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NOTES OF THE QUARTER

STUDIES IN BRIEF
THE PRINCE OF THE ASTURIAS
ANNIE BESANT—THEOSOPHIST

THE INDIAN DANGER

ASTROLOGY AND HORSE-RACING

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Notes of the Quarter

SUPPOSE that one ought to say something about the
I Colonial Congress, a little about the Budget and the
Income Tax, and advert for a moment to the enterprise of
Mr. Beerbohm Tree in placing English drama before a critical
German audience. Save that there is something horribly
tautological about the Mexican Earthquake and The Earth
quake in Mexico I should venture a discreet line or two on this
point. But not wishing to shock my readers more than is
necessary by dishing up what is already a cold collation, I
refrain, merely remarking that as there were two distinct shocks
or quakes in the quarter of the world referred to, the tautologists
were perhaps justified, even though they failed to interest. The
fact is that earthquakes are such a common-place commodity
now-a-days that only a local interest can be obtained for them.
For us here, in the very heart of the common-place, the bursting
of a main water-pipe in Fleet Street is of more consequence
than all the shocks that ever took place—a thousand miles
away ! And this goes to show what a selfish, insular kind of
people we Englishmen are. But the law of compensation is
always at work, and those who inhabit or hold the uncertain
tenure of those parts, have the satisfaction of knowing that even
though they may fail to arouse adequate sympathy, they are yet
capable of exciting our jealousy from the circumstance that the
eyes of the scientific world are upon their particular plot, because
it happens to fall within “the area of greatest frequency.”
There are moments when I am led to think that a little more
“frequency” would do some good in other parts of the world.
The doctrine of Correspondences has a remote application to
the Budget. The line of argument is somewhat tortuous, but
it seems sufficiently interesting to follow up. I had the honour
able misfortune—a borrowed phrase—to attend at one time at
Somerset House. Its labyrinthine passages are suggestive of
nothing so much as the intricacies of the law. Considerable
36 THE FORECAST

intimacy is necessary to prevent getting lost in them. I have

heard it said that people always feel relieved when they get
outside again. Inside there is a small army of officials whose
sole business in life it is to relieve them. I have not yet been
able to ascertain why there are so many foolish people who
prefer to die millionaires, but from some remarks which the
Chancellor let fall in the course of his Budget speech, I under
stand clearly that in some occult sense it is a good thing for
the country. It is what the denizens of the Inland Revenue
department call “fat.” So many millionaires have elected to
go hence during the past year, and trade, about which we have
been grumbling so consistently, has been so good, that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer finds our revenues have increased
to a dangerous extent. Consequently he has determined to put
a stop to this bad habit of dying well-off by imposing a heavier
death duty, and as a further encouragement to live within
respectable means, he has taken three pence in the pound off
incomes less than two thousand earned. One is left with the
choice, however, of either paying now or later on. The subtlety
of taking off a bit at one end of the stick and fixing it on the
other end, with the intent to make us believe that the stick is
longer by so much, is a device which only a Chancellor of the
Exchequer can resort to with equanimity. However, having
paid toll to Cheiron and successfully negotiated the Styx, the
relict may cross the quadrangle and find himself in that
department of Somerset House where they adjust incomes on
the distinct bases of the “living wage” and the “unearned
increment.” If, as is likely, he loses his way twenty times in
the first month and gets through his business in six weeks, his
experience will be about the average, and he will be in a position
to appreciate the validity of this application of the doctrine of
correspondences to the Budget proposals. The argument may
be a little involved and obscure, but so are the corridors of
Somerset House.

I learn with much pleasure from a number of correspondents

that my article on Astrology and Roulette has proved extremely
interesting. One correspondent tells me of a friend who spends
a few evenings every year by way of holiday, working on
a system quite his own. His expenses run to about twenty
pounds a week and his net gains to about eighty. He places
four stakes at a coup. Clever man! The fact of his certain
win lies in the quadruple stake; the mere winning is not in
itself clever, but the method is decidedly so, and those who
 THE FORECAST 37

have followed carefully the various hints contained in my article

are recommended to go and do likewise—providing always that
they can afford to play, and have nothing better to do with
their time. Relieving the Prince of Monaco of a little of his
spare cash might also be regarded in the light of an indirect
philanthropy. But not every system devised to this end has
the merit of working out in practice. There are dozens of
well-tried systems which have been elaborated within the four
walls of private sitting-rooms on roulette wheels purchased
at Gamage's or some other emporium of sports and games.
Alas for the inventors of these systems—they are all infal/ible,
of course—the atmosphere of Monte Carlo has a paralyzing
effect upon them. The trouble lies in their following numerical
sequences which are favoured by the law of probabilities, but
utterly contemned by the fickle goddess of Fortune. I say it
on the testimony of more than one proprietor of a “system "
that the moment they enter the atmosphere of a chartered
gaming-house, the “infallible” rules they have formulated for
their guidance go to pieces. Why this should be it is difficult
to say, but obviously the personal equation enters very largely
into the problem.
Consider for a moment the mixed influences which at any
given moment are ranged round a table of Roulette. Every
person sitting there is “in luck,” or out of it, to an extent which
probably could be determined by reference to their respective
horoscopes and the current influences dominating each. So
obvious is this fact, that there is in vogue among habitual
players a method known as “shadowing.” One player is
observed repeatedly to be for the time “in luck,” and to place
his stakes on winning coups. Another who has already played
for some little time without success adopts the expedient of
following the winner's lead with results which are momentarily
more gratifying. It may be that the successful player is capable
of carrying the additional weight of an ill-starred follower, but
he cannot carry two of them, and in the event of another joining
the same game, Roulette speedily shows that it is as indifferent
to “good fortune” as to systems. There is only one way of
dealing with Roulette, apparently, and that is to play the
system at times when indications favour your personal application
of it. I need hardly point out that the continued existence of
the Kursaal and the Salon are dead against the supposition that
anything like a successful system has yet been evolved, or at
least applied successfully.
38 THE FORECAST

I think it quite possible that eventually the dissemination of

the principle involved in the various systems of numerical
astrology will place some portion at least of the public in a
position to retrieve some of the benefits which hitherto have
been chiefly expressed by the alluring term of “odds against.”
So far as Roulette goes it has certainly been odds against the
successful manipulation of numbers and systems, and I am
perfectly assured in my own mind that none but an astrological
key will serve to unlock the inner chambers of the Bank of
Monte Carlo or affect in any appreciable degree the reserves
with which that institution is credited. But so far as my study
of the problem goes, I am also certain that the inventor of the
Roulette wheel and Table had something more in his mind when
he planned the game than the doctrine of probabilities. The
table which I have published as the key to the game undoubtedly
shows that planetary influences have been accommodated even
if they have not been followed, and on these grounds I claim for
Astrology that it has afforded the first and perhaps the only
intelligible key to the subject.

My readers will find a further instalment of my special articles

on Horse-racing and Astro/ogy. I have given some of my
clients an opportunity of testing the working of the system, and
I think the results are of a nature to carry conviction. Except
in the interests of Astrology I am not desirous of blowing my
trumpet, but I think—nay, I know—that there is no newspaper
prophet who can attempt anything of a like nature with a
shadow of a chance of beating Astrology out of doors. It is
well to remember in this connection that “form,” the sheet
anchor of the professional tipster and the mainstay of the book
maker, does not enter into the equation. Did it do so, we should
not have had the gratification of seeing Father Blind win the
Great Metropolitan Stakes. Indeed, what is known as form is
a variable quantity, and, alas for the prophets and their followers,
too often a minus one. Luck, in the purely fortuitous sense, we
do not believe in. But when we affirm, as constantly we do
in the statement of astrological principles, that the world is
governed by numbers, we are making no sort of claim on
people's credulity. For, although they may not follow us into
the ramifications of astrology, they are at all times well able to
see for themselves that everything in Nature bears us out.
When the great Greek philosopher said: “God geometrizes,”
he was stating a self-evident truth, a truth that is evident at all
events to those who have studied the traceries in the great book
 THE FORECAST 39

of life. See what a great variety of beautiful forms the snow

flakes take. They are nevertheless all formed by angles of
sixty degrees—the sextile aspect in astrology, the angle at which
water always crystallizes. All the superior metals crystallize at
the angle or complemental angle of any regular polygon that
may be inscribed in a circle. From the snowflake to the stellar
universe the step is not a hand's breadth. The manual of the
Great Architect covers all. “As above, so below,” and every
where law, order, symmetry and number. To the extent that
we are able to understand and apply the laws of the universe to
the incidents of life, we obliterate chance and reduce speculation.
To turn the theme I would like to point out that in more than
one publication for which I am responsible I have repeatedly
emphasized the growing danger of an outbreak in India, due to
the opposition of Uranus to Neptune from the sign Capricornus,
which every student of Astrology knows to be the ruling sign of
that country. In the last issue of THE FORECAST under the head
of “Phenomena Interpreted” it is noted that on the 25th April
Mars joins the configuration and forms its opposition to Neptune
and conjunction with Uranus. Advices from Lahore on the
27th of that month convey information of an alarming character.
the feeling of dissatisfaction being fomented by political agitators
of the professional class. The natives are said to be arming and
the volunteers have been allowed to draw ball ammunition from
the armouries. It is said that both Hindus and Mahommedans
are arming secretly in Dacca, Naraingunj and Mymensingh. It
is believed that the trouble now threatening will be the most
serious ever known in the affected provinces. In this connection
it is to be observed that at the end of May, Uranus will again
be in exact opposition to Neptune. Readers will note our
warning: “India is now liable to be stirred by internal dissen
sions, and there is some danger of an outbreak of feeling in
that country.” The fact that the Moon's South Node is now
passing through the ruling sign of India and that eclipses will
fall therein during the course of the next two years, is not
reassuring. It is to be hoped that the Viceregal Council will
find means of circumventing the threatened evils.

It is not surprising that simultaneously with the unrest

manifested in certain quarters among the native populace of
India, there should be a threat of similar disturbances among the
Chinese. The cause is one and the same, namely, the opposition
of Uranus to Neptune, stimulated by the conjunction of Mars
4O THE FORECAST

and Uranus. The indications are of a lasting nature, and the

predictions were well-timed and pointed for the end of April,
when the first open hostilities took place at Lahore, Amritsa and
other centres in the North-West of India, and at Tientsin in
China. It is said that the seditious movement, which is extend
ing north to Peking, is marked by the same preliminary offences
as characterized the Boxer outbreak. Prevention is better than
cure, and statesmen would be well advised to study the elements
of Astrology, with the object of foreseeing disturbances of this
kind, and of defining areas of possible affection. It cannot be
denied that in this instance, as in many others, the Astrologer
has seen clearer at a thousand miles than the governors on the
spot. My predictions in the almanacs were written as far back
as April 1906, a full year ahead. It is worthy of remark in
regard to India that the years 1657, 1757 and 1857 have all seen
complete changes of government, and it is further of interest to
note that the Indian nadigranthams contain a prediction to the
effect that “the dominion of the white malechha will continue for
three hundred years.” What shall happen therefore about the
year 1957 is a matter on which diplomats may speculate with
advantage perhaps.

I would particularly call the attention of my readers to a most

interesting innovation to the world of Astrology in the shape of
Mr. Thomas S. Eyre's practical little manual entitled Our Days
and Hours—What They Zell. This subject of planetary hours
and their significance in daily life is a subject which Mr. Eyre
has made peculiarly his own, and although the book, which I
have reviewed on another page, is not exhaustive of the matter,
yet it contains the marrow of the subject and as an initial
statement may be regarded as fundamentally secure and reliable.
No doubt Mr. Eyre is capable of amplifying and refining upon
the information which he has published, and it is to be hoped
that the success of the first publication will be such as to make
it worth his while to give his readers some further light on this
fascinating aspect of the subject, Meanwhile I may remark
that the more ancient systems of Astrology, such as the Chaldean,
relied almost entirely on these horary indications, whence arose
in due course the more complex and to my mind less reliable
systems of horary astrology so much in vogue with dabblers at
the present day. I should like Mr. Eyre to examine the system
he has evolved in the light of current individual directions and
transits. Directions from the horoscope of birth show us at
what time approximately the good or ill effects of the planets
 THE FORECAST 4I

are liable to strike home, and the transits further assist us in

bringing the calculation within the limits of a day or two.
Suppose the directional influence to be that of Jupiter due in the
month of April, about the third week, and a confirmatory transit
of Jupiter over the Midheaven transpires on the 22nd of the
month, then the question is: At what hour of the day will the
event happen? I believe that, examined in the light of Mr.
Eyre's work, the problem would not be a difficult one, for there
are only certain hours in the day when the benefic influences
have play.
The verdict in the Colley v. Maskelyne case, which recently
excited so much public attention, is of peculiar significance at
this day, for it shows beyond all doubt that the public mind, as
represented by the special jury, is not by any means averse to
the idea that the universe does not cease where we cease to
perceive it, and that there is room in any well-disposed system
of thought for the occasional happening of phenomena which
transcend all known laws and are outside our normal experience.
That a verdict for Archdeacon Colley should have been given
in such unequivocal terms, the jury finding for the plaintiff on.
both counts, is the more significant because it was a verdict.
given in the face of strenuous pleading on the part of Mr. Gill
for the defence, and marked hostility on the part of Justice
Ridley to the views put forward by the plaintiff. Under the
plain matter-of-fact evidence given by Dr. Alfred Russell
Wallace, Counsel for the Defendant was momentarily paralyzed
into submissive silence, and every word of the learned author
and man of science was listened to with rapt attention. Dr.
Wallace, in effect, affirmed exactly similar experience with the
medium Monck as that alleged by Archdeacon Colley, under
conditions which could not admit of fraud. But apart from all
the evidence, it is quite refreshing to find a special jury in
possession of a mind of its own after being dictated to by
Counsel and instructed by the Judge.
Elsewhere in these pages I have drawn the horoscope of the
Prince of the Asturias, who is stated to have been born at about
12.45 P.M., and officially at 12.30 P.M. In my estimate of the
correct time I have had recourse to the doctrine of the Prenatal
Epoch. It is customary on the Continent to register the birth
as at the nearest quarter of the hour.
In my introductory notes to the Market Forecasts last
Quarter I strongly advised my readers not to regard South
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42 THE FORECAST

African shares in the light of an investment, giving as my reason

that “the Labour War in South Africa has not yet sounded its
tocsin.” The outbreak which has since taken place among the
miners, and the threatened strike which is reported as likely to
disorganize the whole of the mining industry in South Africa,
fully bears out this vaticination, and taken in connection with
other predictions of practical and commercial value, is of a
nature to set THE FORECAST and the science which it advocates
well in the front rank of journals which devote space to the
commercial outlook. The advantage we have is that of being
able to speak in advance of events, whereas the ordinary
financial newspaper becomes prophetic only on the appearance
of well-defined indications in the various markets. I invite
readers to examine my forecasts for American Rails during
the last three months, and those for wheat. The romp in
wheat after the first week in May gave operators a chance of
doing themselves some good, and I hope somebody took
advantage of this sound advice.
 THE FORECAST 43

Studies in Brief
THE PRINCE OF THE ASTURIAS
HEIR APPARENT

N the birth of a son to Her Royal Highness Princess Ena of

Battenberg and Queen Victoria of Spain, an event of the greatest
possible importance to the fortunes of Spain has taken place. The
Prince was born at a quarter to I o'clock on the IOth May, and this
is equivalent to about 2 minutes to 1 o'clock at Greenwich. The Right
Ascension of the Midheaven at Madrid at this time is found to be
3/.53m. 39s. or thereabouts, and the Ist degree of the sign Gemini is
culminating in the horoscope, and the 6th of Virgo rising.
The Prince is thus born under the same sign and near the same degree
as the King of Spain, and he will evince the same mercurial temperament,
the same precipitant and eager mind, and a marked love of travel and
adventure.
The presence of no less than six planets in cardinal signs will render
the Prince disposed to ambitious projects, very progressive in his
tendencies, a capable organizer, gifted with much executive ability, and
very independent in character.
I do not consider that his marriage prospects are favourably indicated,
for not only is Venus badly afflicted by the configurations of Mars,
Uranus and Neptune, but Saturn also vitiates the marital relationship
by his presence in the western angle of the horoscope. Uranus and
Mars in the 5th division of the Heavens will dispose to a romantic
attachment which appears to be fraught with disaster and perhaps
tragic consequences.
Jupiter in the I Ith division of the Heavens shows many powerful and
advantageous alliances, but eventually these are subject to some strain
and may lead to serious complications.
Despite the temperamental love of distinction and progress, it is not
to be expected that the Prince will manifest overmuch desire for responsi
bility, as only two planets are rising at the time of birth; but as the
large majority are above the horizon, there will be a considerable degree
of responsibility thrust upon him.
In effect I do not consider that the fortunes of Spain are likely to be
enhanced by the succession here represented, and to the extent that
a royal horoscope reflects the fortunes of a country, the affairs of Spain
cannot be regarded as in the way to become more established than at
the present moment, nor can its fortunes be considered as increscent.
The following periods will prove dangerous to the successors of Don
Roderico: May 1910, January 1911, August 1911, and April 1912. For
two years following the last-named date, the fortunes of the young
Prince will be in grave danger of obscuration.
Not until a ruler of Spain is born under the direct influence of a more
ponderable planet than the ubiquitous Mercury, will any considerable
measure of its ancient glory return to the land of the Dons.
44 THE FORECAST

ANNIE BESANT—THEOSOPHIST

ORN on the Ist October, 1847, near to sunset, with the martial
sign Aries rising on the horizon of London, the place of her
nativity, Annie Besant was destined to be a pioneer in whatever
field of work she undertook, for there was to be seen in her horoscope
a singular configuration of the planets from cardinal signs and angles.
The Sun with Venus near to its setting was opposed by Uranus in the
oriental section of the horoscope, while the Moon and Jupiter were
conjoined in the sign Cancer near to the lower angle, in quadrature
to Uranus, the Sun and Venus. The moderating influences came from
Saturn and Mars, which, by their sextiles to the Moon and Jupiter, gave
promise of an eventual “Place of Peace.” -

The presence of so many planets in cardinal signs at the time of

birth, including the Moon and Mercury, shows a progressive and active
mind, desire for prominence and distinction, a capable pioneer endowed
with much executive ability and power to cut out her own line in life
and to make headway against obstacles. The complexity of adverse
aspects in the horoscope points to a chequered career, the carrying out
of projects of a reformatory character, championing unpopular causes,
and pursuing a course in life contrary to the trend of orthodoxy and
convention.
The position of Venus indicates a fine artistic sense and no little
dramatic ability, and much Suavity and gentleness of spirit, in strong
contrast to the energy and determination otherwise indicated. The
aspect of Mars to the Moon indicates daring and forcefulness, gener
osity, frankness, and strength of purpose, while that of Saturn denotes
steadfastness and endurance.
At the present time the transits of the planets are adverse to health
and fortunes, for both Uranus and Neptune have been afflicting the
Moon's place in the horoscope for some little time past. But the transit
of Jupiter at the end of May will confer some benefits and honours, its
radical conjunction to that luminary finding some special expression at
this time, but while Uranus and Neptune continue in the second
decanate of Cancer and Capricorn respectively, there will be continually
grounds for uneasiness, and the position will be fraught with many
dangers and complexities. The Sun by direction after birth has now
reached the quadrature of Saturn, and it is to be expected that some
decline of the health will soon be apparent. Next year (1908) the
Moon will enter the sign Libra and will meet many adverse aspects from
the radical positions of the planets, while Saturn will make its transit
over the Ascendant of the horoscope, the opposition of the Sun, and the
quadrature of the Moon. At this time the life will be in danger.
The recent demise of the surviving Founder of the Theosophical
Society brings Annie Besant into a foremost position in the Theosophical
ranks, and her horoscope is therefore of some interest.
 THE FORECAST 45

The Indian Danger

ONE too early has the Minis certainly a case for astrology if
terial mind awakened to ever there were one, and it deserves
the sense of imminent examination at the hands of im
danger in the discontent and sedi partial researchers. It would have
tion which for some years past has been quite a different matter had
been secretly fermenting in the the signs ruling the various
hearts of those among the native countries referred to been cata
populace who may be regarded logued after these events, but the
as the “Progressives” of the contrary being the case we are
peninsula. But the warning has bound to admit that in every case
now been voiced for over seven the principles of the science have
years, for in November 1899, I been sustained by the facts.
published in Coming Events an A point of some speculative
article on the “The Great Con interest is to be found in the
junction of Saturn and Jupiter” various periods at which the con
which took place two years later, junctions of the major planets
in November 1901. It was then have produced their more striking
pointed out what remarkable effects. Thus the conjunction of
events would be likely to transpire 1842 in Capricornus brought the
from that exceptional celestial Mutiny in India in 1857, fifteen
phenomenon. Mr. James R. years afterwards. Similarly, the
Wallace, the writer of the article conjunction in Virgo in 1861
referred to, pointed out that brought about the Russo-Turkish
Commander Morrison had pre War in 1877 before sixteen years
dicted the great Indian Mutiny of had passed. The conjunction of
I857 from the mutation conjunc 1881 brought the “Home Rule”
tion of Saturn and Jupiter in the party into extreme prominence
year 1842, and among other great about fifteen years later, and the
events in the near future, the general election of 1895 turned
changes which have taken place in almost wholly on this question. The
the land laws. This conjunction reason for this singular concurrence
of the planets Jupiter and Saturn of periodical results is that the
took place in Capricornus, the period of Saturn is about 29.
ruling sign of India and of ancient years, so that in from fourteen to
Egypt and the Upper Nile. fifteen years the dark planet comes
The next conjunction took place to the opposition of the place of
in the sign Virgo, the ruling sign its last conjunction with Jupiter.
of Turkey, in 1861, and was Consequently we may anticipate
followed by the Russo-Turkish that when, in 1915 and 1916,
War. Following this was the Saturn comes to the opposition of
conjunction of 1881, in the sign its last conjunction with Jupiter, in
Taurus, the ruling sign of Ireland, Capricornus 14 degrees, there will
which was speedily followed by be another sharp and determined
the agrarian outrages and the outbreak of political feeling in
Phoenix Park murders. It is India. But it will be observed
46 THE FORECAST

that the recent conjunction of conjunction and will continue

Mars and Uranus in the 13th thereabouts all the year. Even
degree of Capricornus, which took before the coming autumn has set
place on the 2nd May, 1907, was in there will be fresh causes for
near enough to produce a well anxiety among those responsible
marked agitation which, fortun for the administration of Indian
ately, was met with prompt and affairs, for in July, during the first
decided action by the Government. week, Mars will again transit the
But it must not be thought that place of the conjunction and will
the danger is past. We have seen be close to the planet Uranus, in
but the surface ripple on what is opposition to the Sun and Jupiter.
likely to prove a very deep morass. Then, by the time Neptune has
It is said that the malcontents of come up to the exact opposition
India are secretly arming. It is of the conjunction, it will be again
also known that most, if not all, of opposed by Mars, which transits
the Maharājahs are alive to the the critical point for the last time
benefits which have been con this year in September. July and
ferred on the country since the September, therefore, are danger
British Government took the points along a road thick-set with
reins in hand in 1857. Fanaticism dangers in the political life of
is, however, an insidious influence, India. When further it is seen
infectiously convincing while that the year 1908 opens with an
divorced from reason. It behoves eclipse of the Sun in the ruling
the Government, therefore, to be sign of India and close to the place
prepared for future developments of the conjunction of 1901, all
and to watch carefully for any doubt that the danger is no
recrudescence of the “Young ephemeral or superficial one is
India” symptoms which a certain dispelled. The fact that astro
class of European propagandists logers uniformly detected these
have fostered. The “swollen signs and gave warning well in
head" is a dangerous malady, and advance of the danger they signified,
young India, with the accretion of should serve to convince statesmen
European education and Ham-ke of the manifest advantages which
waste notions, has it badly. It is would accrue from a proper study
to be hoped that a cure will be of astrology. In view of the facts,
found for it. But, knowing the the astrologer could not be
effects of planetary influence on accused of supererogation in pre
human minds, I am bound to ferring a charge of culpable negli
express my grave doubts. gence against the responsible
From August 1907, onwards, Minister should the Government
Neptune will be in opposition to be confronted in the near future
the place of the last conjunction by troubles in India for which it is
of Saturn and Jupiter. In 1908 found unprepared.
Uranus will transit the place of the SEPHARIAL.
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his diameter at the equator is to his polar diameter as 16 to

15. Dr. Maskelyne, however, could observe no difference
in his diameters. His ascending node is in 18° of Taurus,
and his mean apparent diameter 27". The Sun appears to
him only half as large as to us.
VENUS is next to the Earth, within its orbit, and has
generally been considered about the size of our globe, but
according to later observation, she is supposed to be a third
larger, her diameter being 8648 miles; she revolves round
her axis from west to east in 23%. 21m. at the rate of 12, ooo
miles an hour, and goes round the Sun in 224d. 7h., at the
rate of 80,000 miles an hour. Her distance from the Sun
is 68,8oo, ooo miles. She seldom transits the Sun's disk
above twice in a century. Her two last transits were on
the 5th of June, 1761, and 3rd of June, 1769. The next
two will happen December 18th, 1874, and December 6th,
1882. When viewed through a telescope, she presents all
the various phases of the Moon. She is never seen above 47°
or 48" distant from the Sun, and when seen to the west of
him she is passing to her superior conjunction, but when to
the east of him she is coming to her inferior conjunction
between the Sun and the Earth. Casini and others have
seen what was undoubtedly a satellite of Venus, exhibiting
the same phases, and about a fourth of her diameter, but it
can be seldom seen, because its dark side is towards us
when she is in her inferior conjunction, and it only presents
its bright side when she comes near to her superior con
junction. She is generally allowed to have an atmosphere
like to ours, and Schroeter of Bremen says her mountains
are 5 or 6 times as high as ours. Herschel, however, could
not see those mountains, nor was he very certain as to the
time in which she revolved round her axis. The place of
her ascending node is 15° of Gemini. Her mean apparent
diameter is 58". It is thought the obliquity of her ecliptic
is much the same as that of our own.
MERCURY is the last planet perceptible between us and
the Sun, though doubtless there may be many others. He
is seldom seen, being hid by the solar rays, but he emits
a very bright white lustre. He is best seen in a right
sphere, or near the equinox, for those who live in an
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oblique sphere, more towards the poles, can hardly perceive

him. His distance from the Sun is above 37,ooo, ooo of
miles; his diameter is, according to some, about 26oo
miles, or, as others assert, 32.24 miles; and he passes
round the Sun in 87d. 23%, at the rate of 1 Io, ooo miles
an hour. His light and heat are said to be seven times
greater than ours, and he is therefore supposed either to be
calcined or vitrified, if his substance be not more dense
than any with which we are acquainted. This is a very
ridiculous notion, and no way warranted on the general
principles of nature.
The period in which Mercury revolves round his axis has
been but lately known, it is now stated at 24%. 5%m. 28s.
His ascending node is in 16° of Taurus. He never appears
above 28° distant from the Sun, and in the different parts
of his orbit he displays all the different phases of the Moon.
His mean apparent diameter is Io". The Sun appears
7 times as large to him as to us. -

The Moon is the Earth's only satellite: her mean

distance is 240,000 miles, though she is sometimes one
fourteenth part nearer in her perigee. Her diameter is
2180 miles, and she is one forty-ninth part as large as the
Earth. She only reflects one thirteenth part of the quantity
of light on the Earth which the Earth reflects on her. The
force of gravity on her surface is supposed to be a third of
that of the Earth. Her motion on her axis coincides with
her periodical revolution round the Earth, so that the same
side of her is always next to us. Her periodical revolution
in making the complete circle of the globe is 27d. 7%. 43m. 5s.,
and her synodical revolution from the Sun to the Sun
again is 294. 12%. 44m. 3s. I It. She flies at the rate of
2290 miles an hour, and her day and night are as long
as our lunar month. Her position, however, is not so
steady, for she turns sometimes a small part of her face
from us on one side or the other, which is called her
libration, and sometimes she presents a part of one pole
or the other. -

The surface of the Moon exhibits a number of hills,

mountains, caverns, craters, volcanoes, &c. Some have
disputed the existence of a lunar atmosphere, but the
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ingenious Schroeter, having discovered a twilight in Venus,

discovered one shortly after in the Moon, on the 24th of
February, 1792, which of course is a proof that she has an
atmosphere. Her axis inclines to her orbit 88° 17', and
her mean apparent diameter is 31' 8".
The planet OURANOS was discovered by Herschel, March
13th, 1781. His distance from the Sun is 1,827, ooo, ooo of
miles, his mean diameter 35,000 miles, and his period
83 y. 150d. 18%. He has six satellites moving round him
in a retrograde direction, or from east to west, contrary to
all others. The existence of this planet was partly antici
pated before its discovery by Drs. Halley, Bradley, and
others, who observed that Saturn was disturbed in his
motion by some force which they concluded must originate
beyond his orbit, as they could not account for it on the
known principles of gravitation. The planet Ouranos shines
with a fine bluish-white light, between that of Venus and
the Moon, and appears the size of a star of the 8th magnitude.
His mean apparent diameter is 3.54".
CERES was discovered January 1st, 18or, by Piazzi,
an Italian. Her mean distance from the Sun is about
26o, ooo, ooo of miles, and her revolution round him is
performed in 1681d. 12%. 9m, her diameter according to
Herschel is 163 miles, but Schroeter supposes it to be ten
times as much. Her mean apparent diameter is 1".
PALLAS was discovered by Dr. Olbers of Bremen, March
26th, 1802. Her mean distance from the Sun is 265,000,ooo
of miles, and her period 1703d, 16%. 48m. Herschel
estimates her diameter at 80 miles, and Schroeter (a very
good astronomer) at 2099. Her mean apparent diameter
1S I.
s\
JUNO was discovered by Harding, a German, in December,
1804. Her solar distance is 252,000,ooo miles, and her
period 4). 1294, 5%. Her diameter is estimated at 1425
miles, and her mean apparent diameter is 3".
VESTA was also discovered by Olbers in 1807. Her
Solar distance is 225,000,ooo miles, and her period 39. 6od.
4%. Her diameter is estimated at 238 miles. Her mean
apparent diameter is only half a second.
The EARTH we inhabit is distant from the Sun, some say
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96, others 98, and others Ioo millions of miles, its period is 4
365d 5h. 48m, 48s. and it moves at the rate of 68,856 miles
an hour. Its rotation on its axis from west to east, is com
pleted in about 24%. Hence the inhabitants of London
are moved by the diurnal motion 580 miles, and those of
the equator IoA2 miles an hour. The difference between
the planes of its ecliptic and equator is 23° 28′ nearly. Its
mean diameter is 7953 miles, but its equatorial diameter
is 17 miles more, and its polar 17 less,
COMETs are generally considered as opake bodies, of the
Same substance as the planets, and only differing from them
in the eccentricity of their orbits. They are called comets
from Coma, hair, or beams of light, because their rays in
many cases look as if they were hairy or bearded, but this
arises from the appearance of the tail in different positions.
It is remarkable that their tails always flow in an opposite
direction from the Sun, the cause of which has never been
properly explained, although it has been the subject of
many conjectures among the learned, who have been
equally unfortunate respecting the parabolic curve of their
orbits, to solve which that contradictory doctrine of two
forces, the centripetal and centrifugal (neither of which is
founded either on experience or reason) is called in to their
assistance. I know of no one who has exposed this un
meaning paradox with more acuteness than Mr. Brydone,
in his Tour to Sicily and Malta, which I would advise the
advocates of this system to peruse with attention. However
mortifying it may be to human pride to be told that what
they are pleased to term “inert matter” is not more inert
or less animated than themselves, such nevertheless is the
fact, and it is time they became acquainted with it. There
is no such thing as inert matter; every particle is endowed
with life, intelligence, and volition; and its motions, whether
circular or parabolic, are the result of choice, and not of
blind necessity. Every orb is an animal, moving round its
primary, for reasons which however impenetrable they may
be to us, are well known to itself, and turning on its axis as
a man would turn on his heel before a fire to warm himself
on all sides. Nothing demonstrates the force of prejudice
more than the doctrine that matter has always a tendency
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to be at rest. The very reverse is the truth: for if matter

possess any quality more prominent than another, it is that
of the singular and almost incredible velocity with which it
continually moves. There is not an atom on this our globe
but moves at the astonishing rate of about 69,900 miles an
hour, besides its diurnal motion round its axis, and even
this velocity may be almost actual rest compared to its real
motion, if, as some have with good reason supposed, the
system itself revolves round some other center.
In ancient times men, deceived by appearances, believed
the Earth to be stationary, and that the heavens alone
moved; that the Sun and other stars proceeded to the
westward by day, and were brought back in the night in
some way or other, but by what means they did not know,
just as an infant placed in a boat on a river would suppose
the land moved, and that the boat was fixed. On this
optical delusion only was founded the silly notion that
matter is inanimate and motionless, and such is the pre
valence of habit, that it actually separates knowledge from
knowledge, and causes a man to believe that a thing can,
and can not, exist at the same moment of time. Hence
astronomers believe, because they see and know, that
matter and motion are inseparable, and that no particle
of it ever was or can be at rest; while, at the same time,
they believe that it is perfectly inert, dead, averse to motion,
and always at rest. Such is the strength of prejudice and
the weakness of humanity.
The number of opinions respecting Comets are too
numerous to be inserted. Those of Newton seem to
confirm the truth of the Shandean opinion, that “it is
worth something to have a name.” Hevelius and Kepler
supposed them to proceed from some gross exhalations of
the Sun, and some very lately have considered them the
embryos of future planets. They are certainly different
from planets, although doubtless they are masses of matter
reflecting the solar light. Their bodies are changeable,
both in magnitude and appearance, and no way resembling
stars of any description. Their colours are sometimes
red, sometimes yellow, generally dusky, divided into parts,
and sometimes the nucleus wholly disappears and seems
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converted into a thin cloudy matter. They appear to

be substances positively and highly electrified, and the
opinion of Halley and Dr. Hamilton, that their tails are
composed of electric fluid, is very probable. This seems
fully confirmed by the flashing or shooting of their tails.
Whatever warmth they may derive from the abundance of
this fluid added to the heat they acquire from the action
of the Sun (which probably after all is not much) is all the
heat they experience, and this the reader may rest assured
is not quite two thousand times greater than the heat of
red hot iron. It is lamentable that men who have genius
should guide it with so loose a rein. The vagaries of Mr.
Whiston, too, have been a source of alarm to many, whom
I would advise to get rid of their fears as soon as possible.
Comets and planets both, know better than to run foul of
each other; nor do comets appear to possess those powers
assigned to them by astronomers. One of them passed
between some of the satellites of Jupiter without altering
their positions or orbits in any perceptible degree. In
other respects, however, they seem sufficiently injurious.
They doubtless have a sympathetic power of action, like
all other bodies of matter, and cannot fail to disturb the
economy of a globe not used to their influence. See the
article “Comets.”
The nature and substance of the Fixed STARs has hitherto
set even conjecture at defiance, for although the general
supposition is, that they are suns of as many systems, there
is but little in their appearance to justify such an opinion.
About seven hundred of them are double, in which respect
they differ from the only Sun we are acquainted with, and
they exhibit various colours, chiefly white, though some are
red, blue, and even greenish, and others are dusky, whereas
our Sun is a compound of all those colours, and consequently
they must differ from it in this particular, except we suppose
their rays to pass through certain mediums which transmit
only a ray of a particular colour and absorb the rest.
Planets they cannot be, revolving like us round a common
center, else we should see still more prominently the suns
that light them. All we know of them is, that they must
be bodies of some kind of matter, and as such possessing
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each of them a separate influence, but there is much reason

to suspect the natures of their influences are nearly or
wholly unknown. The only method laid down by Ptolemy
is to class them according to their colours, and judge of
their effects according to the nature of such planets as they
most resemble; thus, the red are considered martial; the
pale, Saturnine, &c., but this is a very erroneous method,
because many of them resemble no planet in colour, nor is
it certain that planets operate by means of their light, for
the power of the Moon is as great when her dark side is
turned towards us as when she is at full.
The term fixed is very inapplicable to many of the stars,
and probably to them all. Several new stars have appeared,
several old ones have disappeared, and a still greater number
change their places. One in Cassiopeia, in 1572, appeared
as large as Venus at her brightest perigee, and was actually
seen in day-light. It continued so for sixteen months, and
then gradually disappeared without changing its place.
Some think it returns periodically in about 319 years.
There is a star in the Whale's Neck that appears and
disappears seven times in six years. Another near the
right heel of Serpentarius appeared in 1604, as large as
Venus, and totally disappeared in 1605. One star in the
Swan's Neck appeared and disappeared several times, at
very unequal periods, and in 1715 it settled as a star of the
6th magnitude and so remains. Another star near the
Swan's Head appeared and disappeared several times, and
is now wholly lost. x in the Swan has a period of about
405 days, but not quite regular. A number of other stars
have disappeared, and many change their magnitudes.
Several new stars have appeared in Cassiopeia, and some
of them have again been lost. One in her Knee disap
peared, and two more appeared to the north of its place.
Caput Algol is a variable star, and its period is 2d. 21%.
It remains for 2d. 14%, as a star of the 2nd magnitude,
in about three hours and a half it declines to a star of the
4th magnitude, and in three hours and a half more it
resumes its 2nd magnitude, which it retains for 2d. 14%.
as before. B in Lyra, likewise, has a period of 12d. 19%.,
during which time it appears of several magnitudes, from
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the 3rd to the 5th. m in Antinous has a period of 7d. 4h.

38m, and 8 in Cepheus of 5d, 8%. 37m. No doubt all
these changes have a manifest effect on the Earth, and
produce some of those strange vicissitudes, for which we
are at a loss to account, and which baffle all the skill of the
astrologer.
The fixed stars differ in their longitudinal positions about
fifty seconds and one third in a year, according to the order
of the signs, or from west to east, owing to the receding of
the equinoctial points from east to west. It was generally
supposed by the ancients, that the stars never changed their
latitude, but the moderns have discovered this to be an
error. Halley found Sirius, Aldebaran and Arcturus about
half a degree more south, and Betelguese near a whole
degree, but whether this arises from the proper motion of
the star, or from our solar system changing its place, is
uncertain.
The immense distance of the fixed stars may be con
ceived from their having no sensible parallax; and their
apparent magnitude not being increased but on the contrary
diminished by the power of a telescope. That they are not
lighted by the Sun is supposed to be evident, on account of
their distance, though there does not appear any sufficient
proof that light, as such, proceeds from the Sun at all, but
rather that it is, like heat, created or produced by the Sun's
influence on any body of opake matter opposed to it, and
that its quantity is more or less according to the capability
of such substance to produce it. Were light a luminous
emanation from the Sun's body, we should see it not only
by day but also by night in its progress through the im
mensity of space, enclosing the Earth on all sides, whereas,
even a Sunbeam cannot be perceived but from the surfaces
of opake atoms that reflect it. We cannot know the
boundary of the solar influence, nor is it probable that the
light or heat of bodies opposed to it is wholly regulated by
their distance, but rather by their fitness to receive and
propagate them. We see that Mars is not so bright as
Jupiter, although nearer to the Sun, nor is it probable that
Jupiter or Saturn are colder than Venus or Mercury. The
belts of Jupiter and Saturn give us great reason to suppose
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they have each an atmosphere with clouds floating in it,

and we are certain nothing of the kind could exist on our
globe with only one ninetieth of the Sun's present heat.
It is probable, therefore, that the powers of generating light
and heat are in all bodies proportional to their distance
from the Sun, and this supposition is equally applicable to
the fixed stars as to the planets. A much better reason
why the fixed stars shine by their own light, or by light
derived from other sources than our Sun, is their infinity,
(which can hardly be doubted) and the little probability
that such an atom could operate through boundless
immensity.
Many very ingenious attempts have been made to ascer
tain the distance of the nearest of the fixed stars, but, after
all, the whole is conjectural. Dr. Bradley thought the
nearest would be about 40,000 times as far off as the
breadth of the Earth's orbit, or 7,600,000,ooo, ooo of miles.
Later astronomers have supposed them much nearer: and,
really, when we reflect on the short periods in which they
alter their magnitudes, as before stated, (even in the course
of a few hours) their velocity must be beyond human
conception, if they are at such distances. Hence some
have imagined that in their rotatory motion they present
various phases, which is the cause of such apparent difference
in magnitude.
Those stars that appear to us the largest are supposed to
be the nearest, but this is uncertain, as no doubt they differ
in magnitude. That they seem to change their position by
some means is evident, but whether this appearance is the
result of their own proper motion or that of our system, is
not quite certain. Most of the phenomena may be accounted
for from the latter but not the whole. Some think the stars
never change their relative positions with each other, as
double stars never separate. Motion, however, is inseparable
from matter, and there can be little doubt that every system
is in motion as well as our own, and whether the fixed
stars are or are not suns and centers of other systems, they
probably move with great rapidity through interminable
space.
Astrology is generally supposed to have been invented
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by the Chaldeans, but this conjecture is only founded on

their early astronomical knowledge, which they probably
derived from Hindostan. Its origin was assuredly in the
East, where it is now universally practised and believed.
The Arabs are generally supposed to have procured it from
Egypt, but there can be no doubt they had a system of
their own in common with other oriental nations, long
before that period, though be this as it may, neither are
of much value. What we know of it is chiefly gathered
from the books of Arabian authors, and whatever astrology
was originally, the whole appears to have been perverted
into a mere system of divination, so as to be unfit for any
genethliacal purpose. The quadripartile of Ptolemy, how
ever, gives us reason to suppose that in Egypt, at least, it
had once been on a more respectable footing; though the
absurdities contained in that work, mixed up with some
important truths, shew that it had been long neglected, and
its original meaning almost forgotten. This may have been
owing to the mean selfish policy of the Egyptians, who, to
keep every one in the dark but themselves, converted all
their knowledge into hieroglyphics, or transcribed it in the
sacred letters as they were called, which were an alphabet
used by the priesthood only, the key of which being once
lost, all their learning was lost with it.
The work of Ptolemy is the only standard we possess,
and has served as a foundation for every other. Some
speak of it with much veneration, though very few com
prehend its meaning, and it is evident from the tenor of
many parts, that the author did not comprehend it himself.
It is, however, preferable to the works of the Arabians,
which are the most superstitious mass of symbolical and
allegorical trash that can be conceived. Many authors
have written on the subject in all nations, but they chiefly
adhere to the Ptolemaic doctrines of essential dignities,
lunar nodes, and horoscope; which can have no effect in
nativities, and by misquoting some of his theories, the
greater part of them have contrived to render the science
truly ridiculous; but this ought not to deter others from
studying it, for any reflecting person must perceive, that
effects in general being so very disproportionate to their
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supposed causes, must proceed from something very different,

and this can be no other than astral influence; for on what
else does the whole fabric of the universe depend for its
support and the laws by which it is governed. To ascribe
the whole to the will of providence is merely an equivoca
tion: that all events depend on the will of providence
cannot be doubted, but we are alluding to secondary causes
under providence, which always enforces its will by natural
means, for we see it uses no other. Providence would be
more highly honoured, if mankind would take the trouble
to investigate the ingenious laws and machinery by which
it governs the universe, than when they sit down and idly
exclaim, “Oh, it is the will of providence,” and think no
more about it.
We know the change of season wholly depends on
planetary influence, and doubtless the changes in the
weather do the same, or at least on celestial causes of
some kind. They are the result of variations in the
atmosphere, and although these depend on the condition
of the Earth, the latter depends on the state of the heavenly
bodies by which it is surrounded and affected. Brutes and
insects are early sensible of these vicissitudes; and nervous,
sickly or elderly people are the same ; doors and shutters
will swell or shrink, metals will contract or expand, watches
will lose or gain time, stones and other substances impreg
nated with saline particles will sweat, and the entire face of
nature becomes altered.
Those alterations are frequently experienced when the
Moon arrives at her quadratures, and particularly when she
forms her last sextile with the Sun. Her conjunction with
Mars is frequently productive of wet, especially when their
latitudes agree. But the atmosphere often is liable to
unusual and very lasting impressions. Some seasons are
remarkable for dryness, wet, cold, heat; some are sickly;
others healthy; and by these overwhelming causes even the
lunar aspects are neutralized. They do indeed produce
certain changes, but such as are weak and of short duration.
When particular diseases abound, they are usually ascribed
to heat, cold, wet, &c., but a little reflection would shew
the incorrectness of such opinions; for at other times, when
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heat, cold, &c., are much more prevalent, such diseases are
unknown. The observation of certain persons, that they
catch cold they know not how, is extremely just ; for
although colds are often caused by carelessness, they are
more frequently the result of an altered state of the
atmosphere from sidereal causes, against which no precaution
is available, and many who encounter cold and wet without
sustaining any injury, will catch cold in a room without
being exposed to either.
Nothing can be a stronger proof of sidereal influence than
the strange succession of fortunate and unfortunate events
experienced by many individuals. The whole lives of some
are a succession of disasters, and all their exertions terminate
in disappointment. Injudicious conduct no doubt will pro
duce misfortunes, but many to whom no blame can be
attached are injured and ruined by a strange coincidence
of circumstances, which no human prudence could foresee
or prevent. Certain times are peculiarly disastrous to certain
people, and in families numbers die nearly together. This
is probably owing to some resemblance in their horoscopes,
a thing very common among relatives.
Many of the more durable changes in the atmosphere
may arise from the proximity of comets, a greater number
of which approach the Earth than is generally supposed,
although they are hidden by the blaze of the Sun. They
mostly cause heat and dryness, particularly in that hemis
phere where they are posited, and as opposite changes
usually succeed each other, they may ultimately cause cold
and wet. The luminaries, however, are the more immediate
causes of sublunary vicissitudes in their mutual configurations
with each other, and with the angles, particularly when
posited in the midheaven. There is something remarkable
in this angle, even when no planets are in or near it, for all
vegetables will point to it by nature, and will dwindle and
waste if any substance intervene between them and the
zenith. This is the reason why grass will not grow beneath
trees; animals decline from the same cause; and those who
are confined in houses, or mines, or who live in woods, are
pale, cadaverous, and unhealthy, however freely the air may
be admitted. No portion of matter affects the Earth so
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much as the Moon, for besides that she by means of her

proximity conveys the influences of the celestial bodies to
us by her various configurations with them, much depends
on her eccentricity or anomaly. Nothing demonstrates the
power of the Moon more than the period of gestation being
9 or 7 months, at which times she forms the trine or square
with her radical place at conception. Children born at the
end of those periods may live, whereas it is affirmed that
no infant produced in eight months ever survived.
The medium through which distant portions of matter
operate on each other may probably be a very fine fluid,
emanating from each through infinite space, and wholly
imperceptible except by its effects. This may be denomin
ated sympathy, and to it may be traced whatever is deemed
supernatural or miraculous, or, to speak more properly,
whatever cannot be accounted for from the known properties,
or rather the acknowledged properties of matter, for many
of its properties are known, that are not acknowledged.
Locomotion, and volition, for instance, by which the planets
revolve round their axes, and move through their orbits, and
by which every particle gravitates toward the center of the
mass to which it belongs: these are general sympathies
common to all matter with which we are acquainted. But
the more particular or occult sympathies are those not
common to matter, and apparently contrary to its general
laws: such is the polarity and attraction of the magnet,
with numberless other unusual sympathies subsisting between
certain bodies, for which we cannot account in the usual
way. Those marks and accidents communicable to the
foetus in the womb, and the periodical alteration of such
impressions according to the season of the fruit, flowers, or
other substances from whence they originate, are two of the
most common and striking proofs of occult sympathy that
can be produced. Second sight, which, however it may be
ridiculed, is too well authenticated to be disproved; ominous
dreams, and those unaccountable forebodings and depressions
of the mind, very common in persons of a nervous, weak, or
irritable frame, prior to unforeseen calamities, with a number
of other instances superfluous to mention, are all incon
testable proofs that every thing in nature operates upon
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the rest, and is operated on by them more or less according

to its nature and texture, in a way of which we can form no
conception. This occult sympathy was and is the source
of every species of divination, which, notwithstanding the
silly commonplace gibes of imitative witlings, and the
frauds of its knavish professors, is really founded in nature
and truth. The mind, when anxiously and steadily fixed
on knowing the result of an undertaking has, from the
tripod to the teacup, always been gratified, if a proper
intelligent system were adhered to. Cicero ridiculed the
augurs, probably with reason (for there were many knaves
among them) and perhaps without, for he might after all be
more of an orator than a diviner, although like the Cobler
of Apelles, he could not be persuaded to stick to his last.
At all events, the Roman general would have shewn more
solid judgment in following the line marked out to him by
the chickens, than he did wit in throwing them into the sea
saying, “If they would not eat they should drink,” for he
paid the full price of his folly.
Upon these sympathies of nature is founded the entire
Science of Astrology, both Genethliacal and Horary.
Genethliacal Astrology rests on the more common and
obvious effects of matter on matter; for the stars cannot
affect the globe without inserting their power into every
separate portion of matter that it contains.
Horary Astrology depends on that uncertain species of
sympathy, which, although equally a property of matter
with the other, is seen in certain modifications only. Those
whose minds are ardent, whose feelings are acute, and whose
irritability of frame and consequent anxiety is excessive,
are more subject to its operation than others, when their
sensibility is excited by any object or event of importance.
Thus husbands sympathize with their wives; mothers with
their children; and individuals of every description with
those who are peculiarly dear to them, whether they are
united or not by the ties of custom or consanguinity.
Those whose nerves are more indurated, and whose sensa
tions are less acute, although their attachments are equally
firm, are strangers to this kind of sympathy, through nervous
insensibility, and it is very natural for them to deny the
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existence of what they never experience, although placed in

the same relative situations with those who do; hence
many disputes originate concerning the truth of those
unusual perceptions; but there is nothing untrue, or preter
natural in them, for it is quite according to the course of
nature that animals of a peculiar conformation should have
the peculiar perceptions, sensations and powers adapted to
such conformation. This is the great secret of all divination,
which was so denominated from the supposition that it was
of divine origin, and proceeded from the gods; but it is
neither divine nor diabolical, but the natural result of matter
operating on matter, as one planet disturbs another in its
orbit, as the Moon disturbs the ocean, as the magnet draws
iron, or glass excited by rubbing draws wax, &c.
There is no part of judicial astrology so easily and so
perfectly attainable as the power of solving horary questions,
where nature, if proper attention be paid to her impulses,
will be found to accommodate herself to every emergency,
whereas in nativities the qualities and fate of an animal
being regulated by the same fixed, uniform, unerring laws
as the other phenomena of nature, the causes are too
numerous, too complicated, and too remote, ever to be
wholly comprehended by any stretch of human intellect.
Some of these are from their nature imperative, others
subordinate, and the greater must always overcome the less.
Thus, as Ptolemy justly observes, the same act that with
a man would produce a man, would with a horse produce
a horse, although the positions of the stars may be exactly
the same, and both the man and horse would be in any
climate, or under a particular discipline, very different from
what they would have been if produced at the same instant
in any other climate, or under any other mode of tuition.
Men born with indications of a violent death, would in
countries where wars and violence are unknown, die like
others; whereas, in countries and times where wars pre
dominate, a very slight direction would cause an untimely
end. In the former case, however, the dissolute lives,
hair-breadth escapes, and numerous accidents common to
such ill-fated and depraved characters, clearly demonstrate,
that from their birth a train was laid for their destruction,
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xxxii INTRODUCTION

which only waited the concurrence of some other cause, as,

for a match to fire it: and should confusion become the
order of the day, they would be the first to rush into danger
and to perish in the conflict. Indeed, this is a fact generally
known (although the true cause is not suspected), that the
most worthless and desperate characters are the most anxious
to engage in violent and hazardous enterprizes. The effect,
therefore, is traced to its cause, which cause is itself only
an effect of planetary influence, as every one's reason, were
it attended to, must acknowledge; for did no such thing as
planetary interposition exist, men's minds and bodies would
be perfectly alike, for what would cause them to differ?
The answer will be, “the will of providence.” I grant it:
and these are the natural means used by providence to
carry its will into effect.
Mames of the Characters used in this Work.
PLANETS.
P Saturn. Q Venus. % Pallas.
* Jupiter. & Mercury. 2 Ceres.
3 Mars. Q The Moon. 24 Juno.
G) The Sun. H Ouranos. § Vesta.
SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC.
Y Aries. ge Cancer. a Libra. w? Capricorn.
8 Taurus. & Leo. m Scorpio. & Aquarius.
II Gemini. my Virgo. . ] 1 Sagittarius. | x Pisces.

D Square.
A Trine.
>k Sextile.
6 Conjunction.
|
& Opposition.

& The Dragon's Head. | 3 The Dragon's Tail.

(P The Part of Fortune.

MARKs of DISTANCE.
s. Signs. | * Degrees. | "Minutes. | "Seconds. | "Thirds.
OF TIME.
y. Years. A. Hours. s. Seconds.
d. Days. m. Minutes. f. Thirds.

(To be continued.)
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Astrology and Horse-racing

A REMARKABLE RECORD

HE merits of “form " have for or against it. Condition is a

long been before the racing “quantity” almost as variable with
world, and presumably it is a horse as a human, and “mood "
the business of an official handi must count for something. There
capper to discount form by impos are times when a horse will not get
ing a penalty whenever it appears. off, and others when it will not try
Looked at squarely, the handicap to the finish. But given fitness,
would appear to be an attempt to tractability, and willingness on the
start all horses off on equal terms, part of the horse, there comes along
weight for age according to the the jockey to make or mar his
season, and penalties for previous chances. Jockeys, like all other
successes. That all horses are not humans, are in or out of luck, and
considered to have an equal chance, in or out of condition, from time to
however, is shown by the fact that time. Training will do a lot for a
“form " goes to pieces time after man, but I have yet to learn that
time, much to the satisfaction of the it can correct the complaint known
turf accountant. The professional as “bad luck.” The owner and the
newspaper tipster studies form, gets trainer have also to be considered
information from the course from as important factors in the make
the most reliable and skilled sources, up of what are called “winning
and comes a cropper too often to be chances.” All these are variants
regarded as a sure guide to what of the problem, and yet in face of
has been facetiously called “Turf them—each an unknown quantity
Certainties.” When I gave Maya and a variable one—we are
at IOO to 7 to beat St. Petersburgh repeatedly invited to “follow
at Newmarket on the 16th May, I form.”
expressed my opinion as tersely as In thus denouncing form as
possible regarding the value of inconsistent with the claims made
“form.” It is one of those catch for it, I am being guided entirely
phrases which has been galvanized by a study of facts. If one looks
into life by a persistent press and it at the performances of any single
is likely to die hard. I feel that in jockey in three consecutive years,
undertaking the task of killing it I the variability of this factor in the
have the Goliath of prejudice to equation is conspicuously manifest.
deal with. We marvel at the horsemanship or
One has only to consider the the good luck of a winning jockey
factors at work in order to know one year, and the next we find him
that there can be no such thing as relegated to the category of “lug
persistent form. Granting that a gage.” To cite instances would be
horse has certain well-tried qualities invidious in this connection, but the
which make for success at a given fact has to be considered. The
weight over a certain distance, there same remarks apply, in effect, to
are still other factors which make both owners and trainers. What
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then is that undefinable something occasion I4 winners out of 24 races,

which sportsmen call form which and on a third occasion I 5 out of
has proved such a consistent friend 24. Five out of six races in one
to the bookmaker and which con day have resulted on more than one
stitutes the abracadabra of the pro occasion to the credit of the system.
fessional tipster P On a flat stake of £1, the net
Pythagoras affirmed that the winnings for 5 days was £47 8s. 3d.
universe was built on Number, and In five days' trial also I have found
that Number was at the root of the winner in I 5 out of 18 events
every mundane event. If one may to which the system applied.
choose between the old abracadabra Is there any other system in
and the new, I will say frankly existence which can show over
that I prefer the original. I prefer 50% of winners for a consecutive
it, not on account of its respectable month P Are there any sporting
antiquity, but because it is some editors who would like to accept
thing which lends itself to experi my challenge and pit their best
mental proof. The only question against me for a week of events P
is whether it can stand the test. Now note the conditions under
One can deal with numbers as one which these results are obtained.
cannot deal with “form,” because Without having even seen a morn
the latter is protean and ubiquitous. ing paper I require to be informed
Numbers are at the root of only of the schedule time of the
astrology, the science of mundane race and the weights engaged.
events. The test of its truth is The horses remain unknown to
mathematical science, than which me. In one minute I call for a
there can be nothing more conclu weight, or it may be for two or
sive and convincing. I find by three. I do not know what horses
calculation that a certain geome these apply to, but they are noted.
trical relationship is instituted In another minute I give the win
between two planetary bodies at a ning weight from among them. In
given time and I find that it is over 50% of cases I am right.
marked by a specific event, and on Often enough among the others
a repetition of the same planetary will be found the second and third
positions I am confronted by a in the results. Occasionally the
recurrence of the same event, and winner is found among the rejected
this sort of experience, happening weights and this counts against me.
continually, is an argument which Sometimes there is a non-starter
goes home. involved, sometimes an apprentice
Applied to horse-racing the same is put up with a 5 lb. allowance, but
mathematical test holds good in despite these obstacles my record
such a large percentage of cases remains steadily above the specified
that one can only assume a com 50% average. Astrology is cer
mon ground of argument in favour tainly the most universally satis
of the dictum of Pythagoras. And factory and respectable science
what results can be shown by the which I have yet come across or
application of the mathematical ever expect to.
test? I may enumerate some I see that the Daily Express
certified cases. racing prophet, “The Scout,” has
Before a well-known sporting been receiving the congratulations
editor a week's trial showed out of of his followers on the unique per
36 races I9 winners ; on another formance in the Press of having
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“reached a point . . . which has credit I find, among others,

not been surpassed since news Muezzin, IOO to 8; Shanganah
papers gave prophecies on racing Lass, 7 to I ; Best Friend, 7 to I ;
events.” The cause of congratula Adversary, IO to I ; Laila, 7 to I ;
tion is that the prophet has scored Lord Rossmore, 6 to I ; Retort, 5
63 points from March 18th to May to I ; Jovial, IOO to 8; Maya, IOO
18th, that is to say, in two months to 7; Cycloid, Io to I ; Knight
Seeing that only one other sport Commander, IOO to 8; and
ing prophet scored on the winning Sophron, 7 to I.
side on the same flat stake of £ I The figures look fabulous. I
on each selection in the same time, admit having been staggered when
and that all the others lost in sums I lighted upon the System and saw
varying from £15 to £63, there is its possibilities. The fact that it
no doubt that exceptional credit is is purely astrological draws it away
due to the breezy, good-hearted at once from all those pseudo
tipster of the Daily Express. But systems so extensively advertised
it is not in the same category with in sporting papers, and places it
my “Alternate System,” which on upon a sure mathematical basis
a flat stake of £1 for each selection which is capable of test and proof
yielded no less than £42 9s. 2d. in a from day to day. It is, neverthe
SINGLE RACING WEEK of five less, extremely simple and easy of
days. This includes five non application, and often enough I
runners. My selections have been have caused sporting editors to
given daily to a representative of find the winners for themselves in
the Sporting Press, the selections the manner I have already detailed.
for the whole day being handed in As I have previously indicated in
before the first race. The system, a former article on this subject, the
applied to the various events each System brings out almost all the
day embraced by the particular “outsiders ” who win, and I think
method I follow, has given the the above figures go to show that,
following results: whatever the quality of the horses
RACES. WINS.
may be, they were outside goods
Week ending May 11th : 24 14 in the several events to which the
Week ending May 18th : 20 12 above prices refer. On the whole
Week ending May 25th : 31 22 I consider that I have made an
effective answer to the question,
This gives 48 wins out of 75 races, “Can Astrology find winners ?”
and among the odds falling to our SEPHARIAL.
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The Weather

ASTERTIDE gave us a most congenial burst of fine summer

weather, and my prediction of April opening “fine and mild"
was fully realized, as in greater or less degree throughout the
country were the forecasts for the whole month. April, however,
Shoroughly belied its early promise and has proved to be one of the
most miserable and changeful of the whole year so far. As I write
“May opens dull ” indeed, but there is every reason to look forward to
some foretaste of summer during the month. My forecasts for the
ensuing quarter are as follows:—

JUNE.—Opens fine with developing heat during the first few days.
Fine weather is promised by the lunation of the Ioth, but there are very
complex aspects in force during the middle of the month, and from
the 12th to the 21st there will be ample evidence of storm conditions
overriding the general indications from the lunation. I look for ex
ceptional atmospheric phenomena and a sporad of earthquake shocks
between the 11th and 22nd, with unsettled weather during that period.
The latter days will be marked by a colder temperature and much
downfall. An unsettled and stormy month on the whole. Storm
Periods—IIth to 22nd. Earthquakes 13th to 17th.

JULY.—The month opens unsettled, and speedily gives place to

stormy weather, changes being rapid during the week-end of the
5th–8th. A much cooler temperature with wind then sets in, with
showers about the 9th. Midmonth the indications are more favourable,
and bright summer weather may be expected. Heat develops with
fine weather to the 17th, when sharp storms will break, the weather
thereafter being cooler and more unsettled to the end of the month.
About the 25th there will be some high winds. Storm Periods—3rd to
9th, and 17th.

AUGUST.—The month opens fine and warm. Some wind and a

break in the weather about the 5th ; then warmer to the Ioth, when
thunder storms may be expected. The midmonth is unsettled and
showery, and there do not appear to be any indications of a fine set in
the weather during the rest of the month, the last week showing
a storm period about the 26th. Storm Periods—Ioth and 26th.
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Market Forecasts

N strict accord with my predictions, the American Market during

the month of March developed a strong bearish mood and prices
fell away in the most forlorn manner, but during the first fortnight
of April there was a further distinct recovery, in close agreement with my
forecast. My private advices warned speculators against buying during
the fictitious attempt to buoy the market at the end of March. Price
fell back to points below the worst for the month, and not until April
had fairly set in did the market truly recover itself. Other markets have
been well defined by the astral indications, and on the whole my report
has been of a reliable and profitable nature. During the ensuing three
months the movements of the Share Markets will be more difficult to
follow on account of the holiday influence pervading the Exchange, but
my forecast is as follows:–

JUNE.—The tone of the markets is exceptionally dull, and in the

third week goes rather worse. CONSOLS do not advance appreciably
and give no support to the market. A critical point as regards
KAFFIRS and INDIAS is reached midmonth and speculators should keep
off them. HOME RAILS show good returns, and may advance slightly
during the first fortnight, but they follow CONSOLS in company with
most other stocks in a general relapse after the 18th. AMERICAN railroad
shares are favourably regarded during the first week, have a steady
influence for the first fortnight, but afterwards meet with no support and
may be neglected. WHEAT shows a fairly steady market at the
opening, but quickly feels the influence of bad Indian reports, coming
to a crisis for a sharp fall about the end of the first week. Then about
midmonth there will be bad crop reports and some Indian scare which
will give a sharp upward trend to prices, the market going strong to the
end of the month.

JULY.—A very critical position is reached on the markets during the

first ten days of this month, and prices of all gilt-edged stocks will be
depreciated. CONSOLS show at about their worst for the season about
the Ioth, and HOME RAILS and KAFFIRS follow suit, the market
generally being depleted during the first fortnight. Food stuffs and
staple commodities appear to be the only things likely to be enhanced
during this period. After the 15th CONSOLS show a steady influence
and will advance to about the 25th. INDIAS are at their worst for the
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month about the 17th, and KAFFIRS may not be expected to come
forward until after the 16th. WHEAT is an uncertain quantity, but from
the collateral indications I judge that advance in prices will be the order
of the day, for the first fortnight at all events. Prices are about their
best on the 25th of the month. AMERICAN RAILS fall somewhat
heavily about the Ioth in sympathy with the general tone of the
markets.

AUGUST.—The general tone of the markets is not so steady and

confident as during the last fortnight of July, and CONSOLS do not show
any strength throughout. AMERICAN RAILS have a decided fling
during the first few days, but the influences are not lasting enough to
make a boom of it. HOME RAILS are better and on traffic returns
should improve or at least maintain a steady front. INDIAS continue to
be sold, and KAFFIRS are not yet in the way to reap any advantage
from prevailing conditions. WHEAT has a decided rise in price during
the first twelve days of this month, and may be followed to advantage.
Maize breaks the tone by its plenitude, and during the last ten days
Wheat will find its normal level. Any benefit to be derived from the
Kaffir Market will be seen during the first week of this month.

NOTE.-The Chart of any specific Company, Stock or Share can be

obtained from THE FORECAST for Ten Shillings.

Clients who have consistently followed astrological advice in their

dealings with the Stock Exchange have repeatedly testified to the
surpassing value of this class of information. Given the daily news
papers and a straightforward broker, it is possible to get the latest
advices by cable and the feeling of the market in regard to any particular
stocks or shares. But this is not equivalent to having some prescience
of the trend of the market a week or a month hence. Astrology alone
can compass this information with anything like an adequate ratio of
success. Sepharial made it quite clear to his readers that it was no use
buying American Railroad shares in March, and it was equally clear
that a good rise would take place in the first fortnight of April and a
reaction in the second fortnight. In the wheat market also it was clearly
indicated that an exceptional rise of a sustained nature would take place
in the month of May, and from these several sources there would have
been abundant profits accruing.
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Casual Causerie

THE HOUR AND THE MAN

“The lucky have whole days, and those a contract, and that with a scorn
just when they choose ; of consequence which would dignify
The unlucky have but hours, and those an archangel. It is all a matter
they lose !”
of impressibility and temperament.
WM rHOEVER, has been con
vinced from experience
Of those who are convinced of the
truth of astrology some there are
of the truth of this old to whom it appeals as a matter of
saying, may well give his atten science, to whom the text-books
tion to the following notes. There are familiar reading, and the
are those among astrologers who, equation of arcs a pure pastime.
while fully assured in their minds The idea of applying the principles
of the unceasing action exerted by of the science to the common needs
the planets over human affairs, yet of daily life has never dawned
fail to apply their knowledge of upon them, much less has astrology
planetary influence to the exi made any appeal to them on the
gencies of daily life. It appears, score of moral and ethical laws.
maybe, foolish and inconsistent, but Others there are to whom the
astrologers would not be true sons whole subject appeals chiefly as a
of Uranus if a certain glorious in religious system. For these the
consequence did not attach to all hour of Saturn is to be avoided
and singular their actions. like “the devil and all his works,”
I have heard it said that the and the influence of Mars to be
man who invented the guillotine eschewed as “anger, hatred, malice
brought sudden death to himself and all uncharitableness,” and from
by that device, and history informs these they pray to be delivered,
us that the builder of the Tower hastening their works to a swift
of London was presently im conclusion under the benison of
prisoned within its walls. Similarly, Jupiter, Venus or the crescent
the man who stumbles up against Moon. They take their astrology
the fact of planetary influence in seriously, as one takes physic in
human life cannot be said to profit the morning, working out in detail
himself greatly by that experience. all the confliction of influences
It is there for him to use for his through which they will have to
own advantage at whatsoever time pass during the ensuing day.
he may elect to do so. The fact Whether one should labour
that the planets mostly dispose righteousness with so much mathe
him as fully and as frequently as matics seems to me a question
others who are wholly ignorant of which can only be referred to the
the very existence of other worlds individual who hopes to profit by
than ours, does not disconcert him it. But without doubt there comes
in the least. He sees that it is a time when wider experience and
now the hour of Saturn, and he much traffic in these ethereal arts
straightway goes and concludes begets thathigher indifference which
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finds itself able in all sincerity to ignorant of the fact that he is, more
disregard planetary action so far than all others, the plaything of
as his own life is concerned, astral forces. In short, “the wise
and to look upon all celestial man rules his stars (through him
influences in terms of human self), while the fool obeys them.”
agency. This man is safe. The The one is indifferent through
man who is not safe is he who acts intelligence, the other is compliant
as from himself in all things, while through ignorance.

PLANETARY HOURS

MAN met another in a were times opportune and times

railway train and under adverse to these and all other
provocation assaulted him, projects. Yet there are those
in consequence of which the victim among our more astute and careful
died and the pugilist was remanded observers in the astrological world
on a charge of murder. This took who definitely affirm a set fatalism
place in the hour of Mars, time attaching to the association of
6.50 P.M. on the 24th April. planetary influence and human
Now, I wonder whether such an purpose. In short, things do not
impulse could have moved any one happen except in those planetary
in any other hour but that of hours which are in accord with
Mars? That Mars at any time the nature and purpose of an
would more readily move a fight action. The more one looks into
ing man than anybody else is the category of things in this light
certain, but the fact that martial the more certainly is one disposed
men are not for ever fighting, and to subscribe to a doctrine of pre
even the most belligerent have established harmony, which, not
their hours of peace, seems to withstanding that we allow the
suggest that, as Solomon is alleged truth of determinism, amounts in
to have said: “For everything effect to fatalism as regards the
there is a time, and a season for ordered course of events as events,
every purpose under the heavens apart from the hidden purpose and
. . a time for war and a time for meaning of them. It is but
peace.” Not that the wise king another aspect of “the eternal
intended a doctrine of fatalism in fitness of things.” Let us, then,
so saying, I imagine, but that there study Planetary Hours.

THE WORLD RE-SOULED

D ETERMINISM, which must

be regarded as a purely
spiritual process in its
the universe, planetary motions,
mundane events. The mind of
man which cognizes this order of
origin, a reflex of the cosmic law events, is free to illustrate deter
—is not so strongly in antagonism minism. It does so to the extent
to the doctrine of fatalism as seems that it is capable of the sense of
the case at first sight. What is independence and possession as
fated is the mathematical order of regards the body it temporarily
 THE FORECAST 55

inhabits. In casting the horoscope not a by-product of his physical

of a child new-born and determin organism. We admit the potent
ing thence upon its characteristics influence of these latter upon the
and its future environment, we man, but we discern between them.
recognize three things: Pre-estab We recognize the inter-action of
/ished Harmony, which brings a body and mind and the influence
soul of given potential into of environment upon both, and the
horoscopical conditions exactly old trite saying that “Mind forms
suited to the expression and matter, but matter conditions
development of that character; mind,” is allowed to be at the root
Determinism, which refers a definite of all horoscopical considerations.
environment to the cognition and When, therefore, the advocate
use of the individual ; and Fatalism, of the doctrine of re-incarnation
as regards the course and unfold speaks of the re-souling of the
ment of events within the sphere world by the continual efflux and
of activity to which the body—as influx of souls from this and the
instrument—is related. world beyond, he is subscribing
But in talking of diversity of unreservedly to the triple doctrine
character and diversity of gifts, of Pre-established Harmony,
we recognize that “one star Determinism and Fatalism, and
differs from another in glory,” and thus to the foundation principles
that the soul of man is a thing of Astrology, whether he recognizes
distinct from his body. It is not the planets as disposing agents, or
a reflex of his environment. It is not.

PRACTICAL ASTROLOGY

HERE are two sorts of foundation in fact, and prove its

practical Astrology before applicability to the common needs
the world, the one having of everyday life. However high
direct relation to the common the ladder of life may carry us, it
everyday incidents of daily life, and must be well grounded on sub
the other dealing more intimately stantial fact. The eye cannot say
with the psychic and spiritual to the foot, “I have no need of
nature of man. Both are symboli thee,” for at every step it gives the
cal. The whole universe is a eye a new horizon to investigate,
symbol, it is Divine Ideation in a new world to appraise. To the
expression of Form. extent then that any aspect of
There is no question about the astrological teaching meets the
relative merits of these two systems immediate demands of any part of
of Astrology. They each hold our nature, to that extent it may
their own undisputed territory, be regarded as practical and worthy
compass their own activities, and of our consideration. Those who
claim their own adherents. Before imagine that the astrology is alone
the science of the stars can be practical which applies directly to
applied with any degree of success some material advantage, are
to the problems of the soul and making a false estimate both of
the higher needs of the human their own nature and that of
mind, we have to demonstrate its astrology. Both are more complex
 56 THE FORECAST

than they are generally supposed bent of my mind as regards As

to be. I esteem to the fullest trology is towards the domain of
possible extent the efforts made science, and for some time to
by contemporary writers to elevate come, at all events, I shall be con
astrology to the domain of tent to hold a place at the foot of
mysticism and psychology, but the the ladder.

CARTOMANCY

MONG all the various cation. Among Cartomants the

methods of divination there faculty varies, for the automatic
is none which has retained exercise of the psychic powers
its hold over the popular mind latent in every soul is a matter
more effectually and continuously which depends upon the individual
than the art of Cartomancy. and is inconstant. “Minetta,”
Various origins have been ascribed whose standard work on the cards
to this mantia, and both Egypt and is well known, has on several oc
China have been credited with the casions submitted to severe tests
invention of cards. But whatever of her skill in this direction, and
their origin, it is certain that cards on one occasion it was shown by
were originally designed for pur Mr. Holt Schooling, the famous
poses of divination, and the con statistician, that the chances of
struction of the pack sustains this several predicted events happening
view. There are suits correspond within the allotted week were
ing to the four seasons of the year millions to one against them all
— a point which dissociates the taking place. Nevertheless they
pack as we know it from China, did so, as he truly affirms, and
which has twelve seasons — and this evidence in addition to the
there are thirteen cards to each uniformly satisfactory results de
suit, corresponding to the lunar rived by readers of THE FORECAST
months in the year and the weeks from the same source, places tele
in the Quarter. Fifty-two cards pathic cartomancy in a foremost
in the pack make up the number place among the psychic pheno
of the weeks in the year. There mena which should engage the
are many other correspondences attention of psychological students.
which might be traced, but the I advise my readers to make a
above will indicate the design trial of this new phase of the
sufficiently to show that the cards ancient art.
may well have a divinatory appli
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OUR DAYS AND HOURS– lation and similar abstruse calcula

WHAT THEY TELL, by THos. tions, but when so easy of access as
EYRE, Keyingham, Hull. here appears in Mr. Eyre's book, the
fault lies with the man in the street
HIS is a work which I can if he fails to avail himself of the
sincerely take upon myself light of astrology. See how easy of
to recommend to all stu application it is I receive a letter
dents of astrology. If there were which perplexes and disturbs my
any doubt existing in the mind as mind and arouses all sorts of doubts
to the operation of the planets in and misgivings. I look to see what
daily life, this book, fitted as it is planet, according to Mr. Eyre's
with tables of the planetary hours well-arranged tables of Planetary
throughout the year, would speedily Hours, happens to be ruling at the
dissolve such doubt. Mr. Eyre is time, and taking this in association
to be congratulated on the origin with the sign of the zodiac on the
ality of his subject and the manner mid-heaven at the moment, I have
of its presentation. He says, in not only a good description of the
effect, Here are certain coincidences person who has written the letter
between planetary hours and human but also a most valuable key to his
events, they are too numerous and state of mind and intention at the
persistent to escape suspicion in time of writing, or at least of the
the mind of the observant student; issue. Further, I have a daily guide
they appear to me sufficiently by which to regulate and arrange
numerous to warrant the idea that my own actions so that they will
they represent a cosmic law, and as bear the best results. This is good
offering an intelligible solution of for me and for all others concerned
many of the apparently chance in the transaction. But Mr. Eyre
happenings in everyday life, I will doubtless be able at some future
commend them to your earnest date to amplify his work and show
attention. the operation of the Horary planet
For myself I would go further, ary influence in an even more
and suggest that inasmuch as the specific manner than that attempted
ancient Chaldeans regulated their in the present fascinating little
astrological judgments solely on work. There is a capital introduc
planetary hours and established a tion regarding the mythology of
great reputation for wisdom and the subject, followed by a descrip
foresight by their vaticinations, it is tion of the planetary influences,
probably to this neglected area of where to find lost goods under each
astrological research that we must planet, the diseases of the planet
look for the better representation under which a person falls sick,
of our science in the popular mind. the descriptions of persons involved
It is not for the layman to bother in the planetary operation, and
his head overmuch regarding the the effects of action taken under
merits of astrology as viewed the influence of each planet.
through the fog of spherical triangu Then follows a very useful table
58 THE FORECAST

of longitudes of principal towns satiety tires us of one and another

in the several counties, necessary of them, until at length we find our
for equating the planetary hour, and way, perchance, to that “City not
finally a Table of Planetary Hours built by hands, but eternal in the
for every week in the year. Nothing Heavens,” where the Temple of
better has been advanced under Truth is set up.
this head by any student of astro These are the stage-houses of
logy, and the work deserves, and I the soul: “Houses of sleep they
am sure will secure, a very wide are, to anxious dreams devoted—
circulation. semblances of things and themes,
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NATURE-HELL MADE BY MAN.
TION.—THE TRUE AIM—WHAT IS
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NATURE P
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AND DELUSION.
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SAINT.
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TEACHER—AVATARS.
MON – MYSTICAL MEANING OF
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