives the masses unlimited will power
which will be turned against their rulers ; Uranus being angular and
making no other aspects beyond these two.
The Sun is also applying to the conjunction of Saturn, which is
the worst aspect it can form, as Saturn robs the Sun of its power.
The actual conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn has a similar effect on
Jupiter, and as this planet represents the ruling classes and established
institutions, law and order and orthodox opinions on any subject, it is
obvious that if Astrology has any meaning at all the prediction made
above is not unwarranted. The deaths of many prominent people in
the state will occur during the next few months.
Mercury, ruler of the scheme, is separating from conjunction with
Saturn, indicating that the present period of restricted business and
tightness of money will have begun to pass away when this conjunction
occurs; which is confirmed by Venus ruler of the tenth house being
the most elevated planet and in conjunction with Neptune. These
two peaceful planets elevated above Mars shew that with the beginning
of the new order of things peace will be restored, at any rate as far as
England and western Europe are concerned. Militarism will go by
the board. In the eastern hemisphere however, where Mars is above
Venus and Neptune, the same cannot be. predicted.
But there is another than the purely material side to this series
of mundane maps. The elevation of Neptune in December, 1899,
indicated also the descent or giving out of a new spiritual teaching
which should supersede all existing religions. The new religion will
be one of the heart and spirit, for the downfall of Jupiter and Saturn
brings with it the gradual decay of ceremonial and dogmas, just as that
of Mars signifies the end of militarism and wars for those nations
where Neptune descends. This influence may come down at any
time now, and the teaching is likely to be based on the fundamental
principles of love and unselfishness, liberty and tolerance; thus
'54 MODERN ASTROLOGY

• emphasising the original teachings of Christ, which have for so many

■centuries been considered purely idealistic and unpractical. For
Neptune stands for the Divine Wisdom which is also Divine Love.
The obstacles to the acceptance of this teaching will be largely removed
with the destruction of the present order of things, which is based on
national and class hatred, the selfishness of modern business methods,
tyranny and intolerance.

The Home Rule Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on
Dec ts, 1919, at 6.30 p.m. by Mr Lloyd George. Neptune was then rising
•in almost exact sextile (o Mars near the cusp of the fourth house, in
conjunction with Jupiter on the second cusp, and in square to Venus on the
fifth cusp. Neptune and Mars were the only angular planets. After great
delay through a very stormy period the Bill became law on Dec 23, 2920.
It is worth noting that the attempt at a " truce of God " between Sinn Fein
and the Government took place early in December, 1920 when the Sun was
in trine to Neptune, but as this was followed by the opposition of Mars to
Neptune from the seventh house it came to nothing and all overtures failed.
Looking ahead it will be seen that Venus will enter Taurus, the ruling sign
of Ireland, on March 7, will be stationary on April 1 at Taurus 10° 16', will
retrograde into Aries on April 18, re-enter Taurus June 2, and altogether
will remain in that sign for 89 days, which will cover the time for the
opening of the new Parliament and it may be hoped will exercise a benefic
influence upon Ireland.
On October 9, Mr Lloyd George made a speech at Carnarvon in which
he referred to reprisals in Ireland and said that it was only human nature to
retaliate when attacked. Mars was transiting only one degree from his Moon
on that day, a significant influence. The Premier is now under unfavourable
directions and transits, and these are showing themselves in public affairs.
Among the directions are : © DJX, ©Z Asc. r, MC p.Q^Jr. The progressed
Moon is passing across the cusp of the Ascendant, and forming directions
similar in nature to the first two of these. Neptune is transiting through
Leo in close opposition to the rising Mercury. The chaotic state of affairs in
Ireland and the long drawn out problem of the miners' strike may be
mentioned under these influences. This transit of Neptune is repeated in
February and July, 1921, and Neptune transits the opposition of the
progressed Moon in January. Under such influences public affairs are not
likely to prosper, and under the first two of the above directions his health
may suffer. The Moon is hyleg in the horoscope, being on the cusp of the
■eleventh house at ^ 24.27, while the Sun is in the twelfth at Iry 26.56.
King Constantine entered Athens in triumph on his return from exile
on December 19, 1920, and according to the newspapers the time of his entry
was 11 a.m. Taking this as local mean time, which is the Standard for
Greece, Uranus was rising in Pisces in sextile to the Sun in the midheaven
and free from bad aspects; Mercury was culminating in Sagittarius, trine
the Moon in Aries in the lower half of the ascendant, and both these were
trine Neptune in the sixth house. There are some extremely good influences
here which show that he has a strong hold over the country. The drawbacks
are Saturn and Jupiter in the seventh house squaring the Sun, and Venus
and Mars in the twelfth house in opposition to Neptune, so that he will have
many enemies both open and secret and there will be much plotting and
scheming against him; but with care he should be able to retain his throne
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QDlje oroscopra of ©oinna anb fttttes

By Vivian E. Robson, B.Sc.

It is well known to astrologers that one of the greatest difficulties
in Mundane Astrology is to predict where a given aspect will operate
and which towns and cities will feel its effect. It was for this reason
that I undertook some investigations into the signs and degrees ruling
various important towns, as to which we have only the most scanty
information. During the course of these studies I was fortunate
enough to discover a principle by means of which a full horoscope of a
town may be obtained, thus enabling us not only to note transits over
the planetary positions but also to obtain primary and secondary
directions exactly as in a nativity.
For all practical purposes the radical horoscope of any city is a map
for the date upon which a charter was conferred, this being its official
birth. From these data the planetary positions may easily be computed,
and the rising degree must be found by the usual method, namely the
study of the positions at the time of important events.
In the very rare cases in which the date of foundation of a city is
known the map should of course be calculated for that time, but
failing this we must fall back upon the charter date, which is always
of very great importance. We may compare this charter map to a
horoscope for the time of marriage. A marriage map is not a nativity
but it rules all the married life and affords directions which indicate
the events affecting it until it is cancelled by death or divorce.
Similarly the charter map rules the life of the city during the time
the charter is in force and is cancelled only when a new charter
supersedes the old one.
It may occur to some readers that in inserting charter positions
into a map whose cusps may or may not be those of charter time, we
are guilty of " putting new wine into old bottles." This may be so, and
cannot, perhaps, be strictly justified in theory, but it will be found in
practice that such a map gives excellent results and fulfils all our
requirements, and this, after all, is the chief consideration.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

As an example, I will take the horoscope of Liverpool. The

charter was conferred by King John on 28 August (O.S.), 1207. The
ascendant was many years ago found to be ht 18° 12', and the full
map is therefore
x xi xii i ii. iii
TijiS-ss aio 1112 11118.12 t ig V328
0 DSJcTV1?
1511 ^25 may &i 1113 "1123 1122 A27 11129
The progressed mid-heaven is at present SI 22 and the progressed
Moon has entered Sagittarius. During the recent Sinn Fein attack
on Liverpool it had separated from the square of Uranus and was
close to the conjunction of Neptune at the end of Scorpio.
Space is too limited to permit of a lengthy study, but by way of
examples it may be mentioned that during the Cotton Famine of 1862
and 1863 Saturn was transiting the planets in Virgo and Libra, and
that the lunation immediately preceding the Bread Riots of 1855 fell
in opposition to Uranus.
The horoscope of Harlech in North Wales, though scarcely of
importance, is not without interest.
It is based on the charter date 22 November (O.S.), 1284.
x xi xii ii iii
M4 t8 «28 mio <025 iU2
78 »12 #8 VJ17 132 >32 >323 as28 ns23
Directions from this horoscope are quite in keeping with the
events of the town. Thus the Castle was besieged in 1468 under
Mars conjunction Moon, and again in 1647 under Mars conjunction
Sun ; the Golf Club was opened in 1894 under Ascendant conjunction
Jupiter, and Venus conjunction Neptune; while the pageant of 1920
took place under Mid-heaven conjunction Sun and Mercury.
These illustrations should suflSce to exemplify the method of
procedure. I hope as space permits to publish maps for all the
important towns and cities, and I should be grateful to any reader
who would send me the charter date of the town in which he resides.
As the heart of the olive is cut that the tree may spread and bear, so
is a man's heart wounded that bis life may be fruitful.
Huxcary is under the rule of the sign Sagittarius, and while Mars was
passing through that sign in square to Jupiter, its lord, and to Saturn, it
was reported that the Jews were deprived of the rights of equal citizenship
in Hungary.
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The Calendar. Can yon explain how it came to pass that

the civil year in onr calendar commences on the ls< January, and
not at one of the solstices or equinoxes, which would be natural
points of departure? Is there any astronomical or astrological
reason ?
The practice of commencing the year on 1st January is due to
Julius Caesar,-who adopted this date in his reformed calendar. It was
probably his original intention to begin the new year on the day of the
Winter Solstice of 46 B.C., but it was found that the mean New Moon
immediately following fell upon 1st January 45 B.C. (at about 6.16 p.m.
at Rome), and it seems likely that this date was chosen in order to
begin the new system under an increasing Moon.
Can you tell me if the Winter Solstice fell on the 25th December
in the days of Julius Ccesar, or according to the Roman Calendar ?
The Winter Solstice of 46 B.C. fell on the 24th December of the
Julian Calendar.
Dates and Numbers. In studying the meaning of numbers,
especially the meaningof the number of the day of the year upon which
a person is born, such as 23rd April, giving the 113/A day of the year,
in connection with the person's horoscope,! have often foumi that the
meaning fits in,in a most remarkable way. Why is this if the year
commences at a period which has no astrological value ? Sometimes
the theosophical value, such as 12.3.1895 = 3 + 3 + 23 = 3 + 3 + 5, also
gives good results, but it is still more impossible to believe that
a number obtained in such a haphazard way can spell out a true
meaning. Do you consider this to be merely coincidence or chance ?
A study of Astrology, and especially of the horary branch,
convinces one that there is no room for chance in the Universe.
Granted that remarkable results can be obtained in the above manner,
and of this I have personal experience, it would point to the fact that
some unknown law is in operation. We cannot be certain that the.
 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 59
year commences at a point of no astrological value, simply because
we cannot appreciate its value, and such an important event as the
reformation of the calendar must have been attended by important
planetary configurations in the horoscope of the world. If this is so
it is quite conceivable that the 1st January, 45 B.C., marked the
beginning of a new cycle, and in that case there would have been some-
value to the date. In any case it is certain that some symbolism
attaches to it, and it has more than once been pointed out in these-
pages that a horoscope for 0.0. a.m. 1st January bears some relation
to the ensuing events of the year.
V. E. R.

The culmination of Mars at the solar eclipse of November io was partly

illustrated in the bloodshed in Ireland on November ai and by the public
funeral accorded to the murdered officers at London, as well ashy the energy
displayed by troops and police in arresting suspects. But as we pointed out,
the lunar eclipse fell in Taurus, the ruling signof Ireland, and the solar eclipse
was in very close opposition to the place of Saturn in Taurus in the horoscope
of the Lord Lieutenant, Viscount French.
Self is a very poor centre to work from.
So live with men as if God saw you ; so speak with God as if men beard
you.—Seneca.
Once in a hundred years an aloe flowers,
The stem of friendship crowns itself with love.
The prediction of trouble to the Government that would result from
Neptune culminating at the Winter Quarter at London in opposition to
Mars was fulfilled in the defeat of the Health Bill in the House of Lords
and in the many amendments that were carried against the Government on
the Agriculture Bill.
Love earthly and love divine have this in common, they are both the
fulfilling of the law.
Heaven begins by doing right
Not in some dim distant star
Live to-day in saintly wise
Heaven's about you where you are.
The Peace Treaty between Russia and Poland was signed at Riga on
October ib, the day of the New Moon, a map for which showed Jupiter rising
from Petrograd to Constautinopie. We predicted that " some favourable
understanding will be reached between the different countries through the
close sextile of Mercury to Jupiter " (p. 294).
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CffrrcspontenK

The Editors do not assume responsibility for any statements or ideas advanced
■by their correspondents, and the publication of letters does ml necessarily imply
.■sympathy with the views expressed therein.
To the Editor of Modern Astrology
Horoscope Delineations
South Devon,
October 30th, 1920.
Dear Sir.—E^ the suggestion of Mr Roy Allin. 1 am partly in agreement
with what he says in his letter published in November Modern Astrology.
1 think it would be most helpful and interesting to have a fuller delinea-
tion and character analysis and synthesis of the horoscopes of interesting
persons, showing why certain things came into their lives, and also pointing
out that were they armed with a knowledge of Astrology they might
successfully transmute and overcome tendencies.
Please don't give a whole year of Modern Astrology to one horoscope.
1 think three or at most four months to each would be ample. Interest
especially with beginners is apt to flag if keeping too long to one horoscope
or one subject. Also the comparison of one horoscope with another is
helpful, especially if one can get two fairly similar maps of persons in
•widely different stations of life, etc.
Yours faithfully,
(Mrs) Emilie M. Cruttenden.

Ireland,
October 30th, igzo.
The Editor, Modern Astrology
Sir,—I am writing to heartily endorse the suggestion put forward in the
November number by your correspondent Roy Allin. A carefully synthesised
;and analysed horoscope of some famous person considered from every
possible point of view of interpretation could not fail to be most interesting.
With reference to the subject, Napoleon would certainly he suitable in
everyway, as even apart from Astrology, this life and character is irresistibly
fascinating. But I may be pardoned from mentioning that in one of the text
books of Alan Leo Napoleon's ascendant is given as Libra; while it is the
opinion of most astrologers, and is most strongly borne out in the personal
appearance as shown in every existing portrait painted from life, that
Napoleon was born under Scorpio. Certain it is that he was bom about noon
on the 15th of August. It is proved indisputably by contemporary family
records that bis mother bad the first intimation of bis arrival while she was
attending Mass on that day (the feast of the Assumption). She hurried borne
and not having time to reach her bedroom, her son was born in the drawing-
room of the house. In this room was a carpet woven with a design of the
triumphs of Alexander the Great, and the prophecy was made at the time
that the child born under these circumstances would become a great
 CORRESPONDENCE
conqueror. Strangely enough, the life of Alexander the Great always-
exercised a great attraction for Napoleon. This whole story has been
rejected on the grounds that it is not customary to have carpets in the
bedrooms of houses in Corsica, yet fuller knowledge has proved it to be true.
. This is perhaps rather a digression, but I hope I may be pardoned for
pointing out that who ever undertakes the writing of the delineation of the
chosen horoscope will need to have made a very complete and exhaustive-
study of the native of it, or a satisfactory interpretation will not be possible.
Great differences arise as to the lives of all famous persons after their death
and it would be much harder to keep an unbiassed mind than in the case of
the horoscope of an unknown individual, whose history is not obscured by
theories and legends.
Yours sincerely,
Katherine Sleigh.
[We hope to adopt Mr AHin's suggestion and to begin the delineation in-
cur next issue, but we have not yet decided upon the name of the subject.
Napoleon would be a very suitable one were it not for the uncertainty as to
his time of birth, which in our opinion renders his selection undesirable.—En.J
Birth Statistics and Illegitimacy
13, Vineyard Terrace,
Long Lane, N. 2.
November nth, 1920.
Dear Sir,—It ought to be the habit of every student of Astrology either
to discover, or to ask for, an astrological explanation and demonstration of
everything; and in this spirit, I put before you two euquiries. Dr Marie-
Slopes, in her recent book Radiant Motherhood refers (p. 24) to a memoir by
Charles Richet presented in 1916 to the French Academy of Science, which
demonstrates a conclusion important, I think, to Astrology. Richet demon-
strates that " taking the births for the whole year, it is found they are not
equally divided throughout the months, but that a notable maximum of births-
is found in February and March for most of the countries in the northern
hemisphere, the actual maximum of births being from the rsth February to
the 15th March, and thus indicating that the maximum of conceptions took
place between the 5th May and the 5th June. Richet quotes Bertillon as
having established the fact that this maximum of conceptions does not depend-
on the chance that brides like to be married in the spring, because an
identical maximum is found in the illegitimatebirth-rate. Richet gives many
tables of figures, and maintains that the maximum corresponds both in the-
town and in the country, among the rich and the poor, among the married
and the unmarried, and is therefore an actual physiological function."
That a maximum of births should take place between February 15 and
March 15 (when the Sun is chiefly in Pisces) is not surprising, for all the-
books known to me give Pisces as a "fruitful " sign. But that the maximum
conceptions should take place between May sand June 5 (which is equally
divided between Taurus and Gemini) is purzling ; Simmonite, Raphael and
Sepbarial agree in calling Gemini a " barren sign," although Alan Leo, in
How to Judge a Nativity (p. 177) declares that Gemini and Sagittarius " are very
fruitful signs, often denoting twins." Can any of your readers settle finally
the Question of the character, fruitful or barren, of the sign Gemini ? Richet's
conclusion supports Alan Leo, but the question ought to be settled beyond
dispute.
Speaking of Gemini reminds me that, according to mundane astrology, it
is the ruling sign of Wales and London, among other places. I had occasion
recently to turn to the Registrar-General's report for ign, and on p. xxv^
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I found these remarks concerning illegitimacy. " Stated in relation to
unmarried women of conceptive ages, illegitimate births were more frequent
in the rural districts and least so in London. They were also most frequent
in Wales, and least so in the South of England." As both London and
Wales are under the same ruling sign, is there any astrological explanation
why the phenomenon of illegitimacy should manifest opposite extremes in
these two places ? Can any of your readers say whether this phenomenon
appears in, say, Belgium and the United States, and whether it is to be
attributed to Gemini solely, or to any planetary influence determining which
■extreme will be manifested? I should be very much obliged for an answer,
if any of your readers can help.
Yours sincerely,
A. E. Randall.
[The consensus of opinion is that Gemini is not a fruitful sign, although
it may indicate twins. It is not, however, by any means a " moral " sign, but
is rather " unmoral " and distinctly selfish, refusing to be hampered or bound
by convention. The answer to the question regarding illegitimacy in Wales
and London probably depends upon the planetary positions in the horoscopes
of these places.—En.]

Twins with the same ailments.— What is regarded as an unusual

.psychic demonstration is engaging the attention of medical men fat New
York].
Clarence Marsh, of Akron, in the State of Ohio, became ill recently,
and was placed under an anssthetic to be operated upon.
At that identical instant his twin sister Clara, who lives with their
parents in the town of Frederick, in the State of Maryland, 275 miles away,
was seized with nausea and fever.
The family say that Miss Marsh, a short while ago, bled copiously from
the nose. A few days later a letter from Clarence Marsh mentioned
incidentally that he had been troubled with an obstinate case of nose-bleeding,
and it was ascertained by inquiry that it occurred at the same time as his
sister's.
The parents say that whenever the girl catches a bad cold they know
. that her brother is similarly affected.
Daily Chronicle, 13/10/1920
The weather during October and November was unprecedentedly mild
and enabled people to effect economies in the consumption of coa in view of
its very high cost. A series of warm aspects caused this and culminated in
Q^rU, OWi ■#•<?, with similar aspects from Mercury to the same planets,
in November. The Mundane maps also showed mild or warm planets
angular. At the October New Moon Venus was in the fourth house and
Neptune rising; at the Full Moon Venus culminated and Neptune set; at the
November New Moon Mars culminated. Some astrologers teach that the
fourth house influences the weather, but it is more in accordance with
experience that any strong angular planet may influence it; the fourth house
only ruling land and crops.
God never subjects a man to discipline unsuited to develop and perfect
;his nature.—R. W. Dale.
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY
Capricoyn. Patient, self-controlled, persevering, steady, economical,
serious, cold, despondent.
Aquarius. Intellectual, idealistic, artistic, humane, ingenious, original,
intuitive.
Pisces. Easy-going, good-natured, emotional, changeable, affectionate,
charitable, diffident, untidy.
Chariot. A planet situated in a part of a sign where it is essentially
dignified in two or more ways (viz. by house, exaltation, triplicity, term, or
face), was said by Ptolemy to be in its chariot, or throne, and triumphantly
situated.
Chart of Descent. A chart showing the exact position of the Moon
on each date between epoch and birth when it is nearest to its epochal
position, and at the time when the epochal ascendant is rising.
Chathurdhamsha. A Hindu division of each sign of the .Zodiac into
four parts of 70 30' in extent. The first quarter of the sign is ruled by the
sign itself and the succeeding quarters by the remaining signs of the same
qnadruplicity, following in order. Thus the first subdivision of 111. is ruled
by "l, the second by sz, the third by y , and the fourth by The name
quadruU has been suggested for this method of division.
Chinese Cycle. A system of chronology adopted by the Chinese.
Each cycle contains 60 years, each year bearing a distinctive name. The
system began in 2,700 b.c.
Chronocrator. Ruler of Time. 1. Sometimes used in the same
sense as Light of Time, to denote the Sun by day and the Moon by night.
2. A term applied to the planets as rulers of the " seven ages of man,"
each age being ruled by one of the seven ancient planets. The first age,
from birth up to 4 years, is under the rulership of the Moon ; from 4 to 14
under Mercury; 14 to 12 under Venus; 22 to 41 under the Sun; 41 to 56
under Mars; 561068 under Jupiter; and finally 68 to 98 under Saturn.
The directional effects of any planet are said to be strongest in the age
under its rule. Other similar arrangements of the chronocrators (Alfridaries)
have been suggested.
Cikcinus. The Compasses. A constellation formed by La Caille
(1752) from stars situated near the front feet of the Centaur.
Circle, i. The circumference of the Zodiac, containing 360 degrees.
2. The symbol of spirit. The symbols of the planets are formed from
combinations of the circle (spirit), the semicircle (soul), and the cross (body
or matter).
Circle, Great. A circle on a sphere, the plane of which passes
through the centre of the sphere.
Circles of Position. Circles passing through the common intersections
of the horizon and meridian and the ecliptic or centre of a heavenly body,
serving to indicate the position of the latter.
Civil Time. See Astronomical Time.
Climacterical Years. Every seventh and ninth year is climacterical,
because by secondary direction the Moon forms the square of its radical
' place every seven years (i.e. days), and the trine every nine years. Thus
the climacterical years are as follows;—7, g, 14, 18, 21, 27, 28, 35, 36, 42, 45,
49, 54, 56, and 63. These years are productive of great changes, the most
dangerous being the 4gth and 63rd because they are doubly climacterical,
being 7X7 and 7X9. The 63rd year is called the Grand Climacteric owing
to the great proportion of deaths that are said to take place at this age.
Climate, i. A portion of the celestial sphere contained between two
parallel circles whose diurnal arcs differ from each other by half an hour.
The earth is divided into 48 climates, of which 24 are northern and
*4 southern. The first climate begins at the Equator, where the diurnal
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
arc is 12 hours and extends to that latitude whose diurnal arc is 11 hours
30 minutes.
2. A term used by the Kabalists and similar in meaning to the above.
One climate0 is the space travelled spirally0 by the earth's poles in 25,920
years,i.e., 3 36' (taken by the accients as 4 ). There were 22J such spirals
or climates between the Equator and the poles, the Equator being taken as.
the starting point.
Cluster. A group of small stars lying, or appearing to lie, very close-
together. Their influence in Astrology is to cause weak sight or blindness.
The best known are the Pleiades and Praesaepe (q.v.).
Co-Latitude. The complement of the latitude, obtained by subtracting
the latitude from 90°. Thus the0 latitude of London is 510 32', and its
co-latitude will therefore be 90°—51 32' = 38° 28'. No star can either rise
or set when its declination exceeds the co-latitude of the place of observation.
Cold Planets. Moon, Mercury, Saturn, and Uranus.
Cold Signs. Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces.
Collection of Light. A planet receiving the aspects of two other
planets that are not themselves within orbs of an aspect. It is a term used
chiefly in Horary Astrology and denotes that the affair will be brought about
by a third person, described by the planet collecting the light, provided it is
received by both the other bodies in some of their essential dignities.
Colours. Colours have been assigned to the rulership of the planets,,
signs, and houses. The lists vary somewhat, but the following represents the
usual allocation.
Planets:—
Sun.—Gold, yellow.
Moon.—Silver, white, opal, pearl, green, iridescent.
Mercury.—Orange, lemon, light blue, slate, pink.
Venus.—Lemon, pale blue, blue and green art shades.
Mars.—Red, scarlet, crimson.
Jupiter.—Purple, violet.
SafKru.—Black, dark green, and very dark colours generally.
Uranus.—Mixed colours, streaks, checks, tartans, etc.
Neptune.—Mauve, lavender, lilac, heliotrope.
The seven prismatic colours are allocated as follows:—Violet Zj.;
Indigo I?; Blue ? ; Green D; Yellow 5 ; Orange ©; and Red .
Signs:—
Aries.—Red and white,
Taurus.—Pale blue, or red mixed with citron.
Gemini.—Yellow, or red and white mixed.
Cancer.—Green, or russet.
Leo.—Orange, red, or gold.
Virgo.—Dark green, or brown.
Libra.—Pale yellow, or blue.
Scorpio.—Black or dark brown, or deep crimson.
Sagittarius.—Purple, light green, or olive.
Capricorn.—Black, or dark brown. Some say white.
Aquarius.—Sky blue.
Pisces.—Grey or glistening white.
Houses (as given by Sepharial):—
1. Grey 7. Yellow
2. Blue-grey 8. Golden
3. Blue with red rays, Violet g. Orange
4. Blue 10. Red
5. Dark green 11. Violet-red, Purple
6. .Light green 12. Grey-red or dull-red
 August 1890 under the till* oj
«THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE"

Modcri>

Astrology
A Journal devoted to the search for truth concerning Astrology

S-SS;] MARCH, 1921. [NO. 3

Qbhitat's (BhsztbEiat]}
WITH this month we complete another "Annual Revolution of
the Years of the World," and begin the astrological New Year. The
map for the Sun's entry into Aries is dealt with else-
w ere n t s ssue
logiwd^ar ^ ' ^ ' > but it may not be out of place to
add a few remarks here on the Kabalistic and cyclic
influences that confront us. The whole period from 1909 to 1944 is
under the influence of the planet Mars and the sign Capricorn, but
each year has its sub-influence starting with Mars in Capricorn in 1909
and advancing one sign per year, the planets following in the
Chaldsean order—Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, and
Moon. By following this progression we find that the year 1920 was
ruled by the Moon in Sagittarius, and many examples of this influence
might be pointed out, the latest, perhaps, being the introduction of
women into the law.
On the twenty-first of this month we pass into the influence of
Saturn in Capricorn, which remains in force until March 1922. Taken
by itself such a position is not entirely unfavourable, as Saturn is
dignified in this sign, but in the present case Mars, ruler of the major
period, is also in Capricorn, and we are therefore virtually under a
conjunction of Saturn and Mars which becomes exact in the summer
and will probably be felt at the beginning of July when the Sun
 66 MODERN ASTROLOGy

transits its opposition. The effect of this conjunction throughout the

year is likely to manifest itself violently, and will cause much anxiety
to the Government, and put them in grave danger of defeat, for the
people will be discontented and critical of those in authority. A good
deal of crime is to be expected and an eminent man is likely to be
murdered. Places under the rule of Capricorn will suffer greatly, and
we may look for serious difficulties in India, and probably in Greece
also.
* * * «
A book of great interest to students of Astrology and occultism
has recently been issued by the Cambridge University Press. Its
title is Problems of Cosmogony and Stellar Dynamics
A New Theory by j. H. Jeans, F-R.S., and as this title implies, the
of the
Universe book deals with the origin of the Universe in general
and our Solar System in particular, but from quite a
novel standpoint. Mr Jeans' theory is that the stars were once much
nearer together than they are now, and in support of this contention
he argues that were it not true many of the phenomena presented to
us by stellar motion would be impossible. Thus a notable instance is
furnished by double stars. A kind of evolution has been observed
among double stars, for in some cases the orbits of the two stars are
nearly circular, in others elliptical, and in extreme cases highly elliptical,
so that the bodies periodically recede from one another. Assuming that
all these stages are represented in the history of a single pair, it is
impossible to imagine such changes occurring without the help of a
third body, and as the distances between stars are now so great that
any gravitational effect is inappreciable we are driven to the conclusion
that they were formerly much nearer together.
The Nebular Hypothesis of course comes in for its share of
attention and criticism, but Mr Jeans accepts the general theory,
though he is of the opinion that our system was formed in a different
manner. According to his view it resulted from the passage of a star
near our Sun some 300 million years ago, which caused a stream of
gaseous material to be thrown out by the Sun. This matter became
cooler, liquefied, and finally separated into detached masses, each
of which became a planet in the course of ages. This process he
considers to be exceptional, if not unique, in the system of stars,
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

and, whatever may be the merits of this particular theory of the

Solar System, it is interesting to find that in its origin it evidently
differed from other systems in view of the fact that this has always
been claimed by occultists. Another interesting point is that according
to Mr Jeans the relations subsisting between the Moon and the
Earth are quite different from those between the other planets and
their satellites, and on reading this statement one cannot help
remembering H. P. B.'s teaching that the Moon is older than the
Earth—a doctrine that has met with much ridicule. Perhaps,
after all, it will be justified ere long. Tempora mutantur, nos et
mutamur, in illis !
V. E. R.

The New Moon of January gth was accompanied by a triple conjunction

in the sign Pisces, that of Uranus, Mars, and Venus, and these-were in
semi-square to the Sun and Moon. A great deal of rain followed and
a series of high winds and gales which lasted more than a week. The three
planets fell in the second or money house in Central Europe, and the
condition of national finance in Austria was very critical. They were rising
in Persia where there was the fall of the government and recoustitution, and
the rumour obtained currency that the Shah of Persia had abdicated, but
this proved to be false. They were setting off the west coast of North
America, and the question of building a large fleet for the U.S.A. in rivalry
with Japan attracted much attention then. The three planets were
culminating in Japan.
It was announced early in January that King Boris of Bulgaria had
been betrothed to Princess Marie, the second daughter of King Ferdinand
of Rumania. The horoscope of King Boris was published in Modern
Astrology in January, 1919. He has Venus exalted in the sign Pisces
5027'K, and the progressed Ascendant and the progressed Sun are both near
this point; moreover the conjunction of Mars, Venus and Uranus in Pisces
last January fell near the same point. With Venus square Neptune, and
Moon parallel Mars, his prospects of married happiness are not brilliant.
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CAPRICORN will rise at London with Aquarius intercepted in the

ascendant, and with Mercury in conjunction with Uranus in the lower
part of the ascendant in opposition to Jupiter. The seventh house
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 6g

contains Neptune and the Moon in Leo and Jupiter in Virgo ; Saturn,
also in Virgo, is on the cusp of the eighth house. With the seventh
house strongly tenanted- foreign affairs are likely to be very prominent
both for good fortune and bad; Neptune therein signifying combina-
tions, democratic or communistic, that will cause trouble, disturb
labour, and perhaps bring forward some difficult financial question
abroad; Neptune will be closest to the seventh cusp in the south of
France, Switzerland, and west Germany, where the worst effects will
be felt, and where financial troubles and frauds, divorce questions and
other scandals will occur. The Moon in the seventh house in trine to
Mars in Aries will strengthen and popu.arise the army and navy and
perhaps lead to military movements and displays; the Moon will
be close to the cusp in parts of north Italy, Austria, and the west
of Russia. Jupiter in the seventh house is trine to Venus in the
third, which will promote travelling and international intercourse and
co-operation and should benefit Ireland and the new Parliaments;
but Jupiter is weak in Virgo and opposed by Mercury and Uranus,
so that too much must not be expected of it; it will be setting and
the other two rising from near Petrograd to the Balkans and Greece ;
the opposition will cause the breaking up of old forms and customs
socially, religiously, and otherwise, and the introduction of new ideas,
methods, inventions, and legislation. In this country and elsewhere
new methods relating to prisons and hospitals will be brought forward,
also inventions relating to water power and travelling and medical
discoveries, while occultism and allied ideas will spread.
At Constantinople Saturn setting will cause foreign complications.
There is danger of disease or food shortage in east Europe. The Sun
will rise in Palestine, strengthening the government and benefiting the
country. At Calcutta Uranus and Mercury in the midheaven show
new methods in legislation and a spirit of reform in the government
of the country.
At Washington Jupiter culminating in trine to Venus in the sixth
will benefit labour and increase employment, but the government will
have to face strong opposition and will be not altogether successful.
With Mercury and Uranus near the fourth cusp seismic shocks may
be felt. Strikes are threatened connected with travelling, shipping,
railways, or telegraphy.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

New Moon
9 March, 1921, 6.9 p.m., G.M.T.
X xi XII 1 II 111
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(2) 33 2 A 9 tin 8 2 -=26 n 26
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"5 I? -19 m 16 / 10 VJIO = 13
(6) T 2 « 8 DlO 32 20 A10 m 3
(i) London (2) Berlin (3) Constantinople (4) Petrograd (5) Calcutta
(6) Washington
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H 18.38 X5-49li' 8I-39 T 18,31 11213.221!. .4121.391^ K6.23 Sliizyfy
The Sun and Moon are in conjunction in Pisces on the cusp of the
seventh house in opposition to Jupiter and Saturn rising in Virgo.
There will be foreign complications affecting Britain, France, and
western Europe and as much of northern Africa as is involved in
these positions; disputes concerning territory, financial obligations,
trade, and perhaps questions arising out of the League of Nations
will come to the front—there will be intrigue and underhand working;
labour disputes, unemployment, and discontent will be widespread and
will be heard of in many parts of the world. Much attention will be
drawn to these matters, and parliament will be actively concerned;
questions relating to national health and the food supply will also arise,
and improvements and reforms will take place ; the salaries of workers
will rise.
At Berlin the luminaries are in the sixth house in opposition to
Jupiter and Saturn in the twelfth. In Central Europe, governments
will be unfortunate, the people will be dissatisfied among themselves
and discontented with their rulers; questions relating to food and
unemployment will be unsatisfactory, and national health not good;
crime will abound. Mars in the seventh house will send a martial
wave over Central and Eastern Europe; it is very close to the cusp
in the extreme east of Europe.
At Calcutta J upiter and Saturn are near the meridian in opposition
to the Sun and Moon ; questions relating to money, taxation, and
business will be troublesome and embarrass the government; the land
and agriculture will not be under good influences; a seismic shock
may be felt.
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

At Washington Mars -will be in the midheaven squaring the

rising degree ; a good deal of the martial spirit will enter into the life
of the nation, and prominent men and perhaps the President will be
agents in accentuating it although they themselves may suffer by it
and be the subjects of attack. There will be trouble arising out of
railways, the navy, shipping, travel, and transport generally; there is
danger of loss, accidents and strikes here, but new methods and
inventions will be introduced connected with traffic by sea, rail, or air.
Mars will enter the first point of the sign Aries on February 13,
at 5.3 a.m., at which moment it will be rising in Persia and east
Russia, and culminating in Japan and near Adelaide. Here and in
England and other parts ruled by the sign it will rouse the military
spirit; there will be danger of accidents, [riots, and public feeling
running high, as well as extravagant expenditure. But this is also an
influence under which there may be changes and improvements in the
services, military displays and successes. Mars enters Taurus on
March 25, troubling Ireland, Asia Minor, and Poland, especially under
the square to Neptune about April 9.

AN EXPECTED COMET.
Some sensational statements with regard to the perihelion passage of
Pons-Winnecke's comet next summer have recently been published. It
appears that the orbits of the Earth and comet and the objects themselves
will approach so closely that a brilliant and abundant shower of meteors
may quite possibly take place at the end of June. Jupiter has disturbed the
orbit of the comet during the last half a century, and the result is that the
period of the latter has been lengthened, and its path at perihelion brought
into touch wilh the Earth's orbit.
The precise values of the elements of its orbit are a little uncertain, but
its perihelion distance is known to be increasing, and is probably now a little
greater than unity; that is to say, it is about the aphelion distance of the
Earth, and the comet is expected to be in perihelion towards the end of June
or in the beginning of July.
At the last return (in 1915), the period being 5.89 years, the comet was
detected on April 4, five months before perihelion passage, which was on
September 1, when it was as faint as magnitude 16.
Its approximate anticipated position at present is given as:
Jan. r8. RA I97058' Dec. i802a'N., Long, i 90 r'
Feb. 11. 206 18 22 18 1511
This comet is called Winnecke's because it was found in 1858 by the
astronomer of Strasburg of that name; but its identity with one discovered
by Pons in 1819 was afterwards shown, so that it is sometimes called Pons-
Winnecke. It has been seen at every return since 1858, except those of
1863,1880, and 1903.
7*

(Esotenr ^.stroiog^

By Alan Leo
{Continued from Vol. XVII., p. 233)

TABLE III.
Planes, Elements, and Gunas
II III IV
Planes States of Canseiousness Elements Gunas
^ (Atmic Will or Power Akasha Tamas
■( Buddhic Wisdom Air Sattva
5 (Higher Mental Creative Activity Fire Rajas
Lower Mental Cognition Fire Rajas
Astral Feeling Water Sattva
Physical Action Earth Tamas
Table III. illustrates the relation between elements, gunas,
states of consciousness, and the five cosmic planes.
Column I gives the names of the five cosmic planes or regions of
existence. These will be quite familiar terms to most readers, but for
those to whom they are new the following explanation may be given.
The physical plane represents the outer material world upon which
we are born and from which we depart at death. It corresponds to
the element earth and to tamas.
The astral plane is the intermediate world to which all men pass
at death. It corresponds to water and to sattva.
The mental plane is divided into two parts, the higher and the
lower; it is the heaven world, and corresponds to fire and rajas. On
the higher mental plane the higher Ego or permanent soul in man is
located, that part of man's consciousness which passes through all
incarnations and which contains the memory of all his past lives. To
this level man normally ascends after death, and from here he descends
to be reborn on the physical plane. This is the highest plane to which
man normally reaches, and it is only the very few highly evolved souls
who can function on the two that lie beyond, the buddhic or intuitional
and the atmic or spiritual plane.
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Man's individuality belongs to the higher three of these regions,

and is destined ultimately to unfold all the powers and possibilities
that belong to them, although at present nearly all men can pass no
higher than the higher mental plane. Man's personality belongs to
the lower three planes, in which the wheel of birth and death is said
symbolically to turn.
Column II gives the states of consciousness characteristic of the
planes. The states mentioned are those which are most typical of
each plane, but it must not be forgotten that the whole man can and
does exist on every plane.
Column III gives the name of the elements corresponding to the
planes ; but here again each plane reflects all the others within it by
its subdivisions. Solids correspond to the physical plane as a whole,
liquids to the astral as a whole, fire to the mental plane, and air to
the buddhic or intuitional plane; but each of these states exists on
each plane.
Column IV gives the gunas that correspond to the planes, and
it will be noticed that they are inverted, the highest reflecting down as
the lowest, the second from above as the second from below, and so on.
This principle of reflection holds good also of the elements and the
states of consciousness in their essential nature although not of their
names ; so that although the personal man does not reach to the highest
planes he can infer some of their nature by what he finds below.
Here also it should be remembered that each guna exists on each
plane; tamas preponderates on the physical plane, but sattva and rajas
are both there as well, and similarly of the other planes. In applying
this however, it should be borne in mind that, from the astrological point
of view, the three gunas are synonyms for the three quadruplicities of
the zodiac, fixed, mutable, and cardinal, and for similar ternaries as
given in chapter iii.
Classification by the three pertains to life and consciousness and
is subjective, classification by the four elements belongs to form,
matter, and is more objective. But this is subject to reservations that
the three gunas are energies working in matter, and that even in the
four elements, air and fire are relatively more abstract because they
belong to higher planes, and water and earth more concrete because
they belong to lower planes.
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The Four Bodies

When we turn to the bodies in which man functions and the
worlds or planes with which those bodies are in touch, and from the
matter of which they are formed, we have the series of correspondences
shown in Table IV. This is very similar to Table III. except that
it is abbreviated to four stages, which are all that the average man
exhibits.
TABLE IV.
Body Plane Matter Consciousness Self
Causal Higher Mental Air Synthatic Individual
Mental Lower Mental Fire Cognition Personal
Astral Astral Water Desire
Physical Physical Earth Action >>
Man's individuality is higher and synthetic and includes three
phases or stages of evolution, as is shown in Table III., but because
only the first and lowest of these stages has yet been reached by the
humanity of to-day, only this one is included in Table IV. Air here
means the kind of so-called formless matter that is found on the Higher
Mental Plane, and it is regarded as synthetically representative of
everything that lies beyond; the causal body is built of it, and in it
the permanent Individuality functions, enduring through hundreds of
incarnations ; it corresponds chiefly to abstract thought but also
includes abstract feeling, intuition and spiritual will because of its link
with higher planes. It refers to the airy signs of the zodiac.

TABLE V.
The Threefold Mah and the Signs

Atma . Aquarius. Spiritual Unifying Will,

Will Leo, Mental Creative Will.
Tamas Scorpio, Astral Will, Desire.
1 1 Taurus, Physical Will, Determination to Action,
Buddhi 1 Gemini, Spiritual Wisdom, Unifying, Intuition.
Wisdom Sagittarius, Mental Wisdom, Cognition.
Sattva Pisces, Astral Wisdom, Emotion.
Virgo. Physical Wisdom, Co-ordinated or balaaced action.
Manas f Libra, Spiritual Creative Activity, Perception.
Jility |1
Creative Ability 1 Aries, Mental Creative Activity, Individualisatiou.
Rajas J I Cancer, Astral Creative Activity, Action Itself.
 ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY 75
Fire here means that kind of matter which is found on the Lower
Mental Plane. The Mental body is built of it formed afresh at every
incarnation; and in it the practical thought of the personality functions.
Water means that kind of matter which is found on the Astral
plane. Man's astral body is built of it; formed afresh at every
incarnation; and in all emotions, passions, desires and feelings
function, good and bad, high and low. Whenever the personal man
likes or dislikes anything and experiences pleasure or pain, the matter
of this body is thrown into vibration, just as is the matter of the
mental body whenever he thinks about some object. It relates to
watery signs of the zodiac.
Earth means the matter of the physical plane, of which man's
outer body is built, that vesture which is born at birth and dies at death.
Action, or will in action, is the state of consciousness characteristic of
this body.

The Ladder of Consciousness

If we start from the lowest states of matter and imagine
•consciousness and life evolving higher and higher modes of expression
as they pass upwards, mere motion, action and re-action, is that which
begins in the state called Earth. In man it is action self-consciously
performed. It corresponds to the mineral kingdom ; because while
inorganic or mineral matter can be acted upon and can react, it shows
neither feeling or thought. Its highest level is reached in plants,
which correspond typically to the subtle matter or ethers of the
physical plane.
When the stage of evolution called Water is reached, consciousness
of pleasure or pain, likes and dislikes is added to the mere action and
reaction of earth. The self has now evolved to the level of the astral
plane and functions in the animal kingdom. When the two stages
are mingled, and the action of the earthy physical is carried up into
the pleasure-pain of the watery astral, we have desire and its'opposite,
aversion; for these are formed when consciousness functions in terms
of pleasure or pain and goes out towards or shrinks back from the
object. The going out towards an object or shrinking back from it is
the ingredient of action, which has been added to and intermingled
with'the mere passive pleasure-pain or feeling.
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When the stage called Fire is reached, the power of thinking is

evolved, and thought is added to feeling and action.
When the stage called Air is reached, the separate human
individual is evolved. As previously remarked, ordinary humanity
only shows this as abstract thought in its various stages with abstract
feeling and some intuition; but in future periods of evolution it is
destined to transcend this greatly. It is syntbesising and unifying, as
distinguished from the separative action of fire; so that the separate
self of the fiery Aries and the ascendant becomes blended in another
self in the airy Libra and the seventh house; and the same synthetic
process can be seen in the brotherhood of Gemini and the third
house, and the friendship or universal brotherhood of Aquarius and
the eleventh house.
(To be continued.)

The A.B.C. of Astrology.—The Sun. Moon and the seven Planets,

and the Signs of the Zodiac, afford sufficient food for study during many
years of the student's life; and when the A.B.C. of the science is mastered,
practice and experience alone will further enlighten the would-ije astrologer.
In each sign of the zodiac there is a mine of information to be explored, but
it is not merely a superficial knowledge of the fact that Aries is a fiery,
cardinal and masculine sign, etc., that will help the student, but the
knowledge of the fundamental principle underlying the character of each
sign which he must seek. There is a quality in every sign of the zodiac,
which all who come under its especial influence have to make manifest down
here on this physical plane. AL that auy one of the signs denotes can never
be found in books that have been, or ever will be written ; but the symbol of
each sign or planet is an Ideograph from which the true student can draw
his shapes and patterns inexhaustible. Alan Leo.
Although the road which leadeth from us to the Friend be beset with
dangers yet the journey will be easy if thou hast knowledge of the stages.
Hafiz.
Grieve not if, when through love of the shrine thou settest thy foot in
the desert, thou art wounded by the thorn. Hafiz.
If I am a disciple of the ancient Mage be not wrath, with me, O Shaikh!
for thou only gavest me a promise, and he hath brought me the substance.
Hafiz.
All deep things are song. ... It seems somehow the very central
essence of us—song as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls.
Carlyle.
 77

®lj« Same of Quickening

By H. S. Green

QUICKENING, or the movement of the unborn child in the womb,

normally occurs at about mid-term, or near four and a half months:
although cases are sometimes known in which it appears as early as the
third month or as late as the fifth. Sepharial and Mr E. H. Bailey
have published a good many facts that tend to show that there is some
connection between conception, the prenatal epoch, and the horoscope
of birth ; and that this connection turns upon the relation between the
three vital points of the Sun, the Moon, and the ascendant.
Because Quickening is normally of regular occurrence, the
question arises whether any relation can be shown to exist between
it and the horoscope of birth. The cases that are given below have
been collected and examined in the light of this problem and they
certainly show that such a relation exists. It will perhaps be as well
to give the particulars of the cases first and to comment upon the
subject afterward. They fall naturally into the following classes.
CLASS (A). On the day of Quickening the Moo" is at or near
the same longitude as at birth.
Case I. Female born 17/1/1917, 3.13 p.m. G.M.T., latitude
50o51'N, longitude 2ni20sE. Ascendant ?514.49; ©1^26.58;
J 11110.46.
Quickening occurred on 6/8/1916, 2.10 p.m. G.M.T., latitude
0
5l 24'N, longitude S^e'W. Ascendant in23.52; ©SU3.45; Diril0.9.
This is the day of the sixth converse lunar return, that is to say
the sixth return of the Moon to its own place counting backwards
from birth. Also the same sign is'rising as that which contained the
Moon at birth, although not the same degree. It may be as well to
add that in examining these cases it is very convenient to reckon by
theseilunar returns, because while the day of conception is usually
unknown and the true date of the prenatal epoch sometimes uncertain,
here can be no doubt as to the day of the lunar return.
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Case II. Male born 26/12/1903, 3.47 a.m. This case is taken
from Mr E. H. Bailey's book The Prenatal Epoch, p. 163. The
birthplace is not stated but is assumed to be near London. Ascendant
11X12.47; 0^3.13; I)X 22.49.
Quickening occurred 11/8/1903, at 1 p.m. Ascendant in. 14.45;
O SI 17.40; 5X22.42. This is the day of the fifth lunar return
converse from birth. The Moon is in the same degree as at birth;
the ascendant only two degrees different from birth.
Case III. Female born 23/8/1916, 1.36 p.m. G.M.T., latitude
510 25'N, longitude The time of birth was carefully noted
for astrological purposes. Ascendant ■"1 29.59; O»tK0.4; 5953.3 4.
Quickening occurred 13/3/1916, probably about 11 a.m. Ascen-
dant 2S7.38; OX22.32 ; 5 "2310.48. This is one day after the sixth
lunar return converse from birth ; the Moon is in the same sign as at
birth but not in the same degree; the Ascendant is near the place of
the Moon at birth.
Class (B). On the day of Quickening the Moon is passing
across the horizon {ascendant or descendant) of birth.
Case IV. Female born 30/7/1916, 10.5 a.m., G.M.T., London.
Ascendant ^6.20; OSl,6.53; 5Sl.10.26.
Quickening occurred 5/3/1916, hour not stated. At noon the
Moon was at T1.44, close to the cusp of the descendant of birth.
This was the 17th day after the sixth lunar return converse from birth.
If the prenatal epoch is correctly taken as 17/11/1915, 0h44m68p.m.,
London; Ascendant ^10.26; ©"124.6; 5^6.52; the agreement is
still more interesting. The day of Quickening is then the exact day
of the fourth lunar return counting forward from the epoch.
Case V. Male born 2/5/1897, 0.30 a.m., standard time, Florence,
43° 47'N, 44n'56*E. This case is taken from Mr E. H. Bailey's
book, pages 115 and 154, "donkey-faced child," a 6i months child.
Ascendant kfl9.26: O 8 11.48; 5 8 13.3.
Quickening occurred 26/2/1897, hour not stated. At noon the
Moon was at kfS.lS, the rising sign at birth but not the exact degree.
The prenatal epoch was on 13/10/1896, 7b30"123s a.m. G.M.T.,
5 at kf 16.47. The day of Quickening then becomes the fifth lunar
return, less a few degrees, counting forward from the epoch.
Case VI. Female born 1/12/1901, lh32m23* a.m., place not
 THH TIME OF QUICKENING

stated, assumed to be near London. Ascendant -^1.46; © f 8.11 ;

JSI 15.56. This case is given in Mr E. H. Bailey's book, page 153.
Quickening occurred 7/7/1901, hour not stated. The Moon at
noon was at K 23.17, applying to the cusp of the seventh house at
birth. This is the fifth return counting forward from the prenatal
epoch, or the fifth lunar libration from the epoch, the position of
the Moon then being 3^28.52. [N.B,—It is not quite clear in
the book whether this was the actual day of Quickening or only
approximately so.]
In some cases it is a matter of uncertainty to the mother which is
the true day of Quickening, and medical men state that movement
due to some other cause may be mistaken for Quickening, especially
in the case of a first child. This is illustrated in Case III., where two
possible dates of Quickening are given. The first was that previously
stated, 13/3/1916, when " the room seemed to go dark for a moment" ;
the Moon was then near its place at birth, thus bringing the case into
Class (A). But a second date is mentioned 5/4/1916,10.50 to 11 a.m.;
the child moved for ten minutes. A map for 10.50 a.m., G.M.T.,
shows ©23.16 rising, the Moon at 8 18.22; so that the Moon was
then in the seventh sign of birth although not really on the cusp ; and
the sign rising is that which contained the Moon at birth, although it
is not the same degree. The presence of the Moon in the seventh sign
brings this second date into Class (B). It is interesting to note that
the sign Cancer was rising on both dates. The probability is that
both were genuine movements of the child.
CLASS (C). Oh the day of Quickening the Moon is in
conjunction with the -place of the Sun at birth.
Case VII. Male born 28/4/1914, 11.56 a.m., G.M.T., latitude
51° 25'N, longitude lm128W. The time of birth was very carefully
observed for the purpose of Astrology. Ascendant k?1.43 ; © 8 7.50 ;
D n 17.5.
Quickening occurred 12/11/1913 between 5 and 7 p.m. At 6 p.m.
the Moon was at 8 5.58, two degrees from the Sun's place at birth,
and n 24 wastrising, a few degrees past the place of the Moon at
birth (t.e. the line of the horizon at the prenatal epoch). This was
four days before the sixth lunar return converse from birth.
This case cannot be regarded as quite final or certain because the:
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mother reports that she was feeling unwell from Nov. 12 to 15. On
the last of these days the Moon was at n 10.24 at noon, the same sign
as at birth, which would bring the case into Class (A).
C<7se VIII. Male born 17/7/1916, 4.30 p.m., G.M.T., 54o0'N,
4° 16 W. Ascendant ■?2.24; O ss 24.43 ; D ^29.43.
, a

Quickening occurred 13/3/1916, 8.28 p.m., G.M.T. Ascendant

===18.26; OK22.57; 1)sb15.29. The Moon was applying to the place
of the Sun at birth. This was ten days after the fifth [lunar return
converse from birth.
There is another possible way of classifying this case. The fifth
lunar return converse from birth occurred on 3/3/1916, 4.59 a.m., G.M.T.
when the Ascendant was YflSA ; so that at the time of Quickening the
Moon was exactly on the cusp of the seventh house of this map, an
unusual and unexpected relationship. The question therefore arises
whether the map for the previous lunar return can be used as a basis
for classification, and also whether such a map has any subordinate
signification of its own with regard to character or fortune.
Class (D). Miscellaneous or uncertain.
Case IX. Female born 1/3/1905, 11.3 a.m., G.M.T., latitude 51°
33'N, longitude 01,0m488W. Ascendant n 27.27; G H 10.14 ; BVy 16.57.
Quickening occurred 9/10/1904. There was a New Moon on this
■day which fell at =o= 15.30 in square to the place of the Moon at birth
[i.e. to the line of the horizon at the prenatal epoch). This appears to
be the astrological reason why the event occurred on that day ; at any
rate a careful examination, has failed to disclose any other. This
relates it to Class (A), only instead of being on its own place at birth
it is in square to that place, which is of course only another way of
saying that it is in square to the line of the horizon at the prenatal epoch.
Case X. Female born 19/3/1903, 11.3 p.m., London. Ascendant
T1120.33; O K28.ll; B ? 15.45.
Quickening occurred 10/10/1902. This was three days after the
sixth lunar return converse from birth, which fell on 7/10/1902,
5.17 a.m., London; Ascendant ===18.8 and midheaven 5523.51. The
hour of quickening is not given, but at noon on the day the Sun was
at -^16.15, the Ascendant of the lunar return, and the Moon at Itf 24.48
the fourth cusp of the lunar return. So that Quickening is here
.related to the lines of the horizon and meridian in the map of the
 THE TIME OF QUICKENING 8l

immediately preceding converse lunar return. This relates it to

Case VIII, Class (C), as previously remarked.
Another interesting fact may be noted by those who doubt the
validity of this reference to the angles of the map for the lunar return.
The prenatal epoch apparently fell on 15/7/1902, l1,23n,9' a.m.,
London; when the Sun was at 5521.38. On the day of Quickening
the Sun was near the square and the Moon near the opposition of the
place of this Sun.
Another coincidence may be remarked in the fact that on each of
the three dates, prenatal epoch, Quickening, and birth, the two
luminaries were posited in signs that are in square to each other.
Case XI. Female born 3/3/1905, 4.25 a.m., G.M.T., latitude
53 48'N, 6m8BW. Ascendant kf8.26 ; ©HI 1.56; 5-8.23. This
0

was a case of rape, and the child was illegitimate. Coition between
7 and 9 p.m., 3/7/1904 same place. If 8 p.m. is taken as the time the
cusps of the houses are nearly the same as at birth ; Ascendast
kf3.15; ©5311.24; 5X18.14. The Moon here is near the place of
the Sun at birth; and the Sun is very close trine its own place
at birth. The seventh house here is very strongly occupied, for Mars,
Mercury, Neptune, Venus, and the Sun are all setting.
Quickening took place 12/10/1904, 10.53 a.m. Ascendant
11123.41 ; ©-^ 18.41 ; 5^2.36. I have been unable to classify this
case under any of the headings previously referred to; for the positions
at Quickening do not seem to bear any definite relation either to birth,
or to the previous lunar return (which took place 20/9/1904), or to the
prenatal epoch (which occurred 14/6/1904, 1 lh4m48sp.m., G.M.T.
Ascendant —8.23 ; 5 ®7.40) or to coition.
Medical writers state that movements due to other causes are
sometimes mistaken for Quickening, especially in the case of a first
child, and it seems likely that this may have been the fact here. A
connection of some sort has been shown to exist in all the other cases,
and this is the only one in which there is any difficulty.
(To he continued)

In Central Europe the opposition of Neptune to Mars and Venus at the

Winter Quarter fell from the ninth house to the third. This was followed
by religious riots in Italy; Tuscania Cathedral was wrecked by a mob on
January 21st, and there were riots and fighting at Castellammare.
82

Ifonus, Sis SnfluEuce in ilje KKorl5

By Bessie Leo

The power of the planet Venus may be traced in all expressions

of art, whether it be music, painting or singing, and in all subtle
refinements requiring delicacy of touch, perfection of speech, or
fineness of expression. The difference between the influence of
Mercury and Venus is too subtle to put into words, and the nearest
approach an astrologer can make is to term one the magnetism that
permeates the spiritual soul, and the other that of the human soul.
In this respect Venus is the representative of the human soul in all
human beings. When the individual is self-conscious in his human,
soul, then and then only, will he understand and appreciate the
influence of Mercury, but before that is attained the plane of Venus
must be reached.
Venus receives the positive, outgoing electric force or "spirit"
while raising and elevating " matter," and through human love-
striving to draw together all separated human forms: its mission
being to unify, to combine, to reconcile. Thus the Christos, or Christ
principle, which saves, succours, nourishes, and builds up (charity and
compassion being chief among its divine attributes), emanates from
Venus, and indeed forms the only true representation of the real
nature of the great spirit who dwells in that planet.
Undoubtedly each planet has a certain mission to fulfil, and
a certain work to do in the Cosmos, in which each forms a centre,
through which plays some aspect of the Father's glory : and it seems
to me that Venus distributes and radiates the principle of love, all
earthly affection being but a broken reflection of the divine glory of
true love, a dim expression in part of the Christ spirit.
We often speak of God as being Love, or of Venus as the Star
of Love, but in reality we know little on our earth of this universal
principle, Venus being limited and refracted through house and sign.
■ Love of wife, love of child, love of friend, love of country, all
these are but partial forms of Love, and do not, and cannot, fully
 VENUS, ITS INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD 83

embody Love as it really is. Even these forms, it is true, are rarely
free from either selfishness or passion, but such as they are they
typify the workings within us (in a puny way) of this divine attribute.
The planet Venus has often had the appellation given to it of " The
Star of Love " and the temperament of those born under its divine
influence is, generally speaking, a very harmonious one. The Venusian
sphere of action does not lie in the busy world of commerce, with
its struggle for material wealth, its desire to conquer and subdue
everything to self-interest, but leans rather to the more advanced stage
of adaptiveness and self-effacement. For all force and aggressiveness
are inimical to the vibrations of Venus; her power is the power
of love.
Venus was ever the symbol of the lover, not the combatant,
the sustainer, not the defender. Tenderness, gentleness, love, peace,
beauty and harmony are some of her sublime attributes. Her symbol
is the Circle, emblematic of spirit, elevated above or rather brooding
over the Cross, which typifies matter. And just as the symbol of the
Sun © typifies the life of the Logos, rushing through everything, so
does the symbol of Venus 9 typify the love of the Logos, for in
Venus the Circle of Spirit is attached to the Cross of Matter; and
it is this principle which Venus typifies, supporting and holding
together every form. And thus alone is rendered possible the
evolution of the human family.
It seems that the chief mission of this fair star is to embody the
attractive force of divinity, the feminine attributes, so to speak, of '
the great All-Parent, softening and subduing.
For we must remember that in any horoscope Venus will take on
the colouring of the house and sign she is placed in, partially or almost
entirely obscuring her real nature, quite apart from any disharmony
produced from any adverse aspects of other planets: and so love is
crucified daily in physical form.
If we look at the matter symbolically we may conceive of Venus
as the love principle, stretched on the Cross of Matter: on one side is
Mars, on the other Saturn, and thus the animal passions on the one
hand, and selfishness and greed on the other, are the two malefactors
opposing the Christos principle, or the two thieves with Christ.
S — 'i—b.
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Occult tradition tells us that the inhabitants of this lovely plane

are nearing their liberation, having transcended humanity, and become
god-like, with divine virtues and attributes, and that moreover, their
elevation means our own progress. For our earth is very closely
related to Venus, which may be called its Twin Star, because, when
the human family was but just entering on the stage of life, highly
evolved beings came from that planet and in tenderestcompassion took
form on ours to help and aid our infant humanity. Thus a special
bond of love and concord must exist between this earth and Venus;
on the one side enormous help given, on the other, devotion and service
must result in uniting our spiritual prototypes very closely with those
of the planet Venus.
When we consider the mission of Venus in human life, we see
that it is only by her help and aid that the curse of separateness
vanishes. She holds the atomic particles in combination in the
physical world, uniting all these particles to form one unit, the
molecule, symbol of the domestic sphere : for without her unifying
and co-ordinating vibrations these particles would fly apart. Under her
dominion is the whole of the social world, and every form of benevolence
and compassion. She gives that attraction which draws and binds
together even conflicting and opposing forces. Astrologically we
know that if we would have a social function successful, it must be
inaugurated under a good aspect to Venus. Again, the world of
beauty, of loveliness, of purity and perfection is the sphere of Venus.
While the scientist, the philosopher, and the mathematician—analysts
and arrangers—must supplicate the aid of Saturn and of Mercury,
the devotee of art, of music and of poetry—the creative world—must
bend the knee to Venus.
The peculiar power which Venus confers is intuition, soul
perception, which cognises truth by that inner perception which we
designate feeling. People often say: " I have felt such and such a
thing to be true." It is power on the life side of the universe.
Everything that is perfect, lovely and beautiful on this physical plane,
has the radiance of this planet shining through it—"The Grace of
God in the fullest sense of the word."
The sculptor as he fashions his clay into a living image of reality ,
the painter as he strives to depict on canvas the living beauty his soul
 VENUS, ITS INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD 85
has seen in secret, the musician as he vainly endeavours to express
the strains of melody that pour down to him from planes higher than
the physical, are all working under the inspiration of Venus. For the
creative arts are on a plane higher than intellectual knowledge.
People who are under the dominant influence of Venus, seek the
Self in the beautiful and the harmonious : for the love of beauty is
their keynote, and were it possible at this stage of our evolution to
absorb the full vibrations coming to us from the planet Venus,
independently of the matter in which we are encased, which shuts us
out, as it were, from the full sweep of its mighty power, we should
realise unity with all that is, and be as the Christ, the Master, who is
the lover of all that lives.
This is to-day, for many of us, an ideal merely, but when the
mission of Venus to humanity is perfectly fulfilled the result must
ensue, and we shall manifest the love that saves to the uttermost,
becoming then world saviours, Christs : for all the minor and separative
forms of love that have been leading the soul on through many earth
lives to perfection must culminate finally in Universal Love.
The principle of Venus becoming too large to be contained in
any separate form, consciousness of beauty will then be realised
in the life, and all forms, limitations and barriers, will drop away
and humanity find itself continually bathed in a sea of love, all
separateness gone, and unity with each other and with the Father
accomplished.
To epitomise, Venus embodies the Christos principle, and her
mission is to redeem humanity, to fulfil the will of the Second Logos,
the second person of the Trinity, the " Son " of Christian terminology,
acting as a vehicle or centre for the Divine influx, which finally draws
all men to the Bosom of the Father.
In studying the planet Venus you must remember that only
through the signs of the zodiac do you get its influence on earth, and
as a matter of fact that is the same with all the other planets! Venus
is most happy in its mental phase—working through cardinal-air—
in that mode of consciousness belonging to the element Air. This
element belongs primarily to the Buddhic or Intuitional Plane, and
thus Air becomes a synthetic expression of the individuality in the
personality. Venus working through Libra gives an outward turn
-86 MODERN ASTROLOGY

of consciousness -going out towards the environment, and it works

partly through thought, and partly through feeling. When the Airy
element is brought down within the compass of the three worlds and
considered as representing the higher mental plane, Venus will be
very strong in the plane of creation as a mental attribute is then
functioning in its own element.
But functioning through Taurus—Fixed-Earth—it is more akin
to feeling and emotion, and Venus functioning through Taurus shows
forth as patience, endurance, faithfulness, steadfastness, etc. And
although Venus gives expression to musical ability through this sign,
it has not the creative genius in it that Libra shows.
If we could get to understand Venus as apart from the signs of
the zodiac altogether we should understand genius, but we can only
know the expression of Venus as conditioned by these two signs—
Libra and Taurus.

The Moon was setting in the sign Taurus at the Winter Quarter, with
very mixed aspects, being in trine to Jupiter but in square to Neptune,
Venus and Mars; and it was pointed out that trouble would fall upon parts
ruled by the sign, including Ireland and Persia. In Ireland there were the
attempted overtures between Sinn Fein and the Government, which came to
nothing although conducted by friendly intermediaries, and the return of
■"President" De Valera; and in Persia there was the collapse of the
government. In Ireland the square of Mars may be traced in the burning
of bouses (Mars was in the fourth house) adopted as a definite punishment
by the military authorities for the ambusb of police and soldiers.

I n the map for the Winter Quarter Neptune was culminating at London
in opposition to Mars and Veaus, and the dangers that threatened the
government in consequence were pointed out. Unemployment increased
enormously and was a source of serious trouble to the government, and
Labour Leaders refused to take part in the government Committee of
enquiry into unemployment. Several resignations and changes of Cabinet
and other government offices took place. In the middle of January
by-eleclions, took place at Hereford, where the Coalition Unionist majority
was greatly reduced, and at Dover, where the government Candidate was
defeated.

At the Winter Solstice the Moon was in the sign Taurus in square to
Venus, its dispositor, and Mars, lord of the sixth house at London. It is
probable that this position has significance in connection with the spread of
foot and moutb disease which was so extensive that fears were expressed
-that it might interfere with the milk supply.
 Ilotes on tlje ^rogreaaeb Angles

By G. R. Warwick

The angles of the horoscope as they progress and form their

various aspects to the planets and luminaries' places at birth are the
most powerful significators in Astrology, but unfortunately are not
often employed by Astrologers, as for them to be of use the map must
be accurately rectified.
The M.C. signifies business, parents, employment and finance;
also fame or notoriety, whereas the Ascendant signifies chiefly the
health and state of mind of the native, though the planet it aspects
also operates in terms of the house it occupies and the houses it rules.
For every year of life the M.C. advances 1° no matter how the native
may travel. To find the progressed Ascendant from the progressed
M.C. reference must be made to a Table of Houses for the place of
residence at the time and not the birth place.
Omission of this rule has caused the effects of the progressed
Ascendant to be misjudged. As an example of this rule we will take
the writer's nativity :—Birth at Newark, Notts, 3.52 p.m., Feb. 2nd,
1884.
x xi xii i ii iii
Tn «20 ssz A4.46 J12I npi2
O 5 S s <f 31 ijr
= 13.15 T22.36 >321.19 >£15.29 A.11.35I!. 11527.451!. 113.12 nj!27.43^
14) Lilith
»18.17 K23
The direction progressed Ascendant 6 <? occurred four times in
the course of the life and its effects were strongly felt.
The native at the age of 10 went to school near Rugby which
town has approximately the same latitude as Birmingham for which
accurate Tables of Houses have been prepared.
In February, 1895,progressed Ascendant (according to Birmingham
Tables of Houses) came to d <? and the native had a serious attack of
88 MODERN ASTROLOGY

measles, complicated by varicose veins in the lower part of the leg

and swelling of the glands of the neck (Fixed Signs).
In November, 1910, he went to Calcutta on business and stayed
there until May, 1911. During this period his progressed Ascendant
again came to d <? (Calcutta Tables of Houses) with the result that
he got severe dysentery and also malaria, both martial diseases.
From Calcutta he proceeded to Bombay and so again pushed
back his progressed Ascendant and in June, 1913, his progressed
Ascendant again formed 6 $. The result was pneumonia and pleurisy,
but as the progressed Moon was not forming an adverse aspect at the-
time, the native was only laid up for a fortnight. Early in the
following year he proceeded to Madras, and that journey further South,
again put the progressed Ascendant to the wrong side of <?.
In June, progressed Ascendant again came to d <? and the result
was abscess of the liver and pleurisy. The disease was severe this
time as J) p. was afflicting its radical place (hyleg) and also the
place of ? , which was in the sixth house at birth and anareta in the
horoscope.
Directing the Ascendant to an affliction or conjunction of <? is one
of the best means of rectifying a horoscope unless <? is in Aries, in
which case the feverish .complaint will be trivial. An advantage of
employing d" is that its aspects from M.C. progressed and Ascendant
progressed act»promptly to time.
Aspects formed by M.C. progressed are largely modified by the
strength or weakness of the aspected planet. If the afflicted planet
be strong the native's employer or father suffers and if weak the native
suffers. To find out whether it will be the father or employer, see
whether a benefic by progression is passing through the radical
tenth house. This will protect the father (in a male nativity).
Examples; In September, 1914, the native's progressed M.C.
formed the □ of <? in the radix. The writer did not suffer under the
aspect, but his employer suffered heavily through the havoc wrought
by the German Cruiser " Emden." Mars being in the native's
Ascendant and in a fiery sign is essentially dignified and that position
protected the native. Progressed ,S. passing through the radical tenth
house protected the Father.
In May, 1916, the writer's progressed M.C. formed the □ of Q.
 NOTES OK THE PROGRESSED HOROSCOPE 89

Now O is in X, its detriment and is also weak by bouse, as seventh

house corresponds to •it, its fall. In this case the native suffered, i.e.,
loss of position and unemployment.
In directing the M.C. and Ascendant no aspect, however weak,
should be ignored. Quintiles and Biquintiles have ample effect,
especially if the planet be strong by sign.
The following example proves the strength of such an aspect.
The Nativity is that of a friend of the writer's;
x xi xii i ii
11522
iii
*18 T2I a 25 D 27.44 Xt r9
Q B ?
1115.31 =27.25 1116.37 D24.50 2514.42 a 17.3 111,7.1515, nn.11

At the age of 15 under M.C. quintile O he had some success at

school (O ruling III) and the following year under M.C. p quintile §
he entered business at the early age of 16.
Other examples might be given. It is worthy of note that aspects
of the progressed angles never " misfire " and if such directions were
employed universally the truth of Astrology would be so manifest that
nobody would scoff at it.

The Russo-Turkish War was commenced, by the declaration of the

Czar, on the 24th of April, 1877—the Sun being then in square aspect to
Mars (in Aquarius).
The chief astrological causes of this great 'war were : 1, the Lunar
eclipse in Virgo (the sign ruling Turkey) of February 27th, 1877 ; 2, the con-
junction of Mars and Jupiter in 0° 1' 56" of Capricorn (the sign ruling Bulgaria)
of March ist; 3, the ingress of Mars, at the Neomenia on the place of the
Great Mutation (conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter) of January 21st, 1842;
4, the great star Cor Leon is entering the sign Virgo.—(From^Alan Leo's
Scrap-book.)

The " Solar Revolution" is the return of the Sun to the degree, minute,
and second of longitude held by the great luminary at birth. A map of the
heavens is drawn for the exact moment of the Sun's return and compared
with the horoscope. Per se the figure so drawn is of slight value as a means
of forecasting the nature of the events likely to happen in the ensuing year.
•Still, it is found that a planet which happens to be angular (i.e., exactly rising,
southing, setting, or in the lower meridian) at the moment of Solar return,
has great signification. When the ascendant of a Solar revolution is very
nearly (within 50) the same as at birth, the figure is worthy of consideration
in every way.—{From Alan Leo's Scrap-book.)
go

JlstrologiJ anb |itcnfal derangement

Practical Essays by a Nurse

II.—Of the Unbalanced Mind

Here again we may arrive at some important points by study

of a concrete example. The unfortunate horoscope before us in No. 2
is that of a young woman who has been certified for asylum treatment
already five times, being released on probation at intervals.
Horoscope No. 2. Nata 10 August, 1890, 2.5 a.m., London.
x xi xii i ii iii
X18 T25 n 10 mis ^14 il23
OD??<r7< 1? ijiV
AI7-20 ni6.9 1^4.43 "129.3 76.4 =5.531}. 194.42 ^23.18 116.34
Dech. 15N38 21N2 10N45 0N42 24S27 19S34 11N15 8S33 igNso-

Now what is the root of this trouble ? The Sun, the basis of the
will, is in its own sign, well placed and well aspected to the Moon and
Uranus. The Moon is in opposition to Mars setting in the sixth
and evil as this is, it would not of itself cause insanity. The conjunc-
tion with Neptune is a sinister sign, the more so as the Moon (the
ruler) is in the unfortunate twelfth house; a position I have so often
found among asylum inmates. But the real cause of the unbalanced
mind is seen in the mutual aspects of the planets. Saturn is joined
to Mercury in the third house, ruling the " lower " mind, while Saturn
is part lord also of the ninth. They too are in square to Mars in
the sixth, and to Neptune.
The influence of Mars in the horoscope is a pretty clear indication
of the form of the disease. It shewed out through the passional nature,
which was sensuous and subject to uncontrollable fits of passion. The
naturally strong will turned to obstinacy, and the constant repression
of the desire nature through the routine of asylum treatment only led
to recurrent outbreaks of violence accompanied by cruelty. (The evil
 ASTROLOGY AND MENTAL DERANGEMENT

alliance of sensuality and cruelty is frequently met with in mental

disease.)
Now let us study this map more closely. It is supposed to be
that of an incurable case. Doctors and nurses alike have branded
it as a case of congenital mania for which there is no known cure.
"Suggestion " is not very helpful, as there are no fixed ideas to dispel;
and no ordinary treatment has availed to satisfy the cravings of the
afflicted personality. But let us suppose the case illuminated by the
teachings of Astrology. There is not the slightest doubt that something
could have been done if people had only known how to do it; and
the map, as usual, supplies the key.
It is true that the unbalance is hereditary: it came from the
mother's side: it is true that the brain forces represented by the heavily
afflicted Mercury are unstable and weak. Moreover, the passional
nature is strong and may easily become abnormal. All the same,
there is latent strength in the higher nature which right treatment
could have called out. The splendid vibrations of U ranus aspecting
both Sun and Moon have been utterly neglected; and this was her
greatest hope. Out of the way studies, one branch or another of
Natural Science,'would have been found helpful in counteracting
the lower influences. The generosity and bonhomie of the character
(Mars sextile Jupiter) should have been encouraged, not repressed,
and through steady work (she was an excellent worker), in a bright
and healthily stimulating environment, the vibrations from Venus and
Uranus in the fifth house would have yielded up some wholesome joy.
I am not arguing that the outbreaks of insanity could have been
prevented. They were " brought over " in her fate. But I do protest
against the fatalistic view that nothing could have helped her to work
off the afflictions, because in her horoscope are influences which could
have been used for help in the course of her education. Now it is to
be feared that it is too late. There is no food for the starving or
arrested personality in the Asylum system. Humane it tries to be
effective in cases of ungovernable or acute insanity it often is; but at
its best it is fundamentally at enmity with joy. So this poor child
will probably go through all her life as the sport of those elemental
passions which no one has taught her how to control, or, more properly,
how to transmute. But let me insist again that they might have
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

.been controlled and transmuted, and that in nearly every horoscope of

a mentally aillicted patient counter-influences working for health can
be—astrologically—discerned. Surely it is for the science of the
future to find and work with them.1
(To be continued.)

ASTROLOGER AS ENVOY
Using the Stars to tame Turkish Rebels?
'• Daily Express " Correspondent
Constantinople, Dec. 2nd (received yesterday)
The Government Mission under Izzet Pasha, Minister of the Interior,
has arranged to leave to-morrow for the purpose of negotiating with Mustapha
Kemal at Angora. An Arabian Nights' atmosphere is suggested by the
inclusion in the mission of Fatiu Hoja, the Imperial Astrologer. The part
he is expected to play is not known, but perhaps it is to persuade the
Nationalists that the stars are adverse to them.—Daily Express, 6/12/20.
Which?—A painful story in connection with what the Farmers'Union
■calls " monkeying with the clock " occurs to me. The time was last September,
when Summer Time ended at 3 a.m. The wealthy man's household was in
suspense, and the wealthy man roamed restlessly from room to room. A few
minutes before 3 a.m. the awaited event happened, and the first twin arrived,
roaring lustily. A few minutes after the clock had struck three his brother
made his appearance. When I tell you that one or the other is heir to the
family estates you will appreciate the anguished problem that rends the
wealthy man's household.

Learn that to love is the one way to know

Or God or man. It is not love received
That maketb man to know the inner life
Of them that love him; his own love
Shall do it. J. Ingelow.
Don't look for the flaws as you go through life,
And even when you find them
It is wise and kind to be somewhat blind
And look for the virtues behind them.
For the cloudiest night has a tint of light
Somewhere in its shadows biding ;
It is better by far to bunt for a star
Than the spots on the sun abiding.

1
Note.—An interesting statement has recently (December. 1920) been made by
Mr Sanger of the County Council Asylums Committee, te the effect that in his
•experience "patients kept at home, if properly treated, recover more quickly than
those in hospital." This is another indication of a changing point of view.
 Jlnstms to Questions

CHRONOLOGY. In calculating the number of years from A.D.

to B.C. it is usual to deduct one year. Why it this ?
The astronomical notation of years B.C. differs from the secular.
In secular chronology the year before A.D. 1 is B.C. 1, whereas in the
astronomical reckoning it is O. Therefore B.C. 3 (secular) is equivalent
to B.C. 2 (astron.), and from B.C. 3 to A.D. 3 will be 5 years, and
not 6, since the years intervening are B.C. 2, B.C. 1, A.D. 1 and A.D. 2
according to secular notation. All dates may be considered to be
secular unless they are' expressly stated to be astronomical, and it is
the present practice to substitute the minus sign for the letters B.C. in
astronomical dates. Thus B.C. 3 (secular) is equivalent to—2.
According to the author of " Veritas " the Sun, Moon, and all
the planets were in conjunction in the first degree of Aries on the
21st March, 325 A.D. Is this correct ?
No. There is not the slightest foundation for the statement. The
new moon fell on the 30th March of that year, at about 6 p.m. and on
the 21st Mercury and Venus were in Aries, Mars was in Virgo, Saturn
in Gemini, Jupiter and Uranus in Aquarius, and Neptune in Scorpio.
V. E. R.

One of the chief objections raised against Astrology is, that many of its
predictions often remain unfulfilled. Obviously the very same objections
can be raised against the medical science, because doctors often fail to cure
diseases. But from this no sane man will ever say that there are no healing
powers in medicine. The objections against Astrology are mainly the out-
come of ignorance. There are many causes which satisfactorily account for
such failures, such as the difficulty to obtain correct birth-time, the lack of
knowledge and the ability of astrologers making the predictions, and so
forth. In modern times this sublime science has degenerated, as it is made
to subserve pecuniary profits. It is probable therefore that the key to occult
truths might have been lost or removed by those responsible for human
evolution. Can anyone doubt for a moment what a great power it will be in
the bands of one, who can know the future even of a single day? The
grandest object of Astrology is not to lift.the "dread veil of futurity," but to
aid humanity in the process of evolution, by giving the earnest enquirer an
insight into the working of the immutable law of Karma.—[From Alan Leo's
Scrap-book.)
94

®cmspontiettce
The Editors do not assume responsibility for any statements or ideas advanced
.by their correspondents, and the publication of letters does not necessarily imply
sympathy with the views expressed therein.
Retrograde Planets
To the Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,—It would be interesting to have some comment in the
Magazine upon Retrograde Planets. I therefore raise the following queries.
What have students noted when planets are :
1. (a) Retrograde at birth.
(b) „ and become Direct later.
(c) „ and remain Retrograde for life.
(rf) Direct and later are Retrograde.
2. The various views of students with regard to the import of
Retrograde planets.
1 have found in several cases ^ ^ at birth to give arrested mentality
until it is Direct and it appears to be a safeguard for often the mentality is
above the average.
Several very Cardinal maps, lacking squares, have if R for life. What
is the import ?
Personally when ^ 10th bouse became Direct I came in touch with
Astrology and Theosophy.
nth January, xgzi Yours faithfully, Kate Halliuat
London, N. y
January i$th, igtt
Summer Time in Germany
To the Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,—Some time ago I wrote asking you whether you could tell
me if Summer Time had been adopted in Germany last year, and you were
good enough to reply that you had received no advice on the matter.
Subsequently a friend suggested I should write to the Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, which I did, and got the reply that they could not say whether
it bad been adopted or not in 1920, but advised me to write to the German
Consul in London. From this quarter I was told that they had no record in
the office regarding the matter and referred me to the British Consul in
Cologne (the town with which I was concerned for information). From
Cologne 1 got this reply, which contains information of possible value to
Others.
British Consulate General,
Cologne
January litli, igzi
" Sir,
" With reference to your letter of the 23rd December, I am
" directed by H.M. Consul General to inform you that Summer Time
" commenced in this area on the 1st February, 1920 and is still in force.
" I am, etc.
((
" British Vice-Consul"
Yours, truly, H. B. Yeates
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY 95
Columba Noae (Noah's Dove). A modern constellation, first published
by Royer in 1679, made up of stars in Canis Major near Argo.
Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair). A constellation situated south
west of Cor Caroli introduced by Eratosthenes (a.d. 300).
Combust. A term applied to a planet when within 8° 30' of the Sun.
Its influence is said to be burnt up or destroyed, and in Horary Astrology
a planet so situated is unusually weak. Mercury in this position is stated to
suffer less than the other planets.
Combustion. See Comoust.
Comets. Luminous bodies either wandering through space or revolving
round our Sun in very elongated orbits. They have always been considered
of evil influence, and are said to denote wars, famines, and pestilences.
According to Ptolemy, the sign in which they first appear, together with the
direction and inclination of their tails, indicate the countries and cities that
will be chiefly affected ; the nature and form of the sign shows the things and
creatures affected ; the time of continuance shows the duration of the effect;
and their position with regard to the Sun indicates the period when it will
commence, namely, early, if the comet rises before the Sun, and late, if it
sets after the Sun. In general, comets appearing in fiery signs are said to
denote wars, slaughters, and commotion ; in earthy signs, drought and
scarcity ; in airy signs, wind, sedition, and pestilence ; and in watery signs,
abundant fain, floods, and pestilence.
The ancients paid great attention to comets, and classified them info
nine groups, according to their appearance, as follows ;
t. Vtru. Like a dart. Denotes scarcity of fruit, death of great men,
church and state mutations.
3. Temiculum. Red, with flaming rays. Of the nature of Mars and
denotes wars and some scarcity.
3. Pertica. Emitting sometimes bright and sometimes obscure rays.
Denotes drought and scarcity, and troubles of the nature of the planet with
which it is in conjunction.
4. Miles. Hairy tail, with moon-like rays. Dedicated to Venus, and
denotes trouble to great men and alteration of laws and customs, especially
in those places to which the tail points.
5. Cerulens. Blue. Dedicated to Mercury, and denotes death of great
men, and wars.
6. Auroya. or Matiitiiui. Fiery. Dedicated to Mars, and denotes war,
pestilence, fires, drought and famine.
7. Argenium or A rgcnteus. Pure bright rays. Denotes abundance
of crops, if Jupiter is in Cancer or Pisces, but is not so good if Jupiter is in
Scorpio.
8. Rosa. Large and round. Denotes death of great men and many
mutations.
9. Niger. Dull or leaden. Dedicated to Saturn and denotes mortality,
executions, etc.
Commanding Signs. V, , n, S, SL and itg, because when the Sun is
in these signs the day is longer than the night.
Commerce, Point of. See Arabic Points.
Commercial Astrology. That branch of Astrology that deals with
business, commercial, and speculative affairs, and seeks to forecast the rise
and fall of stocks and shares, produce, etc.
Common Signs, n, itg, * 1 and . The term Mutable is to be preferred.
Conception. The horoscope of conception frequently mentioned by
the old astrologers is what is now known as the Prenatal Epoch, and does
not represent the moment of conception, though it may be near to it.
Conceptive Signs, a, SL, m, and ,rr.
g6 MODERN ASTROLOGY
Conditiohary Arc. The diurnal arc by day, and the nocturnal by
nigbt.
ConditionaryLumikary. The Sun by day, and the Moon by nigbt.
Configuration. The relative positions'of the planets in the horoscope..
Also used by the old writers in the sense of Aspect (q.v.).
Conjugations. The planets have been said to have four conj'ugations
according to where they are situated, viz., (i) near the Earth and increasing
in light; (2) near and decreasing; (3) distant and decreasing; and (4)
distant and increasing. The term is now obsolete.
Conjunction. A term applied to two or more planets when situated in
the same longitude or within orbs of one another. Conjunctions maybe
partile, when the planets are in the same degree and minute, or platic, when
only within orbs.
Conjunction, Great. A conjunction of two or more of the superior
planets, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. In a restricted sense
it applies only to the several conjunctions of the last four of the above
planets, and to the conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Cancer.
The periods of the major conjunctions are as follows ;
Neptunt and Uranus. Every 171 years, advancing 140 in longitude..
The last was in 1821 in VPS, and the next will be in 1992 in Itf'iy.
Neptunt and Sattmi. Every 36 years, advancing 80°. Last was in 1917
in Sl5-
Neptunt and Jupiter. Every 12 years, advancing 29°. Last was in 1919
in Sir 1.
Uranus and Saturn. Every gi years, advancing one sign. Last was in
1852 in 82.
Uranus and Jupiter. Every 83 years, receding 10. Last was in 1845
in V3-
Saturn and Jupiter. Every 20 years, receding to the previous sign of the
same triplicity and remaining in this triplicity 240 years. Last was in 1921
in TIJJ27 (see Conjunction, Mutation).
Great conjunctions are of supreme importance in Mundane Astrology,
and a horoscope is erected for the exact time of partile conjunction.
Directions from such a map, and especially from that of the conjunction of
Saturn and Jupiter, indicate the events of the period intervening between
that and the next conjunction.
Conjunction, Inferior. A term applied to Mercury or Venus when
in conjunction with the Sun and situated between the Sun and the earth.
Conjunction, Least. A conjunction of the Sun with any planet
(especially at the Vernal Equinox), and the monthly conjunctions of the Sun
and Moon.
Conjunction, Lesser. The conjunction of Jupiter and Mars. This
occurs every 2 years, advancing about 67°. It is in the same sign every
36 years, but passes into the succeeding sign in 6 of these periods, or
216 years.
Conjunction, Mean. The conjunction of Saturn and Mars, except
when in Cancer. This occurs every 2 years, advancing about 24^°, and at
the end of 265 years returns to the same sign and degree as before.
Conjunction, Mutation. A term applied to certain of the conjunctions
of Saturn and Jupiter. During a period of 240 years these bodies are
conjoined every 20 years in the same triplicity. At the end of this time
they pass into another triplicity, and the first conjunction in the new
triplicity is known as the Mutation Conjunction. It rules the events of the
world for the ensuing 240 years until the next mutation occurs.
Conjunction, Superior. A term applied to Mercury or Venue when in
conjunction with the Sun and on the far side of the Sun from the earth.
Foiiiidid August 1890 under the title of
"THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE"

Modcrp

Astrology
A Journal devoted to the search for truth concerning Astrology

ts™.' ] APRIL, 1921. [NO. 4

®Ij£ <Bi»xtor'a ©bacrhatorg

WITH the progress of Uranus through Pisces, a great unfoldment

of psychism is sure to take place. Signs of the times are abundantly
evident even at its outset when you have a practical
^IMaces'11 scientific investigator like Mr Edison declaring he is
now at work on an instrument that, if successful, will
allow telephonic communication between us and the other world!
He will assist the etheric waves to adjust themselves to our coarser
vibrations—so that at any rate the lower astral and the physical earth
will be in touch. Before Uranus began its transit through Aquarius,
ruling the air, air machines and air transit would have been designated
as just fairy tales, but the conquest of the air has been achieved and now
the Ether-bridge between astral and physical is almost to be crossed,
not by emotionalism or trance but by science—thus demonstrative
proof even accessible to the senses will be in evidence.
A few of the Sunday and Daily papers are engaged through
automatic writing in getting accounts through of how life is lived on
the other side of the Veil; in short, astrologers see a new era unfolding
with the conquest of the psychic waves, and it is given to a great
scientist to make the discovery—astrologers have spoken of all these
things for over a quarter of a century. Events will occur, that must
prominently bring the starry messengers of the planets into line with
98 MODERN ASTKOI.OGY

science, and science and religion will once more walk hand in hand
and the influence affecting everything on' our globe, including the
human family, be seen to be controlled, by the stellar forces—Tempus
omnia revel at.
* * * *
The fact that Uranus stands for leaders of men, those who
possess and wield power, is now widely recognised by students of
Astrology; as is also the further truth that Neptune
Autocracy. relafes rather to the masses of the people, those who
Neptune, have either not yet learned the lesson of individualism
Democracy
or who, having learned it, have gone beyond it and are
mastering the more difficult task of combination, co-operation, and
brotherhood ; using these words in a general sense and not as technical
political or sociological terms. It will be for future students to trace
the varying influences of these two mysterious planets through all the
twelve signs of the zodiac according to the national and inter-national
effects they produce. Here it will be enough to go back to their
opposition from Cancer to Capricorn during 1906—1910, when forces
were liberated that began the economic warfare, the struggle between
the master and man, ruler and ruled, that has been raging since and
that is yet far from being at an end.
The conjunction of Uranus with Jupiter in Aquarius in March 1914
was the beginning of a cycle destined to lead up to " The Parliament
of Man, the Federation of the World," which is seen in its infancy in
the League of Nations. Aquarius is the eleventh sign, and the
eleventh house signifies friends individually and allies and parliament
nationally. During the present century this has to be lifted to an
international level, and it is one good thing emerging from the miseries
of war that this process of the evolution of international combination
has received a greater impetus than during a century preceding it.
What men and nations will not learn voluntarily and peacefully they
are compelled to realise through struggle and pain.
The entry of Uranus into the sign Pisces will bring to the front in
various parts of the world leaders of men who will work through
democratic movements and in the interests of the people. This will
continue in various forms and with varying success until 1927, when
the planet of Will Individualised enters the sign Aries. Here there are
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 99
■dangers of the tendency being in the contrary direction, that of personal
ambition; for such a combination as Uranus and Aries obviously
gives great possibilities in the matter of strength of character, and
this can very easily pass into an intensification of individualism and
separateness, with nations as well as with men. Those who conquer
this temptation will be the leaders of the future, working unselfishly
for the benefit of all and the brotherhood of mankind; but those who
do not, whether men or nations, will be among the failures, who have
not realised the divine plan that is being worked out in their midst
Where this happens, and to the extent to which it happens, there will
be danger of intensification of struggle and conflict during the seven
years of the stay of the planet in Aries; but where it is overcome,
great leaders will guide the peoples triumphantly towards the type of
civilisation of the future.
The reconciliation of the struggle between Autocracy and
Democracy will be seen under the influence of Neptune in trine to
Uranus, which lasts from about 1939 to 1943, although the preliminary
twilight or " orb " of this more auspicious day will begin a year or two
before then. During this period men and women will come to the
front and others will be born who will be the leaders of the future in
economics and civics.
B. L.
# 3}: *
Mr H. S. Green sends the following note;
Readers no doubt noticed that, apparently everyone both in this
country and elsewhere agreed to look upon January 10 as the first
anniversary of the birth of The League of Nations.
^^Btatfons6 As has been pointed out previously in MODERN
Astrology, there are two other dates of importance
from the astrological point of view. The reason why January 10,
1920, is regarded as the birthday is that this was the date on which
the Peace Treaty was ratified, whereupon The League of Nations
came into being, its essential provisions having been incorporated in
the Treaty. The signature of the Treaty was at 4.15 p.m. G.M.T.
at Versailles, and the positions at that time were given with comments
in this Magazine for March 1920, page 89. The first meeting of the
Council of the league took place January 16, 1920, 10.30 a.m. G.M.T.,
100 MODERN ASTROLOGY

at Paris (see M.A., March, p. 77). The first official meeting of

the Assembly of the League, which represents it more fully than does
the Council, a small body only, took place on November 15, 1920, at
Geneva; it was called for 11 a.m. and we gave the positions at this
time in M.A. last September, p. 259, but according to the newspapers
the proceedings did not actually begin until 11.30 a.m.; the importance
of the Assembly is shown by the fact that 42 nations were represented
and a great deal of useful work was done.
Students of occultism who realise what an important part is to be
played in human evolution during the present century by the drawing
together of the nations of the world in some common bond, should
examine these maps carefully to see whether the League has within
it the promise of lasting in its present form. In the first two maps
Mars is in the fourth and the seventh houses respectively in square to
the Sun, showing danger of jealousies and disagreements; and in the
third map the red planet is rising in conjunction with the Moon, but
exalted in Capricorn and otherwise very fortunately aspected. The
first map is weakest, and the prospect would not be very hopeful if
this were the true horoscope of the League. The second map, that
for the Council, is rather more promising, and with cardinal signs on
the angles it is evident that the Council will play a prominent part on
the world's stage. But the third map, for the Assembly, contains
a large proportion of very fortunate aspects and shows a considerable
degree of success and importance in practical politics, and the
probability of continuance and growth. Therefore, in view of the
representative character of the Assembly, it is to be hoped that this
map may be taken as the true horoscope of The League of Nations,
for in that case its eventual success as a Parliament of Man is
extremely probable.
The League of Nations Union has been formed in this country
to support the principles of The League of Nations, and all readers
should join. Its address is : 15, Grosvenor Crescent, London, S.W. 1;
and a subscription of half a crown a year will admit to membership,
and members will receive the magazine Headway every month,
giving a full account of the activities of The League. The first
number of the magazine was issued last January.
 IOI

International JUtrologir

Eclipse of the Sun

New Moon, 8 April, 1921, 9.5 a.m., G.M.T.

X xi xii i ii ii!
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(6) Washington
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The New Moon is an annular eclipse of the Sun. The full annular
phase is only visible in the extreme north of Scotland and the west
coast of Norway. It is visible as a partial eclipse over the British
Isles, the whole of Europe, north Africa, and north-west Asia. At
the moment of New Moon the beginning of Cancer will rise at
London, and the eclipsed Sun will be in the eleventh house, separating
from the trine of Neptune in the third house and applying to 150°
Saturn in the fourth; the whole of western Europe from Portugal
to Rome and Berlin will show the eclipse in the eleventh house, where
it brings trouble to parliament and ministers, legislation hampered,
dissensions, possible resignations or death of a member, danger of
misunderstandings with friendly nations abroad. In this case because
one or other of the luminaries rules the second house over the whole
of Europe, there'will be money troubles everywhere, heavy outgoings,
high taxation, changes in money matters, and much discontent with
the government. The presence of Uranus in the mid-heaven in
opposition to Jupiter will increase the troubles of the government and
the demand for fundamental changes; there will be scheming and
plotting directed against those in high places and power, and the
opposition and labour movement will be strong and will gain some
advantage; the government will be fortunate if they do not have to
102 MODERN ASTROLOGY

give way before their opponents. Employment, food troubles, housing,

mines, and the land will all present difficulties and cause discontent;
and this will extend eastward beyond Central Europe to Vienna and
Poland, where Mercury will culminate in opposition to Saturn ; so
that the lot of those in power will not be very enviable.
Nevertheless the sextile of Uranus in the midheaven to Venus
and Mars in the eleventh house, shows the furtherance of legislation
in this country and beneficial financial measures. Irish questions will
be to the fore and that country will benefit in some respects through
the long stay of Venus in Taurus and its trine to Jupiter, although the
presence of Mars in that sign as well and the square of Neptune will
cause inevitable strife. Matters affecting railways, transport and
travelling will arise in parliament, especially on the financial side,
possibly a movement for nationalisation.
At Petrograd, Constantinople, Asia Minor, Syria and Mesopotamia
the eclipse will be in the midheaven, so that this area will share in
the troubles and changes affecting governments and those in high
places; questions of sea and land traffic, commerce, and railways will
arise, and accidents occur. At Calcutta, Jupiter and Saturn will rise
in opposition to Uranus and Mercury setting; international affairs and
questions of foreign policy will cause trouble; trade and traffic abroad
will benefit; but the eclipse in the eighth house indicates the death of
some highly placed person and danger of sickness and many deaths
among the people.
At Washington, Uranus and Mercury will rise in opposition to
Jupiter and Saturn setting, so that international relations and foreign
policy will demand attention and cause trouble, but benefits may
follow through financial matters, trade or taxation, where important
changes are likely to take place.
The Sun will rise in the Atlantic Ocean at the moment of New
Moon, culminate in the Caucasus and by Bagdad, set in Japan and
Australia, and be on the nadir in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast
of North America.
The eclipsed Sun falls as under in these horoscopes.
Prince of Wales ■? "? Austen Chamberlain tj
King of Italy rfV Mrs Alan Leo
King of Belgium rf G Mrs Annie Besant rf w ^ J
Winston S. Churchill s i
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

Eclipse of the Moon

Full Moon, 22 April, 1921, 7.49 a.m., G.M.T.
X XI xii ii ill
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t IS « 3 B26 = 28 T14 8 17
(i) London (2) Berlin (3) Constantinople (4) Petrograd (5) Calcutta
(6) Washington
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Bi.38 "11.38 T13.20 »2.I8 S 20.17 11E18.39I5. K8.32 ^110.58
THIS is a total eclipse of the Moon, invisible in Britain, Europe, and
India, visible in America and Australia. The eclipsed Moon is in the
second degree of Scorpio in the fifth house at London in opposition to
the Sun and Venus in close conjunction in Taurus in the eleventh ;
Uranus is in the midheaven in opposition to Jupiter. The positions
are similar in their general significance to those at the recent eclipse
of the Sun, but the fact that the sign Cancer rises over a large part of
Europe and that Cancer is ruled by the eclipsed Moon will make the
effects felt strongly here. A lunar eclipse in Scorpio causes much
sickness and a high death rate among the masses of the people;
discontent arising through matters connected with money, taxation,
wages, unemployment, food problems; there may be trouble in places
through excess of rain, floods, accidents by water, cases of drowning,
and trouble to shipping and occupations connected with water. In
this country business and trade will be good but national expenditure
high and financial problems difficult for the government. Falling in
the fifth house the death rate among children will be high, there will
be deaths among the nobility and those highly placed, places of
entertainment will suffer: there may be differences between the two
Houses of Parliament.
Uranus is so closely culminating at Rome and Berlin that those
in power will be adversely affected and changes in the governments
may take place. The eclipsed Moon falls in the fourth house from
Petrograd eastward,being just on the cusp of the fourth near Herat in
Afghanistan; there will be discontent among the people and a spirit
of revolt, the crops and the land will suffer and there will be accidents
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

or trouble connected with mines or oil wells; but the ruling powers
should be successful with the Sun and Venus culminating. At
Calcutta the eclipse will be in the third house and there will be
accidents by rail or other means of travelling.
The eclipsed Moon will rise between Adelaide and Melbourne
where its general effects may be expected to be felt. It will culminate
near San Francisco and Los Angeles where the President and the
ruling authorities generally will be troubled and unpopular, and some
eminent man or woman will die; foreign affairs will give trouble.
It will be in the eighth house at Washington threatening sickness,
a high death rate, strikes and troubles connected with money or
unemployment.
The eclipse affects the following horoscopes.
Queen Mary J S King of Belgium gip
Queen Alexandra ri f D. Lloyd George f rT
King of Italy ij e Austen Chamberlain ^ if.
King of Spain e 5 Duke of York rf S

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On January 26 to 38 there was serious rioting in cities in the north of
Italy, amounting for the time almost to civil war. As we pointed out, this
was one of the districts in which Mars and Uranus were rising when in
conjunction on Jan. 9. Mars and Venus had then progressed close to the
opposition of Jupiter and Saturn, which were in the mid-heaven of the
Quarterly map at Rome; and the Moon in Virgo was passing the conjunction
of the latter two planets and the opposition of the former two.
At the Winter Quarter at Washington the Moon was iii the ninth house,
shipping, in square to Mars and Venus in the sixth, and this was followed
in February by the imposing of twelve days' quarantine against Typhus on
all vessels coming to the U.S.A. from Europe; which was expected to tell
severely against shipping lines.
 ®lTe ®int£ of (^uickentng

By H. S. Green
{.Continued from p. 81)

Summary

There are here eleven cases, which fall into four classes.
In Class (A), the Moon at Quickening is at or near the same
longitude as at birth, which means that it is on the horizon of the map
for the prenatal epoch. The rules for the epoch allow the place of
the Moon to be either rising or setting according to circumstances, so
that there is no reason why cases should not be found in which the
Moon at Quickening is in opposition to its place at birth.
In Class (B), the Moon at Quickening is on either the ascendant
or descendant of birth, which means that it is passing across its place
at the prenatal epoch or the opposition of that place.
These two Classes are quite clear so far as they go, for they
show a definite relationship to exist between the horizons of birth and
of the prenatal epoch and the place of the Moon at Quickening; and
they afford additional evidence of the known influence of the Moon
over gestation. When additional cases have been collected perhaps
some other worker will be able to formulate a rule for predicting the
exact date of Quickening, for I have not succeeded in doing this
as yet.
In Class (C) there is a departure from the rule which relates the
place of the Moon at Quickening to the horizon of birth or of the
prenatal epoch, for here the relation is between the Moon at Quickening
and the Sun at birth. What is the reason for this departure ? The
prenatal epoch shows a relation to exist between the Moon and the
horizon at birth and at the epoch, but the place of the Sun is only
taken into account as a point from which to measure the increase or
decrease of the Moon. Can it be that this is not the only function of
the Sun in these matters, and that its place has a significance similar
to that of the Moon and the Ascendant ?
 io6 MODERN ASTROI-OCiY

Until further cases have been collected it will not be possible to

answer this question confidently. Only two cases fall in this class.
s
Case VII. may be explained away by assuming that Quickening did
not really occur on the date mentioned but three days later, for then
the case would fall in Class (A) as previously stated. Case VIII. also
may be evaded, as shown, but only by introducing another peculiar
relationship, namely the passing of the Moon across the horizon of the
map for the previous lunar return. This is so novel and unexpected
an outcome that probably most students will hesitate over it quite as
much as over the idea of bringing in the place of the Sun.
Class (D) includes the miscellaneous cases, of which Case X.
again introduces the place of the Moon at birth as in Class (A), only
here the relation is a square and not a conjunction or opposition.

The Lunar Return

The very unexpected relation found to exist between the place of

the Moon at Quickening and the angles of the map for the immediately
preceding converse Lunar Return in Case VIII. raises the question
whether any similar relation exists in any of the other cases. The
following table gives the necessary information.
Case I. No relation.
„ II. Moon 17° W. of 4th cusp of 5th Lunar Return.
„ III. Moon 11° 26' W. of 10th cusp of 6th Lunar Return.
„ IV. Moon (at noon) 1° 45' E. of 10th cusp of 6th Lunar
Return.
„ V. Moon (at noon) □ 10th cusp of 3rd Lunar Return.
„ VI. Moon (at noon) 4° 52' E. of 10th cusp of 6th Lunar
Return.
VII. No relation.
VIII. Moon 0° 25' above 7th cusp of 5th Lunar Return.
IX. Moon 15° 12' E. of 10th cusp of 6th Lunar Return.
,, X. (At Noon) Sun 1° 53' above cusp Asc.; I) 0° 57' W.
of 4th cusp of 6th Lunar Return.
„ XI. No relation.
Here the distance in longitude is given between the place of the
Moon at .Quickening and the angles of the map for the previous
 THE TIME OF QUICKENING

converse Lunar Return. Only conjunctions and squares have been

taken into account; all other possible aspects to angles have been
ignored for the sake of simplicity.
In only three cases is no relation found. In some of the other
cases the distance, considered as " orb," is so great, that it might be
set down as "no relation" if each case were taken alone, but they
become more significant when all the cases are read together, each
one in the light of the others.
Again, if only one or two cases were found, they might easily
be dismissed as coincidence, or more likely would never have attracted
attention. Considering all together, however, I find it difficult to
dismiss them in this way. They seem to point to the fact that maps
for converse Lunar Returns counted backwards from birth have
significance and are of some importance, although it still remains to
ascertain what that significance is. The mean Lunar Month covers
27i days, and there are ten repetitions of this between conception and
birth, plus or minus a few days. Those students who recall the
significance of number ten in human and cosmic evolution, the " ten
numbers of the Sun," the three aspects of the Monad, the three of the
Individuality, and the four of the Personality, with the ten Sephiroth,
will see great possibilities here.
One other fact is worth noting. In the list just given, the Moon
is found oftener in relation to the line of the meridian than to that of
the horizon. In fact, out of the eight cases that show any relation,
the meridian is involved in no less than seven of them. A larger
number of cases might alter this proportion, but that any relation at
all should be discovered is rather startling when it is remembered that
in the rules for calculating the Prenatal Epoch a possible relation
between the Moon and the line of the meridian is ignored and only the
horizon taken into account. Can it be that those rules need to be
supplemented in this respect ? The suggestion will probably be
unwelcome to some readers.

The Month of Quickening

Medical writers state that Quickening usually occurs towards the

middle of the period of gestation, but that in some cases it may occur
ro8 MODERN ASTROLOGY

as early as the third month or as late as the fifth. By the way, to an

astrologer who wishes to be exact, it is not a little exasperating to-
find how loose a use is made of this word " month " both by medical
men and by occultists. No distinction is usually drawn between
lunar, synodical, and calendar months, and it is seldom evident which
is meant. As previously stated, all these cases have been reckoned by
lunar months counted backwards from birth, because they are easily
verifiable.
In one case Quickening occurred 10 days after {i.e., nearer the
date of birth than) the fifth converse Lunar Return.
In one case it occurred on the exact day of the fifth Lunar
Return.
In six cases it occurred between the fifth and sixth Lunar
Returns {i.e., during the sixth Lunar Month, counting backwards
from birth).
In one case it occurred on the exact day of the sixth Lunar
Return.
In one case it occurred 4 days before {i.e. farther back from birth
than) the sixth Lunar Return.
In one case it occurred 17 days after the third Lunar Return.
But this was only a 6j months' child, and, if the period had been
normal, Quickening would have fallen in the sixth Lunar Month.
In conclusion I should like to point out how desirable it is to
collect further cases in which the time of Quickening is known. The
information is of most value when the day and hour are both known,
but if only the day is known it is better than nothing and use can be
made of that knowledge. Those who consider the subject will see
that there are several points upon which further information is wanted,
and it can only be obtained by collecting other cases. All the present
cases have been collected by students working in connection with
Modern Astrology. Any further cases that may be sent in will
be gratefully received and no names will be published.
With regard to the hour at which Quickening occurs, the only
generalisation possible from the few cases in which the hour is known
is that it seems to happen at a time when the sign containing the Sun,
Moon, or Ascendant of birth is rising ; but in two cases it is a sign in
square or opposition to one of these. In Case XL, the case from
 THE TIME OF QUICKENING iog

which no definite conclusion could be drawn, the sign rising at the

hour and minute of Quickening was that which was on the mid-
heaven at birth ; but whether this fact is of any importance it is
difficult to say until other cases have been collected.

The End.

At the February New Moon the tw® luminaries were in the third house
at London in opposition to Neptune. This house governs telephones and
railways, and both these gave rise to trouble. Th® increase in the charges
for telephones imposed by the Postmaster General caused much protest and
indignation ; this announcement really dated back to early in January, and
it will be noted thatat the January lunation Venus, Mars, and Uranus were
in conjunction on the cusp of the third bouse. On February 9, the day
after the New Moon, came] the threat that Locomotive Engineers and
Firemen would strike if the government did not hold an enquiry into the
shooting of two railwaymeu in Ireland. Such a strike would have stopped
all the railways in the Kingdom, but an understanding was reached and the
strike threat withdrawn. On February 11 the Report of the Departmental
Committee on Railway Agreements was issued, according to which
the Railway Companies claimed £150,000,000 from the State, and bad
management by the State was shown.

The little understood disease Encephalitis Lethargica or Sleeping

Sickness was prevalent in England and parts of the U.S.A. during January
and February. The map for the Winter Quarter at London showed Mars
ruling 1st and 6tb bouses and in the 4tb Oj) and g tJL The Moon would
have been " hyleg" if it had been a map of birth. At Washington Mars
was in the 6th house with the aspects the same of course, and the Moon
again " hyleg." This fact and sundry others that have been noted at various
times suggest that the laws of life and death, health and disease, are the
same in National as in Natal Astrology, and that it is a mistake to look to
the sixth house entirely in matters of the health of the various countries.
Students investigating this question of the hyleg will perhaps not forget the
field of Mundane Astrology in their researches.

Sir W. R. Richmond, R.A., the artist of the frescoes in St. Paul's

Cathedral, who died on February 14, was born 49/11/1842, time unknown,
with the following noon positions; 06 ? 55, |) 1 ni47, $21 "1.23, 2 4ky34^t
(? 13^52, 2j22lrfo, Ip nlryai, ^24X26^, Vgibsztf. Here Mercury, Jupiter,
and Uranus are in close sextile and trine, extremely fortunate positions;
and in addition the Sun and Jupiter were in parallel declination, also the
Moon, Mercury, and Neptune. For death at the age of 78, the Sun had
progressed to .srafi and Mars to 11126, so that they were in square to each
other, and close to the semi-square and sesqd-quadrate of Mars and Saturn
at birth. At noon on the day of death the Sun was at.Er25.17, and therefore
only one degree from its heavily afflicted progressed place. The Sun's
eclipse of May iS, 1920, fell at g 26.59, thus afflicting the same places.
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iKustc anil t\je roar ope

By C. E. O. Carter, B.A.

Up to the present the information in the hands of astrologers as

to the causes of musical ability is of a general nature, and refers to
artistic genius as a whole, rather than to any special branch of Art.
It is a recognised thing that Venus is the planet of Art and that both
of her signs, Libra and Taurus, are commonly endowed with artistic
gifts, but when we are asked to determine whether the native of a
specific horoscope, with a strong Venus, is a musician, a painter,
a poet, or a sculptor, we have little published information to go upon.
For example, Tennyson, who had Venus rising in Gemini, is said to
have had little appreciation for music, and certainly nowadays far
more people are fond of music, and have some aptitude for it, than are
genuinely devoted to poetry or painting, and have a real understanding
of their principles.
The astrologer is fortunately provided with a fine collection of
musical horoscopes in 1001 Nativities and most of us can obtain some
good examples from private sources. Nativities of sculptors, painters
and poets are perhaps rather rarer.
An examination of sixteen nativities of musical celebrities, taken
from the above work, proves that there is a remarkable similarity as
regards the parts of the Zodiac tenanted by the planets.
Let me first take the 15th degree of Taurus-Scorpio, adopting
Mr Macnaughton's method of examining pairs of degrees, a method
with which all readers of Modern ASTROLOGY are familiar.
Chopin has Uranus in 12° Scorpio; Strauss Jupiter in 19°
Scorpio; Tchaikovsky has the Sun in 17° Taurus conjunction Mars;
Davenport has Venus in 17° Taurus; Schumann has Jupiter in
18° Taurus; Miss Macarthy, Neptune in 18° Taurus; Schneevoigt,
the Sun in 16° Scorpio; Burar, Mercury in 13° of the same sign.
Backhaus has Venus conjoined with Neptune in 18° and 19° Taurus ;
Mr F. White, Neptune in 20° Taurus; and Mr James has Mars in
 MUSIC AND THE HOROSCOPE III

17° Scorpio. That is to say, eleven out of sixteen cases have these
two degrees tenanted, allowing no very wide orb. Nor have I taken note
of aspects to these degrees, as it seems to me, personally, that to [do
so makes the meshes of the net too fine—there would be comparatively
few who would not answer the test!
I may add that in most cases that I have collected privately this
degree is also tenanted.
One is further struck in examining these maps with the constant
appearance of planets around the 15th degrees of the Cardinal Signs,
but especially of Cancer and Aries, for the Fiery and Watery
Triplicities are more musical, upon the whole, than the [Airy and
Earthy, as being, I presume, more emotional. One could, of course,
regard planets near 15° Cancer-Capricorn as being musical because in
aspect with 17° Taurus by sextile and trine ; and even treat planets
in the two other Cardinal Signs as being in aspect by semi-sextile and
quincunx, but I have preferred to take them as separate spheres of
influence.
24° of Aries and Cancer, and less often of Libra and Capricorn,
are also frequently tenanted, but these degrees may be concerned with
artistic faculty generally.
Examining our maps we find:
Chopin. Moon, 12 Libra ; J upiter, 23 Aries.
Strauss. Asc., 16 Cancer ; Mars and Saturn rather far out in
10 Aries and 11 Libra.
Tchaikovsky. Jupiter, 26 Aries con. Mercury.
Davenport. Uranus, 15 Aries conj. Sun. Moon, 24 Capricorn.
Wagner. Saturn, rg Capricorn.
Merikanto. Jupiter, 14 Aries conj. Neptune. Venus, 16 Cancer
conj. Uranus. The Asc. and Mercury, 24 Cancer.
Morris. Sun, 15 Aries conj. Neptune. Moon, 21 Aries.
Schumann. No planets in these spheres.
Miss Macarthy. Sun la, and Asc. 25. Cancer.
Schneevoigt. Asc. 19 Cancer. Mars, 19 Capricorn. Neptune,
Aries sq. Saturn and opp. Venus.
Shan Dey. Venus, 15 Aries conj. Neptune.
Burar. Sun, 18 Libra opp. Neptune and sq. Saturn.
Backbaus Jupiter, 25 Cancer.
Mr. Holbrooke. Mercury, 16 Cancer conj. Sun.
Mr. James. Sun, 14 Cancer.
Mr. White. Jupiter, 27 Cancer.
Here no less than fifteen out of our sixteen cases show appropriate
planets in one or both the spheres of influence suggested. The Sun,
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune seem the most frequent
112 MODERN ASTROLOGY

planets, though others are often in square aspect or opposition—and

therefore still in the Cardinal Signs. Wagner's case maybe an excep-
tion—Saturn, even in its own sign, and associated with the sense of
hearing as it is, hardly seems convincing.
Another part of the Zodiac frequently marked out by the presence
of important planets is the end of Aquarius and the beginning of Pisces,
and similarly the end of Leo and beginning of Virgo. Students can
easily test this by examining a few of the above nativities. Virgo
and Aquarius have long been considered musical signs.
Two other signs that are less known, I believe, from this point of
view, are Gemini-Sagittarius. In looking through the above maps
I was astonished at the constancy with which they occur, but I find
it difficult to pin down musical ability very closely to any particular
degrees in them. Nevertheless, it is usually the first half of the signs
that is occupied, and not as a rule the first five degrees, so that we
may mark out an area of about 9 degrees, from about 6° to 15°
Gemini-Sagittarius.
We then find that Chopin has Neptune and Saturn therein;
Strauss, Venus; Mr Davenport, Jupiter; Wagner, Neptune;
Schumann, Neptune and Saturn; Miss Macarthy, Jupiter (17*
Gemini) ; Schneevoigt, Mercury; Backhaus, Saturn ; Mr Holbrooke,
Venus; Mr White, the Moon and Saturn ; Mr James, Jupiter; in all,
eleven out of sixteen cases—a fairly convincing proportion.
If we turn for a moment to the horoscope of a famous painter—
Sir Joshua Reynolds—we find none of these sensitive "spheres"
marked, except that he has Mercury in 22° Cancer squared by Uranus;
and I have mentioned that the 24th degree of the Cardinals appears
not to be specially associated with music, but rather with art as a
whole.
It would apppear from the above that only investigation is needed
in order to make it possible for the student to distinguish the various
aspects of artistic genius with certainty and ease. Needless to say,
this mere presence of planets in certain degrees will not bestow them.
The old rules as to what planetary configurations favour musical
expression still hold good. I have only sought to amplify them, and
explain apparently exceptional cases, by carrying our information
a step further.
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Hgmpai&etic Aspects:

By Vivian E. Robson, B.Sc.

The subject of " sympathetic aspects," if they may be so called,

is one that has not hitherto engaged the attention of astrologers, and
was brought to my notice in quite an accidental manner. I frequently
observed that certain degrees of the zodiac seemed to be of importance
in individual horoscopes despite the fact that they were not tenanted
or aspected by any planet, and that not only did transits over them
produce effect, but in many cases they were prominent in horary
figures erected for the person concerned. At first I was inclined to
think that the explanation was to be sought in the influence of the
particular degree which was prominent, but further study and com-
parison revealed the true reason. To put the matter in a nut-shell,
the explanation lies in the sympathy between the degree on the
midheaven and the corresponding degree ascending in any given
latitude.
If we glance at the Tables of Houses for London we see that
when, for example, 9 £ is on the midheaven 12 ~ is rising, or when
18 T is rising 7 Vy is on the midheaven. The results of my investiga-
tions show that sympathy exists between such pairs of degrees, no
matter in what part of a horoscope they may fall, and that a
sympathetic link exists between 7 kf and 18 "V in a horoscope for
London. It is important to remember that latitude plays a great part
in the matter, as may readily be seen by turning to other Tables of
Houses, where we find that at Calcutta 7 is sympathetic to 10 T
and at Petrograd to 1 8 .
The practical effect of this sympathy is that transits over, or
directions to, one of the degrees affect the other. Thus if Saturn is
situated in 18 T in a London horoscope it will be found that a transit
over 7 Vy has a noticeable Satumian effect, the strength of which will,
of course, depend upon the radical strength of Saturn, and the effect
114 MODERN ASTROLOGY

partake of Saturn's radical house and sign positions together with the
nature and position of the transiting body. This sympathy is quite
irrespective of the place of the body or degree in the horoscope, and,
in our example, it is quite immaterial where 7 or 18 T may fall in
the map. Furthermore the influence of the vacant degree is always
of the nature of the planet occupying its sympathetic degree. I am
of opinion that if both degrees are occupied the planets so placed
operate as if in aspect, but this is not so easy to prove and I propose
to confine my exposition to cases in which one of the sympathetic
degrees is unoccupied.
The process as outlined above is equivalent to considering the
degree tenanted by any given planet as occupying the midheaven
under the latitude of birth and taking out the corresponding rising
degree from the Tables of Houses. In practice, however, this is not
complete, for it is clear that we must consider four such sympathetic
degrees, obtained as follows:
1. Degree rising when planet is on M.C.
2. Degree on M.C. when planet is rising.
3. Degree on M.C. when planet is setting.
4. Degree rising when planet is on I.C.
This is equivalent to placing the planet on each angle.
The theory of sympathetic aspects appears to be closely connected
with Primary Directions.
Within 12 hours before and 12 hours after birth every planet will
have passed over every angle owing to the rotation of the earth, and
it seems as if the moment when any planet crosses an angle constitutes
a kind of subsidiary horoscope, and stamps its M.C. or Ascendant as
a sensitive point upon the native.
It will be found that all four classes of degrees do not operate
with equal strength in any given horoscope, and I am by no means
clear as to why this is so. One would expect that a planet would
operate most strongly from the angle from which it is separating at
birth and the one to which it applies, but this does not seem to be
confirmed in practice, and experiment is necessary to find which
sympathetic degree is strongest in any individual case. When once
determined, however, this is found to be constant.
The following examples, though necessarily brief, will show the
 SYMPATHETIC ASPECTS

method of procedure. The most convenient notation to employ

consists in indicating by a letter placed after the planet the angle it is
supposed to occupy, thus A = ascending, M = on M.C., S = setting, and
I=on I.C. Then b M means the degree rising when b is on
the M.C. b S is the degree on the M.C. when b is setting. We are
concerned only with rising or culminating degrees and it is therefore
sufficient to indicate the position of the planet in order to denote
which degree we are using, for if the planet is on the horizon we use
the meridian degree and if on the meridian the rising degree.
Ex. King George V. Married 6/7/1893. S? was in 2 SI, which
is the meridian degree when the radical b is rising, this planet being
in the 7th house at birth. In the above notation we should put
" ? on bA." The Sun was in 15 53, which is near ? A, or is near
the M.C. degree when 2 rises. The D in T passed (?A and O S.
It will be noticed that 15 ® is not in close aspect to any planet in the
map. By direction the O and ? were in conjunction in 9 ss, which
is the M.C. degree of 7—, the degree transited by b at the date of
marriage. The'progressed D was in 9 =^, and 2 transited 2 SI, which
is the rising degree to 9 ^ on the I.C.
Accession 6/5/1910, b, ruler of radical M.C., transited 29 T,
the I.C. degree to U rising {i.e. b on 8 U A). Progressed M.C. was
about 16 which is the Asc. degree to radical O setting.
Outbreak of War 4/8/1914. c? and 2 in 24 ""Jf, the setting
degree to the King's ^ on I.C. © in 11 SI, the rising degree to
b rad. on I.C. ^ in 9i|-':^!' near M.C. degree to O A and descending
degree to b on I.C. i* in 28 53 near b A.
Armistice 11/11/1918. D in 15 M.C. degree to S and
rising degree to O on I.C.
Examples might be multiplied indefinitely, but space is too
limited to allow of more. When dealing with a horoscope it is
convenient to make a table showing the degrees sympathetic to each
planet so that the effect of transits and directions may be studied at
ease. A few trials will at once indicate which degrees are of major
importance, and when these have been ascertained, the student will
find them of considerable assistance in the interpretation of transits
and directions.
ii6

^fitters from ^lanetar^ Hcprcscntatiiica

By Sothis

All planets, we are told, have their representatives below, who

reveal their prototype not only in mind and features but in turns of
speech. A letter from an unknown person will often shew the ruling
influence as clearly as any horoscope, particularly where the subject
is plain and concrete. For example, suppose a young man, running
short of funds on a holiday, to approach his friends with a request for
a loan of £5. He is likely to receive some such answers as these:

My Dear Boy,
I am glad to beat that you are having a good time, and hope that
you will come back all the fitter. No doubt you need a little more ready
money, and the enclosed may be useful. As your birthday falls next week,
I have added another five with best wishes from
Vour affectionate father,
O
My Dear Nephew,
Vour letter has been forwarded to me here. As you will see from
the address, I am at the seaside with the girls. This is quite a pleasant spot,
cool and refreshing after the glare and dust of London. We have just come
back from a circular stroll in the moonlight. The sea is very calm, and the
beach at low tide is covered with shells and tiny crabs.
Another year you must come down and spend a few days with us, if we
canfityouin. It would be a nice change for you, and a pleaoure to your
cousins-
Vour affectionate Aunt Luna.
P.S. —I am sorry that I canaot altogether meet your wishes, but expenses
are high just now, and boucekeeping is difficult. I am sending you £1, and
hope that you will be able to make that do.
Dear Nats,
I'm afraid I can't find five sovereigns, though I dolive near Seven
Kings. Oh this" eternal want of pence that vexes public men!" If you
can't borrow money, you must either beg or steal it, and as you would no
doubt be ashamed to do the former, you must fall back decently on the latter,
I suppose. Apropos, I can put you up to a good thing in business when we
meet, if you can bold out till then. If not, you must go under, and bob up
serenely later on, I suspect however that you have anotberstring (or strings)
to your bow. Let us hope it will prove more remunerative than
Vours ever
5
 LETTERS FROM PLANETARY REPRESENTATIVES II7
Oh you bad boy ! After promising to be so economical, too, and you
have only been away a fortnight! What you boys do with your money
I can't think. I really don't know whether I ought to send you this, but
I suppose I must. Don't spend it all at once.
We hope you are enjoying yourself. Come and see us soon, and tell us
all about it.
Much love from
2
Wired twenty this morning just made pot look forward blowing it with
you when return look sharp. Maks.
My Dear Nativus,
So the bank has broken, has it ? Well, well, it's a way it has.
What a mercy that Providence created uncles! VVhere would you have been
without them, you prodigal ? I am afraid ycu are forming extravagant habits
in youth and laying up an old age of repentance. However, I am not in the
pulpit now, so I will not inflict a sermon on you. Come to me if you want
a little more later on, and whatever you do, don't overrun the constable.
God bless you, my dear boy.
Your affectionate uncle,
V
Dear Nativus,
I am in receipt of your letter of even date, and note your request
for a loan of five pounds (^5) with which I regret I cannot comply. You
are provided with an ample allowance, far more than I ever had as a young
man, and it is your duty to live within it. If you overstep the mark, you
must abide by the consequences, and learn discretion from them. I am
willing however to make yon an offer. I have some work to be done which
calls for care but not for experience. If you like to undertake it, I am
prepared to pay for it at current rates.
Yours faithfully,
'?
Dear N.
I have just made a remarkable discovery—got it out in 48 hours
on end—it will simply revolutionize the system, if the fools can only see it.
It's this way;
Etc., etc., etc.
About the money. I haven't got it. Yes I have—just found it in the
inkstand. Here you are. And look here, when you get back—whenever
that is—come in and see me. I want to show you the find. I shall have
thought of lots of developments by then. Got another now. Goodbye.
Yrs.
S
[Enclosed : some half-dozen Treasury notes, two postage stamps, an
expired postal order, and an unsigned cheque.]
Dear Friend,
Your letter touched me so much. You cannot think what a joy it
is to be able to do even a little thing like this, though I feel I ought to have
thought of it and not left you to ask. You must have so many calls on you.
If you would only say at any time what would be a help to you in this or any
other way 1 Only make use of me, and I shall always be grateful.
Yours devotedly,
w
ji8

JlatrDlogiT ani» iUcntal ©craugcmcnt

Practical Essays by a Nurse

III.—An Extraordinary Case

HOROSCOPE No. 2 gave us a fairly ordinary instance of the bad

effects of Saturn and Mercury aided by Mars and Neptune upon the
balance of the mind. But the most remarkable case that I have ever
known was that of a perfectly sane person nevertheless led into a
course of chaotic behaviour and ultimately into an Asylum for some
months, owing to a square of Mars and Uranus, the latter being in
the 9th. This aspect is unquestionably the most dangerous in all the
planetary chain.
Horoscope No. 3. Nata 18 April, 1868, 6 p.m., Edenbridge.
x xi xii ii iii
®25 nia 1^28 npij /18
O j) s ? <r ij
1*28.58 HIO.37 T5-4 1113-22 T5-10 X 29-39 /4-44IV IB9.18 1*15.1?
Decls. 11N6 8S8 0S26 25N9 1N9 1S8 19S0 23N30 4N36
In the present instance it is the more interesting because of its
being the one flaw in an otherwise exceptionally fine character; and
so powerful are the opposing influences for sanity and strength that
one would have hesitated to predict any grievous harm resulting from
it. Nevertheless at a critical time when the Sun met the square of
the radical Moon and the moral bulwarks of the personality were
weakened, tragedy ensued. (Of that most important aspect between
the Sun and Moon we shall have something to say later.)
A brief analysis of this horoscope shows at once several salient
features.
First, the fatefulness of the life. The majority of the planets
are cadent and setting. When this is so, mistakes are dangerous
things. An action set on foot may soon pass beyond the native's
control; and the pluckiest fight against circumstances may only end
in disaster. The Moon afflicted by Saturn brought inevitable troubles,
 ASTROLOGY AND MENTAL DERANGEMENT Ilg

but an equable temperament and fine intellect always stood the

native in good stead. Venus also in the 9th, and ruling, gave the
mind its prevailing tone of kindness and refinement, while the trine
of Uranus to a Pisces Moon inclined to a contemplative mysticism.
Finally the good aspects of Jupiter to Mercury and Saturn complete
the testimony for a sound and balanced judgment.
But there was the square of Uranus from the ninth to Mercury
and Mars in the sixth house.
The square of the progressed Sun to the radical Moon was ushered
in by a visible, total eclipse of the Sun upon the native's birthday.
There were no other important directions, except—and this was
a curious thing—a sextile between the progressed Mercury and
Uranus, thus weakening the force of the birth square. (Uranus, it
should be mentioned, had now progressed to the eighth house. If it
had not been for this, death might assuredly have been the result of
the extraordinary experiences now embarked upon by the native.)
The trouble began with an estrangement from a beloved friend.
The powerful influences of Uranus upon a Libran vital temperament
had always brought intense and unusual attachments, so that this
trouble struck at the very root of the character. Money troubles and
another loss by death followed. After this, there seemed to be
a disintegration of the personality. The native drifted into an
extraordinary series of adventures, including forgery and impersonation,
all with the one and only object of getting back the broken friendship
by fair means or foul. She kept it up with a cool daring which
deceived everyone and shrank from no hardship and no risk. (The
square of Uranus and Mars inclines to the most insane rashness.)
Finally it was discovered,—a thing which apparently had never
entered her calculations,—and then there followed various attempts at
suicide stranger even than the events which had gone before; but as
this touches another subject, I want to deal with it in a separate
chapter. The point I want to emphasise here is once again the deadly
effect of the Asylum treatment upon such a case. It is difficult to
blame the physicians. Certain symptoms baffled them ;—the patient
was obviously still playing a game with everybody; and they certified
her as a last resource. Once in the Asylum, she spent her time as so
many do until hope leaves them—in trying to prove her sanity, while
120 MODERN ASTROLOGY

the Doctors spent theirs for nearly a year, in trying to find out' the
truth. Meanwhile her keen sympathies ranged her on the side of the
most unhappy patients whose cause she espoused. In the eyes of the
omnipotent staff, there is no deadlier sin, and she left finally, at war
with the whole system, and grievously battered in body and mind
from the whole experience. Because, despite the outrageous conduct
she was never, as the nurses knew well enough, really insane.
There was a temporary invasion of the mind balance as the horoscope
indicated, but with such a birth map, it could not have been permanent
or prolonged. But it occasioned very severe suffering, both to the
patient herself and to others.
What shall we say, then, in judging a horoscope where Uranus,
elevated, squares Mercury and Mars ? We should judge that at some
time in the life the native would run amok in some way, but if there
are counterbalancing good influences, this evil and dangerous direction
can be met with courage. There is a characteristic illustration of the
Mars S Uranus influence in the map of Stanley Conder, given in
My Friends' Horoscopes. Here it unquestionably contributed to the
lad's notorious rashness, his wild and daring adventures from child-
hood. Also, Saturn was d Mercury in the 9th. If he had lived,
these aspects would certainly have brought trouble. But the point is
that we have to learn how to counteract them, instead of simply
accepting them, as we usually do,—waiting for their action, and then
abandoning the native to his fate.
We need more understanding, and more intelligent methods of
education, whereby the helpful influences of the map shall be brought
into play. Then when the trouble came, the native would be
strengthened to meet it and to learn that deep lesson of life that these
bitter and evil experiences may be transmuted by the understanding
soul into a greater strength and wisdom.'

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Nolt. —It may also be noted that although Neptune is not badly a spec ted in
the above map, he is square to Uranus. This may have also conduced to the
chaotic state of affairs at the time of the trouble.
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SCIje ®rudble

The Asteroids
Some months ago 1 announced the preparation of a small work
on the Asteroids by the help of which the positions of several of the
larger ones might be inserted in horoscopes.
The idea met with a very favourable reception, and I take this
opportunity of thanking all those who wrote expressing a wish for
a copy. The work has been ready and would have been published
ere this, but the excessively high cost of production, especially where
figures and tables are concerned, has so far rendered it impossible to
produce. It has therefore been decided to publish it only if 200
subscribers will come forward. The price to such subscribers will
be 4s. bd., and to non-subscribers, 5s. bd. Subscriptions should be
sent direct to me at 48, Flanders Mansions, Bedford Park, London,
W. 4, and all will be acknowledged.
The book will be a small one and will contain chapters on the
astronomy and astrology of the Asteroids. Its chief purpose, however,
is to place in the students' hands the means of ascertaining the positions
of Ceres, Vesta, Juno, Pallas, and Eros for any date and time between
1800 and 2000 within an error of one degree, and by a simple process
occupying no more than five minutes.
* ir * *

Retrograde Planets
The question of retrogradation is one that needs a great deal of
study and it is to be hoped that Mrs Halliday's letter, published
in our last issue, will stimulate others to send in their observations.
Personally, I can fully confirm her statement that a retrograde
Mercury at birth gives arrested mentality for I have particularly
observed this in many horoscopes. Whether there is a life-long
effect is uncertain, though we should expect that there would be,
but it is invariably the case that mental development is felt in the
year in which Mercury becomes direct by secondary direction. There
122 MODERN ASTROLOGV

appears to be another effect also that is not mentioned by Mrs Halliday,

namely that during the period in which Mercury is retrograde the
mind tends to absorb knowledge rather than to give it out.
My own view of retrograde planets is that they denote hindrances
in whatever affairs they govern and do not render the planet's influence
more malefic, as has been suggested. Indeed I have frequently
noticed that a retrograde malefic threatens but does not carry the
threats into effect. There seems no doubt that a retrograde planet
denotes the failure or falling away of whatever it signifies, and if it
happens to be the ruler it seems to involve the native in difficulties
and hindrances and to cause him to leave things unfinished.
Will other readers give us the benefit of their experience ?
If! t! ^

The Horoscope of Dunstable

I am indebted to a correspondent for particulars of important
events in the history of Dunstable. It appears that the town was
granted a charter by Henry I. in 1131, but this was allowed to lapse
and a new one was granted by Queen Victoria on 8th December, 1864.
In accordance with the method I outlined recently this date may be
taken as the basis of a radical horoscope, and by careful rectification
by events I find the true time to be 10.18 a.m., G. M.T. The full
horoscope is as follows ;
x xi xii i ii iii
"1,23.43 / 13 Vjo V318-55 KiG TzS
e V i 1 i V H' «
; 15.40 r 14.22 wi.49 ►322.25 06.41^ ? 10.15 ^=27-'5 1127.5715. Ts-asi?-
Decls. 22848 7N39 25842 23S32 23N34 21827 8S19 23^8 0N49
The primary directions to angles are particularly striking. Thus
on 17th December, 1879, the Town Hall was destroyed by fire under
the direction M.C. S <? . In 1891 a printing works was established
under Asc. ^ ? . An important law case respecting land rights on
4th May, 1899 was denoted by •? (in the ninth house) * M.C., while
M.C. S W measured exactly to the serious riots of 1901.
I should be grateful to other readers who would send particulars
of their own towns.
 THE CRUCIBLE

Astronomy
One of the disadvantages under which Astrology labours is that
so few of its adherents have any knowledge of Astronomy and of the
principles underlying their science. It is true that the blame largely
attaches to the present-day astronomical text-books which are either
far too popular or else bristling with mathematical complexities, but
this does not exonerate the writers and professional exponents who
should at least indicate the natural basis underlying astrological
processes. I had the pleasure of discussing this matter recently
with Mr H. S. Green, who urged the necessity of a text-book of
Astronomy adapted for'the use of astrologers, and as publication in
book form is at present impossible, I have decided to prepare a series
of articles on the subject, that will explain astronomical principles
in a non-technical manner, so far as possible, and also furnish the
student with all the necessary formulas in a simple form so that he
will be practically independent of the Ephemeris if he chooses. The
first of these articles will appear next month.
Vivian E. Robson

Prince Henry was thrown from his horse and kicked on the head while
bunting near Reading on Feb. 17. His horoscope was published in the
Royal Number of Morern Astrology and is also contained in 1,001 Notable
Nativities. He has the Sun and Moon both in Aries, governing the head,
and in the twelfth bouse—he was taken to hospital to have the wound
dressed. The Sun is in square to Saturn in Capricorn, the planet
traditionally associated with falls. The Sun rules the fifth bouse—pleasure,
and the twelfth house, which contains the Sun, and the ninth house, 011 the
cusp of which Saturn is placed, are both associated with horses. By
direction he has just had Dpa (?p; and on the day of the accident Mars was
transiting the progressed Mercury in Aries, the latter planet being very close
to the square of Saturn in Capricorn. He will have the direction § pO b r
in 1922, which is unfavourable.
The Full Moon of February 22 fell from Pisces, the sign containing
the Sun in conjunction with Uranus, to Virgo containing the Moon going
to the conjunction with Jupiter and Saturn, The sign Virgo governs Turkey
amongst other places, aud on the day after the New Moon a Conference met
at London at which the Turkish Delegates presented their case for the
revision of the Treaty of Sevres, and theproccedingdraggedon inconclusively.
On the same day the Labour Conference decided against a policy of direct
action and in favour of political pressure. Virgo corresponds to the sixth
house aud therefore bears upon labour.
 (Gomsponbcncs
The Editors do not assume resfiousibility /or any statements or ideas advanced
by their correspondents, and the publication of letters does not necessarily imply
sympathy with the views expressed therein.
The Prenatal Epoch
The Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,—1 have just read the article in Modern Astrology on " The
Time of Quickening," by Mr H. S. Green, for whose writings I have great
respect. I will be glad if his attention is called to the following remarks
which, I assure you, are intended to be helpful and not hostile.
The epochal figure being a function of the birth horoscope, whatever is
derived from one can, of course, be expressed in terms of the other, and
therefore figures for coition, quickening, etc., can be connected directly with
the birth horoscope. Notwithstanding this, it is essential in all ante-birth
enquiries to ascertain the correct epoch, and the data given in the article
referred to would be still more valuable if this were determined and
recorded in each case.
In four cases an epoch has been given for each ; an inspection of the
suggested epochal figures leads me to conclude that in
Case IV. The stated epoch is correct.
Case V. The epoch given is correct.
Case X. The epoch given here is an impossible one for a female. The
birth J) must rise at the epoch.
Case XI. The epoch given is incorrect and can only be that of a male.
The birth J) must set at the epoch and the epochal J) is in VS", the epoch,
probably, on 28th June. 1904—but I have not made the necessary calculation.
This case appears to be of very great importance from the fact that the
■ day on which coition occurred tis certain. Except in rare cases, married
persons—especially young couples—are not able to specify the date of effective
coition.
When the correct epochs for X. and XI. are obtained I think it likely
that the relation of the "quickening" to the epochal figure will be
discoverable.
Mr Green makes it clear that the supposed time of quickening is often
unreliable : for that reason the epoch must be consulted when considering
the matter. It appears to me that the epoch is also of such paramount
importance that it must be found before a birth horoscope can be satisfactorily
judged.
Warwick, Yours faithfully,
2/3/2:. W. H. Woodthorpe.
Retrograde Planets
The Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,—Your correspondent, Mrs Halliday, in her letter in Modern
Astrology this month suggests that students should give their views on
Retrograde Planets. It is an interesting subject and worth investigating.
But at the same time it is extremely difficult to say anything definite on the
 CORRESPONDENCE 125,
matter, as it is almost impossible to decide what is the actual value of any
one planet in a map.
The theory that a Retrograde Planet is less powerful than a Direct one
has no doubt been handed down to us from very ancient days and as such
is worth every consideration. So far, however, I have failed to , hndany
decisive proof of it in the many horoscopes I have studied.
I am sure that Mrs Halliday will forgive my saying that the personal
illustration she brings forward is not very convincing. That Uranus
becoming Direct was the influence that brought her into touch with
Theosopby and Astrology seems a little far fetched. When Uranus is about
to move forward it remains on the same degree and minute for nine or ten
years (days). During that time its motion can be reckoned by seconds
only. So its influence as a moving planet is reduced almost to a minimum.
It would be a little difficult to attribute any definite event to so slight and
prolonged a motion.
It is only in connection with future directions that I have been able to-
note any specific effects from a Retrograding Planet. Take, for example,
Mars Retrograde applying to the trine of Venus in a horoscope. If Mars
retreats for the best part of a lifetime instead of completing the aspect it
will distinctly affect in a negative way the love affairs of the native. Or
take it the other way round. If Mars Retrograde is separating from the
conjunction of Venus and returus to the exact degree then the love affairs
will benefit, more so I should say, than if the planet had been Direct at
birth and left Venus behind. So the question of the life influence of
a Retrograde Planet seems to be complicated by the possible aspects it may
form.
It is only where directions are in question that I have been able to note
anything definite on the subject. It would be interesting if other students
could give more precise information on Mrs Halliday's problem.
Yours faithfully,
Maud Margesson.
London, 8/3/21.
Modern Astrology Fund
Mrs Bessie Leo.
Dear Madam,—I have noted the various letters published in " Our
Journal'' re "Modern Astrology Fund," and this is to say that I want to
have my " bit" in it, for I should like to see continued the work of the man
whose personal advice, Correspondence Lessons, and Text Books, have been
a great help to me in the study of Astrology, as well as in private matters.
Indeed, I have been going to write since the first mention of your difficulty,—
(just as I have been going to write ever since 1 had the Lessons, to say that
they were the best course of astrological instruction that I have come across,
without exception)—but there !—how often are we " going to do " things, and
yet postpone, again and again, owing to other (and often more selfish I) calls
on our time. The " pink slip" on my December number was a fresh
reminder, and, to keep it fresh, I left it on my table (where I do all my
writing). So at last I am actually addressing you, though personally a
stranger, but certainly a " well-wisher," and trust that all your readers will
take the hint of "Constant, Interested Reader" and remember that "every
little helps" \ I wish I could spare more myself, but there are urgent calls
out here also. However, after covering my subscription for 1921 to " Our
Journal," there will be a little left out of the enclosed money order, and
I hope you will accept it as the aforesaid " bit."
May success crown your worthy efforts is the wish of
Yours faithfully,
A. VlEUSSEUX.
125 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Dear Mrs Leo,—I send you a small contribution to your valuable paper.
1 always look forward to getting my copy. The Magazine is tfz/i edited and
both life and form are well catered for! I will try and get you some new
subscribers. Mr Alan Leo's books have (together with his lessons given me
•the knowledge of "The Truth," and I only wish I could send you £10instead
of ios. but my purse is a slender one. With all good wishes for your health
and work.
Yours faithfully,
B. Stanley.

Dear Mrs Leo,—I am sending you tos. 6ci. to " Modern Astrology Fund."
I think it is a splendid Magazine and serves to keep one's ideals alive.
I always look forward to reading it every month with keen interest, and only
wish I could send £:o instead of 10s. 64.
Yours faithfully,
A. J. Evans.

Answers to Correspondents, sz (Tasmania).—Thanks for letter.

Your queries have not been overlooked but will form the subject of a series
of articles.
Erratum.—On page 96 the period of the conjunctions of and If is
given as 83 years. This should be 14 years, the last being in 1914. In 83
years the conjuuctions return to the same sign.
Notice
A new Astrological Lodge, called " The Hermes," has been opened in
Dublin, at which study classes are being arranged. Any reader of Modern
Astrology residing in or near Dublin should apply to Mr. Cyril Fagan,
16, South Frederick Street, Dublin.
The perfect sage in his relations with the external world injures nothing,
neither does anything injure him. And only he who is thus exempt can be
trusted to conform and adapt.
Choang Tzu.
Thine own sincerity is the measure of what thou shalt receive. Look
to it that no false bottom to thy measure or another's deceives thee.
Edwin D. Casterline.
Every thought that impoverishes or lowers consciousness is a waste-
gate of life, every thought that enriches or heightens consciousness is
a supply-gate of life.
Rev W. R. Alger.

It is well to believe that there needs but a little more thought, a little
more courage, more love, more devotion to life, a little more eagerness, one
• day to fling open wide the portals of joy and truth.
Maeterlinck.
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY 127
Constellation. A group of stars. The heavens are divided irregularly
into about 88 constellations, each bearing a distinctive name, and each
star is usually designated by a letter of the Greek alphabet or a number
followed by the name of the constellation within whose boundary it falls.
In the days of Ptolemy 48 constellations were recognised, and of these
lit were zodiacal, forming the Zodiac of Constellations through which the
Sun appears to move in its apparent revolution round the earth. These
constellations bear the same names as the Signs of the Zodiac but must
not be confounded with them (See Zodiac). No superficial resemblance can
be traced between the arrangement of stars in a constellation and the shape
of the object it is said to represent, but astrological evidence goes to prove
that the names are not merely fanciful, and do actually indicate the mass
influence of the stars thus grouped together.
Contrantiscions. Sometimes spelt coHtra-antiscions. See Antiscions.
Contra-parallel. A parallel of declination in which one of the bodies
is in North declination and the other in South.
Converse. Converse motion is the apparent motion of a significator
from east to west caused by the rotation of the earth, and is so called
because the body moves against the order of the signs,, passing from the
ascendant up to the meridian, or clockwise. Motion in theoppositedirection
in the order of the signs, or anti-clockwise, is termed direct. The term
converse might also in this sense be used as an equivalent to retrograde
were it not restricted to mundane motion. It should not be confused
with converse motion as applied to Primary Directions (See Converse
Directions), where it is used in the opposite sense to what is said above.
Converse Dirbctions. r. A term used in Primary Directing to indicate
directions formed by the motion of the body directed in an anti-clockwise
manner agaiust the rotation of the earth, i.e. from midheaven to ascendant.
i. The term has also been used to denote directions in which the Sun
or Moon is directed to a planet, the term tiipect indicating that a planet is
directed to the luminaries, hut its use in this sense is now obsolete.
Copernican Theory. The theory advanced by Copernicus in the
sixteenth century, and now universally accepted, in which the Sun is held to
be the centre around which the planets revolve. This has frequently been
advanced as an argument against Astrology, but does not apply as the
purpose of Astrology is to examine the effects of the heavenly bodies upon
our earth and is therefore concerned only with their positions and motion
with respect to the earth.
Cor Caroli (The Heart of Charles). Alpha Canum Ven. A double
star frequently represented on celestial globes within a heart surmounted by
a crown. It was named in honour of Charles II. owing to its having shone
with extra brilliance on the eve of that monarch's return to London on zgth
May, 1660, the anniversary of his birthday. At that date its longitude was
about zottjj aud it might very well have fallen upon the King's ascendant
which was near the beginning or end of Virgo. Its position on 1st Jan.,
1918, was; Long, nji23.25, Lat. 40N8, Decl. 38N46, R.A. 19303'.
Cor Leonis. See Kegulus.
Corona Australis. The Southern Crown. One of the 48 original
constellations, and situated in the Southern hemisphere. It is said by
Ptolemy to be,of the nature of Saturn and Jupiter, and by P. Christian to
denote unforeseen troubles.
Corona Borealis. The Northern Crown. One of the 48 original
constellations, and situated in the Northern hemisphere. It is said by
Ptolemy to be of the nature of Venus and Mercury, and by P. Christian to
denote lassitude and disillusion.
Corvus. The Crow. One of the 48 original constellations,and situated
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
in the Southern hemisphere. It is said by Ptolemy to be of the nature of
Mars and Saturn, and by P. Christian to denote craft and material instincts.
Co-significator. i. A planet sharing with another the signification of
any matter. Thus in questions of marriage the Moon and Venus are co-
significators in a man's horoscope. In horary Astrology the Moon is always
co-significator with the ruler of the ascendant. This is the usual meaning
of the term.
2. A planet in conjunction with the significator of a thing. Rarely
used in this sense.
3. Once used to denote the affinity between signs and hoi/ses. Thus
Aries is the co-significator of the first house, Taurus of the second, and so
on. Now obsolete in this sense.
4. Once used to denote affinity between planets and houses. In the
Chaldsean order of the planets (9.11.) Saturn comes first and eighth and
was therefore said to be co-significator of the first and eighth houses,
Jupiter of the second and ninth, and so on. Now obsolete in this sense-
Cosmical Rising and Sethno. See Heliacal Rising and Setting.
Countries. The countries of the world are each ruled by ono of the
signs of the Zodiac (and, by implication, by the planet ruling the sign). The
general rulership is subject to subdivision but little is yet known as to this,
and the principle upon which the signs are distributed has not been
determined beyond the general rules laid down by Ptolemy. The rulership
of countries so far as known at present is as follows;
Aries. England, Burgundy, Denmark, Palestine, Lesser Poland, Syria.
Taurus. Asia Minor, Caucasus, Cyprus, Georgia, Grecian Archipelago,
Ireland, Persia, Poland, White Russia.
Gemini. N. E. Africa, Armenia, Belgium, Brabant, Lower Egypt,
Flanders, Lombardy, Sardinia, Tripoli, United States of America, Wales.
Cancer. N. and W. Africa, Holland, Germany, Mauritius, Paraguay,
Scotland, Zealand, China.
Leo. Alps, Apulia. Australia (part), Bohemia, Chaldea, France, Italy,
ancient Phcenicia round Tyre and Sidon, Northern Roumania, Sicily.
Virgo. Assyria, Babylonia, Brazil, Crete, Turkey, Thessaly, Croatia,
Greece, the Morea, Mesopotamia from Tigris to Euphrates, Silesia,
Switzerland, Virginia, West indies.
Libra. Austria, Argentina, Burma, borders of Caspian, Northern
China, parts of India near China, Upper Egypt, Japan, Livonia, Thibet,
Savoy.
Scorpio. Algeria, Barbary, Bavaria, Cappadocia, Catalonia, Judea,
Jutland, Morocco, Norway, yueensland, Syria, Transvaal.
Sagittarius. Arabia Felix, Australia (part), Dalmatia, France between
Seine and Garonne to Cape Finisterre, Hungary, Lstria, Madagascar,
Moravia, Provence, Sclavonia, Spain, Tuscany.
Capricorn. Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Ulyria, Styria,
Thrace, the Morea, parts of Persia about Circan and Maracan, Khorassan,
India, the Punjaub, Afghanistan, Hesse, Mecklenburg, S. W. Saxony,
Romandiola (Italy), Mexico, Orkney Is.
Aquarius. Abyssinia, Arabia Petrea, Circassia, Lithuania, Piedmont,
Poland (part), Prussia, Russia, Sweden, Tartary, Wallachia, Westphalia.
Pisces. Calabria, Galicia (Spain), Normandy, Nubia, Portugal.
Crater. The Cup. One of the forty-eight original constellations, and
situated in the Southern Hemisphere. It is said by Ptolemy to be of the
nature of Venus and, in some degree, Mercury, and by P. Christian to
denote disorder in the life and danger of unhappiness.
Crepusculine Arc, Anarctobeaddedto, or subtracted from, the Sun's
directions when it is in the crepuscle, or twilight, i.e., within 180 below the
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The strike or lock-out of the miners which began at 0.0. a.m. on

1st April, seems to be much more clearly indicated in the map for the
New Moon of 9th March than in that for the Spring
The Strike Quarter. In the former map the lunation fell in 19K in
opposition to Saturn and Jupiter rising, both part rulers
of the sixth house, and Jupiter also ruler of the fourth. This, as we
pointed out in the March issue, is a very clear indication of labour
disturbances, and directly suggests the mines through Saturn and the
fourth house. In addition there were other significant positions, such
as Mercury, ruler of the map, in the sixth house in conjunction with
Uranus and semisquare Mars.
On the other hand the map for the Sun's entry into Aries is
unimportant from the point of view of the strike, as it affords no clear
indications of the trouble, and this seems to suggest that the ancients
were right in paying such great attention to the lunation falling nearest
the Equinox. This point is apt to be overlooked nowadays, and might
repay closer study.
The planetary positions at the official commencement of the
strike were not of great significance, and the chief feature was the
Virgo-Pisces opposition from the third and ninth.houses. Immediately
following this came the Solar eclipse of the 8th April in which the
130 MODERN ASTROLOGY ''

opposition fell in the tenth and fourth houses—a more appropriate

place.
In this map Mars was in sextile to the planets in the tenth and in
trine to those in the fourth, thus strengthening the hands of both the
Government and the miners, but it was squared by the retrograde
Neptune in the third and this may have been a factor in the
withdrawal of the other members of the Triple Alliance.
Those who are interested in the subject of directions from the
great conjunctions will note many points significant of the present
unrest. Thus the eclipse of the 8th April fell on the midpoint
between Mars and Uranus, which were within six degrees of each
other in the map for the Mutation Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in
1842, and the progressed Moon in 19 U is almost exactly in square
while Saturn is transiting the opposition. Similarly in the conjunction
map for 1901, the progressed Moon in 15 K is within a degree of the
square of the radical Uranus and is afflicted by current transits, while
Mercury has just separated from conjunction Uranus by direction.

While on the subject of the strike 1 am reminded of a letter

received recently from a correspondent which runs as follows;
To the Eeiiioy
Capitalism and
Astrology Dear Sir,— I should be obliged for information relative
to "the World-Horoscope." 1 believe it is supposed to be
the natus from which one can judge of the conditions, generally, of things.
Perhaps you could give a few notes in your journal.
Might I further suggest that astrologers should write their comments on
changes, etc., without importing a strong Capitalist bias into them. Astrology,
even, it seems is used as a bulwark of the existing system of society. They
refer to "workers' unrest," etc., as if it were an unpleasant horror, instead
of rejoicing, when directions are prevalent which are likely to cause the
working masses to stir and stretch and seek a larger Hie. Also to use
Astrology as a means whereby Stock gamblers may increase their plunder
is surely a most horrible debasement of the Science.
Yours for Troth,
H. Stott
The criticism tn the second paragraph of this letter is, 1 think,
hardly justified, as it has always been our policy to keep MODERN
ASTROLOGY as free from political bias as possible. The reason that
" workers' unrest" is referred to as if it were unpleasant is because it
is invariably indicated by hizd aspects. A mundane map is interpreted
from the point of view of the nation generally, and any kind of unrest
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 131

must necessarily cause suffering and hardship to the majority, so that

from a general and temporary standpoint it is unfavourable, as the
nature of the aspect denotes. This does not mean that good may not
eventually arise from,11. The average native does not usually hail an
aspect such as Sun opposition Uranus with delight, though it
undoubtedly tends to his ultimate welfare, and in just the same way
the workers' unrest is not usually welcomed by the nation at large
during the time it is in progress because the temporary ill-effects
overshadow the prospect of future benefits, and it is these temporary
effects that are indicated in a mundane map.

Our correspondent's query as to the world-horoscope is one upon

which little can be said. It is scarcely to be doubted that such a map
exists, but the only hope of discovering it appears to lie
horoscope 'n exerc se
' clairvoyance or some similar faculty.
There are two astrologers who claim to know it but
neither is willing to publish his discovery, and until that is done we are
all more or less in the dark, though one or two of us who are working
privately upon the matter have succeeded in obtaining some isolated
fragments. Until the work is complete there is little use is publishing
these, but should our researches prove satisfactory we shall have no
hesitation in putting them forward.
V. E. R.

The plebiscite in Upper Silesia on March 20 to decide whether it should

unite with Poland or remain German evidently came under the position of
Neptune and the Moou, both near the cusp of the seventh house at Berlin
at the Spring Quarter, for both these planets have to do with the masses of
the people, and the,setting position signifies international affairs. Before
the plebiscite took place Germany was massing troops on the Polish frontier,
and it will be noticed that the Moon was in trine to Mars, a position upon
which was based the prediction of " military movements and displays," and
at the previous New Moon Mars was setting in the centre and east of
Europe.

On Alarch 19 Greek reserves were called up, and on the 23rd they
began operating against Turkish Kemalist forces. These events also may
be read in connection with the setting of Mars at the March New Moon, and
of the Moon in trine to Mars at the Vernal Equinox.
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Intetnational ^.strologij
New Moon, 1 May, 1921, 9.1 G.M.T.
X XI XII i ii III
i O.S6 ^27 11117 7 3-41 K 8 = 22
—'5 ill 10 11128 7 13 V321 K 9
(3 m 1 m 26 7 26 ^ 7 »I7 K29
(4 "l 3 n 21 7 4 7 16 « 2 T 1
(5) 7 29 W24 SS23 >e29 « 5 n 4
(6) ® 12 A15 1915 All ill 8 7 9
(i) London (2) Berlin (3) Constantinople (4) Petrograd (5) Calcutta
(C) Washington
OS « i V k m <1'
B 16.44 V 13-39 T 24.38 m.17 "5 8.5615. nil 18.715, X9.5 A11.2
At the moment of New Moon the beginning of Sagittarius is rising at
London ; the Sun, Moon, and Mercury are in conjunction in Taurus
on the cusp of the sixth house in trine to Saturn and Jupiter in Virgo
in the ninth. Trade and commerce will increase, business and national
finance will improve, there will be less unemployment, and the workers
will be more prosperous than of late. The opposition of Jupiter in the
ninth house and Uranus in Pisces in the third will cause trouble in
religious circles, divergent opinions, charges of unorthodoxy and
irregularity ; accidents and possibly strikes threaten railways, shipping
and the post office; disagreements between psychics and occultists on
the one hand and orthodoxy on the other will continue. Mars setting
as lord of the twelfth house will cause international friction and make
diplomatists active in western Europe, but, as the planet has no bad
aspect, this trouble should be capable of being overcome. Neptune
in the eighth house over a considerable part of Europe, squaring the
luminaries and Mercury, will cause deaths from apoplexy, heart
affections, nervous disorders, crime, and possibly drowning or poison.
The health of this country and western and central Europe will not
be good although attention will be paid to health regulations. The
interests of women and marriage and divorce questions will cause
trouble. Venus on the fifth cusp will benefit theatres and places of
entertainment, and the birth-rate will increase. The weather is likely
to be mild but stormy at times.
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 133
At Berlin many of the positions in the houses are similar to those
at London but there will be more trouble through unemployment and
discontent on the part of the workers. The land, the crops, housing
and mines will benefit through Venus in the fourth house.
At both Petrograd and Constantinople the opposition of Uranus
in the second house to Jupiter in the eighth will cause serious money
troubles and disturb financial affairs both at home and abroad. Neptune
afflicted in the seventh house in south-east Europe and still further
east will cause international discord, plotting and treachery.
At Calcutta money matters will improve but there is danger of
scheming and underhand movements directed against the government,
religious troubles, crime, and sickness affecting the alimentary canal.
At Washington there will be deaths among those high in the state,
in the Senate or House of Representatives, and among the rich.
Problems of unemployment will cause trouble, and strikes are
threatened.
Jupiter and Uranus will be in opposition on May 3, and again on
May 25. The opposition of September 10, 1920, was followed by the
threatened railway strike that caused so much anxiety and trouble. It
is to be hoped that the trines and sextiles of this map will be sufficient
to avert any such danger. But persons born under the end of the
first decanate of Virgo and Pisces will be unfavourably affected, also
those who have the Sun or Moon there.

Uainmaking in the U.S.A.—Experiments being conducted by the Air

Service under the War Department, according to a correspondent of the
New York Mail, prove that precipitation can be broughtabout by electrostatic
influences, with an aeroplane serving as the medium to persuade clouds to
release their moisture. Showers have already been precipitated in secret
experiments, and experiments on a large scale are to be conducted this
month. The chiefs of the Air Service say that the discovery will prove a
boon to arid sections, where fertile soil lies in waste because of lack of
moisture. It is understood the method is not to be commercialised, but left
to the Government for means of its development as a national benefit.

Magnetism and Man—There are no records how it act on our feelings,

but the sunspots and magnetism are connected closely. And if you compare
their curves with the events—if you approximately put them on the curve—
especially now in Russia, there seems to be much in favour of the magnetism
and its variations being the main moving power in the history of humanity.
Is it not remarkable that all revolutions (nearly I) were in full coincidence
with sun-spots and magnetic maxima ? English Mechanic, aO/a/'ar.
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R.A. 288.8 145-39 264.9 238.25 243.20 200.20 89.11 27.51 159.12
M.D. 32I5 69.46 8.17 17.28 12.32 55-32 1318 48.1 96.40
S.A. 67.57 80.7 67.56 74.6 69.31 83-24 67.52 79-53 98-55

De I'aqaatique triplicit^ naistra,

Un qui fera le Jendi pour sa feste,
Son bruit, loz, regue et puissance croistra
Par terre et mar : aux Oriens tempeste.
Nostradamus, Cent. 50-

6H- A Target, one with great concentration, and strong spirit of

rivalry, a military man, a good marksman.
Charubel's Symbols {Clairvoyant).
 THE HOROSCOPE OF NAPOLEON 135
On the night of the 4th-5th May, a hundred years ago, the
greatest warrior King that this earth has known, was dying on a small
tropical island under the Southern Cross. Thunders and lightnings,
the shrieking of the daughters of Thetis, and the bellowing of the
winds, marked the passing of the Achilles of the French revolutionary
Iliad. At dawn the tempest abated. About 6 a.m. Caesar reviewing
his ghostly legions, stirred in his delirium, and muttering " tite
d'artnee" sprang from his bed into the arms of his two watchers. It
was the last outburst of that formidable energy, he never spoke again :
all day body and soul were in travail of the new birth, and at 5.50 p.m.,
just as the military gun saluted the death of the sun-god, Napoleon
breathed his last, and was numbered with the dead.1 We know the
exit of the man of Destiny, but do we know his entrance on the
world's stage as exactly ? There has always been controversy on the
subject; his own habitual lying started the doubts: even the Almanac
Imperiale for some years gave the wrong birthday. The two
authorities on his early life differ absolutely. Jung devotes a chapter
to the evidence, and says that N. diligently collected all papers
touching the origins of his family, and destroyed them, obviously to
conceal something, and ends by saying that he has no doubt that the
birth-date was 7 January, 1768, but that the question is of no practical
consequence whatever. This of course is true generally, but not from
the astrologic point of view. Chuquet dismisses the subject very
curtly, and declares for the official date.
Personally I never believed in the traditional horoscope : it seemed
to me incredible that the most wonderful career combining both genius
and an unique opportunity of which we have any record, could spring
from so commonplace and unlucky a horoscope ruled by Venus in
Cancer, with its Moon opposition Saturn in Cancer close to the
Meridian ! Non tali auxilio.
N. himself recognised his own luck and the favour of Fortune in
his rise on the wave of Revolution which had broken all the old world
dykes and dams. He frequently asked of any man recommended to
him " Is he lucky?" However other people seemed satisfied so I
waited for more evidence, and it soon came. Herisson's Le Cabinet
1
M.C,8g, IJI8. =tr2. Asc. 18111, 715, Vjii, Gi4.52a, j6.i2®s. S21.28T,
? 10.12 tt, ,J2I.28T. V i5-38T, ^ 20.5T1 r, lii2.48Hr.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Noir (there is an English translation The Black Cabinet) told me

something, and I quoted some of his statements in the Sphinx, U.S. in
1899. In August of that year, I got out White's Epltemeris for 1768,
at the British Museum, and when I saw the wonderful aspects of the
mental rulers, the Moon and Mercury on 7 January to each other, and
to Saturn and Uranus (added) my mind was illumined witli a sudden
glory, likeCortez on that peak in Darien. Had I been at home, like
Archimedes I should have shouted Eureka! For lo! the secret
sources of the "man miracle," of "the brain of the lightnings of
battle," were revealed to me. From that day I have never doubted
for a minute, but 1 did not work at my discovery until February 10,
1900 (note the curious coincidence MCd ^ IC at 132 degrees or years)
when I sketched in the horoscope for the Zadkiel time 9.50 a.m.
I at once saw that the trine of the Ascendant to the Moon and Mercury,
ruler of 7, must be the arcs for the marriage immediately followed by
the Italian Campaign. This gave 9" 57m 38" as the local time of birth
at Corte. Then I measured the arc for death at 53° 20' and found
Asc S ^ 53 27i con (and later ]) d '? 53 34i con). I came to the
conclusion that 1 really had found a drift of gold! After that
I carefully did 311 primaries, not to mention secondaries, transits,
new moons, solar revolutions, etc. I can honestly declare that I did
not find one contradictory note: only a selection of course is possible,
but the student can do more for himself. Before giving them however
I must explain a point or two. Every educated person knows
something of the life and character of Napoleon : his brother Joseph
was no lion but quite a sheep, timid, gentle, amorous and very lazy or
precisely the general character of the 15 August '69. But he was
"the only brother N. really loved," and the great sympathy between
them is evident, when we note that their Suns and Moons are in
mutual juxtaposition. As N. degenerated at St. Helena, he became
so like his brother, that on one occasion Montholon says he would
have taken him for Joseph. I believe they were both Pisces men,
and will give Joseph 16M. N. made his brothers and sisters kings
and queens, they rose and fell with him; but in 1796 when he
began the Italian Campaign, which placed him in the centre of the
world's stage, and inspired Beethoven's " Heroic Symphony," his
family except Joseph who had married an heiress, were all nobodies
 THE HOROSCOPE OF NAPOLEON T
37
and paupers. Now the old horoscope gives only three terrible Saturn
primaries for this meteoric conquest qf fame and fortune! Why ?
Because Joseph, who I believe was born on 15 August, had still to wait
a good time before N. was able to foist him on to ancient and reluctant
thrones. Another point, the Solar Revolution for 15 August, 1820
says nothing, that for 7 January, 1821, has ©d^.DSrSOrSQS Sr1?-
Joseph's Solar Revolution, etc., he died 28.7.44, I will discuss later.
Besides this let me call attention to Nostradamus'quatrain: this has
always been credited to N. and it says that he would be born under
a watery sign on a Thursday, and that with great glory he would
/Tneet with disasters in the East—Egypt and Russia. The 7 January
was a Thursday, the 15 August a Tuesday.
One last point to make is that though there are no authentic birth
certificates of any of the family, there is a copy dated 1782 of a
genuine one in Latin (now vanished) in the French archives : it states
that to Charles Buonaparte and his wife a son " Nabulione " was born
at Corte on 7 January 1768. Joseph is alleged to be this mysterious
Nabulione. The point can never now be proved by official documents
for they do not exist: but in the light of the Ancient Wisdom, 1 am
■confident that sooner or later, for all new ideas are resisted, this
horoscope of Nabulione will be accepted as that of Napoleon.
The character and life of N. can no more be discussed in an article
than the child in St. Augustine's Vision could pour the ocean into his
little sandhole. The facts are accessible to every reader with some
leisure. I have myself a box full of the notes made in reading over a
hundred volumes about the great man. He is difficult to discuss because
so contradictory, in some things noble, often ignoble" with breaths from
heaven and blasts from hell." By judicious selection his admirers
give us the portrait of an archangel or god man : to his enemies he
is everything false and base, a destroyer, murderer, robber, liar,
forger, profligate, mummer, cad, and the meanest of mankind! The
only thing never doubted until Mr Wells came along, was the
amazing genius and wonderful romance of a career that make him the
only figure in modern history at all suitable for an epic poem.
Chronology of Events
1786 Between Oct., 17 and Feb., 1787, fever which lasted 7 or 8
years, says Jung. OS1? 18.43 con. ^ slow
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1793 June, family fly from Corsica to Toulon and receive public
charity. DO I? 25.12. Dec. 16-17, Kudosat Toulon. Dec.19,
General, Brigade Artillery, D rapt <?25.44, pOA p ^28.26
SI, p D A ^ ^ .
1794 Aug. 6, arrested with Kobespierre's Son and imprisoned
(fortunately not in Paris). Asc 8 if 26.35 con,
1795 Oct. 5,' Grapeshot,' Paris, suppresses revolt. Oct. 26, General
Chief army of toe interior, fame begins, Sept. meets
Josephine. Asc BQ 27.40, ^D 27.56, if A Asc 27.45 mun dir.
1796 March 9, marries Josephine. 11, leaves Paris for Italy, Asc
A § 28.8. April 11, Montenotte. May 10, Lodi. Nov. 15,
Arcola, D* d* 28.49.
1797 April 18, Peace with Austria, tremendous spoliation of works
of art. May, enters Venice. Dec. 5, triumphal return to
Paris.
1798 Jan. 14, Rivoli, Asc pDW^O.l. May 19, leaves Toulon for
Egypt- July 1, Egypt. Aug. 1, Nelson and the Nile.
1799 March 19. After two months at Acre, foiled by Sir Sidney
Smith, Asc d W 30.59 □ If 31.24 con, he himself said at
St. Helena that Smith spoilt his career and altered the fate
of the world. Aug. 22, leaves Egypt. Oct. 9, arrives in
France. 16, Paris, finds wife unfaithful—Divorce? Nov.
9-10, Republic empires. First Consul salary ^"20,000
O A 2f 31.46.
1800 Feb. 19, enters Tuileries. M.C. d ©32.16. Asc d (1)32.5
mun d. June 14, Marengo, a great crisis saves him, 32.26.
D Pole BQ (1)32.16 con. ©A If 32.18 mun d. D Pole bq, Asc.
32.25. Asc 2(? 32.26 con. Dec. 24, narrow escape infernal
machine—royalist plot Dp 8 © 5 '? 32.39 con.
1802 March 25, Peace of Amiens, p OArlf,pDd R.P If, O 3}- 5 8 D
34.2
1803 May 18, war with England, 35.22, Asc d ©35.42 con.
1804 March 21, Due d'Enghien shot, 3" 5.29 ; MC 2.3 36.1,
Asc p h © 5 36.23. May 18, proclaimed Emperor, Ascd
0. Dec. 2, crowned by Pope, Dd If 37.0 m d.
1805 Aug. 5, European Coalition against MCOIf37.21. Oct. 21,
Trafalgar, Asc 2 2 37.29 con. DG (ji 37.48 m con. Dec. 2,
Austerlitz p 5-KJAp If 22.49=2=, O A lj 37.49.
1806 Oct. 14, Lena. 27 enters Berlin, Germany prostrate. Ddlf38.
50. D pole A Asc 38.39 con. Dec. 13, first child, an
illegitimate son, born pDdrO.
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39
1808 March 1. Murat invades Spain, flat burglary, Nemesis begins,
"The Spanish ulcer destroyed me" he said at St. Helena,
©P 8 ^3)40.12. July 19, surrender of Baylen, 22,800
Frenchmen disarmed, a terrible blow ! Asc 2'? 40.40.
1809 Dec. 16, divorce decreed by Senate, MC Q3)41.53 con.
1810 April 1-2, marries Marie Louise (possesses her 1, religious
ceremony 2!), Asc p 2 42.11, 2 * Asc 42.10 m d. May 4,
second illegitimate son born, by Mme Walewski, a Pole,
Asc A 0 42.24.
1811 March 20, heir born Roi de Rome, 3) A Asc 43.6 m con, MC
q0 43.27, p ])■&, p 2 18kf.
1812 May 22, war with Russia, pDTAr <r5.14?, □pi3, 6.10kf
O d <7 44.10. Sept. 14, Moscow fired, O d (7 50.0 con.
Oct. 15, began retreat. His noble and unique army of the
Revolution, tried veterans, perishes in the awful Russian
winter, henceforth he fights with raw recruits, mere boys.
Dec, 19, arrives in Paris, 5 pole d b 50.0 con.
1813 June 18, Vittoria, an awful blow to him ! His ascendency ends.
(Oct. 5, English enter France. Oct. 16-19, Leipzig rout.)
J) pole d !?45.1 con, p (7 45.14 con, d <7 45.29 con, Opole
par b 45.34.
1814 Jan., Austrians enter France, MC D ^ 46.3, O □ b 46.6.
April 11, abdicates. May 29, Josephine dies, W D 3)46.21 m
con.
1815 Feb. 26, escapes Elba. March 20, Paris. June 18, Waterloo.
July 15, Bellerophon Oct. 16, lands St. Helena, <7 2
Asc 47.19, 3) A Asc 47.46, Asc 03) 47.46, Orp S on Asc
47.41. Dec.pO d Asc5.10K, Or .75.14^,MC 8 W48.2.
1820 Aug. 7, Sister Eliza dies, Asc 8 2 52.17.
1821 May 5, Death, due to chronic Malta fever (caused by bad
water), and cancer of stomach, which killed his grandfather,
father, uncle Cardinal Fesch, brother Lucien, and sisters
Pauline and Caroline.

Fu vera gloria ? . . . Ai posted

L'ardua sentenza . . . Nui
Chiniain la fronte al Massimo
Fattor, cbe voile in Lui
Del creator sno spirilo
Pin vasta onna staxnpar.1
Hamilton Minchin.
1
Was his glory genuine ? To posterity the arduous sentence. We bow the
head to the supreme Arlihcer, who willed to leave us in him a sublime expression
of His own creative energy.
 (Esoxertc ^strologg

By Alan Leo

{Continued from p. 7fi)

The Threefold Man

Table V. shows the relation of the three to the signs of the

zodiac. Man is threefold, and these three may be named according to
the higher individual three, as in this Table, or according to the
personal three; but in any case three aspects of consciousness may
be found on each plane upon which man functions. These three relate
primarily to the three quadruplicities, the fixed or tamasic, the
mutable or sattvic, and the cardinal or rajasic ; but, again, although
these correspond to separate planes, all of them are present on every
plane ; it is only a question of their relative predominance.
Of the four elements as arranged on Table V., air may be taken to
be archetypal, synthetic, and spiritual; while the lower three, fire,
water, and earth, are here related to states of consciousness in the
personal man.
If we take earth to correspond to physical action, and if we relate
it to the physical body only, Taurus will stand for the inner impulse or
determination to action, what western psychologists call volition or
conation ; Virgo will represent the balance or co-ordination of the
muscles by means of the nerves directed by discriminative intelligence ;
and Capricorn is the outcome of these two in the action proper, the
movement of the limbs. If the inner will has decided not to move
although tempted to do so, Capricorn will then represent the reaction
against tbe temptation to move, and consequent stillness. But it is
necessary to add here also that these meanings only apply when Taurus,
Virgo, and Capricorn are related to action in the physical body on the
physical plane. When related to highe planes they would bear
different meanings, although the underlying principles would be the
 ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

same. A higher and more extended interpretation of the signs will be

considered in chapter IV.
If we take water as corresponding to the astral plane and the
psychic mode of consciousness, Scorpio may be said to be astral
will, which is desire, resulting from atmic will being reflected down
into astral consciousness, the feelings. Pisces is astral wisdom, the
emotions; pleasant under the influence of attraction and expansion,
unpleasant under the influence of repulsion and contraction. Cancer is
astral consciousness turned towards the environment, other persons an<j
outer things, from which may result undifierentiated sensation from the
point of view of the physical man or the awakening of the psychic senses
from a higher point of view.
The two elements air and fire are not so easily classified as are
water and earth, and many differences of opinion exist regarding them.
The occult view is that air corresponds to the buddhic plane and fire
to the mental, as given in Table III.; but from the point of view of the
personal man it is necessary to compress all four elements within the
limits of the three worlds, the mental, astral and physical; and from
this results the grouping given in the Esoteric Astrology Chart,
Diagram VII. Here the airy signs are taken as synthetic expressions
of the individual man, the permanent Ego ; and the fiery signs then
represent the mental or cognitional aspect of the personal man ; but
these two are so closely related that it is not easy to apply this
distinction too strictly in Practical Astrology, and sometimes they seem
to change places.
Aries and Libra are both individualising and look outwards upon
a surrounding world in terms of active perception ; but Aries is more
separative, in the sense of the individual self-consciousness, and Libra
at its best is more synthetic, in the sense of blending the self with
other selves without causing the loss of individuality. Gemini and
Sagittarius are both more or less cognitional, and the reader will
remember the close resemblance between the two corresponding
mundane houses, the third and the ninth; but Gemini is more abstract
and intuitional, and Sagittarius more concrete and imaginative (all
cognition is image-forming and these images are thrown outwards as
thought forms on the mental plane). Aquarius and Leo both at their
best show will of the steadfast and unswerving kind ; but Leo is more
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individualising and separative, and Aquarius less so; although it should

be added that few persons if any among ordinary humanity are able to
live up to these signs at their best, and that both are apt to degenerate
into pride or desire. Leo, like Sagittarius, often exhibits much
imagination and a strong sense of the dramatic ; while Aquarius has a
stronger sense of brotherhood and a greater attraction to the occult.
In applying these or any other ideas respecting the zodiacal signs,
the astrologer, whether practical or philosophical, is confronted with
the fact that all souls are not at the same stage of evolution; or, to
express the equivalent idea in non-occult language, all communities
are not equally civilised or equally savage. From this fact serious
difficulties arise when an attempt is made to tabulate or schematise
signs or planets, whether from an esoteric or any other point of view.
An interpretation of a sign that is adequate for a savage or a semi-
civilised person will be inadequate for one who is highly educated and
refined; and an account that is suitable for a great philosopher,
scientist or poet will read absurdly if applied to a plough-boy or a day
labourer ; while if nothing is included but what is common to highest
and lowest types alike, the ordinary reader will consider it too abstract
and unpractical. Between these extremes the astrologer must steer
his course as best he can, and the student should make allowances
accordingly.
(To be continued)

The Conference of the Allies with the German Delegates at London

which began on March r ended in the rejection of the German proposals for
Reparation ; and subsequently Allied troops occupied German towns on the
east bank of the Rhine, and various military and naval preparations were
made. The March New Moon showed the very characteristic positions of
the Snn and Moon on the cusp of the seventh house, ruling international
relations, in opposition to Saturn and Jupitsr rising; so that nothing but
disagreement could follow such influences.
Neptune was setting at the Spring Quarter, being very near the cusp
in West Germany, and it was in square to Venus in the second or money
bouse at Berlin; and we predicted that this would "bring forward some
difficult financial question abroad." This was followed by the refusal of
Germany to pay the fifty millions due on March 23, and the £600,000,000
due on May 1st, declaring that economic exhaustion made it impossible for
her to do so.
 ^slranumtr for Astrologers

By Vivian E. Robson, B.Sc.

I. Preliminary Mathematical Considerations

The study of astronomy is impossible without some knowledge

of mathematical processes, and, while this knowledge can be reduced
to a minimum for practical purposes, where exact proof of each
formula is unnecessary, it is essential that the student should be able to
use ordinary mathematical tables with ease and accuracy. In the
following series of articles an attempt has been made to reduce all
formulffi to their simplest terms and rid them of complexities, so that
the minimum of mathematical knowledge will serve to allow the
student to perform most astronomical processes necessary for the
construction of an ephemeris or for other astrological purposes with
a very close approach to absolute accuracy. It is, however, essential
for him to master his logarithmic tables, for without facility in their
use he will speedily come to grief.
The best English Mathematical Tables are those of Chambers,
and they can be obtained for a few shillings at any educational
bookshop. The student who wishes to work through the following
articles should procure a copy and first of all thoroughly familiarise
himself with the method of using the Tables of Common Logarithms
and of Logarithmic Sines, Tangents, etc., by the help of the examples
and explanation in Chambers. It should perhaps be mentioned that
the proportional logarithms given on the last page of Raphael's
Ephemeris will not serve for working out formulre as they are
constructed for a different purpose and upon a different plan.
This is not the place to enter into any explanation of the
principles upon which Mathematical Tables are based, nor upon the
method of their use, but one or two notes of a practical nature will be
helpful. It will be noticed that all the Log. Sines, Tangents, etc., are
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positive and begin with 9., 10., etc., whereas this is not the case with
common logs. The reason for this is that the sines, and other
trigonometrical functions as they are called, are usually fractions and
less than 1, so that it is found convenient to add 10 to the logarithm in
order to keep it positive. Therefore log. sine 8° may be written either
as 9.1435553, as is done in the Tables, or (by subtracting 10.) as
1.1435553. Thus 9. is equivalent to 1., 10. to 0., 11. to 1., 8. to 2.,
and soon. It is necessary to bear this in mind when adding the log.of
a trigonometrical function to a common log., as has frequently to
be done, but a few examples will soon clear any difficulty that may be
felt over this. If the student has any doubt let him look up the
natural sine, tangent, etc., given in separate tables in chambers, and
then take out its common logarithm in the ordinary way, for the log.
sine is merely the logarithm of the natural sine, and similarly with the
other functions.
Example.—Multiply cos 72° 25' by 1249.35. This is equivalent
to log. cos 72° 25(+ log. 1249.35. Log. cos 72° 25' = 9.4801401 which
may be written 1.4801401.
Log. 1249.35= 3.0966842
Add log. cos 72° 25'= 1.4801401

2.5768243
The number corresponding to this log. is 377.4205.
If the student prefers to work in positive numbers he may add 10
to the common log. instead of subtracting it from the trigonometrical
function. Thus in the above example we can write:
Log. cos 72° 25'= 9.4801401
+ log. 1249.35 = 13.0966842

2.5768243
20 being subtracted from the answer because 20 was previously
added.
The next point for consideration is one of trigonometry. An
examination of the Tables of logarithmic functions shows that the
entire range of angles lies between 0° and 90°, but in practice we
frequently require to use the log. sine, log. tan., etc., of angles greater
than 90°. The following table shows how this may be done :
 ASTRONOMy FOR ASTROLOGERS
sin (900— A) = + cos A sin (90°+ A) = + cos A
cos (90 — A) = + sin A cos (90 + A) = — sm A
tan (90 — A) = -j- cot A tan (90 -j- A) = — cot A
sin (1800— A) = + sin A sin (180°+ A) = — sin A
cos (180 - A) = — cos A cos ii8o + A) = - cos A
tan (180 — A) = — tan A tan (180 -j- A) = + tan A
sin (2700— A) = — cos A sin (270°+ A) = — cos A
cos (270 — A) = — sin A cos ^270 + A) = + sin A
tan (270 — A) = + cot A tan (270 + A) = — cot A
sin (360° — A) = - sin A
cos (360 — A) = + cos A
tan (360 — A.) — - tan A
Suppose we need the log. sine of 120°. This is equivalent
to QO'+SO0 and from the above table we see that sin 120° or
(QC^+SO0) is the same as cos 30°. Also 120° may be expressed
as 180°—60° and therefore sin 120° is the same as sin 60°. In
this example the result is positive, but it will be seen that in many
it is negative, and whentbis occurs in a formula the negative sign must
be taken into account. Thus take a formula such as cos 720+sin 225°.
From the above table we see that sin 225° is equivalent to —sin 45° or
— cos 45° since it may be expressed either as sin (l80o+45o) or as sin
(270°-45e).
Then the formula becomes cos 72°+ (—sin 45°) which is
equivalent to cos 72° —sin 45°.
Before passing on to our subject there is one more point to be
touched upon, and that is the circular measure of angles.
Let us imagine a circle in which two lines are drawn from the
centre to the circumference so that they form an angle at the centre,
or, to take a more concrete illustration, think of the hands of a watch
at, let us say, five minutes past three. The angle between the minute
and the hour bands may be expressed either in degrees, or as the ratio of
the arc of the dial between them (i.e. from I. to III.) to the radius.
This latter system is called the circular measure and its unit is one
radian which is equal to nearly 57° 17' 45". To convert radians into
degrees we need only multiply by 570.296, and there is a table
in Chambers, headed " Circular measure of angles" by which the
conversion can be performed at a glance.
(To be continued)
 ®lje iStxssxau of ^.stroloy^ to tlje Worl&
By Bessie. Leo
Over the whole of the civilised world—bound and hampered for
centuries by shallow philosophies, narrow dogmas, and, more recently,
by a despotic materialism miscalled science far more mischievous
than either—a broad and mighty wave of occultism is breaking,
sweeping away as so much debris the sterilised forms which have so
long done duty for religion. The late war has of course been a large
factor in this respect, for during its progress the old thought-forms
crystallised for centuries were broken up.
Amongst the many forms of occult thought now spreading far
and wide the light of truth to thousands of souls thirsting for
knowledge, comes the illuminative teachings of Astrology.
It is impossible within the limits of a short article to give a
comprehensive representation of the true wealth cf astrologic lore, so
I can only try to indicate in a sort of general fashion what Astrology
really is, and what I believe is its purpose and mission to the world.
Astrology—not the Astrology of the text-books, of course, which is
but a fragment of the truth—can truly claim that it contains the sum
of all human wisdom, since in its symbolism and ideographs there is
to be found a system of collected knowledge dating from the very
earliest ages of humanity.
But not many, even of those who occupy themselves unceasingly
with some branch of this great tree of wisdom, know the truth of the
above statement. For while it is certainly possible that anyone of
average intelligence can become familiar with the purely exoteric side
of Astrology, especially if they study the subject for themselves, yet to
the inner knowledge, or the Wisdom of the Stars, they alone shall
tain who steadfastly assimilate the mighty principles of Astrology and
constantly apply them in their daily lives !
Now every great scheme of religion is more or less built up on
Astrology, and necessarily so, Astrology being the law governing this
Universe under the special rule of the planetary Logos. Everywhere
 THE MISSION OF ASTROLOGY TO THE WORLD I47

traces of its teachings are to be found, in the Zend-avesta of the Parsee,

the Veda of the Hindu—indeed, the Hindu religion is more purely
astrological than any other (save the religion of Zoroaster),—in ancient
Egyptian scrolls; it is to be found, by those who seek, in the Bible
and in the Hebrew Kabballah. In fact, the Wisdom of the Stars is
universal, according to the widest meaning of that word.
Numerous thinkers of the Middle Ages, foremost among them
being Jacob Boehme, and later Swedenborg, were permeated with the
essential doctrines of Astrology. I trust I shall give no offence when
I venture to suggest that very few modem astrologers can lay claim to
b& astrologers, in the same elevated sense as these men. A true
astrologer is one who is enlightened ; a personality inspired by divine
wisdom, who, with a perfectly unselfish altruism, combines intuitive
knowledge with a more or less complete mastery over the hidden
causes of Nature of which he has the key : qualifications which are
only to be acquired by one who leads an absolutely pure and selfless
life, devoted to the service of humanity ; one whose heart and mind are
attuned to the harmony of God's law, who works by it and fulfils the
divine command.
" Modern Astrology" is, as we have so often said, no new
thing, only the representation of the eternal and unchangeable laws
guiding this universe. It has for its mission the awakening of the
humanity of the present day to recognise that there is an Unseen Law
guiding the world's destiny; that there are living potent forces
radiating from those starry spheres, playing upon, training, and
developing the whole human family. It teaches the way God governs
His universe, and reveals to man somewhat of the mighty wisdom of
the Divinity. It is, so to speak, God's Bible written in the sky, and
cannot be changed or altered by the differing minds of men.
It seems to me that men and women are not likely to find truth
about the invisible planes of Nature in materialism, which dooms
them to total extinction after death, or even through the ordinary
religious doctrines which, in the Western world at least, teach the
belief that man can only get help vicariously, through some power
substituted for his own, through something or someone from without.
Astrology teaches that each man " is the law unto himself," and must
work out his own salvation ; and it is a certain fact that by ourselves
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

and through ourselves alone are we able to progress towards the

fulfilment of the stature of the perfect man. No one can save another.
Each has to save himself.
And what after all is this salvation? To have grown above
ignorance and selfishness and to have become wise. Let us take a
parallel case and survey it from the standpoint of reason. Could we
expect an absolutely ignorant and uneducated man to become a capable
astrologer through the study of Astrology pursued by another man
in his place ? Certainly not. Of course, to know Astrology intel-
lectually and to become an astrologer are two widely different things;
we cannot, however, expect to become the " wise man " who " rules
his stars " at a single stride or by one prodigious effort. Nature makes
no sudden leaps in her method of evolution. But we are all growing
gradually within that circle of necessity we call the horoscope.
The Mission of Astrology is to teach the world " How to live," as
well as " How to think." As a great science it is unique, being both
occult and practical, metaphysical and philosophical; but it will only
become vital to any soul when that soul embodies these great truths
and applies them to life and conduct. When the intellect is eager
and the life is clean, and the aspirations unselfish, then the invisible
agents of the stars can communicate with man, revealing to him the
essence of things.
All that applies to this practical world can be gleaned by exoteric
Astrology—and even then a man has an immense store of practical
knowledge on which to draw in order to guide himself through life,
and to enable others to benefit also—but the man who understands
Astrology to the full is a mystic, from whom the things appertaining
to the material world have dropped away.
The word " mystic" came originally from the Mysteries, those
secret ceremonies of initiation into the higher life practised in Egypt
and Greece. It is based on the Greek word "Mico," to close the
mouth, to be silent: those admitted to the Mysteries were never
permitted to divulge what they were shewn.
When an astrologer speaks of the occult and the mystical he
means that which is related to the inner principle of life, and the true
reality of being—quite the opposite of the popular idea, which
considers mysticism unreal and unpractical, if not actually contrary to
 THE MISSION OF ASTROLOGY TO THE WORLD I49

reason. True Astrology strives after a knowledge of the hidden

source of our being, our relation to the stars and the invisible worlds.
The heart of the mystic is set upon the things which are unseen,
the unseen which alone is real beyond the limitation of the senses and
the sense-consciousness.
The language of Astrology is a symbology, and it has been said
that the test of the breadth and spiritual comprehensiveness of any
human mind is the view it takes of symbols. To the concrete mind
symbols are of no value, empty, meaningless, fantastic. But to the
mystic they are everything, because he sees through the symbol to the
idea, or ideal, which it embodies.
The true astrologer knows of a Self more profound, more vivid,
more incomprehensible than the "self" of our passions and of our
intellect. He knows that deep down within the heart of man lies a
spark of that great central fire of Divine life, of the " Silent Witness,"
the "Silent Star" within ourselves, the breath of the Infinite, which
reigns supreme. And daily he tries to tend this inner fire, to realise
more and more the " ray " within ; thus becoming conscious of the
unity which makes us all one with all others.
" Becoming an astrologer " means seeking ever to gain spiritual
consciousness, consciousness of the life of God ; and consciousness of
our own oneness with that life. Once this spiritual consciousness is
realised, illumination is attained: the man is a mystic and knows of
the Mysteries.
Astrology seeks through a form of practical symbolism to reach
the higher mind. It gives insight into the life, the "heart " of things,
and is a study peculiarly attractive to those who have an innate love
of geometry, and who realise its spiritual significance, probably having
been in other births students on these or similar lines.
Astrology, I believe, will never perfectly fulfil its divine mission
to humanity until it is taught again as a religion, as well as a
philosophy—until once again a divine astrologer is incorporated in a
human form—until once again schools and colleges for the instruction
of students are formed, each one under the influence of a different
planet. Out of this body of students the most fitted and the purest
would reasonably be, from time to time, selected by the divine teacher
for initiation. Meanwhile, the great use of Astrology in the world
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to-day is to break down materialism, demonstrating the law that is ever

working for righteousness in the midst of what seems such a hopeless
chaos ; to reveal to men through their intellects the fact that spiritual
forces guide and shape the universe and the destinies of men ; and
that, notwithstanding the conflict of wills and the disharmony all about
us, behind it all there is a great Planetary Spirit guiding this world's
affairs, and that the wisdom embodied in the stars is ever striving to
bring order out of disorder, unification out of separateness, and peace
out of strife ; and that in the end perfection is assured—however long
delayed it must come at last, seeing that the heart of things is Love,
and that Wisdom is Love's agent.

People of the Zodiac

First Aries—all ardour—impulsive and free;
There's none that works harder—but " head " be must be.
Next Taurus, so gentle—great strength he conceals ;
Don't rouse him to anger—else, take to your heels !
The Gemini Pair, are their tongues ever still ?
How clever they are, and so full of good-will.
Soft feeling has Cancer, oft hard though his shell!—
Loves secrets and treasures, weird stories to tell.
A ruler is Leo, just, merciful too ;
All honour in love, tender-hearted and true.
And Virgo, observant, though quiet and shy-—
Won't take all for granted, but wants to know "Why ? "
Sweet Libra, the Balance, so loving, so gay ;
Yet "happy with either," the "other" away!
Arch-schemer is Scorpio, in love or in hate;
To Heaven he leads you—or else to Hell's gate.
Sagittarius, ah! fresh as breeze from the sea !
Though frauk and so cheery, grave barrister he.
Excelsior I Upward ! for this was he born ;
Ambition and power,—the staid Capricorn.
A student, Aquarius—and all Nature's friend ;
So faithful, sincere, to the life's very end.
And Pisces, the peaceful, ne'er treads on your toes !
But tends to your comfort, and soothes all your woes.
G. M. Greatrex
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By Duncan Macnaughton, M.A., W.S.

VI. Novelists'

UNDER the heading " novel " are grouped many types of litera-
ture, ranging from passive idealistic nature stories to thrilling tales of
adventure charged with action. But there are a number of qualities
which are found in almost every novel, such as: Romance, Plot,
Characterisation, and what (for want of a better name) may be called
Verisimilitude.
" A novel is a sustained story which is, indeed, not historically .
true, but might very easily be so." This quality of Verisimilitude is
denoted by 20. K 20 was on the Asc. of the World Horoscope
in the period from 209 to 137 B.C. when Aristides wrote WxsMilesiaka,
the earliest stories of which there is any historical record which bear
a resemblance to the modern novel.
In the period from 152 to 224 A.D., 15° was on K 20 of the
Constellations. Then appeared Lucian's Lucius or the Ass and True
Historia and the writings of Apuleius, which marked another stage in
the history of the novel; 1080 years after that date T 0 was on K 20
of the Constellations (1232-1304 A.D.) and " it was then that the novel
of modern Europe came into existence " in II Novellitto, and at the
same period the writing of novels was introduced in China. Strange
as the statement may seem, the present is not an age in which this
degree of Verisimilitude is specially prominent as such. It is because
of a special phase that it has come into prominence, and that is, the
blending of Verisimilitude with Plot. This occurred in the period
1736-1808 A.D., when K 20 was on K 3 in sextile to 8 3, a degree of
•Plot in Novels and Dramas (c/. Military strategy. See article "Army,"
1
In this and other articles the writer is much indebted to the Encyclopedia
Britunnica, Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, and other standard works of reference.
3
0° and 13° of each sign are all significant positions.
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M.A., Oct., 1919). It was in the above period that Richardson's

Pamela set a new standard.
Special national phases of the novel are seen in the sudden
development of the novel in Japan in 1004 A.D., in Genji Monogatari,
when X 26 was on X 20 in trine to 5° 26, which is one of the
chief blends in the Japanese character, and brought them into
prominence in the present cycle of 72 years, T 15 being on 5° 26 of
the Constellations.
Another national phase was the development of the French
psychological novels in the period from 1592-1664, when ^ 5 was on
■"E 20 in sextile to SI 5, the principal blend in the French character.
In the period from 1808 to 1880 X 20 was on X 2 8 2, a
degree of Resignation which is the principal blend in the Russian
temperament, or rather of one section of the Russian races. This
influence is shown in the novels of Gogol and the other Russian
novelists who sprung up at that time, and produced novels of " savage
realism blended with Slavonic dreaminess and melancholy " (T 7, a
degree of Life and Death, is another important blend in the Russian
temperament). Cervantes, the creator of Don Quixote, is in a class
by himself. He was born in 1547, and the date usually given is 9th
October. § was then in 1'E 20 in trine to 2L ^ thus combines the
eccentricity of the 1st degree of ''>1 with the chivalry of 11. 15 was
then on it 1 of the Constellations.
Xtijj 20 may also be noticed in the following horoscopes:
Rudyard Kipling {N.N. 990) has M.C. given as X21.
Artemus Ward {N.N. 88) has 3 in X 21 sextile 2 in 8 19.
Alan McAulay {N.N. 193) has Asc. given as X 21.
Ralph Connor, born 13th September, 1860, had the 0 in i'E 21 in
trine to <?.
Joseph Conrad, born 6th December, 1857, had ¥ in X 20 trine 2.
Jeffery Farnol, born 10th February, 1878, bad '? in X 19^
sextile If.
Maxim Gorky, born 14th March, 1868, had If in X '21.
Rider Haggard, born 22nd June, 1856, had ^ in X 20 sextile *8.
Thomas Hardy {N.N. 103) had ^ in X 20, though square b,
perhaps giving the tragedy and misfortune depicted with masterly
strokes in Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
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Neil Monroe, born 3rd June, 1864, had ¥ in Wl 20 trine K 20.
In the first portion of the 19th century, T 8 was blended with
K20. 8 are degrees of storm and stress, and financially indicate
great poverty and hardship when afflicted. About 5357 B.C., 8 was
at the M.C. of the World Horoscope, anc I believe that archaeological
research will eventually reveal that about that time the ancestors of
the Jewish race as the result of a great crime (Vy 8 on World Asc.)
were driven from a fertile country to a barren land, from a Garden of
Eden to a wilderness of sorrow.
Charles Dickens {N.N. 102) is the great word-painter of poverty
and hardship. He had <? in T 8.
George Eliot (N.iV. 47) was born "about 5 a.m.,"according to
her father's diary. In my opinion this should be rectified to give 8
on the 12th cusp Campanus sextile ? 10 trine If === 11. In 1863
Romola was published, and she stepped into the first rank of literature.
The M.C. would then be progressed to — 10 sextile ? .
The novel, however, would have little attraction for us if its only
recommendation was that it was not true, but might be so. The
strongest attraction for many readers is the element of Romance.
This in its more ideal aspect is represented by 'Y'=== 17 : in a more crude,
realistic aspect by T =2* 18 the attraction of one sex for another.
T 17 was on the li cusp of the World Horoscope from 656 A.D.
to 728 A.D. There is a romantic story of Daphnis and Chloe, by
Longus, the date of which is unknown, which may possibly have
belonged to this period. In the period from 1448 to 1520, "I 0 was on
— 17 of the Constellations. In this period appeared the Spanish
Amadis de Gaul (1508), and Matteo Bandillo flourished (1480-1561),
" for long the most famous of all the Italian novelists." In the same
period in England Sir Thomas Mallory wrote his Morte D'Arthur
(c. 1470).
'V 17 was on the World Asc. from about 1736 to 1808 a.d. This
was the period which gave us Sir Walter Scott, and—in poetry—
Coleridge. Though Sir WalterScott's genius did not actually manifest
itself till the following period, he was born in the age of Romance, and
he is probably to be considered as the medium through which Idealistic
Romance found its fullest expression. ^ was about 8 20 sextile
20 trine 20.
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In the present period b 6 is on V 17, and in the period imme-

diately preceding this b S. The present age is witnessing the
Romance of Occultism, b Rl 6 being one of the blends in the study
of the Occult. It is evident from Jeffery Farnol's novels that he has
come across the subject of Astrology. He had W in b 5 and i? in
b 7. This degree alone, however, does not necessarily produce
interest in the Occult.
Students may also note the following: Mrs Humphry Ward
<? b 5; H. W. Herbert 0 in T 17; Conrad 2^ in b 7; Morley
Roberts in b 6.
The astrological history of Plot may be more fittingly dealt with
in the treatment of Drama.
Among special forms of novel the mystery story may be singled
out for special attention. Detective stories and mystery tales were
specially prominent in the publishers' lists in the last two years.
Mystery is denoted by T ^ 28. The detective instinct which wishes
to probe the mystery to the bottom is n ^ 26.
Anthony Hope brought out a mystery story, The Secret of the
Tower, in 1919. He has 2^ in — 27. Rider Haggard has If in n 26.
J. Storror Clouston b in f 27. John Buchan U in === 28 sextile
i? in •? 28 and 2 in SL 25. R. W. Chambers U in f 26i
sextile '?.
Students will find much pleasure in examining the birthdales of
their own favourite novelists and noting what planets are in closest
aspect to K TUt 20, or T ^ 9 (now on K "K 20).
The next period of 72 years (beginning about 1952) bring forth the
full effect of K "Tk 20 on the 12th cusp of the World Horoscope. In
the nearer future a great novelist will be born in February, 1925,
when W is in K 20 with U approaching a sextile.
Thus the great wheel of the Universe continues to revolve, and
in the words of Plotinus " Whosoever thinks that things are governed
by chance or by caprice is very far removed from God."

It is reported that May 3 is the date that has been fixed for bringing
into general operation the provisions of the Irish Home Rule Act. The
Moon on that day will be in opposition to Saturn, Jupiter in opposition to
Uranus, and Sun square Neptune ; so that although the Sun will also trine
lupiler and Saturn the outlook is not promising and success will be very
limited and partial.
 JUtroIogg anb Rental Berangemenf

Practical Essays by a Nurse

IV.—Of Suicide
NOTHING is more misleading than the popular idea that suicide-
is necessarily a mark of an "unsound" mind. It may be of course,
but it is not always. It occurs sometimes when the fundamental
instinct of self-preservation is temporarily overbalanced by some over-
whelming motive or emotion. When this is so there will be no definite
sign of it in the birth map, and its cause will only be traced in the
progressed directions acting upon or "exciting" the whole forces of
the radical personality.
In map 1371 /or instance there is no particular indication of
the probably temporary derangement which ended in suicide. There
were plenty of counter influences in the radix which might have been
taken advantage of.
In map 171 on the other hand we find a radically unbalanced
mind, with that unhappy conjunction again of Mars and Uranus, both
afflicting the Ascendant. Again too, Mercury and Saturn are in
conjunction, which is only less evil than their square. Of this map
it might easily have been predicted that when the temptation to suicide
came, the native would yield to it. In Schumann's case (974 in the
same volume) something in the nature of a collapse at the end of life
might have been foreseen from the sinister conjunction of Sun and
Mars in opposition to Saturn, while Uranus elevated, afflicts Jupiter
in the fourth house. Neptune also was afflicting both Sun and
Moon from Gemini. (I have seven cases of Neptune afflicting other
planets from Gemini with special disaster, and would ask other
students to take note of this position, as our knowledge of the planet's
affinities, etc., is still in the making.)
Other aspects correlated with suicide I have found to be ; Sun in
1
Of the little volume containing root horoscopes.
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Aquarius 8 Mars in Leo; both squaring Mercury in the 3rd; Moon

conjunction Neptune in Gemini S Saturn; and Mars square Mercury
in 6tk. The latter brings me to the one perhaps really reliable
observation which can be trusted in this difficult matter.
There seems to be no doubt that Mercury afflicted in the sixth
house brings a tendency to suicide, f t may be strongly aspected as
well, and even dignified ; but one strong affliction from Mars or Uranus
will give the tendency, which may never be outgrown.
To return to what I have cited as a remarkable case in this
connection in map 3. The native's adventures having ended in public
disaster, she turned deliberately to suicide. The position was crucial,
involving loss of friends and of public esteem. Worst of all, self-
respect had been forfeited, and in yielding to suicide she shewed again
the fatal moral weakness which lay in the personality and which the
directions were for the first time bringing out.
The first attempt was made by drowning. It did not succeed. She
was rescued; and an illness ensued. In the course of it, by a clever
ruse she obtained a two ounce bottle of chloral and a one ounce bottle
of laudanum. She took the latter one morning after a bath, but
sickness prevented its action. The following week, in the night she
drank the chloral; slept—and to her surprise and dismay, woke again
in the morning. That also had no effect, and was not discovered.
Finally by another scheme she obtained some cachets of veronal.
These she added in a powdered form to other six cachets already in
the house. The dose amounting to about sixty grains she took one
evening. Now, at last, she thought, there would be no more waking.
Nor was there for three days. The puzzled doctors found her in
a state of coma which they hardly knew how to diagnose; but after
a long struggle, once again, Life triumphed. On awakening to
consciousness she refused all explanations, and at this point, they
certified her as insane.
Now the interest of the case is this. Why were all these attempts
unsuccessful ? Those cited above all ended (with the exception of
poor Schumann who was destined to a more prolonged agony) in death.1
Why were these deliberate and carefully planned attempts foiled
on every occasion, when a smaller dose might easily have been fatal ?
1
He died in an asylum.
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Probably the explanation is in the radix. It is true that Mercury

is squared by Uranus in the sixth house. There was and always may
be the tendency to end troubles in suicide; a tendency which was
excited by the Sun squaring the radical Pisces Moon which alway has
an element of weakness. But Jupiter, strong by sign and finely
aspected, held the cusp of the sixth house. 1 know of no other case
where the preserving power of Jupiter shewed out so strongly. The
native has lived to regain everything that had been lost, and to make
a great advance in strength of character and spirituality.
It will of course be recognised that when a suicidal tendency is
deduced from a horoscope, it will shew out under some progressed
direction. This foreknowledge would often be of great value to the
native's friends, or to the native personally.
Intimate study of a map would indicate the progressed direction
most likely to be an exciting factor, and also the counter influence of
greatest hope. Many a case could be thus saved from being unjustly
branded with the stigma of insanity ; or from being—as may easily
happen in an Asylum—actually driven insane. Among the many
aspects of danger, one is often overlooked. It is the slow movement
of the major planets towards the exact consummation of an aspect. One
or two patients have broken down from no apparent cause just when
a square or semi-square of Uranus to Saturn or Mars had become
exact, near or in opposition to the Ascendant. Several such cases
have been noted. One was a semi-square of Saturn and Uranus
both in the first house. The native who had been perfectly
healthy up to that time broke down, and was liable to attacks of
despondency and excitement for some years. Fortunately the case
was in good hands, and hypnotic treatment given recurrently, was
successful. In time this patient quite recovered. But such times
should be noted, and if possible, preparation should be made for them.
Mind and body may be toned up for resistance ; and much can be
done by giving the mind healthy and fresh stimulus. If only the
aspects and their probable results are understood, there is often no
need for panic or for extreme measures; but many a life is spoilt and
its after opportunities wasted by wrong treatment at such a juncture.
In the following pages one pathetic illustration of this kind of
mistake will be given from personal experience of the case.
 ffiitmBpon&fiice
The Time of Quickenmng
Dear Sir,—The article by Mr H. S. Green on the above subject is of
great importance to students of the Pre-natal Epoch, and his investigations
should lead to further developments of that theory, provided that reliable
data of the actual time of quickening can be obtained. As Mr Green points
out, the initial difficulty is the uncertainty as to whether the first movement
felt by the mother is always the time of quickening, and in view of the
opinion of medical men, that movements due to other causes are often
mistaken for this event, it is essential in the cases dealt with to be quite
certain as to this point.
In Case II., page 78, the dale and time of quickening is certain, the
turning movement, faintness and nausea associated with it by medical men,
being fully experienced by the mother. It was this case which led to my
discovery of the converse chart of descent, and the quickening took, place
exactly at the fifth lunar appulsion measured backward from birth.
Case XI. is the most important of the eleven cases submitted, inasmuch
as the approximate time of coition is given. The epoch for 14/0/1904 is
perfectly correct (as is also the epoch for Case X.), assuming that the birth
was a normal one, but it is somewhat difficult iu view of recent investigations,
to accept an Epoch falling ig days before coition, and this for obstetric
reasons apart from other considerations.
In regard, however, to the moment of quickening, investigations have
led to the conclusion that the fifth lunar appulsion iu all normal regular
cases is the exact moment of this event. It may or may not be accompanied
by a movement, indeed it is not necessary that it should. This fifth lunar
appulsion is the point on the chart of descent where, in all normal regular
cases, the lunar lihration extends to the sixth appulsion instead of returning.
Examination of the cases submitted by Mr Green shows that the first
six are definitely related to either the direct line of impulse Irom Epoch to
birth, or the converse line from birth to Epoch. The reason why some
should fall on the direct line and others 011 the converse is not hard to
understand, and it is quite evident that both are regulated by a law.
A more important point, however, arises from this question of quickening,
and it has long been recognised and investigated, and the results are very
important. It is to be noted, that at the fifth lunar appulsion in normal
cases, the moon invariably comes nearest to the line of descent, and it
answers to that point of time at which the centre of consciousness descends
to the psychic plane, in other words, this fifth return or appulsion is the link
between mind and matter.
To carry this a little further, the three dates, Epoch, quickening and
birth, may all be regarded as "Epochs" (using the word in its broadest
sense as meaning a definite point of time) on the astral, mental and-physical
planes, respectively, and I am informed by several advanced students that
the fifth lunar appulsion is an important factor, and can Iw dealt with in
exactly the same manner as the ordinary Pre-natal Epoch and the horoscope.
There is immense scope for investigation in connection with this matter,
and I hope that now Mr Green has .brought forward these cases further
investigation will be made. I would also suggest that he takes np the
question of the fifth lunar return, in normal cases, and treats it as an Epoch.
Yours faithfully, E. H. Baii.ey,
61, Fleet Street, E.G. 4. Editor, " British Journal of Astrology."
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY 159
horizon measured in oblique ascension. The method was advocated by
James Wilson but is not now employed.
Criticai, Days. A term in Medical Astrology denoting those days
when the Moon arrives at the semisquare. square, etc., of its place in the
figure for decumbiture or for the beginning cfthe illness.
Critical Degrees. Certain degrees of the Zodiac marking the initial
points of the ^8 Lunar Mansions. They are as follows :
o0 o', i205i', 25043'
8 SI~ 80034', si026'
4 i7', ly-q'
The influence of a planet in one of these degrees at birth is said to be
intensified, and the passage of the Moon by direction from one Mansion to
another causes a change in the general course of the life. They are
sometimes called Sex Degrees on account of their apparent influence over
sex in the Pre-Natal Epoch.
Crooked Signs, y , Vj\ and . If the Ascendant or Moon be afflicted
by one of the malefics in or from these signs it is said to cause crookedness
or deformity.
Cross. The symbol of matter. Together with the circle and semi-
circle it forms the planetary symbols (q. v.).
Cross Aspects. The unfavourable or inharmonious aspects, and
particularly the square and opposition, all of which are formed by the
division or multiplication of the square or cross.
Crux. The Southern Cross. A constellation formed by Koyer
(a.d. 1679) out of stars in the hind feet of theCentaur, and therefore probably
partaking of that constellation's influence, viz., Venus and Jupiter. It is
not now visible above about 27° N latitude, but was to be seen on the
horizon of Jerusalem (320) in the time of the Crucifixion.
Colmen Cogli. The cusp of the tenth house.
Culmination. The arrival of a planet or star at the midheaven or cusp
of the tenth house.
Current Synodical Lunation. One of the minor methods of direction.
A map is erected for the exact moment in each month when the Sun and
Moon are in the same relative positions as at birth and exactly the same
distance apart. This map foreshadows the events of the ensuing month.
It differs Irom the oidinary Synodical Lunation (q. v.) (in which each lunation
after birth rules one year of life) in being applied to current and not past
positions.
Cusp. The beginning of a house. The Tables of Houses show the
exact degrees that occupy the cusps of the various houses for any given
time or place. A planet is said to begin to affect a house when within 50 of
the cusp.
Cuspal Distance. A term used in Mundane Directious. It is the
distance of a planet from the nearest cusp measured in accordance with its
semi-arc.
Gustos Messium. The Harvest-keeper. A constellation formed by
Lalande in 1775 from stars between Camelopardalis, Cassiopeia, and
Cepheus. It is not now recognised.
Cycle. An imaginary orbit or circle in the heavens. A cycle marks
the time taken by a body to complete the circle of the Zodiac and return to
its starti:ig point, or in a more general sense denotes the periodical return
of similar events or conditions. A great number of cycles are recognised,
some natural and some symbolical or kabalistic, but our knowledge is still
very meagre and fragmentary. Of the natural cycles there are historical
ones of 250, 252, 265 and 870 years, the weather cycle of 9 years, the Sun-
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spot cycle of a little over 11 years, and the following, particulars of which
will be found under their respective headings:—Annus Magnus, Metonic
Cycle, Naros, Saros or Eclipse Cycle, and Year of Brahma. Of the kabalistic
cycles there is one of 354 years 4 months, with sub-cycles of 36 years
and 1 year, and various other planetary cycles. (See Chronocrators,
Periodic Directions and Years of the Planets.)
Cycle of Cassandkus. A cycle of 136.000 years.
Cygnus. The Swan. One of the 48 original constellations, and situated
in the Northern hemisphere. It is said by Ptolemy to be of the influence of
Venus and Mercury, and P. Christian states that it causes a late development
of talents and gives a dreamy and contemplative nature.

D
Daily Motion. The geocentric daily motions of the planets are as
follows:
Sun.—Maximum 6i'io", Mean 59'8", Minimum 57'u".
Moon.—Maximum i50i7', 0
Mean i30io'35", Minimum ii'so'.
Mercury.—Maximum0 2 i3'.
Venus.—Maximum i i6'.
Mars.—Maximum 48'.
Jupiter.—Maximum 13'.
Saturn.—Maximum 8'.
Uranus.—Maximum 4'.
Neptune.—Maximum 2'.
Dark Degrees. According to the ancients a planet in a dark degree
signified a person of dark complexion. These degrees are as follows:—
T 1—3, 9—16; « 1—3, 29,30; n 5—7,23—27: ® 13.14: SI 1—10;
•njj 1—5. 17—so; =2=6—10,19—21; "11—3,23—30; ^ 10—12 ; fcf 1—7,
20—22, 30; zz 10—13 ; 1—6, 13—18. 29, 30.
Dasamsha. A Hindu division of the Zodiac 0into 120 parts, each
Dasamsha being one-tenth of a sign in extent, or 3 . The first division,
or 0° to 30, of each sign is ruled as follows :
00—30 =2= iiis ruled by ^

The succeeding divisions are ruled by the signs following the commencing
one, thus 3—6 y by ar and so on.
Sepharial, in Cosmic Symbolism, gives an alternative system in which the
first divisions of T, b, and n are ruled by CY', Jb, and $ respectively; of
ffi, SL np, by «, njj, Irf; of =2=, m, ^, by n , -c=, jr; and of Vy, ZZ, K,
by 2c, n, K-
Day. In a general sense the period of one rotation of the Earth upon its
axis, viz.: 24 hours. Several kinds of day are recognised in Astronomy, viz.:
(1) Sidereal Day. One complete rotation of the Earth, or the time
elapsing between two consecutive transits of a given star across the meridian.
It is 23" 56m 4"'b90of mean solar time. This is the basis of Sidereal Time (qv,).
(2) Apparent Solar Day. The time elapsing between two consecutive
transits of the Sun across the meridian. This varies in length at different
seasons of the year. It was used in the old Ephemerides in conjunction
with the Equation of Time.
(3) Mean Solar Day. The average of all the apparent solar days of the
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event, the favourable influences will continue until such time as
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Part of this month's Observatory was written in Bath, where
I was ordered by the doctor for warmth and to recuperate after a bad
attack of bronchitis, Finchley being very cold in March.
Prediction1" Three days after my arrival in that city, namely on
Easter Monday at 5.30 p.m., while quietly walking on
the pavement I fell on some garbage and nearly broke my right
ankle, causing a bad sprain and tearing all the ligaments. Since last
Christmas I have been under the influence of Saturn opposition
Neptune in Pisces, and have had influenza, throat trouble, lumbago,
bronchitis, and last but not least a severe accident.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

Some of my readers will think this a very personal Observatory,

but my object in introducing my own misfortunes is to call attention
to the present imperfection of predictive astrology and to offer a prize
of Two Guineas to the reader who provides the most accurate
indication of events in this coming year in my nativity. I find that
no one has mentioned an accident, though chill and chest troubles
were both mentioned. My husband and myself, as students in an
esoteric occult school, discovered many years ago that for those who
attempted to quicken their evolution in order to be more useful for
service to the world, it was extremely difficult to predict exactly how
their Karma or destiny would work out. After all it is the attitude
of mind to the event that matters and I was so thankful that I had
not broken my ankle that I was quite contented and cheerful.
In all predictive work there is the life side of manifestation as
well as the form side to be considered, and when we are concerned with
the/or>« side alone scientific methods are reliable and trustworthy, but
when we deal with the evolution of life or consciousness more latitude
is required for the laws which govern life apart from form, and a
more subtle and intuitive manner of treatment is, I think, essential.
We have all much to learn in the art of predicting, and it is just
possible that there may be a missing key, or one that the astrologer
has not yet succeeded in turning. If our students would give us facts
in their own experience, or details of events in their own lives over
which they had no control, and write them up for Modern
ASTROLOGY our progress would become rapid and our knowledge
increase by leaps and bounds. What ws need are more helpers.
B. L.

A counter-revolution was attempted ia Russia during February and

March, the rebellion being specially strenuous round Kronstadt, Moscow,
and Petrograd, but involving other parts of Russia also. At the same time
it was reported that Roumania was gatheri ig a large army to repel expected
Bolshevik attacks; and Bolshevik forces took and occupied Tiflis in the
south of Russia just north of Persia. We pointed out that when Mars
entered the first point of the sign Aries on February 13, it was rising in
Russia and Persia, thus accentuating the martial spirit. Again, at the
February New Moon, Saturn culminated in opposition to Mars in eastern
Europe from Petrograd to Constantinople.
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 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

affecting Great Britain and western Europe, involving labour and

employment disputes, crime and intrigue between the nations, religious
differences, and weakening the power of governments. But Saturn
is also setting, being within orbs of the conjunction of Jupiter, and the
two planets have some extremely good aspects, being in trine to the
Moon in Capricorn in the eleventh house and to Venus in Taurus in
the second. Whatever international trouble there may be will be
offset by these favourable influences which will bring friendly com-
binations between the governments and peoples, especially here and
in the west of Europe, good fortune through business, money matters,
increasing trade, and possibly successful results achieved by the
League of Nations or by the different countries in friendly association.
Important legislation will be under consideration in parliament and
will pass, especially that which is concerned with money matters and
international relations; but the opposition of Mercury in the fifth
house to the Moon will cause brisk debates, troubles through education
and the young, divisions within the parties and possibly disputes
between the two Houses. The Sun and Mars in the fourth house
shows labour questions still troublesome to the government, and the
workers rebellious against their leaders, housing and mines will cause
trouble and-fires or accidents occur in connection with them; the
weather will be hot and unfavourable for the crops, but storms will
occur at times. Ireland should benefit through Venus well aspected
in Taurus, but the degree culminating at Dublin is in square to
Saturn.
At Berlin and in west Germany the Sun and Mars on the fourth
cusp, with Mercury in the fourth opposed by the moon, show disputes
between the people and their rulers, changes in the government and
those in power, but foreign relations will improve, trade and employ-
ment increase, and a fair amount of success accrue to the country as
a whole.
In the east of Europe and near Constantinople and Petrograd the
Moon will culminate in opposition to Mercury, so that here too there
will be changes in the governments and probably the loss of office by
some of those in power with disputes about treaties and financial
questions; but increasing financial and general prosperity is indicated,
especially in Greece, Turkey, and south-east Europe.
i66 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Near Calcutta Uranus will culminate in opposition to Jupiter,

which will trouble the government seriously; changes and reforms
affecting the land and the welfare of the masses of the people will be
required as well as in taxation and money matters. There is danger
of sickness and some epidemic, failure of the food supply, or trouble
through agriculture.
At Washington the Sun and Mars in the seventh house will cause
friction in foreign affairs; Mercury lord of the seventh and ninth on
the cusp of the eighth in opposition to the Moon will bring disputes
about money questions and trade, especially in their international
relations, danger of the failure of some treaty or international under-
standing, but money matters and trade generally will prosper.
There is danger of strikes affecting shipping, railways and travelling,,
with accidents connected with these. Some famous writer or speaker
will die; there will be religious troubles and disputes; there will be
feverish complaints and those affecting digestion and the alimentary
canal. The weather will be hot and dry but with storms at times.

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At the moment of New Moon the sign Cancer will be rising at
London with Mercury just above the Ascendant in good aspect to
Uranus, Venus, and Jupiter; Venus is in the eleventh house in
Taurus in sextile to Uranus just past the meridian and trine Jupiter
near the cusp of the fourth house. But there are some bad aspects to
set against the good ones, for the Sun, Moon, and Mars are in con-
junction in the twelfth house in square to Uranus, which is exactly on
the meridian at Dublin, and to Jupiter, and Saturn. This affliction of
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 167

the tenth and fourth houses from the twelfth will weaken and em-
barrass the government for the time being and will bring difficulties
connected with the land, the crops, mines, housing, and the demands
of the workers ; strikes and agitations for the redress of grievances
will occur; money problems, higher wages, and demands for less
expenditure will cause trouble; the government will be in danger of
some unexpected defeat or false step in policy, they may lose support
or a bye-election may be lost, there will be renewed trouble in Ireland
just now. But with Mercury rising well aspected most of these
troubles may be averted for the time or minimised, legislation will
make progress, and money matters and trade will go forward.
Reforms or new methods for the health department of the nations will
be considered and applied, but there will be trouble connected with
hospitals, prisons, charities, and charges of extravagant expenditure.
There will be much crime involving both the upper and lower classes;
some eminent soldier or Mars man will be in danger; some labour
leader, or someone well known among the masses will die, and the
death-rate will be rather high in the land.
Uranus and Jupiter will be nearer the upper and lower meridian
in Spain and Portugal, and Mars will be not far above the Ascendant
in the latter country, so that both lands will suffer and the rulers be
faced by turbulence, discontent, plots, and riots. At Berlin Uranus
and Jupiter will be in the ninth and third houses in square to the
luminaries in the eleventh ; there will be trouble connected with trade,
commerce, home and foreign traffic, and transit questions, and the
government will meet with difficulty in the legislature; men eminent
in the state will be attacked and may be in personal danger in central
Europe. Accidents by rail or ship are probable and storms at sea.
From Constantinople to Petrograd Venus will be in the mid-
heaven bringing greater peace and prosperity; the people will be
gaining power and enforcing their will more upon those in authority;
but there will be serious money troubles affecting statesmen and
parliaments, also changes, downfalls and deaths among prominent men
and those in power.
At Calcutta the luminaries and Mars will culminate squared by
Jupiter and Saturn rising; the government will be greatly troubled,
national affairs will not proceed smoothly, there will be division of
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

power, and struggles between contending parties and rival factions;

prominent men in the government and at the head of the parties will
be attacked, some eminent man will die.
At Washington Aries will be rising. Venus in the Ascendant
well aspected will promote trade and prosperity at home and good
relations abroad ; but there'will be accidents, disputes, and a likelihood
of strikes and trouble through railways, air traffic, and shipping.
There will be crime and discontent arising from unemployment.
The squares from Gemini to Virgo will cause sickness and dis-
orders affecting lungs and bowels. London, the United States,
Armenia, Turkey and other parts ruled by these signs will suffer;
accidents, fires, riots and various disturbances will accompany or
follow the squares.

The following are some of the aphorisms of Cardan relating to Medical

Astrology:
" In sickness, when the Moon applies to a planet contrary to the nature
of the distemper, especially if it be a fortune, the disease will be changed for
the better.
" When the Moon at the decumbiture, or first falling sick shall be under
the beams of the Sun, or with Saturn, Mars for Uranus'), if the party be
ancient, even her conjunction with Jupiter, Venus, or Mercury, is not without
peril.
" Saturn causes long diseases ; Mercury, varying ones ; the Moon, such
as return after a time, as vertigoes, epilepsy, etc.; Jupiter and the Sun give
short diseases ; but Mars, the acutest of all.
"When the Moon is in a fixed sign, physic works the less; and if in
Aries, Taurus, or Capricorn, will be apt to prove nauseous to the patient.
" In purging, it is well that both the Moon and the lord of the ascendant
be descending, and under the Earth ; in vomiting that they ascend.
" Purging, bleeding, etc., ought to be done while the Moon is in moist
signs; the chief being Pisces, the next Caacer.
" When at the beginning of a disease the luminaries are both with the
infortunes, or in opposition to them, the sick will hardly escape.
'• With respect to jtvtrs. When the Sun is afflicted iu Leo, mischievous
fevers are threatened.
" It will be a jatnl time to suffer amputation, or lose any member, when
the Moon is under the Sun's beams and opposed by Mars.
" When you think to do good to your eyes, let the Moon be fortunate,
increasing in light, and by no means in a sign of the earthy triplicity."
There were violent Communist outbreaks in Central Germany on March
21, 23 ; this followed the New Moon in Pisces in the sixth house in opposition
to Jupiter and Saturn in the twelfth at Berlin. We predicted that "the
people will be dissatisfied among themselves and disconteuted with their
rulers."
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This is the horoscope of a man, who during the iast year or two
has achieved some notoriety in several parts of Germany by his
sensational public announcements of himself as being The New Christ.
In a number of leaflets which he scatters broadcast he speaks of
himself " I am The Truth " and as being the Greater One, of whom
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
Christ spoke according to the Scriptures. He styles himself
HAEUSSER in big letters. Needless to say he arouses a good deal
of hostility among religious people by his extravagant claims to such
an exalted position, but it must be said, he also has a fair number of
followers who follow him wherever he goes and who worship and
adore him as their Master. The daily press takes no notice of him
and now even refuses his advertisements, which in the beginning they
took in as a matter of business. This man, Louis Haeusser, was born
according to private information supplied to us by a friend and
follower of his, on the 6th November, 1881, 9.30 a.m., at Bonnigheim
in Wvirttemberg, Long. 9° E., Lat. 49°, and the figure for this time is
as shown above.
The outstanding feature of this map is strength, but strength that
is used in a narrow and bigoted way. Sagittarius is the rising sign,
the sign of religion and philosophy, which gives to all born under it
a quite natural leaning for all religious matters. The second decanate
rising gives an Aries-Mars colouring to it. Hence the very aggressive
tendency that is such a marked feature in all his speeches and state-
ments. There can be no doubt he is making a strong impression upon
his audiences by his outspoken views and the strong criticism of our
present state of society and civilisation ; he condemns without mercy
the churches and priests, the state authorities, the moneymakers, our
morals, etc., and his agitation! is somewhat on Bolshevik lines. In
his speeches he employs usually very strong language and calls
himself " The One " who is to set matters aright. Naturally this
pleases those people who entertain radical views in political and
religious matters and who have extreme notions as to what should be
done in our present plight. All those who want to upset our present
state of society, who wish to do away with the Churches, capitalism,
etc., find in him their mouthpiece. But on the other hand he arouses
a great deal of antagonism and anger on account of the strong language
which he uses in addressing parts of his audience (he often calls his
opponents swine and other bad names), referring also to Christ who
drove the moneymakers out of the Temple and who did not hold
back his opinions. It is not to be wondered at that some of his
meetings are very noisy and dangerously near rioting; at Munich he
once got a thrashing by his opponents. However he possesses a very
 THE HOROSCOPE OF A PSEUDO-CHRIST 171

powerful voice, by means of which he gets the better of them, and by

his strong and defiant attitude he keeps adversaries at bay.
Examining the map we easily see the cause for all this. The
Sun and Mercury are in Scorpio, which usually gives a tendency to
use strong and powerful language, and these two bodies are in
opposition to Saturn, Neptune, Moon and Jupiter in Taurus, which
strengthens the Scorpio tendencies. No less than six planets are
therefore in fixed signs, and' this position gives the key to the whole
nature. Jupiter, the ruling planet, is conjoined by the Moon and
Neptune, ordinary religion with universal love, but as this combination
is in an earthy sign, it is of a rather materialistic and crude kind.
The religious sense of Jupiter is over-expanded by the Moon and
Neptune and has become rigid and fixed; in other words the man has
become subject to a fixed idea.
That this is not the horoscope of a true Christ, of a Master of
Life and Wisdom, is evident to any student of Esoteric Astrology, for
all parts of the zodiac must be expressed and vitalized in such an
horoscope. But in this horoscope we have practically all the forces
centred in two signs, and that of the fixed order, which does not give
sufficient flexibility and expansion, but levels the Life down to a
rather materialistic plane, makes it too hard and rigid. But this
position gives him the great power by which he impresses his hearers
as being no ordinary person. Yet this is not the power of persuasion,
of sweet reasonableness that goes to the heart of the people, but is
more of the iconoclastic kind that is going to pull down the existing
order, all cherished institutions, ideas, conventions, habits of life, etc.
This stamps him therefore as a fanatic who is overshooting the mark.
That the man makes such extraordinary claims seems to me easily
explained by the fact, that having a naturally religious turn of mind
(note that Jupiter rules also the third house) he thought and perhaps
meditated a good deal upon the Christ and His life, and by doing so
he was able to feel something of the Buddhic vibrations passing
through him by means of which he realised the Christ principle
within him and he identified his own consciousness with that of the
Christ. But he obviously was not able to distinguish between the
Christ principle in himself and in every other human being, and
the great Spiritual Being, the Christ, who descended for a short space
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

of time to live and teach about 1900 years ago in the body of Jesus.
In this way he has become subjected to a fixed idea; instead of
mastering the thought form and the mental body, an idea or, what is
more likely, an elemental from the astral plane seized upon him and
gave rise to the delusion that he was The Christ. That this explana-
tion is the most likely one is evidenced by the fact, that Haeusser has
no special teaching to give. He always refers to the Scriptures and
says that the Teaching of Christ should be lived and not only be talked
about. But this after all is but a platitude, for every thinking person
knows that. When asked what he has specially to say, he answers that
he has conquered, meaning the lower nature, and that others should
do the same. He has left wife and family and goes about preaching
and speechmaking (indicated in the horoscope by Mars in the seventh
house, ruling also the fourth, in square to Venus). Venus is strong in
the tenth house in her own positive sign and gives him a measure of
worldly success and luck in life, and this he enjoyed as a champagne
manufacturer before be started on his religious crusade.
Uranus in the ninth house is in square aspect to the Ascendant
and seems to warp the higher mind in spite of the good aspects he
receives. This position seems to be a dumb note,1 the fixed idea
overbearing all other influences. Yet it could and would be an
exceedingly useful influence and would make him original, if he were
to follow rational methods.
W. Becker

On February 25 the Government majority in the House of Commons

fell to only 10 in a division on Supplementary Estimates as a result of the
outcry against extravagance. On March 2, several amendments were
carried against the Government on the Unemployment Bill. At this time
also there ware several bye-elections, and Labour Candidates won three out
of four seats against the Government. These events followed the unfortunate
February New Moon which showed the Sun (lord of the 10th) and Modn in
opposition to Neptune elevated, and Mars in opposition to Saturn on the
cusp of the eleventh bouse—Parliament.
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We should scarcely consider Uranus in the ninth in this map a "dumb note."
The position seems a significant one in view of the native's religious pretensions,
and the strong aspects to the planets in Taurus and Scorpio undoubtedly increase
the magnetic attraction (for some people) of his speeches and personality, and add
to their power. Furthermore to what else in the map can we attribute the
conquering of the lower nature ?—Ed.
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®bc 9ark of tlje gtoan

By W. H. Scott

The Moon, as ruler of Cancer, presents a strange problem to the

human mind. The Moon relates to the mystic cube,—the crystallization
under Saturn ; it is said that Saturn " maketh the false to appear real,
concealing the truth under the mask of illusion."
Cancer, above all other signs, brings the native under the
"ceaseless pulse and current of desire." It is the moon pulse of
the desire body.
Saturn is in his detriment in the Moon's sign, Cancer, bringing
with it, in this position, more or less limitation. Cancer is the function
of sensation and the beginning of material formulation and it seems
that we measure matter—so-called—by the senses : what is now the one
is, as it would seem, now the other, for there can be no sensation
divorced from form. Cancer, then, may be said to embrace all there
is of sense consciousness just as its ruler is the embodiment of the
principle of form. In physics we begin with the line and rise to the
surface, and from thence to the cube; the cube unfolded becomes
the cross, which, when truly comprehended, becomes the symbol of
"pure Earthmeasure," for it is the "All-Thing" of number and
form.
The unfolding of a thing from itself embraces the vital principles
of evolution itself for the continuity of life demands this expansion.
Now the Moon is a Saturn orb and all formulation, in the shape
of crystallization, coming under the Saturn vibration takes the form
of the cube just as under Jupiter it takes the form of the trine, the
first is the epitome of fixity and limitation, while the latter is
concerned with expansion and growth, or, as we have said, the
unfolding of a thing from itself,—the unfolding of the cube into that
form (the cross) of infinite extension whose lines embrace the universe
itself. We note, therefore, that Jupiter is exalted in Cancer whose
174 MODEKN ASTROLOGY

pole is the Saturnian sign of Capicorn, while the Moon stands as

Saturn's representative in Cancer; it is thus that we behold Cancer
in the light of a paradox.
Cancer is the Mother of Waters and the water turns to ice
(crystallizes) under Saturnian influence, but only through the agency
of the Moon; on the other hand the temperature always rises when
Jupiter, the Earth and the Sun form the Sextile aspect.
Now all Life embodied in the Form has its beginning in the
water, and in the Watery Triplicity we behold the very beginnings of
Earthly formulation, the principle of generation is wholly dependent
upon it. The Moon is said to be the mother of the earth, that is she
furnished the mould or etheric form within which the " solid " kernel
took shape; thus the moon is the receptacle in which opaque matter
becomes manifest to the sense consciousness, in other words the lunar
principle in man is that which gives rise to an infinitude of life
expression in Form on every plane, and in each of the four kingdoms
of nature,—in the fire, the water, the air and the earth.
Cancer as the Mother of matter and Form, presents to man the
dark side of the Moon ; it is that side which is for ever turned away
from our Earth. In speaking of the fourth degree of Cancer,
Charubel says, " it is a thing I dare not look at, inspection being
dangerous: I will simply give the character it typifies. A strange
character, one whom none will understand. A person possessed of
powers unknown to the present race and who, unless the mind has
been much distorted, will pursue studies with which the age is not
conversant. He will not be tied down to any religious tenets, as he
can never be brought to submit himself to any. He will be a
magician, but not of any known type. Such a genius may be
called insane, whilst the brain and intellect generally are quite healthy.
Such a man is out of the ordinary groove of every-day life, and yet
he is not insane. All that the average person may be taken up with
is uncongenial to him ; there is ever a gulf between such a character
and ordinary humanity."
Another interprets the fourth degree of Cancer as the " degree of
sensuality " as follows: "This degree indicates a person of worldly
tendencies, with an appetite for the good things of life, which will not
be denied. The nature is extravagant and reckless, prone to all kinds
 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 175
of excesses and passionate impulses whereby the fortunes will be
seriously damaged. These things arise from a certain richness of
heart and camaraderie and what good there will be will find its
expression largely through the sensuous nature."
Here we have presented two distinct and essentially opposite
sides of the sign in character manifestation, just as in physics it
involves the problem of rest and motion; or again, the "end of
things,"—the " beginning of things," as the entrance into life and the
exit, the door, alike, of life and death, the " change-over junction "
and the transfer point.
Cancer consists, above all, in the establishment of kinship and
the maintaining of all there is in the affiliation between forms,—the
chronological succession between the species in which these forms are
materialized; also the augmentation and sustaining power of the
Creative Thought in nature.
It is quite impossible, in thinking of the Moon, to dissociate her
from her sign; both relate to the shadow,—concealment, the veil, the
" Spouse of Day," the net of darkness which enwraps nature's secrets,
hiding them from the eyes of the vulgar. Of the sign quality of
Cancer someone has said, " it is Reflection—the Spouse of Experience
—whose offspring is Possibility. It is Sleep—the Spouse of Activity
—whose offspring is Capacity, hence Perpetuity, Eternity. It is
Feeling—the Spouse of Thought," which latter statement is indeed
true (no less than the others) for the "thought body," whose special
vehicle is Mercury, is ever manifesting through the organs of sense
which are under the rnlership of Cancer and the Moon, "it is
Emotion or the twins of Love and Hate, Courage and Fear, REALITY
and Fancy."
In her " WALL-MAKING" propensity she hides the Life, the
Man, the Real Self, in a " coat of skin," a mask of visual matter. In
thinking of the fourth house and Cancer we think of them as beneath,
at the uttermost point and pole of the mid-heaven, the middle way of
the night,—of darkness and the negation-of-sleep; and yet again, if
we stop to consider, we find that the darkness is over our head and
the Sun is at his noon in this pole of the M.C.: the darkness is with
us and about us and not at the opposite end of the world ; and this is
true also of Cancer and the Moon as the representatives of the
 MODERN ASTROI-OGY

personality, for in the personal sense, as distinguished from the larger

self, all things" are enlarged in its shadow, it always wears the " mask
of illusion " ; and yet, strange to say, it holds the preservation of the
past in the present, the activities of eternal change and ever-increasing
Creation.
As night is to day so is ignorance to knowledge, silence to speech,
imagination to realisation, the Life to the Form. In our neat and
tidy egotism—as we think—we behold Ignorance at the opposite pole
of our personal world, and yet how surely the Night of this same
Ignorance envelops us. Beneath the " skirts of sense " this Changeling
which we call the personality is ever feeding on the life-seed, Action
and Reaction, Energy and Motion, the Ebb and Flow of Everything,
which is the No-thing. Cancer is the mother of matter, while matter
and darkness are wrought by two opposing forces,—Energy and
Strength; one coming, the other going, these are the ebb and flow of
the tide in manifestation, and Cancer is nothing if not the tidal sign of
the zodiac; she is the Maker and Unmaker of all Life Forms, and
the Maker, also, of Reality and Illusion.
The spirit of provincialism is strong in Cancer,—a spirit which
leads to clannishness, ignorance and darkness of the intelligence: it is
thus that Cancer becomes a separatist; it is here that he becomes
cautious and suspicious in the extreme; ceasing to grow intellectually
he becomes an epitome of the fourth house,—the " end of things."
Cancer is the sign of cohesion which leads to arrested motion, and the
ceasing to think for oneself is indeed arrested motion on the mental
plane; its neighbour and complement, the Mercurial sign of Gemini,
is the sign of " Something Difierent." Cancer is self-absorbed,
Gemini absorbs others and observes others ; the undeveloped Cancer
is "slack in the powers of observation" owing .to the fact that the
mental eye is centred on Self; he is in the night-house of his own
shadow; he is preoccupied, self-absorbed. There is nothing too
small for Cancer, perhaps it is the place where the ego shrinks and
atrophies; the Moon, as the special representative of this sign, has
the appearance of a withered and wrinkled world,—shrunken and
dead she is, but the reflector of Light and the mirror of Life. How
strange, then, that she should be the Mover of the World, the
translator of light, sound, speech, feeling, consciousness: the link
 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 177

between the Outer and the Within. Bringing the Past into the
Present, she is also the Prophet of the Future,—the Relater of that
which is to be.
(To be continued)

Harmony
In marriages between persons in adjoining signs, those in the sign below
are inclined to and should usually look up to and counsel with, the one in
the sign above, A man marrying a woman in the sign above is frequently
governed by the wife, and she is apt to feel she has a right to rule.
Frequently persons born in the last sign of a trinity are strongly attracted
to one of the opposite sex in the first sign of a trinity, and get from that one
consolation and help in times of trouble, but are apt to mistake it for love,
and especially when persons bom in Sagittarius make this mistake it is of
serious consequence, because of their tenacity to their ideal love.
Many unhappy marriages are made from sympathy being excited
between persons in either of the seven vital signs. Again, when Venus, the
conjugal planet, is in the same sign in one person's nativity in which another
person is born, it creates a conjugal love ; and when Mercury, the sex planet,
is in the sign that a person of the opposite sex is born in, it creates strong
sexual attractions.
These positions of sympathy, when reversed, are causes of antipathy
between the same persons.
It is necessary, in order to decide where harmony or inharmony will
exist, even between opposites, that we understand the harmonious or
inharmonious positions of the p'anets; for, as has been stated, the sign and
polarity govern the external or physical life, while the position of the planets
governs the interior, the intuitive or spiritual condition ; therefore, the
externals may be harmonious, while the internals may be at antipodes. It
is for this reason that before marriage horoscopes should be cast and
compared to avoid mistakes. {From Alan Leo's Scrap-book.)

It occasionally happens that in spite of the skill of the astrologer, and

the authenticity of data taken, the predictions have failed. An astrological
figure only shows the channel in which the Karmic forces are flowing, the
predictions made being the inferences therefrom. Their course is not
quite unalterable, as they are susceptible to many influences and acted
upon by forces created subsequently. The forces thus generated may flow in
the same direction and this can be done by " deliberately practising mental
and moral qualities, enlargingcapacities, strengthening weaknesses, supplying
deficiencies, removing excrescences." But unless a man knows where lie
bis weaknesses, his defects, how will he be able to remove them ? The
defects of a man, like his dorsal view, are bidden from his sight. Then
again there are some qualities which are latent, the very existence of which
often remains undreamt of. Here too astrology is of great help. There is
hardly a science which can estimate one's character as completely as
astrology. Anyone can test the truth of this statement by submitting his
birth-time to a competent astrologer, and the result will really astonish him.
From A lan Leo's Scrap-book.
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^stronom^ for Astrologers

By Vivian E. Robson, B.Sc.

II. Introductory
The science of astronomy is concerned with"the nature, positions,
and movements of the heavenly bodies, and it is the work of the
astronomer to study the Sun, planets, and satellites of the Solar System
together with comets, meteors and the more distant systems of stars
and nebulse.
Astronomy may conveniently be divided into two branches—
Descriptive, and Mathematical or Theoretical. Descriptive astronomy
is concerned with the study of the sizes, distances, masses, and
physical characteristics of the heavenly bodies, while the Mathematical
branch is devoted to the determination of their movements, the
calculation of their orbits, of the forces disturbing their motions, and
similar problems.
In the following series of articles we are more particularly
concerned with the latter branch especially in its practical aspect.
The student who wishes to know something of descriptive astronomy
will find many excellent books on the subject at a moderate price, and
I propose to include here only such particulars as are of service to the
astrologer. The main object in view is to deal with most of the
mathematical processes from a practical standpoint and to show not
only " why it is done " but also " how it is done." The requirements
of the average student have been kept in mind throughout and there-
fore such theoretical matters as the actual proof of the formulse
employed have been omitted, as they are of interest only to the
mathematician.
The various bodies with which astronomy is concerned may be
roughly classed into three groups, vix.;
1. The Sun, planets, and satellites.
2. Comets and Meteors.
3. Stars and NebuUe.
 ASTRONOMY FOR ASTROLOGERS 179

The first group contains bodies that rotate on their own axes, and
perceptibly change their relative positions, the second contains bodies
that appear only from time to time, while the third consists of
apparently stationary bodies that do not perceptibly change, their
positions in a lifetime. This classification is a very rough one and
will not bear close examination, but it provides a convenient order for
our treatment of the subject, and we will therefore begin with the
Solar System. A brief preliminary sketch and some definitions may
be of service in fixing our ideas.
The Solar System includes the Sun, the planets Mercury, Venus,
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, their satellites,
the Minor planets or Asteroids, and some comets, which for the present
may be ignored.
The Sun is the centre of the System and all the planets revolve
round it in paths, or orbits as they are called, that are nearly circular.
The orbit of each planet is actually elliptical or slightly elongated so
that the distance between the planet and the Sun varies at different
parts of the orbit, the point of nearest approach to the Sun being
called the perihelion, and the opposite point, or furthest distance, the
aphelion. Together with this movement of orbital revolution, each
planet is also rotating on its own axis like a top.
These phenomena are reproduced in the case of a planet and its
satellites. The latter are smaller bodies, also rotating on their own
axes, that revolve round the planet or " primary" to which they
belong in elliptical orbits and are carried bodily round the Sun with it.
The orbits of all the planets lie very nearly on one plane. The
path of the earth round the Sun is the plane to which all are referred,
and is known as the ecliptic. The orbits of the other planets are more
or less inclined to this, but fall within a belt of about 16° in width, 8°
on each side of the ecliptic. This belt is called the Zodiac and is
divided into twelve parts named after the constellations through which
it passes, though it should be mentioned here that there are two
Zodiacs, a description of which will be given later.
The distances of the planets from the Sun are given in a curious
empirical law that was first published by Bode of Berlin in 1778 and
usually called Bode's Law, though it was really discovered by Titius
of Witteroberg.
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Take the geometrical series

0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 384
and add 4 to each. The resulting series
4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 388
represents the approximate distances of the planets from the Sun, the
earth being represented by 10.
There is a curious and unexplained discrepancy in the case of
Neptune, however, as maybe seen from the following table which gives
the true distances as.compared with those obtained from Bode's Law:
? S ffi <r Ceres V ip <J»
Ttut 3.87 y.23 10.00 15.23 27.66 52.03 95-39 191-83 300.37
Bode 4.00 7.00 10.00 16.110 2S.00 52.00 100.00 196.00 388.00
Having very briefly sketched the Solar System in general we may
now proceed to particulars and consider first of all our Earth and the
problems connected with it, beginning with those depending on its
shape.
III. The Shape of the Earth
The Earth is not quite globular in shape but is slightly flattened
at the poles and swells out correspondingly at the equator, forming
the geometrical solid known as the oblate spheroid. It follows from
this that the diameter passing through the poles is slightly shorter
than that through the equator.
Expressed in miles the semi-diameter {i.e., half the diameter)
through the pole is 3949.790 miles, and the equatorial semi-diameter
is 3963.296 miles. If we call the equatorial semi-diameter a and the
polar 6, the compression, or flattening of the globe, c, is found from
the formula

a
and is approximately g-Jy.
The eccentricity {e) is given by the formula
e = c {2 —c)
which equals .0826 approximately.
(The term " eccentricity" will be fully explained in a later
article but meanwhile it may be taken to mean the amount of
deviation of an ellipse from the true circular form.)
These figures bear upon a certain minor problem of Astrology,
namely that concerning geographical versus geocentric latitude.
 ASTRONOMY FOR ASTROLOGERS 181

The surface of the globe is divided for convenience into meridians

of longitude and parallels of latitude so that the exact position of any
place may at once be determined by saying that it is so many degrees
north or south of a given line, and so many degrees east or west of
another line cutting the first at right angles. The line (or rather
circle) from which latitude, or distance north and south, is measured
is the equator, which is taken as latitude 0°, while longitude is
measured east and west of a great circle, or slice through the earth,
passing through the poles, the centre of the earth, and Greenwich
Observatory.
The latitude as defined above is geographical, and its value for
any given place may be found in a good atlas or gazetteer. It is this
geographical latitude that is employed in all astrological calculations
and forms the basis for the Tables of Houses, but it has been suggested
(I believe by Mr J. G. Dalton of Boston) that geocentric latitude
should be used instead, this being the latitude of the place as seen
from the centre of the earth.
There seems to be no justification for this suggested change and
it is not supported by theory, but I mention (the matter because at
least one astrologer (Mr A. J. Pearce) adopted it, and students of
Primary Directing may like to experiment.
Problem I. —To convert Geographical into Geocentric latitude.
Let L = Geocentric latitude
I = Geographical latitude
and e = the earth's eccentricity (see above)
Then the formula is :
Tan. L = (l —c') tan. I
Example.—Required the geocentric latitude of London, the
geographical latitude being given as 51° N32'.
We have, therefore, I = 51° 32', and e = .0896 (as previously
determined).
Then Tan. L = (1- [.0896] "J tan. 51° 32'.
Log. .0896 = 2.55231
Multiply by 2

Log. (.0896)' = 3.90462 = .0080

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Then (1 — .0080) = .9920, so that the formula now becomes

Tan. L = .9920 tan. 51° 32'.
Log. .9920 = 1.99651
+ Log. tan. 51° 32' = n nQqQi
= Log. tan. L = 0.096+2
Therefore L, or the geocentric latitude = 51° N19'.
It will be noticed that (1 — es) is a constant and we may therefore
express the formula thus;
Log. .9920 + Log. tan. geographical latitude = Log. tan. geocentric
latitude.
(To be continued)

The Pons-Winnecke Comet, concerning which we published a note ia

March, p. 71, was detected by Prof Barnard of Yerkes Observatory, America,
on April 21, at g.17 a.m. GMT. Its magnitude then was about 13, and its
motion was towards the North East, Perihelion passage about June is.
The following positions have been given for it, the first one being that at the
time of its observation by Prof Barnard.
April 11. RA 238° 40' Dec. 36° 38' N. Long. 130 111 10'
20. 244 30 40 ai N. 18 111 42
30. 252 32 44 o N. 27 m 35
Sensational statements have been published in some of the newspapers
about the possibility of its colliding with the earth, but it is now known that
it will pass the crossing point of the earth's orbit about ten days before the
earth gets there, so there will be no collision. A shower of meteors towards
the end of June is not unlikely however, and these will radiate from the
constellation Bootes. There is not much likelihood of the comet itself being
visible without a telescope. When referred to the map for the Spring
Quarter, p. 68, its longitude was setting near the N,W. Frontier of India,
where fighting was then taking place; at London it was in the ninth house
in opposition to Venus in the third, which reminds us of the threatened
railway strike which did not come off; and at Berlin the opposition was from
the eighth to the second bouse, which recalls the German failure to pay the
money demanded by the Allies as indemnity and the trouble that resulted.
Erratum.—On p. 260 (May) the Table of Oasamsbas should be
corrected as follows:
0°—30 T is ruled by T o0—30 =2, is ruled by =2,
^ »» »» >» i> "I »» n SI
" n j, ,j n ji n n n
ii £2 51 11 i» ^ n 11 11 11 ^
11 SL u 11 n n i» 11 n
n " n n X n n it t
For Sale.—Several of Alan Leo's books on Astrology. Apply to Mr C.
Fawkner Simpson, 19, Lilley Road, Fairfield, Liverpool.
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Practical Essays by a Nurse

V.—A Case of Panic Treatment

The native whose case is here recorded was a highly strung but
perfectly normal woman, and the trouble only began when the Sun—
trine to Uranus at birth—progressed to the square.
Horoscope No. 4. Nata 1 April, 1875, 2 a.m., London.
x xi xii i ii iii
nn 72 tig V36 =25 tii
OJS ? s y h <l>
rio.56 =3.8 X 13.22 =28.II 723.20 ^28.47!^ sr22.6 a.11.191^ T29.45
Z)als. 4N20 24S16 8S16 12S15 23S8 9S37 14S54 I8N4' 9N48

She was married, and had a baby girl. Shortly afterwards, she
suffered from severe headaches, and showed some tendency to hysteria.
Her husband—an army man—was easily frightened, particularly as
she had always been healthy and strong. He at once took the advice of
a young and strange Doctor (their usual medical adviser being away),—
and agreed to send his wife " for change and treatment " to a so-called
Mental Hospital—an Asylum in other words. She was put under no
certificate, as nobody pretended that she was insane; but it is
unfortunately possible to send 'nerve ' patients to these places to be
treated. She went willingly and cheerfully having been told that it
was a nursing home. Her husband, satisfied that the plan was
satisfactory, started for South Africa on the following day. She was
a sensible woman, and the experience of finding herself unexpectedly
under lock and key, surrounded by many patients in different stages
of mental disease, did not give her the shock that it gives some.
The nurses were humane and kindly women; the Medical Superin-
tendent had an admirable manner ; and she was quickly reassured
as to the future and told that she should not be there long. Believing
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

it, she settled down and made the best of it: she was treated with as
many privileges as possible, and in three months was perfectly well.
Then her husband, having returned, came to see her. It had never
occurred to her for a moment that she would not be let out; and her
amazement can be pictured when she found that he had been persuaded
by the Superintendent to keep her there longer. It was for her good,
they told her. In a few more months she would be even stronger
under the helpful routine. There is no doubt that the Doctor honestly
believed this. Moreover, extreme caution is the rule of the manage-
ment. No patient who once gets in has much chance of getting out
again speedily. But from this moment the trouble took a different
turn, and it ended in a hopeless estrangement and misunderstanding.
The husband refused to go against the doctor's wishes : the wife
fretted, brooded, and grew more and more resentful of the indignity
and injustice of the whole treatment. She lost weight and appetite
'and was reported ' not so well.' When finally the vicious system
came to an end, seeds of suspicion and resentment had been sown
which were never entirely killed. Both these unhappy people,—
husband and wife—were victims of a ' panic legislation ' for which
there was no necessity whatever. A few months' rest and care under
natural conditions would have seen the worst of the trouble through.
Now a fatalist may say at this juncture : ' But that aspect would have
worked anyhow; if not in one way, then in another.' Of course it
would have ' acted '; but that is no reason why people should act with
it; and this is precisely what does happen again and again. Many
and many a bad direction is brought into operation through people's
own ignorance and folly; and many a one also is turned aside and
transmuted through spiritual knowledge, foreknowledge, and prayer.
This is a truth upon which we cannot insist too strongly, and to this
subject I want to return later on. Meanwhile before leaving this
' brief study of dangerous directions, a word perhaps may be added
about the progressed square of the Sun and Moon. Even if this does
not affect a ' mind ' house or the hyleg, it should be watched very
carefully, for all sorts of insidious troubles may occur. Particularly
does it seem to affect relationships. Misunderstandings arise, and
may lead to sad estrangements if not carefully guarded against. All
slight illnesses should be attended to, and all new ventures postponed.
 ASTROr.OGY AND MENTAL DERANGEMENT 185

Often an apparent disintegration of the character—similar to that

described in Chapter 111.—occurs under its influence. It is a time when
'the house is divided against itself'; the moral bulwarks weakened,
all old landmarks apt to be swept away, and the natives have need of
all the steady affection and patient sympathy which those who love
them can bring to bear upon the case. It often seems that the square
is worse than the opposition. Much no doubt depends upon the sign
of the Sun at birth. Roughly it may be said that nearly two-thirds
of the mental cases in my own experience (where the birth data was
known) had the Sun weak, in Aquarius. This splendid truth-seeking
sign, so harmonious for the Moon or Ascendant, can produce a fatal
weakness in the will when the Sun is afflicted in it. The whole
character lacks backbone, and when other aspects agree, it produces
the weakest mentality. Aspects from Neptune should be watched.
So far, experience points to danger when he afflicts seriously from
Gemini; but it will be some time before we are able to give any
perfectly reliable data as to his influence from a medical point of
view. Out of the ten cases of mental affliction noted in 1007
Horoscopes, I find that there are five with Y in D ; two with ^ on
the Ascendant, and one 8 to the Ascendant. The other two have
in T, with no special aspect.

(To de continued)

In the map for the Winter Quarter at Washington Jupiter was rising
in Virgo as lord of the seventh house, foreign affairs, in trine to the Moon
but in conjunction with Saturn. Various significant events bearing upon
foreign policy followed. The Senate asked the President to invite
a Conference with Great Britain and Japan on the subject of limiting naval
building. Subsequently a Committee was appointed to report whether it
was possible to suspend the naval programme for six months. Subsequently
the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs reported
favourably on a Resolution authorising the President to invite a Conference
on Disarmament. Mars transited through the seventh house between
Jan. 18 and Feb. 15, and nothing came of these good intentions; but they
show the trend of events.
There was severe fighting on the North West frontier of India in April.
The map for the eclipse of the Sun, April 8, showed Uranus and Mercury
setting at Calcutta, a position involving international affairs, and in opposition
to Jupiter and Saturn rising, which we referred to at the time, p. 102.
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Robinson at the BracUenhill School. In answer to that appeal the sum of
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another woman, and when the War was over absolutely refused to return to
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a father who deserted him when most he needed his care and protection.
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long ago—" Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me."
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On February 23 Convocation decided to admit women to the Diaconate,

and also decided that they may preach and pray in church to congregations
of women and children. At the previous New Moon of February 8, Neptune
was in the ninth house—religion—at London, with Venus applying to the
trine of it. At the Winter Quarter, the Moon was ruler of the ninth house,
was exalted in Taurus in the seventh in trine to Jupiter the priestly planet;
and on the day of the decision the Moon was passing over the place of this
Jupiter.

By Order of the Stars

I hear that a successful career in India is assured to Lord Reading by
the stars. A prominent astrologer, it seems, has drawn the new Viceroy's
horoscope. There are three comparatively sticky periods in front of him—
between February 20 and March 20, April 20 and May 22, and August 23
and September 22—but he will come safely through owing to the favourable
position of the Dragon's Head, which was favourably placed at his birth in
Capricorn, the ruling sign of India and of the Jewish race. Further, Lord
Reading's appointment was announced at Delhi on January 9, the day of the
New Moon.
There is a great deal more. The Sun, the Moon, and the planet
Mercury are all keeping a kindly eye on the Viceroy, and from September 20
Jupiter is exalted in his House of Life. This means, I am told, that Lord
Reading will be, as to his health, consistently full of vigour, and, as to his
office, certain of gaining the affection and admiration of all castes and creeds.
I am very glad the stars arc so discerning.
Daily Express, 17/2/21.
The cold weather with snow, hail and sleet in this country about the
middle of April followed the aspects of the Sun to the semi-square and
parallel of Uranus, well known as a cold-producing influence.
At the Sun's entry into Aries on March 21 Venus was in Taurus in the
third house at London, the house that governs railways and inland
travelling. This was immediately followed by the union of two railway
lines, the London and North Western Railway taking over the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway, the combination now covering the greatest mileage
in the kingdom.
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(!I-orKspon5£nce
The Editors do not assume responsibility for any statements or ideas advanced
by their correspondents, and the publication of Utters does not necessarily imply
sympathy with the views expressed therein.
Retrograde Planets
The Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,—The letter of Mrs Halliday's in April issue of Modern
Astrology has brought an interesting point to the fore, which it is hoped
students will respond to, so that all may benefit by personal experience
acquired, in an exchange of views on this particular subject of our study.
Retrogradation is a planet moving backward in the .Zodiac, and seems
to suggest a falling away or retardation of whatever it signifies. It denotes
hindrances, delays, and arrests benefits promised from coming to early
fruition in life.
To me, a planet that is R. at birth is far less potent than one direct in
motion, as proved by personal experience in the calculation of nativities and
observation for many years.
I cannot agree with your correspondent, Maud Margesson, that it is
difficult for students to be definite or decisive as to the actual value of any
one planet in the map of nativity. Moreover, if, as she suggests, a planet
R. has power and effect in connection with the Progressed Horoscope
respecting the affairs of the native—it is only right to suppose that the
influence of a planet retrograde in the birth map, may be quite as easily
discovered, if not more so, by strict and accurate investigation.
The influence of the 5 is more propitious, more potent, in the affairs of
the native when swift in motion.
There are more difficulties and hindrances to the personal well-being of
a native where 2 or ^ is ruler, and is R at birth.
If tj is lord and R, early environment is less favourable, obstacles to
contend with greater, progress more slow, thau would be the case if Ip were
direct.
Should if be R, his benefits, his favours, good-fortune, and whatever he
portends in the horoscope, is restricted and delayed, failing to come to full
fruition, unless at a later period of the native's life R turns direct, when the
tide of good fortune turns for the better.
It is out of place here to support by planetary relationships and the
life of individuals in support of above observations—moreover, space will
not permit, and only brief comments from students are solicited.
Let us take a personal illustration ; that of § R at birth in the case of
the writer himself, although it is with some degree of reluctance that this is
given ; nevertheless, a few ounces of practice is worth a cart load of theory,
so I must own up to its influence being pronounced at my nativity.
Schooling and education did not appeal to me so keenly as many of my
fellow comrades. Although desirous to become scholastic and learned,
it was difficult to conceive and lay a solid basis to the scientific knowledge
that I had an ardent desire to acquire; maithematics were difficult to grasp,
and to express what had been mastered was entirely beyond the mind's
capacity^ ^ is undoubtedly less eager or alert, not so comprehensive or
mentally keen, as is the case when § is direct and swift in motion. It is
 CORRESPONDENCE 189
a position that arrests mentality as I have frequently observed in the
horoscopes of those who have been connected with me in friendship and
business relationships.
Although studious and ever bent in search of knowledge, it was not
until my 22nd year, when 5 turned direct, that I received the impetus,
the stimulus and development, that the nature desired, and worked so hard
to attain.
• It is not within my experience that 5 arrests mentality for a life-time ;
it seems to me, to merely bind, restrict and limit mental expression, during
its period of retrogradation, hindering the putting of form to idea—as
intellectuality generally is very marked, and evidently its ft position at birth
is, as your correspondent suggests, a safeguard, in the divine order of things,
o the mentality of the individual.
The reply to your correspondent, Kate Halliday, is therefore:
1. {a) ft at birth. Weakness, debility, delay, restriction.
(6) ft at birth and becoming direct later. Release, freedom, expan-
sion, projection.
(e) ft at birth remaining ft for life. Affairs signified not brought
into effect or full manifestation, denial.
(d) Direct at birth and later ft. A falling away of substance
governed by the planet when retrogradation takes place, loss,
difficulties, anxieties.
As to cardinal maps, lacking squares, having If ft for life—an intuitive
grasp in the light of what has been said may be arrived at.
Yours respectfully,
P. W. Robinson
The Prenatal Epoch
The Editor, Modern Astrolooy
Dear Sir,—Kindly permit me to say that the letter printed on p. 124,
April No. was not intended for publication : it refers particularly to Case XI
in Mr Green's articles on " the time of quickening " and I desired to call his
further attention to it.
The following details of the case were obtained by " short cuts " and
more exact working may show some unimportant differences.
Insemination. This occurred near 8.22 p.m. on the date given. A figure
for that time shows Ascendant 11.4 and the moon iu )€ 18.24.
Epoch. About 6.39 a.m. on June 28th, 1904, the Ascendant being SL 8.28
and moon iu VJ 11.4. This is an inverted irregular case.
Quickening. The Ascendant of this figure is Vy 11.4 and the moon is in
SS 8.28, both as at birth. If we retrace the moon's path, from the birth
position, it will be found that it is almost exactly iu its radical place at the
5th converse return (1.26 p.m., 17th October, 1904) and again at its Sth
converse return (6.48 p.m., 27th July, 1904).
Birth. Ascendant 11.4, moon .rr 8.28. This makes the astrological
time child was born about ten minutes later than that recorded.
Yours faithfully,
Warwick, 5j4/'2i W. H. Woodthorpe
Music and the Horoscope
The Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,—I have noted down the birtbdates of some 200 musicians
and have lately been trying to devote a little time to studying their horoscopes.
Sol was particularly interested in Mr Carter's excellent article. I have in
this way such a mass of data that I have done practically nothing towards
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
tabulating details, but I have given a little study to 32 pianists, and would
like to compare some of my results with Mr Carter's.
Firstly as to signs. The birthdates of these pianists are all between
1850 and 1875. In 25 years ^ and move very little, and I found if
I counted their positions the signs J€, 'V, bi n, 25 (in which they were
during those years) would be very prominent. Even tp I have not counted
for this reason. Reckoning the signs occupied by the other 6 planets in. is
the most frequent, =isr,'Vi and ng being next in order. Contrary to what is
generally considered, I find b the least musical sign, hT and n ranking next
lowest. It would not he correct to say that m, is definitely the most musical
sign, for in the organists' horoscopes that I have examined, ky is most
prominent, »rg and for violinists and 'cellists. But in each case b is the
least frequent sign, and n and zz stand low in the list, n I think is a good
sign for conductors, but I have not yet looked into them.
Now as to degrees. Mr Carter mentions the end of and Jb and the
beginning of X and ng. Between 25 of Sb and ZZ and 5 of tig and X I find
13 in my 32 pianists. Then he gives 5-15 of n-, and I find 14cases. Then
the middle of the cardinal signs—I find 12 between 12 and r6 of T, 3 in these
degrees of kf, 4 in ®, 5 in =2=. Here the large number in Y is due to the
presence of tJMn T during a great deal of the time covered by my collection..
I have great belief in the correspondence of opposite signs, but at the
same time it can be misleading, because little understood. As I have
shown above, m seems to be musical, but its opposite b is not. I think in
all probability b will be found prominent in some other art—very likely
architecture, or possibly sculpture. T and ^ both seem fairly prominent
in my horoscopes, but I think the Cardinal signs bring the native before the
public, and I rather expect to find them less prominent when I come to
deal with the creative musicians rather than the executive.
As to the relative importance of planets, ^ is always important
(I consider that rules ^ and is exalted in X—and -!± is certainly musical),
and 5 almost equally so. seems more important to violinists than
pianists—§ is prominent in conductors' horoscopes, and I think I7 appears
with composers. Mr Carter mentions Wagner's case as being perhaps
exceptional. I find it so, not only in this particular, but in eveiy way his
horoscope shews different features to those I find general. Personally I do
not class Wagner as a great musician—let me hasten to affirm that I am
a keen admirer of his works—and those composers who have followed his
lead are progressing farther and farther from the true music. He himself
considered that music should be subordinate to poetry.
I fear I should apologise for the length of this letter, but confess that
I should like to see some more of at least equal, if not greater length on this
subject.
Yours sincerely,
Nina Snell

The eighth house in Mundane Astrology seems to be concerned largely

with international money matters. The seventh house is known to signify
foreign relations; the eighth as the second from the seventh has its bearing
upon foreign finance in its relation to ourselves. At the March Lunation
Venus ruled the second or money bouse at London and was in Taurus in
the eighth ; Mars was also in the eighth in its own sign Aries. The Allies'
Conference in London concerning German Reparations and the method of
payment of the war indemnity began in February but extended into March.
The Trade Agreement between Great Britain and Soviet Russia was also
signed in March.
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY IQI
year, or in other words the interval between two successive transits of the
mean or fictitious Sun across the meridian. This is the day in common use,
and hit Bis divided into 24 hours of mean time. Its length in Sidereal Time
is 24 3 56fl"556-
Day Exaltation. See Exaltation.
Day House. See House.
Day Triplicity. See TRtPLicrrv.
Debility. A planet is debilitated when in a weak or afflicted position.
Debility may be essential or accidental, the former referring to weakness of
sign position, and the latter chiefly to house position, aspects, etc. The
ancients allotted numbers to represent the amount of debility in any
particular case, and the sum of the various debilities of a planet was
subtracted from the sum of its dignities, the remainder representing its
strength in the particular horoscope concerned. Thus a planet with
dignities value 20, and debilities value 8, would be dignified to the value 12,
or, if the figures be reversed, would be debilitated to that extent. The
values assigned to each position were as follows;
Essential debilities :—Detriment; or Perigrine, 5 ; Fall, 4.
Accidental debilities :—Besieged by 1? and 3, or in conjunction with
Caput Algol, 6; partile conjunction with Ij or combust, retrograde, or in
the twelfth house, 5; under the sunbeams, in the sixth or eighth houses, in
partile conjunction with the Dragon's Tail, or in partile opposition of I? or
, 4 ; in partile square of ^ or <?, 3 ; decreasing in light, slow or decreasing
in motion, occidental (if , If, or J), or oriental (if 2, §, or])), 2; and in
the term of or (?, 1.
The Part of Fortune was included as a planet and was subject to the
above debilities, iu addition to which it received 5 marks of debility if in
n, Vy, or cr. and 3 if in T.
For the values of the dignities see Dignity.
Dkcan. The same as Decanate Iq.v.).
Decanate. A very important subdivision of the Zodiac into 36 parts,
each sign being divided into three decanates of ro" iu extent. There are
two methods of decanate ruiership in use, viz., the Eastern and the Western,
but most astrologers are now agreed that the Eastern or Indian system gives
far better results. In this system the first decanate of every sign (i.e. from
0° to io0) is ruled by the sign itself, and the second and third decanates are
ruled by the succeeding signs of the same triplicity taken in their proper
order. Thus the three decanates of T are ruled by T, Sb, and } ; those of
m by in, K. 25, and so on.
In the Western system the first decanate of T is ruled by and the
remaining 35 decanates are ruled by the seven ancient planets taken iu the
Chaldaean order (q.v.), no notice being taken of change of sign.
The following Table illustrates the subdivision of the Zodiac into
decanates, and shows the rulers of each decanate according to both the
Eastern and Western systems, the signs beiug the rulers in the Eastern
system and the^iie/s in the Western.
10°—20* 20°—30° 0°--10° 10°—20° 20°—30"
O

00T
O

r v <? SI 0 f 2 -TL. I) V, n U
« a v "R D vy i? "l "I X 0 95 2
n n ^ <? ~~ 0 1 t T D SI
25 25 $ HI $ X I> vy b" u a <? HR ©
SI SI f V r s 2 n 9 ^ 3
"E TIR © ky 2 a V h 96 21 "i (?
The ancients paid great attention to decanates, and a god was assigned
to each by the Greeks (see Paranatellons).
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
Decatom. See Dichotome.
Decile. A weakly benefic aspect of 36°, suggested by Kepler.
Declination. The angular distance of a heavenly body or point North
or South of the Equator. The maximum declination of the Sun or the
ecliptic is now 230 27' and is gradually decreasing at the rate of about
50" per century. The declinations of the other bodies vary according to
their latitude and may exceed 23° 27'.
The complement of the declination {i.e., 9o0-Dec.) is called the Polar
Distance and is sometimes substituted for declination in star catalogues.
Decreasing in Light. A term applied to any planet when approaching
the Sun, and especially to the Moon when passing from the opposition of
the Sim to the conjunction, or, in other words, from Full to New. It is
a position of weakness.
Decumbiture. The moment at which a sick person takes to his bed.
The term is frequently applied to a horoscope cast for this time, from which
judgment of the illness is made in Horary Astrology.
Deep Degrees. Certain degrees of the Zodiac said, by the ancients,
to cause a deep or pitted appearance such as that left by smallpox, and
sometimes an impediment in the speech, if they contained the ascendant or
its ruler. These degrees are as follows:—T 5) 11,16,23,29; ,35,12,24,25;
n 2.12, 17, 26, 30 ; es 12, 17, 23, 26, 30 ; SI, 6, 13, 15, 22, 23, 28; nji 8, 13, 16,
21,22; =2=17,20, 30; "l 9,10, 22, 23, 27 ; ^ 7, 12, 15, 24, 27, 30; kf 7, 17,
22, 24, 29 ; csr 1, 12, 17, 22, 24, 29 ; K 4, 9, 24, 27, 28.
Deferent. In the Ptolemaic system, an imaginary circle supposed to
carry a planet with it.
Deficient Degrees. See Azimene Degrees.
0
Degree. One 350th part of the circumference of a circle. Otite degree
( ) is divided into 5o minutes (') and one minute into 5o seconds ("). It was
customary at one time to carry this method of division on to thirds ("')
fourths (""), etc., but it is now usual to employ decimals of a second.
Each degree of the Zodiac has its own special influence, and several
authors have furnished interpretations, the best being those of Charubel and
La Volasfera, published in The Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised. (In the first
edition of this book will also be found a suggestive article by Mr H. S. Green
on a method of deducing degree influences based upon the Dasamsba.) Three
other sets of interpretations are available, viz., those by Johannes Angelus.
published by Raphael; those of Alan Leo, in Astrology for All; and those of
Kozminsky, in Zodiacal Symbology.
Recently Mr Duncan Macnaugbton and several writers using his methods
have begun to tabulate degree influences with the object of obtaining greater
accuracy in astrological delineations, etc., but our knowledge is still very
incomplete.
Degree, Rising. The degree occupying the cusp of the Ascendant in
any horoscope.
Delation. Also called restoring of light. A term used in Horary
Astrology to denote the aspecting by an inferior planet of a superior that is
combust or retrograde. The superior is said to restore to the inferior virtue
previously received from it. Delation is considered good in angles but much
less so in cadent bouses.
Delineation. The judgment or reading of a nativity.
Delfhinus. The Dolphin. One of the 48 original constellations, and
situated in the northern hemisphere. It is said by Ptolemy to be of the
influence of Ip and £, and by P. Christian to make the native a lover of
fortune, and mindful of the heart, but not happy.
Demi-semi-demi Sextile. A benefic aspect of yi" introduced by
George Wilde.
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"THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE"

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A Journal devoted to the search for truth concerning A strology

Vol. XVIII. 1 JULY, 1921. No. 7

Sew Series. J [

®!je i®Mtor's ^frserttatar^

The present trend of astrological thought seems to be in the

direction of specialization and close investigation of details such as
may be found in the work of Mr Macnaughton. There
Paychofogy1 's' ^owever' another profitable field of study that might
well be taken up by those who have little leisure or
opportunity for the dissection of horoscopes, namely the analysis of
various influences or what might perhaps be called the psychological
side of Astrology. The body of knowledge gathered together in the
text-books is really very loose and hazy in many particulars and it is
time for this to be taken in band and reduced to its proper elements.
As an example we find that an affliction of Jupiter is said to give
pride but we are not told what kind of pride. There are many kinds
ranging from the "satanic " variety down to mere vanity, though this
is rather more Venusian, The beginner should be taugbtto distinguish
between the varieties of pride according to the planet concerned.
Again, pleasure is said to be given by Venus, but this also is a very
incomplete statement. Pleasure is not really due to any planet but
chiefly to aspect. A planet well aspected will give pleasure through
the use of the faculties over which it rules, and a good Venus will give
194 MO»ERN ASTROLOGY

pleasure in artistic matters, music, dancing, eating chocolates, etc.,

while Mercury gives pleasure in the use of the mind, Jupiter in
benevolence, Uranus in Occultism, and so on. It is not good
psychology to imagine that one stereotyped variety of pleasure is
equally attractive to all.
Then the colour ruled by Uranus is said to be " check," or,
according to some astrologers who realise the absurdity of calling
" check " a colour, mixed colours and streaks. This statement also
requires modification. The check arrangement, which is certainly
influenced by Uranus, is a form, not a colour, and streaks, etc., are
merely irregular arrangements of colours. We are still left in the
dark as to what colour Uranus really does rule. Probably it is a very
deep rich brown. These examples indicate the nature of the work
needed. Astrologers should study the statements in the books and
try to reduce them to their simplest terms, for not only is it an
excellent means of learning Astrology, but also the best way to clear
the air of fog.
* * * *
Those readers who are studying along the lines laid down by
Mr Duncan Macnaughton will be interested to learn that he is
preparing an " Encyclopaidia" which will contain the
Degree fui] resilit 0f his work on degree influences. In order
Influences
to make this more complete he invites co-operation, and
has asked me to say that he is prepared to consider articles not
exceeding 750 words in length on any subject beginning with the
letters D, E, or F, and treating of the influences of degrees. Payment
will be made for accepted contributions, and unsuccessful articles will
be returned if stamped addressed envelope is enclosed. All MSS.
should be addressed to Dundurawe, Arboretum Road, Edinburgh.
# # * *
We have recently been faced once mdre with the problem of
increased costs, and have been reluctantly compelled to make soma
slight alterations in the arrangement of Modern
Some ASTROLOGY. These alterations consist chiefly in using
Alterations
as little as possible of the small type hitherto employed
for the Dictionary, Correspondence, and small paragraphs, as the cost
of setting this up is much greater than that of using larger type. In
 THE EDITOK'S OBSERVATORY 195
order to prevent cutting down the amount of matter included each
month, we are endeavouring to eliminate all waste space and hope to
be able to carry this out more completely in future numbers.
While on the subject of the magazine I might also mention that
we intend to give each month the date and place of birth of a number
of present day celebrities, and shall begin in the next issue. In
practically all cases it is impossible to obtain the time of birth, but on
the principle that "half a loaf is better than no bread" we must be
content with the date alone.
>r # >r #
Recently I invited contributions for a forthcoming work on the
Asteroids, but so far have not had nearly the necessary number to
warrant publication. In the circumstances I have
The Asteroids decided to issue a number of typed copies. These will
be sent to each subscriber and the remainder may b
obtained at ten shillings a copy. If the work is published at a later
date, which will probably not be for some few years, each original
subscriber will receive a copy of this also.
V. E. R.

Ksliicla
SONGS AND Lyrics, by James Percy Gross, published by
Erskine Macdonald, London, is a volume of poems that comes with
an inscription—" To the memory of Alan Leo, as a slight tribute for
a world of new thought and knowledge presented by him to the author,"
Mr Gross's pen is not strange to readers of MODERN ASTROLOGY and
several of these poems will be of direct interest to astrologers, such as
" The jNeptunian," and parts of the poem called " Meditations," which
contains the following reference to the coming of the Aquarian Age :
The dumb dark times are past, nor can
Return ;—" Lo ! I make all things new! "—
And some perceive, albeit few,
The Advent of the Age of Man.
Mr Gross has interwoven zodiacal and planetary references In
his verse and in the preface to his volume in an interesting manner.
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Snfernational ^.strologn
New Moon
5th July, 1921, 1.36 p.ttt.
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(6) Washington
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The Sun and Moon will be in Cancer in the ninth house at London
in close conjunction with Mars, Mercury being retrograde in the same
house; and they are separating from the trine of Uranus in the fifth
house and applying to the sextile of Jupiter and Saturn in Virgo in the
eleventh. Neptune is in themidheaven but without any strong aspect,
having onlysemi-sextiles to the luminaries, Mars,and J upiter. Questions
relating to shipping, commerce, the navy, and to traffic and transport
generally are likely to demand attention during the month and some
of them will cause trouble, but as the aspects are mainly fortunate,
except for the opposition of Uranus to Jupiter, they should be capable
of a favourable outcome. Both sea and land traffic will increase and
trade and the revenue will benefit, but expenses and demands for
larger salaries will increase also and differences between masters and
men are not yet ended; government interference will take place
through legislation, new regulations, or changes of some kind, and
matters pertaining to sea and land traffic will be considered in
parliament; new vessels will be launched, new enterprises begun, and
inventions brought forward. There is danger of loss of life by storms
or accidents. Labour questions and measures will be under considera-
tion in parliament and will benefit, but differences between the two
houses are likely to develop. Financial problems as between the
nations will cause trouble, but the death duties will increase; there
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 197

will be deaths amongst the wealthy and in the theatrical world.

Neptune elevated is not good for the stability of the government, but
its effects will chiefly be felt in the region nearly midwaybetween
Paris and Berlin where the planet will culminate, and at Petrograd
where it will be in almost exact square to the rising degree. Jupiter
will be entering the midheaven in opposition to Uranus at Berlin and
will be closer to the meridian in the extreme east of Europe and west
of Asia; in those countries there will be a good deal of difference
between the people and their rulers and the various parties in the state,
but with Venus setting international relations will improve and trade
and intercourse increase.
In India money questions and taxation will prove troublesome,
but beneficial changes will be made, improving the prospects of the
people and the nation ; the death rate will be high and there is danger
of much sickness. There will be frontier or foreign trouble in the
north west.
At Washington Venus culminating will bring popularity to the
President and government and some cause for national rejoicing;
money matters in their international bearing and foreign affairs
generally will demand attention from statesmen; there will be a good
deal of excitement in political affairs and some successful changes
and developments in legislative matters.

The May New Moon at London showed Mars setting in the

beginning of Gemini and lord of the twelfth house, which prompted
the prediction of " international friction " and " diplomatists active in
Western Europe" (p. 132). This was justified by events in the
misunderstandings that arose between Great Britain and France over
the right attitude to adopt towards the Polish rebellion and uprising in
Silesia. Mr Lloyd George's warning addressed to Poland on May 13
caused much hostile criticism in the French press; but our anticipation
was justified that "as the planet has no bad aspect, this trouble should
be capable of being overcome." It is worth noting that according to
the books Silesia is ruled by the sign Virgo, in which were Saturn and
Jupiter, the latter in opposition to Uranus and in its detriment.
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A CORRESPONDENT has kindly drawn our attention to the following
passage from Dr Johnson's life of John Milton; "John, the poet,
was born in his father's house at the Spread Eagle in Bread Street,
December 9, 1508, between six and seven in the morning."
The above horoscope has been approximately rectified by events,
and is cast for 7" 4m a.m., December 9, Old Style.
The Sun is rising in Sagittarius and the ruler, Jupiter, is in Taurus
 THE HOROSCOPE OF MILTON 199

together with the Moon. This combination is a favourable one in the

horoscope of a poet as it gives sympathy, artistic feeling, and imagina-
tion and is not too idealistic to command some degree of material
success. Venus, the planet that is usually associated with poetry, is
ruler of the tenth house and in conjunction with Mercury, thus
affording a fairly clear indication of the profession. This position is
good in itself for artistic and literary pursuits but is distinctly
improved by the trine from Neptune in the ninth which adds charm
and fluency of expression together with imagination and religious
feeling, such as one would expect from the author of Paradise Lost.
The fact that these aspects take place in earthy signs, and that
Capricorn is strongly tenanted tends to lessen the element of pure
imagination and prevents the ethereal beauty that is characteristic of
the Aquarian's work. The imagination of Paradise Lost is of rather
a material type, as, for example, the description of the use of cannons
in the war in Heaven, but this is quite in keeping with the strongly
Saturnian nature of the map, as also is the massive and somewhat
gloomy style. Other examples of Milton's work, however, such as
L'Allegro, seem to show more of a Gemini .influence and are probably
influenced by Uranus in that sign aspecting Mercury, while the
dramatic interest that manifested itself in Comus and Samson
Agonistes is shown by the ruling planet close to the cusp of the fifth
house, and Venus, ruling that house, in conjunction with Mercury.
Apart from its literary side there were two other outstanding
features of Milton's life, namely his blindness, and his unfortunate
matrimonial experiences. Danger to the eyesight is denoted by the
position of the Moon on the cusp of the sixth house near the Pleiades,
afflicted by a wide conjunction with Uranus which is itself in opposition
to the fixed star An tares. Both the Pleiades and Antares, especially
the former, have a very evil reputation in connection with blindness,
but one would scarcely have expected that the effects would have
proved quite so serious in this case, for although defective eyesight is
clearly indicated, the afflictions do not seem strong enough to denote
total blindness. The position of the Sun, however, is significant, for
it is afflicted by Mars and is very close to three important star clusters
that have not hitherto been recognised in astrology, namely 7M, 20M,
and 8M Sagittarii which are in 27.36 t, 28.44 2 , and 29.4 ? respectively.
200 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Milton's domestic experiences were varied, for he married three

times and had considerable difficulty with his first wife who left him
a month after marriage. The double sign Gemini is on the cusp of
the seventh house and Uranus has just set, but is probably too far
from the cusp to exert any influence over that house, though it afflicts
the ruler, Mercury. That planet has the greatest number of aspects
of any in the map, thus denoting variety of experience and at the same
time Mars, lord of the fourth, seriously afflicts the Sun.
Space is too limited to allow of a detailed list of directions, but
the following approximate arcs may be mentioned : Travel at 30
years of age, MC * ^ ; Married, 35, Asc d 2 ; Government appoint-
ment, 40, MC * ; Absconded, 52, MC 8 ^ sep.; Died, 66, Asc
□ 0□ etc. At 63 years after death a monument was erected,
the direction from the birth-map being Asc 8 0, and 13 years later
Comus was performed under MC -St- dir., d]) con.
These last events are included to illustrate the effect of
post-mortem directions.
V. E. R.

Our prediction that the presence of the Moon in the seventh house i n
trine to Mars in Aries at the Spring Quarter would "strengthen the army
and navy and perhaps lead to military movements and displays" was
fulfilled in the calling up of the Reserve Forces on April 8 and in the
invitation to volunteers to come forward and enrol. This was in consequence
of the Miners' Strike with the Railway Strike that threatened to lollow.
Because Mars was in the second or money house heavy expenditure was
incurred as a consequence of the mobilisation of the forces.
The Conference of Allies in London opened on February 21 and
extended into March, and was occupied with matters following out of the
war. In the end Great Britain presented proposal for the revision of the
Sevres Treaty very favourable to Turkey and they were partly accepted.
The February New Moon was very unfortunate for the east of Europe, but
Turkey seems to have benefited by Jupiter in Virgo, and at the March New
Moon although Mars was setting at Constantinople it was dignified in Aries
and in trine to Neptune in the mid-heaven; Venus was also in the seventh
house in Taurus.
By way of showing how combinations of evil aspects emphasize their
effects it maybe mentioned that during the week-end of May 14/16 there
were 36 murders in Ireland in two days, a record; and at the same lime
many Sinn Fein outrages in and around London. Mars was in Gemini,
Hearing the squares of Jupiter in Virgo and Uranus in Pisces. The Moon
passing through Virgo was aspecting all three of them.
 201

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The Planet Mercury

By Bessie Leo
In our astrological symbology we regard the planet Mercury as
a symbol for the mind, and carefully note in any person's nativity the
sign, house position and aspects of this planet as recording the state,
condition, and quality of the mind. Now as the Thinker within us is
the real Man—the physical body being simply a vehicle for the con-
sciousness to function through on the physical plane, and a means
whereby the Thinker gathers experience of material states and condi-
tions—it necessarily follows that the mind, in its power and quality is,
astrologically, the most important factor for consideration.'
Mercury has been styled by the ancients " the winged messenger
of the gods," representing, as it were, the intermediary between the
spirit and animal man; the higher mind may therefore be considered
as a reflector or mirror, which needs to be kept free from all impurity
if it is to reflect any portion of the truth and wisdom of the Infinite
to the consciousness working in matter.
As rays from a sun, all spirits flame forth from the Great Mind.
Here is the source of their being, here is the central fire whereof all
are sparks, and each spark of mind manifests as intellect, intuition,
and self-conscious will. Each is a human soul, immortal and
imperishable as regards its essence, embodied in animal man that it
mayevolvealong the lines of the grand scheme of evolution laid down
by the Almighty Architect of the Universe—from latency to potency,
from possibility to perfection.
Quicksilver is the metal that has been ascribed to Mercury, and
the nature of the mind finds a correspondence in the peculiar property
of quicksilver, which shifts with the slightest external impact. The
mind changes too, like the mercury of the barometer; sometimes
mounting high, anon sinking below the zero of despair. If we
remember that the zodiacal signs allocated to Mercury are two,
202 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Gemini and Virgo, we shall perceive in that symbology the recognition

of the duality of the mind. The fact is, the Thinker, working in matter
can either reach up towards Spirit, the Father in heaven, thus proving
itself the true " Messenger," or by uniting itself with the animal nature
—using the mind only to pander to the brute instincts—become the
carnal, material mind, the God fallen into matter and submerged
therein.^ The celestial Messenger is then a 'captive bound by desire;
it can no longer fly, for it has lost its wings.
The very contest, indeed the whole process of evolution, is the
struggle of this God within us to rise to his own place, carrying with
him, as his rightful guerdon, the divine powers won in the combat.
Our personality—restricting its meaning to cover the desires,
passions, lower emotions and senses—is our lower nature, which has
to be illuminated, rationalised, and educated by the Thinker; therefore
the kind and conditions of our thoughts is of primary importance
in this work. How do we think ? What kind of a mind have
we ? Are we self-conscious, directing our thoughts by calm-will, or
otherwise ? For we should never forget that upon the death of the
body this " winged messenger " returns to the land from which he has
been an exile, taking with him the experiences he has garnered, and
the mental images he has created; we should remember that the
Higher Mind is immortal, and that in each succeeding earth life the
Thinker returns to occupy another vehicle of flesh—another personality
—to guide, to enlighten and instruct, or to be again bound with the
chain of unsatisfied desires.
The mind is dual in incarnation and becomes one again when
disembodied. The stages of embodiment are called " Reincarnations"
because the thinker clothes himself with flesh over and over again, and
in each earth life learns some lesson of experience, the essence of
which is transmuted into wisdom.
To return to our former simile, it is possible to imagine the Thinker
as the Sun and the lower mind as its ray pent in the body. We may
then see that just as we allow the mind to master, control and take
possession of the body, so may we draw down the knowledge and
wisdom contained in the Sun into the ray which is our brain conscious-
ness. So as growth proceeds, the power and illusion of matter will
have less influence over the mind, and the ray, being less clouded,
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will more closely resemble the source from which it comes, and share
in its higher knowledge.
As students of Astrology we consider Mercury a convertible
planet, that is to say, it is affected by the nature of the planet with
which it is aspected. For instance, if Mercury in any nativity is
much afflicted by Mars, the condition of the mind is likely to be
forceful, aggressive and combative, and liable to be drawn into the
senses; if afflicted by Saturn, then selfish, narrow, conventional and
morose—and so on. But as in life after life we strive to think more
purely and more intellectually, slowly the accumulated knowledge and
experience of the Ego or Thinker will pass more freely'down to its
ray in the brain, and the vibrations of Mercury will quicken till at last
the instrument of the personality becomes illuminated, the higher and
lower consciousness become unified, and we shall be " Gods made
manifest in the flesh."
Now, if our mind has been fixed on earthly things, on the material
world with its luxuries, pleasures and appetites, so that the lower
nature has been fed and the higher starved, we are hkely to be born,
when we return to earth, with a Mercury very much afflicted. This
is the natural sequence. For we must never lose sight of the fact
that unbroken causation is the law everywhere, and the harvest is
according to the seed. The mind is the shuttle of destiny. We fashion
our next nativity by our thoughts in this life, and the rationale of the
working is this:—We all generate thoughts, and these thoughts take
form ; these forms clothe themselves with matter and are endowed with
a life of their own—are living creatures, bad or good, according as the
thought was evil or beneficent. These thought-forms people our
psychic atmosphere, are, in fact, within our sphere or aura, and help
to make our fate. We give birth to these our thought-children, and
we are responsible for them. They re-act upon us, and form our
"habits"—tendencies to act and think in a certain way, that is—and
so create our " character." Thus our character represents our past,
and governs our future; therefore to that extent character is destiny.
We cannot escape reaping the seed we have sown. The condi-
tions and environment of our life represent some of the seed sown
in our past, but the way we meet the conditions in which we find
ourselves generates a fresh force of a different kind. True it is that
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we are working to-day amid the circumstances and conditions we have

been instrumental in making in lives gone by. But we are making
■changed surroundings for the future, and it is a very hopeful and
beautiful thought to hold in times of distress that we are creating our
future and can make of it what we will. Looked at in this light we shall
see that man is not altogether the slave of destiny, but in so far as he
creates thoughts he is its master. The same mind that bound itself
by desire can, on the recognition of truth, unbind the cords its own
hands have wound about it. We are all forging by our thought to-day
links of love that will bring our friends around us in a future life; at
the same time we are creating ties of hatred that will bind our enemies
to us with strands we shall be unable to break save by pain.
Astrology in its esoteric renderings unfolds to man the law of his
own being, and by its wonderful symbology teaches in an ancient guise
one aspect of the wisdom of the Infinite. Let us in studying the
meaning of the symbol of Mercury, which rules the thinkingprinciple in
man, recognise that if we would become masters of fate, we must strive
to become self-conscious, and learn to control our thoughts, so that the
winged feet of Mercury may not become glued by the mire of impurity
to this terrestrial sphere. We must endeavour to extricate the mind
from all that demoralises, cramps, limits, or binds it, and while
extracting to the full the lessons that life has to teach us, resist to the
utmost the alluring temptations of the desire nature which would make
of the god a slave.

To the Secretary of the Lessons Department,

June 1st, 1921.
" I SHOULD like to take this opportunity of sincerely thanking you
for the pleasant, thorough, and very painstaking manner in which you
correct the answers to questions. This considerably adds to the value
of the course of lessons and to the instruction and pleasure of the
student. The lessons themselves I can thoroughly recommend to
anyone who wishes to obtain more than a superficial knowledge of the
subject, and to cover practically the whole ground of Natal and the
Directional Side of Astrology."
W. H. Shutes
 Jtatranatmr far ^stralagtrs

By Vivian E. Robson, B.Sc.

{Continued from p. 182)

There is another problem of some slight astrological interest

depending upon the shape of the earth, namely that concerning the
length in miles of a degree of latitude or longitude at any particular
place.
This is not of great importance, and for all ordinary purposes
an error of a few minutes is imperceptible, but when great accuracy
is required, as, for example, in the calculation of primary arcs to
seconds, it is essential to use correctdata,and as a rule it is impossible
to find longitudes and latitudes to the nearest second in any work
of reference. It was pointed out some years ago by Mr Ralph
Shirley that a quite appreciable error often arises in this way in
horoscopes for London. The latitude of London is usually given as
51^32', but obviously this cannot be correct for the whole of
London and its suburbs. Asa matter of fact 51032' passes through
the centre of Regent's Park, while Buckingham Palace is 51o30', and
Greenwich Observatory 51° 28' 38". Hence it is waste of time to
compute semi-arcs, etc., to seconds when we may be four or five
minutes in error in the latitude of the place.
The easiest method of obtaining longitudes and latitudes correct
to within a few seconds is by the use of a good plan or atlas. Choose
exact lines of latitude and longitude and measure carefully the
number of miles that the given place lies east or west and north or
south of these. Then convert the distances so found into degrees,
minutes and seconds of arc.
The length (in metres) of 1° of ths meridian north or south in
latitude I is 111132.09 — 566.05 cos 2i + 1.20 cos and the length (in
metres) of 1° of parallel east or west in latitude I is 111415.10 cos I
—94.54 cos Zl.
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As an example of the use of these formulae I will compute the

latitude of the centre of the Houses of Parliament using Greenwich
Observatory as the datum point. For this purpose I am using
a sixpenny map of London and a common wooden ruler graduated in
inches, so that absolute accuracy is not to be expected. From
inspection we can see that the latitude is approximately 51° 30' and
we may use that value for I.
The formula then becomes:
111132.09-556.05 cos 103o+1.20 cos 206°
and reference to the table of trigonometrical functions in sect. I. shows
that this is equivalent to :
111132.09 + 556.05 sin 13o-1.20 cos 25°
Evaluating this formula we have :
Log. 1.20 = .07918
Log. cos 26° = 1.95366

Log. 1.08 = .03284

Log. 556.05 = 2.74511

Log. sin 13° = 1.35209

Log. 125.08 = 2.09720

Thus the formula becomes:
111132.09 +125.08 - 1.08= 111256.09
This is the value of 1° north or south in latitude 51° N. 30'
•measured in metres. To convert metres into miles we must multiply
by .0006214 (log. of which is 4.79336) and the value of l" in miles is
found to be 69.131.
It follows from this that if 69.131 miles are equivalent to 1 , then
one mile is equivalent to 52".07.
By rough measurement on the map I find that the Houses of
Parliament are 2.6 inches north of Greenwich Observatory, and, as
the scale of the map is 1.75ins. to the mile, the distance will be 1.5
miles. Therefore the number of seconds of latitude north of
Greenwich = 1.5X52".07 = 78" or 1'18".
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Then latitude of Greenwich = 51° 28' 38"

+ 1 18

Latitude of Houses of Parliament = 51 29 56

The actual latitude is stated to be 31° 29'49',) thus showing an
error of only 7" presumably due to imperfections in measurement,
but I do not know how this figure was arrived at and it may itself
be somewhat incorrect.
The longitude may be computed in a similar manner, and assuming
the distance west of Greenwich to be 5.36 miles I find that the
longitude in time is 30 sees, as against the given value of 31 sees.
When dealing with places other than London it will probably be
found most convenient to measure from the nearest exact line of
latitude or longitude.
This completes the problems connected with the shape of tbe earth,
and we may now turn to those dependent upon its rotation.
, (To be continued)

Plague was reported in April at Alexandria, 35 cases a day being

mentioned. In the map for the Spring Quarter, Pisces 24 was rising at
Alexandria with Saturn setting in opposition; Jupiter was in the sixth house
in Virgo, going to the conjunction with Saturn and in opposition to Mercury
and Uranus; and in addition tbe Moon was in tbe sixth and Neptune on tbe
cusp, the house signifying disease. The older astrologers affirmed that
plague and epidemics accompanied strong conjunctions of planets, and this
map supports the idea. The solar eclipse of April 8 fell at Aries i70sg' in
square to Cancer is^a' rising at Alexandria, and the significance of this lies
in the fact that the Sun, Moon, and risingdegree are the chief vital points
in a map, and here two of them form an eclipse in square to the third.
The eclipse of the Sun on April 8 showed Uranus and Mercury rising
at Washington in opposition to Jupiter and Saturn setting, and our forecast
was that " international relations and foreign policy will demand attention
and cause trouble." In his message to Congress, Pres. Harding rejected the
idea of a League of Nations as having too much of the victors in it, but
advocated an Association of Nations and a declaration of peace with
Germany. Later in the month he declined Germany's invitation to act as
mediator on the Reparations question at issue between Germany and the
Allies. But it was reported that the United States had decided to be
represented at the Reparations aud other Conferences.
" During the next six years babies will arrive by twos, threes, and even
fours, and single births will be exceptional is the prediction made by
Professor Charles Kirschoff, of Milwaukee, who, says the Central News, bases
his prophecy on the influence of the planets Mars and Venus."—Daily Mirror.
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Cbe ®ark of f(fe i&oott

By W. H. Scott
[Continued from p. 177)

The lunar principle in man is the " Knower's Looking-glass,"

and the native whose Moon is full at birth will, " other things being
equal," have the full and fertile brain; but violent impacts from
without may break up the surface of his " Mirror," whose composi-
tion is water, and thus destroy his visions of the true world within
which is reflected his soul. Personal feeling is the entanglement in
which the native of this sign finds himself: it is a " secure refuge " in
which his crab nature takes a kind of negative pleasure, but which
can never reveal himself to himself in his nakedness; indeed he
becomes a veritable Adam, knowing not that he is naked, and thus he
becomes the nourisher and re-creator, constantly, of his own illusions ;
he re-creates and perpetuates himself in his emotions. Often his
feelings are as an " Old Curiosity Shop " of ancient wonders, for the
Past is more often with him than with others, whether it be of
sunshine or shadow.
Impressionable, emotional, hyper-sensitive, imaginative, fanciful,
tenacious, Cancer is the aquatic plant of human geniture; Libra, the
sign from which Cancer was evolved, is the primal frontier of all
existence; she is the fourth house of the Mind, just as Cancer is the
fourth house of the form. Libra is the First-born of the zodiac,
dwelling in the immediate presence of the First Great Cause; half in
darkness, half in manifestation, she commands the sacred portals
through which sweep into materialization, through the agency of
Cancer and the Moon, the infinite energies. Beyond that threshold,
and in the Darkness she holds the secrets of the Creator;
without, in the realm of manifestation, she pours her electric potencies
into the red tide of life ; throughout all manifestation to the remotest
part her ceaseless energies are felt; as the cardinal sign of the Mental
Tdplicity she conceives the Form which comes to birth in Cancer just
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nine signs in advance of her; for observe that a child conceived when
the Life Giver (the Sun) is in Libra will be born when the Sun
reaches Cancer. It is, therefore, from Libra that Cancer and the
Moon receive their heritage of DARKNESS. Libra is the " Hostess
Life" within whose " spacious mansion lie all treasures great and
small." She is " Pleasure's Room," the house of Venus, where the
Author of Darkness and limitation (Saturn) is exalted, for she it is
who holds the secret of Saturn, the Taker of life. But if Saturn be
the Taker of life then the Moon of Cancer is Renovation and Life-
Renewal ; the agent of re-incamation, of waning and dying and
re-appearing; the New and Ancient Thing, the Nurse, the Earth
Mother, or Eve,—the Soul.
In the dark side of the Moon we behold the " dreary place"
generated by centrifugal force. Here is the ghostly parenchyma of
the Mind Body of the Past, the nightmare of misconception and
misbegotten creations; the astral shells of gigantic Crustacea that
existed in the paljeozoic age are here with all monstrous things. It is
the very desert place of the mind ; but, as Dickens might say, " some
vague period of drowsy laughter must be given to the contemplation
of this possibility."
"The dark side of the Moon," says Blavatsky, "represents Chaos
and Disorder." " It was the Moon who presided over the
monstrous creation of nondescript beings which were slain by the
Dhyanis."
Through the excessive indulgence of the animal sense system
Cancer gives place to the "spirit of misrule." The disease called
cancer, which is appropriately named since it belongs to the Cancer
element under a distorted polarity, is broaght about by the disobedient
molecules corrupting each other continually. As Anna Kingsford says,
"every cell is its own arbiter, and every member has become a sect: they
abandon their function and confound their office, and every one is an
anarchy." Now that which is true of the physical is also true of its
prototype in the world of the mind, and it is the mental insubordination
of Cancer brought about by her inordinate love of animal sensation
which at last brings us face to face with the world of revolt, confusion
insanity and darkness.
In treating of this subject—the dark side of the Moon—it should
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be understood as comprehending every phase of darkness, for there is a

perfect correspondence between the mental, astral, moral, spiritual and
physical manifestation of darkness, and the entire Watery triplicity
is concerned therewith; on the mental plane, for example, the fourth
house (Cancer) is that of " Ignorance,"—the unknown, the unmanifest,
" the end of things" which is to come. In the vegetable kingdom the
fourth house embodies that spirit in nature which causes the flower to
fold its petals at the coming of the night. It is the spirit of moral
turpitude in the human prowler under cover of darkness. Again, it is
that propensity in men of superior intelligence which, in some
instances, causes them to associate with those far beneath them both
morally and intellectually. In Scorpio we have that quality which
fixes and makes permanent whatever of darkness or ignorance there be
found in the native; it is the house of fatality and death, the plunge
into the unknown, the night house of Mars.
In Pisces we have the house of imprisonment and self-undoing
through a want of Understanding; it is the house of servitude and
fear; Pisces rules the deep and unknown caverns, alike of the deep
oceans and the hidden chambers of the mind: its ruler (Neptune) is
the planet of illusion and chaos.
In the Watery Triplicity we behold the origin of the animal body
and the physical basis of man. There exists no form either animal or
vegetable which did not spring from the waters of the planet; it is the
author of an endless sequence and procession of form, and no portion
of its changing currents are ever the same, for it is an ocean'of never-
resting life, changing emotion, and ever variable sensation.
The Moon rules the white corpuscles of the blood under Cancer, and
when these are in excess they are often given over to vagabondage
and corruption ; these white corpuscles constitute the blood of the first
race which had " three elements but no living fire" (the Mars element
of the red corpuscle) ; they are Mercurial but not Sulphuric.
" Ignis (Fire) is the ultimate constitution or I," says Blavatsky;
this is the divine spark which is concerned with the superior human
soul. Through Fire or Psyche we have Air, fluidic fire, Water, liquid
fire, Earth, solid fire." The highest mental, therefore, is of the
Earthy Triplicity ; observe that the Moon (the lunar principle in man)
is the channel through which the mind finds expression; in other
 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 211

words lunar polarity determines the direction in which the mind acts.
Observe, also, that the Moon is exalted in Taurus, the interior sign of the
Earthy Triplicity, and that Taurus is the seat of power in the mind,
having direct control of the form of which the Moon is the embodiment.
No other sign of the zodiac possesses such remarkable transforming
power and transmuting energy as this one. It is, therefore, the central
power station of lunar polarization, and polarization is that which gives
definition to every form and every act, no mental formulation of
thought being possible without it; and thus it is that the Moon's
exaltation here has reference to the translation of her light from the
outward phenomenal world to the interior planes of man's being; ■ " here
she lights up man's inward parts," his polarity is toward the centre of
things,—the inner recesses of being ; it is here that it comes under the
directinfluenceof Venus, which, as ruler of Taurus, is always centraliz-
ing, being converging as distinguished from a diverging polarization.
It is thus that the Moon in Taurus makes for unity and centralizing
power in the mind. In the esoteric sense this is the " light side of the
Moon." It is a polarity which is only beheld in the planet Venus,
whose orbit is circular (not greatly elongated as is that of Mars) and
whose polarity is centralizing. In Venus, therefore, as she relates to
her night house (Taurus), Form and Light have become One, and
that Light has passed into refinements to which our finite perceptions
no longer respond.
(To be continued.)

Although the opposition of Jupiter to Uranus had many

disastrous effects there were intervals during which the two planets
were well aspected by some third heavenly body. One of these was
at the beginning of April when Mars in Taurus was in trine to Jupiter
andsextileto Uranus; and at that time it was announced that Viscount
Fitzalan, a Catholic, would become Lord Lieutenant. At the end of
April the Sun formed the same aspects and Viscount French left
Ireland on the conclusion of his term of ojfice. And when Mercury,
passing through Taurus, reached the same position Sir James Craig,
the Ulster Prime Minister, and " President" De Valera met in
conference, this being appropriately under the influence of Mercury,
the planet of speech and diplomatic discussion.
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JUtralagg anb Rental Serangemcnt

Practical Essays by a Nurse

VI.—A " Fatal Case " Cured.

AS exceedingly interesting and cheering case was sent to me from
New York, where a friend is doing pioneer work with a splendid
association which undertakes the rescue of children from evil surround-
ings. Many of the patients are found to be mentally or morally
defective; and such are then educated by a rational and scientific
system which is yielding most hopeful results. This case at the outset
was given as that of a mentally deficient boy. He had no concentration
for any pursuit whatever, and could not be taught. He was described
as altogether unreliable and inclined to mischievous and aggressive
acts. The result was that he was simply branded as impossible and
left alone. At nine years of age, abandoned by his people, he was
taken into one of the homes under the Society's supervision, and a
careful, patient analysis was made of the case. An accurate horoscope
is unfortunately not at the moment obtainable ; but some notes of the
case give the chief characteristics, which were four planets, Sun,
Moon, Mercury and Neptune all in conjunction in Gemini, and
squaring Mars, in Pisces.
From these unfavourable signs it might have been predicted that
the lad would be uncontrollable, and either unwilling or unable to work.
In fact one can scarcely wonder that this was all that ordinary methods
ever discovered about him. There remained, however, a discovery
which one can scarcely doubt was the counteracting influence of the
native's life. Saturn, lord of the ninth house, was trine to the Gemini
planets; and his influence, when understood, was able to ' bind'
together the destructive vibrations of Mars. The boy was put to
agriculture, and finally to a branch of intensive cultivation. There
were of course, many periods of restless idleness and discouraging
mental lapses; but for all that, as years went by, the personality,
aided by Saturn's slow, steadying influence, became sufficiently
 ASTROLOGY AND MENTAL DERANGEMENT 213

balanced to cope with the unstable and chaotic impulses of its being.
These, belonging to the temperament itself, would of course persist
until death ; and left to themselves, would undoubtedly have brought
the native to ruin. But this case is a striking proof of the power of
counter-influences, when recognised and used; and is also a striking
confirmation of the belief put forward in these articles regarding the
treatment of the unsound.

VII.—Of Other Astrological Influences

The question as to the ' last word ' in Astrology may be raised
here, and it may be objected that I have limited my observations to
the ordinary working horoscope, without reference to the fixed stars
or to that other unknown planet or planets which most astrologers
now believe to exist. Is there, it may be asked, no hidden and
incalculable element in the directions which may be operating in
addition to those we know ?
In reply, it may, I think, be conceded that somewhat of an
incalculable influence does exist. We can never predict, for instance,
the moment within the orb when a direction will operate. We do
not know whether it will act physically or materially, and we do not
know why some act suddenly and strongly at one time, and less
strongly at another or in another person's map. It may be that there
are perturbations, so to speak, from the movements of ' Isis,' not
accounted for ; while the affinities and * houses ' of Neptune are still
confessedly unknown. There is plenty of room for the operation of
the incalculable factor. But the experience of many years has
convinced me of this ; that in our ordinary system and present practice
we have got a trustworthy guide for the exigencies of life. We have
knowledge enough to live by. It may be, therefore, that our present
stage of evolution is not so sensitive to the vibrations of the un-
discovered planets. It certainly seems that those of Neptune are less
powerful with many people than the influences from, say, Uranus or
Mercury. Practical wisdom therefore would counsel us to stick to
what we know.
As to the influences of the fixed stars my experience has yielded
nothing very reliable. For instance, Mars, in map, 3 is near the
 214 MODERN ASTROLOGV

position of Algenib, a violent star, and this might work out badly.
On the other hand, Uranus is near Sirius, which is said to be benefic,
and these two influences might counteract each other. I have not
found natives with Arcturus on the Ascendant markedly lucky, and
I took special note of one where Venus, the ruler, was close to Rigel
and near Aldebaran; but there was no evidence of added power in
the directions. Besides, some of the stars occupying the same
decanate of the sign corresponding to the constellation are said to be
of a different character. Bellatrix for instance (on n 20) is " unlucky,"
while Capella (n 23) is " good." At present anyhow it seems
difficult to get any reliable system of directions which will help us
here. With regard to the Pars Fortuna, I will just add my own item
of. experience, merely for what it is worth. In many cases its position
has seemed a general testimony to the ruling influence or the finest
influence in a native's life. Here are a few examples. A woman
with a genius for friendship, whose best fortune came through her
friends had the P.F. on the cusp of the 11th house. Another, who
made a very happy marriage, had it on the cusp of her husband's
ascendant. A fine public speaker has it in Libra, in the 7th. A very
successful mental nurse has it in Pisces, in the 6th.
But in none of these cases did any special direction of Venus,
etc., to this point, seem to be of much moment. This has inclined
me to think that its indications may be more general than special.
Eclipses of the Sun or Moon, when visible in England, and near
the native's birthday, undoubtedly exercise an influence which can be
felt; but the effect is far less certain when the eclipses fall at any
other time and are only partial. In a majority of instances the latter
have been noted as of no effect. Solar revolutions, when agreeing
with the directions, undoubtedly help to bring them into force, and
a strong transit is often the exciting factor in a current operating
direction like that of the progressed moon. There is one particular
aspect which seems to be so frequently overlooked even by professional
astrologers that I hope I may be pardoned, while speaking of the
progressed horoscope, for mentioning it here. It is the Parallel of
declination. Only a little while ago a map was brought me with the
comment that the good progressed directions were effecting nothing.
The progressed map had been apparently carefully done; but one
 ASTROLOGY AND MENTAL DERANGEMENT 215

thing had been forgotten. There was a parallel of the progressed

Ascendant and Saturn, which in seven years' time would give place
to a conjunction. This binding, inhibiting aspect was keeping back
certain other good vibrations in force at the same time. Always, the
parallel of the progressed Ascendant should be noted ; as also that of
the Mid-heaven. Again it is well to remember that this parallel is
the only direction of which it may safely be affirmed that it will act
before it is due. Venus 23 S 0 P the Sun 23 S SO, will most probably
be felt directly the degree is touched, and before the exact concurrence
of the figures is arrived at. It may act intermittently, and less
powerfully than a conjunction; nevertheless it is a very important,
aspect when it has an independent force of its own.
(To be concluded)

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The Ex-Empress of Germany died on April 11 at Doom in Holland and

the funeral took place on April 19 at Potsdam. Her horoscope is unknown,
but a glance at the Ex-Emperor's map will show that whereas he had at
birth the Moon at the end of Scorpio in opposition to Uranus at the end of
Taurus, his progressed Moon is now passing through the end of Aquarius,
meeting the squares of the radical Moon this spring and of Uranus this
summer. The Ex-Empress had been ailing at intervals for a very long time
past, and the eclipse of the Sun, iS May, 1920, at y 26.59 fell in almost
exact opposition to the Ex-Emperor's Moon and in close conjunction with
his Uranus, as we pointed out at the time.

IN the annual report of the Astronomer Royal it is stated that

preparations have already been made for the solar eclipse of 1922
(September 21) at which a more rigorous attempt will be made to
verify the Einstein prediction. The Brazilian photographs suffered
on account of the heating of the mirror of the Ccelostat, which displaced
the images. For the forthcoming expedition the Admiralty has
sanctioned the use of the Astrographer Equatorial, which will cbe
adjusted to the latitude of Christmas Island, in the Indian ..Ocean, for
direct photographs of the eclipse.
 ■216 modern astrology

31 %ataazapc

The following horoscope is that of a man who has absolutely

disappeared without leaving the slightest trace, and the question is
what has become of him or how did he die ?
x xi xii 5 ii iii
TI2.34 8 22 433 flS-lS 4122 ITCIJ

O I) 2 S <;■ 3.' t TJ tj)

D15.5S 88.5S E9.25 nG.rG ^13.20 11129.37!^ 4L3-I9 ^13.12!?. no.24
-DtV/s,22N43 9N41 24N3S 20N4S 5S17 1989 20NX 4S36 iSJ\'3o

Birth took place at Chelmsford on 6 June, 1888, at 7.45 a.m.,

when the planetary positions and cusps were as shown above. The
native was in partnership at Singapore and had booked his passage to
England in order to visit his parents and with the intention of taking
his mother back with him. A few days before he was due to sail,
about 17 February, 1920, he went out for an early walk and never
returned. Neither time nor money were spared in trying to trace
him, but not the slightest thing was found. He was very popular with
everyone at Singapore and his relatives do not think that death was
due to enemies. His mother's opinion is that he met his death from
wild animals as he was in the habit of taking long walks, and, on that
•occasion, may have gone into the jungle to rest.
The progressed horoscope as at 10 Aug., 1920, was as follows:
x xi xii i ii iii
815.53 II25 ®29 4127.17 1IB17 isl2
0 D 2
SB16.40 «B7.54 2317.50!!. 2815.46 ^23.36 11126.51!!. 416.59 i 13.16 01.27
Zlfcfa. 22N25 2iN:2 17N37 23N11 9S56 1SS39 igNg 4S38 18N51

Readers are invited to give their opinions as to the cause of the

native's disappearance.
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?|smb:c ^rtbtcttans

There are now several people functioning in what is called the

spirit world or the astral plane who are interested in forecasting the
future, and some of them approach the subject from an astrological
point of view. Such people can usually see farther ahead than can
those of us who are still wearing a physical body, and their ideas are
worth noting, but I have found by personal experience that they are
not to be looked upon as infallible, for they are liable to make mistakes
just like ourselves. With this brief introduction I should like to place
upon record two recent experiences of my own before the time
arrives to which they refer.
A few days before, I had been thinking over a prediction I had
read concerning a revolution that would take place in this country,
and had wondered whether the writer meant the word " revolution "
to be taken in the sense of the abolition of the monarchy or only in
that of social, political, and economic changes. On June 2, 1921, I
woke being told psychically, " There will be no revolution " ; and this
statement was repeated two or three times, I understood that it was
intended to be a denial of a revolution in the sense of the abolition of
the monarchy. The original prediction was made by an astrologer
upon astrological grounds and referred to the present year.
On another occasion I dreamed that I was looking at a newspaper
dated September 7, 1921, which was open before me at the leader
page, and I thought it contained news of great importance. On June
4, 1921, I thought Alan Leo asked me whether I was aware that there
was a serious time ahead for Great Britain this year. I replied that
I had dreamt something about it but could not bring much of it
through. He said that all he knew at present was that we should
have to face a condition that would be dangerous and critical in the
extreme for the whole country, but that it would pass off by
September 7, and he thought this should be published in Modern
Astrology. I enquired the nature of the danger, but he had not
2l8 MODERN ASTROLOGY

yet been able to ascertain, having only just been informed of the
matter himself, but it would be very serious.
I give these two little experiences, and the future will show what
value they may have.
Hermeias

The opposition of Jupiter to Uranus on May 3 was from the

ninth degree of Virgo to the same of Pisces, and as the fourth degree
of Sagittarius was rising at London in square to the two planets the
effect was felt more strongly for disruption and disharmony than might
other wise have been the case. We pointed out (page 133) that the
opposition of September 10, 1920, was followed by a threatened
universal railway strike, and precisely the same threat recurred as an
accompaniment of the coal strike this spring ; but our hope that " the
trines and sextiles of this map will be sufficient to avert any such
danger " proved to be well founded for although the danger was very
real and was repeated more than once, it did not actually come off.
When referred to the two eclipses in April, the opposition affected the
fourth (mines) and tenth (government) houses, and at the May New
Moon the ninth and third, the travelling houses; which is a reminder
of how shipping and railways were both seriously affected by the
strike. A map for the time when the two planets were in opposition
May 3, 9.48 a.m. also showed them on the cusps of the third and ninth
houses at London.

The long stay of the benefic Venus in its sign Taurus, ruling
Ireland, has coincided with developments in that country and attempts
to promote its welfare. Unofficial overtures with Sinn Fein leaders
took place, an interview between the Ulster leader Sir James Craig
and De Valera, the holding of the elections to the two Irish
Parliaments, and the appointment of a Catholic Lord Lieutenant, were
amongst the significant events. It was pointed out in April, page 102,
that Venus in Taurus between March 7 and July 8 would benefit
Ireland, and other events will doubtless follow before this note can
appear in print.
 ^nshrers to ^uistxons
Mercury and Neptune. In two maps, both of a mystical
character, there are found: (l) Mercury in Sagittarius in the eleventh
house in biquintile to Neptune in Taurus in the fourth; and
(2) Mercury in Libra in aspect to Neptune in the second; this last
a very psychic one. Do you think this can have any special
significance ?
In asking such a question as this the full map should be sent as
well as particulars of the kind of psychism, for there are various
psychic faculties, such as seeing, hearing, writing, speaking, dreaming,
and others. In the absence of particulars all that can be said is that
Mercury in aspect to Neptune might very well go with psychic faculty,
especially of the speaking or writing kind. But the biquintile is a
very weak aspect, and if the faculty is at all active there is probably
some additional reason for it.
THE Seven Keys TO Wisdom. Mr Alan Leo says Astrology
is but one of the Seven Keys to Wisdom, or to unlock the door to
the inner temple. What are the names of the other Keys or the
Six remaining Sciences ?
The full list has never been given out and only four of the Keys
are mentioned in The Secret Doctrine, viz.. Astronomy (including
Astrology), Physiology (probably including Biology), Geometry, and
Metrology or Numerology. Mr H. S. Green suggests that Psychology
and Theology, using the terms in the widest sense, may possibly be
two further keys.

Comet Reid, rgar a. was discovered on March 13, and was then 10of the
gth magnitude. Its position on March 26 is given as R.A. -zo* ao 53",
Dec. 110 53'S, Long, (fxzzb'. It was direct in motion and going northward.
When referred to the current Mundane maps, it was in square to Venus in
Taurus and going to the opposition of Neptune in Leo. At the March New,
Moon it was on the fourth cusp in Mesopotamia, Persia, and the Caucasus,
regions that have been unsettled and where some fighting has taken place.
In the map for the Spring Quarter, it was rising in the West of Germany,
where the Allied forces have advanced on account of the German failure in
the payment of the Indemnity and the Reparations. The distance of the
comet from the earth is decreasing, and it will be in perihelion on May 10.
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domaponftcm*

The Editors do not assume responsibility for any statements or ideas advanced
by their correspondents, and the publication of letters does not necessarily imply
sympathy with the views expressed therein.

The Planet Neptune

The Editor, Modern Astrology

Dear Sir,—Just a few lines with reference to the much debated

It has generally been assumed that 'P's house is K, his exaltation
is and his fall is in TO1.
Now historically and physiognomically this decision is incorrect.
It seems to me that his house, at any rate, is Vy. The tribe Naphtali
is, usually and correctly, assigned to Vj5. From Brooke and McLean's
standard work The Old Testament in Greek it is clearly shown that
Naphtali, Nepthelim, and Neptune are one and the same. In Star
Lore of All Ages, a carefully compiled work, Vy is said to be generally
depicted with the head and body of a goat and the tail of a fish, signi-
ficant of the rains and floods of winter. The constellation is sometimes
called " Pan " from the fable of the escape of Pan into the Nile from
Typhon. The part of him above the water took the form of a goat,
the part under the water that of a fish.
In Egypt Y? was connected with the god of the waters. It? has
also been called " the double ship." The Latin poets also called
Naphtali " Neptune's Offspring." In the Aztec Calendar has the
figure of a narwhal.
In Leo's The Art of Synthesis the pictures of I* have the typical
expression, and No. 2 is extremely Saturnine. This blend of Itf1'?
comes out when we get a □ or S with 'i' and the cloven hoof comes
to view. On p. 113 in The Art of Synthesis a case of imprisonment
when Neptune transmited Asc. is given. Surely this is physical and
material enough for Vy. On p. 120 Leo says " only very old souls
have ? active," this also fits in with Vy being the house of *?. On
 CORRESPONDENCE 221

p. 122 it is stated that the " work of Y is transmutation." As the O

is born into a new year, in YS", this also agrees with the transmutation
work of *$7 the rising above the material into a new year, a new birth.
Finally the trident of Y did not originate from the idea of spearing
fish, or fish in H, this is a later application. The trident is symbolical
of the Trinity, and this is what the trident in the hand of Y originally
referred to. What the Trinity was I am not at liberty to state at
present, but during 1922 it will be given out to the world. It is
sufficient to state now that I have absolute proof that the trident
referred to the Trinity. Trusting you may find the above of interest
to your readers.
Yours truly,
G. A. Field
P.S.—It would be of interest to consider horoscopes where W
was in V^.
G. A. F.

Music and the Horoscope

The Editor, MODERN ASTROLOGY
Dear Sir,—I read with pleasure Mr Carter's article and Miss
Snell's letter on the above subject. I agree with Mr Carter that
b HI 16 is an important position, probably denoting " tune," the
" colour " of sound.
T =M5 I consider to be degrees of Rhythm (also of " the sense of
law and order"—see M.A. April, 1920, page 112). I have a number
of musical horoscopes where these are present.
With regard to the interval at the end of ~Sb aud the beginning
of X nx, planets are certainly frequently noticeable in the vicinity of
Ktir 2 but I am inclined to think that musical influence in this position
is due to .ss'SL 13 of the constellations which at present correspond with
these degrees, and are highly artistic in nature. Similarly, n ^ 5 are
now on b HI 16 and for that reason prominent. When Wagner was
born n3i approximately was on b 16 of the constellations and a slight
rectification would bring this degree on his Ascendant.
One pair of degrees which I do not see mentioned either by Mr
Carter or Miss Snell is X hk 8 (or X HR 27 on 8) which seem to denote
"mixing" (e.g. in chemistry), "harmony" in music.
222 MODERN ASTROLOGY

In conclusion let me say that I shall await with interest the result
of Miss Snell's investigations into her 200 horoscopes and hope that
she will give us her conclusions in MODERN ASTROLOGY.
Yours very truly,
Duncan Macnaughton

Retrograde Planets
The Editor, Modern Astrology
DEAR Sir,—I am glad to see from the letter of Mr P. W.
Robinson in the June number of MODERN ASTROLOGY that the
interest regarding Retrograde planets is being kept up. And what he
says about Mercury Retrograde has special interest as it is from his
own personal experience. But if students are to have the full value
of his experience might we ask him to give us his birth map so that we
may see the position of all the planets in his 22nd year, specially what
house and sign the Moon was occupying ?
It is only when full data are to hand that students can investigate
a subject and form an opinion upon it. I am afraid I do not quite
follow his argument that because the influence of a Retrograde planet
can be proved in a progressed horoscope it must therefore be equally
plain in the birth map. The influence I mentioned as observable in
the progressed map confined itself entirely to aspects formed or
avoided by the regression of a planet. But in the radical map aspects
are in no way affected by a planet being Retrograde, so their specific
weight of influence [must be decided in some other way. And what
exactly that other way is is just what students are wanting to know.
Yours faithfully,
Maud Margesson

The passage of Mars, the hot and dry planet, through Gemini,
the sign ruling London, is significant in connection with the fact
that, through absence of rain, the Thames was lower than at any time
since 1899, the springs were said to be drying up, and an appeal was
issued to use less water.
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY 223

Denebola. (Beta Leonis.) A second magnitude fixed star of

the nature of '? and J.or according to some of said (o give
fondness for occultism, honour followed by disgrace, and fevers. Its
position on 1 Jan., 1918 was: Long. 113120.28; Lat. 12N16; Decl.
15N2 ; R.A. 176° 13'.
Depression. The distance of a heavenly body below the
horizon.
Desc. Abbreviation for Descendant (g.u.).
Descendant. The western angle or seventh house. The
whole house is usually included in the term, but strictly the descendant
is the degree upon the cusp.
Descending. Sometimes descending in figure. A term
applied to a planet when in the "descending part of heaven," or from
the tenth house westward to the fourth, i.e., in houses 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 or 4.
Descending Node. See Node.
Descension. The passing down of a body, owing to the earth's
rotation, from the tenth house westward to the fourth.
Descension, Oblique. The same as Oblique Ascension {q.v)
but concerned with the setting of a body instead of its rising.
Destruction. A term used in Horary Astrology. Suppose
one ponderous and two light planets are in one sign, and that one of
the light planets is separating from the conjunction of the ponderous
while the other is applying to the conjunction. If the separating
body turns retrograde, again joins the ponderous planet and passes it
to form a conjunction with the applying body before this one meets
the conjunction of the ponderous, the influence of the latter is said to
be destroyed.
Detriment. The sign opposite the house of a planet. The
detriments are as follows :
O in ~ <? in 8 and -
B in Vy 2; in n and iTK
? in and X b in ® and Sb
? in V and HI
A planet in its detriment is considered to be weak and
unfortunate.
Dexter. See Aspects.
Diameter, Apparent. The angle that the diameter of a
heavenly body subtends as seen from the earth. In the case of
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Primary directions to the Sun and Moon the diameter probably affects
the date of operation of the arc, as the time from first to last contact
may be very great when considered at the rate of one degree per
annum.
DiciiOTOME. A term applied to the Moon (and also to Mercury
and Venus) when apparently cut in two so that the light half is an
exact semi-circle. In the case of the Moon this occurs at the first
and third quarters.
Dichotomenia. See Dichotoke.
Digit. The unit used in measuring the amount of an eclipse.
It is one-twelfth of the body's diameter.
Dignity. The opposite of Debility (g.v.). A planet is
dignified when strong by sign, position or aspect, strength by sign
being essential dignity, and strength by house or aspect accidental.
The values assigned by the ancients to the several dignities were as
follows;
Essential dignities'.—In house or mutual reception,5; Exaltation,
4; Triplicity, 3; Term, 2; Face, 1.
Accidental dignities'.—In conjunction with Regulus, 6; In MC
or Asc., free from combustion, in Cazimi, besieged by and S?
in partile conjunction with or ? , or in conjunction with Spica, 5;
in 7th, 4th or 11th houses, direct in motion, in partile conjunction with
Si, in partile trine with or ? , 4 ; in 2nd or 5th houses, or in partile
sextile with U or ? , 3; swift in motion, in 9th house, oriental (if b,
or (?), occidental (if ? or 5 ) or increasing in light (if p), 2; in
3rd house, or in terms of "H- or ? , 1.
The Part of Fortune was also subject to the above dignities, and
in addition received 5 marks of dignity if in b or 3€, 4 if in 93, SL,
or ?, 3 if in n, and 2 if in 'TK. For the method of using these
numbers see DEBILITY.
Diocletian, Era of. Also called Era o/Martyrs. It began
on 29 Aug., 284 A.D., when Diocletian became Emperor of Rome, and
was in use by the Christians until the introduction of the Christian
Era. It contained twelve months of thirty days each, and five
additional days.
DIONYSIAN Period. A cycle of 532 years introduced by
Dionysius Exiguus. The Ethiopians, who use the Era of Diocletian,
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Modcrp

Astrology
A Journal devoted to the search for truth concerning Astrology

K'SS;] AUGUST, 1921. [No, 3

(B&ttor's (©bscrlratorg

Mr SlNNETT, Vice-President of the Theosophical Society, passed

away at the ripe old age of 81 years at his residence in Kensington,
from acute bronchitis, on June 25th, 1921, at a quarter
^Mr Skmett^ 'our P'm' (summer time).
In this month's magazine we publish his map and
death figure for the benefit of students.
It was my good fortune to know Mr Sinnett in the early days
of the Society, indeed it was one of his earlier books which gave me
the Light in this incarnation, namely, Esoteric Buddhism—published
about thirty years ago and sent to me at Southampton by a friend.
I was then 33, and I am now double that age, but my gratitude,
reverence and regard for Mr Sinnett have dated from that time. He
was attached to my husband and often used to pay us a visit and
discourse on the occult side of things, appreciating my husband's
great knowledge of the stars and my husband in turn listening to his
conception and knowledge of those deeper Theosophical Truths which
came to him direct from his Master whom he loved and served for
over fifty years.
Mr Sinnett was the pioneer of Theosophy in its earliest days, in
association with Madame Blavatsky, and with Colonel Olcott who
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was at that time the organiser and director of the activities of the
Society.
Mr Sinnett's books are unique, not only for their wealth of know-
ledge but in the careful, scientific and scholarly way they are written.
Almost to the last he worked for the Society he loved so well, both by
pen and speech. He was the life-long President of the Central
London Lodge which had a large following and produced from time
to time "transactions" on any new ideas which Mr Sinnett obtained
direct from " occult sources." The Hibbert Journal, one amongst
many of our leading magazines, published articles from Mr Sinnett's
pen, for he was a born writer and had the power of giving out his
knowledge in perfect form. His later books are models of occult
thought so carefully and clearly expressed that the ordinary person as
well as the student can follow each sequential sentence to its clear
and logical conclusion.
Mr Sinnett was on the scientific line and had the full measure of
the concrete intellect, together with the wisdom that "secretly and
mightily ordereth all things." He was critical, logical and intuitive,
with a loyal devotion to the Great Master whose pupil he was, and
being in direct touch with so great a Being he was able to give to the
world the priceless treasure of Theosophical Truth. In the early days
of the past century when the darkness of materialism was rampant
he was a servant of humanity, appealing to the mind and reason of
the cultured and intelligent.
Hundreds of people, like myself, came to a "knowledge of the
Truth " through his first book Esoteric Buddhism. I can never be
grateful enough to Mr Sinnett, for his hand brought me the " Light."
Both he and the wife he so dearly loved were our personal friends,
and are still, for death only removes the body and leaves untouched
the real man.
Mr Sinnett was deeply interested in Astrology, but not so much
Natal Astrology as the side of the science dealing with the soul of
things. Cycles and world events had a great fascination for him and
he and my husband often compared notes, approaching the subject
from different lines.
Mr Sinnett leaves behind him a name most honoured and
respected and the record of a life of splendid service. He has passed
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 227

to the peace and his Master's blessing after a life well-lived, both life
and work being an example and an incentive to others to do likewise.
His physical loss will be felt very greatly, both by the Central
London Lodge and personal friends, of whom he had a great many,
for, Libra-like, he had a warm heart and an affectionate disposition.
He is now happy on the other side with the wife he so dearly loved
and in the Presence of his own life-long Teacher to whom his heart
was devoted. For him indeed "All is well." Theosophists and
astrologers know there is no death. As Sir Edwin Arnold so beautifully
puts it in " The Song Celestial " :
" Nay, but as where one layeth
His worn-out robes away.
And, taking new ones, sayeth,
' These will I wear to-day':
" So putteth by the Spirit
Lightly his garb of flesh,
And passeth to inherit
A residence afresh.
"Never the Spirit was born, the Spirit shall cease to be never!
Never was time it was not ! End and beginning are dreams.
Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the Spirit for ever
Death has not touched it at all,dead.thoughthe house of it seems."

The hot and dry weather of June and July was indicated in the
map for the Summer Quarter, where the Sun and Mars were in
conjunction in Cancer in the fourth house over a considerable part of
Western and Central Europe. We pointed this out last June, p. 165.
At Washington the conjunction fell in the seventh house, no other
planet being angular, and the weather was hot and dry as predicted.
Planets in the fourth house are usually held to have the greatest
influence over the weather, but any planet in any angle will produce
its effect if not contradicted by some other; and this was the case at
Washington.
Another result of the presence of the Sun and Mars in the fourth
house at London was the discontent manifested by agricultural
labourers at the decontrol of agriculture, which would sooner or later
have the effect of decreasing their wages ; for the fourth house rules
the land and houses, and the Sun was lord of the sixth house, employ-
ment. And yet another consequence was the trouble for th«
Government that arose over the housing question, as a result of
which Dr Addison, Minister without portfolio, who had been
responsible for an unfortunate housing policy, resigned from the
Government on July 14th.
 Unternational JUtrolcgii

New Moon

3rd Aug., 1921, 8.17p.m., G.M.T.

X xi XII 1 11 in
(1) 117.13 V3 5 V325 S128.16 T27 827
(2) 7 11,20 •7 28 V3 16 = 1315 TI7 8 21
(3) VJ 0 m? an *29 a 18 D 12
(4) V314 a 7 H 9 T26 a 30 D23
(5) V3I5 a 1 a 29 » 26 rr 19 as 2
(6) *13 T17 » 22 D25 8B19 7114
(7) IIB29 -it 28 III 21 J II W 14 — 23
(i) London (2) Dublin (3] Berlin (4) Constantinople (5) Petrograd
(6) Calcutta (7) Washington
® J> 9 S i 3/ V
j).to.j4 8022.49 II28.4 ilo.15 nB 18.56 ^22.17 K8.42I?. jl 13.24

THE end of Aquarius rises at the time of New Moon at London, and
the two luminaries are in Leo in the sixth house, separating from the
conjunction with Mars and applying to that of Neptune; Mercury is
on the sixth cusp in Cancer, in sextile to Jupiter and Saturn in Virgo
intercepted in the seventh house. Questions relating to labour and
employment will be prominent, wages, conditions of work, and other
matters as between employer and employed; there is danger of
disputes and strikes, but as Mercury is in good aspect to Saturn and
Jupiter and is dispositor of both, affairs should be capable of a
favourable issue. The attention of parliament is likely to be directed
towards these subjects, and legislation may take place; there may be
disputes about leadership and official control within the ranks of
labour and the employed; the position of those in authority whether
in democracy or the nation as a whole is fairly strong; but the power
and influence of the people will increase. The position of Venus in
the fourth house in trine to the ascendant is fortunate for the land,
crops, harvest, and food questions, especially in Central Europe where
the planet will be very close to the cusp; the health of the nation
also should be good, and beneficial measures and regulations will be
applied, although there may be some tendency to feverish complaints
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 229

in the West of Europe and to intestinal disorders in the centre and

East. International questions will be prominent in the area between
Paris and Berlin, where Jupiter and Saturn will be setting; and as
they are in good aspect to Mercury some treaty or understanding may
be discussed and a satisfactory issue anticipated. The rising of
Uranus in the same area is not so pleasant and will provide causes for
labour disputes, difficulties for statesmen, and rebellion against
authority. Neptune will set at Dublin and Mars will be within orbs
of the cusp in the north west of Ireland, threatening unsettled foreign
relations, plots and rebellion coming from abroad.
Venus will rise in India, bringing some measure of prosperity and
success to the nation , business, the land, the crops, and food will
benefit from Mercury in the second house in sextile to Jupiter and
Saturn in the fourth. Uranus culminating will trouble those in
authority and cause resistance to the law and disputes with those in
power. Accidents or strikes connected with transit by rail or
otherwise are threatened.
At Washington Saturn will be just past the cusp of the tenth
house in square to Venus in the seventh and in sextile to Mercury
lord of the seventh in the eighth, Saturn being lord of the second.
International questions involving money will arise through matters of
trade or taxation or claims abroad, but should be capable of a
satisfactory solution. Friendly visits will be exchanged abroad. The
health of the country will be good, but there will be deaths among
persons eminent in the land and in politics.
The Conjunction of Mars and Neptune
25th Aug., 1921, 0.48 p.m., London.
x xi xii i ii iii
i>ji3.J7 ^14 m6 11122.47 724 =4
055s
iijii.45 « 19.30 153.50 2522.34 4114.11 '52317 1524.42 H7.54
THIS conjunction occurs every two years, but its effects are not
always easy to detect, perhaps because of the elusive nature of
Neptune. The last conjunction was in Leo 10o22' on 8 Sept 1919,
and then as now it acted through the ninth house at London. It
resembles Mars and Jupiter in rousing the fiery excitable side of
230 MODERN ASTROLOGY

human nature, which may work either for good or evil according to
circumstances. Two years ago its ninth house position was followed
by a great increase in spiritualistic and psychical activity, attracting
the attention of the churches, and it remains to be seen how far history
may repeat itself in this respect. Other possibilities include accidents
to shipping, strikes or disputes connected with shipping, loss of life at
sea; government changes or new developments connected with the
navy; missionary or revivalist activities within the churches, as well
as disputes and charges of heresy. Apart from house position the
two planets have been said to cause secret crime or vice, murders,
poisonings, and trouble through socialistic or communistic agitation.
During the great war they seemed to bear upon naval activity. They
will be settling in North West India where border troubles, popular
agitators, or international difficulties may arise. They will be on the
cusp of the fourth house near Sydney and Brisbane, and the Moon
■will be rising in square from Taurus ; seismic shocks may follow and
matters connected with the land, building, and crops may cause
trouble.

IN MEMORIAM; ALAN LEO

MOST sacred memories centre in that name,

But those who loved, as I, will understand
My wish once more to hold his small strong hand,
When to the Valley of soft shade I came.
Did I, when parted from my earthly frame ?
I think that then the heavenly breezes fanned
My spirit, wakened in that holy land.
But sight and sound my mind cannot reclaim.
A little longer and we all shall meet—
The wife he loves, the friends he still holds dear;
And when the faithful band becomes complete,
Our Master will rejoice—he loved us here.
So let us labour through earth's little while,
Then find approval in his welcome smile.
E. L. FOYSTER
 (Baoteric ^.atrologg
By Alan Leo
{Continued from p. 142)
A Psychological View
The following tabulation is adapted from the Pranava-Vada,
vol. 1, pp. 31-35; but the present writer is responsible for associating
it with the zodiacal signs.
The three aspects of consciousness are cognition of thought,
desire or feeling, and action, and this is the order in which they
usually arise. An object is first perceived, then liked or disliked, and
finally seized or rejected. Each of these three reflects the whole
three within it and then the stages by which thought passes into action
are nine, as follows :
(1) Cognition proper, definite knowledge. ' This is a fruit.'
4
I see this fruit.' Gemini or Sagittarius.
(2) Cognition-desire, doubt or alternative. 4 Is it worth tasting? '
4
It seems to be nice.' 4 May I have it ? ' 4 It is probably good to
eat. ' Aquarius or Leo.
(3) Cognition-action, plan, settled conclusion. 41 ought to be
and am taking it.' Libra or Aries.
(4) Desire-cognition, determination to get the object by some
means. ' In what way, by what means, can this object be gained ?'
Pisces.
4
(5) Desire-proper, the longing for iU 1 want the fruit.'
Scorpio.
(6) Desire-action, hope expectation, volition. 41 expect I will
secure it as soon as I try, and I will take it.' Cancer.
(7) Action-cognition, preparation, determination, initiation of
effort. 4 The co-ordination, orientation, or direction of the muscles
and their movements.' Virgo.
(8) Action-desire, effort, endeavour, conation. 4 The inception
of movement in the muscles.' Taurus.
(9) Action-proper. 4 The seizing of the fruit.' Capricorn.
232 MODERN ASTROLOGY

CHAPTER IV.

The Signs of the Zodiac

"My purpose is not to explain the ancient theory of evolution itself, but
to show the connection between that theory and the zodiacal divisions.
I have herein brought to light but a very small portion of the philosophy
embedded in these signs. The veil that was dexterously thrown over certain
portions of the mystery connected with these signs by the ancient
philosophers will never be lifted up for the amusewent or edification of the
uninitiated public.—T. Subba Row. The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac.
The whole subject of the zodiac, especially in its metaphysical
aspect, is profound and abstruse; it contains in its succession of signs
pictures of the evolution of the spiritual and physical cosmos as well
as of man, and only a small portion of the great mystery .has ever
been explained. The fact that heavenly bodies are observed and
their movements calculated on the physical plane leads many to
imagine that the whole question of the zodiac is also purely physical;
but this is a misapprehension. Nothing exists on the lowest plane
that has not previously had its being in higher realms, and analogies
with the highest spiritual principles can be discovered in every physical
atom. The zodiac is physical only in the sense that man's body is so;
but just as the body is the last and lowest presentation of that which
is essentially one with the divine source of all, so the physical zodiac
is the outward form of lofty spiritual Intelligences who are conscious
and voluntary co-operators in working out the divine plan in the
universe.
There are many ways of analysing and synthesising the signs,
but the combination of three crosses or quadruplicities with four
triangles or triplicities is the best and most suggestive, and throws
more light upon the subject than any system yet introduced. The
interaction of the ternary and the quarternary shows that many of the
properties of signs and houses which seem arbitraryl and fanciful at
first glance are really natural and logical.
Some of the ideas that are associated with the symbology of the
triangle and cross have been given in the previous chapters and some
familiarity with the correspondences there given is assumed in the
 ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY 233
notes that follow on the signs, as it is impossible to repeat these in
full each time.
There are at least four different ways in which the zodiac can be
applied, namely to man, to our globe, to the solar system, and to the
universe; and probably a more extended acquaintance with the
subject would reveal others, in addition to its application to the planes
of our globe. But it is not the same zodiac to which reference is
made in all these cases. The ecliptic zodiac of our earth concerns
this globe only and the humanity evolving thereon. The whole solar
system is included in a larger circle, which is either the zodiac of
constellations or else that of the sun's aura, we do not yet know for
certain which, but these circles mutually correspond.
(To be continued)

The long stay of Venus in Taurus, the sign ruling Ireland, has seen
the elections under the Home Rule Act for the first time, and the opening
of the northern Parliament by the Lord Lieutenant on June 7. The latter
event occurred the day after the New Moon, when Uranus was cul-
minating at Dublin in opposition to Jupiter but in trine to Mercury
rising. On the day of the opening the Moon was in its own sign
Cancer in conjunction with Mercury, both of them in sextile to Venus
in its own sign Taurus, and in trine to Uranus; a series of very
fortunate aspects. The evil element was shown in the hostility of
Sinn Fein and in the complete inability of Mr De Valera and the
more moderate members of that party to restrain the extremists from
committing acts of violence and outrage.

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©eatlj of iltr ^innctt

Mr A. P. SlXXETT was born in London at 11.30 p.m on 18

January, 1840. The following planetary and cuspal positions are
those for («) birth, (6) death, and (c) progressed horoscope as at
27 July, 1921.
X xi xii i ii iii
TO l8.25 A 23 I1J22 — I4-3 ill 9 f 11
A 12 nj>l6 =2:11 n 115 "129 10 4
.aio.39 ill 6 "I 25 110.42 >3 19 X 4
0 D S ? i V h
(a) V328.1 TO 27.24 10 6.36 t 13-53 * 22.25 0115.42 I 17.46 X 13.52 a: 11.49
\b) m 3.28 y. 0.50 TO20.51 R. B 17.58 TO 4-32 ITS 12.38 ngig.g X 9.35 A 12.2
(c) TI9'42 2022.43 T16.58I!. K2I.42 T25.35 ?2i.40l^ K 18.14 5:14.30
Mr Sinnett began life as a Journalist and was editor of The
Hong-Kong Daily Press at the age of 25. A year or two later he
became leader writer to The Standard in London, and in 1872
accepted the post of editor of The Pioneer, the most influential
journal in India. His active Theosophical work may be said to date
from the publication of The Occult World in 1881, closely followed
by Esoteric Buddhism, but both Mr and Mrs Sinnett joined the
Society on 26 December 1879, immediately following a visit from
Mme Blavatsky and Col Olcott. Mr Sinnett was married on 6 April,
1870, but lost his wife at midnight on 9 November, 1908. His
horoscope was not very favourable for children, and only one
child, a son, was born (9 to 9,30 a.m., 16 May, 1877) who died
just before his 30th birthday (2 a.m., 11 May, 1907).
The chief direction in operation at the time of Mr Sinnett's death
was a square from Venus, ruler of the 8th house, to Saturn, ruler of
the 4th, the Sun having separated from the parallel of the radical
Uranus, and Venus being within orbs of parallel Uranus progressed.
A slight rectification would give Asc. □ 2 □ ^ also measuring to this
date.
The map for the actual moment of death is a very interesting one,
and one could hardly have wished Mr Sinnett a more favourable entry
into his new life. The positions are given above, and for the map and
the following note which accompanied it, we are indebted to Miss M.
Steinbart!
 THE DEATH OF MR SINNETT 235
"On the 25th of June at 2.45 p.m. Greenwich time Mr A. P.
Sinnett, the Vice-President of the Theosophical Society, passed 'from
Darkness to Light,' a.s Mrs Besant said, when she announced his death
in the evening of that day to the T.S. members who held their annual
Convention in the Portman Rooms, and who, in the early afternoon,
had sent him their last message of Love, which had reached him
shortly before he passed over the threshold to his new life.
" If we compare MrSinnett's Birth-map with his Death-Figure,
we see that Uranus was only a few degrees away from the place it
had occupied at birth, had almost completed the circle round the
Zodiac; and Neptune at 1204' in SI. was in opposition to its place at
birth, 11049' zz. Few are the pilgrims of our Earth, whose Neptune
has passed through six signs of the Zodiac (6 X 14 years!)
" His Ascendant at birth (14° had just passed through the 12th
House and was on the Cusp of this House of Mystery ! Scorpio, the
sign of Regeneration, the 8th sign of the Zodiac, was beginning to rise
in the Death-Figure, and Mars, its ruler, in conjunction with the Sun,
was sinking down from the 9th House (the House of Religion, Science
and Occultism) into the 8th House, the House of Death !, and at the
same time, Mr Sinnett's own Star Venus (the ruler of his Rising Sign
at Birth) was beginning to set in the sign Taurus, and, moreover, was
passing, by Transit, through his House of Death (in Birth Map).
" The Moon had entered into Pisces, the last sign of the Zodiac,
the Sign of Mystery and Universal Love, approaching the conjunction
of Uranus, and was in trine to Sun and Mars, and to the rising degree
of Scorpio! Jupiter and Neptune, both rulers of the sign Pisces, were
the most elevated planets in the death map. Neptune in Leo, at the
cusp of the 10th House, and Jupiter in Virgo, in the 10th, and both in
benefic semi-sextile aspect.
" Mercury, the ruler of Mr Sinnett's 9th House at birth, was in the
9th House at death and had just begun to be Retrograde.
"it would be difficult to choose a more harmonious and more
favourable moment for the entering into the Light' of ' Death'
than the hour in which Mr Sinnett passed over into his new life, All
planets seemed as it were, united in harmonious trines and sextiles,
and his rising Sign of death, his birth into the new life, received trine
aspects from Sun, Moon, Mars and Uranus."
Mr Sinnett was cremated at Golders Green on 2 July, the service
being conducted by Mrs Besant.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must

carry it with us, or we find it not.
Emerson.
236

^uuspotB anb JEagitftic Storms

The appearance of spots on the Sun is known to follow in cycles

of about eleven years; that is to say there are years when large
numbers of spots appear, and other years when fewer can be detected,
the interval from maximum to maximum or from minimum to minimum
being about eleven years. It is also known that some connection
exists between sunspots on the one hand and auroras (borealis or
australis) and those disturbances of magnetic and electric conditions
on our earth which are called magnetic storms on the other; the said
storms making difficult or ever, impossible in some cases communica-
tions by cable, telegraph, and telephone. It is still a matter of
uncertainty what is the precise connection between the cause in the
Sun and the effect on our earth, but it is conjectured that electrons
and ions shot out from the sunspots, impinging upon the earth, disturb
its magnetic equilibrium. Quotations from scientific writers bearing
upon this subject were given in Modern Astrology, Sept. 1920,
p. 282.
We are now nearly at a period of minimum sunspots, but about
the middle of last May there was a very marked magnetic storm
accompanied by the aurora, and at the same time a large group of
sunspots was visible and attracted much attention.
If, as is generally supposed, the cause of these phenomena 1s in
the Sun, it is obviously useless for astrologers to look for an explana-
tion in solar, lunar, and planetary positions in our geocentric zodiac.
It may be worth while therefore to examine heliocentric positions with
a view to seeing whether there is anything which, when interpreted
astrologically, can be advanced as a possible explanation. At first
glance it is not unnatural to conjecture that the opposition of Jupiter
to Uranus may have had a bearing upon the matter, these two great
planets producing sunspot storms in the Sun by their pull upon the
luminary in much the same manner as planetary action causes storms
in the earth's atmosphere. Geocentrically Jupiter and Uranus were
in opposition on 10 Sept., 1920, and May 3 and May 25, 1921.
 SUNSPOTS AND MAGNETIC STORMS 237
Heliocentrically of course there was only one date of opposition, and
this was on Oct. 31, 1920. On May 14, 1921, they were 12° 52' 33"
separated from the opposition by heliocentric longitude, so that this
aspect taken alone could not be used as an explanation of the effect.
But the principle of what the older astrologers called the translation
of light comes in here, and an examination of the heliocentric
longitudes of the other planets shows that they were co-operating by
passing from aspects of Uranus to aspects of Jupiter, thus renewing
the force of the opposition.
The heliocentric longitudes on May 14, 1921, were as follows:
V A I20<,59'IO" ; IJI 0
; >? >n!23034'55" ; X'njig^i'zs" ; J D I40i5'28"
? t 6 48'34" ; 5 n I4 i7'22".
So that six out of these seven planets occupied the common
(mutable) signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, when
measured heliocentrically, and were forming a cross in the heavens.
The dates of the significant aspects were as follows.
Mars went from the square of Uranus on April 29 to the square
of Jupiter on May 26, the mid-point between these two aspects falling
on May 13.
Mercury went from the square of Uranus on May 13 to the
square of Jupiter on May 15.
Venus went from the square of Uranus on May 14 to the square
of Jupiter on May 22, the mid-point being May 18.
Finally Mercury was in opposition to Venus on May 13, and in
conjunction with Mars on May 14.
If the effect of the planets upon the Sun is at all similar to that
which they exert upon the earth when in conjunction or major
aspect there is no need for surprise that disturbances were caused in
the gaseous matter surrounding the Sun and that electrons and ions
were ejected sufficient to produce those auroral manifestations and
magnetic perturbations that were registered upon our earth in the
middle of May.
It may be as well to add in conclusion that the heliocentric
positions quoted have been taken from the Connaissance des Temps
where heliocentric longitudes are given from 0° to 360°; they are here
divided into the usual 12 parts and the symbols of the signs of the
zodiac are attached to them to simplify quoting them in a magazine
 MODEKN ASTROLOGY

where they will he understood by astrologers. But it should be

remembered that we have no certain knowledge that this circle of
heliocentric longitude employed by astronomers for the convenience of
their measurements and calculations really is a true solar zodiac. It
may or may not be. No occultist capable of giving an opinion has
spoken on the subject so far as is known.
H. S. Green

On May 19, Col Harvey, the U.S.A. Ambassador to Great Britain,

stated in a public speech that the United States would not enter the
League of Nations but would be represented on the Council of the
Allies. This isa distinct blow to the League of Nations but a source of
strength to the Allies on questions arising out of the Versailles Treaty>
and therefore a mixture of evil and good. At the May New Moon
at London, Mars was on the cusp of the seventh house, international
relations; and on May 19 it was in conjunction with Mercury in that
house, both of them being in square to Uranus and Jupiter, the oppo-
sition between which two planets was the outstanding feature of May.
But in the map for Washington Venus was in the seventh house at the
New Moon.

At the opposition of Jupiter and Uranus in May, the third house

of the map for the New Moon at London was afflicted by the presence
of Uranus therein in Pisces, and a number of events followed that
were characteristic of this position. The third house governs the post
office, railways, and inland transport, and accordingly it may be noted
that the proposal for free railway passes for Members of Parliament
was brought forward and defeated in the Commons, but that increased
charges for postage of various kinds were enforced. Pisces, which
contained Uranus, is a watery sign and rules Portugal; a change of
ministry in that country followed but the reports of a revolution which
gained currency in the newspapers proved to be untrue. A water
spout burst over Douro-Province in Portugal destroying four parishes
when the Sun in Gemini was in square to both Uranus and Jupiter.
 239

Studies in Jlstralugii

By P. J. Harwood

I.—The Time of Birth

The earth, through the twelve signs of the zodiac and the twelve
mundane houses, receives the impress of the wondrous psychological
and physical activities of the members of the Solar System at every
instant of time, and a human being, born on this earth, establishes
and makes permanent within himself, the influences which are in
operation at the time of his birth. For the particular moment,
therefore, the human being which is born is a register of the particular
planetary vibrations which were influencing the earth in his locality
at the time of his birth, and they may be interpreted through his
human organism. Such human being thus becomes his own horoscope
and whithersoever he may go he carries the earth and the Solar
System with him, or that part of the Solar System which found
expression in him.
The position-relations of the planets to one another are in constant
flux because the planets are constantly moving at different speeds;
and, as in astrology, the relative positions of the planets are measured
(geocentrically) by the angles or aspects which they make with the
centre of the earth, and as the surface of the earth is in constant
rotation, there is an ever-changing presentment of the earth's surface
to the heavenly influences around. The smallestmovement of rotation
creates a new Ascendant and a new Midheaven for any particular
locality on the earth's surface (excepting the Poles) and as these two
points (the Asc. and Midh.) are the fundamental governors of the
horoscope of a child, it is these that define the precise planetary
impress and the precise reaction to that impress which the child
respectively receives and yields when it comes into the world.
The birth of a child is an Event. An event is the centralisation
or nucleation, or unification of a variety of causes. It is, generally,
the birthing, the individualisation, the isolation or segmentation, and
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

the creation of a new thing on the plane of manifested existence.

Some events are more complex than others. Every breath that we
breathe is an event; every birth of a new cell or of a microbe in the
body is an event. But some events have stately plans, which in the
unfolding of the higher evolutionary Plan, have intrinsic and all-
important meanings. The conception and birth of a child for instance
has in the course of evolution, been regulated in the mother according
to Lunar (Moon) and Ascensional relations as contained in the doctrine
of the Pre-Natal Epoch. This means to say that the course and
functioning of maternity have been impressed on woman in the course
of ages according to certain relations between the Moon and Earth.
The horoscopes for the conception and birth of a child are therefore
pre-eminently important and full of meaning. Other events such as
the launching of a ship, the laying of a foundation stone, etc., are also
important, so much so, that horoscopes called " Elections " are cast
for them.
Between the child and the Earth and the Solar System exist
intimate connections, and what is important in one is correspondingly
important in the others as they work through one another. The birth
of a child to the child is undoubtedly the most important event (apart
perhaps from conception) in its existence. On its birth all else
•depends. It then receives, by the ordering of nature, a life-existence
apart from its mother ; and nature has so far worked that it has
formed a complete child, with all its organs and functions ready to
take on an independent existence in the world. A complete break is
made from its Pre-natal existence. All the causes that have been
working to one common, central end have now become embodied and
ensouled in a Unity, and as such, axe fixed. From that unity all else
will follow.
This initiation into a complete and independent existence is
a matter of a moment. As to when this moment occurs there are
some trifling divisions of opinion. Some say that it occurs with the
severance of the umbilical chord ; others, when the child takes its
first breath or utters a cry. For practical purposes however the rules
of the Pre-Natal Epoch are sufficient to define the precise moment
of birth. Whatsoever is the essential moment of birth for the child,
must also, from what has been previously said with regard to the
 STUDIES IN ASTROLOGY

interconnection of the child with the Earth and the Solar System, be
an essential moment for these also, as having expressed themselves
through the child in the action of its birth.
Thus the time of birth becomes a critical time in an astrological
sense. It is the time of an Event: of a creation, on which the seal
of the planets is set. What was not, now Is. In that evanescent
moment shines the completed Thing ; and with that moment comes
a new eternity.

The town of Alexandria is said to be ruled by Pisces and it has

felt the effects of Uranus in that sign in opposition to Jupiter. For
on May 22. when Mars in Gemini (ruling N.E. coast of Africa)
squared both these planets, there were revolutionary riots with fighting
and incendiary fires. The eclipse of the Sun of April 8 at Aries
17° 59' fell in the midheaven at Alexandria, thus threatening the ruling
authorities, and it was only two degrees from the square of the cusp
of the ascendant there, which ^as Cancer 15° 32'.

Reid's Comet, igna.—The following positions continue those previously

given :
June i. RA i20047' Dec. 56045'N Long ffiao" g'
„ 29. 12425 43 31 2626
Pons-Winnecke Comet, 19216. See page 71, March.
May a''. RA 2g3052' Dec. 430t6'N Long ^rrii0 4'
June 24. 359 11 9 55 S K2511
Comet Doubiago, 1921c. Discovered on April 24.
May 24. RA i3908' Dec 38° g'N Long Sbg" 8'
June 17. 1691 2120N 1IE1 24

Notabilia
(1) Jan Kubelik, Violinist. 5 July, 1880, Michle, near Prague.
(2) Mark Haitibourg, Pia.nist. 30 May, 1879, Bogutchar, Russia.
(3) Georges Carpenfier, Boxer. 12 January, 1894, Lens, France.
(4) Joseph Beckett, Boxer. 4 April, 1894, Southampton.
(5) Sir Edward Elgar, Composer. 2 June, 1857, Broadheatb,
Worcs.
(6) Jacob Epstein, Sculptor. 10_lsovember, 1880, New York.
 patron otit^ far JUtroIoxjira
By Vivian E. Robson, B.Sc.
IV. The Rotation of the Earth
The earth rotates from west to east upon an axis passing through
the North and South Poles, one complete rotation occupying
approximately 24 hours. The effect of this motion is to cause an
apparent movement of all the heavenly bodies across the sky from
east to west in such a manner that they first appear, or " rise," in
the east, pass upwards and " culminate " or reach their highest point
in the heavens, and then sink down and " set " or disappear below the
horizon in the west. This apparent movement of Sun, Moon, and
planets is quite independent of any proper motion that each may itself
possess, and its relation to the horoscope is sometimes a little puzzling
to beginners. The proper motion of the planets is in the order of the
signs of the zodiac, but their apparent movement due to the earth's
rotation is in the opposite direction and against the order of the signs
and houses, so that a body rises from the ascendant and passes
through the twelfth and eleventh houses and so on, the cusp of any
house being the last point in it occupied by the planet.
The period of one complete rotation of the earth furnishes a very
convenient standard for measuring time and forms the basis of the
unit known as the day. For the purposes of astronomy and astrology
it is necessary to distinguish between several kinds of " day," viz.,
the Sidereal Day, the Apparent Solar Day, and the Mean Solar Day.
(a) The Sidereal Day. This is the time taken by the earth to
make'one complete revolution, and it is the interval elapsing between
two successive passages of a fixed star across a given point. A tele-
scope, fitted with cross wires is fixed in position and the time when
a'given star is exactly on the wire is accurately noted on two
successive nights. The interval elapsing is found to be 23h56m4,.09O
of mean time, and this is constant, as the stars have no appreciable
movement from one day to the next.
- (6) The Apparent Solar Day. This is the time elapsing
 ASTRONOMY FOR ASTROLOGERS

between two successive passages of the Sun across the meridian, and
is approximately four minutes longer than the sidereal day.
We have seen that one complete revolution from one fixed point
to its return occupies roughly 23'156m. In the case of the Sun an
additional factor enters, namely the actual movement of the earth in
its orbit in the day, or, what comes to the same thing, the apparent
daily motion of the Sun. The earth moves, and the Sun appears to
move, about one degree a day, so that by the time the earth has made
one complete rotation the Sun is one degree in advance and the earth
has to rotate another degree to bring the Sun to the cross wires of the
telescope again. It takes the earth about four minutes to rotate
through one degree and therefore the Solar day is four minutes longer
than the Sidereal.
The Solar day is not now used as it is variable and is longer at
certain seasons of the year than at others owing to the fact that the
Sun's motion is not constant and may be more or less than one degree.
The Sidereal day also is not convenient for ordinary use as it lags
more and more behind the Sun, and it has been found necessary to
invent a fixed value for the day, viz. :
(c) The Mean Solar Day. This is the average of all the Solar
days of a year and is based on the Sun's " mean motion." As stated
above, the Sun's apparent motion is not constant at different seasons
of the year and therefore astronomers imagine a " mean Sun " which
moves at a uniform rate each day, and is sometimes in advance of the
real Sun and sometimes behind it. This mean Sun moves at the rate
of 59' 8" a day, or the average of the varying rates of motion of the
real Sun, and the Mean Solar day is the interval elapsing between
successive passages of ihe-mean Sun across the meridian, or in other
words one complete sidereal revolution of the earth plus the extra
time required to rotate 59' 8", namely 24,1 3ra 568. 5 5 6 of sidereal time.
This mean day is divided into 24 hours of mean time, and is in
use in almost every part of the world, the clocks, ephemerides, and
nautical almanacs of each country being arranged in accordance with
it. When a birth time is given it may be assumed to be mean time.
(It should be noted that allowance must of course be made for
standard time, which will be dealt with later, but this is itself based
upon mean time.)
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

There are, however, certain parts of the world, chiefly in India,

and the East, and also in uncivilised places, where solar time is still
in use, and is determined by means of the sun-dial or similar
instruments. As the ephemeris is calculated in accordance with mean
time it is necessary to convert a birth time given in true solar time
to mean time also for it is of course incorrect to calculate one part of
a horoscope for mean time and another for solar. This was the
mistake made by the late George Wilde in Your Destiny and the
Stars and it invalidates all the horoscopes given in that book.
The difference between mean time and solar time is called the
equation of time which is given for each day of the year in Whitakert
Almanac and other publications. It may be thought of as the time
elapsing between the passages of the mean and the true Sun across
the meridian.
At Greenwich mean noon each day the mean Sun is on the
meridian, but the true Sun has either passed this point or not yet
reached it, and the equation of time is the time necessary for the
true Sun to arrive at the meridian, or the time elapsing since it passed
that point. In April, June, September, and December the mean and
true Suns coincide but at other times the difference may amount to as
much as 16". There is a mathematical formula for determining the
equation of time accurately which will be given in a later article, but
for all practical purposes the following simple method may be used:
1. Take the Sidereal Time at noon from the ephemeris.
2. Take out the Sun's longitude at noon.
3. From the Tables of Houses find the Sidereal Time when
the degree and minute of the Sun's longitude arrives at the cusp of
the tenth house, or meridian.
4. Subtract this Sidereal time from the Sidereal time at noon
given in the ephemeris (or vice-versa if the former be the greater)
and the result is the equation of time for the day.
Example:—Suppose the solar time of birth as measured by
a sun-dial to be 3.30 p.m. on 21st Sept., 1921, what is the mean time ?
(1) Sidereal time at noon from ephemeris = ll11 59m 16h.
(2) Sun's long, at noon = iij» 27° 56' 50".
(3) Sidereal time from Tables of Houses when 27° 56' 50" is
on meridian = llh 52™ 28*.
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(4) Then S.T. noon= llh 59m 16s

less S.T. 0 on M.C.= 11 52 28
Equation of Time= 6 48

This is exactly the value given in Whitaker's Almanac for that

date.
The mean time corresponding to 3.30 p.m. solar time will be
3.30 p.m.—6m 48* = 31, 23ra 12' p.m. If the Sidereal time at noon is
greater than that when the Sun is on the Midheaven the equation of
time must be subtracted from solar time to obtain mean time, and
conversely if the Sidereal Time at noon is less.
Old ephemerides used to employ solar time and when using
these care must be taken to apply the equation.
Next month we will consider Sidereal Time.
(To be continued)

ilebieto
Thirty-four Objections to Astrology, Stated and
Answered. By Charles Carter, B.A. {London, 6d).
Many writers have dealt with the chief objections advanced by
unbelievers against Astrology, but we are glad to see them collected
and put into a form readily accessible to the enquirer. He must
indeed be a hardened sceptic and exceedingly fertile in resource who
is not prepared to capitulate after Mr Carter's thirty-fourth shot. In
spite of the introductory statement that " many or most of the questions
have been dealt with by earlier writers " there is a good deal of fresh
material and originality of outlook in the book, and each objection is
dealt with sympathetically and temperately. We are glad to see that
Mr Carter has not followed the usual method of wasting space by
compiling a list of past celebrities who have studied Astrology, but
deals with the case on its own merits. This little book should
command a ready sale and we congratulate the author upon an
excellent piece of work.
V. E. R.
 ^strologg anir ^tental Berangcment

Practical Essays by a Nurse

{Continued from p. 21.5)

YIII.—The Right Method in Practical Astrology

In the interests of the race and the individual it is earnestly to be

hoped that Astrology will be included in the education of the future
time. It is appalling to think of the mistakes that are made, the
suffering endured and inflicted for want of the knowledge herein
revealed. It recalls the words of Ruskin, ' I do not wonder at what
men suffer, but I do wonder at what they lose.'
There are those however, who, while satisfied of its immense
value, are still seeking the best method for its study; and there are
many who rest content with a map of ' directions' done for them every
year. But too much stress cannot be laid upon the basic truth that
only by patient, daily study can any lasting good be attained. The
native must be his own astrologer. There is no other way. He
should get to know his map like his ABC. Every year, every month,
he should note every direction, even a quintile or a quincunx, and the
accompanying transits. It is an excellent plan also to work with the
horoscopes of those who are most closely connected with oneself; and
to take note of their directions. To this it is sometimes objected that
" it must be depressing to see troubles coming along." A little
reflection will dispel this view, and can perhaps be aided by a concrete
example. The married life of two natives was threatened by aspects
boding trouble to each. In one map was a conjunction of Uranus
and the Sun, always threatening estrangement; in the other Saturn
was opposition Venus in the 7th house. Only one of them—the wife
—was an astrologer. She saw the Venus and Saturn aspect in her
own map, and knew that a critical time was in store. Under the
Uranian influence her husband seemed for the time a changed being.
He became uncertain in temper and habits, and affection waned. For
 ASTKOLOGY AND MENTAL DERANGEMENT 247
three years life was a battle; but largely owing to the v/ife's fore-
knowledge, it was won. She was able to meet with philosophy those
difficulties in the relationship which would have caused amazed resent-
ment, jealousy and anger in an ordinary case. She was able to say to
herself constantly, ' Hold on: this will pass, and the better time is
coming. Let me learn all that it is destined to teach.' It is in this
way that the progressed horoscope is the native's opportunity. Even
a bad aspect can be made an occasion for developing the sterner
virtues, courage, endurance, or control. Every good influence can
be bailed with a joyful movement of expansion in the liberated will.
This on the higher plane. From the merely practical and
material point of view, of course, the wisdom of hailing opportunities
or 'swimming with the tide' of a good vibration is obvious to all.
And in no case is the knowledge of more inestimable value than in
dealing with mental derangement. There are hundreds of cases where
the most experienced medical practitioner is working in the dark, and
all treatment is more or less experimental. Astrology is really the
only reliable guide as to the probable duration or severity of a break-
down ; and it would often shew—as 1 have tried to indicate—how
help can best be given. Much cruelty as well as stupidity marks the
present system of waiting till the trouble manifests itself, and then
subjecting the patient to the experience of asylum treatment, where
the artificial conditions are never wholly free from an element of
degradation.
Another question—one which is often asked—may perhaps be
briefly dealt with in conclusion. Is it really possible, by a full
development of the inner spiritual forces, to render oneself immune to
the bad influences of one's progressed map ? Unquestionably it is so.
To a certain extent everyone may leain or by careful education may
be taught how to attain an equilibrium of the physical and mental
forces which will sustain him through the heaviest afflictions of his
fate. If an accident or illness comes, he will more readily recover ;
if other losses come, they will leave his soul unharmed. That this
can be attained through the spiritual discipline known to practising
mystics and set forth in such books as Miss Underbill's Mysticism, or
Dr. Steiner's Way of Initiation there can be no reasonable doubt.
Our systems of education will never be perfect until we find room for
 MODEKN ASTROLOGV

regular instruction in this all-important discipline of the soul. But in

the meantime let every student of Astrology recognise that there is
much that we can all do both for ourselves and for each other by the
conscientious study of this Science alone. Let each one make it a
habit to work with the good influences, and he will soon find that the
evil ones lose something of their sting. It is in the power of almost
everyone to resist the impulses of Mars and the despondency of
Saturn.
In the first book of the Odyssey, the Father of Gods and men
addresses these pregnant words to his comrades.
" See, O gods ! how these mortals complain of us ! Seeing in
us the source of all their evils, while it is they who by their deeds of
rashness bring upon themselves the things [outside their fate."
And it is even so to-day !
The End.

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for some months and not able to attend to correspondence. I was
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the few brave and courageous spirits that keep these vital subjects
before the many. I so often think of you and our late dear Editor.
May you be sustained and strengthened to carry on the great
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By W. H. Scott

{Continued from p. 211)

The exaltation of the Moon in the night house of Venus is the

promise of the ages. In the beginning of the present great cycle of our
planet, which is to culminate in the perfection of a race of people made
in the divine image, the Word which went forth was a material Word
which entered into the remotest recess of the planetary consciousness;
it was a physical Word,—the conception or image of a physical form,
under the Moon's polarity, which was the result of a configuration of
the planet Saturn; in Capricorn the conditions were established by
which this was brought about, for Capricorn is the basis of operation
for the entire Earthy Triplicity. " The work of Cancer, which is the
formulation of life, is conducted under the influence of the Moon;
therefore the Moon is the embodiment of the principle of form, as
manifested upon the material plane.
" Capricorn, whose interior is largely masculine, or mental, is, as
we know, governed by Saturn, or the planet representing the principle
of form on the mental plane. We find that Cancer receives from
Saturn and Capricorn through its mutable expresser Pisces (in the
order of the Serving Trinity, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces) the ideals
to which, under the influence of the Moon, she gives material form:
working on the material plane, she gathers from Capricorn the mental
qualities for EXTERNAL REALIZATION. I n other words, Cancer works
with Pisces in the Watery Triplicity as the principle of mind (masculine
and feminine) in the formulation of life. Both Capricorn and Cancer
vibrate to the same key, which indicates that the note is the formative
one." Thus the Moon is a Saturn orb and vibrates to the Saturn qualities;
on the form side, as seen in the influence of the 4th house where Saturn
has his "fall," the influence of this planet leads to limitation and darkness,
but on the mind side as manifested in Aries, the house of Mars'
essential dignity, and the place of the Sun's exaltation, it leads to the
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Source of Light. This is the ASCENDANT of Form into Light. Here

is the story of Easter told ; it is the Resurrection of Form (fathered
by Saturn and nourished by the Moon) and its transmutation, brought
about by all of the cells of the body assuming perfect polarity. As
Anna Kinsgford has well said, " the genius of a man is his satellite.
Man is a planet; God—the God of the man—is his Sun, and the Moon
of his planet is Isis, its initiator, or genius. The genius is made to
minister to the man, and to give him light. He is not a planet
but a moon, and his function is to light up the dark places of his
planet. ... In the projectivestate," which is nocturnal, "we seek
activity outwards; we aspire and will forcibly; we hold communion
with the God without. In the reflective state we look inwards, we
commune with our own hearts; we indraw and concentrate ourselves
secretly and interiorly. During this condition the ' Moon ' enlightens
our hidden chamber with her torch." As the reflective principle the
Moon opens every avenue to research; being a type of man's spiritual
nature it forms a channel of communication with all of the stellar forces
which touch the vital chords of man's being. The Moon is the
medium by which the fire (spirit) is conditioned—Individualized, and
always through the principle of Transmutation acting through the
Form. Now love is the active principle which is akin to the Fire. It
is said that " in the elements of the body love is imprisoned." The
conditioning of the Fire is, then, the transmutation of these elements
through lunar activity on the inner constitution of man. This is the
work of Taurus by whose transmutive energies the lunar body is
changed to that of the sidereal body. This transmutation involves the
Moon's exaltation under Taurus. It also comprehends the science of
Re-generation. The Moon in its relation to Cancer nourishes and
sustains the form. In Taurus its function and office is that of Trans-
mutation, which involves the secret doctrine of Transubstantiation,—
the turning of the " water into wine," the bread into Life.
In the unregenerate man the office of the Moon through her
vehicle (Cancer) is that of sustaining the physical body by giving
polarity to the different elements and qualities of sustenance which the
body absorbs. This includes the air taken in by the lungs no less
than the food we eat. Now just as Cancer is the nourisher of the form,
so Taurus is the Controller thereof, and the Moon is the embodiment
 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

of the principle of Form. It is thus that the Moon in Taurus, other

things being equal, gives the most perfect definition possible to the
horoscope. If, then, it be the office of Cancer to nourish the form
by giving direction to the life qualities,—furnishing a channel of
communication between the vital centres and the most remote parts,
it follows that it is intimately associated with the blood, which carries
the life : here it bears rule over the white corpuscles, which, when in
excess, lend poverty to the life stream. Here, again, is an influence
which comes from the dark side of the Moon in its consort with
Saturn, for Saturn is ever associated with poverty. The person,
under these conditions, becomes anEemic.
"Poverty of the blood" is an expression frequently used, and
this poverty of the life stream is most intimately associated with
vagrancy ; the vagabond is ever one in whom the Mars element is
wanting, for Mars when strong in the figure supplies an abundance of
the red corpuscles which gives to the native efficiency, energy and
alertness.
Cancer has never been accounted a dual sign, and yet in all
nature, from the vegetable to the human, she manifests something
strangely akin to the beginning and end of two extremes. She is the
" End of Things," and her Moon marks Death; she is the " Beginning
OF Things," and thus her Moon marks Birth.
That the continuity of life is ever associated with the Death
Call is self-evident. Cancer is the Foundation which supports
character and Form. It is the four-fold home of the Life in the cell,
—the cell which is the beginning of manifestation in Form. Now
the cell must needs be possessed of a shell which is the retaining
wall for the Life. In turn, the shell is a globe and the manifestation
of Life being four-fold through fire, earth, air and water we thus have
in the tortoise—four-footed—with his impervious shell supporting the
World (a globe) the primal symbol of the fourth house of Form
(Cancer).
(To be continued)

He who gains a victory over other men is strong, but he who

gains a victory over himself is all powerful. Ldo-Tsze.
 (Gomspoubencc

The Editors do not assume responsibility for any statements or ideas advanced
by their correspondents, and the publication of letters does not necessarily imply
sympathy with the views expressed therein.

The Editor, Modern Astrology

Dear Sir,—When drawing a Progressed Horoscope for a
person born in India or Australia, but now resident in England, should
the map be calculated for the place of birth, or for the present place
of residence ? Also when drawing a map for the Solar Revolution—
i.e., a birthday map for the moment when the Sun occupies the exact
same degree of the Zodiac as at birth ? This point has long been
a puzzle to me, and I shall be grateful if you or any readers of
Modern .Astrology can throw light upon it. From my own
experience I am unable to decide whether a Progressed Map (or
Revolutionary Figure) for the birthplace or the place of residence is
the most reliable. (The latter seems more reasonable.)
Miss Nina Snell's letter on Music and the Horoscope in your
June number is full of interesting points, but I find it difficult to agree
with her about b. I have a fair number of musicians' horoscopes,
and at once call to mind two well-known pianists with D in b , a first-
rate violinist with © and 2 in b , an equally first-rate 'cellist with
three planets rising in b, and a successful professional singer with
© and 2 in b. Wagner had ^ and 2 in b, and though n may not
be a typically musical sign, both he and Schumann had the Sun in n .
(The latter had <? there also.) I think === and n are often musical in
the sense of loving music and being good listeners, but should not
have expected either of them to produce many creative (or executive)
musicians. Vy and often seem to be musical in the creative sense
—and some astrologers say t, but I have few examples of this.
(I believe Beethoven had © in •?. Is his birth-time known ?)
I agree that the position of 2 is most important, and when this
planet is strongly placed almost any signs may predominate in
 CORRESPONDENCE 253
a musician's horoscope. Hence the great difficulty of generalising!
In my experience, gives an interest in medicine and surgery rather
than in music. But I know some very musical "Scorpios," as well
as some very un-musical ones. Another difficulty is how to know
when the influence of S will work out in music, and when in art
(painting, etc.). If any of your readers have evolved theories on this
point, it would be interesting to hear them.
Finally I should like to thank "A Nurse" for her most
illuminating notes on mental cases. I can fully corroborate her
remarks as to the dangers of the progressed square between O and D.
Sincerely yours,
" Mercurial"
Retrograde Planets
To Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,—Just a few lines on this particular point in reply to
the letter of Miss Margesson. I do not favour submitting my birth
map for publication, but as your correspondent appears very much
in earnest, enclosed herewith are full particulars desired, which you
may send to her or any other sincere student who encloses stamped
addressed envelope.
For the benefit of others who do not intend to go into detail, let
me state that in my 22nd year, the moon, which is ruler of the
nativity, was for the first five months in the sign b in * to R : also
* to S P.
The remaining seven months she was in n , where she formed
* aspect to 5 P: and * aspect to U P. The latter two, U and 5
being within 48' of exact d on cusp of ninth house.
Mercury had turned direct on the birth day, and was within 15'
of d © radical.
" A change of consciousness and mental quickening " surely—
those who know their Astrology need no further statement from me,
but it would be very easy to'say a great deal more and fill up a few
pages of the magazine.
My opinion is that a planet is important of study if retrograde—
whether it be radical or progressed—moreover, experience teaches me
that radical map aspects are affected by a planet being retrograde.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Let me illustrate briefly:—Male, July 12th, 1876, 9.30 a.m. Lat.

53.48N. Long. 1.45 W.
If. is 1^. in ifl. A to 3 in >€ setting and decreasing in light. If is
lord of 4th and 7th and is also in A aspect to the Sun, which is in
®, as well as A to 9 in 55, but 9 which 'is ruler of 9th and 2nd is
retrograde, turning direct in the 24th year of life.
It might be added that O and 9 are also in d, these aspects all
being formed within 3° in the watery triplicity.
Such powerful benefic influences as these might easily lead one
astray in his or her judgment, without some knowledge acquired in
practice of the effects of aspects of planets retrograde at birth ! j
Maud Margesson says:—But in the radical map, aspects are
in no way affected by a planet being retrograde—which conclusion is
quite incorrect, in so far that it is just here, where, to use her own
words, their specific weight of influence must be decided.
In our illustration mentioned above, no experienced and cautious
student would, even with such an array of propitious vibrations, as is
observable in the above birth map, state that early success in life
would be achieved. He would promise prosperity in business,
ultimate independence, and general improvement of the environment
round about the 40th year, because of early restriction and delay that
would effect his early life, as portrayed by a retrograde 9 and U.
This argument could be carried into other realms and planes of
being, the illustration is only made practical, as more observable, in
justification of effects in the native and life.
This is only one example out of many that might be given to
substantiate the evidence and proof of assertions made as to the
influence of retrograde planets.
If benefic planets are at birth—let them be aspected as they
may, by trines and sextiles—the benefits promised will not come to as
early fruition as would otherwise be the case.
This by no means exhausts the subject but it seems evident to
me that too little attention has been devoted to the importance of
effects of planets retrograde—both radical and progressed, as well as
aspects formed to them, and a little more exchange of opinion in the
light of what other students have observed is to be desired.
Yours most faithfully, P. W. ROBINSON
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY 255
also employ the Dionysian Period and date consecutively for 532 years
and then begin again.
Dipiida. (Beta Ceti.) The Whale's Tail. A second magnitude
fixed star of the nature of b • It is said to cause self-destruction by
brute force, sickness, disgrace, misfortune, and compulsory change.
Its position on 1 Jan. 1918 was: Long. V1.25, Lat. 20S47,
Decl. 18S26, R.A. 9052'.
Direct. The motion of a planet in the order of the signs from
Aries to Taurus, and so on. See Converse and Retrograde.
Direct Directions. 1. Primary directions formed by the
motion of a body in a clock-wise manner in accordance with the
rotation of the earth. 2. Formerly used by some authors to denote
directions in which the planets are directed to the luminaries. See
Converse Directions.
Direction. Direction in space is denoted in a horoscope by
the signs and houses, the points of the compass shown by each being
usually given as follows :
Houses : 1. E. 5. N.N.W. 9. S.S.W.
2. E.N. E. 6. W.N.W. 10, S.
3. N.N.E. 7. W. 11. S.S.E.
4. N. 8. W.S.W. 12. E.S.E.
Signs : V E. a E. by N. * E. by S.
8 S. by E. ""J! S. by W. S.
n W. by S. W. xz W.byN.
93 N. 171 N. by E. 3€ N. by W,
Directions. The calculations performed for the purpose of
ascertaining when future events will happen, or for determining the
influences under which the native will fall at any given time. In all
cases the horoscope of birth is the foundation upon which the
calculations are based, but many systems are in use, the chief being
the Primary {q.v.) which is concerned with the rotation of the earth
after birth, and the Secondary (q.v.) which is concerned with the
movement of the planets on the successive days after birth. The
minor methods such as the Solar Revolution, Progressive Solar
Revolution, Synodical Lunation, Current Synodical Lunation,
Periodic Directions, Lunar Equivalent, etc., etc., will be found under
their respective headings.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Disaster, Point of. See Arabic Points.

Discordant Aspects. The unfavourable aspects such as the
semisquare, square, sesquiquadrate, and opposition. Also aspects that
fall in signs that are discordant in nature, such as fire and water, or
earth and air.
Diseases. When under affliction the planets, signs and houses
give diseases of the parts of the body ruled by them (See HUMAN
Body). The general nature of the various ailments denoted by the
planets is as follows ;
Sun.—Fevers, sunstroke, etc., debility, heart trouble.
Moon.—Watery .complaints, dropsy, colds, weakness, functional
disorders.
Mercury.—Nerve and mental disorders, insomnia, etc.
Venus.—Ailments arising from excess, childish complaints, and
venereal diseases.
Mars.—Fevers, inflammation, sores, infectious diseases, short and
sharp illnesses.
Jupiter.—Ailments arising from excesses in diet, corrupted-blood,
apoplexy.
Saturn.—Lingering diseases, colds, obstructions, weakness, etc.
Uranus.—Incurable diseases, paralysis, nerve troubles, epilepsy,
etc. "v
Neptune.—Incurable diseases, atrophy, decay of tissues, psychic
disorders, etc.
Dispose. A planet disposes of another when ruling the sign
containing it. Thus Venus in Aries is disposed of by Mars, and
Saturn is the dispositor of Mars when the latter planet is in Capricorn.
Some authors have enlarged the term to include disposition by exalta-
tion, decanate, etc., and in this sense Saturn might be said to dispose
of a planet in Libra as that is the sign of its exaltation. The use of
the term in this sense, however, is very uncommon.
Dispositor. See Dispose.
Dissociate Signs. Signs that are one or five signs apart; thus
T is dissociate with b , ""K, 1,l, and H. The term is not now used
and dates from a time before the semisextile and quincunx were
recognised as aspects.
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Astrology
A Journal devoted to the search for truth concerning Astrology

|0L-XVin.J SEPTEMBER, 1921. [No. 9

®lj£ (EMtor's ©bscrbator^

The unprecedented heat wave and drought of July have brought

many enquiries as to their astrological cause. Primarily the state of
affairs was foreshadowed in the map for the entry of the
The Weather Sun into Cancer. The ingress took place in the fourth
house, which is said to bear chief rule over the weather,
and the Sun was only two degrees from the conjunction of Mars.
The effect of two such hot and dry bodies in a watery sign is to dry
up the water, and the influence of these positions was thus described
by Ramesay in 1653. Writing of the effect of the Sun in the fourth
house, he says " if it be in a watry sign, the earth shall be dry, and
the water dried up " ; and furthermore under Mars in Cancer we are
told to expect " want of rain " and " drought of fountains."
The New Moon of July again found Mars in conjunction with
the Sun, and a reference to the ephemeris shows that for some weeks
these two bodies remained within orbs, and at the same time squared
the place of the Solar Eclipse of 8th April which fell in the fiery
sign Aries.
Other distinct effects were noticeable even in apparently trivial
matters. Thus the conjunction of the Sun and Mars in the fourth
house in Cancer appears to have caused a good supply of very fine
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

onions, tomatoes, and cherries, all of which, with the possible exception
of the last, are distinctly martial; while infantile disease and mortality
through impure milk are traceable to the same cause and involve the
rulership of Cancer over milk and infantile life.
* * * 3|4
While experimenting some time ago upon planetary sounds,
I came across a curious correspondence that should interest Theo-
sophical readers. Reference to the text-books will
Sounds, show that the musical notes are distributed among the
Planes and
Planets various planets in an apparently haphazard way, viz.,
AS, Bl^, CO, Db.ES, FD, and G <J . After many
attempts to find a reason for this curious sequence, I was led to
experiment with the rulership of the planes and it is here that the
explanation is to be found. Suppose we put Aries as the ruler of the
physical plane. By all the canons of Astrology it will also be the ruler
of the lowest (solid) sub-plane in particular, the next coming under
a sub-influence of Taurus, and so on. Following out this idea we
find that the seven sub-divisions of the physical plane will be ruled by
the first seven signs, Aries to Libra, while the eighth, Scorpio, will
rule the lowest astral sub-plane, and at the same time will take the
chief rulership over the whole of that plane. Continuing in this way,
and for the moment ignoring sub-planes, we obtain the following
rulers:
1. Physical plane and <? 5. Spiritual plane SI and ©
2. Astral „ ,, J (s) 6. Monadic „ X ,, 2^.
3. Mental „ n „ 5 7. Divine „ 2
4. Buddhic „ Vy ,,
Comparison with the table of notes given above will show that
the order is the same with the exception of the Astral plane to which,
apparently, the Moon belongs.
The most unexpected of the above plane rulers is Capricorn for
the Buddhic, but a little reflection will show that it is by no means
impossible.
The correspondence fits very well as regards the sub-planes
also as may be seen by looking up the descriptions of the astral
and mental sub-planes in Mr Leadbeater's manuals The Astral Plane
and The Devachanic Plane.
 THE EDITOR'S OUSERVATORY 259
Carrying the analogy a step further we find that Aries rules all
these seven planes which together constitute the lowest cosmic plane,
and the next set of seven, the cosmic astral plane, is ruled by Taurus,
and so on. There are many other analogies arising out of this
correspondence which the student will have no difficulty in tracing.
* * * *
I have had occasion recently to work out the horoscope of
Belfast.
The Charter was granted to this city by James I.
^ofTowns8 on
27th April, 1613, and on rectification by events I find
that ffi8 is the degree upon the ascendant. The cuspal
and planetary positions are as follows :
x xi xii i ii iii
HO T3 «23 IES SS23 Slg
Ql)5«<r J/IjIJIV
b 17.38 ^24,41 119,33 T27.49 2C 20.20 llEl6.I7li, K27.I7 024.12 11523.5411,
At present the progressed Sun is in H22 applying to 8 H?, D Wi
□ D, so that little good can be predicted for the town for some years.
The conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn falls d W, S b in this map
and the Sun on Jupiter, so that its effect will be beneficial to some
extent and should denote increased activity in the shipyards.
I have been asked by an Indian correspondent to publish the
horoscope of India, and I hope to be able to do this next month.
V. E. R.

An epidemic of cholera has appeared in Russia, and in addition

millions of people are faced with starvation and are too ill fed to
withstand the attacks of disease. The conjunction of Jupiter and
Saturn in Virgo rose in Russia from near Petrograd down to the
Crimea. The sign in which this conjunction takes place is significant
of the disease and the disaster, for the old astrologers found that strong
conjunctions were liable to be followed by epidemics. In the map for
the Summer Quarter Jupiter and Saturn were on the cusp of the sixth
house at Petrograd, sickness; they were again in that house at the
August New Moon, and were rising at the September lunation.

The largest fire known for many years broke out at an East London
timber yard in the early morning of August 8. Mars was in conjunction
with the Sun in the fourth house at the Summer Quarter, showing
danger of fire, and the Sun on that day was in semi-square to its own
place near that Mars.
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CAPRICORN will be rising at London, and the map is remarkable for

the number of planets in the eighth house, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and
Jupiter; Mars being in opposition to Uranus in the second house.
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

Like so many other maps of the year, the problems of trade, employ o
ment, taxation, and money matters generally are very prominent here
and will compel much attention in the country; changes and reforms
will be considered and attempted, some measures of improvement will
be achieved, but the government will have a hard struggle against
adverse circumstances and will not be very successful. The whole of
Europe will be more or less under adverse influences financially, and
the interdependence of the nations financially will be more and more
realised. The government will meet with some sudden misfortune
turning upon money matters; some person eminent in the state will
die and some member of parliament. Foreign trade and traffic will
increase, and vessels be built and launched. There is danger of
railway accidents and of strikes affecting railways or the post-office,
as Mars rules the third house. There will be improvements secured
in matters of labour, employment, and the health of the nation, but
there will be heavy death-rate, with many cases of murder and
suicide and deaths from accidents.
In central and east Europe the seventh house will be strongly
occupied, and international problems will be very prominent and in
a complicated state of re-adjustment, alliances being formed between
some of the nations and benefits gained, but quarrels and a sudden
rupture being threatened between others. Venus will be setting
from Constantinople to Palestine and will benefit this district through
foreign affairs, but Uranus will be rising and Mars setting so nearly
here that there is grave danger involved from another quarter, and
Greece and Turkey will both be threatened by it. At Petrograd,
Neptune, Venus, Mars, Saturn and the Sun will all be in the seventh
house; the prosperity of the country will turn upon foreign relations
and alliances, some concessions and benefits will result, the condition
of the people will improve somewhat, but everything will be unsettled
and uncertain.
At Calcutta Uranus will be in the eleventh house in opposition to
Mars and the government of the country will not be running smoothly
in the new methods; opposition at home and danger abroad will be
experienced, but financial affairs, employment and taxation will improve.
At Washington, Neptune will culminate with Venus and Mars
in the mid-heaven in opposition to Uranus. The country will be
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

prosperous, trade and money matters good, and yet there will be much
division and opposition of parties against the government. Some
question of foreign relations will be raised of the utmost importance,
some foreign policy or alliance entered upon that will rouse controversy,
but the President and government will be strong. There will be
storms and accidents to vessels in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Dublin, but with no strong aspect to any other planet; this will cause
much martial excitement and a combative spirit here and in western
Europe; labour will be active and democracy insistent on its claims
and making headway, and some kind of co-operation or understanding
may come about between labour in this country and abroad, and travel
and intercourse between the nations may take place to promote it.
The influence is not a peaceful one and there are likely to be disputes,
quarrels and riots.
The Sun and Moon are in the second house in opposition to
Uranus; Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn are also in the second in Virgo.
Troubles and problems of all sorts arising out of money, trade,
commerce, business, taxation, and salaries will be very insistent;
losses will have to be faced, strikes will be threatened, and legislation
and the attention of the state will be necessary. Hospitals and
charitable movements for the relief of the necessitous and the
unemployed will benefit, as will also railways, travel and transit
with other countries. The positions are not good for the crops,
the land, and building ; and the weather will be warm but unsettled
and stormy at times. Many sudden deaths are threatened, some of
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

them of people great in the land or in trade; there will be cases

of drowning.
At Berlin the Sun und Moon will be rising in opposition to
Uranus setting, and this position holds good of the whole of central
and eastern Europe; so that international affairs are likely to be
very unsettled with many subjects for dispute and controversy caused
by interested parties and sections working secretly and against the
existent order, but honest attempts will be made from other quarters
to bring about a better state of affairs in the government of the nations,
the welfare of the people, and trade. Money and business prospects
are rather better for central Europe than in the east.
At Calcutta Venus will culminate and the governing power will
be strong and the country prosperous. The Sun, Moon, and planets
in Virgo will be in the eleventh house; the new legislative bodies
will be busy and much new legislation under consideration. Some
important change in the government will take place, and some
eminent visitor from abroad be received.
At Washington Neptune and Mars will be on the cusp of the
fourth house, and the planets in Virgo will be in the fifth house in
opposition to Uranus near the cusp of the eleventh house. The
governing and legislative bodies will be very unsettled and in an
unsatisfactory state, but attempts will be made with some success
towards a better understanding and a closer approach towards nations
abroad. The President's position will be very disturbed and difficult.

Attention has previously been called to the lengthy stay of

Venus in the sign Taurus, which rules Ireland. The planet entered
this sign on March 5th and left it on July 8th, although about five
weeks of this period were spent in retrograding into Aries. In the
map for the Summer Quarter, Venus in Taurus was in trine to Jupiter
and Saturn in Virgo and to the Moon in Capricorn, exceedingly
favourable positions that were followed by the conversations of Mr
Lloyd George with Mr Eamon de Valera and the Sinn Fein delegates,
and a more peaceful atmosphere was produced than has been the
case for many years past.
If you can meet your enemy half way, it is much better than to
fight to the bitter end, even supposing you are right.
Justice Bucknill.
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 THE CONJUNCTION OF JUPITER AND SATURN

food supply, and in health and housing. All these matters are already
prominently before us and they will continue urgent for some time to
come, because by the nature of the sign Virgo improvements and
reforms can only be accomplished by slow degrees and not by one
dramatic stroke. Jupiter is weaker than Saturn in this sign ; both are
in square to the Moon in the fourth house, ruler of the eleventh, and
in semi-square to Venus in the twelfth, ruler of the tenth, therefore
hardship will continue to be experienced by the masses, the wages
difficulty, the cost of living, housing and health problems will all be
formidable obstacles to progress, and the government will have no
easy task to make headway against them, and these troubles will last
over many years to come and through more than one parliament.
When the Sun reaches the conjunction of the two planets and the
square of the Moon in ten to twelve years' time, a very critical state of
affairs will arise, Mars will be approaching the cusp of the ascendant,
and Neptune will be transiting the same cusp. Unemployment, the
rise and fall of wages, and the cost of production and trade expenses
will be so urgent from time to time that ultimately the government
will find it necessary to stabilise these in the interest of all and to
prevent extremes pressing hardly upon the various sections of the
community. The map speaks loudly of the coming of a spirit of
economy and financial reform, and yet the conditions are so adverse
that not much will be achieved for some time to come. The
conjunction of Venus and Neptune in the twelfth house means
efforts by the government to remove the reproach of the extreme
poor, and a good deal will be accomplished in this way between
this conjunction and the next, although the semi-squares of Venus
and Neptune to Jupiter and Saturn show serious money difficulties
in the way. The rising of the Sun will uphold the authority of the
King in this country and the ruling powers in Europe, although the
rising sign indicates the increase of the democratic spirit and its
gradual gain of power, especially in central and eastern Europe, in
east Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and part of Turkey, where
the Sun will be closely rising, and where democratic states will be
established. The Sun is exactly mid-way between the opposition of
Uranus and the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, which means that
international affairs will continue unsettled for a long time to come,
266 MODEKN ASTROLOGY

with danger of sudden ruptures and disputes over money questions,

trade, and territory, and endless state intrigues, especially where
Uranus is just setting, i.e., round about N.E. France, Switzerland,
and N. Italy. Mars lord of the fourth in the twelfth in Leo trining
the Moon in the fourth agrees with other indications of the acquirement
of power by the masses, but also shows that for a long time this will
be exercised beneath the surface and by indirect methods; Mars
squares the culminating degree and brings strife and secret enmity
directed against authority and danger to prominent persons. Leo
29° 51' will rise at Dublin, bringing Mars within orbs of the cusp of
the ascendant; the planet will be exactly rising in Spain and Portugal;
hence restlessness, strife, and contention, but also change, reform,
progress, and the establishment of popular government.
Jupiter and Saturn will be in the ascendant in central and eastern
Europe, and will be closely rising along a line running from near
Petrograd, Odessa, and the Crimea, through Asia Minor near Angora,
Jerusalem, the Suez Canal, and near Mecca, to Portuguese East
Africa. They will culminate in Manchuria, and near Port Arthur,
Shanghai, and Kiao Chow, and in the Philippine Islands and Western
Australia. They will set in the Pacific Ocean, and will be on the
cusp of the fourth house in Newfoundland, and in South America
from Guiana to Uruguay. These districts will feel the effects of the
mutation in their national affairs, but space forbids commenting upon
each map in detail. The list of countries governed by Virgo, the sign
in which the conjunction falls, is given in the books, the most note-
worthy are Turkey and parts of Greece and Mesopotamia; similarly
the i most famous towns in the list are Jerusalem (where Virgo 28*
rises) and Paris.
At Calcutta the conjunction is in the eleventh house in square
to the Moon in the second; but the Moon is also in trine to Mars
culminating as lord of the ascendant. The new methods of government
will cause great changes in the life of the country ; questions of money,
land, taxation, and railways will prove serious problems and will give
much trouble to legislators; but popular liberties will extend and there
will be a great increase in the life and well-being of the Empire.
At Washington Uranus will be in the mid-heaven, with the two
planets and the Sun in the fourth house, and the Moon setting. This
 THE CONJUNCTION OF JUPITER AND SATURN

will bring serious trouble both at home and abroad for the President
and government, and much discontent on the part of the people.
Mining, farming, matters pertaining to the land, and foreign relations,
especially in questions of finance will prove serious problems and may
upset more than one government. With the lords of tenth and eighth
in conjunction in the fourth, the death of the President or some very
eminent person in office will occur.
It is impossible to explain at length how the conjunction affects
the horoscopes of the King and other well-known persons: the list
that follows can be interpreted by students.
King George oV Ex-Kaiser William II. Sio 1
Queen Alexandra SV Ei-Crown Prince □p
Prince of Wales A? President Harding o 71
Princess Mary rfAsc. Queen Wiihelmina
Prince Henry ff <1 S A « King Alphonso, Spain j^
Prince George □OA b King Gustav, Sweden ftji
D. Lloyd George O5 AO King Albert, Belgium □j
Austen Chamberlain rf ? O Ijl Earl Rosebery Asc.
H. S. Green
Having recently turned to light literature in a brief interval of
leisure, I was very much surprised to find in Harrison Ainsworth's
Old St. Paul's a reference to a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter
preceding the Great Plague of 1665 ; and in Manzoni's Betrothed
Lovers (I Promessi Sposi) a similar reference to a like conjunction
preceding the pestilence of 1630 in Milan.
From my slight knowledge of Astrology I gather the following
from this year's conjunction.
Sun rising, a strong position, but a wide opposition to Uranus in
the seventh house, wars, sudden tumult, trouble. The conjunction
in the second house would appear to affect finance ; and being □ J) in
the fourth house, S also D J, second to fourth, would mean strikes,
loss in connection with the people, land, mines. The square being
supported by i? A J) from the twelfth would lend force, leading to
riots and military action. Again Mars in the twelfth is in close
square to the cusp of the tenth house, Taurus, which rules Ireland,
hence secrecy of spies, enemies, and warfare. The twelfth house also
contains Neptune and Venus as well as Mars, hence no doubt a variety
of very strong twelfth house influences upon crime, prisons, hospitals,
asylums, etc. The conjunction occurs in Virgo in the second house
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but the sixth zodiacal sign, and Saturn rules the sixth house, which
may mean that the health of the country will suffer.
The two quotations are as under :
" The pestilence originated in the conjunction of Saturn and
Jupiter in Sagittarius on the 10th of last October, and the conjunction
of Saturn and Mars in the same sign on the 12th November. It was
harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in
a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death; and another
and yet more terrible comet, which will be found in the fiery triplicity
of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, will be seen before the conflagration."
Old St. Paul's, Chapter viii
" Most of them saw the announcement at once and cause of their
troubles in a comet which appeared in the year 1628, and in a conjunction
of Saturn with Jupiter. 'The aforesaid conjunction," writes Tadino,
' inclining so clearly over this year 1630 that every Bodie could
understand it.' "
Betrothed Lovers, Chapter xxxii
A. Thurston

Another correspondent describes the influence of the conjunction

as follows:
Bad for Monarch, his health may feel the strain of prolonged
anxiety over his people's welfare. Troubles in Parliament over Naval
upkeep. Chaotic for Government. Unpopularity of same owing to
the heavy taxation. Scientific instruments and chemicals likely to be
taxed. Prime Minister will become very unpopular. Points to speedy
general election. Many political upheavals and some wrangling likely.
Greece will make history and cause trouble. Mespot. not finished
with and troubles in connection therewith.
Hospitals will sorely need funds. Wards will continue to be shut
down owing to lack of money. Churches and their dignitaries will
suffer money fight, and Ecclesiastics not in popular esteem.
Cities under itK, in particular Norwich, will suffer from labour
unrest, business failures through excessive taxation, with continued
discontent over rating.
National revenue will be much depleted and national credit be
low. Losses to the nation through Investment Stocks and Shares.
Intestinal troubles, infantile diarrhoea, appendicitis also.
 THE CONJUNCTION OF JUPITER AND SATURN 269

Great unrest in agricultural department. Dissatisfaction among

the labourers. Poor cereal crops. Fruits of the earth below par.
Possible outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in cattle. General
shortage of world grain trade.
Depression still holding owing to crushing taxation. In short,
the dark hours before the bright dawn which shall herald in the
happier age for all peoples. For amidst the murk of present
lowering skies, steadily shines the Star of Hope which will bring
the old world ever onward to the consummation of a World at Peace.

Caroline Pearson

On July 29th the Premier read in the House of Commons the

King's contradiction of statements alleged in some newspapers to
have been made by Lord Northcliffe in an interview in the U.S.A.,
and there followed promptly a denial by the latter gentleman of ever
having uttered the words complained of. For some weeks previous
there had been allegations of jealousy and disagreement between Lord
Northcliffe on the one band and Mr Lloyd George and Lord Curzon
on the other. Lord Northcliffe was born 15/7/'65, 4 p.m. G.M.T.,
lat. 53° 20' N., long. 6° 20' W. He has the Moon in Aries 23' in
opposition to Saturn at Libra 24° and both of them in square to the
Sun at Cancer 23°. Lord Curzon has the Sun in Capricorn 21°, and
Mr Lloyd George the Sun at Capricorn 23°; so that these three
horoscopes form a cross from the Cardinal signs, the signs that are
on the angles of the King's horoscope. On July 29th Mars was
transiting through Cancer near the place of Lord Northcliffe's Sun
and in opposition to those of the Premier and Lord Curzon ; the Sun
was transiting the place of Mars in the King's map, which is only two
degrees from Lord Northcliffe's Mercury (newspapers, speeches) and
involves the ascendants of Lord Curzon and the Premier: so that there
were obvious possibilities of cross currents. A much more fortunate
indication is Lord Northcliffe's Venus near the King's Sun, however.

At the July New Moon, the Sun, Moon, Mars and Mercury were
in conjunction in the watery sign Cancer in the ninth house, shipping,
at London in good aspect to Jupiter in the eleventh house. The
Empire Conference then sitting in London, among other matters,
considered naval questions as affecting the Empire and made various
suggestions of importance, one being that each Colony shall provide
its own Navy.
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The horoscope of Mrs Woodhull Martin was cast some years ago by
Alan Leo, who gave the following reading:
" Five planets are rising in this remarkable horoscope. Mercury
the ruler is dignified in his own sign (Virgo tie) whilst his other sign
(n Gemini) occupies the mid-heaven. This accounts for the fame
acquired by the native as a public speaker. Jupiter is rising in
conjunction with the Sun in the first house which insures health and
wealth and success throughout life. Venus is also rising and Mars.
" The horoscope shows an advanced thinker and philanthropist,
great love of the occult and deeper side of nature, and a benefactress
and humanitarian."
How closely this corresponds to the facts of the case may be
seen from the following article:
 HOROSCOPE OF MRS VICTORIA WOODHULL MARTIN 27I

" The proposed Memorial to Dr Page, the American Ambassador,

in recognition of his work in the promotion of • Anglo-American
friendship, recalls the name of his distinguished fellow countrywoman,
Mrs Victoria Woodhull Martin, who will celebrate her 80th birthday,
September 23rd.
" This veteran pioneer of Anglo-American friendship has promoted
the cause, so ably maintained by Dr Page during the troublous years
of the war, throughout her residence of forty odd years in this country.
When she became the wife of the late John Biddulph Martin, of the
banking house in Lombard Street established 400 years ago, the
invasion of this country by the 'fair American,' if we may so phrase
it, had not begun. There were only a very few American families
this side the water in the early 'seventies.
"The marriage of Mrs Victoria Woodhull, the world-famous
lecturer on Woman Suffrage and the Science of Eugenics, to Mr
John Biddulph Martin was of more than ordinary interest, for not
only was it an Anglo-American marriage in the ordinary sense, but it
was a union of ancestry by which bride and bridegroom linked
together the families of George Washington and his friend, Alexander
Hamilton.
" Privileged visitors to ' Norton Park,' the beautiful Worcestershire
home where Mrs Woodhull Martin is passing the evening of life, are
familiar with an elaborate pedigree chart on an easel in the Lounge.
It is dedicated to the Stars and Stripes, and sets forth in detail the
descent of Mr John Biddulph Martin from Martha Dandridge, the
wife of George Washington, and of Mrs Martin (nee Victoria Claflin)
from Alexander Hamilton, the friend of Washington. Hamilton was
descended through the Dukes of Hamilton from King Robert III. of
Scotland. Documents relating to the subject are preserved in a folio
near the chart.
"Yet a further link in the Anglo-American chain greets the visitor
to ' Norton Park,' in a gilt model of the Grasshopper, the emblem of
Martin's Bank, copied from the original over the historic house in
Lombard Street, and a counterpart may be seen over Fanuel Hall,
Boston, Mass., the cradle of American liberty.
" Long years before the war had made the draping together of
the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack fashionable, Mrs Woodhull
272 MODKRN ASTROLOGY

Martin had intertwined them on occasions of 4th of July Celebrations

at her London home, coupled with the improved version—' Inter-
Dependence Day,' a term singularly prophetic of the day when British
transports would be carrying American soldiers across the Atlantic to
fight side by side with the British Army. ' U nited we Stand ; Divided
we Fall,' as applied to the two countries, has been in evidence on Mrs
Martin's estate for many years.
" It may be said, in passing, that King Edward, when Prince of
Wales, once complimented Mr. Biddulph Martin on the happy way in
which his wife had crossed the English and American flags.
" Mrs Woodhull Martin played an important part in promoting
the Anglo-American Peace Centenary Celebration, planned to take
place in December, 1914. Indeed that movement, unfortunately cut
short by the war, had its inception under her auspices. In the Autumn
of 1912 a group of English and American friends discussed the
subject at the Manor House Club, which Mrs Martin and her daughter,
Miss Zula Woodhull, had founded on their estate as an International
centre, with the result that a British Committee was formed in
London. The matter is thus referred to in an article on the Centenary
in the Outlook, February, 1913.
"After noting the formation of a Committee in Canada, and the
holding of Conferences in America on the subject of an Anglo-Americin
celebration, the writer says; ' It was not, however, until the return
to England m October of the Chairman of the Committee that
conditions were such as to make possible the further steps which have
culminated in an organisation of the highest dignity and efficiency.
A preliminary conference at the Manor House Club in Bredon resulted
in a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel, November [1912], given by the
Editor of the Daily Chronicle, Mr Robert Donald, and the Secretary
of the Pilgrim Society, Mr (now Sir) Harry Brittain, to the Chairman
of the American Committee on International Conference and Organisa-
tion, Mr William B. Howland. There were present a score of
influential men, including the Colonial Secretary.' The luncheon was
followed by an organising meeting, and in due course the British
Committee for an Anglo-American Centenary celebration of the
signing of the Treaty of Ghent was formed.
"A Fund was started, to which Mrs Woodhull Martin contributed
 HOROSCOPE OF MRS VICTORIA WOODUULL MARTIN 273

.£1,000. The Fund appealed to her not only on patriotic, but on

family grounds, one of the objects of the Fund being to purchase
Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of Washington's family in this
country, and therefore of peculiar interest owing to her husband's
connection with the great President. Through her influence, also, the
purchase of Sulgrave Manor was reduced by £"2,000.
"An influential meeting to promote the Centenary Fund was held
under Mrs Woodhull Martin's auspices in the Manor House Barn,
March, 1914. The Rev Canon Wilson, of Worcester, presided, and
a lantern lecture, illustrating the subject, was given by Mr H. S.
Perris, Secretary of the Committee. Two months later Dr Page, the
American Ambassador, visited the Manor House Club and conferred
with Mrs Martin on the prospects of the coming Anglo-American
Peace Celebrations.
" Alas, the outbreak of war clouded the project, but though the
national celebrations were abandoned in this country, Mrs Woodhull
Martin was not to be daunted. She carried out her pre-war plans,
and a very unique series of Tableaux, representing the signing of the
Treaty of Ghent, were enacted by local gentlemen on Christmas Eve,
1914, in the old Tithe Barn at Bredon's Norton, in close proximity to
the Manor House Club, which, as we have seen, was the birthplace of
the British Committee.
" It is no secret that when war broke out Mrs Woodhull Martin
was keenly eager that the United States should join the Allies. The
blood of the Hamiltons flowed in her veins, and to her England and
America were as one nation, the respective homes of the English-
speaking race: they stood for Liberty, and should fight side by side
against tyranny and despotism. ' Why is Old Glory absent from shop
windows in England to-day,' she cabled to Washington in 1914,
' when other flags are flying ? United we Stand ; Divided we Fall
Together. Quis separabit.'
" When, at length, America entered the war, the occasion was
celebrated in characteristic style on Mrs Martin's estate. 'All the
flags went up,' and a hedge of golden rod (America's national flower)
was planted, and as I write, is bursting into luxuriant yellow bloom
beside one of the old grey walls of the Manor House grounds."
At a special matinee held at the Prince of Wales Theatre on
274 MODERN ASTROLOGY
July 26, a play was performed called "Affinities," a mystery play
dealing with the "hidden forces of nature" by Miss Zula Maud
Woodhull the talented daughter of Mrs Woodhull Martin. The play
was well attended and elicited much applause. We quote as follows:
" This power of the human mind is so subtle under certain
conditions, that matter is as if it did not exist; time and space are as
nothing. The human mind can send messages thousands of miles in
an instant. A drowning man has been known to review the life of
perhaps half a century in a second. On the eve of a great crisis, all
things often become clear in a moment. It is in ecstatic conditions, in
states of exaltation, that the soul, in its sublimity freed from earthly
entanglements, soars through space and communes with the Divine.
The freed idea is more real than the so-called solidity of matter."
" Mystery with regard to the hidden forces of Nature becomes
mastery in the hands of the physicist."
That God is one ; that men are one ; that Truth is ever the same.
That Love is still the nearest word to hint the nameless Name.
This is the Creed of the East and the West from rising to setting of
sun,
Go ye in to all the world and preach ye this alone :
The Word of the Lord is Unity!
And East and West are one !

On June 26 there was seen in the St. John's Wood district of

London the unusual phenomenon of ball lightning stationary in the
heavens for some minutes. On this day the Sun was less than one
degree from the fiery and thunder producing planet Mars, and the
Moon was going from the conjunction with Uranus to the opposition
of Jupiter. Another weather note; the calm hot and dry weather
definitely broke up on July 28, when stormy winds with rain began in
the west of England. Jupiter was just four degrees from Saturn in
Virgo, and the Sun on that day was exactly in semi-square to the
midway point between the two planets, and so was " translating light"
between them, as it is called.

The Sun, Moon, and Mars were setting in north-west India at the
July New Moon, and we predicted that "There will be frontier or
foreign trouble in the north-west " (p. 197). There was fighting in that
region and our casualties were heavy.
 275

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By Duncan Macnaughton, M.A., W.S.

VII.—Artists and Painters

Artists in black and white or in colour must both be possessed

of a " good eye" in the mental sense which is more particularly
indicated by the first three degrees of n ^ . Painters must also have
a sense of colour. This is indicated by ? and b 16-17. These
same degrees represent " tune," which bears the same relation to
sound as "colour" does to sight. The man who draws in lino or
colour may be merely technically skilful, but if he is an artist in the
highest sense of the word, ~ SL 13 will also be prominent.
Painters may be sub-divided into numerous classes according to
the subjects in which they are interested or the colours for which they
have a preference or the arrangement of their picture. To put forward
definite rules by which colours may be astrologically labelled still
remains a matter for research. The old theories based on seven
planets are inadequate. The colour preference of an artist seems
largely determined by the nature of the planets in closest aspect to
b Rl 17 and the signs of the zodiac in which $ and ^ are placed.
Thus if ? and ^ were both in kf® and b was in b 16, as happened
in May 1823, the native would have a preference for sombre colours
and dark green-blues. There is possibly a correspondence between
the spectrum and the two series T 0 to K "K 30, the red end of the
spectrum corresponding to V =2= and passing through orange in 8 ill,
and so on to violet in H iiR.
Turner {N.N. 699) has ^ in n 1 A b in ^ 3i and * ? in V 5i,
A D in ~ 5. ^ and ? here rule colour, for 8 17 has no close aspect.
? is in 8 (orange) and ^ in n i where the colour of the spectrum
corresponding is yellow. We thus find him delighting in orange and
yellow though the aspect of 'p to ^ might have been expected to tone
down his brilliant effect.
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The blend of 5 (or Jason) or n ^ 3 with 2 or b 17 may

be seen in the following:
Sadler, born 12th May, 1854, had 2 in T 5 * b in n 3.
Cotman, born 14th August, 1850, had ^ A ^ .
Poynter, born 20th March, 1836, had $ d $ .
Hacker, born 25th September, 1858, had 2*5.
Richmond, born 29th November, 1842, had W A 5 .
Lord Leighton, born 3rd December, 1830, had 5 d © 2 *
Wetherbee, born December, 1851, had 5 d 2.
Sir J. E. Millais, born 8th June, 1829, had 2 in n 22.25 on
n 4 (Con.).
Sir Wm. Orpen, born 27th November, 1878, had 2 in ^ 3
d © * if though O ^.
KIK 24-6 are degrees which frequently occur in the horoscopes
of painters, for example in the horoscopes of Napier, Hemy,
Tuke, Richmond, Macallum, Solomon, MacLachlan, Cattermole, and
Landseer.
Looking to the World Horoscope we find ^ 13 on the 11th cusp
and n 0 on b 17 about 1448 to 1520 A.D., a period which embraced
much of the work of the great masters, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519),
Raphael (1475-1564), Corregio (1494-1534), and Titian (1480-1576).
b 17 was on the 2nd cusp from about 1736 to 1808, the
period which produced Hogarth (1697-1764), Reynolds (1723-1792),
Gainsborough (1727-1788), Richard Wilson (1713-1782), "founder of
the English School of Landscape," Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823),
Sir Wm. Allan (1782-1850) and Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841).
The next time that there is such an important blend as in the
period of Leonardo da Vinci is about fourteen thousand years distant
when t 0 will be on b 17.
Looking to the minor influences in the immediate future, some
good painters will develop from among those born in 1898, more
particularly March, April, November, and December, when ^ had
just entered ■?. 1927 (June-September) will be a remarkable period
with •? in the first few degrees of f in trine to $ and If. A minor
influence may be expected in the first half of October this year when
If is trine to the first few degrees of n and 5 sextile to 2 and 3,
the 10th to 20th October being especially noticeable.
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fUlplj MUUta Emerson

By A. Langdon Coburn

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" Astrology interested ns, for it tied men to the system. Instead of an
isolated beggar, the furthest star felt him, and he felt (he star. However
rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in it, the hint was true
and divine, the soul's avowal of its large relations, and, that climate, century,
remote natures as well as near, are part of its biography."
Emerson in Ike Essay on Beauty (i860)

I HAVE been impelled to write these notes on Emerson because

of the approaching conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the sign of
Virgo, for he had these two same planets rising in this sign, and it is
an undoubted fact that certain planetary combinations have a way of
awakening an interest and kindred vibrations in the mind of man.
Emerson himself particularly draws our attention, in the fragment
I have quoted at the top of this page, to the fact that we in the
 MODERN ASTROLOOY

universe are all of one piece, and it is an inspiring and uplifting

thought. Again he tells us : " Men hold themselves cheap and vile :
and yet a man is a fagot of thunderbolts. All the elements pour
through his system: he is the flood of the flood, and fire of the fire;
he feels the antipodes and the pole as drops of his blood: they are the
extension of his personality."
The thing that draws us to Emerson and never turns us away
empty minded or unrefreshed, is his soul-satisfying optimism. We
must never grow old he tell us, for " in nature every moment is new."
His process is quite simple for those who would aspire. " Let them
become organs of the Holy Ghost, let them be lovers: let them behold
the truth; and their eyes are uplifted and their wrinkles smoothed,
they are perfumed again with hope and power."
Not long ago I began reading Richard Garnett's Li/e o/fiwerson.
Now Garnett was, as most of my readers will know, the Librarian of the
British Museum, but some may not be aware that he was also an able
astrologer and wrote a pamphlet entitled " The Soul and the Stars,"
under the uom deplume of A. G. Trent, which is an anagram of his
name. Now on the first page of the Emerson Life we are given
a very interesting piece of astrological data: Ralph Waldo Emerson
was born on the twenty-fifth of May in the year 1803, while his
father was having mid-day dinner with the Governor of the State of
Massachusetts, which same meal, our author informs us, was usually
held at one o'clock.1 If all biographers were also students of the stars,
and thus recorded the necessary horoscopic information, how the
astrologer's task would be simplified!
On the same day Bulwer Lytton was born across the Atlantic,'
and it is instructive to compare the horoscopes, and to note the
difference that a change of rising sign and a few thousand miles of
space, make in the lives and writings of these two eminent literary
men, who have so much in common in their general outlook, and
yet express themselves in so vastly different a manner. The similarity
of mental view-point, is due to the almost identical planetary locations
in the signs, but the change of the house positions causes their minds
1
The above horoscope has been cast for 1.16 p.m. Local Time or 6.1 p.m.
G.M.T., Boston, U.S.A..
' Lytton's horoscope is No. 258 in 1,001 Notable Nativities.
 RALPH WALDO EMERSON 279

to function through varied channels. The strong Virgo-Gemini accen-

tuation is discoverable in the horoscopes of both. The presence of
two such important planets as Jupiter and Saturn in the Mercurial sign
of Virgo, then, as now, produced a considerable amount of literary
activity in the world. This passage of the slow-moving planets
through the signs should be carefully noted by all students of star-lore.
Reading Emerson is a spiritual adventure, he lifts us out of
ourselves into a rarer atmosphere, and he has a fourth dimensional
quality when he tells us : " in common speech we refer all things to
time, as we habitually refer the immensely sundered stars to one
concave sphere," for here we get glimpses of thoughts which are
harbingers of Hinton and Einstein. This curious influence of books
on the human mind, how a given volume contacts one and leaves
another cold and unmoved, the astrologer will be able to explain.
How a book conceived years, yea centuries ago, is able to cut out
the intervening time as if it never existed, and bring writer and reader
mind to mind, perhaps even soul to soul, proves that time really does
not exist under a certain stress of circumstances any more than space
does, both being a part of the great illusion we call life.
I would like to fill these jottings with extracts from our author
until there was not room for one word of my own, in fact you will find
the quotation marks liberally distributed herein, for my object is to
induce you to go to the fountain head. Read " The Over Soul,"
" Circles," and the essay on " Demonology," they flash with scintillating
sentences, every page looks the problem of life unflinchingly in the
face. The mysteriesof the universe are Emerson'sconstantcompanions.
" I find nothing in fable more astonishing than my experience every
hour. One moment in a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take
the lustre out of all fiction," he tells us, and we can easily believe him,
and believing, progress on our journey to the Circle's Centre. In the
works of Emerson are many occult truths thinly veiled. Some say
that he gave out to the world more than he should have done but
who is to doubt the wisdom of the higher powers ? In any event he
is above and beyond those who seek in the hidden ways merely to
gratify their curiosity. " The whole world is an omen and a sign.
Why look so wistfully in a corner ? Man in the Image of God.
Why run after a ghost or a dream ? " We are the great mystery.
28o MODERN ASTKOLOGV

" Man is a stream whose source is hidden." And so he goes on

making us realise that we are at once all and nothing. " We see the
world piece by piece, as the Sun, the Moon, the animal, the tree; but
the whole of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. Only by
the vision of that Wisdom can the horoscope of the ages be read."
And it is for us as astrologers to interpret it, that the world may be
the better thereby, facing our problems undaunted, with love in our
hearts and a song on our lips.

Modern Astrology.—In mid-May a large spot on the Sun

coincided with a serious disturbance of terrestrial weather, and still
more recently similar coincidences have occurred. There has been
much discussion of the old question whether these coincident pheno-
mena are casually connected. Half a century ago, Prof. Jevons
attributed fluctuations in the money market with variations in solar
conditions. Apart from such fancies, physicists are not of one mind
as to the validity of ascribing terrestrial occurrences to solar influences.
There is still an inclination towards Astrology among some men of
science, as there undoubtedly is among the unlearned. But as the
Times said the other day, though there seems to be some relation
between sun-spots and earth convulsions, the relation remains a mere
coincidence, which while " very imposing in individual instances," is
" rather feeble when worked out over a long series of years." Again,
" the existence of a relation between cloud-bursts and sun-spots is
still a passionate conviction rather than a well-accredited doctrine."
It is just this substitution of "passionate conviction" for "well-
accredited doctrine" that has given vogue to Astrology, ancient
and modern.
From The Jewish Guardian.
In the map for the Summer Quarter, Saturn and Jupiter were
setting at London very well aspected except for the opposition of
Jupiter to Uranus rising, and this provided possibilities of both good
and evil in foreign relations. Amongst the troublesome events that
followed may be mentioned the dragging on of the Silesia difficulty,
causing differences of policy between Great Britain, France, and
Italy; and it is to be noted that Silesia is ruled by Virgo, the sign
containing Saturn and Jupiter. Amongst the more hopeful events
was the acceptance by Great Britain and Japan of President Harding's
invitation to a Conference to consider the question of Naval Disarma-
ment. At Washington the Sun and Mars were in the seventh house
in the watery Cancer but with no affliction from any other malefic,
and Jupiter the lord of the ascendant was in the ninth house. At
Tokio Venus was in the seventh house in trine to Jupiter in the
eleventh, the Sun and Mars being in the ninth.
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JUtrononnJ far Astrologers

By Vivian E. Robson, B.Sc.
[Continued from p. 245)
The next subject that comes up for consideration is that of
Sidereal Time. Last month we briefly mentioned the sidereal day, or
the time occupied by the earth in making one complete and exact
revolution. This we found to be about four minutes shorter than the
ordinary day in common use. The sidereal day is divided into 2+ hours
of 60 minutes each of 60 seconds as is the mean day, but it begins at
sidereal «oo>t, or the moment when the first point of the sign Aries
crosses the meridian. Every observatory possesses an astronomical
clock so regulated as to show sidereal time, and this clock registers
O1' 0™ 08 at the moment when 0° T culminates. The "sidereal time
at noon " given in the ephemeris is therefore the time that should be
registered by this clock at mean noon at Greenwich, and since it is 011
when 0° If is on the midheaven each day, it follows that the sidereal
time at mean noon must show how many hours have elapsed since
that took place, or in other words the number of degrees from Aries
that have passed over the midheaven, and therefore the sidereal time
at any instant is equivalent to the Right Ascension of the midheaven
expressed in time.
As I explained last month, the sidereal day is approximately four
minutes shorter than the mean day, and therefore the sidereal time at
mean noon will be about four minutes later every day as may be seen
from the ephemeris. As already stated this is due to the apparent
daily motion of the Sun, At true noon the Sun is on the midheaven,
and if it were in 0° T at that same moment the sidereal time would
be O11 0'° 0". By noon on the next day the Sun will be in 1° "V, but
sidereal noon will have taken place four minutes earlier, and the
sidereal clock will register 0h 4111 0* approximately. The sidereal time
at true noon is therefore directly related to the Sun's apparent motion
and is merely the right ascension of the Sun [i.e. its distance from
0° T) expressed in time. In the ephemeris, however, we are dealing
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with mean noon, and the sidereal time there given is the right
ascension of the mean Sun, which is the basis of our time measurement,
as already explained.
The sidereal time at noon varies little from year to year and
some time ago I gave an approximate method of finding it which may
be repeated here for the sake of completeness.
Rule.—From the required date (increased if necessary by
12 months) subtract 3 months 22 days. Call each month of the result
2 hours and each day 4 minutes. The answer is the approximate
sidereal time at noon on the required day.
In the process of casting a horoscope we take the sidereal time at
noon and add to it the number of hours and minutes that have elapsed
to the given time, but a moment's thought will show that we are
adding mean time to sidereal time and that some correction will be
necessary. A mean day consists of 24 hours of mean time, while
a sidereal day consists of 23h 56° 4a.090 of mean time, being
3° 55'.910 shorter. As we are going to deal in sidereal time we must
correct this discrepancy and convert our mean time elapsed into
sidereal time. This is done by adding a correction at the rate of
S10 56'.56 for every 24 hours of mean time, i.e. about 10' for every
hours or, more exactly, 9'.86. (In the converse process of converting
sidereal into mean time a corresponding correction at the rate of
3m55°.9l0 per day, or 9°.83 per hour, must be subtracted.)
This gives us the Sidereal Time at birth or the time that would be
registered by the sidereal clock, and indicates the number of degrees
of right ascension that have passed over the midheaven counting from
0° T. The conversion of time into degrees is quite straightforward.
A circle may be divided into 360° or 24h according to convenience,
and it follows that as 24h correspond to 360°, l11 will correspond to 15°,
4" to 1° and 4' to 1'. To convert degrees and minutes into time,
multiply by 4 and call the degrees of the result minutes of time, and
the minutes seconds of time. Thus 271° 32' are equivalent to
271° 32Bx4=1086m 8'or 18h 6°" 8*. Conversely 18" 68' may be
converted into degrees by reducing to minutes, i.e. 1086m 8' calling
this 1086° 8' and dividing by 4.
In finding the sidereal time of birth it is of course necessary
always to use local time because we are seeking the midheaven of
 ASTRONOMY FOR ASTUOLOGHRS

the place of birth and not that of Greenwich, but this point will be
dealt with later.
One other point needs mention and that is the correction of the
sidereal time at noon for the longitude of the place, as the ephemeris
gives sidereal time at noon for Greenwich. Suppose the Sun is in
O0"? at noon at Greenwich. The sidereal time there will be 0h0,n0,,
but by the time the Sun reaches the meridian of New York it will
have advanced about 12', so that the sidereal time at noon there will
not be quite the same and a correction must be added (or subtracted
if the place is East of Greenwich). This correction is Q'Sb for every
hour of longitude of the place from Greenwich expressed in time.
A little thought will make this clear. Between noon here and noon
at the antipodes the Sun moves half his daily motion and therefore
half the daily correction of sidereal time must be applied, for the
circle of the earth may be looked upon as 24 hours and therefore each
hour of longitude requires the same correction as each hour of time.
Next month we will consider local time and the principles
involved in the Tables of Houses.
(To be continued)

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CANCER is the Intake of Life,—Obscurity. The fourth house

and Cancer signify things which, like the night, are in concealment;
and thus the tortoise, when disturbed, withdraws his head, concealing
it in his shell: and this, because in essence his nature is that of
Cancer, being evolved from its life qualities even as is the crab.
Cancer marks the north pole of the horoscope which is yet to be
discovered by some astrological Cook or Peary; is it, then, strange
that that most obscure planet, the planet of mystery and concealment
(Neptune) should have such marked affinity for the fourth house? As
the home of the Moon the fourth house has to do with the most obscure
of enigmatical problems which we term birth. In the dark of the
Moon when conjoined to the Life-Giver (the Sun) we behold the
fecundating principle, the o.uickening of the Life in the Form coming
in the "New Moon," that "first quarter " which stands for manifesta-
tion. But the seed is sown in secret,—in obscurity, when the lesser
Light is lost and obscured in the major one. Dark and unintelligible,
profound, mysterious, ambiguous is this fourth house with its
enigmatical reflections,—its ever-shifting, imagery its fanciful associa-
tions of resemblances to Reality. It is the Mother of Caprice,
Supposition, Conceit, often Superstition,—superstition which is "as
bats among birds that fly in the dark of the Moon." The Moon,
fruitful source of the " Quick and the Dead," the " Changeover
Junction" from one state of consciousness to the next, from one world
to another world, from death to life and life to death, from states of
elation when the tide of life is full, to states of depression when the
ebbing tide has retreated " from the shores it has covered on its flow "
drawing into its depths that which it has hoarded for contemplation
and reflection. Cancer as the beginning of Form is also the beginning
of the formation of Mind. Every astrologer understands the close
 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 285

connection of the Moon and Mercury, rulers of Cancer and Gemini.

The form which is held and nourished by Cancer and the Moon finds
its differentiation of member, of expression,—its powers of translation,
its propensity for increase and adaptation in Gemini through its
Mercurial proclivity. Gemini and its ruler are, above all else, subject
to constant repolarization: flexibility, pliancy, mutability, change,
newness and renewal; these form the keynote to Gemini in its dual
aspect of Mind. The action of the Gemini mind is like that of the
pendulum, oscillating,—often vacillating, veering from side to side of
the question, ever increasing and translating the moiety of self, the
mind, the Form. Erecting mountains from unpretentious mole-hills, it
is the sign of increase,—the multiplication table of the zodiac.
Gemini is, indeed, the pendulum sign whose vibratory motion establishes
the Moon's serpentine path about her primary. Again, it is the
Gemini influence which causes the Moon to nod or swing back and
forth on her polar line. It is the Gemini influence which induces
centrifugal force on the dark side of the Moon ; this is, in manifesta-
tion, a cyclone of astral matter entering the Moon's funnel and
producing darkness by its centrifugal whirl. Having my Moon, at
birth, full in Cancer, I have (in my early childhood) experienced
something of the indescribable horrors of this lunar darkness; it is
a subjective rather than an objective horror. Perhaps it is a con-
sternation of the soul; at the least it is a monstrous incongruity,
incompatible with the normal sense of life and reason; preternatural,
infernal, mendacious,—a falsehood of the soul. Gemini rules over
the Winds of Death where the " lower mind" (" mortal mind")
desquamates, the cells of the lower vehicles fall asunder and lose their
polarity and death follows. Gemini represents Fermentation and
Disorganization, Cancer Fruition and Continuity. Be it remembered,
however, that this is true only as they are taken separately and alone,
which is never quite possible in terms of human consciousness at least,
for without the Moon there can be no polarity, and without polarity
there can be no Mind (Mercury-Gemini) in manifestation!
But let us consider more at length our lunar " waterspout" of
astral matter. "In the ideal waterspout," says Upward, "not only
does the water swirl upward through the cloud-whirl, but the cloud
swirls downward through the sea-whirl. To make their passage
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

through each other easier for the trained mind to follow, let us change
the water into air and the cloud into ether.
" The ideal waterspout is not yet complete. The upper half must
unfold like a fan, only it unfolds all around like a flower-cup, and it
does not leave the cup empty, so that this flower is like a chrysanthemum.
At the same time the lower half has unfolded in the same way, till
there are two chrysanthemums, back to back. In one the air is
whirling inwards, and the ether swirling outward ; in the other it is
the ether that whirls and the air that swirls.
" Now let us change the air into ether, and ether into etheron, and
so on into more and more ' perfect fluids,' till we have pure strength
whirling on all sides, and swirling out again. It is the pure Shape,
reached by the same road by which the mathematician reaches his
flats and lines. If is Strength turning inside out. Such is the
true beat of strength, the first beat, the one from which all others part,
the beat which we feel in all things that come within our measure, in
our lives, and in our starry world, the beat that we call Action and
Reaction.' And so in this ' whirl-swirl ' of the dark side of the
Moon, we have the Pulse of Life. It is beat of the senses upon the
shores of time; it has no outline save that of eternity; for, as Edwin
Arnold says, 'out of the dark it wrought the heart of man.' It is the
inner strength coming and going, turning and returning, millions of
beats in every beat of secular time ; it is the Overstrength coming and
going faster than the flashes in the diamond. It is the throb of
Energy in the Creative WORD which is made flesh. Drinking in the
Life of the Sun-Whirl and giving it forth again for ever and for ever.
Such is the Moon-Pulse which involves us in that vast cocoon of
sentient life. Its quickness becomes hardness which, to the senses, is
known as matter."
The End

The eclipse of the Moon of April 22nd fell in Scorpio in the fifth
house at London, which house rules " pleasure" in various forms.
This was followed by the defeat of British competitors in several
kinds of international sport, boating, golfing, cricketing, shooting,
during the summer.
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY

Distance. 1. In Primary directing the distance between bodies

or points is measured in degrees of right or oblique ascension, and is
sometimes caWed right distance or oblique disiance according to the
unit employed.
2. In Horary Astrology the distance at which the object of
enquiry is to be found is determined by the position of the significator
(especially when the object is a live one), and also by the number of
degrees separating the significators either from conjunction or from
exact aspect. The table of distances is as follows :
Significator Without Lat. N. Lat. S. Lat.
Angular Near Furlongs Miles
Succeedent Furlongs Miles Leagues
Cadent Miles Leagues Degrees
Significator in Cardinal signs, two miles for each degree.
„ ,, Mutable ,, half a mile ,, „ „
„ ,, Fixed ,, quarter of a mile ,, „ „
Diurnal. Of the day. The term may be applied to a
phenomenon of daily occurrence, such as the diurnal rising of the
sun ; to one occupying a day, such as the diurnal rotation of the
earth ; or to something pertaining to the day in contradistinction to
the night. The latter is the sense in which the term is generally
applied in Astrology.
In a horoscope the houses above the horizon {i.e., 12, 11, 10, 9,
8 and 7) constitute the diurnal half of the map.
Diurnal Arc. The arc or distance traversed by a body or
point between its rising and setting. It is usual to employ half this
arc, or the Semi-Arc (q.v.).
Diurnal Exaltation. See Exaltation.
Diurnal Horoscope. A horoscope cast for the time of birth
each day. It is a useful aid in determining good and bad days, and in
estimating the day upon which a given direction will operate. It has
not been definitely settled whether the diurnal horoscope should be
erected always for the place of birth, or whether for the place of
residence at the time.
Diurnal Houses. 1. The mundane houses situated above
the horizon, viz., houses 12, 11, 10, 9, 8 and 7.
2. The diurnal sign ruled by a planet. See HOUSE.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

DIURNAL Planets. 1. Planets above the earth or horizon in

the diurnal mundane houses. According to the older authors a planet
was diurnal when above the earth in a day nativity, and below it in
a night nativity.
2. According to the ancients the Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn are
diurnal planets, while Mercury is also diurnal when matutine.
Diurnal Signs. The odd signs T,n,Sl,==-,?,~.
Diurnal Triplicities. See Triplicity.
DODECATEMORION. 1. A sensitive point used by the ancients.
The dodecatemorion of any planet was found by multiplying the
degree occupied by the planet by 12, dividing the product by 30,
adding the quotient (each figure representing 30 degrees) to the
planet's place, dividing the remainder, if any, by 2i (each figure
representing one degree), and adding this also.
2. A mediaeval western division of the zodiac into 144 parts,
each dodecatemorion being one-twelfth of a sign or 2° 30' in extent.
The first subdivision of each sign was ruled by the planet ruling the
whole sign, and the succeeding subdivisions by the other planets
following the Chaldaean order. Thus the first subdivision of T was
ruled by <?, and the following by O S 5 , etc.
DOMAL DIGNITY. An old term signifying dignity by house.
DOMICILIATED. A term sometimes applied to a planet when in
its own sign.
Dominical Letter. A chronological device. The first seven
days of the year are denoted by the letters A to G, A correspond ing
to the 1st January. The Dominical or Sunday Letter is that falling
on the first Sunday in the year. Thus in 1921 the 1st January fell on
a Saturday, hence the Dominical Letter is B. In leap years two
letters are required.
DORADO. The Goldfish, or Swordfish. A Southern constellation
added by Bayer (a.D. 1604). Its head marks the south pole of the
ecliptic.
DORYPHORY. (Body-guard.) Generally used in the same sense
as Satellitium (q.v.), but strictly the term refers to planets attending
the luminaries.
Double-bodied Signs, n, ^ , and X, each of which consists
of two units.
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The laws that govern generation should be known to all women

and to men also, if a sound, healthy, and progressive race is to be
properly reared. But these laws require a practical
^Qenepation^ ^trological presentation that can be readily and easily
adopted before they can be made practical.
At the present time nearly all propagation is indiscriminate, the
result of impulse without fully recognising all the possibilities of such
action, whereas a general knowledge of astrological truths would lead
to the production of suitable bodies for more advanced egos; or at
least vehicles through which all incoming souls could find a fuller
manifestation than at present. If there could be formed a body of
people or a society whose aim and desire was to help and instruct
humanity with regard to the laws that govern attraction and repulsion,
they might do very much to assist the sexes to understand the laws
of their own being. If Astrology were rightly understood and became
effective in general life, not only would divorces be unheard of in time,
but a great deal of misery experienced through unwise marriages
would be avoided.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Astrology is eternally true, but it is not an easy matter to interpret

its truths to those who are not astrologers born. That which is the
Whole, cannot be wholly seen in the part, hence the
born'notmade 'nt:erPret:at:'on of its parts must always suffer by
limitation.
None but a God can interpret the whole of Astrology, and no
astrologer can reveal more knowledge than is on the plane to which
his consciousness is expanded.

If the Delphic oracle, " Know thyself," had been correctly

understood, materialism would have been an impossibility. The
anatomy of man is a wonderful study, but the psychic
^Betow"'80 s
'^e '1's na,:ure 's rnore wonderful still; and when
you deal with the intellectual side there does not appear
to be anything more wonderful in the universe. None but a materialist,
however, will believe that there is a psychic-intellectual part in man.
They declare it is only a product of the physical body.
The knowledge that man is composed of parts leads to the oft-
repeated idea As above, so below." Study man, and his counterpart
is found in nature; study nature, and God will be found. God is in
heaven, not separate, in the atmosphere surrounding the globe, but
truly in the. stars and in man !
Those who study Astrology, therefore, study God in man; for
God resides in the heart of every man.
5K *
The great is mirrored in the small. The constellations are
mirrored in the zodiac. Man, the microcosm, is a reflection of the
macrocosm, and reflects the nature of the stars according
^the^an'8 1:0 : ie
''breadth and condition of his mirror—the mind.
Man receives his title from the root word Manas ;
literally mind—to think. Thus the mind is the measure of the man.
Adam Kadmon is the archetypal man, "The Heavenly Man,"
who is to be perfectly reflected in the human being when his perfected
manhood is achieved. Each human being is, however, only a part of
humanity collectively, and therefore can only reflect in part, until his
mind and soul have expanded to the ideal state that is predestined for
the whole of humanity.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

There are in the world to-day two classes of astrologers—the

Saturnian and the Uranian. The Saturnians are separative, seeking
knowledge chiefly for its own sake and inclined to
Separatencea , r , ,
or Unity follow in the old rut dug for them in the past. The
Uranians seek to co-operate and unite with their fellows
to band together in any common cause. These will be the new race
—the sixth sub-race of the fifth root-race. The others, although of
a fine intellect, are of the concrete mind order,and will remain with the
old race in which unity and co-operation are not distinct features.
Where you have unity, peace and harmony and a desire to sink all
differences for the sake of the work in hand, there you have the
Uranian working.
Where you have disruptive forces and the desire for separation
or self-seeking, you have the Saturnian.
Aquarius, the sign of the man pouring out water for the whole
world, is the astrologer of the new era whose aim is to educate and
serve the world noi himself. Who is willing to sacrifice all that he
has and to give all that he knows for a cause ; to build up, never to
pull down. To uphold, not to destroy. He is the master builder and
builds for eternity. He lives not for himself, but for humanity. He
has the ability and the power to help his brother on the path and also
the humane interest in him as a fellow mortal. With the sixth sub-
race unity will be the centre, the corner-stone on which the new
building is to be erected, and so with the new age and new conditions
the Aquarian will seek to form a band ready to serve under the great
Master when He comes. They belong to the tribe of the Magi, those
wise men of old who, like ourselves, saw His star in the East and
proclaimed His coming!
* * *
Many happy returns of the day to the President of the
Theosophical Society, Mrs Annie Besant, who attains her seventy-
fourth year on October 1st.
^Birthday 8 Mrs Besant's horoscope has been published many
times as an illustration of the truth of natal astrology,
and with every year of her remarkable life her nativity becomes
more illuminative. It is undeniably the horoscope of a pioneer,
reformer, orator, and occultist. It denotes an exceedingly strong
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

personality whose life has been unstintedly devoted to the service of

Humanity. It is because Mrs Besant is so essentially human that
those who love her admire her so much.
The recent trials which Mrs Besant has passed through in India
are a sure proof of her unflinching loyalty to her friends and the cause
to which she has devoted her life.
She is strong, and has a wonderful will which gives her the
power to rise above all criticism in doing that which she feels to be
her duty, no matter how severe or powerful the opposition she meets.
Personally I hope I shall never forget the gratitude I owe her as the
channel through which the Light of Theosophy reached my soul.
Many of the old members of the T.S. do n«t approve of the
various activities which have sprung out of the old society. They lack
the intuition to see that" God moves in a mysterious way His wonders
to perform," and that " God fulfils Himself in many ways." The
Astrological Movement, the Co-Masonic, The Order of the Star in the
East, the Liberal Catholic Church, etc., are looked upon as movements
quite foreign to the Theosophical movement. But why ? Theosophy
correctly interpreted is the root and base of all religions, and why
should philosophy, or art, or science of any kind be excluded ? There
is a vast number of persons who cannot grasp the main principles of
Theosophy and Astrology, and these latter movements appeal to them.
Mrs Besant firmly believes and proclaims that the great Spiritual
Intelligence known as the Christ will manifest on earth during the
present century, she has never stated definitely when that manifestation
will take place, for none can know save the " Great One," who will
choose His own time and place.
Bessie Leo

THREE unique plays of Indian life were given at Lord

Leverhulme's picturesque garden in North End Road, Hampstead,
on Saturday, 3rd September. The afternoon was most successful,
and many distinguished people were present. The plays were
produced under the auspices of the Society for Promoting the Unity
of East and West, the head of this movement being Mrs. Woodhull
Martin, whose horoscope was published in these pages last month.
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This lunation is a total eclipse of the Sun, visible in the south of

South America, and falling in the eighth degree of the sign Libra.
The Sun and Moon will be separating from the conjunction with
Jupiter and Saturn; Venus and Mars will be in conjunction in Virgo
on the cusp of the ninth house, both in close opposition to Uranus.
The luminaries will culminate in Ireland, Spain and Portugal,
strengthening the governments, but some person eminent in the state
will die. From London through central Europe, the Sun and Moon
will be in the ninth house. In Great Britain the influences acting
through the ninth house will be very mixed ; there will be danger of
storms and sudden accidents with loss of life at sea and round the
coasts; disputes, strikes or accidents connected with shipping, railways,
or transport; new inventions relating to travelling and transport will
be made, new vessels launched and aircraft built. Here and in central
Europe trade and travelling between the different countries will
increase considerably, but questions of money, taxation and revenue
will arise in connection with foreign trade and will cause trouble and
many changes. Someone eminent in religion will die. Efforts will
continue to promote a more friendly feeling between the churches and
will meet with some success ; but difficult money questions relating to
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

churches and religious bodies will arise. Attempts at a better

understanding between nations will proceed, by interchange of visits,
discussions, and through the League of Nations. In central and
eastern Europe there will be financial troubles, both internal and
international, and some sudden deaths and murders. The Sun and
Moon will set in Central India, international difficulties will arise, and
there will be political agitation, discontent, and scheming against the
government. At Washington the affliction of the eleventh house will
seriously disturb politics, especially in relation to foreign affairs and
money matters. The aspects between Mars, Venus and Uranus will
cause sex scandals, problems, and crimes in various parts of the world,
and there will be changes in the divorce laws.
This eclipse as a whole will raise various international problems
in many parts of the world, especially in relation to trade and money
matters, but it will also do something towards drawing the nations
together. Jupiter will transit the place of the eclipse on Nov. 1,
Mars will do so on Nov. 19, and Saturn will be stationary in the
degree on Jan. 17.

Eclipse of the Moon

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This is a partial eclipse of the Moon, about nine-tenths of the Moon's
face being obscured ; it falls in the twenty-fourth degree of the sign
Aries, and is visible over the whole of Europe, part of Asia and in the
east of North America.
The Moon will be in the midheaven over the whole of west and
central Europe, culminating in Norway, Germany, Italy and Tripoli>
where seismic shocks may be felt. It will bring trouble to kings,
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOCV 295
presidents, statesmen and governments: unpopularity with the people,
discontent on the part of the masses, a tendency to strikes, riots and
rebellion ; it will make ministers and governments insecure and liable
to fall, cabals and intrigues will be directed against them (the Moon
rules the twelfth house), the forces of law and authority will be
weakened, some king or great man will die, money matters will give
trouble through heavy expenditure or increased taxation, and dry
weather bad for the land may follow. Central Europe where the
Moon will culminate will be chiefly affected. In the east of Europe
it falls in the ninth house and there will be religious troubles as well
as misfortune through shipping, commerce, and railways. The Moon
will set over eastern India and part of China, where there will be
international difficulties and popular agitation against governments.
It will rise in the east of the United States and bring trouble through
foreign relations, discontent and disturbances among the people. In
many parts of the world it will excite people's minds, incline to
quarrels and accidents, and be bad for health. Mars will transit the
opposition of the place of the eclipse on Dec, 14.

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NEPTUNE will be rising at London; it will be very close to the cusp
of the Ascendant at Dublin, and just below in Spain and Portugal;
with the Sun and Moon applying to a square from the fourth house.
Trouble for the government will arise through houses, mining,
agriculture, and matters of the fourth house ; money questions turning
upon these will cause difficulties through the demands of the workers,
but new developments will take place and progress be made eventually.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

There will be- much unemployment. Railways, the air service,

methods of communication, the post office and telephones will all
benefit in England and France and progress and extensions will take
place; but in Ireland and west Europe strikes or accidents are
threatened through railways and the third house. Expenditure will
be heavy and money questions serious, especially in central Europe
where Mars will be near the second cusp; and from there to east
Europe rail and water communication will suffer through strikes or
political plotting and agitation. But in east Europe money and trade
will benefit in some way, through loans, expansion, foreign agreements,
etc. In India there is danger of disaffection, agitation by extremists,
and political scheming at home and abroad, but with the luminaries
rising the government will be strong. In the United States there will
be much unemployment and discontent among the people; some
epidemic is threatened and a good deal of sickness.
This New Moon, when referred to the map for the Autumn
Quarter, falls near the cusp of the tenth house at London and that of
the Ascendant at Washington ; this will strengthen and benefit these
two nations and their governments in spite of the sharp trouble
threatened under the square to Neptune, November 8.

JUPITER and Saturn were in conjunction in the seventh house,

which signifies foreign affairs, not only in the map for the Summer
Quarter, June 21, but also at the New Moon of August 3. The
Supreme Council, with delegates from many countries, met at Paris
on August 8 to consider questions concerning Upper Silesia, Russia,
Germany, etc. But Upper Silesia proved to be such a bone of
contention and it was so impossible to reconcile opposing views that
on August 12 the Council decided to refer the matter to the arbitration
of the League of Nations. We have previously given the horoscopes
for the coming into being of the League and for the first meetings of
the Council of the League and of the Assembly. The map for the
first of these three events shows that the Sun has progressed this year
exactly to the cusp of the seventh house; hence the increase in
importance of the League in international affairs ; the Sun will reach
the square of Mars this winter, and the trine of the Moon the winter
following. Jupiter and Saturn have both transited the conjunction of
the Moon and the trine of the Sun this summer.
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This is a horoscope for luck and worldly success, as will be seen at
a glance. It is the horoscope of Fritz Ebert, the first President of the
German Republic, after the downfall of the Hohenzollem monarchy.
Their rule over the united Germany, cemented by Bismarck in 1871,
lasted therefore only forty-seven years. But how long Germany will
endure a Republican Government remains to be seen.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

The subject of the above horoscope, Fritz Ebert, was born on the
4th of February, 1871, at 12 o'clock noon, at Heidelberg, of poor
parents and only received the ordinary Board School education for
eight years. After that he was apprenticed to a saddler and earned
his living for a number of years working in that trade. But he did not
stick to it and had several changes of profession; in turn he was a
publican, journalist, editor, secretary of a Trade Union, and finally in
1910 or'I2 he was elected President of theGerman Social-Democratic
party, which after the general election of 1912 became the strongest
party in the Reichstag and therefore of great influence. For many
years previous to that he had gained recognition among Socialists as
a capable leader of a Trade Union, as a fluent speaker and writer, and
by his genial personality. All this is quite apparent if we look at his
map. We find Gemini rising, an airy and intellectual sign with
Jupiter in it but the latter retrograde. This gives him good intellectual
abilities, a sound mind, good judgment, and common sense, more adapted
for a professional career, than that of a manual labourer. Gemini
being a dualistic sign and very changeable probably accounts for his
many changes in professional life. It also, however, gives him great
adaptability to new surroundings and the capacity to see the two sides
of a question. All persons born under Gemini deserve a good
education, for the love of al! things belonging to the mind and the
intellect is inherent in them, and if the environment in which they are
born does not give it them, they very often reach a higher standard of
knowledge than the average of their fellowmen by the alertness and
quickness of their mind. Such was also the case with the subject of
our horoscope. Jupiter rising is one of the best positions for mundane
affairs as it gives luck in life, but being retrograde causes some delay
in these matters. For sign position Jupiter is however not very strong
in Gemini, denoting religious scepticism and doubts, but making him
enthusiastic in all things that occupy his attention. This tendency is
strengthened by If A <? and G. These aspects give him also a very
generous nature, a fondness for all the good things of the earth, and the
pleasures of the table. But in this he is not egotistical; on the contrary,
he wishes the same for all his fellowmen, as he possesses a very
benevolent and sympathetic disposition.
The ruling planet is Mercury, which is situated in Capricorn near
 THE HOROSCOPE OF THE GERMAN PRESIDENT 299

the cusp of the 9th house. Capricorn is usually considered the political
sign (being the sign of service) and if politicians were to put the ideals
of this sign into practice their political life would be one of service to
their country in the fullest sense of the word, and not consist in self-
seeking ends. Here we have the ruling planet in this sign which
indicates the natural tendency of the indwelling life. Near the cusp
of the ninth house it is a good position for journalistic^ activities, for
publishing and all that concerns the higher mind. The opposition to
Uranus rather strengthens this tendency, but it will also cause him
some nervous troubles, unpleasant surprises and correspondences and
he will suffer through anonymous letters, unexpected'opposition, etc.;
troubles with relatives are also indicated thereby.
His phenomenal career and great rise in life are clearly marked
by the Sun culminating in trine aspect with Mars and Jupiter and
sextile Neptune, and Venus also in the tenth house both free from
affliction.1 This is another proof of the contention that all people born
at or near noon, unless the Sun is heavily afflicted, will rise in life,
gain recognition, attain a high position, or become prominent in some
way. The Moon in Leo gives in this case additional testimony and
also some popularity. Both benefics prominently placed,If in A to the
O and all three free from affliction, indicate marvellous luck in life and
the attainment of the highest position in the state a man can reach.
As to luck, this horoscope is the exact contrary to that of the
ex-Emperor William II,
When the revolution broke out in Germany in November, 1918,
the social-democratic party as the strongest took over the reins of
government and Ebert as their President took a leading part in it. In
January, 1919, the general election for the National Assembly took
place and they, meeting at Weimar, elected Ebert by an overwhelming
majority the first President of Germany.
He had only been a member of the Reichstag since the election of
1912, so his rise was comparatively swift and exceptional. The
ascending sign gives him the adaptability to go with the turn of the
tides and the benefics aid him and lead him to success, so that the

1
Note also 5 planets, amongst them the ruler, in cardinal signs, which gives
great activity, recognition, fame or renown.
3P0 MODEUN ASTROLOGY

high ambitions, which 5 in Vy gives, are realised and he will also taste
the joys of life to the fullest extent.1
The constitution of the body should be strong with plenty of vitality
and energy, making him a good worker in every respect. The only
danger is through surfeit, excess and a love of the pleasures of the table.
The nerves may also suffer at times through 5 S W- He should now
be careful of his health, for in 1921-22 he will be under the direction
© □ b rad., the latter in the 8th house at birth. His married life should
be a happy one with Jupiter, ruler of the 7th house, and Venus both
well placed and free from serious affliction.
If we take the horoscope as representing the fortunes of Germany
during the time he is at the head of it, it would indicate that the
country was again forging ahead on the whole, but also that his bad
Solar direction (O to b ) shows the troubled state of affairs she is in
at present, from which however we hope she will extricate herself.
William Becker.

Enrico Caruso, the famous tenor, was born 25/2/,73 at Naples,

and died at the same place on August 2 last. At noon on the day of
birth the planets were as under ;
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Mercury, the planet of voice, is conjunction Sun and trine Mars.
The conjunction of Venus and Neptune in Aries, both of them in
trine to Jupiter in Leo, added to the richness and beauty of his voice
as well as to his dramatic power and popularity. He amassed an
immense fortune by his singing.
Notabilia
(7) Sir Thomas Liptoti. 10 May, 1850, Glasgow.
(8) " George A. Birmingham " (Canon Hannay). Novelist.
16 July, 1865, N. Ireland.
(9) Sigmund Freud. Scientist. 6 May, 1856, Freiberg,
Moravia.
(10) Richard LeGallienne. Poet. 20 January, 1866, Liverpool.
(11) John Drinkwater. Playwright. 1 June, 1882.
(12) Jose Capablanca. Chess champion. 19 November, 1888,
Havana.
1
A marked feature in this connection is the happy blend of n rising with the
Sun and Moon in fixed signs; the latter giving him strength of will, fixedness of
purpose, tactfulness and the power to rule and govern, by which the flexibility and
changeability of the rising sign is much improved.
 301

(Sbsattvit ^atrologg
By Alan Leo
{Continued from p. 233)
ARIES. Cardinal fire. The guna rajas and the element fire both
belong by correspondence to the mental plane, that of individualisation
(see Table III., Chapter III.) ; therefore the sign signifies self, whether
taken as that of man, of our globe, of the solar system, or of the
universe. Aries is the first sign, and its analogy with the first house
of the horoscope, which signifies the self, the native, the person born
under that horoscope, is evident.
T. Subba Row has written that Ariesstands for ** the self-existent
eternal Brahman," giving the idea of self its highest cosmic application
and referring it to that universal self which includes all lesser beings.
This is that which was symbolised in Chapter I. by the point of the
circle, God manifest, with attributes ; the higher stage still, God
unmanifested, without attributes, is not symbolised in any zodiacal
sign but is represented by the empty circle. The point in the circle
also signifies the Sun, which is exalted in Aries and which is the physical
expression of the Solar Logos, the Self of the solar system.
In its highest cosmic application as the supreme Self it is also the
One Life that underlies the whole universe; then it becomes the One
Life of the solar system, emanating from the Sun ; afterwards that of
our globe, and finally that of man. The chief hylegiacal or vital
position in the horoscope is the first house or ascendant.
In its interpretation as referring to tne universe, this is that of
which we read in the Proem of the Secret Doctrine—" It is the One
Life, eternal, invisible, yet omnipresent, without beginning or end, yet
periodical in its regular manifestations—between which reigns the
dark mystery of Non-being, unconscious, yet absolute Consciousness ;
unrealisable, yet the one self-existing Reality." The analogy between
this and the first house of the horoscope as the source of consciousness
and vitality is obvious, and the periodical manifestations compare with
days and nights, which are marked off by the ascendant.
302 MODERN ASTROLOGY

The mobility of the cardinal cross and the changeful nature of

the triangle of fire combine to make Aries the most rapidly moving
and alert of all the signs, no matter to what plane it may be referred.
Its mental originality and ingenuity, its emotional and passional
impulse and ardour, and its independence, wilfulness, and quickness
in action arise in this way, with many other virtues and vices.
Taurus. Fixed-earth. In its lowest application earth means
the solid matter of the physical plane; in a more extended sense it
stands for the whole of the physical plane as compared with the higher
regions ; and in a still wider sense for matter in general, root-matter
and the Not-self. The guna tamas, or the fixed quadruplicity, implies
a strong centre into which what would otherwise be scattered units
are gathered and held securely in one.
Aries stands for the source of all life and consciousness. Taurus
is the firmly fixed and limited centre that has risen within that One Life,
and it contains in a unitary form entities that are differentiated out and
separately manifested in the succeeding signs. The earth of the sign
apparently signifies the root-matter that necessarily seems to be flung
over the hidden source of all things. Spirit or Self cannot make its
appearance without matter or the Not-self seeming to start into
existence at the same time. To put it a little differently, Taurus is
the first material expression of the Self, and its fixed nature implies
one all-inclusive central consciousness which gathers together all the
otherwise scattered units (monads) in the solar system and holds them
in one ; while the earth here means not physical matter but rather the
highest expression of that of which the physical plane is the lowest
reflection downwards. The Moon, significator of matter, and of life
and consciousness involved in matter, is exalted in Taurus.
T. Subba Row writes that Taurus stands for the sacred word
AUM, apparently meaning the Logos as unity but containing the
potentiality of all things. Of the Pleiades, the seven stars in the
constellation Taurus, we read in the Secret Doctrine : " They have
a very occult meaning in Hindu Philosophy, and are connected with
sound, and other mystic principles in nature." Sound is correlated
with the highest cosmic planes, and' the whole cosmos was called forth
out of chaos by sound and was ordered and arranged by its vibrations.
Moreover all the Sun-Gods were connected with Taurus and all were
 ESOTERIC ASTRO LOG V 3P3
called the ' First,' just as among Kabalists Taurus was related to the
aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, and Christ to alpha, the first in
the Greek alphabet.
The Pleiades are the central group of the system of sidereal
symbology. They are situated in the neck of the constellation Taurus,
regarded by Madler and others, in Astronomy, as the central group of
the system of the Milky Way, and in the Kabalah and Eastern
Esotericism as the sidereal septenate born from the first manifested
side of the upper triangle, the concealed. This manifested side is
Taurus, the symbol of One (the figure 1). These references are to the
zodiac of the whole solar system, but by correspondence the same
principles apply to the smaller zodiac of our earth.
In its application to man, if Aries is interpreted as the indivi-
duality, Taurus becomes the personal centre aggregating together and
manifesting within the One Life of the individuality, and clothed in
a material vehicle. But if the interpretation of Aries is limited to the
personality, Taurus then is the personal will or desire, the inner
impulse or determination prompting to action.
There is no hard and fast application of these two signs, their
signification is relative and varies according to the mode of application,
Aries always being a relatively larger ocean of life and consciousness,
and Taurus a relatively smaller centre within it. Thus they can be
interpreted as the cosmic life and the solar Logos; as the life of our
whole chain and the self of our globe; as the life of our globe and
man. In each case, however, Taurus represents only one aspect of
the triune centre in terms of which it is interpreted, and not the whole
three, namely that aspect which corresponds to tamas in Table II.,
Chapter III. ; the other two aspects being represented by Gemini and
Cancer, or, if we speak in terms of the earthy triplicity, Virgo and
Capricorn.
When Aries is taken as the cerebrum and the personal self,
Taurus stands for the cerebellum and the desires and instincts of
which it is the centre. Lower still in the horoscope, the second
house, which corresponds to Taurus, exhibits the character of a
unifying centre in its rulership over money and possessions; for
these are otherwise scattered materials, the concrete representa-
tive of various desires, especially for possessions and aggrandise-
 MODEKN ASTROLOGY

ment, held together by the man and appropriated by him for his
own use.
Because earth, the densest element, is here united with the fixed
quality, Taurus is probably the most slow moving and unchanging of
all the signs, and this characteristic can become either a virtue or
a vice according to circumstances. As a virtue it shows forth as
patience, endurance, firmness, faithfulness, steadfastness, and a nature
that is not easily ruffled. As a vice it gives rise to indolence, obstinacy,
lack of adaptability, dislike of change, living and thinking in a groove,
conservatism carried to an unwise extreme. All fixed signs contain
a great reserve store of energy locked up within them, sometimes not
easily liberated ; and in one direction this shows in the earthy Taurus
as strong physical vitality ; and in another direction, when aroused and
provoked by an adequate stimulus, as extreme anger and even violence.
[To be continued)

An Astrologist Association
Novel Gathering at Poona
Poona, July 18t/t.
The first Astrological Conference was held under the President-
ship of Daji Nagesh Apte, High Court Pleader, Baroda, on the 16th
and 17th instant at Nutan Arya Bhushan Theatre, Poona. The
Astrologers' delegates were about one hundred and the local leaders
graced the Session. It was unanimously resolved that, like other
sciences, Astrology has basic principles backed by thousands of years'
experience verified and acknowledged by foreign experts. An Asso-
ciation called the Bharatiya Jyotirmandal was started, the President,
Vice-President and Secretaries respectively being Messrs. Apte,
Navathe, Raghunath, Shastri and Pradhan. The controlling advisory
board consists of Professors Naik, Kolhatkar, Ramesaheb, Agashe,
Narsopant Kelkar, Babasaheb Patwardhan, Karandikar, Madras, and
Rajajyotesbi Pandit Awrit Narayan Sastri of Baroda.
Daily Times, India, 20/7/21.
The Association mentioned in the above paragraph has been
formed for research work, and includes a considerable number of
influential and highly intellectual members. We wish them every
success in their endeavours, and look forward to hearing further details
of their work and progress in the near future. Suggestions are invited
from Western astrologers, and readers desiring further particulars
should write to Mr Yeshwant K. Pradhan, Secretary, Bharatiya
Jyotirmandal, Jyotirmala Office, Dadar, Bombay 14.
 |Jmliclion lEongitufo

By H. S. Green

When does the year begin ? For the astrologer it begins when
the Sun crosses the equator on its northward journey about March 21.
This is the first point of the first sign, Aries, of the zodiac of signs,
and the Sun's entry into Aries is often referred to as the horoscope of
the year, although it has not yet been proved that all the events of
the year, or even the major number of them, can actually be deduced
from a map for this hour and minute.
Conventionally it begins on January 1st, and it has been several
times pointed out in Modern ASTROLOGY that a map of the
heavens for the midnight between December 31 and January 1, really
has corresponded closely to the trend of events during the Great War.
It is of course within the power of Parliament to pass a law.
decreeing that the year shall begin at any date that statesmen in their
wisdom may consider suitable, and there actually are various dates
and epochs of human invention from which time is reckoned for
various purposes. This, however, is not likely to satisfy the student
of Astrology, who is in search of a starting point that shall be rooted
in nature itself and shall not be dependent upon merely human
convenience.
The orbit of the earth round the Sun is not a circle but an ellipse,
although its departure from a circle is very slight. The earth is at
perihelion, or the nearest point to the Sun, about January 2, and at
aphelion, or the furthest point from the Sun, six months later, early in
J uly. 11 has occurred to me that perihelion would be a suitable date
from which to reckon the year, and that it might be worth while
calculating and investigating a few maps of the heavens for the hour
and minute of perihelion.
The reasons for choosing perihelion and not aphelion as the
starting point would be a little intricate to explain at length ; but an
attempt at a brief explanation may be made. There are obvious
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

analogies between (a) the descent of spirit into matter at the begin-
ning of cosmic evolution ; (b) the descent of the human soul into the
body for the purpose of birth, beginning with the sending out of the
creative impulse from the causal body on the Higher Mental plane in
order that it may gather grosser matter round itself and form a new
personality; and (c) the separation of the Moon from the Sun after
New Moon, as seen from our earth. The conjunction of Sun and
Moon in the same degree of longitude at what is called New Moon is
analogous under (a) to that primordial unity which precedes the
separation of spirit and matter on the downward arc of creative
evolution when the One gives birth to the Many ; and under (6) to
the complete unity of lower and higher Self which precedes the
descent into the body at birth. The Moon stands for the personality,
and its separation from the Sun during the " bright fortnight" that
intervenes between New and Full Moon corresponds to the descent of
spirit into matter cosmically and to that of the human soul into the
body microcosmically.
Comparing these cycles of descent and ascent with the course of
the earth in its orbit round the Sun, it seems obvious that perihelion,
when the earth is nearest the Sun, corresponds to the primordial unity
previously referred to under (a), to the unity of personality and
individuality in the causal body before birth, under (b), and to the
relative unity in longitude of Moon and Sun at New Moon. It there-
fore seems a natural point from which to start the new cycle of the
year. Aphelion will compare with life on earth involved in matter
and at its greatest distance from its spiritual source ; while the return
half of the cycle from aphelion to perihelion will compare with the
re-ascent of spirit out of matter and the return to its source.
I am indebted to Mr V. E. Robson for referring me to Newcomb's
Tables for calculating the time of perihelion in longitude. By means
of them several maps for various years have been calculated in order
that their value may be estimated by comparing their indications with
the more important events, such as the opening of the Great War,
the conclusion of peace, and so on.
The Great War began at the beginning of August, 1914. The
time of perihelion in longitude was 2 January, 1914, 4.22 p.m., when
the positions were as under :
 PERIHELION LONGITUDE
x xi xii i ii in
(1) K15-58 ^23 H 8 rat6.53 A 2 JX2I
N T19 n 4 ® 17 A15 A30 nctg
(3) vjo H22 5=19 to «ii n 8
(t) London (2) Petrograd (3) Washington
GJ)5S4 V h ft V
V311.28 x21.20 /«8.i8 V31.50 rats.51^ 1325.33 1112.381^ zsG.7 9227.16IJ,
Mars is retrograde in the middle of the sign Cancer, and is only
one degree above the cusp of the ascendant at London, and is in
opposition to the Sun, which is setting. This is ample evidence of
the danger of war. Neptune is also in the ascendant retrograde, not
far from the cusp of the second house; it is in opposition to Jupiter
and was just rising at Berlin, where Mars was in the twelfth house,
" secret enemies," as lord of the tenth ; and the war was hatched in
Central Europe. The Sun ruled the second house at London and
indeed over the greater part of Europe, and its opposition to Mars is
a reminder of the enormous expenditure entailed by the war. Two
contrary tendencies were very prominent during the struggle; first
the outburst of the fighting spirit, shown by the position and aspect
of Mars; and second the drawing together of allied nations in a
common cause, which may fairly be read in connection with the
presence of Jupiter in the western angle, a position which would be
the reverse of warlike if taken alone. Mars was just on the cusp of
the twelfth house at Petrograd; Uranus was setting in western
Russia in almost exact semi-square to the Moon ; while IP 15° 51', the
degree in square to Mars, was culminating in 27° 35' E. longitude,
which also runs through western Russia, that part of the country which
saw most of the actual fighting in the early months of the war.
The United States did not join in the war until 1917, and
on turning to the map for Washington, the peaceful Venus is
culminating in Capricorn as lord of the seventh house, foreign affairs,
and is in conjunction with Mercury and free from bad aspects; a
position in accordance with the facts of the case. Moreover Venus is
also ruler of the second house, money; and the gold of the world
flowed towards the United States as a result of the war. It is true
hat warlike events proceeding in Europe could not fail to influence
American politics somewhat, and the map shows the Sun in the mid-
heaven in opposition to Mars in the fourth house; but the benefic
Venus is by far the strongest.
308 MODERN ASTROLOGY

The time of perihelion in longitude for 1917 was January 2,

11.4 a.m., and the positions as under :
X XI XII i it iii
727.44 me =t 9 X24.0 « 14 n 9
>326 —14 K25 n 15 to 1 2513
-an m 9 7 1 7 21 >326 K 6
(1) London (2) Petrograd (3) Washington
]) 5 S i X \ HI
V311.31 «5-24 -0.50 / r3-50 '<124.28 ^25.42 2528.221). =07.38 314.5^

During this year, at the beginning of February, Germany gave

notice to neutral nations that all vessels approaching the shores of
Great Britain, France and Italy would be sunk, except on a few
specified routes. The principal feature is the opposition of Mars in
Capricorn to Saturn in Cancer, both being in square to Jupiter in
Aries. At London Jupiter was Lord of the ascendant in Aries
intercepted in the first house, and also ruled the ninth and tenth ; it
was heavily afflicted by the aspects just mentioned and received no
good aspect; in fact there are only two definitely fortunate aspects in
the map, namely the Moon applying to the trine of the Sun, and Venus
to the sextile of Uranus, the martial opposition and two squares
dominating the whole. At Berlin the Sun was culminating and Jupiter
rising, showing the strong position of that country for the time being.
On March 13, 1917, the revolution in Russia and the abdication
of the Czar occurred. The map for Petrograd shows Mars culminating
in opposition to Saturn. Mercury is lord of the Ascendant and is in
the mid-heaven separating from the conjunction of Mars, the square of
Jupiter, and the opposition of Saturn, and is applying to the opposition
of Neptune, a very heavy accumulation of evil.
The United States broke off relations with Germany and Austria
on February 3, 1917, and President Wilson signed the declaration of
war with Germany on April 6. The map for Washington is not quite
so remarkable or significant as that for Petrograd, for there is nothing
in either the tenth or seventh house. Mars is on the cusp of the
second house in opposition to Saturn on that of the eighth, both of
them squaring Jupiter, lord of the ascendant in the fourth house.
Mercury is lord of the seventh house, foreign relations, and is in the
second, wich the heavy afflictions just mentioned. The map contains
much evidence of violence, and the aspects of Mercury show foreign
 PERIHELION LONGITUDE

affairs in a very disturbed condition ; but it is probable that anyone

who had consulted this map a year or two in advance would have
expected the trouble to fall chiefly upon the second and eighth houses
and have anticipated money losses, heavy national expenditure, and
a high death rate. These actually occurred, of course, but a definite
prediction of war on a great scale would not have been easy for
anyone writing a considerable time before the event.
Perihelion in longitude for the year 1918 occurred on January 2,
at 5.18 a.m. This was the year of the armistice of November 11.
X xt XII 1 ii in
T 1.6 » 10 023 aB27.24 fl 13 H 3
Tl6 a 26 <9 7 SI 8 ft 24 nji 16
«I3 = 6 ^ 7 T23 a 27 (121
(i) London (2) Berlin,- (3) Washington
QD tf i i y. 12 [Jtv
Mil.31 itRii.23 M 13.715. 5S22.52 0*27.37 02.261}. ,0.13.1715. =21.27 JI6.22I5.

Fighting ceased on November 11, 1918, but the Peace Treaty

was not actually signed until the following year. If the planetary
positions given above are compared with those for 1914 it will be seen
that there is an absence of martial warlike indications. The cessation
of fighting was not the result of any overwhelming victory on the part
of the Allies but followed the revolution in Germany and the collapse
of the German offensive resulting therefrom. This is indicated in the
map for Berlin by Neptune rising in conjunction with Saturn, the
latter planet being lord of the seventh house and in semi-square to
Mars lord of the tenth; Neptune and Saturn are the only two planets
angular. On turning to the map for London, it will be seen that
nothing is angular, for Neptune and Saturn are on the cusp of the
second house; the rising degree is in sextile to Mars and the
culminating degree is trine Neptune and sextile Jupiter. The map
for Washington shows the Sun and Mercury culminating, the only
two bodies angular, and they are free from affliction by Mars. The
rising degree is in sextile to Venus and Uranus, and the culminating
degree is in trine to the Moon.
The Peace Treaty was signed by the German Delegates on
28/6/1919 and by Austrian Delegates on 10/9/1919. The Perihelion
map was on 2/1/1919, 11.32 p.m.:
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
X XI XII 1 II III
(1) 1320.22 5126 SL28 "1122.3? ^15 "I 15
(2) as 3 g 115 g ^2 ^26 11126
(3) T 3 « 9 niy as20 a, 10 hr 3
(1) London (2) Berlin (3) Washington

W 11.32 VJig.io Xtg.15 VJ2i.io =110.42 as 10.414127.431^ =25.15 A8.3gl^

In these three maps, the Sun, Moon, and Venus are in conjunc-
tion in Capricorn, in opposition to Jupiter in Cancer, a combination
peaceful and the reverse of warlike in spite of the opposition. Jupiter
is in the midheaven at London and Berlin, and has just risen at
Washington. The Sun, Moon, and Venus are in the fourth house at
Berlin and London, and are setting at Washington. No malefic
planet is angular in any of the maps, and the indications are decidedly
towards peace. The only disturbing positions are the oppositions of
Mars to Neptune and of Saturn to Uranus, and these seem to have
significance in connection with strikes, unemployment, money troubles,
and the weakening of authority.
On the whole I think it may be said that these four years' maps
afford a very fair indication of the general course of events during the
year. Whether they indicate events in detail from month to month
is more doubtful and still remains to be proved.

(.To be continued)

Notice
Owing to the severe and long continued illness of Miss Florence
Higgs, the valued Secretary of the Correspondence Lessons Depart-
ment, she is compelled to resign from her work in connection with
" Modern Astrology " Office.
This will be regretted by readers all the World over, as Miss
Higgs has done invaluable and splendid work in the past.
Mrs Leo is therefore anxious to find a young lady typist with
a knowledge of Astrology who can in some measure fill Miss Higgs'
place at the Office. A knowledge of both subjects is absolutely
essential.
Applicants should apply (by letter) to Offices of " Modern
Astrology," stating age, qualifications, etc.
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^stroiiamg for Astrologers

By Vivian E. Robson, B.Sc.
[Continued Jrom p. 283)
IN the casting of a horoscope it is essential to use local mean
time for the mundane houses and Greenwich mean time for the planets.
We have already seen that mean noon at Greenwich is the moment
when the mean Sun is exactly on the meridian or cusp of the tenth
house at Greenwich, and from this it follows that mean noon for any
other place is the moment when the mean Sun is on the meridian of
that place.
Owing to the earth's rotation the Sun comes to the meridian of
Greenwich earlier than it does to that of a place further west, and
the interval elapsing between Greenwich mean noon and local mean
noon of any other place depends entirely upon the difference of longitude
between the two places. The earth rotates through 15° in each hour
of mean time, and therefore the Sun will be on the meridian in
longitude 15° West at exactly one hourafter Greenwich noon. At this
moment it is local mean noon at the place in question, and 1 p.m. at
Greenwich. Now the degree upon the cusp of the tenth house depends
entirely upon the position of the Sun in regard to the place and in
order to obtain this correctly we must obviously use local time, but
the planetary positions are quite independent of locality, and as they
are given for Greenwich noon in the Ephemeris we must find the
Greenwich time to which our local time corresponds and use that
when calculating the planetary longitudes.
To convert Greenwich mean time into local mean time, turn
the longitude of the place into time at the rate of one hour for 15°,
four minutes for 1°, and four seconds for T. If the place is West
of Greenwich subtract the longitude in time from Greenwich time, and
if East add it.]
To convert local mean time into Greenwich mean time, add
the longitude in time to the local time if the place is West, and
subtract it if East.
312 MODERN ASTROLOGY

It is unnecessary to enter into further details in connection with

local time and standard time as a very clear account may be found in
the introductory chapters of Casting the Horoscope, and we may pass
on to the vexed question of Tables of Houses.
A Table of Houses for any latitude is constructed to show at
a glance the degrees of the zodiac upon the cusps of the mundane
houses when any particular degree is on the meridian. We have
already seen that the Right Ascension of the Meridian is only another
name for Sidereal Time, and therefore a given Sidereal Time will
correspond to a particular degree of the zodiac on the midheaven no
matter what the latitude of the place may be, and a cursory glance at
a set of Tables will show that the midheaven degree and sidereal time
are the same for all latitudes.
The most important points at any place are the degree overhead
upon the cusp of the tenth house and the degree that is exactly rising
on the Eastern horizon. Owing to the fact that the earth's axis is
inclined to the plane of its orbit, or the ecliptic, the signs do not rise
evenly and sometimes a large part of the ecliptic may be contained
between the midheaven and ascendant while at other times only
a small section is included. It is impossible to explain this lucidly in
words and the only way to grasp the idea is to examine a globe,
when it will become clear at once.
If we are given a sidereal time it is easy to calculate the degree
on the meridian and that on the ascendant with absolute astronomical
accuracy, and the process will be explained later, but it is when
dealing with the intermediate cusps that uncertainty arises. Granted
that we are to have twelve houses, it follows that the space between
midheaven and ascendant (and also the other quadrants) must be
divided into three parts, but authorities do not agree as to the exact
method of division to be adopted and several systems have been put
forward, of which three are deserving of attention, viz. that of
Placidus, upon which our present Tables are constructed, and those of
Regioraontanus and Campanus. Before entering into the mathematical
processes by which Tables of Houses are constructed it will be
advisable to explain the principles upon which these different methods
rest, and a few definitions become necessary.
The Semi-Arc of a body or point is half the time it remains
 ASTRONOMY FOR ASTROLOGERS

above (diurnal semi-arc) or below (nocturnal semi-arc) the horizon.

The semi-arc may be expressed in time or in degrees of right ascension.
It varies according to the declination of the body or point and the
latitude of the place.
The Zenith and Nadir of a place are the points immediately
overhead and underfoot respectively, and are joined by a line passing
through the centre of the earth.
A Great Circle is one that passes through the centre of a sphere.
The Meridian is the great circle passing through the zenith,
nadir, and North and South poles.
The Prime Vertical is the great circle at right angles to the
meridian that passes through the zenith, nadir, and the East and West
points of the horizon.
The term Pole is an abbreviation denoting the elevation of the
celestial pole above the horizon, the celestial pole being a projection of
the earth's pole into space. The " pole " of the ascendant is equal to
the latitude of the place, and the pole of the midheaven is always 0°.
[To be continued.)

New Star or Comet ?

Prof. W. W. Campbell, with his wife and three guests, one
of whom was Prof. H. N. Russell, at Lick Observatory on August 7,
shortly before sunset, saw a bright object near the Sun, having
the approximate position R.A. 91'22m, Dec 160N, Long SL17053'.
Five observers agreed that the body was starlike and that it was
brighter than Venus would have been in the same position. It has
not been seen since although carefully searched for, and is conjectured
to have been either a Nova (new star) or a Comet; but if the former
it was the most brilliant seen since that of Tycho Brahe.
At Konigstuhl Observatory near Heidelberg on the night of
August 8th-9th, luminous bands were seen across the clear sky from
W.N.W. to E.S.E. It was suggested that it might be caused by the
light object seen in the United States. A similar phenomenon
occurred when the earth passed through the tail of the great Comet on
June 30, 1861; but there is also a possibility that the streamers may
have been auroral.
The increase in the number of cases of smallpox in England
during August was centred chiefly at Nottingham. It is significant
in connection with the presence of the Sun, Moon and Mars in the
sixth house at the August New Moon.
314

Jlitatoir to (Question

Can yon tell me how to find the Parallel of Ascendant and

Mid heaven at birth? I cannot see instructions on the point in any
of the astrological manuals.
We presume our correspondent wishes to find the declination of
the degrees on the Ascendant and M.C. This may be determined by
proportion from the table on p. 349 of Casting the Horoscope or by
means of the following formula :
Log sine obliquity of ecliptic (23° 27')
+ Log sine longitude from T or (or logcosme longitude from
® or Vj).
= Log sine Declination.
Thus to find the declination of the Ascendant in the German
President's horoscope (p. 297) we should proceed as follows:
Asc. is n 14.31, which is 74° 31' from T. Then
Log sine 23° 27' = 9.59983
+ Log sine 74° 31' = 9.98395
= Log sine 22° 33' = 9.58378

The required declination is therefore 220N33'.

The declination of the M.C. is found in a similar manner but it
is necessary to use the log cosine of its longitude from viz. 41° 45'.
From T to TR inclusive the declination is N and from — to K
it is S.

King Peter of Serbia died at Belgrade on August 17. The

map for the August New Moon at Belgrade showed Capricorn 26°
culminating and Aries 12° rising. The Sun and Moon were in the
fifth house in conjunction with Mars, lord of the ascendant and
eighth house, and in semi-square to Satum, lord of the tenth. On the
day of death Mars had progressed to the semi-square of the place of
Saturn.
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dorrespcmiience

The Editors do not assume responsibility for any statements or ideas advanced
by their correspondents, and the publication of letters does not necessarily imply
sympathy with the views expressed therein.

What Rules the Sea ?

To the Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir.—Can you tell me why Cancer is supposed to rule the
seas and oceans ? It seems to me these have far more affinity with
Pisces, both in accordance with their ebb and flow,—mutable swaying
motion, and also with their profundity, in many places unfathomable ;
while Cancer, cardinal, or flowing motion, would be more nearly allied
to rivers and perhaps to the larger lakes and inland seas.
I know the ' moods' of Cancer are generally compared to the
moods of the sea, but large rivers and lakes have their ' moods' also
and are even capable of dangerous storms.
As for the name ' Cancer,'—the crab does not belong exclusively
to the seas ; there are also land crabs, though they all seem to prefer
moist habitations. In some countries they may be seen in thousands,
many miles from the sea, particularly after heavy rain.
A propos, a friend who has H D and 2 in conjunction in Cancer,
hates the sea, and dislikes to be near it or on it, but endures it for the
sake of travelling ; and has a love for the sound of running water, as
in rivers—while I have no planet in Cancer, but the D in Pisces, and
am, and always have been, very fond of the sea and love to voyage
across the oceans, in spite of the fact that I am not a particularly good
sailor, perhaps because my D is afflicted !
It would be interesting to know how other students are affected
by these influences, and it might perhaps throw some new light on
a point which has always puzzled me and probably others also.
I am, Sir, yours very truly,
(Miss) A. Whittall
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

The Part of Fortune

To the Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,—With reference to Mr Macnaughton's letter, it is
extremely gratifying to find that three of us, working quite indepen-
dently, have largely reached the same results. It augurs well for the
increase of knowledge to be ultimately gathered from this field.
" A Nurse's " remarks on the Part of Fortune are a similar case.
It certainly constantly indicates a great centre of activity. Some who
are essentially students, for example, have it in the third house; at
other times the sign-position seems more important, as is shown in the
nativity of the first Duke of Marlborough, who had it conjunction
Jupiter in Scorpio, so far as I can see about the only indication in the
map of military proclivities and success. If students were to study
the P.F. from this standpoint I think its honour would soon be restored,
but as an index of wealth it seems to me a complete failure, except
in so far as the native's interests lie in that direction. Like your
contributor I find it hard to trace a definite response to aspects from
other bodies, except in the case of conjunctions and perhaps oppositions.
May I take this opportunity of thanking the many who kindly
responded to my appeal for astro-medical data ? I hope to use these
to advantage in due course, ar.d shall welcome any further examples
that may be forthcoming.
Yours sincerely,
Charles Carter

The World Horoscope

To the Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,—I notice in the May number two astrologers are
stated to claim knowledge of the World Horoscope. Failing that it
would be interesting to have that for Thoth 1, Feb. 26th, 747 B.C., the
Era of Nabonassar, or that for Nebuchadressar's ascession to the
Babylonian throne, from which the Biblical cycles are measured.
For our own land probably the crowning of William I., Christmas
Day, 1066, might serve for a Radical horoscope, failing a better.
Some of your contributors seen to overlook such controlling radical
 CORRESPONDENCE 317
planetary positions. I presume the d 9 forecasts were based on
the 1899 Dec. New Moon map, otherwise occurring every thirteen
years, though in a different sign, the statements of its effects seem
exaggerated.
I suppose the conjunction of Jupiter with Saturn in the first
decanate of Aries would serve for a radix for the following 960 years,
or at least have some controlling influence with the 1842 Mutation
conjunction on the effects of the coming conjunction on Sept. 10th.
If there is a Mundane book of horoscopes of historic times
similar to that of the 1001 Nativities I should be pleased to hear of it,
but I expect such a book has not been compiled.
Please excuse this rather lengthy letter. I have found the
Magazine helpful in many ways and not least because you have not
dispensed with the " religious dope" mentioned by your correspondent
(Nov. 19 issue) for his " practical common sense."
I am, yours sincerely,
(Rev) F. J. Harper

Retrograde Planets
To the Editor, MODERN ASTROLOGY
Dear Sir,—I am much obliged for the birth data of Mr P. W,
Robinson which he has kindly allowed you to send me. I have been
studying his radical map and also his progressed directions for the
time when Mercury became Direct. As to the former I should like
to say, apart from expressing any opinion on the effects of a Retrograde
Mercury, that any mental hindrance he may have experienced in youth
would, it seems to me, be accounted for by Mercury's applying to the
close conjunction of Saturn in Aries quite as much as by the planet
being Retrograde.
Then as to the year that Mercury became Direct which was
between his 21st and 22nd birthdays, that is in his 22ndyearI Mercury
moved forward two degrees from Aries 1° 28' to Aries 1° 30', and also
came to the parallel of the progressed J upiter. This parallel is a
powerful mental awakener especially when occurring in the sign Aries,
ruling the head, and prominently placed in the M.C. By the way
I think it must be due to a clerical error that Mr Robinson says that
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

the planets were on the cusp of the ninth house. I cannot see that
Aries was on the cusp of either the radical or progressed ninth houses.
It was not till the following year when the Moon passed from
25° Taurus to 7° Gemini, forming good aspects all the while, specially
to be noted are the sextiles to Mercury and Jupiter, that the mental
development took place. This proves again that Gemini rules the
mind and that the Moon acts as a receiver and transmitter of planetary
influences.
It is rather to be regretted that the parallel of Mercury and
Jupiter obscures the issue somewhat. Had Mercury becoming Direct
been the only progressed influence at work when the mind developed
it would have been a direct proof of its power to take control. But
as it is, I am afraid, the most one can say is that Mercury Direct
shares the honours with Mercury Parallel Jupiter.
Yours faithfully,
Maud Margesson

Our prediction at the Summer Quarter of differences between

the two Houses of Parliament was fulfilled. The Lords' Amendments
caused the loss of the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, and on
August 17 the Lords carried two Amendments against the Government
on the Safeguarding of Industries Bill.

The serious rebellion among the Moplahs in the Malabar district

of India followed the rising position of Mars in the map for the
Summer Solstice at Calcutta, with Saturn on the cusp of the fourth
house, and the Moon setting in opposition to Mercury in the ascendant.
These are the positions when the correction in the cusps noted
elsewhere has been made, and they show a spirit of turbulence and
opposition to the Government. The rebellion occurred in August,
and a map for the New Moon at Calicut, lat. 11° 15N, long. S1* 3m 24CE,
shows Uranus in the mid-heaven in almost exact square to the rising
degree. At the Summer Quarter at Calicut, Uranus was closely
culminating in opposition to Jupiter and Saturn.

Corrigendum. Owing to a mistake in Sidereal Time the cusps

at Calcutta, page 164 June, were incorrectly given. They should read
as follows.
x xi xii i ii Hi
K2l T25 no (B2 asze M.2I
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY 319

Draco. The Dragon. One of the 48 original constellations,

and situated in the Northern hemisphere. It is said by Ptolemy to be
of the influence of Saturn and Mars, and according to P. Christian it
gives a sombre disposition, with danger of accidental poisoning. By
the Kabalists Draco is associated with the Hebrew letter Mem and
the thirteenth Tarot Trump, Death.
Dragon's Head. See Caput Draconis.
Dragon's Tail. See Cauda Draconis.
Drekkana. The Hindu term for decanate (g.v.).
Dumb Signs. ®, ni, and K-. They are said to cause impedi-
ments in the speech if ascending or prominent in the horoscope,
S being at the same time afflicted. It has been suggested that the
reason for their dumbness is to be found in the fact that the animals
they represent are without voice. Also called mute signs.
DUODENARIUM. A term probably synonymous with dodecate-
morion (g.v.). The expressions "duodenarium lunse " and " duodenary"
are used by Bonatus, but no explanation is given.
Dwadasamsha. A Hindu division of the Zodiac into 144 parts,
each Dwadasamsha being one-twelfth of a sign in extent, or 2%°.
The first division, or 0° to 2o30', of each sign is ruled by the sign
itself, and the succeeding divisions by the signs following in order.
Thus 0° to 2o30' of "l is ruled by ui, 2o30' to 5° by f and so on.
Dysis. The western angle.

Earthy Signs. b, ujj, and Vy, which govern the physical

condition of things.
Earthy Triplicity. The triplicity composed of the three
earthy signs. In Esoteric Astrology it is related to the physical
plane.
East. One of the four cardinal points. The ascendant is the
eastern angle of the horoscope.
East-Point System. A suggested method of house division.
It has not been used in practice, but a description of it may be found
in Casting the Horoscope, p. 176.
Easter. A moveable feast. It is kept on the first Sunday
320 MODERN ASTROLOGY

after the first calendar full moon happening upon, or next after, the
21st March. If the full moon happens on a Sunday, then Easter day
it the Sunday after.
ECCENTRIC. In the Ptolemaic system, an imaginary circle
introduced to account for the apparent motion of a planet in its orbit.
Eccentricity of Orbit. The deviation of the orbit from the
circular form. The eccentricity is usually expressed as the ratio of
the distance from centre to focus to the semi-axis major of the ellipse.
ECLIPSE. The term strictly implies the passing of one celestial
body through the shadow of another, as in the case of an eclipse of
the Moon, when the Moon passes through the earth's shadow. An
"eclipse" of the Sun is more correctly an occultation (q.v.) of the
Sun by the Moon. A Solar eclipse can only occur at New Moon, and
a Lunar eclipse at Full Moon, but the question of whether a lunation
will also be an eclipse depends upon the distance of the bodies
concerned from the Moon's node. In order that a Solar eclipse may
occur, the New Moon must fall within 18*35' of the Node, and in the
case of a Lunar eclipse the Full Moon must fall within 12024' of the
Node. These are the ediptic limits. Eclipses may be partial or
total according to the amount of the obscuration. There are always
two Solar eclipses every year, and sometimes three or four, and there
may be one, two, or three eclipses of the Moon, but there cannot be
more than seven eclipses in one year.
The astrological effects of eclipses are usually malefic, and are
always important both in natal and mundane horoscopes. In natal
maps they vary according to the houses and planets in or upon which
the eclipse falls, and in mundane maps upon the houses and planets
associated, together with the sign concerned and the countries and
things ruled by it. An eclipse is said to have a more powerful effect
upon those places where it is visible, but a certain amount of doubt
has been expressed as to this.
Eclipse Cycle. See Saros.
ECLIPTIC. The plane of the earth's orbit, or the apparent
yearly path of the Sun through the constellations. The plane of the
earth's equator is inclined to the ecliptic at an angle of 23027', called
the Obliquity of the Ediptic {q.v).
Ecliptic Limits. See Eclipse.
Founded August 1890 under the title of
"THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE"

Modcrp

Astrology
A Journal devoted to the search for truth concerning Astrology

New SB™.'] NOVEMBER, 1.921. [No.

®1j« (Eilitor's <®bscrbatorg

We were glad to see that the old question of the Part of Fortune
was brought up in last month's correspondence and we are hoping to
receive more letters on the subject. It is difficult to see
The Part of , r . . . , ,
Fortnne the reason for the strong objection that exists among many
astrologers to this point, unless it is that entire attention
has been paid to its supposed financial influence, which is admittedly
very doubtful. Those who have studied the Part of Fortune, however,
will agree that it is at least a sensitive point in the map and indicates
a region of activity that may or may not materialise into possessions
or hard cash. Mr Carter, the writer of the letter in question, mentions
that the sign position is often more important than the house position,
but this is to be expected, since the Part of Fortune passes through all
the signs in twenty-four hours, while remaining in the same house for
two or three days.
It is possible that our method of calculating this point is not
strictly correct. The Part of Fortune is the place that would be
occupied by the Moon if the Sun were on the Ascendant, and this
suggests that the longitude of the Sun and Moon at local sunrise should
322 MODERN ASTROLOGY

be employed, instead of their positions at the moment of birth. If this

is so, the position of the Part of Fortune as usually calculated would
often be several degrees from its true place, and to this discrepancy
might be due the fact that aspects do not appear to be very effective
in many cases.
We have found that the diurnal Part of Fortune is worthy of
notice in relation to daily events. To calculate this point, which has
not hitherto been noticed, add the sunrise or birth-time longitude of
the Moon on any given day to the radical ascendant, and subtract the
longitude of the Sun on the day in question. The position and aspects
of the resulting point will be found to have a bearing on the day's
events.
* Jje tfc sj:

In Lilly's Introduction to Astrology we are given a table showing

the parts of a ship ruled by the signs of the Zodiac, and horary figures
tend to uphold the allocation. With this example so
^the Zodisw"'^rei'uent'^ Q110^ 's surprising that no one has yet
performed a like office for the motor-car and split it up
into its component parts. Thus the piston is surely under the rule of
Aries, though this sign probably governs the engine as a whole.
Pneumatic tyres may be governed by Aquarius, petrol by Leo (the oil
being under Scorpio), the steering gear by Gemini, the radiators by
Cancer, and so on.
There is a lot of work still to be done along these lines for we do
not even know what signs govern most of the plants and animals,
though the latter could probably be settled with comparative ease by
a study of characteristics. It appears that every separate thing in the
world, while governed primarily by one of the signs, also represents in
itself the whole Zodiac, so that even a pin, which probably comes
under Aries as a whole, is more Arietic in its point, coming under Libra
in its centre of gravity and perhaps under Pisces at its other end. It
would be of great assistance if readers would communicate any points
they may have noticed in connection with the matter of sign rulership.
If this were done systematically for some years we should rapidly
accumulate a mass of information of the greatest value, though
composed of quite trivial items.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 323

We have just received the following letter from a correspondent:

The Editor, MODERN ASTROLOGY
Dear Sir,—The child whose birth-time and horos-
Pr'oblem'01' c0Pe are ^ere g'ven has a very serious defect, so I am
sending it to you as a test for you or your readers to
solve, or give the probabilities of. When you have arrived at your
conclusions I will state the exact nature of the defect, which is found
in about one in a thousand of the community, perhaps.
Yours, etc., Q. X. Z.
The map accompanying the above letter is stated to be cast for
1.30 p.m., 13 December, 1919, London, and the cuspal and planetary
positions are given as follows :
x xi xii i ii iii
V314 —4 )(6 8525 II? 026
03)8?.r U k % "f
722.33 a?.34 72.30 117.15 =^8.10 7117.58!^ "i! 11.37 W28.22
We have not had time to check these positions or to calculate the
Pre-Natal Epoch, which should be of particular interest in this case.
Meanwhile we invite our readers' opinions as to the nature of the defect.
V. E. R.

WHEN writing upon the conjunction of Mars and Neptune we

remarked upon the difficulty sometimes experienced of detecting its
effects, and the present occasion has borne out this experience, for
although some of the effects anticipated have been experienced there
are others that seem uncertain and inconclusive. It was setting in
western India and the Moplah rebellion accompanied it. The day
before the conjunction the giant airship R38 was destroyed while
flying over the Humber, and the day after an aeroplane with mails
exploded and fell in the English Char.nel. This association of fire
and water is perhaps significant although Neptune has not hitherto
been regarded as connected with aircraft. In Germany the assassina-
tion of Herr Erzberger for political reasons occurred on the day
following the conjunction, and it fell in the eighth or death house in
Germany with Mars as lord of the twelfth or secret enemies. Rioting
was renewed in Belfast a few days after, and the conjunction was
near the square of the rising degree there from the ninth house, so
that the connection of religious excitement and rioting is characteristic.
 International ^strologn

The Conjunction of Mars and Saturn

13 Nov., 1921, 9.20 a.m.
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(6) Calcutta (7) Washington
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The conjunction of Mars and Saturn occurs about every two years,
the previous occasion being on Oct. 24, 1919, when the two planets
were conjoined in the ninth degree of Virgo. On the present occasion
they are in the fifth degree of Libra; they will be culminating in
Portugal, the west of Spain and Ireland, where their influence will be
evil for governments and persons in authority, tending to the advance
of democracy, attacks upon those in power and office, the death of
statesmen, and crime directed at those high in the land. From London
eastward over Central Europe, Mars and Saturn will be in the ninth
house, threatening storms, wrecks, loss of life at sea, strikes or
accidents connected with shipping, disputes in the religious world and
the death of church dignitaries; but trouble to rulers and governments
will also be repeated here because of the semi-square of the two
planets to the Sun, lord of the eighth in the eleventh ; more than one
government will fall and some prominent ruler or statesman will die.
Financial troubles in their international bearing will be very insistent,
for Saturn is lord of the second house all over Europe, and Mars at
Washington. The two will be in the eighth house at Petrograd and
Constantinople, where there will be a high death rate and many
murders. They will be setting near the central line of India, causing
international and border trouble and tending to disturbance and the
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 325
turbulence of extremists in public life, persons prominent in the state
will be in danger. They will rise to the west of Washington, near
the middle line of the United States, and will bring a contentious,
determined, and positive spirit into the national life, with disagree-
ments in foreign affairs, and a heavy expenditure. In Europe, Vy 4° 7',
the point in square to the two planets, will rise about 55° N. and 32i0
E., 50° N. and 23^° E., 40° N. and 14° E., marking a line running
through Russia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Italy, where the effects
will be decidedly felt.
The conjunction of these two planets provides a very positive and
forceful form of energy which is apt to be rather turbulent and
destructive in public affairs, especially where it afflicts the angles of
the map. In this case, because it falls in Libra, the exaltation of
Saturn, it may be hoped that its worst effects will be restrained and
that any international difficulties provoked may ultimately be overruled
and may even help to demonstrate the necessity for union between the
different countries.
The conjunction is in opposition to King George's ascendant.

The Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter

27 Nov., 1921, 2.29 a.m.
x xi xii i ii iii
mJi.37 JirS —S-5^ 1114 '5
GD S » <r V k Hf V
44.19 in.3-52 11118.4 1n.16.33 12-28 ^5.22 K5.46 il 15-57
These two planets meet in the thirteenth degree of the sign Libra,
in the ascendant at London and Paris, and just on the cusp in east
France, Belgium, and Holland; they will culminate near Calcutta
and be on the fourth cusp in Mississippi, Illinois, Wisconsin, and
Yucatan. Mars and Jupiter when conjoined usually bring a fiery and
excitable spirit into public life, which may arouse to enthusiasm, zeal,
and activity in religion, politics, or business, but which is liable to
break the bounds of discretion and sober judgment and so cause
unwise or extravagant manifestations. Over nearly the whole of
Europe they will infuse new life into trade and commerce, but in
common with many other maps the present one showshigh expenditure
and disputes over financial problems as between the nations.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

The New Moon

29 Nov., 1921, 1.26
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(7) A13 1n.11 ^ 3 ^23 1^28 K 8
(i) London (2) Dublin (3) Berlin (4) Constantinople (5) Petrograd
(6) Calcutta (7) Washington
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76.48 11121.42 "119-39 ^13-57 "=12.54 ^■5-34 *5-48 JUS-SC
The end of Pisces rises at London with Uranus in the early part of
the sign in the twelfth house but near the Ascendant at Dublin, in
square to the luminaries in Sagittarius on the cusp of the ninth house.
This speaks of trouble for the government, some difficult problem
with danger of loss, set back, or political defeat, as well as trouble
connected with sea traffic, commerce, oversea trade, shipbuilding, or
the fleet, resulting from the scheming of rivals abroad. But the
luminaries are in sextile to Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the seventh
house, and here are possibilities of good to offset the evil. Atten-
tion will be largely directed towards international relations; and
while we shall be forming friendly bonds with some of our allies
abroad, there is serious trouble and some kind of disagreement or
diplomatic defeat threatened from some underground source elsewhere.
Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars will cross the western horizon in eastern
France, Belgium, Holland, and West Germany, which area will feel
the effects particularly ; and in West Germany and Italy the degree in
semi-square to Uranus and sesqui-quadrate to the luminaries will rise.
The labour world will share in these successes and losses, gaining in
one direction and losing in another, especially in foreign interests.
Money problems in their international bearing are marked in this
map as in so many others, Central and Eastern Europe being
especially indicated, and although there is partial gain indicated the
difficulties are very far from being at an end either for the governments
or the people.
Divorces and marriage troubles will increase, and law questions
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY
relating to them will be forced to the front in this country, also
religious difficulties and disagreements in the churches. Death will
claim persons amongst singers, speakers, writers, and actors. The
death duties will be large. There will be much disease, many deaths,
and probably some epidemic in the centre and east of Europe and in
India; in the latter country also much opposition to the ruling
authorities, trouble connected with the land and agriculture, as well
as sectarian religious difficulties.
At Washington the conjunction of Mars and Jupiter just on the
cusp of the tenth house will send a wave of excitement through the
land of a fiery martial nature, some national success will be achieved,
benefit will result through friends and allies abroad. Accidents or
strikes are threatened connected with railways, telegraphs, and
travelling, as a result of Uranus afflicted on the third cusp.

While the ex-Kaiser of Germany was walking in the grounds of

his residence on August 21, the branch of a tree accidentally fell
upon his head and felled him to the ground, but he was not seriously
injured. The August New Moon fell at Leo 10o54', close by the place
of Sstum in his horoscope at Leo 902', and on the day of the accident
Mars was transiting near the same place at Leo 11037'. Saturn is
traditionally associated with accidents by falls. Other unfavourable
transits were Jupiter and Saturn in Virgo near the opposition of his
Neptune and Mars in Pisces; while the Moon was passing through
the end of Pisces on that day. He had the directioss of the Moon to
the square of Uranus measuring to July and the progressed Midheaven
to the parallel of Saturn to October.
Three Members of Parliament died during August. A reference
to the map for the New Moon of that montb will show that Saturn
was lord of the eleventh house, Parliament, and was in square to
Venus, the ruler of the eighth or death house at London. Two of
these died on August 15 when Mars had progressed to the semi-square
of the place of Saturn, and the Moon was passing through the eleventh
house.
As has been previously pointed out, the drought at midsummer
was foreshadowed by the conjunction of Mars and the Sun in the
fourth house of the map for the Summer Quarter. At the August
New Moon this was replaced by Venus in the fourth house, and a
satisfactory amount of rain fell in all parts of the kingdom, improving
the condition of the land and the later crops as was anticipated.
 ®Ij£ Slsua at iBctTElffjjnunt

By Bessie Leo

I AM presenting this matter from the astrological standpoint in

connection with the seven planets or seven angles before the Throne
as the Christian calls them, and it is a very difficult and complicated
subject to try and make clear. There are three primary rays.
Theosophists call them Atma (spirit), Buddhi (soul), and Manas (mind).
The first ray is the Ray of Power. Astrologers know it as Uranus. It
is "power on every plane of being seen or unseen. The fire of Vril,
Kundalini, electricity, all form parts of its wondrous whole. It can
destroy and remake as by a volcano. It is spirit in action, the
Majesty of God ; it is first ray magic and is in its essence only wielded
by the men who are as Gods having transcended our humanity.
In men on earth we see power used in ruling. These men are all
great rulers. The iron will that carries all before it, the strength that
nothing can break, come under the planet Uranus. Uranus gives
great powers of leadership, ability to organise, and the capacity for
getting things done.
The disciplined Uranian on the Ray of Power uses it only for the
good of humanity. He is fearless, truthful, unconventional, not bound
by anything. The Uranian ray is the electric ray, the great ray of
power, but only when united with Love—Venus, and Mercury—
wisdom, can the power of Atma (or spirit) be wisely used to its full
complement, and so the God-men we call the Masters use it. At the
head of each ray is the planetary spirit, and the great beings we call the
Masters (the great Master Moria, Founder of the Theosophical Society
is said to be on this particular Ray).
The Second Ray is called Buddhi, the Ray of wisdom—of which
intuition in men is a partial expression. It is the great teaching Ray.
Philosophy and pure reason come under its sway. Astrologers know
it as the planet Mercury and all Mercurials love knowledge—to know
a thing—to understand it to its fullest capacity is their delight.
 THE SEVEN RAYS OF DEVELOPMENT

Not to rule but to teach in the world of men is their desire. The
wisdom that sweetly and wisely ordereth all things. They work
through the mind and must always know what and how they are to
proceed with any undertaking before accomplishing it. Intuition,
philosophy and a nimble wit are their attributes. They love wisdom
as the first Ray man loves Power, the knowledge that sees through
things owing to the alertness of the mind, and thus is very adaptable
because so quickly understanding.
The Third Ray is the Ray of Venus and gives creative activity,
art, music and beauty. Painters, Poets, Musicians all come under it
Love and beauty are its chief attributes; and harmony its keynote.
It is not only philosophical, but artistic, ever seeking the beautiful in
everything. It persuades by eloquence, uses the tact born of love and
has a most fertile imagination. It is in one of its attributes the
Astrological Ray. It sees the beauty of harmony, the beauty of the
great stellar orbs as they sweep across the blue vault of Heaven, thus
the orderly and beautiful scheme of evolution appeals to all people of
the Third Ray.
The power of God—Uranus, the wisdom of God—Mercury, the
love of God—Venus! These are the primary Rays. Then come the
other four great activities or Rays. The Astrologer knows them as
Saturn, the Moon, Mars, and Jupiter. Let us take them as forces,
working activities in the physical world. Now the planet Saturn has
chief rule of the lower mind, the concrete intellect, and your Saturnian
must have facts before him, solid realities, something he can see,
touch and handle !
Mr Alan Leo rightly gives Saturn sway over Antaskarana, the
bridge between the lower and higher mind. The Fourth Ray has
much to do with both mind and emotion, or mind in relation to desire,
for the concrete mind has to do with desire. It gives both coldness
and turbulence to the character. It is the planet of separateness, for
the intellect must criticise, analyse and weigh up everything and finds
its best outcome in loneliness—for study and research. The Saturnian
loves Justice and Law, not so much the Grace of God, as the Justice of
God. Thus he makes a good judge, lawyer, barrister, etc. His keen
commonsense and worldly wisdom is remarkable, but he is honest,
just and truthful. The true Saturnian is a very fine character. He
330 MODERN ASTROLOGY

loves action, and the physical world generally, position and responsi-
bility. His chief trouble is his separateness, he cannot easily
amalgamate with others. We all, as astrologers, know the vices of
Saturn, so I will not enumerate them, but the chief point to remember
is that the Fourth Ray, or Saturn, governs the concrete intellect.
Fifth Ray. Next comes the Moon, and here you get your
scientist. It is the scientific mind that reasons, doubts all that is
unproven, is keen and cold. This kind is typical of the Fifth Ray.
It is very fine and useful in its own way, and is ruled by the Moon.
Sixth Ray. In the lower stages the people on this Ray are
given over to passions of every kind, in its higher, to the purer emotions.
It is Kama, or desire, as including the whole of the love nature, and is
ruled by Mars. It is not good or bad when seen as a whole. All things
are good until we ought to have outgrown them. Sex passion is a striking
example of this. In its own place it is magnificent. Without it the world
could not exist. Even in the lower animals it is the reflex of the great
creative Power thrown down from the Logos into the lower form-
As it becomes more refined Mother-love grows out of it, then a more
permanent tie is formed, and so on. But fundamentally it is one and
the same all through. Only as we evolve, some of its manifestations
are degrading, because we should have outgrown them. Therefore
sex passion is not in itself bad—it is the creative activity. In its
higher phases, Kama is that divine power of love, drawing the
manifested love into the One life.
The seventh ray is under the rule of Jupiter. Occultly this has
to do with all forms and therefore with manifested beauty. All
divine manifestation is beautiful, no form as it comes from God
but is perfect. Everything connected with form and beauty is
on this ray. All ceremonial in churches ; everything and everybody
in the symbolism or gesture which expresses life beautifully comes
under this influence. So also Masonry because it is symbolical of
truth its ceremonies are or should be beautiful, and the ceremonial of
the Roman Catholic Church when beautifully done is very fine. Art
also as the cult of the beautiful is on this ray. In this way we may
regard all who are on the Seventh Ray as having the duty of bringing
the beautiful into life, of resisting the ugly, vulgar and coarse. This
line or Ray represents the Splendour of God.
 THE SEVEN RAYS OF DEVELOPMENT 331
Looking at these Rays as a whole, there should grow out of it
for us the power to accept any type of. manifestation and life.
Looking at the world from this standpoint of the Rays, it is like
a spectrum. You may like one colour more than another, but all are
equally necessary and are therefore equally beautiful. You must
have the seven types in the world, and it is sheer impertinence for
one type to look down on another. They are co-eternal, none is
before or after the other, none greater nor less.
That view of the world is the one that the occultist should take.
Understanding the types should make us useful in the world. For
if you get rid of the idea of any inequality in the types it will enable
you to use your powers in any direction to the best of your ability.
The First, Fourth and Seventh Rays are, as it were, related to
each other. Anyone who has the accuracy of the scientist is the
most promising to move into the Second Ray to become a Teacher.
Then you have to add to the power of gaining knowledge the love
aspect; that is work to develop compassion. Working at that you
wed knowledge to love and so produce wisdom, for knowledge works
outside and love from within.
On the Fourth Ray you have to balance emotion and intellect,
develop the will, change desire into will, and thus you can link up with
the First Ray and get power to accomplish all things.
Study along these lines and try to see where you can bring about
the most result with the least expenditure of energy; that is what
every occultist aims at. According to your Ray use your forces for
working on others for their good and co-operate with others who
are required for work on other lines.
There are certain faults and virtues peculiar to each ray.
First Ray—Will. An imperious temper, ambition, a desire to
dominate over others and tyrannise over all will come out strongly in
the person of low standing on the First Ray.
Second Ray is really deficient in defects. They show a serene
indifference to everybody and everything. They are apt to slip out of
the world because they do not care for it, they are not interested in it.
Think about these rays until instinctively you classify everything,
men, plants, animals according to them.
 332 MODERN ASTROLOGV

Estimate how much this view will widen and develop the
understanding if you follow along these lines.
Astrologers should know that there is the Personal as well as the
Individual Ray in each horoscope. These rays are sometimes very
contradictory and make life very strenuous.
It is a very difficult thing to find out the Individual Ray, but the
Personal of course is quite easy, being under the ruling planet, and
its position and house. But there is another Ray that Astrologers do
not touch upon at all; it is called the Spiritual Ray. It has to do with
the birth of the Spirit when God first differentiated the Universe.
So when people ask you very glibly " What Ray am I on ? " you can
very soon tell them their personal Ray, but when it comes to the
individual Ray which has a great deal to do with the causal body it is a
much more complicated matter and should never be lightly undertaken.
Indeed, to read a horoscope esoterically is a task fitted for an adept,
and there are very few adepts in the true sense or even occultists,
because a true adept is a complete Altruist and desires nothing,
no-thing, for the personal self, only works by God's plan for the
evolution of individuals and the world generally. He is then truly
a servant of the Most High, a Master of wisdom, one of those wise elder
brothers whose compassionate love guards the human family, and
lives but to bless and sacrifice joyfully the glory of the Spiritual Plane
to keep in touch with this world of men, co-operating with them, ever
helping them forward in their progress and emancipation from the
bonds of matter.

According to Professor F. J. J. See, Government Astronomer

at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, the extraordinarily warm
weather of the present summer was caused by an unusual downpour
of meteors on the Sun, increasing its radiation and effective surface
temperature. Premising that unusually warm summers occur every
ten or eleven years, he says: "Since a mass of meteoric matter
greater than our Moon is falling into the Sun every century, it is very
improbable that the downpour proceeds at a uniform rate. If it
comes down in gusts under the actions of the chief planets Jupiter and
Saturn, which are now near conjunction and are seen together in our
evening sky, then we should have sudden increases of the Sun's
radiation just as we now witness all over the world."
 333

$)rdfessians anb (@£rupatxons

By Duncan Macnaughton, M.A., W.S.

VIII.—Meteorologists

METEOROLOGY is "the science which treats of the phenomena

which have their origin in the air, such as rain, lightning, meteors,
fogs, etc." Though the word is obviously derived from ' meteor'
yet meteors are properly a subject for the investigation of astronomers
rather than meteorologists as the term is now understood.
The principal blend in the study of Meteorology is undoubtedly
8 ill 15 degrees of barometric pressure (also found in other types of
pressure, e.g. in explosions). Degrees frequently blended are n # 15
and 8 HI 8 or other degrees of 8 HI whose significance in this
connection is not yet clear. 8 I'l 8, it may also be mentioned, have
a strong influence upon sex. The sex habits of races are greatly
influenced by the climatic conditions under which they live.
The following are a few examples of meteorologists whose birth
time is known:
Dr H. R. Mill was born atThurso on 28th May, 1861, at 3 p.m.
The Sun is in the 8th house in the 15th degree Campanus, equivalent
to 1il 15. ? W and $ are also in the 8th house in conjunction, 5
being in n 15 in sextile to Pluto ruler of the 10th house. In 1883 the
M.C. was progressed sextile Sun radical and in the following year he
was appointed Chemist and Physicist to the Scottish Marine station.
From 1887 to 1900 he was University Extension Lecturer. In 1888
the M.C. was progressed sextile Venus and Uranus radical. In 1891
the M.C. was progressed SL 15 sextile Mercury radical and in the
following year he was awarded the Makdougall Brisbane Medal. In
1893 the M.C. was progressed conjunction Pluto when Dr Mill
became recorder of Section E of the British Association. In 1901
the Ascendant was progressed 6 trine <7 r SB 6 and sextile p '"R 6.
He was in that year President of Section E of the British Association,
and became editor of Symons' Meteorological Magazine.
 334 MODERN ASTROLOGY

R. C. Mossman was born at Edinburgh on 7th November, 1370,

at 7 a.m. The Sun was in Scorpio 15 in Ascendant, Venus being in
I'l 6.50 d 5 in I'l 5.27 sextile <? in ■"R 4.57. In 1888 the M.C. was
progressed sextile Sun radical. From 1886 to 1900 he was at the
Meteorological station in Edinburgh. During that period the third
cusp Campanus had successively progressed sextile B, opposition <7,
trine S ? . From 1902 to 1907 the 12th cusp Campanus successively
progressed opposition B, sextile <?, conjunction 5 2 , This was a very
fruitful period in meteorological research and travel (Mercury and
Mars bringing into effect n 26 and T === 26, stimulated by b in ■? 26
and If in n 26). From 1902 to 1904 Mr Mossman was meteorologist
with the Antarctic Expedition. In 1906 he visited Spitzbergen and
the Arctic Regions on a whaler, and in 1907 he was appointed
superintendent of publications in the Argentine Meteorological Office,
b and U are in •? n 7 of the constellations, degrees connected with
writings. As might have been expected his own contributions to the
literature of Meteorology are numerous.
C. T. R. Wilson was born at Glencorse, Midlothian on 14th
February, 1869, at 4 a.m. He has three planets in the 2nd house and
one in the 8th. His contribution to Meteorology has been on
somewhat different lines from that of the other meteorologists
mentioned. By experiment hs discovered that "'ionised air, even if
dust-free, produces cloudy condensation if vigorously cooled by
expansion." b is the planet that rules condensation, and his horoscope
has •? IS on. Ascendant with b rising in •? 15.49 trine 1?, ruler of the
10th in T 15 and If in T 13. He is now just on the point of making
some important contribution to the science as his M.C. is progressed
close to J 15.
H. N. Dickson was born at Edinburgh on 24th June, 1866, at
8 a.m. He is Professor of Geography at University College, Reading.
He was President of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1911-12, b
being in ill 6 in 4th, opposition <7 in 8 8 in 10th, trine (Dp 25 bj
sextile $ p "tK 5.
Dr Cargill Knott was born at Penicuik on 30th June, 1856, at
1.30 a.m. He published a paper on Solar Radiation and Earth
Temperature in 1901. <7 was progressed to 14, 8 trine © radical in
25 8 and b p 25 10.
 PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS 335
R. L. Stevenson (N.N. 243) published a paper on the Thermal
influence of Forests in 1873. He had U =*= 13, sextile Sp t 114,
opposition1? T 14.
It will be noticed that cT or W is prominent in the majority of the
above horoscopes owing to the influence of heat upon weather
conditions. The opposite, cold and condensation, Saturn and Pluto,
Capricorn and Cancer, also have strong positions and aspects.
In the following cases the birthtime is not known but the
planetary positions in the zodiac are significant:
Falb, born 13th April, 1838, had ? conjunction ^ in close aspect
to Mars and Saturn and sextile S in 8 8.
Loomis, born 7th August, 1811, had ^ in ui 15 and <? in •? 2.24
on I'l 15 con. In 1882 he published a map showing the mean rainfall
of the globe. S was progressed to Ic? 14.
Leverrier, born 11th March, 1811, had cT in ^ 1.43 on lU 14
sextile 1. He devised a method for examining the direction of storms.
Joule, born 24th September, 1818, had •? in K 14 trine ? inUJ. 16.
On 26th November, 1867, he read a paper on the method of observing
the temperature of the air. ? was progressed 1C5 2.47 on t 15 con.
5p cTp and ©p were in conjunction in 1>L
J. D. Forbes, born 20th April, 1809, had ^ in t 2.44 on ]rl IS
con. 1 was in n 8 sextile U 5.
Maury, born 14th January, 1806, had ^ conjunction'1? .sextile U.
J. Y. Buchanan, born 20th February, 1844, had b in ^ 1.55,
conjunction S ~ 4.27, sextile 1 T 4.16. He published a paper in
1899 when $ was progressed to T 3.34.
Turning to the World Horoscope 8 15™! were on the 2nd and
8th cusps from 1592 to 1664. In 1564 Galileo had discovered the
pressure of the air, and it was demonstrated by Torricelli, the inventor
of the barometer, about A.D. 1643. In 1647 Pascal found that the
pressure varied with the height.
Looking to the future there will probably be some important
contribution to Meteorology about the end of February or beginning of
March, 1925, when b is in "I 14 opposition cT sextile U. It need
hardly be added that from the astrological point of view the science
cannot progress very far till it goes behind the immediate causes of
weather variation to find the ultimate cause. If asked the ultimate
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

cause meteorologists would probably answer that the influence of the

Sun and Moon is the ultimate cause of weather changes, but if this
were really so, climatic conditions would repeat themselves every
nineteen years with very slight variation. This, it need hardly be
said, is far from being the case. There are definite seasonal changes
due to the earth's position relatively to the Sun. These are profoundly
modified by the nature of the locality of the earth's surface and by
the position of the Moon and planets, in particular by the aspects
formed by Uranus and Venus and the aspects of planets to h I'l 15.
I shall not enlarge on the subject here except to predict that 1922
will be warmer than usual in most parts of the globe in January
and February, and February, 1925, will be colder than normal.

The Marquis of Milford Haven, better known as Admiral

Prince Louis of Battenberg, was born 24/5/1854 at Gratz, Austria, and
died of heart failure following influenza at London on 11/9/1921,
0.30 p.m. GMT. He had been in the British Navy all his life and held
the office of First Sea Lord at the time the great war began ; it was he
who ordered the Navy to prepare to mobilise, and in the opinion of
some he saved this country by doing so although the drawback of his
foreign origin compelled him to resign shortly afterwards. His time
of birth is unknown but the noon positions were as under (a) and
the progressed places for age 67 years (b).
O 5 S
tut 111.56 we.xy B27.20 T17.36 t 8.4 «27.»4 n 4.55 b 13.49 *15-47
(i) A6.56 ±7.28 41 7.58^ ss 3.14 ^12.16 vj20.44^ 1112.51 b 16.31 *15.32
At birth he had Sun parallel Jupiter, conjunction Saturn, square
Mars, mixed influences; but Moon conjunction Uranus and trine
Mars were good positions for a fighting man in authority, supported
as they were by Mercury trine Jupiter exact. The New Moon of
September 2 immediately preceding death fell at tDJ 9.7, only one
degree from his Mars and near the square of his Sun and Saturn,
while Uranus was transiting at 7.13 in opposition and square
to the same places. The presence of the Sun and Mercury both
afflicted in Leo may be noted in connection with heart failure. The
task of guessing an ascendant is always a thankless one, but the fact
that he died the day after the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
suggests that the third decanate of Virgo may have been rising, and
this would put the Sun, Saturn, Mercury, and Uranus in the ninth
house—ships—or near the cusp at birth, and would bring the direction
0p O ])r very close at death, as well as making the ascendant at
death nearly the same as the progressed ascendant.
 337

3p£ril;flion %ongitnde

By H. S. Green

{Continued from p. 310)

The maps that follow are those for sundry other years, and are
employed to test the theory because of important events during those
years, which events should certainly be indicated to some extent in
the maps if the theory has any value.
The Boer War began in October, 1899. The time of perihelion
longitude for that year was January 1, 6.57 p.m.
x xi xii i ii iii
(1) T27,28 n 6 3214 14.47 ^ 2
(2) a 46.36 a 21 «15 it 13.26 irB23 ii28
(1) London (2) Pretoria
© d e t s v V v V
vjii.13 1*53.13 ; 21.40 ^ 4.2 41,5.61^ ni6.6 T 17.47 ^6.0 2022.531^
The middle of Leo is rising both at London and Pretoria with
Mars just above the ascendant retrograde, in square to Jupiter in
Scorpio (in the third house at Pretoria and the fourth at London).
Mars is also in parallel declination with the Sun, Saturn, and Neptune.
It is worth noting that the Boer War and the recent Great War both
showed Mars rising retrograde in the perihelion map for the year.
There are various other points of interest that will be seen on
inspection, such as the conjunction of Mercury and Saturn in the fifth
house in opposition to Neptune in the eleventh, which may remind us
of the hostile attitude towards this country adopted by our nominal
friends and allies abroad. The Boer Ultimatum was dated October
9th, and an answer was demanded by October 11th, on which day
Mars and Jupiter were in conjunction in the 14th degree of Scorpio,
in square to the rising degree at Pretoria.
The war continued during the whole of the year 1900; the
perihelion map for that year falling on January 2nd, 1.8 a.m., and
showing the Sun, Mars, and the Moon in conjunction in Capricorn.
 MOBERN ASTROLOGY

The angles of the map were quite unafflicted at London, but Jupiter,
Uranus, Mercury, and Saturn were rising in Sagittarius at Pretoria
in opposition to Neptune setting ; and the conflict, which had brought
some unwelcome reverses to British Arms at the end of 1899 now
began to tell against the Boers.
The next date was 2nd January, 1901, 7.22 a.m.
x xi xii i ii iii
(1) m. 4 0 1126 / 13 ^ 28.45 =;i5 T 2
(2) rn 18 / 7 /23 V310 K 5 T20
(3) "115 =2=13 "I 6 ; 5 vj 7
(1) London (2) Berlin (3) Washington
OD52 S % ¥¥
1711.14 116.42 / 29.41 t 11.21 njii.49 ^26.13 117.52 / 14.23 1127.2915.

The war continued during the whole of this year, and it will be
seen that at London Neptune was in the seventh house in opposition
to Mercury and Jupiter; it was also in parallel declination with
Saturn, Uranus and the Sun. Queen Victoria died on January 22nd,
and the indications of such a death are to be seen in the fact that
at London Mars was lord of the tenth house, the Monarch, and was
in the eighth, death, in square to the Moon, Venus, and Uranus; also
the Sun, the general significator of royalty, is lord of the eighth
house and is in conjunction with Saturn. In Germany the Empress
Frederick died on August 5th; the general indications of such a death
among royal personages are similar at Berlin to those at London,
except that the Sun is not ruler of the eighth house (although it is of
the eighth sign from the rising sign). It would not have been easy
for one writing beforehand to have centred the prediction of a royal
death upon the Kaiser's mother and not upon his wife. In the United
States President McKinley was shot on September 6th and died on
September 14th. In the map for Washington the Sun is lord of the
tenth house and is in conjunction with Saturn; Mars, lord of the
ascendant, is on the cusp of the eleventh house in square to the Moon
in the eighth or death house and to Venus and Uranus in the second.
Here again, although the lord of the tenth house is afflicted, it would
not have been easy to have pointed to the President and not to some
prominent statesman. At noon on the day he was shot the Sun was
at Ng 13.10, less than two degrees from the place of Mars in the map ;
 PERIHELION LONGITUDE 339
Mars was at ui 3.47, on the cusp of the ascendant; and the Moon
was at n 25.19 in conjunction with Neptune in the eighth house.
The end of the South African war came on May 31st, 1902, the
day on which peace was signed. The perihelion map is calculated for
January 2nd, 1.36 p.m. GMT. The following are the positions at
Cape Town.
x xi xii i ii Hi
ssai.ig k 22 »r EH1.5 ras 027
O h 9 V tS 11 h fy
(•311.15 A2I.8 1111.26 5=24.38 5=0.27 1121.46 V317.54 /18.32 JI29.46IV
Venus is culminating in Aquarius in trine to the Moon in Libra
in the fifth house and to Neptune rising in Gemini. The degree
culminating is in almost exact trine to the Moon. Uranus is in the
seventh house but is in sextile to both Venus and the Moon. These
fortunate positions speak for themselves. On the day of the signing
of peace, May 31st, the Sun was at n 9.5, two degrees above the cusp
of the ascendant of the perihelion map; Jupiter at ~ 17.12, four
degrees from the culminating degree; and Venus T 26.5, going from
the sextile of its radical place to the sextile of Neptune.
On June 11th, 1903, occurred the murders of King Alexander and
Queen Draga of Serbia. Perihelion in Longitude was on January 2nd,
7.50 p.m., GMT. The positions at Belgrade were:
x xi xii i ii tii
n 1.15 ®7 Jig is 6.32 io ^28

V311.16 5=24.16 V323.3S W19.37 i.5.45 5=18.44 '^27.57 7 22.39 ®2.3!^

Mars, lord of the eighth or death house, is in Libra in square to
the Sun the natural significator of royalty, while Leo is on the twelfth
cusp. Mercury, lord of the tenth is going to the conjunction with
Saturn in the fifth house, which is the eighth from the tenth. Here
the positions, although fairly significant so far as they go, are not
adequate to cover such a tragic event, and it is difficult to see how an
astrologer writing beforehand could have centred his prediction upon
Serbia, where there was nothing in the midheaven and no malefic
planet angular; for there were several other parts of the world where
the midheaven was much worse afflicted than at Belgrade. On the
whole this is the least satisfactory of the maps yet investigated.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Perihelion in Longitude for 1910 was on January 2nd, at 3.27 p.m.

with the following positions at London.
x xi xii i ii
5021
iii
K1.4 T4 a 21 ilS
O 5 S ? t
VJII.23 iii.25 1128.11 =23.52 T18.44 ^13.25 T16.33 1120.35 DIS.SI?.
Duringthis year there were two General Elections in this country,
one in January and another in December, and King Edward died on
May 6. So far as concerns the death of the King, Jupiter is
lord of the midheaven and is in the fifth house, the eighth from the
tenth, in opposition to Saturn as lord of the eighth or death house and
in square to Uranus on the cusp of the eighth, as well as receiving the
other afflictions pointed out. The Sun is badly afflicted and has no
good aspect. For the two General Elections, Saturn and Mars are in
conjunction in the eleventh house, parliament, badly afflicted. At
midnight on May6th,when theKingdied, Jupiter was at Libra5.37l5.
in square to the rising degree of this map, Mars was at Cancer 3.11
close to the rising degree, Satum was at Aries 28.45 in square to the
place of Mercury, Venus was at Pisces 29.54 close to the opposition
of the place of the Moon, and the Moon was at Aries 13.58, very close
to the opposition of the place of Jupiter.
In conclusion, I think it may be said that the evidence brought
forward shows that maps for the time of Perihelion in Longitude are
worth investigation for the light they throw upon events. But it still
remains to be proved whether they cover satisfactorily all the events
of the year, or whether, as seems probable, they do not need to be
supplemented in some way as regards the minor events occurring from
month to month.
Perihelion longitude for the present year occurred on January 2nd,
1921, at llh 59m 42' a.m. GMT, RAMC at London IS" 46n, 1".
x xi xii i ii iii
ii 10.35 >33o =30 T26,43 □2 D 23
OSS ? i n \ W
V510.35 -a27.8 VJS.io =24.56 =27.49 npiS.55 "224.48 K2.52 Ai3.loIt
Dct 22.57 ii-2 24.29 1448 13.14 5.31 4-2 11.9 16-54
I leave these without comment so that readers may compare the
indications with events as they occur and with those of the past few
months.
 34i

^irgo
HER SENSITIVENESS AND HER SENSE OF PURITY

By W. H. Scott
VIRGO women, and children born with the Sun in Virgo, are
often exceedingly sensitive in regard to being touched or handled.
Again, their sense of purity is, perhaps, greater than that of those born
in any other sign. This is true in almost every instance where the
Virgo element predominates.
Now we propose to briefly examine into the causes incident to this
characteristic as it finds expression in those strongly qualified by this
sign. First, then, Virgo is the expressing sign of the Earthy Triplicity.
The cardinal sign Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, forms the basis of
operation for this triplicity; in Capricorn we find the two forces,
masculine and feminine, nearly balanced, which accounts for the sense
of completeness,—the sense of self-sufficiency which those feel who
are strongly qualified by this sign. Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn, as
we know, demands exactitude,—perfect measurement. We know,
indeed, that those in whom the masculine and feminine principles blend
in nearly equal proportions are the ones who are best balanced morally
and intellectually. Again, Mars, ruling the head (Aries) and thus the
brain, is exalted in Capricorn ; this is equivalent to saying that the
head—and by this we mean all of the senses, sight, hearing, smell,
taste and feeling, no less than reason and understanding, which have
their seat in the brain—reaches perfection in the Capricorn function
under the Mars vibration. In Capricorn, then, lies the ideal of
the NEWMAN, OF THE NEXT RACE, THE MAN WITH ALL OF HIS
FACULTIES PERFECTLY BALANCED.
Remember that we are treating of the entire Earthy Trine as
a TRINITY,—AS A UNIT: beginning at the Capricorn head, and tracing
around through Taurus to the culminating point in Virgo; for understand
that the TRIPLICITY IS ALWAYS ONE IN ESSENCE : for example, Venus,
ruler of Taurus, when perfectly blended with Mercury, the ruler of
342 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Virgo, finds perfect embodiment in Saturn ; thus it is that Saturn,

through exaltation, finds his perfection in the Venus CARDINAL SIGN OF
Balance—Libra, the most interior and purely feminine quality in the
zodiac. Now just as Capricorn discriminates in relation to measurement,
demanding that the Scales Balance,—demands perfection, complete
evaluation, so Taurus is an adept in the law of USE ; is it useful, is it
expedient, is it fitting, does it serve the purpose for which it was
intended,—for which it was created? Then comes Virgo,and SHE ASKS,
IS IT PURE ? With reverent ambition SHE LOOKS NARROWLY AT IT,
she senses its quality ; she penetrates to its very centre, and with her
psychic eye she beholds the unadulterated essence, the purity, or lack
of it,—the perfection, in short, which Saturn demands of her. Observe
that it is the Saturnian propensity in man, which in all ages has demanded
purity in the woman. It is the Venus-Mercury quality in her which
he has sought to find.
Thus it is that Virgo is a great and marvellous chemist. Those
masculine powers which she still retains, furnish her powers of
discrimination, in the sense of rejection. She casts from her, rejects,
scatters those elements which her intuitional nature teaches her will
not be fit to build into the higher order. Now "USE DETERMINES ALL
QUALITIES WHETHER GOOD OR EVIL": therefore we behold in Taurus
the finality of all of that which we see in this Trine of the Earthy
Realm. And this is the wherefore of the Moon's exaltation in Taurus;
for observe that Capricorn-Taurus-Virgo is the trice of Earthy
Formulation, MATTER, if you please: and that the Moon stands for
the material body, she is the Earth Mother, the giver of Form, and
the final determinator of all Earthly Uses. The Focal Point, the
Objective, THE END OF THE MATTER, AND THE FINAL END OF
MATTER, i.e. ITS GOAL, WHICH IS PERFECTION. Taurus is "the
HOUSE OF RICHES," the riches of all creation are her's: therefore,
possessing ALL THINGS she need seek no farther, SHE IS COMPLETE.
Taurus, then, holds the elements which under the Moon's focalizing
energy brings about perfect POLARITY,—perfect adjustment of Nature,
of the Earth in all its parts, of the body and all of its cells. Observe
that Taurus is the INTERIOR HOUSE OF Venus, THE WORLD OF
UNITY, THE HOUSE OF THAT MARRIAGE WHICH IS MADE IN HEAVEN
IS her TRUE AND ABIDING HABITATION.
 343

Astronomy for JUtrologsrs

By Vivian E. Robson, B.Sc.

{Continued from p. 313)

The first method of house-division to claim our attention is that

of Placidus, the "Semi-arc System," upon which our ordinary Tables
of Houses are based. The principle underlying this method is the
trisection of the semi-arcs of each degree of the zodiac.
We have already seen that the right ascension of any degree is
exactly the same as the sidereal time at which it appears upon the
midheaven or cusp of the tenth house, while its semi-arc is half the
time it remains either above or below the horizon. Therefore if we
subtract the diurnal semi-arc of a degree, expressed in time, from the
sidereal time at which it culminates the result will be the sidereal time
of its rising. The sidereal time elapsing between rising and culmina-
tion {i.e. the diurnal semi-arc) is then divided into three equal parts
which are added successively to the sidereal time of rising to obtain
the times when the given degree is supposed to occupy the cusps of
the twelfth and eleventh houses.
To take a simple case first, let us consider 0oT. When theSun is
in this degree at the equinox it rises at 6 a.m. and sets at 6 p.m., being
upon the meridian at noon. The diurnal semi-arc of 0o<V' is half the
time it remains above the horizon which is obviously six hours, viz.
from 6 a.m. to noon, or from noon to 6 p.m. We have previously
seen that the right ascension of 0°^' is 0h 0m 03, or 0° 0' in arc. In
other words the sidereal time at which 0°^ occupies the cusp of the
tenth house will be 0" 0m 0", and as its diurnal semi-arc is 6h it must
necessarily rise when the sidereal time is 0h (or 24h)—6h = 18h
Thus we now have:
Sidereal time 0h 0m 08 gives 0a<V on 10
,, „ 18 0 0 ,, ,, ,, Asc
The six hours intervening between the rising and culminating of
344 MODEKN ASTROLOGY

0"V are then divided into three parts of 211 each, during which time it
is considered to pass through three houses, so that at I8h+2h=20l1 it
will be on the cusp of the 12th, and at 22h on the cusp of the lith.
A similar process performed with the nocturnal semi-arc (in this case
the same) gives the 2nd and 3rd cusps. Of course this is approximate,
but a close approximation may always be obtained by following
a similar method, and it has the advantage of demonstrating the idea
involved much better than does the accurate formula.
We may now take another approximate example, calculating the
right ascension (RA) and semi-arc (SA) mere accurately, for which
purpose the following formulae are necessary;

(!) To calculate the RA of a degree of the Zodiac.

Log cosine obliquity of ecliptic (23° 27')
+ Log tangent longtitude from T or — (or log cotangent long
from ® or Itf)
= Log tangent RA from T or (or log cotangent RA from
92 or Kf)
To the answer add 0° if the degree is in T, 8, or n ; add 90° if
in 92, SI, or W, add 180° if in =^, Wl, or f; and add 270° if in Vf,
or .

(2) To calculate the declination of a degree of the Zodiac.

Log sine obliquity of ecliptic (23° 27')
+ Log sine long from T or — (or log cosine long from 92 or Itf)
= Log sine declination

(3) To calculate semi-arc.

(а) Log tangent declination
+ Log tangent latitude of place
= Log sine Ascensional Difference (AD)
(б) For diurnal SA with N dec., 90° + AD
>> .. .. ,, S „ 90° — AD
,, nocturnal „ „ N „ 90° - AD
j. .. » ,, S „ 90° + AD
 ASTKOKOMY FOR ASTROLOGERS 345
Suppose we consider the case of 24° t.
From the above formulae we find that its RA is 263° 28' or 17"
33" 52' in time; its decl. is 23° S 19 ; its AD for London is 32° 51';
and its diurnal SA is 57° 9' or 311 48" 36° in time. Then :—
Sidereal Time t 24 on 10th = 17h 33" 52°
Less semi-arc = 3 48 36

Sidereal Time -P 24 on Asc = 13 45 16

Plus one-third of SA = I 16 12

Sidereal Time P24 on 12th = 15 I 28

Plus one-third of SA =1 16 12

Sidereal Time P24 on llth= 16 17 40

By subtracting thirds of the nocturnal semi-arc from the sidereal

time when P 24 is on the Ascendant we obtain the times when it
occupies the cusps of the second and third houses.
By this means a Table of Houses could be constructed and although
it is not the method in use and is not quite accurate it is sufficiently
so for all practical purposes. The deviation from accuracy is due to
the fact that all the houses are here considered to have the same polar
elevation as the ascendant, which is not the case, and I have treated
the matter at such length merely to demonstrate as clearly as possible
the principles involved, leaving the accurate formulae to be given next
month.
(To be continued)

AUSTIN DOBSON, the well known poet and writer on the

eighteenth century, died on September 2 at London. He was born
at Plymouth on 18/l/'40 when the planets were as under at noon:
>327.33 0110.33 >35.58 /13.20 =22.3 "115.38 /17.43 x 13.51 5=11.47
Venus is in conjunction with Saturn and both are in sextile with
Neptune, and this is in accordance with the antiquarian and old-world
air that surrounds all he wrote. It is supported by Venus being in
parallel with the Sun, and by Jupiter trine Uranus. The time of
birth is not known, a rough inspection of the directions for death
indicates Aquarius or Pisces as possible ascendants, but further
information is necessary.
 QDorrespouitence

The Editors do not assume responsibility for any statements or ideas advanced
by their correspondents, and the publication of letters does not necessarily imply
sympathy with the views expressed therein.

The Planet Neptune

To the Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,—A few more notes on W and his houses for con-
sideration. In Genesis xlix. 21 it says " Naphtali is a hind let
loose; he giveth goodly words." This refers to the desire of people
to get at the truth and foundation of everything and to give it out to
the world, to spring it like a hind let loose. It refers to the general
emancipation of man intellectually, physically, along artistic lines and
generally. Thus we get ^ applying both to the intellectual ? and
the artistic 2 , but we must also get the o and f? action to clear away
ignorance and superstition, the weeds of humanity, so that the beautiful
flowers may grow.
In Deuteronomy xxxiii. 23, Naphtali is given the west and south
to possess. Taking the Cardinal Cross this would be -*= and Vj", the
Fixed Cross would be ™ and HI, the Mutable Cross K and t. The
opposite signs would be unfavourable when ^ was in them. Now
taking the horoscope of Jesus as at midnight in the Julian year 45,
we find ^dWinn-X-^^VA^. Ij an(i tjt in n, being the opposite
sign to ^, a mutable sign, indicate a radical fundamental change for
the existing religious ideas, taking ? to be a religious, philosophical
sign. Also the good aspects of ■? d W show the partial success of the
movement, which was weakened by0d5oVO^. I have not the
astronomical data to trace the activities of ^ in the signs until the
nineteenth century, but from 1807 to 1820 it was in t, during which
time there was great activity in Europe during the life of Napoleon.
From 1821 to 1834 it was in Id", when we get a more settled condition
till about 1830, when the ^ influence began to be felt and we get the
 CORRESPONDENCE 347
French revolution that put the Duke of Orleans on the throne and
in England the idea of reform in Parliament which resulted in the
Reform Bill of 1832. In 1833 was the abolition of chattel slavery,
though wage slavery exists to the present day. From 1835 to 1847
we get 1? in During this period we get mental freedom in the
1836 Act for the registration of births, etc. The National Education,
Act of 1834, Dissenters allowed to marry in their own chapels 1836,
the Chartist movement 1839, repeal of the protective Corn Laws 1846
in general a movement for freedom. From 1848 to 1861 we get f in
>€ and in 1848 the Duke of Orleans was deposed; in 1857 the Indian
Mutiny, which was a movement to be free from the English yoke,
and especially the East India Co. In 1861 the Civil War in U.S.A.
by which the negroes were freed. In 1867 the second Reform Act,
1869 disestablishment of the Irish Church, though these latter come
under f in T, which is the opposite sign to ===. From 1889 to 1901 IP
was in n, during this period we have all kinds of mental emancipations
and movements for freedom, and inventions. From 1902 to Sept.
1914 we have W in 25 and in the latter part of 1914 we have the
influence of IP in SI, the opposite sign of a western sign. This
influence, to my mind, indicates the downfall of kings and the mediaeval,
antiquated system, as Sb is the royal sign. We have seen the downfall
of royalty in Russia, and it is imminent all through Europe. In
Lenin's birth chart 3 d IP is in "V b □ ^.showing a fundamental,
popular movement and a sudden radical change which sent the
established order west, i.e. to oblivion. On 9th Sept., 1921, 5 is ^ f
in SI, good for the people, and © is d 14 d b in '"E, the opposite sign
to M, indicating another downfall for the present antiquated system,
if the people will only take advantage of the influence, as the stars are
on their side.
As a result of the above, and referring to Heindel's " The Message
of the Stars," p. 410, where it is said b rules Yf", in detr. 25 SI, exalted
•=•, fall T, and taking as the higher note, the rational side of b,
indicating the vitalising of Saturnian matter generally, the freedom of
man in every sense of the word so that he may enjoy the fruits of his
labour and of this earth, which was given for his pleasure and not
misery, as now dictated by a degenerate State and Church, we may
consider Yf zz as two strong houses for , and 25 Sb houses in which
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

the old order changeth giving place to the new; "C and n are also
houses to be considered, as in the horoscope of Jesus. I have taken
up a good deal of space and could dilate more on this matter, but
I think I have given enough data for thought.
My method, which is the correct one to derive truth, is deductive,
as opposed to the unscientific inductive one, and is one in which all
astrological work should be done.
Prove all things and hold fast to the truth.
Yours fraternally,
G. A. Field.

Retrograde Planets

To the Editor, Modern Astrology

Dear Sir,—I have been very interested in the correspondence
on Retrograde Planets, and have only held back from it because
though I have three major planets retrograde in my natal map I have
never been quite able to decide the exact influence they have had—if
any—on my life. I mean an influence whose effect can be accounted
for apart from the more obvious influences of planetary position
and aspect.
My retrograde planets areb , and U, all three in Taurus and
the first to rise, in 3rd house, b being my ruler.
Here is the figure of my natal map (rectified) :
x xi xii i ii iii
J 0.20 718 V36 127-55 X26 «6
n iffV
1H24.54 5520.34 3&8.41 si 18.8 D 26.40 u 26.13^ ull.seit. 1914.32 ti 16.221!.
I give it, as of possible interest to students.
My own impression is that any set-backs, delays, or restrictions,
I may have experienced are fully accounted for in my map, without
consideration of the retrograde influences.
Yet students will certainly agree the retrograde planets appear to
be a strong feature in my map.
Yours truly,
Sept. \2th, 1921. Rosemary Ste. Croix.
 CORRESPONDENCE 349

The Ascendant
To the Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,— On rectifying the birth time of a native of Altengaard
(lat. 69° 54' N.: long. 22° 50' E.) I found that both M.C. and Asc.
were on the horizon in the same point of the ecliptic, 1'129.42. The
horoscope, therefore, consisted of six houses only, viz., first, second,
third, seventh, eighth and ninth. Had the time of birth been a little
later or the place farther north, the M.C. would have fallen below the
horizon, discontinuity become apparent and an extraordinary figure
resulted.
This strongly revived my opinion that the mundane houses should
be formed by a more equable division of the heavens in all latitudes,
irrespective of the ascendant's position. It seems to be irrational that
a Central African's horoscope should contain twelve houses of nearly
equal extent and that the Eskimo should be accorded one of such an
eccentric character,
Pythagoras (6th century B.C.) held and taught that the earth was
spherical and that the planets revolved around the sun: Plato, a century
afterwards, discovered the precession of the Equinoxes, though some
ascribe this to Hipparchus (2nd century B.C.) who did such important
work for astronomy—not the least being the invention of trigonometry.
He was closely copied by Ptolemy (2nd century A.D.) who collected
and recorded results obtained by previous writers and invented
a wonderful method of reproducing the apparent motions of the planets
proved long afterwards to be mathematically accurate, though erroneous
au fond. The Arabs carried on the work and, at last, Copernicus came
(15th century A.D.) and established the principles of astronomy on firm
ground. None of these, however, appears to have departed from the
earlier practice of making the ascendant the cusp of the first house
(incidentally, one of this year's almanacs states thatTycho Brahe made
the Ascendant'V 14° 0' in a horoscope whose M.C. was kf 0° 50',
possibly the cusp of the first is here referred to).
Astrology,however, was employed long before these great men lived
and it is almost certain that early practitioners believed the earth to be
flat. Their observations were, doubtless, made in low latitudes and it
35° MODERN ASTROLOGY

is probable that the motion of the Sun with respect to the cardinal
points led them to associate the ascendant with the first cusp, but
would that have been done if they had been aware of what takes place
in higher latitudes ?
With the oblique ascension of the Ecliptic 23° 28' the amplitude
attained by the ascendant in the extreme cases, compared with that at
the equator, is for various latitudes:
N. Lat. o0 10° 20° 30° 40° 50° 60°
Difierence of Amplitude I 0« 0
~ ~ w ^0 # « 1 o f ad p
from that at o° lat. j ^ ^ 3 55 W 140«'
so that an ancient observer—at Alexandria, say—would not suspect
that at 66° 32' N. lat., the ascendant's amplitude would rise to 90°.
It is strange, at this time of day, that a point of such fundamental
importance to the study of all branches of Astrology should be
questioned, but it appears to be still open to doubt and, until it is
settled beyond dispute that the ascendant is, or is not, always the cusp
of the first house, the correct division of the horoscope cannot be
arrived at nor the relative value of the two zodiacs decisively
determined: indeed, one is brought to a standstill very early in his
quest of astrologia sana.
Yours faithfully,
Warwick, 6/10/21. W. H. WOODTHORPE.

Is Mars Calling ?

Is Mars seeking to communicate with the earth by wireless ?

Mr. J. C. H. Macbeth, the author of the Marconi telegraph code,
has again raised this interesting question at a New York luncheon by
stating that on board Marconi's yacht " Elettra,"in the Mediterranean,
a wireless wave-length of 150,000 metres (about 100 miles) was
intercepted.
A Marconi House official said yesterday that the sources of the
mysterious signals which are sometimes recorded may be in the
atmosphere or outside it and due to electrical disturbances.
The only thing really definite is that they come from a very great
distance.—Daily Mirror, 3/9/'21.
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY 351
Elections. The branch of Astrology that is concerned with
the choosing of suitable times for commencing new undertakings, etc.
Elections are subsidiary to the birth horoscope and directions, and
cannot avert threatened evil.
Electric Nature. The nature given by a map having
a preponderance of electric planets in electric signs. The natives are
natural rulers and radiate strength.
Electric Planets. ©, dT, 2^, ^, and sometimes ? according to
its aspects.
Electric Signs. The positive signs f and cr.
Electro-magnetic Nature. The nature given by a map
having a preponderance of electric planets in magnetic signs.
Elements. Fire, Earth, Air and Water. The elementary
nature of a map depends upon the predominance of signs belonging to
a given element.
Elements, Chemical. Our knowledge of the astrological
rulership of the chemical elements is very fragmentary, and no
complete list is available. The distribution of the elements among
the planets so far as is known at present is as follows:
Sim—Gold Jupiter—Tin
Moon—Silver, Aluminium Saturn—Lead, Carbon
Mercury—Mercury Uranus—Uranium, Thorium,
Venus—Copper Radium, Polonium, Actinium
Mars—Iron, Sulphur Neptune—Potassium
Mr G. E. Sutcliffe has suggested a zodiacal rulership of the
elements in accordance with the Navamshas, the series commencing
in the second Navamsha of Aries with Hydrogen and progressing in
order of atomic weight up to Uranium in the sixth Navamsha of
Pisces (M.A. v. 409).
Elements of a Planet's Orbit. Certain quantities that
serve to determine the orbit of a planet with reference to the plane of
the ecliptic, and from which its position may accordingly be determined.
They are as follows: The semi-axis major, or mean distance (symbol
a) that of the earth being taken as the standard; the mean daily
motion , or the mean sidereal period in days (P); the inclination of
the plane of the orbit to the ecliptic (:); the longitude of the ascending
352 MODERN ASTROLOGY

node (Si) ; the longitude of the perihelion (it) ; the eccentricity (e or e),
or the angle of eccentricity (<?)); the mean longitude at a certain time
(L or A.); and finally the epoch for which the mean longitude is given
(E). The numerical quantities for Epoch 0 January, 1910, are as
follows:

a e a TT L
s 0.38710 0.20561 47° 9' 7° 0' 4o.0927 75°54' 3032'
0.72333 0.00682 75 47 3 24 1 .6021 130 10 73 53
1.00000 0.01675 0 .9856 101 13 99 I?
i I.S2369 0.09331 48 47 1 Si 0 .5240 334 13 47 39
n 5.20280 0.04825 99 37 1 19 0 .0831 12 36 181 43
9S3884 0.03606 "3 2 3 2 30 0 0335 90 49 28 56
19.19096 0.04704 73 9 O 46 0 .0118 169 3 286 42
30.07067 0.00853 130 41 i 47 0 .0060 43 45 107 I

Elevation. The elevation of a planet above another gives it

greater power and influence. A body may be elevated in three ways,
viz:
(1) Elevation by Home. This is the usual use of the term, and
if a planet is stated to be elevated it is to be understood that elevation
by house position is implied unless otherwise specified. A planet on
the midheaven is elevated above all others, and in general a planet is
elevated over another when nearer to the midheaven.
(2) Elevation by Latitude. A planet having greater North or
South latitude than another. If the latitudes are the same, that planet
with least declination is said to be the more elevated.
(3) Elevation by Sign. Planets in 'V are elevated over those in
8, and so on in the order of the signs.
Some authors have added elevation by apogee, in which a planet
near its apogee is elevated over one more distant, and elevation by
dignity, in which a planet is elevated over one that is less dignified by
sign or position. The term elevation is sometimes used in the sense
of Altitude (q.v).
Elevation of the Pole. The altitude or "elevation of the
celestial pole above the horizon, which is always equal to the latitude
of the place. In house division the elevation of the pole (or simply
" pole ") of the ascendant is the latitude of the birthplace, that of the
midheaven is 0°, and the pcles of the intermediate houses vary between
these limits.
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VOL. XVI11. "I DECEMBER, 1921.

New Series, j

®ll£ (EMtor'a Obserbatorj

Readers all over the world will be pleased to learn that Mrs Leo
is well on the road to recovery from a severe illness, and will, we
trust, soon be herself again. It was feared that she
Chmtmag would be unable to write her usual cheerful Christmas
Oreetmgs
message, but happily she is now well enough to send
her greetings in her own words:
My editorial will be short this month as 1 am now recovering from
a very serious illness of the past five weeks, when high blood pressure
gave cause for some anxiety. I feel however that I cannot let the
fifth Christmas anniversary since the death of Mr Leo pass without
once again echoing the very old wish, "A Merry Christmas, and
a Happy New Year " to every reader of MODERN ASTROLOGY.
I trust that in the coming New Year the magazine will reach
a larger circulation and a wider public. If only all readers would
co-operate to make it a success by their thoughts and good wishes,
and last, but not least, their subscription, it might be enlarged,
amplified and improved.
Remember, friends, it is the only magazine of its kind in the
354 MODERN ASTROLOGY

world, and both the Co-Editor, Mr Robson, and myself do all we can
to make it attractive, instructive and pleasing. Will you not help us ?
It ought to pay, but it does not, and I have already had to sell a little
capital to keep it going. It was everything in the world to Mr Leo
and is very dear to me. If you would take enough interest in it to
put forward your views by letter, we would do all we could to embody
them.
Perhaps some of you reading this will help ? Meanwhile I close
on the note of peace, harmony and goodwill to every reader of
Modern Astrology.—B.L.
* * *: *
The recent statements in the newspapers that the Moon is moving
faster and is out of place have occasioned some misgivings amongst
astrologers, many of whom are wondering what effect
^YagarieB8 'S ^0'n^ t0 ^ave on t^e results of Astrology. As
a matter of fact the whole " scare " is ridiculous, and
the Moon is not behaving more inconsistently than she has ever done.
The lunar problem has always been one of the most unsatisfactory
branches of Astronomy, and no Tables have yet been constructed
that do not need periodical revision. For many years Burckhardt's
Tables, which employed about 48 equations, were in use, but were
superseded by Hansen's Tables which form an enormous volume of
over 500 pages. Then the positions derived from these began to
deviate from accuracy and at the present time the Nautical Almanacs
use Hansen's Tables corrected and supplemented by Newcomb.
That these also are imperfect may be seen from Newcomb's con-
cluding remarks on his revision of the Lunar Theory in 1912. He
says: "The most unsatisfactory feature of the conclusion of the
entire work is that it will be impossible to predict
the Moon's longitude with the precision required for astronomical
purposes. We shall be obliged to correct the Moon's mean longitude
from time to time, perhaps at intervals of ten or twenty years, from
observations." There are unexplained fluctuations of long period
caused by some force or forces not at present recognised, and until
these are fully accounted for we must always be prepared for
irregularities.
Turning to the astrological point of view, however, there is
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 355
nothing in the matter to cause concern. The Moon's deviation from
its calculated place is never more than a few seconds of arc, and we
have not yet attained to that desirable accuracy in Astrology which
shall take account of seconds. Even the error of a degree would
make no difference to an ordinary delineation on account of the orb
of influence, though it would certainly vitiate primary directions, but
even in the case of the latter seconds are usually entirely ignored.
It is doubtful if one horoscope in a thousand shows the true
position of the Moon or even the correct tabular position. Many
students who pride themselves on accuracy are in the habit of
computing the Moon's position to seconds, but in almost every case
they overlook the fact that the Moon's rate of motion varies consider-
ably in a day and that the only method of ensuring accuracy is by the
use of interpolation by differences. So no anxiety need be felt over
the Moon's vagaries.
* * * *
So far only one reply has been received in connection with the
problem given in last month's Observatory. This is from Mr Duncan
Macnaughton, who is of opinion that the child's sight
^ Problem'041 's c^ect've an^ 'h3' 's most probably blind. Perhaps
other readers will put forward their conclusions.
V. E. R.

Observations made by Prof. W. H. Pickering of Harvard

prove beyond doubt he considers that life exists on the Moon.
Hundreds of telescopic photographs have been taken of a crater 37
miles in circumference, which show the springing up of vast fields of
foliage at lunar dawn ; these come rapidly into full blossom and
disappear in eleven days. The photographs also show blizzards,
snowstorms, and volcanic eruptions. The Professor adds; " We find
a living world at our very doors where life in some respects resembles
that of Mars—a world which the astronomical profession has in past
years utterly neglected and ignored."
Astrological Correspondence Lessons.—The Diploma
of Efficiency has been awarded to Mr W. H. Shutes.
Answers to Correspondents.—R. W. (Hindley). The name
Schaltiel is that of one of the lesser angels ruling the sign Virgo.
"Modern Astrology" Fund.—The donation of 10/6 from
Mr H. W. Cox is acknowledged with thanks.
 Sntornattonal ^strologg

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(i) Dublin (2) Berlin (3) Constantinople (4) Petrograd (5) Calcutta
(6j Washington

Capricorn will rise at London; the Sun will be in the twelfth house
in conjunction with Mercury, both of them in sextile to Mars in the
ninth house; Jupiter will be on the cusp of the ninth house in sextile
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 357
to Venus in the eleventh. There will be much travelling and inter-
course between nations, especially as concerns western Europe, and
between this country and the Colonies. Closer links will be formed
that will bind the nations and peoples together, perhaps through the
League of Nations or some similar agency; friendly understandings
will be reached and visits of eminent people will be exchanged,
commerce overseas will increase, shipping both mercantile and
otherwise will increase and be active, inventions dealing with travel
and transport will come forward, and air travelling will extend
although some serious accident is threatened. In another direction
the outlook is not so favourable, for the Moon ruling the seventh
house is in the eighth in close conjunction with Saturn ruler of the
Ascendant, and the Sun applies to the square from the twelfth house.
There will be much distress, hardship, unemployment, and discontent
among the people, and the Government embarrassed thereby ; the
health of the nation will not be good and there will be a high death
rate; there will be many claims for the relief of the poor, for
providing work, and philanthropic agencies and hospitals will demand
attention and increase their activities. There is danger of plots and
conspiracies against prominent persons, statesmen, and the wealthy,
and personal danger is threatened in this way. The west of
England and Ireland, where the rising degree will be nearer the
square of Saturn, is more threatened in this way than is the east;
also at Dublin although the Sun is rising the degree culminating is
closer to the square of Neptune. All financial matters, both those at
home as well as the international, will be in a disturbed and unsettled
state demanding the attention of the Cabinet and not flourishing.
But the attempts at drawing together the churches and religious
bodies in order to promote a more friendly feeling between them will
continue and will meet with some success.
At Berlin the planets in Libra are all in the eighth house so that
there will be much trouble through international financial questions,
a high death rate, and much distress amongst the people. The rising
degree near the square of Mars threatens riots, turbulence, and
murders. But attempts at alliances and understandings with other
countries may meet with some success and trade will slowly increase.
From Petrograd to Constantinople Venus will culminate, so that
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

there should be a more peaceful condition within the various countries

of east Europe, and success on the part of the rulers, although the
planets in the seventh house show that international trouble is not at
an end. Uranus rising in south east Europe threatens attempts at
rebellion against authority. The Moon and Saturn will be closely
setting in parts of Mesopotamia, Armenia, and Persia, which regions
will be very unsettled. In India, especially in the centre and the
west there will be sickness and privation, discontent with the ruling
power will continue on the part of some, but financial prospects will
improve greatly in other directions. At Washington, Venus and
Mercury in the second house speak of prosperous finance, but Saturn
and the Moon in the eleventh house will bring difficulties in the way
of the legislatures and threaten statesmen with unpopularity and
discontent on the part of the people, especially a few degrees to the
west, where Neptune will culminate. Foreign relations and under-
standings will improve and be more prosperous, but trouble through
some friend or ally abroad is threatened. Railways, shipping, and
transport will not be fortunate.

New Moon
29 Dec., 1921, 5.39 a.m.
X xi xii i ii ii
(l) ^ 2.4 -a- 29 in 19 7 4-48 V3 to ~24
(2) ii7 in. n in 29 7 14 "323 KII
(3) 'a 3 "127 7 18 V3 8 = 19 T 1
(4) "V 4 in 22 75 ^ 17 - 4 T 3
is) ^ 0 "325 "24 r 0 « 6 II 5
(6) 2014 it 17 11717 ilI2 in 9 7 10
(0| London (2) Berlin (3) Constantinople (4) Petrograd (5) Calcutta
(6) Washington
OJ) S ? i V. *7 ¥ *
"36.59 "37-55 7 26.56 in.i.37 *=16.57 —7-17 K6.31 7115 32I!=

The beginning of Sagittarius is rising at London with Venus in the

latter part of the sign as ruler of the tenth and sixth houses; this will
bring some amount of prosperity and success to the Government and
the country as a whole; Venus will be very close to the cusp of the
ascendant in South Italy, Serbia, Hungary, and South-West Russia,
and is ten degrees from the Sun, applying to the conjunction. Its
sextile to Mars in the eleventh house benefits the army and navy and
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 359

makes it probable that measures to promote their efficiency will be

taken by the Government here and in France; and this is supported
by the sextile of Mars to the Sun, Moon and Mercury, and its trine to
Uranus; so that the importance of the forces will be recognised more
or less all over Europe, and military and naval movements, displays, and
operations will take place, especially in Central and Eastern Europe,
for Mars will be culminating from Petrograd to Constantinople. But
the map is heavily afficted by the square of Saturn to the Sun, Moon,
and Mercury, the latter three being on the second cusp at London,
with Saturn ruler of the second all over Europe. This will cause
serious money troubles not only in this country but internationally;
taxation, home and foreign trade, employment, prices and other money
questions will weigh heavily upon governments and rulers and cause
disputes .and misfortunes. Saturn will culminate in parts of East
France, Belgium, and Holland, where its affliction willl be specially
felt. Jupiter is in the midheaven at London but it is not so strong as
Saturn ; it will be culminating at Berlin and Home, so that governments
and rulers will benefit in central Europe and its benefic influence will
be more felt there than in the east or west. At Constantinople and
in South-East Europe the luminaries and Mercury will be closely
rising, strengthening and establishing the ruling powers for the time
being, but this is heavily weighted by the square of Saturn previously
referred to, which seems to speak of two parties contending for power
in the state and some degree of tyranny or the harsh exercise of
power: in the extreme east of Europe there will be much international
trouble. At Calcutta the culmination of the luminaries will strengthen
the government but there will be border trouble or foreign complications;
Venus culminating a little to the west of Calcutta shows prosperity
and public rejoicings and celebrations. Jupiter will be nearest to the
cusp of the ascendant at New York and to the north-west of the
U.S.A. where its propitious influence will be most felt; but about five
or six degrees to the west of Wash ngton Saturn will rise in square
to the luminaries and Mercury on the fourth cusp; money matters
will prosper but the President and the ruling authorities will be
unfortunate and unpopular; land and mines will give trouble and
there may be a seismic shock near that longitude.
 an
^.strologj ^ personal fate—(Harma)
By Alan Leo

The problem as to whether humanity is wholly under Fate or

whether individuals mayor may not exercise Free-will is one of the
deepest interest to many thinkers throughout the world, but it is doubtful
if any of the schools of philosophers have given the subject more
earnest attention than those who are practical students of Astrology.
Apart from the question of Astrology it is safe to say that it is
a problem that will continue to engage the attention of human beings
for many generations to come, in spite of the fact that many thinkers
have pronounced the enigma insoluble. Whether soluble or not,
however,astrologers claim thattheir science throws more light upon the
subject than any other system of thought, and that this is so we hope
to show in the course of this article. First let us define our terms.
By the word " Fate " we understand all that which is fixed and
unalterable or beyond our control, producing circumstances that lead
to fatal or " fateful " results, such as accidents, death, sudden unfore-
seen calamity, etc. By the term "Free-will" we conceive the idea
that we have the power to direct our future actions, and so to arrange
our affairs as to be sure of no other restraining influence to thwart that
power.
There is an eastern word that embraces all that is meant by both
Fate and Free-will, and very much more, for it includes all such
extremes as good and evil. It is the expressive term Karma, implying
everything that comes under the rule of the law of action and re-
action : that is, both Cause and Effect. Those who expound the
meaning of this word state that it is the Universal Equation which
unerringly produces a corresponding effect for every cause. In short,
if cause and effect are looked upon as the two opposite ends of an
equal-armed lever, then " Karma" may be looked upon as the fulcrum
or pivot.
We may consider Karma as the basic Law of the Universe, the
Eternal Law which governs all things; to work with this law brings
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us what is termed " good karma," to work against it is to bring our-

selves "bad karma." Therefore if we would understand personal
fate, we must know something of the actions that go against the Law
of the Universe, whether as the laws of Nature or the social and intel-
lectual and moral laws. It is the law of fire to burn, and of water to
engulf a body heavier than itself. If a man should place his hand
in the fire and not expect to get burnt we should term him a very
ignorant man and probably consider him a fool, at our present stage
of knowledge with regard to the properties of fire. Knowing the law
of water to drown those who cannot swim, we take the necessary
precautions to avoid drowning. We should set clearly before our-
selves the fact that Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is
ma7i who plans and creates causes, while Karmic Law adjusts the
effects, which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending
ever to resume its original poise—just as a bough when bent down
forcibly rebounds with corresponding vigour. If it happen to dislocate
the arm that tried to bend it out of its natural position, shall we say
that it is the bough that broke the arm, or our own folly that has
brought us to grief ?
Fully to understand the meaning of this expressive word Karma
we must endeavour, if only dimly, to realise that Harmony rules the
whole of the worlds in space, and that any disturbance of that harmony
must bring its reactionary tendencies. But before we can attempt to
solve the problems or mysteries that underlie this question of Personal
Fate or Karma, we must accept the statement that the whole of the
Universe known as the Solar system has been wisely designed by our
Father in Heaven, who is the Creator, Preserver, and Dissolver of
His Universe, and that all the various stages of matter through which
the souls have to manifest have been so arranged as to allow for an
expansion of consciousness on the various planes they are destined
to reach.
All consciousness unfolds, more or less, at certain stages fixed
by the Lords of Karma, since the cyclic wave carries all units through
the necessary experiences required to unfold consciousness. As
"Divine Fragments," we are destined to pass in the great scheme of
evolution through the triple manifestation of simple consciousness,
self-consciousness, and super-consciousness.
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But we cannot "jump over" any of the cycles that it was

arranged we should pass through as units of consciousness, though in
order that we may hasten our evolution and progress more rapidly
teachings concerning these cyclic laws have been given to us.
This teaching is the science of the New Astrology, through which
the light of the Wisdom Religion is now streaming. It commences
with the knowledge that the Sun is the centre of one of the many
Solar Systems in the Kosmos; that through this Sun is manifesting
the ONE Life that is permeating the whole of our solar system, that
although it animates and vitalises all forms in various degrees of
manifestation, yet in all this diversity that we see around us on every
side there is the ONE UNITY as the root base of all. It also teaches
that this centre, carrying the whole solar system with it, is moving
around another centre, which again may be moving around a third
and vaster centre of attraction; and so on indefinitely, for the
Universe is infinite even as God is infinite.
It is the privilege of the New ASTROLOGY to teach the harmonious
working of all planetary influence. There is no evil coming to any
one of us from the planets, but on the contrary, as pointed out in the
pages of MODERN Astrology for many years past, it is the abuse
of the law of each planet that brings upon our heads the personal fate
of which we so often complain.
It is common to think of the planet Mars as the God of War,
although no right-minded astrologer has ever attributed to the planet
Mars the direct cause of any national warfare. Indirectly, however,
we may trace the cause of all wars to the influences that range them-
selves under the "law of life" which the planet Mars is known to
govern. Mars as ruler over the animal kingdom governs that quality
in the universe known as Strength, and in the physical world it
presides over the law of motion. In the human body it gives the
muscular force and energy, all exertion, vigour, and physical power
coming from the influence of this planet; and it is the ABUSE of this
force that causes warfare, strife, contention, competition and aggres-
sion in the world. All who break the law of ordered motion suffer
the personal fate that results from a reaction of the harmonious
law of motion—whether it be in the physical, mental, social, or
moral world: " they that live by the sword," we are told, " shall
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perish by the sword." Thus if we make reference to the " progressive

man " who seeks to ' rule his stars,' as it is termed, we find he is one
who conserves his strength and energy so as to use it wisely in good
deeds and harmonious actions.
He is the Wise Man who Rules his Stars ; The Fool Obeying—
not the Stars but—the lower impulses of his nature, suffers (by reason
of the law of reaction) that misery which follows every abuse of nature's
laws and principles.
Until the mind of man became personally active, he made very
little " bad karma " or " fate," for Nature's laws compelled him uncon-
sciously to work with her. It is the realisation by man of his freedom,
to act within the limits of his environment that causes him to add to
his store of karma, good or bad ; and this may account for the oft-
repeated saying that " where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise "—
that is, " wise " with worldly wisdom.
The Secret Doctrine contains many very clear ideas with regard
to this mysterious word Karma, but none more clear than the following
{op. cit., Vol. I., p. 700, third edition) :
"Yes: 'our destiny ts written in the stars'! Only, the closer
the union between the mortal reflection Man and his celestial Prototype,
the less dangerous the external conditions and subsequent reincarnations
. . . which neither Buddhas nor Christs can escape. This is not
superstition, least of all is fatalism. The later implies a blind course
of still blinder power, but man is a free agent during his stay on earth.
He cannot escape his Destiny, but he has the choice of two
paths that lead him in that direction, and he can reach the goal of
misery—if such is decreed to him—either in the snowy white robes of
the martyr, or in the soiled garments of a volunteer in the iniquitous
course ; for there are external and internal conditions which affect
the determination of our will upon our actions, and it is in our power
to follow either of the two. Those who believe in Karma have to
believe in Destiny, which, from birth to death, every man weaves
thread by thread round himself, as a spider his web; and this Destiny
is guided either by the heavenly voice of the invisible Prototype
outside of us, or by our more intimate astral, or inner man, who is but
too often the evil genius of the embodied entity called man. Both of
these lead on the outward man, but one of them must prevail; and
from the very beginning of the invisible affray the stern and implacable
Law of Compensation steps in and takes its course, faithfully following
the fluctuations of the fight. When the last strand is woven, and man
is seemingly enwrapped in the network of his own doing, then he finds
himself completely under the empire of this self-made Destiny. It
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then either fixes him like the inert shell against the immovable rock,
or carries him away like a feather in a whirlwind raised by his own
actions, and this is KARMA."
Unless we have trained ourselves to believe that "Whatever is,
is best," it is not easy to follow the workings of the Karmic law, but
students of Astrology should know that there is a law that underlies
all things, and should be familiar with the law of cycles, that everything
in the universe is subject to a series of cyclic laws. During the
manifestation of spirit and matter everything is in a constant state
of motion, and it is the cyclic law that all things must move through
circles (or spirals). Around our Sun are moving the planets, the
planetoids, and the earth with its Moon. Each moves in its own
allotted cycle, and each cyclic movement has its own particular
limitations. From the minutest atom to the most majestic star, all
bodies and all beings have their own peculiar cycles: and moreover
from the smallest to the greatest there is a continuous interlinking to
the vast chain that binds the whole, each fulfilling its own particular
destiny in the mighty scheme of evolution, each contributing as it
were its own special note to the cosmic symphony.
The Earth revolving round the Sun in her allotted periods brings
forth the four seasons of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, with
all their marvellous changes. She also revolves upon her axis once
in twenty-four hours, and daily brings us the objective lesson of day
and night with every turn.
There is a significant correspondence between this dual revolution
of the Earth once round the Sun in her annual motion corresponding
to the whole career of a life between birth and death, while her diurnal
rotation upon her axis images forth the daily physical life of waking
and sleeping, each forming distinct circles as it were of matter and
consctotisness. The lower, or small, circle corresponds to the physical
body and its limitations in the physical world, embracing within it all
that is concrete, objective and material, and all that appeals directly
to our physical and astral senses—the sensual and the sensuous. We
are fated to revolve round this circle while our consciousness is focussed
and bound to the particular body it represents, and until our conscious-
ness is released from it, and expanded into the wider circle, it is for
us the " Ring Pass-Not." This limitation of the smaller circle.
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however, can be transcended by the progressive man " who shifts

his centre of consciousness from the concrete bondage of the physical
and its narrowing circle to the wider circle of the astral body, where,
instead of limiting his feelings and emotions to the physical senses, and
his own organs of sensation, he knows and realises the abstract feelings
that can be purified into the higher emotions and thus firmly built into
his moral and individual character.
To those who are fond of studying numbers the two circles or
dual motion of the earth may be symbolised by the Ogdoad, or the
figureeight, 5, whichsymbotises theeternal spiralmotion of cycles. All
true progress is made by changing circles into spirals, as hinted in our
last paragraph ; and the critical stage in every life is the point where
the circle is left for the spiral, and for this reason certain aspects from
one planet to another were considered malefic by the old astrologers.
Each human being is encased in a sphere or circle that delineates
his own environment, his own world or sphere of influence, and within
it he has the power to make his own fate, and realise his own personal
Karma. It is the circle of his horoscope in the first degree, and
according to his materiality, and the weakness of his will, so does the
diurnal motion of this circle affect him. He is learning to revolve
upon his own axis with more or less conscious regularity, and within
this minor circle he has his own cyclic period of childhood, youth,
maturity and old age.
Each conscious entity born into this world finds himself in
possession of a physical body that is practically working automatically
in accordance with a fixed law, the law of the zodiac, a pattern of the
Grand Man of the heavens. Each part of the physical body is under
the dominion of one of the zodiacal signs, as follows:—Aries, the
head; Taurus, the throat; Gemini, the lungs and upper limbs;
Cancer, the breasts and stomach; Leo, the heart; Virgo, the
bowels; Libra, the reins and generative system; SCORPIO, the
excretory organs ; SAGITTARIUS, the thighs ; CAPRICORN, the knees ;
Aquarius, the ankles; Pisces, the feet. Through the whole the
life force or Prana, represented by the Sun, is flowing in a natural
order and it is the law of the body that each organ shall carry out its
own particular function harmoniously. The will to use those organs
properly is centred in the consciousness residing in the personality ;
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but man may ABUSE them, either through ignorance or folly, with the
result that he would be inevitably fated to suffer in health, and, if he
persist, would ruin his constitution.
Just as the physical body works rhythmically and harmoniously
according to the law of nature governed by the zodiac, so are the
other vehicles through which the consciousness is functioning attuned
to the laws which govern them. If those laws are broken, either
through ignorance or wickedness, then the law of readjustment steps
in to restore the balance of that harmony which must be maintained,
since this law moves in an ocean of love, being the law of God which
is love.
There are stationed at the four quarters of the universe great
angels who are known as the Lords of Karma, who assist in the
readjustment of the equilibrium of the worlds. They provide each
incoming ego with a fitting physical vehicle in which to express its
own peculiar characteristics. By this means every reincarnating ego
comes into the world at a time when, by the revolution of the kaleido-
scopic circles, that particular type of nativity is brought into prominence
which harmonises with the latent thoughts, feelings and actions of
that ego; and this is the Horoscope of the Personality.
Every human being is weaving the web of his own destiny, and
making good or bad Karma for himself, according to his use or abuse,
first of Nature's laws, and, later on, of higher laws.
The planet Mars, as the physical centre of a force which governs
motion in the physical world, represents the motion known as desire,
moving all things to its appropriate objects. But in itself the desire
is neither good nor evil, in the abstract it is simply an incentive to
move, and without that quality of matter which Mars may be said to
govern all would be inert and stationary, consequently no progress
could be made. Man, finding this law of motion, and creating within
him the desire nature, may use that motive power for good or ill. He
has the freedom of will within the limits of his environment wisely to
use this energy, or to abuse it by using it solely for selfish, limited,
personal ends; but as every action has its corresponding reaction, it
is only when he becomes the " progressive man " that he learns how
to conserve that energy and use it for the good of others beside him-
self. Further on, when the occult stage is reached, he uses it solely
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for the common good, and may play either the part of the hero or of
the wise ruler and administrator living in a world for the Divine
service only.
The idea that Saturn is a malefic planet has no place in the mind
of the student of the New Astrology who endeavours to understand
the inner workings of Karma, for to him Mars, Venus and Saturn are
but reflections of the three Divine powers of CREATION, PRESERVA-
TION, and DISSOLUTION ; Saturn is the dissolver because his influence
brings all things to a state of regeneration. In the womb of pain he
binds and crystallises in matter, retaining with sorrow that which
should have been yielded up in its rightful place according to the
Karmic law of Harmony. He is thus justly the Avenger, since he is
the destroyer of human passions and physical senses, which are ever
in the way of the development of the higher spiritual perceptions, and
the growth of the inner Eternal Man. He is the great regenerator,
destroying the old that the new man be bom. "To live as a plant
the seed must die. To live as a conscious entity in the eternity, the
passions and senses must die before the body dies." Therefore, Saturn
is the planet of personal fate. He kills out the passions of the
physical, to call to life the perceptions of the spiritual man. Saturn
represents the apex of every personal horoscope.
Astrology thus becomes, when rightly understood, the most
practical of all the occult sciences, and it is this yery teaching that
makes it an occult science, since it demonstrates the evolution of
consciousness (esoteric), as well as the evolution of the forms (exoteric).
It is only in this sense, then, that true students of Astrology can
understand Saturn and Mars as malefic planets. They are " malefic "
in the sense that they are the chiefs having most influence over the
false or personal man which perishes—Mars being the force that the
personal man uses for the gratification of his animal passions, and
Saturn the lower mind which is made separate and thus makes the
limitation that he alone can dissolve through painful experiences.
In the symbolical horoscope of the personality Mars is the ruler
of the first and eighth houses, Aries and Scorpio, the houses of life
and death. In the physical world he operates as the " counterfeit of
the spirit," giving the desire to live physically. He is lord over the
animal kingdom, and when the desire nature is linked to the lower
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mind the animal-man is denoted, who cannot become wholly human

until the animal passions are subjugated, and the rash or foolish
desires have become controlled by reason. Metaphorically speaking,
then, Mars must surrender to Saturn, the red ray of passion must be
absorbed by the green of the intellect; in other words, the memory of
the " progressive man " will retain only that which the reason prompts
the higher mind to select out of his personal experiences. It is the
cream of experience that is selected, the unselfish motives, the sacri-
fices, the loving thoughts and noble aspirations; the remainder is
expended in actions that are either fruitful or—otherwise.
It will be seen from this that all selfish action must have a fateful
result; firstly, by binding the actor to the grosser side of matter, with
an ever-present danger of leading to the three deadly sins of Anger,
Lust, and Greed; secondly, by bringing us under the ban of the law
that corrects by compelling us to reap exactly as we have sown ; and
thirdly, by delaying our evolution to such an extent as to debar us
from the privilege of being born into a pure race.
Until we have actual knowledge we cannot afford to ignore the
Karmic Law, and if we refuse to learn our lessons in the school of life,
the lords of Karma will arrange that we reap as we have sown, using
our folly and mistakes as the necessary corrective lessons. It is true
that we may, perhaps, in some instances seem entirely to escape the
result of our actions in the present life, but—we shall have to pass
through the valley of forgetfulness, and on our return to reap in the
place that we have sown. The Good Law, which moves in an ocean
of love, will reproduce the germs of our former selves in order that
they may be dissolved in the Universal Solvent by a process which, at
our present stage of evolution, it is very difficult for us to understand
or appreciate. However, the first step toward this understanding is
to realise that " Thoughts are Things," and that actions are not
so serious as the thoughts that preceded and led up to them, seeing
that " thoughts linked to desires must inevitably lead to actions."
Karma may be said to be divided into three classes, as follows:
1st, Sanchita Karma; signifying the whole of the accumulated
Karma of the past.
2nd, Prdrabdha Karma ; signifying that which has been selected
by the Lords of Karma from the whole to be worked out in one life.
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3rd, Kriyatnana Kartna; that which we are during the present

life preparing for ourselves, both good and bad.
The Nativity at birth represents the Pr4rabdha Karma, and
against this we have the set-off of the power to make use of it for our
progress in evolution ; so that Prarabdha Karma may be considered
•as Fate, plus the attitude of mind toward it—which may be used to
good account. An advanced ego, by a judicious use of reason,
a legacy from the past, may so use his Kriyamana Karma as to nullify
or complement his Pr4rabdha Karma, and in this sense would "break
his horoscope " so to speak, should he have advanced far enough to
know how to accomplish such a feat.
In a general sense we may consider the personal fate over which
we have no control as belonging to the family and the nation into which
we are born, and, to a great extent, our early environment. This is
chosen for us by the Lords of Karma as a means of clearing up our
past debts. They guide us to parents who give us the lower tempera-
ment, and although they are no respecters of persons they hold back
that portion of the Karma that would be too much for us to bear
during one earth life.
It will be interesting if we now consider one or two cases of
Prarabdha Karma and Kriyamana Karma to illustrate the difference.
It may be here stated that Kriya literally means action, and signifies
the working of the " rajasic guna " ; it is under the dominion of the
planet Mars.
The first illustration that I shall give of Prarabdha Karma will
be that of Prince Bismarck, who was born at 1.30 p.m., April 1st,
1815, at Schonhausen, when the planetary positions were as follows :
Houses
x xi xii i ii iii
S 3.47 an a»2i A 19.23 hrS ^2
Planets
O 5 5 1 2/
Tio.js W8.53 *16.56 »4.2 =:i.3 «4.35l5. scio.i6 76.46 720.35
This great man was born to take a very active part in the destiny
of his country. He was born under the twentieth degree of the sign
Leo, the symbol of which reads :
" Leo ; twentieth degree. A crescent Moon joined to a shining
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star. It denotes that the native will have many changes in life and
will eventually become eminent through his association with some
person of high rank and merit. The native will be gifted with
a powerful imagination, much versatility and keen intuition. He will
travel to distant countries, and will become eminent for his own mental
brilliancy, apart from his associations, which however will be the means
of his success. It is a degree of Distinction."
The ruling planet, the Sun, was exalted in Aries in the ninth house,
giving a remarkably strong individuality, the Sun having just separated
from the trine of Uranus and the sextile of the planet Saturn. The
Moon was in her fall in the sign of Capricorn. The personality was
subservient to the Individuality. The planet Jupiter was rising in
Libra, and Venus just culminating in trine aspect to the Moon. The
house of service is well tenanted, and the whole of his life and
power were devoted to the service of his Nation.
If we now turn to the nativity of the late Emperor of Russia we
shall find just as much weakness as in the former horoscope we found
strength. The planetary positions are here shown :
Houses
x xi xii i ii iii
a29.11 ffi3i2 i\,i5 1^9.29 ii)!28 <t23
Planets
Q 5 5 ' V ^ hi V
B27.11 T9.19 nr.35 012.38 T27.49 T5.54 /2.46II. 010.29 T16.19
At the Czar of Russia's birth the tenth degree of the common sign
Virgo was rising, and Mercury, ruler, was in the M.C. in the sign
Gemini. The Sun had just culminated in Taurus. The Moon was
in Aries in the ninth house between Jupiter and Neptune, and Mars
in the same sign in the ninth, and Uranus in conjunction with Venus
in Cancer in the eleventh, while the planet Saturn was in the fourth
house in the sign Sagittarius.
One example will suffice to illustrate the immediate working of
Kriyamana Karma.
A lady whom we employed for four years as amanuensis, at
a salary of 45s. weekly, was, nevertheless, very sceptical with regard
to Astrology, although having daily evidence as to its truth. Once,
having a special confirmation of a prediction that had beeu made, she
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was conventional-minded enough to say that " God did not intend us
to look into the future." She would never hear a single word of
prediction with regard to her own horoscope, and shut herself against
all help that could be given in that direction. She was very proud,
however, and anxious to be quite independent, and therefore left our
employ in order to take a boarding-house with her sister at a seaside
resort; this at a time when she was under very adverse " Directions,"
Mars having progressed to the conjunction of Uranus in Cancer. In
less than a year she lost the whole of her savings, and consequently
experienced much distress. This is Karma reaped during the present
life through personal pride, unwisdom, and lack of necessary knowledge
concerning a new mode of life—adopted in order to secure a quite
unnecessary independence.
This knowledge of the three classes of Karma will account for
serious and fatal accidents, sudden deaths, national calamities, railway
disasters, and other events that belong to Sanchita and Prarabdha
Karma, by which we recognise that the provision of Nature allows
plenty of time to accomplish the working out of all kinds of Karma
generated throughout a world-period, with its various rounds and root
races—Karma which may be partially adjusted in any family, nation
or race.
This idea of Karma, properly understood, is a sure guarantee of
our own free-will, for none punish us but OURSELVES, as so beautifully
expressed by Sir Edwin Arnold in " The Light of Asia."
" Ho, ye who suffer 1 know
Ye suffer from yourselves,
None else compels !
It may be assumed that all egos have Free-will, within the limits
of the National Karma, and in this sense the Emperor Napoleon may
be taken as an example. He had freedom to realise his mighty
ambitions and great acquisitive power, and in doing so he became at
the same time a Karmic agent.
It is true that all the world's a stage and that each must play his
part. There are leading parts for which special actors are chosen,
but they must have the qualities within them to respond to the parts.
If a nation is to be carried to a great height, and to form part of
a mighty World Empire, then her sons must be loyal, and filled with
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unselfish thought for the welfare of the nation. God is the writer of
the play, and we ourselves are qualifying to take those leading parts
that shall either help to create a mighty empire, or assist in its
necessary destruction. For there ts " a time for ail things," and the
wise know when the time is ripe for effort to work in unison with
destiny ; and when a great Soul is coming into the world it is the wise
men who " see His Star."
It has been said by one who should know, that none come into
this world save those who have desired to come. In the very earliest
cycles of our egos' infancy the ministering angels who were their
guardians acted as a wise father would do toward his child, and when
they were sufficiently individualised this protection was gradually
withdrawn into more abstract conditions in order that our egos should
learn to stand alone, and develope self-consciousness. They still
watch over humanity, and although their influence may be attributed
to the Stars it is always around and about us. But it should never
be forgotten that they incline, they never COMPEL.
All must learn the lessons that the world has to teach. We are
born into the race and nation with which we have the most affinity,
and we are part builders of that nation's destiny, therefore the first
law of every human being is Duty, in the earlier stages by obedience
to superiors, in the later stages duty for duty's sake. And, if we
would overcome the power of Karma to give us fate instead of
freedom, we must learn to perform actions without looking for reward
or pleasure, but to do right for right's sake only.
We must not allow our feelings and emotions to be coloured by
the personal element, with the constant danger of becoming jealous,
envious and resentful. Our minds must be under our own control,
and not affected by every passing mood and depression, in order that
our thoughts may be filled with compassion and united with the Good
Law that makes for harmony and peace.

We have received a letter from Mr Duncan Macnaughton

drawing our attention to the fact that during the influenza epidemic
last October Jupiter was transiting — 4, one of the pair of degrees
mentioned by him in that connection on p. 83 of our issue for March
1920.
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Stanu Jlutrs on ^aralgsis anir (EpiUpsg

By Charles Carter, B.A.
I.—Paralysis
The astrological indications of paralysis seem so interesting and
so well defined that it may be of interest to students to draw attention
to them, in the hopes that further data may be forthcoming. The
malady varies greatly, both in respect of its cause and its manifestation,
and in most of the six cases with which I propose to deal information
on thes* points is regrettably defective. Could we know in each case
whether the cause originated in disease or accident, and whether the
cerebral, spinal or peripheral nerves, or the muscular system was
affected, such variations as appear in the stellar configurations could
probably be explained.
With the exception of " muscular" paralysis the disease is one
of the nerves, occasioned by accident or illness: consequently we are
not surprised to find that in all cases under review Mercury is afflicted,
but it is noteworthy that in 5 of the 6 he is afflicted by Uranus or by
Neptune. In the sixth case he is opposition the Moon, but is 16 from
Uranus in the same sign. I have stated in previous articles that 15
seems to be an evil aspect of some power, but that, of course, is not
at present orthodox.
In three cases the Moon is afflicted by Uranus.
It is interesting to note that the Sun does not seem to be directly
concerned in paralysis.
Yet another point that has struck me, though it needs further
examination, is the frequency with which one finds important planets
in the beginning of signs. An examination of the horoscopes mentioned
herein will demonstrate this.
Certain signs seem curiously free from this complaint. If we
take the six cases and tabulate the position of the Luminaries,
Ascendant, and seven planets under the six pairs of zodiacal signs,
this is shown very cogently. We shall have, of course, 60 points
arranged in 6 classes, and would therefore expect an average of 10
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points per class. As a matter of fact we find only 4 under Leo-

Aquarius, 4 under Virgo-Pisces, and 6 under Aries-Libra, or 14 in all,
just under half what one would expect according to the law of
averages ! Gemini-Sagittarius has 11, or just above the average, and
Taurus-Scorpio and Cancer-Capricorn have 17 and 18 respectively ! It
would be interesting to see if this proportion would persist in, say, fifty
instances; if so, the unbeliever would be hard put to it to find an
explanation, and the " coincidence " argument (save the mark l) would
be strained to breaking point!
Is any special degree particularly to be noted in respect to this
malady ? In all six cases there is a planetary body in 7, 8, or 9
Cancer-Capricorn—as a matter of fact in five examples it is in Cancer.
Even from so few instances we can, therefore, consider this region of
the zodiac to be well worth noting in this regard.
The examples dealt with are:
1. Female, born 11.45 p.m., 31/10/86, London. Was injured
falling from a swing set. 4, and did not walk for 30 years. An
extremely interesting map showing Moon square Uranus, and Mercury
opposition Neptune. The Moon is in 7 Capricorn.
2. D. G. Rossetti. The Moon, at the beginning of Taurus, is
with Mercury, in square to Uranus. Venus in 7 Cancer with mixed
aspects. This paralysis was slight.
3. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Mercury is in square with Uranus.
Venus in 9 Cancer.
In all three of these Jupiter is also afflicted by Saturn. In cases
S and 6 they are in benefic aspect. In the 4th case Jupiter is in
Capricorn. Jupiter being, like Mercury, a "limb" planet having
much to do with walking and getting about, the bad aspects at least
are not surprising, and a further knowledge of the 5th and 6th cases
might reveal why the two orbs are in these instances in good aspect.
These two horoscopes are given in 1001 Nativities.
4. Case 113 in 1001 Nativities Moon, at the beginning of
Capricorn, is opposition Mars and Uranus, the last planet in 8 Cancer.
Mercury is exactly quincunx Neptune.
5. Male born 4.30 a.m., 1/7/57, Dorset. The Sun is in 9 Cancer.
Mercury, Moon, Uranus and Neptune are all involved in affliction.
6. Male born 6.30 a.m., November 24th, 1904, Bolton. The
 SOME NOTES ON PARALYSIS AND EPILEPSY 375

Moon is opposition Mercury, but Uranus is out of orbs. He is,

however, square Mars, and " Isis." Neptune is in 8 Cancer severely
afflicted. This example stands rather by itself.
Could the above suggestions be fully sustained by a good number
of further cases it would afford ground for considerable speculation as
to their why and wherefore. Why should Taurus and Scorpio be so
prominent? Why, when afflictions to Mercury and Jupiter are so
frequent, are their four signs merely of average, or less than average,
prominence ? And why should a particular place in the sign Cancer
be concerned so consistently ? The investigation of such theoretic
points is full of interest, and might greatly increase our knowledge of
the true functions of the signs and planets, and the real nature of the
malady with which we are dealing, but it is obvious that a certain
knowledge of the facts of the matter must come first, and it is hoped
that these notes may help in that direction.

II. Epilepsy

In treating of this disease, which seems astrologically less clearly

defined than paralyis, and liable to be confused therewith, we have
the advantage, if such it be, of the opinions of early authors, to whom
it was well known, whereas I do not recollect having come across
paralysis in their works.
Lilly gives four causes for epilepsy, the first of which, at any rate,
will strike modern students as rather widespread in its menace. One
might almost suspect the author of having held a share in a patent
medicine that claimed to be a specific against the "falling-sickness"!
They are:
1. When Mercury and the Moon aspect not each other.
2. When they are in Pisces and Capricorn, in convenient houses,
both to the Moon and Mercury, or when they are in the twelfth, sixth,
or eighth, and neither of them aspect the ascendant.
3. When Saturn or Mars—Saturn in a nocturnal genesis, Mars
in a diurnal, strong, out of an angle, doth afflict both Mercury and
Moon.
4. When Saturn by day and Mars by night do dispose of
M«rcury and the Moon.
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It is hardly necessary to explain that a planet is "disposed of"

by the planet ruling the sign in which it is placed.
Now these rules, though hardly satisfactory in an ultimate sense,
will yet be found full of truth.
In the 6 examples which I propose to examine, Mercury and the
Moon are only in aspect in 2, in one by a weak square, in another by
conjunction.
The planet Mercury is cadent in 5 cases, but I do not notice any
special prominence of the signs Pisces and Capricorn. In fact no one
degree or sign seems remarkable.
Mercury is found afflicted by Mars, Saturn, or Uranus, and the
rule that Mars is the afflictor in day-maps and Saturn in night-maps
seems fairly correct. The 5th example would seem to show that
Uranus ranks with Mars in this respect, not Saturn, a point worth
further investigation.
Finally, both the Ascendant and the 3rd House are usually
affected, denoting the localisation of the disease in the brain. These
seem to have no particular significance in paralytic maps, except that
the 3rd House is commonly afflicted in all cases where there is an
inhibition of movement.
The examples are;
1. 10th July, 1867, 9 a.m., Simla. Moon in Scorpio in 3rd
well aspected. Mercury in 12th square, Saturn in 3rd, Asc. Conj.
Mars. A diurnal map.
2. 30th July, '89, London. 27 Libra Asc., Moon in Virgo.
Mercury conj. Mars in 9th square Asc., diurnal," mild epileptic fits."
3. Case 294 1001 Nativities. Moon in Scorpio, Mercury on
cusp, 3rd square Mars, Asc. Conj- Neptune. Sun is just below Asc.
and the map apparently counts as diurnal.
4. Case 668 1001. Moon in Cancer. Mercury on cusp, 9th
square Mars and Neptune. Sun, lord 3rd, is opposition Uranus, along
the meridian, probably indicating hereditary taint. Diurnal.
5. 9th April, 1841, lat. York, 16 Leo Asc., Mercury Conj.
Uranus on cusp 9th, Neptune exactly opp. Asc. Moon in Sagittarius
without serious affliction.
6. 7th November, 1874, London, male. 21 Leo rises. This
native has had one stroke only, and the map presents special features.
 SOME NOTES ON PAKALYStS AND EPILEPSY 377
Moon and Mercury are conjoined in Scorpio, the Sun is in the same
sign on the cusp of the 4th square Uranus. All three planets square
the Asc., but Mercury has no affliction unless it may be so considered
because disposed of by Mars. Note that in this map Mercury is not
cadent.
Where the Sun is afflicted instead of Mercury hereditary trouble
may be surmised, especially when the +th House is involved.
It may, therefore, be suggested that epilepsy differs from
paralysis in the fact that in the former complaint the Moon is not
afflicted, except quite incidentally, but the Asc. nearly always is.
Mercury is nearly always cadent and is generally afflicted by Mars,
and less often by Saturn or Uranus.
As regards both diseases, additional data are necessary, but the
above may perhaps furnish a basis for further investigation.

The Sinn Fein and Government Conference began in

London on 11 October 1921 at 11 a.m., when the planets and cusps
were as under:
x xi xii i ii iii
^5 "H "121 17 V5i3 =27
Gp S ? J V W f
^17.35 15:16.13 "112-29 11B18.37 11513.46 ^ 3.20 iO.28 K6.12I5. AI5-34
All such meetings generally open a few minutes late, but, taking
this as it stands, Sagittarius rises with its ruler Jupiter close to the
cusp of the midheaven, in conjunction with Saturn, sesquiquadrate the
Moon, and no serious bad aspect such as opposition or square. This
is a very hopeful position, especially if we remember the seventh
house correspondence of the sign Libra; the changeful epoch-making
influence of the conjunction is brought to bear upon problems of
government (tenth house) through international relations (Libra) with
hope of a favourable issue ultimately. The evil side of the map is
scan in the Moon in the second house, opposition Neptune and both
of them square Mercury, lord of seventh and ninth in the eleventh.
This indicates trouble of the most serious description through financial
questions, taxation, trade, etc. Elsewhere there is shown much subtle
scheming and plotting, with danger from extremists on both sides.
On September 26 the Federal Council of the Evangelical Free
Churches appointed a Committee to meet a similar Committee nomi-
nated by the two Archbishops to consider the question of the reunion
of the Churches. In tha map for the Autumn Quarter the Sun was
on the cusp of the ninth house, religion, conjunction Jupiter, and
Mercury was in the ninth house very well aspected.
 JlstronomiJ for Astrologers
By Vivian E. Robson, B.Sc.
[Continued Jrom p. 345)

The formulae necessary to enable one to calculate an accurate

Table of Houses for any latitude according to the usual Semi-Arc
System are as follows :—
A. To calculate the Poles of the Houses.
(1) Log tangent obliquity of ecliptic (23° 27')
+ Log tangent latitude of place
= Log sine X
(2) Evaluate X and take one-third of it and two-thirds of it.
(3) Log sine i X
+ Log cotangent obliquity of ecliptic
= Log tangent pole of Eleventh and Third Houses
(4) Log sine % X
+ Log cotangent obliquity of ecliptic
= Log tangent pole of Twelfth and Second Houses.
(5) The pole of the Tenth House is always 0°, and that of the
Ascendant is the latitude of the place. The poles of the
Eleventh and Third Houses are both the same value, and so
are the poles of the Twelfth and Second Houses.
B. To find the oblique ascension of the cusps.
(6) Convert the Sidereal Time into degrees and minutes of arc,
at the rate of 15°= 1 hour, 10=4 mins., T =4 sees. This is the
RAMC.
(7) RAMC + 30° = Oblique ascension of cusp of 11th
+ 60° = fI „ 12th
+ 90° = >» » 1st
+ 120° = „ 2nd
>» + 150° = „ 3rd
 ASTRONOMY FOR ASTROLOGERS 379
C. To calculate the degree of Longitude on each cusp.
(8) For the midheaven
Log cosine obliquity of ecliptic
+ Log cotangent RAMC from 'V or === (or log tangent
RAMC from 93 or Kf)
= Log cotangent longitude from 'V or — (or log tangent
longitude from ® or V)
(Note—RA of T0o=0o; of 9B0o=90o; of ^0o=180o; and of
Vy0 =270o.)
o

(9) For the other cusps

(i) Log cosme obi. asc. of cusp from 'V or — (or log sine
OA from cs or Vf)
-4-Log cotangent pole of House
= Log cotangent Y
(ii) If oblique ascension be less than 90° or more than 270°,
Y + obliquity of ecliptic = Z
If oblique ascension be more than 90° or less than 270°,
the difference between Y and the obliquity of ecliptic = Z
(This rule must be reversed for Southern latitudes)
(iii) • Log cosine Z [arithm. comp.)
-f Log cosine Y
+ Log tangent obi. asc. of cusp from T or — (or log
cotangent OA from 95 or Vf)
= Log tangent longitude from T or ^ (or \og cotangent
long from 95 or ttf)
(If Z exceed 90° use the log sine [a.c.] of its excess. The long,
will then fall the reverse way from the point from which the OA is
measured, i.e., it must be subtracted.)
(iv) If the RAMC is exactly 0°, 180° or 350°, then log sine
obliquity of ecliptic + log tangent latitude of place = log
cotangent of ascending degree from nearest equinox.
Space is too limited to allow of an example, but the above rules
will be found quite straightforward and simple.

(To be continued)
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The Editors do not assume responsibility for any statements or ideas advanced
by their correspondents, and the publication of letters does not necessarily imply
sympathy with the views expressed therein.

Latitude and Primary Directions

To the Editor, Modern Astrology
Dear Sir,—The interesting and in some respects intricate
question of the effect of changes of latitude on the calculation and
operation of directions would seem to demand further analysis and
investigation than has so far been accorded it by astrologers. Indeed,
the writer has been able to trace but few references to the subject, and
those of a casual nature.
The effect of a removal from North to South latitude, and vtce
versa, is to reverse the house cusps of the radical figure, the 4th
becoming the 10th, etc. Pearce gives an instance of this in his Text
Book of Astrology, p. 148. Presumably, therefore, both primary and
secondary directions should be judged as influencing the secondary
figure from the point of view of house position.
Again, changing the degree of latitude in either hemisphere will
alter the degrees of all house cusps except the M.C. and I.C. and the
consequent positions of the progressed planets will vary from those they
would have if the birth map were used as a basis for the calculations.
Logically one gives preference to the figure for the new latitude,
and if sufficient authentic horoscopes of persons changing from one
degree of latitude to another were available, we might find an
explanation of the failure of directions to the radical map.
The writer would be grateful if those who have any cases on record
which would lead to preference being given to the birth map or the
equivalent horoscope for the new latitude, as the case may be, would
publish them, as this question is open to statistical proof.
Yours very truly,
L. C. Soper
 CORRESPONDENCE

Retrograde Planets
To the Editor, MODERN ASTROLOGY
Dear Sir,—With reference to the letter of Miss Margesson,
allow me, for the benefit of your readers, to state that it was an error
on my part in stating that Mercury and Jupiter were on the cusp of the
ninth house—the exact statement should have been " Influencing the
Ninth House"—this, however, does not alter the fundamental nature
of what it was intended to convey.
My reference to the Moon's motion passing from b 25° to n 7°
should have been stated, to be technically correct, as foreshadowing
events for the 23rd year of life, this being an error of observation due
to having attained the 22nd birthday.
The principal point, essential to make clear, is—that ? turned
direct just prior to this birthday, that this is the year which has the
honour of being the period when the mind was touched with a living
light, creating a rapid unfoldment of latent powers, with consequent
changes, and full expansion in every department of the life.
I am not of the opinion which your correspondent holds respecting
the influence of Mercury parallel to Jupiter: moreover, it is not my
opinion that is required here, but skill, ability, as to giving definite
decision whether If really does share honours with ? .
? P. by direction is only a backing influence after all—
extending very often over a period of years, tending to operate and
influence only, whenever lunar and other influences are at work.
To me, this combination is merely a signification of activities to
come in the future more than the immediate indicator of an event.
Although S is d to b, we also have S * to (?. Mars is in n;
moreover, in very close sextile aspect to Saturn.
These should be carefully weighed and considered before coming
to an opinion, which is erroneous, and likely to be, based as such is
upon one single combination.
While admitting $ d to b an extreme influence—let me assure
your correspondent, that it is with every degree of confidence, when
I state, that its influence has in no way ever tended with me to mental
hindrance.
Indeed, this is an influence which tends to stability of mind.
382 MODERN ASTROLOGY

giving a deep and studious nature—and although a sweep of mental

despondency often overtakes the native^ it is this very combination,
which in the opinion of the writer, was the chief factor, at a very
early age, of making it all the more conspicuous in the mind, that the
intellect was held in bondage.
Due, I state—to a Retrograde Mercury at birth.
Believe me,
Yours most faithfully,
P. W. ROBINSO!*
To the Editor, MODERN ASTROLOGY
DEAR Sir,—The discussion on this subject began to interest me
when I noticed how many days after birth my own Mercury turned
retrograde. For the benefit of those interested, I submit my birth
data. Male, born London, E.G., January 17th, 1882, at 11.15.10 p.m.
Mercury square Saturn at birth, but I was a bright boy at school with
literary ability chiefly marked, and a very retentive verbal memory.
Examination of the ephemeris will show that Mercury turned retro-
grade on February 13, in K9043, corresponding to the year 1909.
On July 29, 1909, my first paid contribution appeared in a weekly
review, and since that time I have lived by literary and dramatic
criticism. Mr. P. W. Robinson's statement in your June number
that a planet direct at birth, and retrograde later, denotes " a falling
away of substance formed by the planet when retrogradation takes
place," is uot borne out in this instance. Perhaps some of your
readers may be able to furnish other examples.
I am, yours sincerely,
Mercury Square Saturn

The Prince OF Wales goes to India under the directions of the

Sun to the conjunction of both the radical and the progressed Mercury,
the latter planet having retrograded to its own position at birth. As
Mercury was in good aspect to Venus and Mars at birth and received
no serious affliction, these are good influences under which to make
the tour Venus was in conjunction with Jupiter in December 1920
and is still only one degree separated. The Moon has reached its
radical place and the trine of the Sun, and as the Moon is in the
ascendant at birth the Prince's extreme popularity everywhere be goes
is likely to continue.
 COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGY

Elongation. The angular distance of a heavenly body from

the Sun as seen from the earth. The maximum elongation of
Mercury is 28°, and that of Venus +8°, but the other planets may have
any elongation between 0° and 180°.
Embolismic Lunation. In every year there are twelve Moons
of 29i days each, leaving 11 days to complete the year. When
the odd days amount to 30 they complete another intercalary or
embolis>nic lunation. The method of directing bearing this name
is identical with the Synodical Lunation method (g.v.).
Embryonic Development. The months of human embryonic
development are said to be ruled by the seven ancient planets taken
in the Chaldsan order, b ruling the first month, V the second, <? the
third, and so on, the eighth coming again under Saturn and the ninth
under Jupiter.
Emersion. The reappearance of a body after eclipse, or
occultation by the Moon, or its reappearance after conjunction with
the Sun.
Enemies Each planet is said to be friendly or at enmity with
certain others. The list of planetary enmities according to the
ancients is as follows:
b is at enmity with <?, ? , J

O
? .. b
n d1 , ©, I)
5
It is also said that planets are at enmity with those ruling the
signs opposite their houses and exaltations. Thus ? would be the
enemy of <? which rules its signs of detriment, and with 5 which
rules its fall.
Enneal Horoscope. A symbolic map, of use in rectifica-
tion and directions, based upon the positions of the planets in the
Navamshas.
ENNEATICAL. The ninth. The term is used in connection with
the climacterical years iq.v.) to denote the years that are multiples
of nine.
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Epact. A number used in the construction of the calendar. It

is the number of days by which the solar year exceeds the lunar.
Ephemeris. A yearly publication giving the geocentric longi-
tudes, latitudes, and declinations of the Sun, Moon, and planets for
each day of the year. (Plural—Ephemerides).
Epoch. See Pre-Natal Epoch.
Equal Division Method of House Division. The principle
of this method is the division of the Equator into twelve equal
segments, starting from the meridian, by great circles passing through
the poles of the earth. Proposed by Zariel.
Equal Method of House Division. The method of Ptolemy.
The Ascendant is determined in the usual manner, and the remaining
cusps by successively adding 30° of the zodiac.
Equal Power, Signs of. Those equally distant from the
tropics, which have equal declination.
Equation of Arcs of Direction. Sometimes called Equa-
tion of Time. The method by which an arc of direction is converted
into time. The most important methods are as follows:
(а) Ptolemy's Method. One degree of right ascension is
equivalent to one year of life. This is the method in
common use.
(б) Naibod's Method. The mean daily motion of the Sun equals
one year of life.
(c) Simmonife's Method. The actual daily motion of the Sun
after birth equals one year of life.
(d) Piacidus' Method. The Arc of direction is added to the
right ascension of the Sun at birth, and the time at which
the direction will operate is when the Sun actually arrives at
this point of right ascension, the measure of time being
a day for a year.
Equation of the Centre. The angle by which the true
longitude of a body differs from its mean longitude.
Equation of Time. The amount by which Mean time differs
from Apparent time. The equation of time may amount to as much
as 16 minutes, whilst at other times it is zero.