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The " Astrologer's Magazine"

{Established 1890)

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO OCCULT

THOUGHT AND THE STUDY OF HUMANITY

BE WISE—" Knowledge puts an end to pain "

NEW SERIES

[Old Series, XX VII.]

Containing: a" the numbers for the year 1916

Editor—ALAN LEO
{Sub-Editor—Alfred H. Barlev)

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1916
 CONTENTS.—VOL. XIII.

(FOR DETAILED INDEX SEE END OF VOLUME)

A Famous Prophecy 160

Alchemy, The Approach of 237
An Occult View of the War : by Hon. Edward Drayton 59, 84
Answers to Questions :—
Neptune 24, Mundane or Zodiacal tot, After-Death Conditions 161,
Divine Guidance 162, Directing under Poles 164, Sign Rulership of
Nations 165, A Puzzle 165, Marriage 241, The Seven Steps of Saturn
297, Premature Birth 299, Duration of Direct'ons 299, Birth of the
Christ in Man 330. Fate and Free-Will 332, Directions 333, Slight Scar
333, Unwanted Children 389, Midway-Point 389, Marriage 389.
Aphorisms of Argol 124
Army Veteran of Fourteen, An 18
Astrological Correspondence Lessons 209, (241), (273), (302), (338),
370, (394)
Astrological Institute, The 312
Astrology and Human Nature: by the Editor. I.
Horoscope No 11x798, 54; II. Horoscope of Billy
Sunday, 98; III. The Influence of Neptune 166
Astrology and Social Reform : by the Editor. Marriage,
19; Complements - 66
Astrology and the Physician 120
Astrology for Beginners: by the Secretary of
the Correspondence Lessons 34, 71, 141, 175, 209, 273,
306, 338, 370, 394
Correspondents, To All .. 352, 354

Editor's Observatory, The ;—

The Influence of Mars during the year 1916, 1; Astrological Lessons
from the War 37, The Problem of Directing 38, A Case in Point 40,
Scientific Astrology 42,112; Personal Predictions 74, Concerning Sugges-
tions and Criticisms 76, A Complete Reference Index 77, (353),
" Modern Astrology" Publications 79,' The Starlight Express' 80, Where
do you vibrate from 81, Surprises of the War 8z, Mr. Wilde's New book
82, Other Publications 83 ; Criticism and other matters 107,' Who shall
decide when Doctors disagree' 108, Horary v. Natal no, Uranus and
Neptune in, 150, Astrology an experimental science 112; A War of
the Gods 143, The Cycle of Mars 144, The Chess Board 146, Good and
Evil Influences 147, Light and Dark Stars 147, The Two Worlds 148,
The Secret of Power 149, A Critical Horoscope 151, The issue of the
 CONTENTS iii
PAGE
War 151, Spiritual v. Material 152, Aristocracy or Democracy 153, The
Seven "Spirits before the Throne 154; The Coming devolutions 179,
" The Stars Incline, they do not Compel " 181, Circles or Spirals 184,
The Awakening of the Mind 187, The Attitude of the Astrologer 187;
The Pre-natal Epoch 2:1, (303), The Permanent Atom 215, " Quicken-
ing" 216, Critical Dates 217, An Illustration (genescope of the Kaiser)
218, diagram 222 ; The Night is far spent and the Day is at Hand 243,
The Three Biological Fates 245, A Question of Time and Opportunity
246, Lord Kitchener's Horoscope 247 ; What is " Modern Astrology "
273, The Ocean of Thought 278, Eugenics and Sin 27S; Mrs. Besant's
Birthday 307, The Ruling Signs of Nations 308, Monarchs and their
Horoscopes 310; Intellectual Apathy of the British 339, The Collection
of Birtbtimes 342, A Professional Astrologer 343, The Theosophical
Society and Politics 347, International Astrology 349, " The Key of
Heaven " 350 ; The Astrologer's Religion—Humanity 372.
General Reference Index to the "Astrology for All"
Series - - . 77, 253, (302)
Genescope, Concerning the Word 305
Germany's Position in the Great War [ref. Index) 5,44
Good and Evil Influences 147
Guarantors Wanted 302

Horoscope of Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico 250

Horoscope of the Gen. Sec. of the Theosophical Society,
Mr George S. Arundale 130
Horoscope of Dr Armstrong Smith, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 196
Horoscope of Mr David S. M. Unger 300
Horoscope of Edith Cavell: by the Editor 316
Important Notice 73, (242), 371
In the Name of Science - 382
Internaiionai Astrology ;—
The planets during 1916,9; January New Moon 15, Eclipse 17; The
Entry of Major Planets into Aries 45, (118), February eclipse 32; Spring
Quarter 88, March Now Moon 90; April New Moon 117, Entry of
Jupiter into Aries ri8; May New Moons,158-9; Sun enters Cancer 192,
June New Moon 194; July Eclipses 223, August New Moon 248, The
Autumn Quarter 282, September New Moon 284, October New Moon 314,
November New Moon 349, Winter Quarter 378, Eclipse of Sun 380.
Kepler on Astrology 275, 384
Letters to the Editor:—
Ruling Signs of Nations, 36; "Your Destiny and the Stars," 105; The
Astrological Correspondence Lessons, 177 ; The Prince of Wales, 178 ;
Records of Birth-Data, 274; The Prenatal Epoch, an Indian Method,
334, (392), Recording Birth-Times 367, Fatalism ; A Friendly Criticism
1^.
Night Marching by the Stars 201
IV CONTENTS
PACK
Obiter Dicta:—
What is Christianity 169, Astrology and Free Will 170, A Prophecy 202,
Nativity of a " Kitchener Chap " 202, Minor Aspects 204, Semi-House
Cusps 205, The Sinn Fein Rebellion 207, The Horoscope of General
Lord French 207, " The Great War" 238. The Planet Isis 239, Daylight
Saving and False Horoscopes 240, Slang and Trite Sayings applied to
Zodiacal Signs 241, Concerning Shakespeare's Horoscope 271, The Pre-
natal Epoch 303, To All Correspondents 352, Our First Subscriber 353,
"Fortune Tellers' Letters" 353, "Modern Astrology" Office 354,
Neptune and the War 387.
Religion 91
Reviews:—
Your Destiny and the Stars, 102; Immortality established through
Science, 140; Primary Directions made Easy, 390; Sudden Death and
the War, 391.
Royal Directions: The prevailing influences in the
Horoscopes of Monarchs and Rulers of Nations 25
The First Non-Official Hindu University 83
THE GREAT WAR (re-/ 238): by G. E.Sutcliffe,
Author of "The Foundations of Physical Astrology " (re/. 238).
I.—The Dawn of a New Era 228, Map of the Great Planetary Conjunc-
tion 230, Speculum 231, Intuitions 233, The Meridian of the Fifth Root-
Race 234, The Influence of Neptune 255.
II.—Primary and Secondary Directions and their relation to Transits.
Primary Directions 261, Secondary Directions 264, The Delta Rays 266,
A Universal Constant 268, Why Secondary Directions are of such
Importance 268, Transits 269, Summary of the Second Article 270.
III.—The World-Map, treated as a Progressed Horoscope 287, Primary
and Secondary Directions 288, Principal Events 289, Transits 291, An
Illustration 293, The Year of the 'Titanic' disaster 294, The Twelfth
House 296, What are Important Events 319, Saturn opposition Neptune
320, The year 1913 321, The Precipitation of the Conflict 323.
IV.—Armageddon 325,' Trumpets ' and ' Vials ' 327, 355, The Seventh
Vial 356, The Favourable Aspects 357, A Fatal Decision 358, The
Kaiser's Choice 359, The Eastern Front 360, The Western Front 361,
' A Scrap of Paper ' 363, Sedan and Super-Sedan 364. (Note 386).
The Star of Bethlehem 174-
The Sun in T 115, « 156, n- 191, S 227, SI 254,
"K 286, =- 313, HI 351, f 111
The Victor (poem) 157
"Thought Waves": Items of Interest from All
Quarters 208
War Expenses (73), 2+2
Weather, Character, and Orbits: by H. S. Green. I.
Weather, 92; II. Character and Fortune, 136:
Orbits 171
What is the Zodiac ? 6
THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE

Moderi>

Astrology
{First published in 1890)

JANUARY, 1916.

®lj£ (Sbitor's ©bacrtiatory

THE INFLUENCE OF MARS DURING THE YEAR 1916

We are at one with the few optimistic students of the heavens who
have great hopes of a termination of actual warfare during the first half
of the present year, the seventh of the cycle of Mars; and with this
hope we may turn our gaze to the future, when the Healing of the
Nations shall begin. Although we believe that it is futile as yet to
hope for the final ending of wars amongst nations, we do believe that
the European nations have already learnt a severe lesson with regard
to the waste of strength and wealth in physical warfare, and in the
future will hesitate before plunging into such horrors again.
Warriors and destroyers, who wish to settle their differences by
warfare, we shall always have, until the nations have evolved to the
stage when moral force is stronger than brute force. Mars the War
Lord is an energizer, and his devotees win their individual spirit
through sacrifice of the personal or lesser self, and for them it is the
WAY to a.greater destiny, and while we are running through the cycle
of Mars we must expect the spirit of unrest to possess the martial
natures and to cause them to be ever more or less spoiling for a fight.
Mars is a Mighty Lord whose terms are the possession of a
fighting spirit in all those who serve under him. He is by no means a
 2 MODERN ASTROLOGY

false God, neither is he so cruel as he is depicted, and it is only the

ignorant among his devotees who abuse his force and turn the fighting
forces into murder and wilful destruction.
We who would heal individuals and the nations, and who are seek-
ing to work on the side of the Builder, know that we must all fight on
while the cycle of Mars liberates the energy for fighting purposes, but
our fight is not to slay men's bodies or cruelly maim them for life, our
fight is against ignorance and the foolish vices of men who use divine
forces for selfish ends.
The soldier fights to kill, the physician fights to heal and
overcome disease. The Red Cross is as much the badge of the healer
as the red fire of the fighter, but we forget that the Red Ray of
Mars has many hues, and gives colour from the deepest and the
darkest red to the brightest crimson and the faintest rose pink.
We who are students of the ideal know that our ideals must be
made real; and while we refuse to see evil in the stars, we know that the
heavenly rays may be abused by those who have not yet learned how
to use them wisely.
During the whole of the year 1916 the two expressions of the
planet Mars will be active, the destroyers and the healers. Mars
either heals individuals by death or by regeneration, and at worst he
can only destroy the form, but never the spirit.
At the New Moon on the 5th of January Mars is the highest planet
in the heavens, placed in the ninth house to disturb religious bodies and
awaken in them either the fighting or the healing spirit.
At the full Moon of this month Mars sets in opposition to Venus;
the generative force will be in contest with the laws of creation.
At the total eclipse of 3rd February, Mars is the rising star at
Greenwich, in opposition to Mercury, on the cusp of the second house;
he will disturb financiers, affect the money changers and threaten the
wealth holders. He will not heal the Press but stir them to anger and
great freedom of speech.
At the New Moon of March, Mars is setting in opposition to
Uranus as well as Mercury, seriously disturbing international affairs,
and the reigning monarchs of the world.—The Crescent wanes.
When the Sun enters Aries on March 20, Mars will be the highest
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 3
planet in the heavens (as viewed from Greenwich) and will be in square
aspect to Venus. At Constantinople Mars will be in the house of death,
and at Petrograd also. At New York Mars will be in the eleventh
house disturbing the politicians, who will not do much to help the
healers during the Spring quarter.
At the New Moon of the 2nd of April, Mars for the first time during
the year forms good aspects to the luminaries and Jupiter, and Venus
will be in the ninth house; the healers have now an opportunity to
heal. The religious bodies may now pray for peace, for there is a
time to pray as well as to play.
At the New Moon of the 2nd of May, Mars will for the first time
during the year be under the earth but in square aspect to the
luminaries and in opposition to Uranus. Revolution will be stronger
than Evolution. It will be a critical month, for Revolution will strive
against Evolution and the wicked will harden their hearts.
There are two New Moons in this month, the second is on the
31st of May when Mars will again be the highest planet, once more in
the house of religion, and, for the first time this year, free from
affliction. What a power religion possesses as a healing force ! Are
those who are its devotees strong enough in faith to heal? "Watch
ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to
escape these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the
Son of Man."

When the Sun enters the sign Cancer on the 21st of June, in the
map for Greenwich Mars is once more the highest planet and in the
ninth house, and though in opposition to the Moon, and in square
aspect to Mercury, is in sextile aspect with Venus. For Berlin its
position is ominous. At New York it is in the eleventh ; will it fall to
the lot of America to bring Peace ?
At the New Moon on the 30th of June, Mars rises in square
aspect to Mercury. The voice of the people will be heard. Who
shall heal them ?
There is an eclipse of the Moon on the 15th of July, when Jupiter
is the highest planet in the heavens and Mars the lowest. A voice of
power will be heard; it will heal those who can hear it with the ears
to hear.
4 MODERN ASTROLOGY

At the New Moon on the 30th of July, Mars is the lowest planet
still, in the house of the balance. It comes to heal and many will be
comforted. Who is the reformer whose voice will rise above the
storm ?
At the New Moon on the 20th of August, Mars is weak, and
Uranus rises in the sign of the New Age.
When the Sun enters the sign Libra on the 23rd of September,
Mars has left that sign but rises in opposition to Jupiter, the healers
are stronger than the fighters. The forces are balancing. A dark
spirit passes away under its influence ; a nation in Europe will grieve.
A star in India is rising. It is the sign of the Man gaining
strength.
At the New Moon of the 27th of September, Mars rises in
Scorpio ; at that of the 25th of October it has entered Sagittarius, and
at that of the 25th of November rises in that sign, with Venus
culminating.
It is not the province of the astrologer to predict definite
happenings, for none may dictate to man how he shall use the forces
in nature, save those who can hold those forces and consciously work
with and not against them.
We see facing us in various parts of the world both revolution
and evolution. Those who revolt may have just cause to do so,—who
can dare to say what each man shall or shall not do save those who
have the right to speak ?—and they alone who have conquered the
separate self can feel and know what is wise and good for them.
The law of the land is the high-water mark for the ordinary
individual, but there is a higher law for those who are not tempted to
break the civil laws.
Every man, when he knows it, is a law unto himself and those
who are not men must obey the laws of those whom they have chosen
to govern them. It is the same with the stellar forces; those who do
not understand them and therefore cannot work with them must be
compelled by them, for Mars is the energiser, the hater of sloth, apathy
and indifference and he favours all who know that they are living in
the world of action, and he works fully with those who have learnt the
meaning of skill in action.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

We are all either obstructors, hinderers and parasites, or builders,

workers and helpers either on the side of fighters or healers. If we
cannot fight wrong and use our energy to destroy evil then let us heal
those who are bruised in the fight. We cannot and must not be idle,
thriftless and spiritless. This world is the field of action, ACTION,
ACTION. We are here on this earth at school, learning the lesson
of how to live; then let us live, and let live.
If we cannot be healers then let us be fighters and fight for the
New Age that is dawning, the age when East and West are drawing
nearer and nearer to each other. The spiritual life and the material
life are meeting, the ideal and the practical are becoming one.

In another part of this issue will be found a detailed review of the

planetary infiuences during 1916 under the heading of " International
Astrology."

" Germany's Position in the Great War."—We have received several

further letters in reference to the article by Mr Becker in our November
number. We do not however propose to prolong the discussion. It is
manifest that most readers are in substantial agreement with Letter IV on
page 478. One correspondent, while agreeing that the article though
nominally astrological was largely political, objected to our reprinting Sir
Edward Grey's statement as unnecessary, since it was published in the
English papers; but she forgets that Modern Astrology circulates in many
parts of the world where even the great English dailies are not readily
obtainable. Mr L. Edward Johndro sent an interesting letter which
unfortunately arrived too late for publication in the December issue.
" Horoscope of the Month."—It is intended during the coming year
to make a Special Feature each month of some interesting and instructive
Horoscope which the Editor has bad occasion to study in the course of his
varied experience. The large amount of space devoted to International
Astrology and Royal Directions in the present issue has obliged us to
postpone the opening article, which will be entitled " Astrology and Human
Nature," till next month.
Problem for Students.—An old subscriber to Modern Astrology
sends the following particulars:—"Lady born 1.45 p.m., 5/10/80 at a village
near Bombay, India. An event happened in December, 1913. The particulars
of this event are sent, but what is wanted is a judgment from any student as
to what actually took place as the outcome of this event on 26/9/14 in London
at 7.50 p.m. ? If the nature of what occurred at this time is discovered what
may be expected as the ultimate?" The matter is not so simple as it looks
but any students competent to deal with it will make a few discoveries,
and hear of something that will be of interest to them.
6

Ml)at is tbf £oMac?

[We have in past volumes published under the above heading

notes on the Zodiac. This month we publish some of our own
gleanings on the subject, with the hope that it will call forth a
further response from those who are competent to deal with the
matter.—Ed.]

The Zodiac
The zodiac used by western astrologers is that which begins with
the Sun's apparent northward passage across the earth's equator about
March 21st. Its second quadrant, which begins with the first point of
Cancer, is marked out by the position of the Sun at its greatest
northern declination about June 21st. Its third quadrant, starting at
the first point of Libra, is determined by the Sun's apparent southward
passage across the earth's equator about September 21st. Its last
quadrant begins at the first point of Capricorn, which is the position
of the Sun at its greatest southern declination about December 21st.
It is quite obvious that a zodiac marked out in this way is
dependent entirely upon this earth ; for the Sun's apparent motion
across the equator and at the two tropics is really due to the earth's
motion in its orbit round the Sun. This zodiac is therefore in a sense
the private property of our earth, and is a question of the angular
position of the Sun and its direction of apparent motion in relation to
the equator. Such a zodiac can be projected outwards mathematically
to an infinite distance so as to include apparently the fixed stars
within its scope, but it is more correctly represented as a small circle
enclosing the earth. In other words, the zodiac and its signs are sub-
divisions of the earth's aura, and its properties are dependent upon the
electric, magnetic, vital, and other fohatic energies that play within
this aura.
Energies of various kinds are constantly passing between our
earth and all other members of the solar system, and these energies-
may be represented diagrammatically as rays which are showered
down upon the earth as if upon a common centre, and which do not
 WHAT IS THH ZODIAC ? 7
produce their effect until they reach us here. The total effect of any
given zodiacal position, such as Uranus in Aquarius for instance,
omitting for the moment the further question of mundane houses, is,
from our present point of view and so far as we have gone,
compounded of:
(а) The influence radiated forth by Uranus, which may be
assumed to be always of the same nature fundamentally ;
(б) The modification of this influence due to the angle at which
its ray reaches the earth, and its relative direction of geocentric
motion northward or southward ; and
(c) The nature of that portion of the earth's aura through which
the ray from Uranus passes.
There are other possible modifications which will be noticed as we
proceed ; but it is quite evident that the principles just stated will, and
indeed must, apply to all the globes within the solar system, including
the Sun. Each globe must have its aura, which is composed of the
invisible higher principles of the globe; each must have its equator
and its polar axis ; and each must receive the influences showered upon
it by other globes at varying angles. That is to say, each globe is
encircled by its own zodiac ; and this applies as much to the largest
globe of all, namely the Sun, as to the smaller ones.
The apparently vast distances that separate the Sun from the
planets and these from each other apply only on the physical plane,
and even there are limited to the solids, liquids, and gases of the globes.
The astral plane of a planet extends much further into space than
does its physical plane, and its mental plane further still, while the
subtler parts of theauras of the various globes apparently interpenetrate
each other. We have no direct knowledge on the subject, but the
Sun's aura probably permeates the whole solar system in this way,
and the aura of the system taken as a whole will thus constitute a vast
zodiac common to everything within it. Position within this aura may
then constitute another component of that total effect which is
called astrological influence ; while the constellations form a belt that
is even greater still.
Whatever view be taken of these zodiacs it is certain that any
influence that reaches us does so only through our earth's aura, which
modifies and adapts all that passes through it. The primary and
8 MODERN ASTROLOGV

unmodified form of planetary energy we never experience, but only

that blended and compounded kind which results from its adaptation
to the special conditions of the zodiacal signs and the earth's aura.
For instance, we never receive the influence of, say, Jupiter alone; it
is always intermixed with that of the zodiacal sign in which it is placed.1
It has been stated that the seven Planetary Logoi receive vitality
and energy from the Solar Logos, and that they adapt these forces for
the purposes of the types of evolution over which they preside. All
the matter of the solar system, including that which enters into the
composition of our physical, astral, and other bodies, is permeated by
these specialised energies, and when changes take place in the great
planetary centres, we feel the effects in ourselves through the matter
in our vehicles. Such changes originate within the Planetary Logoi,
and are regular and periodical, and modifications are constantly being
brought about in the distribution and flow of the fohatic energies
throughout the whole solar system. This is another cause of the
effects we study in astrology, and it is one of which practically nothing
is known except the bare fact that it exists, but if it could be examined
exhaustively it would probably sum up and include all the others.
In a similar manner the flow of the vital currents in a man's
physical body is constantly being modified by the man's thoughts and
feelings; and the microbes, the corpuscles, and the cell lives which exist
within that body are obliged to adapt themselves to the changes thus
imposed upon them. Again, a deva or great angel will sometimes
ensoul a whole countryside and will modify by his presence all things,
human, animal, and vegetable, that exist within his sphere of influence ;
and such local modifications are classed by astrologers under the
zodiacal signs, as when one town or district is said to be ruled by a
certain sign, and another town by another sign.

That which rules the universe is Providence; that which contains the
universe and limits it is necessity ; destiny impels and enfolds all things by
the compulsory force which belongs thereto. It is destiny which is the
cause of birth and of the dissolution of life. The universe, then, first,
receives Providence, the first ordained. Providence extends to the skies,
about which the Gods revolve, in perpetual and untiring motion. There is
destiny because there is necessity ; Providence foresees, destiny determines
the position of the stars. Such is the universal law.—Tht Virgin 0/ the Worldm
1
The question of the earth's geocentric zodiac is examined and fully illustrated
by diagrams in Casting the Horoscope, Chapter XIII.
 g

lintfrnational ^.atrolog^

In accordance with our custom for the past three or four years,
we give in this first number of the New Year a brief survey of the
general influence of the planets during the ensuing twelve months,
and the effects likely to be manifested in various parts of the world
during their passage from sign to sign. The influence of the planet
Mars has received special attention in the Editor's " Observatory,"
but is included in this survey for completeness.
The more immediate influences during the present month of
January are given later (p. 15).

THE PLANETS DURING 1916

Neptune

Neptune is retrograde in the second degree of Leo, SL1051,

when the year opens; continues so until it passes into Cancer on
March 19 ; becomes stationary on April 10, in the last degree of
Cancer, 9629° 52'; then goes direct and re-enters Leo on May 2, and
continues direct until November 7, when it is stationary in the fifth
degree of Leo, SL40 54', which is the farthest point of longitude
reached by it during the year ; and after that it is retrograde for the
remainder of the year.
Neptune is nearly twenty degrees separated from the opposition of
Uranus in the spring, and about eleven degrees in the autumn, so that
this unfortunate aspect is now definitely past; but the Sun translates
light from the one to the other between October 28 and November 8,
when it squares both, the Sun and Neptune and Uranus forming three
corners of a square or cross.
The nearest Saturn gets to Neptune during the year is in the
middle of November, when both planets will be in Leo about four
degrees apart, Saturn in the first degree of Leo, Sl0o36', and Uranus
in the fifth degree, S14053'. They will therefore be within orbs of a
10 MODERN ASTROLOGY

conjunction, although they will not actually meet in the same degree
and minute of longitude until 1917. They were last in conjunction in
the seventeenth degree of Taurus, on May 12 1882, within a week of
the Phoenix Park murders; and they will not meet again until 1952,
when they will be in the last decanate of Libra. The effect of the
conjunction seems to be very unfortunate for countries ruled by the
sign in which it occurs, and as it falls in Leo this time, France and
Italy will feel its effects. As pointed out in last year's summary,
France has been seriously troubled since the entry of Neptune into its
ruling sign, and now Italy, which is under the same sign, has joined
in the war, and Roumania, another country under Leo, has been
anxiously looking on all the year.
Jupiter will be in trine to Neptune on February 15 from the first
degrees of Aries and Leo, a fortunate influence for this country,
France, and Italy, and especially, for King George, the cusp of whose
ascendant Jupiter will transit. They will be in square on July 7 from
the second degrees of Taurus and Leo; and again on September 20
from the fifth degrees of the same signs. The following are some
transits of Neptune during 1916 :
King George << O p Feb June. St King Norway 4 iji July 19 d p Aug 12
d J Nov 7 King Sweden st d >2 p Nov 7
German Emperor st d p A Q pNov 7 H. H. Asqdith st d s Nov 7
German Crown Lord Kitchener d ? Jan 22 June 25
Prince st d d April 10 Lloyd George st <? ? Nov 7

Uranus

Uranus is direct in motion in the fourteenth degree of Aquarius,

"13043', on january j ; continues so until May 24 when it is
stationary in the twentieth degree of the same sign, "19°42', then
goes retrograde until October 25 when it is stationary in the sixteenth
degree, ™ 15047'; and after this is direct in motion for the remainder
of the year.
Uranus remains in Aquarius for another three years, and is alone
in the sign for most of the time; but it will receive the opposition of
Saturn from Leo in 1918. Its influence upon Russia and Prussia,
both said to be governed by Aquarius, has been seen in the great war
and is not yet finished ; its influence upon France and Italy, ruled by
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY II

the opposite sign Leo, is also evident; and because Aquarius is the
tenth sign from Taurus, ruling Ireland, the problem of the mode of
government of that country has been raised since Uranus has been in
this sign. Poland, where the war has been raging furiously, is also
under Aquarius.
Uranus will receive the opposition of Mars from Leo twice
during 1916; first on February 19 when Mars is retrograde at
SL160 28', and second when it is direct in motion at St 19° 32' on May 4 ;
while Mars will square Uranus on October 2 from iill6o0'. These
are unfortunate dates for persons and places who are ruled by these
planets and signs or who have important planets or cusps in or near
these degrees. The eclipse of the Sun on February 3 will fall in
conjunction with Uranus, bothbeing in the seventh house at London.
As just stated Mars will be in opposition to Uranus on May 4 and
the Sun will square Uranus on May 10 and Mars on May 15, thus
translating light by squrfre between these two opposing planets, an
extremely unfortunate period for all persons and countries ruled by
fixed signs; earthquakes are probable, and but for the fact that
Jupiter at the same time is in trine to Mars and sextile to Uranus from
Aries, the gravest disasters might be feared.
Transits
King George s J) p July^ King Sweden st near # 0 p May 24
Queen Mary s i Keb i Oct 25 German Crown-
German Emperor st <s ? p May 24 Prince e i p March Aug
King Norway # ? Feb 21 Sept 9 Gen. Joffre d 2 Feb 22 Sep 9 Dec 9
Dec g The Pope dip April to June

Saturn
Saturn is retrograde in the fourteenth degree of Cancer when the
year opens, 9613° 17'; it becomes stationary on March 11 at 96 9° 33'
and then goes direct in motion, enters the sign Leo on October 18
and becomes stationary on November 12 at Sb0o36': and is then
retrograde for the rest of the year, re-entering the end of Cancer while
retrograde on December 7.
Saturn is in square to Jupiter on March 25 from the tenth degrees
of Cancer and Aries. This influence is unfortunate for money
matters, and the various nations will feel the pinch of war expenses
12 MODERN ASTROLOGY

more than ever now, and the various exchequers will reorganise their
resources. All cardinal sign nations will suffer, and although Jupiter
in Aries is benefic for England the aspect falls so close to King
George's Neptune that this country is certain to be seriously exercised
over financial problems. If it is true that Cancer influences the
German Empire, heavy trouble will be felt there. Saturn and Jupiter
continue within orbs of a square through April and part of May, and
after Jupiter has retrograded they again reach an exact square on
October 24 from the first degrees of Leo and Taurus, being within
orbs of a square during the whole of the last four months of the year,
and various bodies translate light between them at different times.
Financial and business problems will loom large during the whole of
the year and will give great trouble. Churches and religious bodies
will also be disturbed.
Mars is in square to Saturn from Libra to Cancer 27° on
September 3 ; they are in trine from the first degrees of Sagittarius
and Leo on October 22 ; and 150° apart from the first degrees of
Capricorn and Leo on December 2.
Saturn remains in the sign Cancer for nearly all the year, except
the seven weeks during which it is in the first degree of Leo. Cancer
is probably the worst sign in which Saturn can be placed. When
therein it signifies a weakening of the powers of law and order ; the
enfeeblement of governments, monarchs and state officials, and their
loss of power or popularity ; discontent and privation for the working
classes; and a wasting of the property and substance of the nations.
The countries most affected are those ruled by the sign containing
Saturn, and those in which Saturn is angular in the various monthly
and quarterly maps. Cancer is said to govern Africa, Holland, and
perhaps the German Empire. It is important to remember that
Saturn transits the cusp of the German Emperor's ascendant
during 1916.

King George st rf o p Nov 12 King Norway s i? June 12 <t <f July 12

Czar st d t p Nov iz King Sweden d j July 29 d Septg
Emp. Austria ^VJulyji d ! Augn Crown Prince
German Emp. f ? Mayr8 d Ascjulyn Germany d d Oct 3 Dec 22
Pres. Poincare # j July 6 d f July 15 Lloyd George d Q Sept 7
Qdees Holland d p Aug 5 General Joffre e © July 22
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Jupiter
Jupiter is in the twenty-third degree of Pisces when the year
opens, K22° 17', going direct; it enters Aries on February 12 and
Taurus on June 25, becomes stationary in the sixth degree of Taurus
b5024' on August 25, retrogrades into Aries on October 26 and
becomes stationary in the twenty-sixth degree of Aries, T25025', on
December 20 : after which it is direct.
Jupiter is in trine to Mars from the eleventh degrees of Aries and
Leo on March 28; they are in opposition from the fifth degrees of
Taurus and Scorpio, on September 15; and again in trine from the
twenty-seventh degrees of Aries and Sagittarius on November 26.
England will benefit from Jupiter's presence in Aries, the ruling
sign of the country, and from its transit of the King's ascendant. It
will be in the beginning of Taurus for four months of the year, during
which Ireland will receive its benefic radiance ; but its passage through
Taurus will not be complete until next year. It will be seen that a
number of the actors in the great war receive important benefic
transits of Jupiter during the year.
King George i Asc Feb 21 d V March 26 King Italy d V April 25
Czar d V Mar 9 d D May 4 d d Jun 13 Kaiser d O p Mar3
Lord Kitchener d ij May 0 d IJJ June 23 Oct 29 Emp. Adstria d J Feb 21
General Joffre d June 12 d Ijl June 28 Oct 23 Lloyd George d "V Feb 19
Pres. Poincark d Asc p May King Belgidm d G April 29

Mars
The red planet is stationary on December 31 1915 in the last
degree of Leo, S1290 49', is then retrograde through Leo until
March 21 1916 wben it is again stationary in the eleventh degree of
Leo, SI 10° 20', and is then direct in motion for the rest of the year.
It enters Virgo May 28; Libra, July 23; Scorpio, September 8;
Sagittarius, October 22 ; and Capricorn, December 1.

Eclipses
There will be five eclipses during the year, three of the Sun and
two of the Moon.
(l) A partial eclipse of the Moon, partly visible at London,,
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

January 20. It falls at ,3280 58' in the sixth house at London. It

rises in Japan and E. China; culminates in the Pacific Ocean and
the west of Canada; sets in the Atlantic Ocean and Ireland ; and is
on the nadir in East Europe and West Asia. It affects horoscopes
as under:
German Emperor Asc King George rf O p
German Crown Prince 6 i King Sweden a$
Emperor Austria e f Lord Kitchener rf g
King Italy ff p Lloyd George g©
(2) A total eclipse of the Sun partly visible at London as a partial
eclipse February 3. It falls at ~13031' in the seventh house
at London. It rises in the Pacific Ocean and N.W. Canada;
culminates in the Atlantic Ocean, W. Indies, and E. Canada; sets in
Africa and W. and central Europe ; and is on the nadir in China and
W. Australia. It affects horoscopes as under :
German Emperor g\ King Belgium s i#
Pres. Poincare. SiS Gen. Jofpre <s g S i
King Norway SQ lt- i Lloyd George d? Asc
(3) A partial eclipse of the Moon partly visible at London July 15.
It falls at ^22° 21', just below the cusp of the seventh house
at London. It rises in the Pacific Ocean and N. W. Canada;
culminates in S. America, the W. Indies, and the E. of N. America;
sets in W. Europe and Africa; and is on the nadir in India and W.
Asia. It affects horoscopes as under ;
German Emperor s Asc King Norway si
Emperor Austria <sV t 1 King Sweden S *
King Italy 5 iji r d <f p Gen. Jofpre dO
Czar dD P Lloyd George dO
Pres. Poincare dd Pope dU
(4) An annular eclipse of the Sun, invisible at London, July 30.
It falls at Sl6034', in the second house at London. It rises in E.
Europe and W. Asia; culminates in Japan and E. Australia; sets in
parts of Canada, U.S.A., and Mexico; and is on the nadir in the
Atlantic Ocean. It affects horoscopes as under ;
King George dj King Belgium d Ijl
German Emperor S Q <S ^ Mr. Asqdiih d J
Emperor Austria S ip Lloyd George 9 ? Asc
King Norway d5 Gen. Jopfre d i
King Sweden d
•(5) A partial eclipse of the Sun, invisible at London, December 24.
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 15
It falls at lt}'2045'in the fifth house at London. It rises in the
Pacific Ocean; culminates in the Pacific Ocean and N.W. Canada;
sets in the Atlantic Ocean and on the E. of N. America; and is on
the nadir in E. Europe and W. Asia. It affects horoscopes as under :
King George e MC S ijl p King Italv d ?
Prince of Wales 90 King Belgium d <r p
Emperor Austria s MC Lord Kitchener fo
German Crown Prince <s d The Pope e i

The Month of January

Nexo Moon 5/l/'16 4.45 a.m. London
X xi xii i ii iii
1 1^24 ^23 "113 "130 •5 3 =15
2 - 9 "I S 11123 7 9 W15 X
-427 "I 17 7 2 213 15 27 * 23
52 IO A 13 nil 4 i 9 n 5 76
(i) London (2) Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) New York
OB S « <f JI ig
W13.32 >525.23 sen.37 3129.42^ K22.49 (Bi2.59r !KI3.S4 3ll.45»-
The Sun and Moon are in the second house in close opposition
to Saturn, and the same is true at Berlin and Vienna. Mars in the
ninth house is in square to the rising and setting degrees. Financial
questions will be very serious amongst all the nations engaged in the
war; trade will be bad, taxation heavy, and all classes will be sufferers
through money matters and will feel the strain of the situation. The
various governments will share in these troubles, and matters bearing
upon money, trade and taxation will be brought forward in the legisla-
tures and may cause government changes and even downfall; state
officials and functionaries will meet with trouble; and questions
relating to loans and international money matters will cause trouble.
In Great Britain and the west of Europe the lower classes will be
more cared for and will suffer less than elsewhere. Death will be
busy in the state and among all classes, high and low. The position
of Mars suggests trouble on the high seas with much loss of life, the
death of some leader or eminent person in connection therewith,
underhand proceedings, treachery and sudden surprises. The churches
and the religious world will be very much disturbed and divided.
Accidents by rail or air will take place and cause loss of life, but new
inventions and enterprises connected with aviation will be begun.
i6 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Mercury and Jupiter, the chief rulers of the first and seventh
houses, are in sextile, which is pacific in its influence upon the various
classes and nations, tending to draw them together; and this supports
the indications of the map for the winter quarter that some serious
attempts at a truce or peace will be made towards the end of the old
year or early in the new. It is remarkable too that Jupiter is on the
midheaven of the German Emperor in sextile to Mercury near the
cusp of his seventh house; and this is fortunate for Germany and
suggests that efforts at a peace suiting the ideas of that country will
certainly be made ; but there is much in the map that militates against
the success of this. Mars has been stationary and retrograde on the
Kaiser's progressed ascendant, President PoincarG's Sun, and the place
of the eclipse of August 1914; while the lunation opposes the place of
the conjunction of Mars and Saturn last September. This is very
unfortunate for rulers and governments everywhere, and in our
country Parliament will be seriously embarrassed.
Greece, Turkey, India, Holland, Africa and parts influenced by
Cancer and Capricorn will be seriously troubled as the result of this
lunation. Mars retrograding in Leo will disturb Italy and France.
At Petrograd the lunation falls in the ascendant in opposition to Saturn
in the seventh, bringing serious foreign complications : but Jupiter and
Mercury here still rule the first and seventh. At New York Saturn
is in the midheaven, bringing serious trouble to the President, the
government, and the whole country; relations with foreign countries
will be very much disturbed. In America and the east of Europe the
weather will be very cold and unsettled, but in Great Britain Jupiter
on the fourth cusp should make it rather milder than elsewhere,
although all parts will feel the effects of the lunation so close to the
opposition of Saturn. Earthquake shocks are threatened to the east
of the U.S.A. The lunation falls as under in various horoscopes :
Czar ^ PP> # ft * Op King of Belgidm s Asc
Prbs. Poincar6 dAsc King of Greece tf ijc f
German Emperor if Pres. Wilson g if
Crown Prince of Germany Yp
The place of the lunation rises in E. Europe and W. Asia;
cultninaies in China and the E. Indies; sets in the Pacific Ocean;
and is on the nadir in S. America, the W. Indies, and the E. of N.
America.
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Eclipse of the Moon

S S O 20/1/'16 8.29 a.m. London
XI XII 1 11 111
it 7 7 7 25 W'S -9 TIO2 a 151
[2) 7 2o
S VJ 7 V727 14 « R
■3) U 5 V320 —13 r23 US 1122
14) 111121
r —2i 11114 7 4 >37 =14
(1) London (2) Berlin (3) Fetrograd {4) New York
G3)$?<r V 1? IJIiSl
<328.58 «52S.58 JS17.37 KO.21 7127.181- X25.23 iizii.46)- =14.44 711.201-
Uranus and Mercury are rising at London; Jupiter and Venus
are in Pisces intercepted in the ascendant; Mars is setting ; the
eclipsed Moon is in the sixth house in the end of Cancer in conjunc-
tion with Neptune and trine Jupiter; and Saturn is on the cusp of the
sixth.
Problems connected with labour and the workers will come
prominently forward during the rule of this eclipse and will cause
trouble, strikes will be threatened and there will bediflFerences between
master and man. Both army and navy will demand much attention
and there will be losses and anxiety connected with both, but new
vessels will be built and new men raised, and the fleet will be active
and successful.
Jupiter and Venus in the ascendant shed a pacific and benefic
influence over western and central Europe, and especially in Italy,
Germany and Austria, where the sign Pisces will be rising with the
two benefics in it, and affairs will be quieter and more auspicious with
a less warlike spirit in those countries. If it were not for Mars setting
retrograde at London and Paris, the map would be strongly in favour
of peace and a return to normal conditions, but the red planet is strong
and unfavourably placed and speaks of discord, enmity abroad, heavy
expenditure, a high death rate and ksses at sea. Many women and
children will die, divorces and outrages will take place and scandals
be reported.
The health of the people will be unsatisfactory over the greater
part of Europe; in Germany and eastward some epidemic is
threatened; and sudden deaths from heart disease will occur.
At Petrograd Aries rises, Jupiter and Venus will be in the twelfth,
t8 MODERN ASTROLOGY

and nothing angular but Saturn in the fourth. The masses of the
people will feel the heavy burdens of the war, but steps will be taken
to relieve them by philanthropic and benevolent movements. The
Czar and the government are not under fortunate influences in this
map. From Germany eastward much underhand diplomacy and
intrigue will go on.
The eclipse will be on the nadir in the extreme east of Europe and
in Persia. It will rise in Japan and east China. If the reckoning is
by the time of eclipse, it will set at London and western Europe, a
position that will increase the complication of foreign affairs and the
tendency to deaths and disasters at sea. The place of the eclipse falls
as under in various horoscopes.
German Emperor Asc King George rf 0p
German Crown Prince is King of Sweden s ^
Emperor of Austria s ? Lord Kitchener s ?
King of Italy S sv Lloyd George sO
The degree of the Full Moon rises in E. Asia and Japan;
culminates in the Pacific Ocean and N.W. Canada; sets in Portugal,
Spain, France and Great Britain; and is on the nadir in Russia,
Arabia and Persia.

ARMV VETERAN OF FOURTEEN

Yarmouth can probably claim the distinction of having supplied the
British Army with its youngest soldier, says the DaUy Express of n/iz/'is ;
he is Private George Carr, of the 5th Norfolks, who was born on December 21
1900 and enlisted in March last, being then only just over fourteen years of
age. Ha took part in the landing at Suvla Bay, where his regiment suffered
heavily, and continued fighting for two months before being invalided home
with dysentery.
His mother says that she and his father, who is in the National Reserve,
did not know of her son's leaving for Gallipoli until almost the eve of his
departure, and she wanted her husband to stop him going. " But," she
said, " the boy pleaded so hard that his father said,' If he is so set on going,
let him go.'" The boy's health is improving, and his mother says he is
anxious to rejoin his regiment.
The planetary positions at noon on day of birth are as follows:—
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Y 1127.49 r; prog, for 1915, Okyi4|, 1)9520^, $ Vy 4i. ? f l6. d'lK11, 4 ^27,
I?kf8, ®^i4i, YII27J r.
 i9

^strologg anil Social iieform

By The Editor

III.—MARRIAGE
There are three aspects from which marriage may be viewed
astrologically. There is the physical marriage, the soul marriage, and
the platonic union. The first is the common or ordinary marriage,
based on sex attraction, which may be good, bad, or indifferent,
according to magnetic influences and temperaments. These marriages
are usually for the purpose of procreation only, and may bind a couple
through the children, through mutual benefit, or through circum-
stances. We may grade these unions from merely animal connections,
where the animal nature is gratified, to human feeling, where the
affection of the human being is satisfied. Astrologically, they usually
begin in Mars and Venus attractions, and end either in separation or in
the mutualblendingof two joint horoscopes. The offspring of physical
unions are often indifferent mentally, but when soul marriage arises
out of physical unions the offspring are better equipped, both
mentally and emotionally, than in other cases.
Soul marriages, although not so rare as imagined, are those
marriages made in the heavens, when horoscopes blend and sympa-
thetically expand, each bringing out the best qualities in the other.
Sex union in these marriages is not the primary consideration, but a
mutual give and take, in which respect and mutual understanding are
always maintained, bringing conjugality and temperance in every
mutual relationship.
Platonic unions are rare, and certainly, in many cases, best
avoided, unless undertaken for specific purposes. If rightly under-
stood, platonic unions begin with an ideal conception of mating,
without previous thought of physical or personal union, but instead,
waiting until the call of nature determines the moment for action ; in
other words, yielding only to response on one side or the other, when
the time for union has arrived.
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In many cases these unions are based upon extreme ideal notions,
arising out of peculiar temperaments, in which the animal nature is not
strong, and the human evolution is far advanced. The ideal of a
platonic union is the realisation of true celibacy, not a sentimental
craving for union without parental results, but a realisation of the
spiritual creative forces as distinguished from procreation. All
platonic unions are dangerous when there is no spiritual outlet for the
creative force, which is latent in every man and woman. We shall
deal more fully with these unions from an astrological standpoint
later.
Soul marriages are the balance between physical marriages and
platonic unions; but there is a fourth kind of marriage, which sees a
union of the physical and emotional and mental, in one whole state of
marriage. These are the marriages Astrology will help to bring
about in the future ; they consist of a perfect blend of the masculine
and feminine elements, out of which love, perfectly conjugal, may
result. In a long practice in which a vast experience has been gained
with regard to sex matters and marriage, the writer has been struck
by the often expressed desire on the part of females for a marriage of
companionship, and it has seemed as though the majority of women
who seek the aid of Astrology where marriage is concerned, desire it
solely for the purpose of finding a marriage of companionship. It
would not be fair to omit the statement that men also seek for a
companionable marriage, but in these cases they are not so easily
suited as in the case of females.
The truest and the best marriages are those in which each finds a
companion in the other, and the one never tires of the other. From
these marriages the finest offspring are sure to result, for while love
may not lead in all cases to a perfect comradeship, companionship
more often than not ends in pure love.
Experience goes to prove that the mental conditions of each
partner constitute the first essential to a satisfactory union, and most
women of a pure emotional nature look up to a man who has a good
brain and a well-balanced mind, and where these unions take place the
love of a woman will stimulate the moral growth of the man.
Although it is not always the case that persons of a different
religion disagree, it is necessary that there should be a religious or
 ASTROLOGY AND SOCIAL REFORM 21

spiritual basis for harmony; for instance, a total disagreement with

regard to the higher life, where one is materialistic in thought and the
other religious in thought or principle, is sure to end in a disastrous
marriage, for there is then no common meeting place where differences
can be understood. True companionship rests upon a sound
philosophic or religious basis, in which the selfishness or separateness
of the personal elements may be melted in a common love for the same
ideals or purposes, and for the good of the family life, not merely for
mutual benefit.
. An enormous amount of good energy is wasted by males and
females wandering through social life in the hope of finding their true
mates, and this might all be saved if horoscopes were compared with a
view to finding the possible grounds of agreement and amalgamation.
There is a physical attraction and repulsion which are magnetic
and repellent, also a mental magnetism which is either attractive and
amalgamative or repellent and antagonistic. The fact is very well
known by students of human nature, but it is by no other science so
well accounted for as by Astrology. The true feminine must always
blend with the true masculine, but the length of its duration depends
upon the manner in which the sexes are polarised toward each other.
A Saturnine man and a Martial woman will always find something
about which they can easily disagree, and vice versa, a Martial man
with his impulsive nature is repelled by the cold Saturnine woman.
The reason of a man and the intuition of a woman should always
blend, and such a blend causes no loss. Men who have all their lives
relied upon their reasoning faculties come to find in the intuition of
women a quicker and an easier road to knowledge, and a woman of
keen intuition may, by acquiring some of man's reason, make sure and
stable her intuitions. No body of students knows better than the
astrological, how wonderful is the power evolved from the combined
efforts of men and women, when they work together in all departments
of life; and the most is accomplished when true companionship is
formed. The value of Astrology in marriage lies in the power it gives
to either the male or the female to pull the other upward in the scale
of human evolution, owing to the UNDERSTANDING which it brings
regarding the temperament and emotional or mental character of each.
The value of marriage lies in the power of giving which it bestows on
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both, and the value of Astrology lies in the fact that it shows all that
can be given.
Astrology does not demand that a woman should give all, and have
no return ; it shows that she yields her body and soul for the purpose
of having them impregnated with mind and spirit, so that the joint
influence of the positive and negative forces may be blended in a more
perfect offspring.
Every woman possesses imagination (Cancer), impulse (Scorpio)
and emotion (Pisces), and when these three are properly blended a
woman's highest gift, that of intuition, is born. If a man cannot
understand a woman through her complex personality, he can if he
possesses the best gift of man—reason—understand her through her
nativity, a chart given by the gods for man to understand the love of a
woman.
After all, the secret which Astrology undoubtedly reveals, is that
men and women are complementary to each other, and meant by God
to be united in the sacred and holy bonds of matrimony. Neither man
nor woman is complete until marriage has fulfilled the purpose of the
sexes. Sex was not intended to produce antagonism but harmony and
completeness.
Alas! that it should be true that we know all these things and yet
are unable to carry them into practice. We may, however, make
actual our ideals through the science of Astrology which shows us how
to be practical as well as ideal. By a wonderful arrangement the signs
of the zodiac are alternately positive and negative, and they are equally
balanced in the whole circle. The Moon leads the negative or feminine
half of the circle, the symbol of form in all its grace and beauty. The
Sun leads the positive or masculine half of the circle, the symbol of
life in all its strength and virility. There can be no life without form,
and no form without life. We should have no physical bodies or souls
to express our life and spirit if it were not for form and substance.
Man and woman are interdependent the one on the other. We may
preach about individualism and socialism, but in the end we must
realise that the true individualism and the true socialism consist in a
blending of the masculine and feminine elements in social life.
It is man's great privilege and honour that he should respect and
protect woman. All her ideals should be restored to her and
 ASTROLOGY AND SOCIAL REFORM 23
maintained, in order that her soul may live and shine as the glorious
garment of the spirit, and nothing short of man's true companionship
for woman, in which she is his equal in her own sphere, will suffice.
So we begin our study of social re-construction with a
consideration of woman's true place in social life.
We may begin, astrologically, by reviving the true astrological
religion, which teaches that God, the Father, is the Spirit which knows
every star in the heavens, as well as the planets in our solar system.
God is the creative life principle behind, and in, every manifested
form. The Virgin Mary, the Mother, is the substance which fills all
space. The Virgin Mary, symbol of virgin matter, is the basis of
every form. God the Father, Mary the Mother, are symbolised in
astrology by the Sun and the Moon, as the masculine and the feminine
modes of expression of the unknowable absoluteness. Between the life
and the form, the male and the female, is the Cross, symbol of
manifested life and form, the child or the Christ in every human
being, latent, yet waiting to be made manifest in the flesh.
This is the basis of our astrological studies for a social recon-
struction in which father, mother, child may be seen to take their part
in the Great Drama on the world's stage, for which the play which we
call Evolution has been written.
In the beginning of time the circle of the zodiac was a complete
whole, representing pure substance, with all the latent potentialities
of matter in all its various conditions of Ether, Air, Fire, Water and
Earth. This circle of homogeneous substance was impregnated by
the Divine life, giving it the active motion which enabled all the
potential forces of matter to unfold, and bringing forth the Cross upon
which life and form are said to be crucified in gaining individual
experiences. From the one came many. From the spirit of unity
are born many separate individuals.
It is these separate individuals, in all their wonderful and
beautiful diversity, which Astrology studies, placing each in his right
position according to the arrangement of the earth, zodiac and planets
Astrology, while recognising and knowing the Unity of All Life, is
more concerned with understanding the diversity in manifestation,
and seeks, by understanding, to see the harmony underlying all the
diversity.
 ^.nsiners to (Questions1
NEPTUNE.—Many astrologers discussing the planet Neptune invariably
refer to it as the evil, chaotic, or the deceptive Neptune, whereas others are fond of
describing it as the planet of ideality, spirituality, etc. Is there any authoritative
source of information that determines the true status of Neptune and its influence
upon men and things.
We think the most reliable information concerning the influence of
the planet Neptune is to be found in our Astrological Text Books, and
in the Correspondence Lessons. We are not yet satisfied concerning
the ideality and spirituality of its influence, neither are we inclined to
consider its influence wholly evil. We have found its influence very
deceptive and somewhat chaotic. Taking the rulers of two important
nations, the British and the German ; if, as we believe, those rulers are
representatives of the nation's character, fate, etc. at the time of their
ruling, then Neptune rising in the one case signifies the chaotic
condition of the government and military authorities at the time of the
outbreak of the Great War. Britain was certainly thrown into a
whirl of anxiety at the beginning of the war owing to the country
being unprepared, and it took some time to produce order and proper
action out of the chaos. With regard to the German Emperor, the
position of the planet Neptune on the M.C. plunged the nation into
chaos and brought no end of suffering and misery to say nothing of
plans that did not mature such as getting to Paris, etc. A world
chaos was produced by the conjunction of Neptune with the planet
Mars on the Kaiser's midheaven ; it was certainly not a spiritual
influence, to our mind.
We are not in a position to dogmatise over Neptune's influence
upon men and things but we cannot help thinking that the influence is
more deceptive and chaotic than otherwise. It may be that it is too
mystical and transcendental for us to understand, but time will reveal
more concerning its influence than it has done up to the present.
1
Questions must be of gemerau interest. Tbey should be written upon
one side of the paper only, a separate sheet of paper being used for each separate
question, and addressed to Question Department, "Modern Astrology" Office,.
40, Imperial Buildings. Ludgate Circus, E.G. Name and address of sender should,
be attached to each question.
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The Prevailikg Influences in the Horoscopes

of Monarchs and Rulers of Nations

The lists of royal directions and progressed horoscopes that

follow are continuous of those which were published in this magazine
in December 1914. The idea that the horoscope of the ruler of a
country is significant of the destinies of that country during his or her
rule, is familiar to the readers of this magazine, and correspondence
published in our last volume (pp. 105, 195, 376, 474 par. 4) seems
to show that our views in this matter are endorsed by students who
ha.ve investigated the subject. The directions operating in Royal
Horoscopes have therefore a double interest at the present time.

KING GEORGE
©Prf r Sept 1914 Asc a Jan 1916
O * ]) r May 1916 Asc z ? r Aug
S * •j r June 1917
Lunar Directions igi6
5P*© r Feb ppa S r Aug
DpZljir March hptsU Sept
]) p Z j r * ? May P P P <f Nov
Dp z IJI June D P rf S Dec
Progressed Positions as at 13/11/1916
x xi xii i ii iii
ss 19.8 K19 «5 D24.55 5511 5628
Jli.32 R21.58 ^123.6 ni6.4 196.42 Z 19.57 5s24.11 551,40 T10.33
Transits.—o eel <S op Jan 20; Hi rf op Feb 8 : <s Asc Feb 21 : Hi*]) Marc h26
Vrf O p June 24; ijt f D p July; o ed rf j July 30; o ect rf MC Dec 24.
The King is under the direction Sun sextile Moon this year and
the influence of the parallel of Mars is slowly passing off; which is a
great improvement on what has gone before, and, because the Moon is
on the seventh cusp at birth, should strengthen our foreign relations
and ties with allies, bring us new friends, improve our position abroad
and bring a prospect of success and peace within sight. If only this
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

-direction had been supported by a similar lunar direction, peace might

have been definitely predicted ; but unfortunately this does not happen.
The most fortunate lunar directions fall due in February, May,
September and December.
Jupiter transits the cusp of' the ascendant in February and
remains within the ascendant all the year. This is sure to improve
affairs for the country all round and make the national position
stronger. An influence that is not so favourable is shown in the
transit of Neptune over the progressed Sun, which has been continued
from 1915 and will be prolonged into 1917 ; Neptune moves only one
degree a year faster than the Sun progresses, and therefore takes a
considerable time to get beyond orbs of a conjunction by transit; it
produces a very unsettled and changeful condition of affairs which
causes much uncertainty and anxiety while it lasts.
On the whole the directions indicate an improved state of affairs
for the King and country during the year.

THE PRINCE OF WALES

GP ? Feb 1916 ? a i? r rf « r Jan tgiG
May sPi April
G* ? r J uoe ? a 'j June ,,
<r r Dec
Lunar Directions 1916
5 ^ 1JI r p Jan Dq'jAS June
57^ S r March S#Gr July
5 bq ? r April p*pr Sept
p qt o s r May
Progressed Positions <is at 23/1/1916
x xi xii i ii iii
*23-36 «8 D5
I
GPS?^V ?»?IV
022.56 /26.29 Ai.43 n 18.27 T13.30 1123.10 ^18.53 14,11.16 n 14.44
Transits.— p eel rf S Jan 20; V 4 if Feb 14 ; •t rf Gp Aug 8; <J» <S cusp 7 Aug 14 ;
% rf S Sept 16; G eel tf G Dec 24
The Prince's directions are inserted in full here because of their
unusual nature and importance. It will be seen that the Sun has
progressed to the parallel and sextile of Venus, and that Venus has
reached the conjunction of Jupiter and the trine of Saturn. These are
directions in accordance with which some writers have long ago
predicted the Prince's engagement and marriage, and it remains to be
 KOYAL DIRECTION'S

seen whether these anticipations will be realised. Apart from marriage

the influences signify success, happiness and advancement. The chief
drawback is that there are no important lunar directions similar in
nature to those just mentioned, and no benefic transits over Venus,
Jupiter or the luminaries; while Neptune is transiting near the cusp of
the seventh or marriage house. It is quite possible that this may
have the effect of delaying matters for a time. On referring to the-
horoscope of birth it will be seen that there is no planet in the seventh
house and that the Moon (in the ascendant) first applies to a rather-
wide trine of Uranus (in the ninth); and this does not favour an early
marriage as a rule, although it may signify one brought about
unexpectedly quickly. Venus is strong in Taurus at birth, but its only
aspect is the sextile of Mercury. The lunar directions from May to-
July are not good and entail some risk. .Saturn's transit over the
progressed Sun in August is unfavourable.

PRESIDENT POINCARE
Feb 1916 IJldJlir 1916
OF? Nov Sq s c March ,,
« □J Aug
Lunar Directions 1916
D *IJI r * I? r Jan DqO r Oct
jPy r June DAl? r p □ V r Nov
D * >! July p □ ?r Dec
P □ J H ? rf 8 Aug
Pragmsed Positions as at 8/6/1916
x xi xii i ii iii
>310.28 SSI XI T23.5g no D22
O P B J ^ « I? ly W
^22.22 1114.57 1117.44 1*7.3 ~752 A".5 "uS-Si RiMS K27.20
Transits.—O eel s 1 V Feb 3; y d Feb 6; ^ i cusp 4 p Feb 14, April g : V S i
May 10; 4 d Asc p May 24 ; ij 8 cusp 7 June 18 ; 8 Ju'y ^ # 8 July 15 ;■
p eel 8 8 8 » July 15.
During the last two years the French President has been under
some very serious directions ; and the heavy array of lunar directions
in the spring and early summer of 1915 coincided with the failure to
make any forward movement against the enemy and with the realisa-
tion of the necessity for increased munitions and high explosives..
During 1916 the directions are greatly improved and should indicate
an improved state of affairs for France and for the President personally,.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

closer friendly ties with allies, success achieved against the enemy,
and a tendency towards peace. There is one direction that militates
somewhat against this ; namely the square of Mercury to Mars, which
is supported by lunar directions in August, and which threatens
martial activity and some danger of divided counsels. Jupiter's
transit over the progressed ascendant in May is fortunate, but those of
Saturn in February and the summer are unfortunate.

THE CZAR
O ® Dec 1915 i S v May 1916
©Q i; June 1917 MC p d i 1 June 1917
Lunar Directions 1916
J) oti> r Q S r Feb 3) P r Sept
DqVz ijrpj March Jj <? f Dec
Progressed Positions as at 19/6/1916
x xi xii i ii iii
(ISII.46 fl.20 ITRtS ^=7-58 >112 72
OD S s j v I? IJI HI
013.40 >320.43 027.14 410.30 112.51 <r 12.55 "tag-sg 2513.11 T17.16
Transits.— ij 6 1 Jang; d Feb 8; 11 6 It March 9: ltd cusp 7a March 17;
^ d 1$ April 12; ^ d MC p April 29; 3/ d iji April 21 ; 33 d 2) ^- y 41 h ?
May 10; •? d 0 p May 20; y d S June 13, Nov 12; ij st d ? p Nov 12.
The Czar's directions for the first half of 1915 showed a good
deal of success under Sun conjunction Venus; but this was succeeded
by several very unfortunate aspects. The events of the year corre-
sponded, for the Russian successes on land occurred in the first six
months of the year, and the second six months saw their retreat before
the advancing enemy; but those writers who expected a revolution or
civil war in Russia have been disappointed up to the present.
During the presentyear, 1916, the directions continue almost wholly
evil, and seem to afford little indication either of triumph or of peace ;
and if Russia were not in alliance with other nations that are under
better influences the outlook would be dark in the extreme. But as it is,
no one nation will decide the outcome of the war, which is to be looked
for in the total resultof a combination of horoscopes,and not in one alone.
Jupiter's transit through Aries will be fortunate on the dates given
above; and as Aries is King George's ascendant and President
Poincare's progressed ascendant, the three horoscopes will be linked
■together fortunately by the transit of Jupiter.
 ROYAL DIRECTIONS

THE KING OF ITALY

Feb June 1916
Jan
Dec
Lunar Diiections 1916
J) / cf r d 5 r Jan P f 3/ Aug
p *? r March P P 5 r Sept
p Z April P tf "
P *0 May
Progiesstd Positions as at 15/6/191G
OPS ? i If SH' V
VI6.52 1118.28 M15.25 5:23.18 V323.29 bn.s *21.33 ® 20.34 T16.46
Transits.— H <HJ'April 25: ■} 5 pjune4: p eel Ijl July 15: h 8 I# July 27:
•? tf J July 31 : O eel 4 2 r Dec 24.
Directions to angles are not included in this list because of the
uncertainty that exists as to the exact time of birth ; but a horoscope
for 10.39 p.m. shows Asc. p:*Or and MC p S S r both measuring
to the summer of 1916; while an eclipse of the Sun on February 3
will fall on the cusp of the seventh house, and Jupiter will transit the
cusp of the tenth from July to September.
It will be seen that events have borne out the estimate of proba-
bilities that was based upon this horoscope a year ago : ^ ^ D r in the
spring showed "diplomacy active about foreign relations and tending
to a rupture," exactly as predicted; while the direction cT S W r was
supported by the Moon squaring both bodies in April and May, and by
some strong transits in May; and war with Austria was declared on
May 23. We pointed out that these influences indicated " danger of
war and the movements of troops and the fleet" (M.A. Dec. 1914).
This direction will be stimulated to action afresh by the transits of
Satum and by the eclipse of the Moon on Uranus, all in July 1916.
The directions are not very strong for the present year, apart
from those to the angles previously mentioned. Mercury trine Jupiter
in the summer is fortunate and tends to increase of national honour
and successful diplomacy ; but this may possibly not act until the end
of the year, when similar lunar directions are due, or even not until
1917, when Jupiter will transit its own place in Taurus in the spring
of the year and bring good fortune. The progressed Moon is going
through Scorpio in the fourth house; it meets the opposition of
Jupiter in the summer and winter of this year and the conjunction
30 MODERN ASTROLOGY

with the Sun next year ; rather a critical period, but many diplomatic
attempts are likely to be made towards peace, and the prospect on the
whole is hopeful for a fortunate and honourable outcome of the war.
The transits of Saturn in July are martial and critical.

THE GERMAN EMPEROR

GP J r Dec 1915 s * ? Feb
S □ Asc r Jan 191C □ l? r Aug
G A "j March 0S r »
Lunar Directions 1916
D oif Jan D a ©A h Nov
r March Dec
1

K
□

DA¥ r May
DA'S June
Progressed Positions as at 27/12/19:6
X xi xii i ii
B 19.21 □ 28 413 "to.7 1^19
G j « ? <r v '> y v
T5.19 KI6.2S r2i.33 =;2I.I (<9.14 1115.15 il5.32 no.29 K24.59
Transits.—^ <s if Jan 6; u <s j Jan 27 ; u <s O pMatch3 ; 24 4 J p May 8 ; >! i
May 18 ; i? 4 Asc July ti; p eel cusp 7 July 15; G eel SO July 30; if st 4 'j p
Nov 7.
The parallel of Mars to the Sun at the end of 1915 reinforces the
warlike planet at a time when most of Europe will be wishing for
peace; it is the kind of direction that was considered by the ancients
to be favourable to success in military operations but to be critical and
accompanied by danger.
The square of Mercury to the ascendant indicates diplomacy very
active, perhaps unofficially and beneath the surface (If rules 12th and
4th houses), but attended by difficulties and with little likelihood of
success. Enemies are likely to score something against the country
(12th house).
The trine of the Sun to Saturn is a much more hopeful influence
from every point of view, although its power for good is seriously
limited by the opposition of these two bodies at birth. Saturn is the
planet of law and order, when its influence is exerted for good, and as
it rules the seventh house here the effect of this direction, especially
as accompanied by the sextile of Mercury to Venus, will in part be to
give an impulse towards peace at the beginning of the year. Efforts
in this direction will be made by Germany. If they should fail, the
directions and transits indicate military and political power not yet
 ROYAL DIRECTIONS 31
exhausted during about the first six months of the year ; but after that
a much more unfortunate list of influences is seen. Saturn will
transit the ascendant in July, and Mars will reach the square of
Saturn in August, while the lunar eclipse of July 15 and the solar
eclipse of July 30 both fall on very unfortunate points. From this
time onward many disasters threaten the country; financial troubles
will increase and political discontent will become very serious, and the
enemy will gain successes, if the war is still continuing.
The lunar directions are all unfortunate and threaten both naval
and military disasters under the squares to Neptune and Mars; but
these will probably be not so serious as the influences later in the year.
The directions for 1915 were given in this magazine in November
1914 and they showed the Moon in conjunction with Venus (l) d S r, Q
•? r) for Dec. 1915; this will strengthen the efforts towards peace that
will be made during the winter, but it also indicates financial troubles.
The transit of J upiter through Pisces, the Emperor's mid-heaven,
and over his Neptune and Mars during 1915 coincided with a good
deal of success obtained by his armies in various directions, chiefly on
the east front. Jupiter leaves Pisces in February 1915, but it transits
the Emperor's progressed Sun in the early part of Aries on March 3,
and his progressed Mercury on May 8; so that whatever benefit this
is capable of bringing him is not yet exhausted. The entry of Jupiter
into Aries every twelve years is an important cycle and it will
influence several of the royal horoscopes this time.

THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA

S q Sr July rgiG ? 13 <? Jan 1916
? P P r Aug „ S P i? June
Oq S r Dec S n jj! July ,,
Lunar Directions 1916
PAIJZ'ir Jan jzGrV? April
DO r a IJ r r Feb P o 2? Sept
P O 2/ r March pZ ^ P ^ Oct
Progressed Posiltons as at 28/10/1916
x xi xii i ii iii
1527.32 ^.26 11117 7 4.I5 V38 sr20
Gp«?JllbiSV
11119.37 ^16.13 1117.14 into. 12 x24,30 1114.46 11110.58 SS6.49 1120.29
Transits.— 2f 4 cusp 7 and 4 4 Feb 21 ; '? <f 2/ p May 30; <? 4 V. and j) eel
dqi 4 7 July 15 ; o eel 4 ijl July 30; ^ <s i Aug 11; V st 4 iji p Nov 7; o eel 4
cusp 4 Dec 24.
32 MODERN ASTROr.OGV

Directions are not so important in this horoscope as in some of

the others, and the fate of Austria obviously depends upon its more
vigorous and militant ally, Germany; as is shown by the proximity of
the German Emperor's progressed Sun to the Emperor of Austria's
Mars, and of the latter's progressed Mars to the former's Neptune and
Mars. The directions seem to indicate diplomacy active in endeavour-
ing to secure favourable terms of peace, but there is no strong
fortunate direction anywhere during the year except that of the Moon
to Uranus, which is not worth much in the absence of solar or
mutual aspects to support it. It is evident that if Austria stood alone
its prospects would be very poor, and that the question of peace or
war depends upon the much stronger partner, Germany.
Jupiter transits Mars and the cusp of the seventh house in
February.

THE KING OF SWEDEN

gVD r Dec S □ 3/ Jan 1916
j□ j r Dec ? /: J r Nov
<f # IJI r Dec ,,
Lunar Dinctions 1916
July BQipOSr Oct
BA S r Aug S*oyj/r Dec
BV g Sept
Progressed Positions as at 3/8/1916
x xi xii i ii iii
«B 19.57 A27 US24 ===13-34 "l? 19
O B t i i it b V V
4120.23 =2=15.51 njiiy.io ^1.6 /0.11 1116.36 414.26 0314 K24.23
Transits.—y d V Jan 17 ; ecB ecl ^ '? Jan 20 ^ y st
f # 0 p May 24 ; <f d B May 28;
ff d MC p July 10; B ' ^ ' Jv'y 'S- July 29; © eel d h P July 30;
d Sept 9 ; V d >? p Sept 28; d S iff Oct 22.
Sweden has not joined in the great war, and because of that the
horoscope of King Gustav is of less interest and calls for less comment
than do those of most other European heads of nations; and it is
only included here because some rather strong evil directions occur
during the year, and if they are placed upon record the student will be
able to watch their outcome.
At birth the Moon was rising in Virgo in exact square to Uranus
in the mid-heaven in Gemini, and Mars has now progressed to the
 ROYAL ■IKECTIONS 33
square of the Moon and the opposition of Uranus; which constitute
rather serious directions. The King has suffered in past years from
appendicitis and ulceration of the stomach, so that a serious affliction
of the Moon in Virgo is unfortunate from the point of view of health.
In addition, political affairs will be liable to become disorganised,
there is some danger of war and also of strikes and discontent among
the people as well as of domestic trouble or bereavement. These
directions are supported by lunar directions in July and also by transits

Other Horoscopes
These lists of directions include all heads of nations whose
horoscopes are known for certain and who are engaged in the great
war. Other horoscopes will be found in back numbers of MODERN
Astrology as follows:—The King of Spain, the Queen of Holland,
the King of Norway, and Mr. D. Lloyd George in October 1914 ;
King Albert of Belgium, November 1914 and January 1915; the
Crown Prince of Germany, and his children and the other sons of the
German Emperor, December 1914; the Austrian Archduke Karl
Franz Josef, February 1915; the Pope, March 1915; General Joffre,
April 1915; Mr. H. H. Asquith, May, 1915; Lord Kitchener,
August 1915.

Some Quaint " Howlers." An Equinox is a man who lives near

the North Pole.
Gender shows whether a mau is masculine, feminine, or neuter.
Au abstract noun is something we cau think of but cannot feel—as a
red-hot poker.
The people of India are divided into castes and outcastes.
Leap Year is instead of its being the next day on the same day next
year; it's the day after.—University Correspondent.
From the Dmariia Press.—We have received from The Dharma Press,
16 Oakfield Road, Clapton, N.E., a booklet entitled "The Twelve Labours of
Hercules, being the way of the occult student," by Leonard Bosman (price is.),
Mr. Bosman implies that the soul passes through each sign of the
.Zodiac in succession and attempts to describe the Herculean labours
connected with each sign of the Zodiac. Although by no means convincing
the booklet is certainly interesting, though we resent the treatment of the
sign Leo, which astrologers consider to be the home of Hercules the Sun-
god ; indeed we do not like the interpretations placed on many of the signs,
and decidedly do not agree that the soul passes through each sign succes-
sively. Fortunately, however, the author offers his treatment of the subject
as a theory and as such astrologers will accept it. A. L.
 34

Astrology far !8«gtuuers

I have been asked to give, in the simplest way possible, some quite
elementary talks upon Astrology, and to address myself to those who have,
literally, no knowledge of the subject. Thus I shall speak only of truths
that may be proved by observation and comparison.
Let us talk first of the influence of" the Sun in the Signs."
Picture to yourself the vast dome of the heavens divided into twelve
equal parts, by twelve t«i<tgiK<try lines that start from the centre of this vast
celestial space aud stretch away into infinitude. These great equal spaces
are subtle forms of matter, each possessing characteristics quite distinct from
any of the remaining eleven, and it is through the matter of these spaces
that the light and life of the Sun pass ere our Earth receives them ; and
these Sun rays are modified and coloured, so to speak, by their passage
through the matter of the spaces.
There can be no manifestation without matter, for it is matter that
produces/or;)!; but it is the same light that descends primarily into these
different forms of matter.
Each material space is recognised by its " sign " or " name," the twelve
beiug known to you as the " Signs of the Zodiac," aud it is for oue whole
month that the Sun shines through each of these twelve spaces, giving to
people born in one month tendencies quite different from those born in any
other month.
Let us commence our study by considering the Sun's influence on our
Earth when he passes bis rays to us through the sign Aries (T), which he
commences to do on, or about, the 21st of March, and continues to do until
the 21st of April.
If we watch the working of Nature in the physical world about us
during that month, and then look for the effects of those same forces,
working on individuals born in that month, we shall be able to trace in them
an identity.
Boisterous winds, sun and rain following each other in quick un-
premeditated succession, sap rising, shoots appearing—activity after the
long, winter sleep, life after the still, apparent death, and everywhere hope,
buoyancy, expectancy and fearlessness. And so it is with people born while
" the Sun is in the Sign Aries," as we say ; they are bead-strong (for Aries
rules the bead), breezy, full of a restless, dauntless energy, glad to be at the
beginning of things, seeing no danger, knowing no fear aud willing always to
 ASTROLOGY FOR BEGINNERS 35
take the " sporting chance." To them the past is dead, the present only
lives, and so they are ever conceiving new ideas with little regret for those
left unfinished in the past.
Leaving Aries about the 21st of April, the Sun enters the next great
division of the heavens, Taurus by name, remaining there until about the
21st of May. The world about us now is very beautiful, the blackthorn
has yielded to the May blossom, fruit trees are in flower, winds have
subsided and trees stand dressed in softest greens—clean and sweet and
beautiful. So we find the man with Sun in Taurus alive to all delightful
sights and sounds, revelling in beauty of jorm, eager to receive the good
things that Nature yields to those of her children who desire to take, under-
standing the full value of the beauties about him and well content to absorb
their sweetness. Deep chested, strong ef throat (for Taurus governs throat),
he makes the sweetest of all sweet singers, as well as the finest mathematicians,
comprehending the order that has been wrought out of chaos and the
sweetness out of discord.
When the Sun passes from Taurus about May 21st, he commences to
pour his force through the next sign, that called Gemini, with an influence
which though very dual is also very human.
We may fancy that we have seen the child starling its life in Aries, ever
turning from one fresh thing to another; and, in Taurus, leaving the restless-
ness of Aries for the wonder and enjoyment of life's good things that follow
after, and then in Gemini, seeing the child come into its mental heritage and
making continual comparisou of the things he contacts; for Gemini
is a particularly human sign, refined, adaptable, swift of comprehen-
sion, and caring mostly for those things which have not their birth in the
senses, but are originated in-the mind. It seems quite fitting therefore that
in June the longest day is reached, the Sun has his greatest power, the
measure of his full capacity is attained, aud, like the full-grown human, he
reaches the limit of his physical stature.
Secretary of the Lessons Department.
(To be continued next month.)

"The best thing a man can do is to be himself, in spite of the incon-

veniences, and in his little walk through life to tell the truth according to
himself, to be afraid of the power of no man, to respect the laws, but not to
cringe to them, to be himself in spite of the opinion of the multitude, and to
acknowledge nohighcr court of appealthau that of his own conscience."
Sir Herbert Tree.
36

leftsr to tlje (Bbitor

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Letters are inserted at the earliest possible opportunity, but are sometimes
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Negl ect of these considerations may cause otherwise valuable letters to be
excluded from these pages.

RULING SIGNS OF NATIONS

Sir,
It seems to be doubtful which sign rules the German Empire,
though without making any claim to understand the science of
Astrology it seems to me that certain characteristics of the sign Virgo
may be found in Germany. The aptitude for fighting, the personal
appearance, the great success in chemical industry and medicines,
together with a red tape and detailed organisation that may even
surpass that of the Paris government under Virgo, all point to the
same sign. Besides this, the opposite sign Pisces may account for all
the spying, secret enmity, and various other phenomena among the
Germans abroad.
It is even possible that opposite signs to their own may rule the
inhabitants of a place when they go abroad. Scotland is under Cancer
and the opposite sign Capricorn may well characterise the Scotchman
abroad, who is generally found in a position of authority and
responsibility; while the Irishman is well known as a different man
when he leaves his own country, and the sign Scorpio opposite to that
of Taurus may account for this.
England herself is under Aries but the Englishman abroad may
well be under Libra in the first instance, as, especially in India, he
has a reputation for justice and legislation. And there may be a
certain resemblance between the Londoner and the American abroad
as both are ruled by Gemini at home and perhaps by Sagittarius
abroad.
What the results of such a sign as Virgo ruling Germany may be,
it is difficult for an amateur to say, but it is not a fixed sign, such as
should rule a permanent Empire ; and also Neptune does not enter
Virgo for some years, if this planet has any connection with popular
government.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
John H. Burton.
THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE

Modcrp

Astrology
(First published in 1890)

FEBRUARY, 1915.

®Mtor'a ©bsirfaatorg

ASTROLOGICAL LESSONS FROM THE WAR

At the present time we have two classes of readers, on the one

hand those who prefer that we shall deal fully with the Great World
War from an astrological standpoint, and on the other those who
appear to be heartily sick of everything dealing with the war, pre-
ferring that we shall deal with Astrology from any other standpoint.
From one subscriber in America comes the intimation that the
subject of the war is not interesting, and from another an appreciation
of the manner in which we have handled the subject.
If we may arbitrate between these two classes of readers, we
think that the War is an opportunity for us to test the old rules
applying to Mundane Astrology in our judgment of National affairs.
We have surely been able to learn much from the Kaiser's horoscope
as well as from the nativities of the reigning monarchs of the disturbed
countries, and from these horoscopes we are more competent to say
how far their influence, as representatives of Nations, has affected the
progress of the world.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

There is an interesting comparison to be made between the

Kaiser's horoscope and that of Napoleon I.1 The Kaiser Wilhelm II.
was born with the Sun opposition Saturn, and Napoleon with the
Moon opposition Saturn; the former with the Moon in its " fall," and
the latter with the Moon in its " detriment." Both had the war-lord
Mars in conjunction with the planet Neptune but in opposite signs,
Pisces and Yirgo. Napoleon had Uranus in opposition to Jupiter,
and the Kaiser had Uranus in opposition to the Moon. Both
monarchs had the chief luminaries in a fixed sign—determination,
and both were exponents of Might, and the supremacy of force
and warfare to gain their ends. Surely we have discovered something
that is not only interesting but instructive from a study of the
horoscopes of these despotic rulers ?
So long as this War yields us useful data from which we may
learn further truths relating to Astrology we propose dealing with the
subject, not exclusively of course, but as a means of adding to our
general stock of knowledge on the subject, which is now accumulating
in a satisfactory manner. But we shall not neglect other subjects
which are equally instructive and interesting to our readers.

The Problem of Directing

There is one important problem that the War should help us to
solve—the problem of Directing: that is if such a subject is ever
likely to be solved. It is the one side track into which a large
number of students find themselves diverted, wandering until they
at last wake up to the fact that they have entered a cul-de-sac, and
return to the nativity from which they started with the knowledge

1
To facilitate comparison the maps are here reproduced from 1001 Notabh
Nativities :—
X xi xii 1 ii iii
N 96 20 4124 "P23 £* I7 "114 /16
W *19 T27 □ 13 CB20 SI 5 SI 24
O 5 S ? 6 h it
N A 23 W28 Jl 6 as 7 np 12 "1 15 OS 26 «1 ■1 7
W ar 7 11127 V3I3 /24 K27 □ I2r SI 9? 8 29|r K 23
(In the opinion of A. G. Trent, Napoleon's M.C, should be about Si 140 making the
ascendant 1117: historians give 11 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. as the binb-time. See
references cited in N.N.)
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 39
that it alone provides the key to the future as well as the past and
present.
It is many years ago since we were fascinated—that is'the only
word to use—by the various systems of directing in use by students,
and we wasted many precious hours over what are termed Primary
Directions before we realised that the system of directing which suits
one class of horoscope does not suit another. While granting that
for the purpose of rectification Primary Directions are invaluable^
if at the same time supplemented by what are termed the Secondary
Directions (' progressed horoscope'),—we are no longer enamoured
of any special system. We teach a sound method of Primary
Directions in our Correspondence Lessons, and also in the Progressed
Horoscope for those who think it well to study them in aiming
to become an efficient astrologer; but we strongly recommend
every student to keep an unbiassed mind where this (or any other)
method of directing is concerned,—and our opportunities for testing
the value of methods "of directing are unequalled throughout the
whole wide world.
We have received from Messrs. Wm. Rider & Son, Ltd., a book
on this subject by Sepharial, published at 5/- and entitled Directional
Astrology, also a book of Astrological Tables as a part of the above
published separately at 2/5. For any student who wishes to understand
the Ptolemaic and Placidian methods of directing this book should be
very useful. It is simply arranged and quite clear. We cannot help
noting the flavour of the author's peculiar criticism in Chapter VII
dealing with " Effects of Directions," and we think it is by no means
appropriate to a^book of this kind. We are all aware that astrologers
may be classified into three main groups of fatalists, casuists, and
idealists, but why the aphorism 'The wise man rules his stars and
the fool obeys them' should offend Sepharial and be termed by him
an " effete adage" we do not know. We think that it has not been
quoted often enough, at least by Sepharial, who should know its
meaning better than other astrologers. Some of our keenest intellects
at the present time have assured me that it is a saying which makes
Astrology worthy of their study or interest.
Surely Sepharial contradicts himself when he says on one page
that * The stars incline but do not compel' is also an effete adage
4° MODERN ASTROLOGV

while on another page he says " . These signals do not cause

disasters, but our ignorance of them, or our wilful disregard of them,
may very well result in a catastrophe."
These, however, are merely opinions. Sepharial will do us a
better service if he proves the truth of Primary Directions by
illustrating how the fatalists can actually predict from them events
before they happen, instead of fitting them to events after they have
happened.
With regard to one statement in that strange chapter, however,
we are in perfect agreement with Sepharial. He says: "Without in
any way disposing of Astrology as a physical science, it is high time
that we learned to interpret the facts of that science in the light of
the higher spiritual teaching to which we have access. Otherwise we
shall debase the science and enslave our souls. In such case it were
better that our astrology had never been written."
Inspired words are these ; may we profit by them.

A Case in Point
Since writing the above we have read Mr Shirley's comments on
" Directional Astrology " in the Occult Review. Mr Shirley says " The
question of directing for the purpose of timing the events of a life-
time and the fortunate and unfortunate periods has ever been a vexed
question with the astrologer, and, it may be added, is likely to remain
so for many a long year to come. Whoever is successful in throwing
some further light on this difficult and intricate problem deserves the
thanks of every student of the science."
In regard to this we may say that we are preparing a work that
we think will do more to clear up this problem than anything hitherto
attempted, and until it is ready for publication we shall draw upon
it from time to time for illustrations of directing and give our readers
the benefit of them in forthcoming issues of the magazine. The most
recent of these illustrations that we have tabulated we now give for
the benefit of the student. No. 16 X 528 was au officer in the
British army in the present War and had previously been in the Boer
War. He was in the Dardanelles and came home in February of last
year. He died on the second of the following September between
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 41
3 and 3.30 p.m., from meningitis, said to have been caught from some
prisoners whom he was guarding. He was born 27/12/1879 at 9h.
O.m. 45s. a.m. G.M.T., Lat. 53.25N, Long. 2.55 w., and the horoscope
is as follows :—
x xi xii i ii iii
iriao.iz 28 / 24 H 11.58 h8 r24
05? ? i
Leng M 3,17 020.38 113. 4< 11120.53 U I3.491< K8.16 Tg.ioi 158.56>- « 9.24rs m6.i3
Lai 2.12N 2.18N 2.48N 1.42N 1. 9s 2.30s 0.47N 1.49
Dtf 23.21s 25.22K 20. 7s 13. is I7.37N 9.32s 1.21N 8.58N 12.54K 22.28s
His father died suddenly. 13/9/1904; Arc. 24° 43', the Primary
Directions being :
MC rf 8 zod 240<,7'
MC zod 24 4i'
MC Z m z.c. 25'>I3'
while the Secondary Directions at the time were ;
Prog 5 w 20° 12'
J) S MC r measuring to 13/9/2904
]) tf ? r Sept 1904
SQOr ^ P „" I on cusp^ of fourth

The Moon's secondary arcs, from the cusp of the 4th house, are
the very obvious tokens of the event.
His mother died 2/1/1880; Arc. 0ol'. The Primary Directions
were ;
MC z O zod o004'
MC d 9 z.c. 0 19'
and the Secondary :
28/12/1879 (day after birth) 5 eclipsed in as 6° # O r
Transits:—2/1/1880 J) rf |{I r on 8th cusp in tf 2/
,, 0 on asc r
This shows that Venus on M.C. here was not a good token for
the mother. Venus is weak, and is afflicted by S J and 40.
With regard to his own death, we find the elements in the
nativity itself. Saturn the ruling planet in the sign of the head, Aries,
with the Sun on the ascendant applying to its square ; and Uranus
in opposition to Jupiter on the eighth house cusp. The planets Mars
and Neptune were in conjunction in the third house. The Moon
was in Gemini on the cusp of the sixth house. At the time of his
death the progressed Moon was in the eighth degree of Libra in
 MODHRN ASTHOLOGY

opposition to Saturn, and sesquiquadrate to Mars, while during

September 1915 Mars p. came to a close semisquare with Saturn
r.; the transit of Uranus over the Sun's progressed place occurred
during the same month. He was taken ill in February 1915 while
guarding prisoners, when Mars was in transit over the Sun's pro-
gressed place in the sign Aquarius and in the twelfth house of the
progressed horoscope.
For the benefit of students it may be stated that the birth-time
was given as accurately recorded—9 a.m., (rectified to 9h Om 45s).

Further comment on the above would be unnecessary, were it not

for the fact that those who advocate the primary arc system have
suggested a further rectification of the horoscope which we think shows
the fallacy of the system. The native was a well-educated man, and
came of a good family ; he gave the time of birth as 9 a.m. and
a slight rectification was made based upon that time, (as is our
custom when dealing with complete horoscopes), calculated from the
time of his mother's death, which took place within a week of Ins birth,
and his father's sudden death 13/9/04: why then should another
rectification be necessary ?
For those who wish to examine this case we may add that the
native met his wife for the first time quite unexpectedly at an uncle's
house 31/5/07, became engaged 23/6/07 and was married 28/4/08.
The eldest son was born 18/2/09. An interesting statement is made
by the native that on that very day he had a very narrow escape from
death, being thrown out of his motor car by a collision with a cow,
putting his right shoulder out of joint; the car was wrecked. A
daughter was born 25/5/10 who died 10/6/10 ; a second son was born
6/7/12.

" Scientific Astrology "

Sepharial is not pleased with our remarks on this head in the
December " Observatory." He should have taken them as we have
done his very many unkind remarks respecting ourselves in the past.
The correspondent referred to is well known to Sepharial and was
one of the active workers in the astrological world long before
Sepharial came into the limelight, for he claims to have been a pupil
 THE EDITOR S OBSERVATORY 43
of the late Commander Morrison (the first Zadkiel). Our corre-
spondent said much more than we were inclined to publish, and while
he does not altogether agree with our idealistic presentation of
Astrology he prefers it to the boastful tatements that have been made
about Scientific Astrology.
It is a perfectly fair criticism to say that ' Birthday Influences '
professing to show "the fate of every child born during the month "
(notice that these words are used without any qualification or reserva-
tion) are published by persons who, to quote our own words accurately,
"are either wilfully deceiving, the public or have no knowledge of
scientific astrology." Sepharial, with characteristic haste and
inaccuracy, omits all reference to our alternative and represents our
words as if they were an unqualified charge of wilfully deceiving the
public, which is not correct.
The only sorrow we can express is that the two astrologers
concerned should have resented our remarks so strongly after having
themselves written and published unkind criticisms of ourselves in
the past without any protest from us. The correspondent whose
opinions we summarised wishes to publish a long list of arguments
about "Scientific Astrology," but we think the battle would not be
worth the expense of the powder and shot.

We notice that'Sepharial comments on the primary directions in

King George's horoscope as given in Zadkiel's Almanac for 1915,
and he expresses the opinion that the second in the list, " Mars
conjunction Saturn, zodiac, direct," is illegitimate. Moreover he also
objects to a similar sort of direction, given in the same Almanac, in
the German Emperor's horoscope—" Saturn opposition Neptune,
zodiac" ; and he remarks, " Ptolemy would not have sanctioned the
direction of one promittor to another . The fact is that
Neptune is a promittor and not a significator. It can, therefore, be
directed, but it cannot be directed to."
In our opinion the two directions in question are legitimate. All
directions in the primary system—all the usual ones at least—are
produced by the axial rotation of the earth, by which any heavenly
body may be carried to the conjunction or opposition of any other
heavenly body, provided that excessive latitude does not render this
44 MODERN ASTROLOGY

impossible. Mr A. J. Pearce is quite consistent in this respect, for in

the 1879 edition of his Text Book, Vol. I., there are references on
pages 188, 195, 196, and elsewhere to planetary directions; and the
same principles and rules are repeated sand enlarged in the 1911
edition of the same book; e.g. pages 183, 184. Surely Sepharial
cannot quite mean what he says when he writes that a planet can be
directed but cannot be directed to ; for unless his language is strangely
misleading this would apparently prevent even the Sun or Moon
being directed to a planet! Not many students will agree with such
a strange idea we think.
There is an element of humour, too, in the notion of Sepharial
upholding Ptolemy as a standard of orthodoxy in Astrology; for
Sepharial himself has written much that is not based upon the rules
contained within Ptolemy's book, while Mr A. J. Pearce has quoted
Ptolemy oftener probably than any other modern writer.

"GERMANY'S POSITION IN THE GREAT WAR"

Some of our readers in this country have taken us rather bitterly to task
for, as they express it, " wasting the whole of the November number over
that tiresome article by a German astrologer,—half of which wasn't astrology
either."
We quite sympathise with their feeling, for in printing it we did not
gratify our own personal tastes. At the same time we would ask them to
remember : Firstly, that this magazine circulates all over the globe, into all
the neutral countries as well as into remote corners of the world not so-well
served with newspapers and periodicals and other sources of information as
London and Liverpool and Birmingham; and that therefore many things
perhaps tediously familiar to them, may be quite new, or but very imperfectly
known, to these outlying readers of ours, whom we yet have in regard, and
for whose sake in particular we re-published Sir Edward Grey's
statement. Secondly, that an advocate who has a poor case, will damn
it with his advocacy in the eyes of the discerning, far moreeffer tually than can
the fiercest denunciations of an opponent; therefore, on three occasions,
November being the last and final one, we allowed Mr Becker (who so far as
we have seen is the best astrological advocate Germany has produced) full
latitude to say all that he thought fit, even although a great deal of it was not
astrological but controversial, political, or otherwise outside the province of
a purely astrological publication under normal conditions. Thirdly, that it
is advisable in this oldest established and most widely circulated astrological
magazine, to have both sides of a question put forward, and that it is useful to
have the views of a German astrologer and his predictions of the outcome of
the war, placed alongside of those of our own students, in order that in later
years they may be studied in the light of actual events and the science of
National or International Astrology thereby extended.
Corrigesdum.—p. 30 of last issue, line tt : for DO '-fr read DO dV
 45

Sfntcrnattonitl ^strolag^

THE ENTRY OF MAJOR PLANETS INTO ARIES

JUPITER takes about twelve years to perform one complete

revolution. It enters the first point of the sign Aries this year on
February 12. Its previous two ingresses were on March 1 1904 and
March 16 ft92. This cycle of a little less than twelve years, or one
sign a year, is correlated with the eighty-four years cycle of Uranus,
or one sign in seven years ; so that seven revolutions of Jupiter are
nearly equal to one of Uranus; and the two planets are in con-
junction in almost the same point of the zodiac every eighty-three
years. Thus Jupiter and Uranus were in conjunction in the beginning
of Aries on February 8 1845 and they will meet again in conjunction
within one or two degrees of the same place at the end of January
1928. This relation of one to seven will be seen to be significant
by those who remember that Uranus signifies the Self fully individua-
lised in atma, or pure spirit, and Jupiter that which brings Self into
relation with Not-self, energy functioning in a bodily vehicle of some
sort; shakti.
The cycle of a little less than twelve years is also the cycle of the
sun spots, and occultists tell us of a similar cycle of vital energy
through the solar system.
"The Sun is the heart of the Solar world (System) and its brain
is hidden behind the (visible) sun. Thence sensation is radiated into
every nerve-centre of the great body, and the waves of the life-essence
flow into each artery and vein. . The planets are its limbs
and pulses. Thus, during the manvantaric solar period, or
life.there is a regular circulation of the vital fluid throughout our System,
of which the Sun is the heart—like the circulation of the blood in the
human body ; the Sun contracting as rhythmically as the human heart
does at every return of it. Only, instead of performing the round in a
second or so, it takes the solar blood ten of its years to pass through
 MODEKN ASTROLOGY

its auricle and ventricle before it washes the lungs, and passes thence
back to the great arteries and veins of the system." (S«c. Doc. i, 591.)
This comparison with blood in the body has additional significance
when it is remembered that, astrologically, Jupiter governs the blood.
Our zodiac of signs, as distinguished from that of the constellations,
is marked out by the apparent movement of the Sun; its first point
being where the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator about
March 21 each year. The suggestion has been made that just as this
marks off the cycle of one year, so larger cycles are determined by the
passage of the major planets across the equator in their apparent
geocentric movements. These cycles are of various lengths according
to the time taken by each planet in its orbit, and it will probably be
worth the while of astrologers to calculate maps for each such passage
as opportunity offers, and study them in the light of subsequent events
with a view to ascertaining how far they agree with these events and
therefore how far they may be used for purposes of prognostication.
This suggestion was made eight years ago in Modern Astrology,
when Saturn entered the first point of the sign Aries, on March 19,
1908, ll11 40m 13" a.m., and a description of the map was then given.
Looking back upon it in the the light of subsequent events, it may
certainly be said to have been not without significance, at any rate
so far as this country is concerned. The map is repeated here in
brief for re-examination by readers; and knowing that the R.A.M.C.
in time (or Sidereal Time) of the event was 23" 26"' 4T at Greenwich,
a map for any other country can easily be calculated from it;—

Saturn entered Aries 19/3/1908

x xi xii i it iii
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Q J S ? J 1/ '? ijl 'I'
*28.29 —14.27 *2.21 «10.33 » 17-24 A 3-45 It- TO.O 1316.27 1B12.5II.

Neptune is rising in Cancer in opposition to Uranus setting,

both of them in square to the Moon in Libra in the fourth house but
in good aspect to Mars and Venus, which are in conjunction in Taurus
in the eleventh. The Sun is in conjunction wuh Saturn in the mid-
heaven, both in trine to Jupiter on the cusp of the second house but
in semi-square to Mars and Venus.
 IN rERNATIONAI- ASTROLOGV 47
One or two events of subsequent occurrence that agree in nature
with the positions in this map may be briefly mentioned.
Death of King Edward : •? lord of viii d © in x, /<? .
Home Rule Controversy : <? d ? in b in xi, Z © b .
Budget Changes: U on cusp ii A b in x, □ ? in xi.
War : ^ on cusp vii □])Z5A<?8'i')b lord of vii / <? .
Two general elections took place in the "same year as the death of
King Edward, 1910, and may be said to be similarly signified by
O d b in x Zif in xi.
Saturn was rising in 82° W longitude, which includes Panama,
Cuba, and the eastern part of Canada and the United States; in the
latter country Uranus culminating in opposition to Neptune in the
fourth house and both in square to the Moon setting showed a good
deal of political change and instability, with foreign troubles.
It was culminating in 8° E longitude, which runs through west
Germany and north Italy, both countries involved in the war, and it
ruled the seventh house here just as at London ; but Jupiter was rising
at Berlin, showing wealth and commercial prosperity.
Saturn was setting in 98° E longitude, which runs through part of
China, where Neptune was in the mid-heaven in opposition to Uranus
in the fourth house and both in square to the Moon rising; and the
revolution that has taken place in China will be remembered.
It was on the nadir in 172° W longitude, which runs through the
Pacific Ocean.
These positions are sufficiently significant, on the whole, to make
the map for Saturn's entry into Aries more remarkable than most
astrologers would probably have expected ; and this raises the question
as to the entry of other planets into Aries, and the possible value of
maps calculated for the times of such entries.
Mars entered Aries 1913
x xi xii i ii iii
VJO.zi VJlS rti3 TO.55 « ry DII
05? t i y 't V W
b 16.55 08.22 T23.32 T27.27II. TO.O W17.50II. D4.47 «7.32 0123.32
EAMC 18/1 xw 31s London
The entry of the more distant planets into Aries occurs so seldom
that they are not very easily available for purposes of comparison and
examination, but Mars completes the circle of the zodiac in about two
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

years, and therefore affords more frequent illustrations. The great

war began in August 1914, and the entry of Mars into Aries imme-
diately preceding this event took place on 8/5/1913 at 3h 0m 10s a.m.
GMT calculated from its apparent position as given in the Spanish
Almctnaque Nautico. Mars is the war planet, and it seems reasonable
to examine a map for its entry into Aries in the light of the outbreak
of the war during the two years cycle that intervenes between two
successive entries.
The positions at London at the moment of entry are given above.
Mars is seen to be rising, and also to be in the very degree that is on
the cusp of the ascendant. This one position is in itself sufficient to
make the map very remarkable, for it speaks strongly of martial
activity and danger of war. Mars is semi-square the Sun on the cusp
of the second house, showing a heavy expenditure. Mercury is in
conjunction with Venus in the ascendant, promising friends and allies
in spite of the warlike danger. Jupiter on the cusp of the eleventh
house is in square to Mercury and in opposition to Neptune and speaks
of the doubtful position of the government in Parliament, which
nevertheless lasted during the succeeding cycle. It is unnecessary to
analyse the map at full length, and these positions are sufficient to
show it to have significance.
Mars was culminating at Calcutta, and it is unnecessary to recall
how India has joined in the war. Jupiter was culminating at Berlin,
a strong position, but rendered less significant by being in its fall in
Capricorn in opposition to Neptune ; while Saturn in conjunction with
the Moon on the cusp of the second house is extremely unfortunate
for money matters. Mars, lord of the seventh house, in the twelfth,
receives very mixed aspects. The whole map shows a great deal of
strength but with some serious drawbacks.
The Moon had just risen in conjunction with Saturn at Petrograd,
and no less than six heavenly bodies were in the twelfth house, a very
unfortunate influence.
Mars entered Aries 1915
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A28.32 rj!30 ^25 111.t2.34 t 12 V5 20
GJ S » J « V n>
T25.46 821.50 T 10.28 K 17.55 To.o X 16.49 1127.34 3:15.11 <027.40
RAMC loh 2»i 47s London
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 49
Mars re-entered Aries 16/+/1915 at 8h 27°' 12* p.m., when the
positions at London were as above. Scorpio was rising and Mars
its ruler was in the fifth house, in square to Saturn, semi-square
Uranus, and trine Neptune.
At Berlin the Moon was just on the cusp of the seventh house,
square Uranus, parallel Saturn.
These two maps are only moderately significant, and the most
important feature of the present ingress lies in the fact that Mars was
on the cusp of the fourth house, opposing the mid-heaven and in square
to Saturn in the region from Petrograd down to Constantinople. This
is the very district in which the war has raged most fiercely and has
undergone new developments during the months that have followed,
by the retreat of Russia and the extension of the strife into the
Balkans.
If we remember that even the strictest astrologers allow an orb of
20 minutes in time in Right Ascension (Sidereal Time) to the upper
and lower meridian (cusps of 10th and 4th houses) we shall see that
the following positions are all significant. They show the distance of
Mars in time from the cusp of the fourth house at each of the places
named.
m s m
Petrograd 4 oE Smyrna 8 49 W
Varna 5 33 W Bucharest, Rumania 13 5 W
Constantinople 1 37 W Cyprus 15 27 E

Mars is closest to the cusp at Constantinople, being less than half

a degree distant in R.A., and is only one degree distant at Petrograd.
Varna is the Bulgarian port in the Black Sea that was bombarded by
the Allied fleets. Smyrna and Cyprus have both figured in events
that have followed.
In addition to these, Mars was within orbs of the cusp of the
fourth house at various towns in Africa, from Cairo in the north
(g" 27' E) to Johannesburg (4m 21' W) and Durban (fi"1 35' E) in the
south. Enlistments or movements of troops have taken place here;
whether anything more definitely warlike will occur during the two
years cycle remains to be seen.
Mars was rising in longitude 1190E which runs near some large
towns in east China.
5° MODERN ASTROLOGY

JUPtTER
Jupiter enters Aries 12/211916
x xi xii ii iii
(l) t 448 ^?3 Wri = 4-34 T 5 H 12
(21 117 W 4 V323 =27 T27 »28
(3) vj 3 =9 T'3 n 1 mg
(4) ntiS iilS III 12 / 2 K) 4 a: n
(5) S5 29 V l 8 7 1113 07 SI 2
(1) I-ondon (2) Berlin (3) Pelrograd (4) New York (5) Calcutta
OJS? <? X h y V
=t22.r4 D 6.55 *8.2 K28.21 4115.11!^ TO.O 010.17^ =16.3 JI0.42R
The fact that maps for the ingresses of Saturn and of Mars into
the first point of Aries are seen to have a decided significance, when
compared with the events that have followed them, makes it probable
that the ingress of Jupiter into Aries will also be worthy of examina-
tion. This event takes place 12/2/1916 at 6h 27m 27' a.m., G. M. T.,
when the R.A.M.C. at London is 1611 ll01 24', and the positions and
cusps are as above ; calculated from the Connaissance des Temps.
Mercury, Uranus and the Sun are rising in Aquarius, in opposition
to Neptune and Mars setting in Leo, both retrograde. These positions
are similar for the district from London to Brussels, and obviously
their influence is extremely unfortunate so far as concerns the question
of War or Peace. If no other pacific influence has intervened before
these notes can appear, such a map as this will be distinctly adverse
to peace. There are indications that the various governments here
will be strong and will work actively to forward the welfare of their
countries, but the chances of agreement with their enemies seem very
remote ; on the contrary hostilities seem likely to increase, and this
map shows no indication of a triumphant and decisive victory, but
rather of prolonged enmity and rivalry, even if a nominal peace is
reached.
Venus and Jupiter in conjunction on the cusp of the second house
is a fortunate augury for money matters; all the money required will
be raised, and our financial relations with foreign countries will be
satisfactory, although Mars ruling the second house speaks of heavy
outlay and increased taxation.
At Berlin the Sun is just above the cusp of the ascendant and Mars
 INTEliNATIONAt. ASTKOI.OGV

just below the descendant. The indications are not very different from
London so far as concerns war and embittered foreign relations ; the
ruling authorities are strong although meeting with much opposition ;
socialism will spread; money matters less satisfactory because Jupiter
and Venus are removed from the second house here. A party will
arise which will aim at a change in the method of government of the
state, and it will exert great influence.
At Petrograd the opposition of the Sun and Uranus to Mars is
from the twelfth to the sixth house; the army will meet with trouble
and many difficulties ; but Jupiter rises in 27° east longitude, which
passes through Russia, the Balkans, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Egypt,
and this will lead to a gradual slackening down of the war and to a
favourable peace. In fact the indications of peace are much more
favourable in the east than in the centre or west of Europe in spite of
the fact that Aries, a martial sign, rises at Petrograd. Events in the
east are likely to settle the question of Peace or War. An epidemic
is threatened in the east of Europe, and the condition of the workers
and of the masses will be very unfortunate; there is danger of some of
the crops failing.
The Moon is setting at New York well aspected and the outlook
is peaceful; but there will be serious accidents by rail, automobile and
aviation as well as loss of life at sea find round the coasts; strikes
and crime in connection with these occupations are threatened, and
yet the condition of the people on the whole will be prosperous,
and the popular and democratic side of the nation strong and
flourishing. The President and government are not under favourable
influences.
The Moon has just risen at Calcutta well aspected ; Venus and
Jupiter are on the cusp of the eleventh house ; the Sun, Uranus and
Mercury are in the ninth. Beneficial reforms in the methods of
governing India are likely to be introduced, and an extension of
popular liberties. New developments in religion will take place and
occult ideas will gain ground although in the face of a good deal of
opposition.
Jupiter culminates in 1170E, eastern China, which country should
benefit greatly politically and by improved government.
Apart from any special country it is worth noticing that when
52 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Jupiter enters Aries it is in conjunction with Venus and in trine to

Neptune. This favours a great increase in religious activity during
the cycle, and especially of the mystical, ceremonial, and psychical
elements in religion ; and it indicates increased attention to the beautiful
and the aesthetic side of life.
In Great Britain and part of Europe great changes will take
place in the methods of governments, although in the face of great
opposition, and even revolutionary violence is to be feared in parts.
Power will become more concentrated and systematised, but popular
liberties will not suffer and will rather be extended.

The Present Month

Eclipse of the Sun 3/2/T6 4.5 p.m. London
X xi xii i ii iii
(1) T14-57 d 24 20 5 .a 6.28 4123 ^115
(2) T29 n 9 2017 4117 nt 4 11127
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=513.31 =517.10 x 17-54 <5122.35 X28.il 2010.45 -15-34 ilo.56
This is a total eclipse of the Sun, partly visible at London, visible
also in the W. of Europe, the'N. Atlantic Ocean, N. and S. America,
and the Pacific Ocean. The luminaries will rise in the Pacific Ocean
and the W. of N. America; culminate in S. America, the W. Indies,
and the E. of N. America; set in Europe from London to Vienna;
and be on the nadir in China, the E. Indies, and W. Australia.
At London Neptune will have just risen in trine to Jupiter in the
ninth house; the two luminaries, Uranus and Mercury will be in the
seventh house or near its cusp from London to Vienna ; and they will
be near the opposition of Mars, which is on the cusp of the second
house at London and Paris, and in the ascendant at Berlin and Vienna;
the planets in the seventh house receive no good aspects. This forbids
anything like harmony in international relations, it intensifies discord
and is a serious obstacle in the way of peace and reconciliation. No
government in Europe will be very strong or prosperous, but all will
be more or less hampered and obstructed by heavy difficulties. This
unfortunate and disruptive international influence will be felt
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 53
especially shortly before and after the middle of February 'when the
Sun and Uranus will be in opposition to Mars. Expenditure will be
very heavy among all European nations and money matters will not
prosper anywhere. Oversea trade and traffic, however, may increase
for a time under the two benefics in the ninth house for London and
Paris, and foreign loans or loans to allies may proceed favourably.
Religious movements will be strengthened and sailors and the fleet
receive honour and success ; but peace movements are not favoured
by these positions. Cases of spying, treason, and treachery will be
discovered. Aviation will be active but will meet with many disasters.
The beginning of Virgo will rise at Petrograd and none of the
planets will be angular, so that the positions are not so important
there; but Mars heavily afflicted in the twelfth house shows treachery,
treason and crime against the state in East Europe generally, and
trouble and discontent amongst the armies of the various nations.
The eclipse is in the mid-heaven at New York and it will bring
misfortune to the president and government.
An eclipse in Aquarius disturbs parliaments and governing bodies,
and leads to changes and reforms ; this one will tend to concentrate
power in the hand of a few strong men. The eclipse in Aquarius of
February 1914 was followed by the formation of the Coalition
Government. The present eclipse is evil for Russia, Prussia and
other places under Aquarius.
The eclipse falls as under in various horoscopes.
King George a© King of Norway SOU
Queen Mary <p <f German Empbror dQS ^
Queen Aiexandra <p 5 Pres. Poincare S 9V
King of Italy d cusp 7lh Gen. Joffrb d 9
King of Belgium ^ iji D. Lloyd George <p g
H. S. Green-

The strong in spiritual action need not look

Upon ihe new-found year as on a scroll,
The which their hands lack cunning to unroll,
But in it read, as in an open book,
All they are seeking.
R. C. Trench.
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Horoscope No. 11x798 : 29/5/44. ^P"'-, London

Whenever space will allow during the present year we shall

publish the horoscopes of interesting and instructive cases for the
benefit of students. In no case will horoscopes be published where
the birth time is not known, and in all cases the data will be clearly
stated. Where the birth-time is given to the nearest hour or half hour,
or has not been rectified from an approximate time, students are
advised to make a rectification from the dates of events that will be
given.
 ASTROLOGY AND HUMAN NATURE 55
The information given will be that supplied by the native
personally, or from some authentic source well known to the contributor
of the article.

Horoscope No. 11x798

This is the horoscope of a lady who in her youth had a somewhat
romantic career. She was the second daughter in a large family of very
tall brothers, men of remarkable physical strength and all of them
somewhat notorious in their small sphere. The eldest was a tall and
very broad chested man, with black curly hair and a full beard. He
had a strong deep voice and a very attractive appearance. He was a
tailor's cutter in London, earning much money in his younger days,
being an efficient workman, but given to drink and a very violent man
with evil tendencies. '? in 3rd dli in t'l in 12th.
The second brother was in the Coldstream Guards, and was a
clever musician but had a very peculiar temperament, which he
attributed to the effect of climate, as the result of many years in India.
He was an agnostic; •? in" ~ in 3rd house trine O and W ; (her
favourite brother).
The third brother was a stone mason, of great strength, and very
clever in his work (carving stone figures on churches, etc.); but he
was a drunkard and so violent when intoxicated that it took four
policemen to take him into custody, and then only when a sack could
be got over his head and shoulders; '? in 3rd sextile $.
The fourth brother disappeared from his home when young and
swore he would never return. He is supposed to have gone to sea and
was probably drowned, or so the family believed ; at all events he was
never seen again at home after his disappearance. The elder sister
was eccentric, and of very violent temper ; in 3rd probably.
The position of the planets Saturn and Neptune in the third
house, the house of brethren is a scientific confirmation of the above
facts, from an astrological standpoint.
She survived every member of her family although they lived to
a good age ; note the Moon square Saturn, '? strongly placed.
The native was a fine, tall woman of commanding appearance ;
56 MODEKN ASTROLOGY

she had striking grey eyes, very piercing and fascinating, and a
luxuriant growth of dark hair. When young she was very prepossessing,
but became somewhat less so as she grew older; she had somewhat
projecting front teeth, emphasising the upper jaw and giving the face
a very masculine look : <? ruler in n .
Her parents were poor but very respectable. Her mother had
been a general servant in a superior position, (1% on MC Sin n) and her
father was a tailor in a small way of business : if in 4th □ <? A 9 .
She was singularly gifted in learning quickly, and through her
ingenuity, tact and shrewdness was enabled to find means to finish her
education at Queen's College, London. Later she obtained a position
as saleswoman at Jay's in Regent Street, and this helped to raise her
parents into a better position, also to gain her some influence socially,
as it led to her making many valuable friends. She had many suitors
and gained a reputation as a " mental flirt " ; S ruler in a .
She had several good ofTers of marriage and could have made a
favourable marriage from a financial standpoint, but was always
undecided between two lovers as to which she would choose.
Eventually she married a man in an indifferent position. In person
he was short, very consequential and somewhat vain, and of a violent
temper when roused.
Her marriage was a surprise to all her friends and through it her
social life received a severe check. At the time of her marriage the
husband was in a fair way of business as a tobacconist at a seaside
town. Soon after the marriage, however, he exhibited love of gaiety,
drank, ran into debt, and rapidly lost his business.
He was given another start through the aid of his wife's friends,
and opened a hosier's shop at another seaside town ; but again his love
of pleasure, and his gambling tendencies brought failure in their train.
A third start was given him, and he became the proprietor of an hotel
at a favourite seaside town. This time his relations, who were concerned
in the Whitstable oyster fisheries, helped him; but again he ran through
all his money, fell into his old bad habits and lost his hotel through
accumulated debts.
His vanity enabled him to keep up a fairly respectable appearance,
but after the collapse of his hotel life he practically became a loafer,
and his wife had to keep him. There being no children his svife was
 ASTROLOGY AND HUMAN NATURE 57
free from domestic ties, and able to use her native wit and ability in
keeping up a respectable establishment, and eventually she was
assisted to take a large boarding house in an inland spa, and by this
means contrived to provide well for herself and husband. Note
Jupiter in the fourth house.
Her husband is described by Venus in the sign Cancer. This
planet was in close parallel with the planet Mars, showing the
affection they had for each other, which kept them together through
all their misfortunes.
The native had a great belief in her star, and declared that the
astrological aid she had received for over twenty years had saved her
from the worst.
She was a remarkably brave woman and fought against circum-
stances with a determination moic common to men than women; but
she was very manlike and eager to see how far she could cope with
her difficulties. She went through some very severe surgical operations,
in one of them undergoing removal of the whole of the womb:
JO •? from ni and 12th house.
Apart from these operations she was a remarkably healthy woman,
and except for very painful periodical changes had had practically
no illnesses during her life ; Q A b , ? A .
Her father lived to an advanced age; although he had several
hundred pounds, sufficient to keep him in comfortable circumstances
until his death, his son-in-law succeeded in inveigling it all out of
him, and he was allowed to die in the workhouse. Note the square
aspect of Mars the native's ruler to Jupiter, ruler of the fourth house.
The native's life, although she was in fairly comfortable circum-
stances, was brought to a painful close by her death of cancer, in the
secret parts, on the seventh of June 1915, she being then in her 72nd
year. She had previously written to Modern Astrology Office
stating that her end was shown for the year 1915.
Her husband died six months later, 18/11/T5: he was born
23/ll/'44, 4 a.m., 51.21N, 1.3w.'

1
The horoscope is as follows: x rflo, xi 11^5, xii ^2, i ^23. ii nug, iii f zz ;
O / I, ]) « IT, 5 / 5^. ? A20A, ^ ^23, 1L X2\5i1, 1# T2^, yzziiuf.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Contributor's Comments
The time of birth is given as 6 p.m. and the mother thought it
must be very near that hour : the birthplace was London. The sign
Scorpio appears to have been the rising sign in any case. The native
had steely gray eyes, strong features and a very authoritative manner,
though not over aggressive; she was the possessor of a musical and
almost seductive voice,.and gave those who saw her the impression
that she was some one of importance.
The 18th degree of Scorpio seems to fit the native, according to
Charubel's description in the Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised: "A
man holding a pair of scales in one hand, and a sword in the other; a
just person, but prone to become too severe." That given by
Sepharial at the end of the book is also very appropriate.
Her mother, an extremely dignified woman, is well described by
Mercury in Gemini in parallel with Saturn; and her death from a
malignant disease (cancer) is explained by Uranus on the cusp of the
■fifth, or the mother's eighth house (counting from the midheaven as the
ascendant f*i the mother).
Her father was a tall thin man, a master tailor by trade, but
unlike his sons he was temperate, though somewhat narrow in his
religious views, (<? □ 4) and fairly fortunate through life.
The native had no children although she desired them ; the square
aspect of Jupiter with Mars, ruler of the fifth house, apparently denied
them. The position of Jupiter in the fourth brought her much goo.l
fortune or " luck" in her boarding house, and also many profitable
friends.
The description of Mars in the sign Gemini as given in How to
Judge a Nativity is remarkably applicable to her, with some slight
exceptions which seem to suggest that a blending of the following
paragraph in that book under the heading ' Mars in Cancer' would
better fit the case. Mars being so near the end of the sign Gemini
would probably account for this.

Captain David Graham Pole, whose horoscope was published in the

December 1912 issue page 506 has joined the British army and is now at the
front somewhere in .
 59

^.n i)rcult Uieto of tljc Mar

An address delivered by the Hon. Edward Dray ton at the

Brotherhood Patriotic Meeting at Bridgetown, Barbados1

Your Excellency and Gentlemen, Brothers of the Bridgetown

Brotherhood;
My subject is the great war now being waged in Europe,
Asia, and Africa, in which our beloved Motherland, supported by her
children and allies, stands with shield upraised and sword drawn in
defence of all that is righteous and honourable in the relations between
the nations of the Earth. I shall speak to you about it from the
standpoint of a student of Occult Science, and shall place before you
some of the knowledge I have acquired and conclusions which I have
arrived at in regard to the war from my pursuit of such studies,
covering a large portion of my life. I shall confine myself to certain
of the physical aspects of the war, and shall endeavour to indicate to
you the reason why it is an unavoidable necessity at the present time,
and also to see whether we can discern by looking beyond its ghastly
vapours and murky clouds any solid benefits as likely to accrue to
humanity from it.
Now the first important fact that emerges from the racket and
turmoil, when viewed by an occultist, is that war, in general far from
being an unmixed evil, is a necessary factor in the evolution of the
world and its peoples, and one which only disappears when they have
outgrown the need for that particular form of development. In
presence of the awful bloodshed and the widespread suffering caused
1
This article, apart from its intrinsic value, will have a special interest for oui
readers from the fact that ihe author is and has been for many years a student of
Astrology and a regular reader of this magazine. An astrological story written by
him under the fiom-de-plume of Edward Elwar, entitled " As a Brand from the
Burning," and dealing with the terrible volcanic eruption at Martinique in 1902,
was published in the Astrologer's Annual for 1907.
The Hon. Edward Dray ton has been Colonial Secretary of Grenada since 1892
and was appointed Governor of Grenada in the early days of the war, from which
position however he has since been forced to retire owing to impaired health, to
the very great regret of his fellow townsmen.
6o MODEUN ASTROLOGY

by war we are apt to lose sight of this fact, but a little careful thought
will show that it must be so or else there would be, and would have
been, no wars at all. God's Great Plan for the world and for ourselves
is unquestionable progress by Evolution from the lowest to the highest
stages, and the means adopted to secure that result, the machinery by
which the rough blocks of stone are trimmed and squared until fitted
to take their place in the Divine Edifice, are in active operation around
us all the time. Little as we may sense it, all the various agencies,
seen and unseen, trivial as well as important, at work around us day
by day are co-operating to the same end, are put in our way by the All-
Wise as the fulcrum on which we may place our lever, as the means
by which we may eventually attain that "far off' divine event" which
the poet dimly sensed. And one of the greatest of these agencies, a
very potent one under present world conditions, is the warring of the
nations. Look back far as we may into the night of history and what
do we find ? War, ever recurring, ever present. One talks glibly
about war being a disgrace to civilisation until one realises that all the
grand civilisations of antiquity have equally suffered from that disgrace.
Mighty Babylon in the days of her greatest splendour was not
exempt from war, and no more was the hoary civilisation of Egypt.
Greece, in all the magnificence of her arts and beauty, fought
continuously, and grew by fighting. Imperial Rome, mistress of the
world as she knew it, rose to the apex of her greatness on the swords
of her warriors, and we still bow the head in recognition of those
mighty men of war, Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar.
The careful student of history, "looking back and reviewing the
story of mankind as far as that story is generally known is forced to
admit—however reluctantly—that without the wars that have taken
place, horrible as they have been, the world would not have made the
progress that it has ; and that but for warfare mankind would not now
stand where it does in knowledge and in power. Where would be the
science and learning of Europe if the Moors had not conquered Spain ?
Where would the strength and grandeur of Great Britain be if the
Normans had not invaded England ? And how would her great
Empire have grown to its present status if the struggle of the
Napoleonic Wars had not made her Mistress of the Seas ? And
what freed America from the curse of slavery ?
 AN OCCULT VIEW OF THE WAR 6l

No—War is a factor and a necessary factor in the evolution of

the world until that world, and man with it, reaches a higher point in
its progress ; until man has learned the lesson taught by the Great
Master—"that ye love one another." Until that lesson is fully
learned, whenever certain critical periods, or certain stagnation points
arrive in the history of the world, war is the solvent applied by Those
whose duty it is to carry out the Will of the Father ; and after a period
of Lcrror and agony those parts of the world which have been delinquent
cr which need the lesson emerge from the furnace in which they have
been tried, better and stronger for their sufferings.
The occurrence of wars is therefore one of the great facts in
Nature with which man is confronted at certain critical periods of the
world's evolution, and it is well known by occultists that one of those
periods of crisis has now been reached. Nothing in God's Universe
happens by chance. Progress and apparent recess (for retrogression
is only due to the apparent backward sweep of the spiral of progress}'
are under the operation of fixed and immutable Law, for with Him
" there is no variableness neither shadow of changing."
Hence it is that, according to one method of foreseeing, those
trained to the requisite degree of knowledge can at times forecast the
future by calculating the beginning and ending of cycles of time, for
old Father Time works in definite cycles calculable by those who
possess the key. Such an " Age " or Cycle has just ended, and man-
kind is now on the threshold of a New Age of the world's experience.
In this New Age sweeping changes will take place in the manner and
methods of the world's thought and action, to some of which I shall
refer briefly later on, but the two prominent features of the fairly
immediate future to which I desire just now to direct your attention are
firstly the coming of a great Teacher, to shed the light of His Divine
Wisdom upon the present chaotic conditions and to lead us into the
proper way of dealing with them and of constructing a new polity of
life; and secondly the establishment of a great World-Empire, which
shall synthesise in its government and management all that is best at
the present stage for the development of man's future powers.
4
[The speaker would appear to have had in his mind the natural analogy of
the apparent relrogradation of the planets, on which the experience of astrologers
has based so many of the maxims of horary and natal astrology ]
63 MODERN ASTKOLOGY

For both of these supremely important events, which are fairly

near at hand, this war provides the necessary and inevitable prologue ;
and one has to know this to be able to look with confidence behind its
dark and gloomy clouds and see the silver lining. In the case of the
coming of the Great Teacher it is necessary because "stormsclear the
air." The world is so steeped in materialism, so absorbed in the lust
of money-getting, so prostrate in the worship of that false god, the
Almighty Dollar, that nothing short of the human cataclysm which
has now fallen upon it could make it ready to " listen to the voice of
the Charmer, charm he never so wisely." From the terrible conflict
now in progress mankind will arise sadder and wiser, and there will
then be some chance of the words of the Great One being listened to
with respect and of the Divine Love which radiates from Him
reaching the stubborn hearts of those who now interpose a material
barrier to its rays.
In the case of the future World-Empire this is equally necessary
and unavoidable because there are two mighty candidates for that
great position, none other than Great Britain and Germany ; and the
latter would admit of no other arbitrament than that of the sword.
Left to itself, Great Britain's Empire, already far advanced in the
making, would no doubt in time have consolidated,—although I doubt
whether such a consolidation would have been upon the lines of close
fraternity which will be the result of the present struggle;—but
Germany, who is not prepared to yield her the place, has for many-
years been preparing to contest it with her, and is now doing so,
however much her mendacious statesmen may try to give other causes
for the War.
But this Great Empire of the future is not a toy or a bauble to be
grasped by any bullying nation simply because it covets the position
and would grab at it. It will represent what I may term the
administrative efflorescence of that which occultists call the Fiflh
Race of mankind, our present principal Race, (the Fourth Race was
the Atlantean); and Those Mighty Ones who are responsible for the
execution of God's Will in regard to the evolution of the earth and its
people will, we may be well assured, take good care that such an
Empire shall be one that will wield the world-sceptre for good, and not
for evil purposes—for the advancement of mankind, not for its
 AN OCCULT VIEW OF THE WAR

retardation. Hence we can form a fairly correct judgment as to

which of the conflicting Powers is likely to win in the struggle, for we
have before us in their past history the actions of both nations on which
to base our ideas, and I will institute a brief comparison of them.
Great Britain, whatever may be her faults, and none of us is
faultless, has ever set before her the ideal of Freedom. Freedom of
the individual citizen, freedom of the individual community, or
dominion. Under no other flag which waves in the breeze is man so
free as under the British. So free is the British citizen that an
occasional application of the curb rein would probably do some of them
good by way of contrast. Not only is her government in the Mother
Country "broad based upon the people's will," but she has invariably,
so soon as her children, her colonies, have become fitted for it, given
them the same power of self-government; and in India, where for long
the methods of autocracy have had their sway, the irresistible march
towards the same form of government proceeds until the goal shall be
reached.' Her treatment of conquered and lower races has ever been
kindly and magnanimous, their religions and such of their customs as
are innocuous are ever preserved intact by her, and she always
endeavours to educate them into better conditions. Her Empire in
fact embraces the great under-lying of Brotherhood, and may be
described, even at present, as the embryo of a Great Brotherhood of
Nations, joined together for the common weal.
These characteristics of her present rule, that is to say individual
freedom and activity combined with brotherly co-operation for purposes
common to all, will be prominent features of the new civilisation, of
which the coming World-Empire will be both nurse and guardian; so
that Great Britain and her Dominions may be said to be qualifying
themselves admirably as the successful candidate for that proud
position.
Now let us contrast with her the other candidate, Germany, and
see what are her qualifications for the post. Where is the freedom of
the individual citizen, and where that of the individual community ?
They are non-existent. There is no freedom in Germany. No citizen

8
[See India ar.d iht Empire, and How India loros.'ght/oy Fradorn, by Mrs. Annie
Besant; (T.P.S., ti. and 5s,).]
6 MODEUN ASTROLOGY
4
can possess his soul in freedom where her black flaR waves. The
State is supreme, and before its mighty chariot, as under the wheels of
the car of Juggernaut,each individual must bow himself and if necessary
be crushed. What is her religion ? The Germans, or some of them,
call themselves Christians, but the German God is emphatically not
the loving All-Father, but the God of War, worshipped in other times
and under other skies as Moloch, the devourer of children, the slayer
of women ! He is the God of the Berserker, to whom slaughter was
as the breath of his nostrils. Where is the undergrowth of brotherly love
and co-operation which are essential to future human progress ? There
is none. Nothing is recognised in the German (or rather Prussian)
polity but the strength of the strong man prevailing over the weak.
Does any little State bar the way to her greedy rush for power ?
Sweep it away, tear up the useless parchment upon which fair
promises of protection were recorded, and overwhelm it and its people
in blood and fire! Where is the protection of conquered and lower
races that come under her sway ? The Recording Angel must cover
his eyes in shame and sorrow, for neither pity nor mercy has in the
past been shown by Germany to these unhappy ones. Let me tell
you the tale of the Hereros, a black African nation who were so
unfortunate as to come under the Teutonic flag in S.W. Africa. They
gave their conquerors some trouble—as is only likely you would
probably give trouble yourself if your land were taken from you
forcibly—and this is what happened to them. I quote from the Titties.
" Herr Schlettwein, one of the German Government experts who
was recently called in to instruct the members of the Reichstag on the
principles of colonisation, expressed himself in the following terms :
The Hereros must be compelled to work, and to work without
compensation, and in return for their food only. Forced labour for
years is only a just punishment and at the same time the best method
of training them. The feelings of Christianity and philanthropy, with
which the missionaries work, must for the present be repudiated with
all energy.' "
But General von Trotha in the same year (1904) repudiated them
with so much energy as to leave practically no Hereros at all! In a
proclamation issued on 2nd October he declared that:
" 'The Herero people must now leave the land. If it refuses, I
 AN OCCULT VIEW OF THE WAK

shall compel it with the gun. Within the German frontier every
Herero, with or without weapon, with or without cattle, will be shot.
I shall take charge of no more women and children, but shall drive
them back to their people, or let them be shot at.' "
" Accordingly many thousands were slain, and thousands more
driven into a waterless desert, where they perished of hunger and
thirst. They are described by Mr. Dawson as an intelligent, vigorous,
and industrious tribe, alert, quick to learn, and adaptable."
You may take it then that the qualifications which Germany
exhibits for World-Empire are enslavement of the individual, both
citizens and communities, supreme control by an autocracy, who
dominate the State, conquest of weaker peoples and races, and their
subsequent oppression, and, if need be, their wholesale obliteration by
slaughter. And it follows that if by any sad mischance she were to
fulfil her ambition and assume the world sceptre, the world would
relapse into a state of barbarism and its evolution be retarded for
centuries. No, let each of us throw his little quota into the scale, and
let those of us to whom it is not given to join in the present struggle
with weapons earnestly pray with all our hearts and will with all our
might that the cause of Right and Justice may triumph over the
barbarians who stand against it in battle array.
For this is the great principle now being fought for, Right against
Might.
Is that which has been well described by a great writer and thinker
as " the idol of Force, the negation of law, of freedom, of justice and
of peace " to triumph, or is the British ideal, which " sets justice for
the strong and weak alike as the safety of both " to arise in strength
from the titanic struggle ? With every fibre of my being I claim the
victory for the Anglo-Saxon ideal and I doubt not that you will one
and all follow me in that claim with all your hearts.
(To be concluded)

A correspondent who is anxious to purchase volumes or copies of

Modern Astrology for iqio to 1913 inclusive, suggests that we should open
a " Sale and Exchange " column on somewhat similar lines to those found in
many popular periodicals.
What do our readers think of the idea ? And will those who are
interested kindly let us have a card to say so ?
 ^.strologg anb Social Heform

By The Editor

IV.—COMPLEMENTS
THE more earnest students of Astrology are inclined to look at
life from the abstract, as well as from the concrete point of view.
We are all prone to look ahead and trace a sequence of events from
each beginning. We not only feel intensely the influences moving
through the world, but also hear the sounding of a new chord of life,
tuning aright the souls of those who are to be the builders in a new era.
The old notes are dying away in the distance, and new ones are dimly
heard calling all who can respond, to enter the ranks of those who are
to lead the Coming Age. The old note struck the chord of a moral
code in a conventional mould. We did right because we ware told
what was right, and that such action would lead to better results ; but
the suasion or compulsion came upon us from without. We knew
that the best social life was a moral one, and while struggling hard to
obey a higher law than the natural law, which bound us to our senses,
our minds were still entangled with the desires of the flesh. We were
faithful to our loves because the law made us so. We tried to follow
truth, but it required courage and strength to battle with our animal
senses. It was a struggle between the moral standard and our desire-
nature, and convention held us from doing that which we would do,
but society said we should not do. We sacrificed ourselves with pain
and suffering, believing in the idea of right, according to the teachings
of others.
The new right that we shall see will be right/or right's sake only,
because we shall know within ourselves that there is a far greater joy
in sacrifice than we had hitherto believed.
In the past, the human has struggled against the animal nature,
in the future the spiritual life in us will unfold, and we shall know the
joy of living a wider and a bigger life, in the lives of others.
The new age will take us out of the complex into a simpler life.
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We shall see and know the complexities for what they are, and
understand their values, in a manner that we could not do while still
bound up with them. Our studies will show us the beauties of
diversity, and help us to a deeper knowledge of the unity underlying
the multiplicity of forms. Having realised this, we shall seek and
find our complements, those who supply the deficiencies in ourselves.
We shall no longer marry for the mere gratification of our senses or
for the enlarging of the personal life, but, with a wider individualism,
we shall cease to live in the past or wholly in the present, but in the
future of the race. Marriages will no longer be wholly physical, they
will be less mental and more spiritual. A fuller and a richer love will
absorb the personal interests, and individually we shall live for the
benefit of the whole race.
Idealistic ? Yes, but inevitable, since it is the destiny that is
mapped out for us astrologically, or by the law of evolution.
Marriage is a completion of the individual, the uniting of two
opposite, or complementary natures. In marriage there are more
opportunities for unselfish love than in any other union, for it is the
beginning of that perfect friendship of which it has been said, " Greater
love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend."
Every student of natal astrology deals with three love houses when
studying a nativity. The third house, of the nature of Gemini,
signifying relatives, brothers and sisters, and kindred generally. The
symbol is a dual one—The Twins. It symbolises myself and another,
you and I, two individuals, twins. This is the beginning of the airy
triplicity of zodiacal signs. Gemini is a mutable sign, signifying a
mental state, springing from a physical basis, being the third sign from
the first. It is closely related with the separation of the sexes, and
the ofispring. It is a very conventional sign connected with blood-
ties—brethren,—and is diffusive and separative. In this sign the
onesidedness of Aries, the first sign, has become many. The seventh
house of each nativity, of the nature of Libra—The Balance—is the
marriage house and sign. This sign teaches us as clearly as it is
possible, by its symbology, that marriage is equality. If there is any
doubt in the minds of those who do not believe in the equality of the
sexes, they should study this side of Astrology. Libra is not only
the complementary sign of Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, but it is
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the complementary sign of the other eleven signs, and as Aries is the
first sign of the animal-man—Adam, so Libra is the first sign of the
human woman—Eve.
In the new or Esoteric Astrology, which the coming woman will
understand, it will be realised that the turning point of evolution
lies concealed in the airy triplicity of zodiacal signs.
Contrast the influence of Mars as an unregenerate influence with
Venus as the planet of love and beauty, and they will be found to be
complementary influences.
The battleground on which the final struggle between the God in
man and the animal in him, will be fought out, as already said, is
the sign Scorpio, and it must be the divine Eve or the intuition of a
woman, that shall lead man, through his purified senses, to become a God.
The eleventh house of a nativity, the sign Aquarius, is the Crown.
It symbolises the ideal and complete unity of what the sexes represent
—perfect friendship. In this sign is the fulfilment of the Christ's
saying, " Love your neighbour as yourself." Why ? Because he
is yourself! In Gemini, the first of the airy signs, we find all the
elements of physical marriage. In Libra mental marriage, the bringing
together of opposites, positive and negative, male and female, or
complements. In Aquarius we have the divine, or spiritual, marriage.
Aquarius is the sign responsible for platonic unions or the
yearning for an ideal love life, which is either fulfilled in a great
sacrifice, when all selfishness has been crushed out of the nature, or
transmuted; or where extremes have met for the realisation of an
opposite containing the possibility of a complement; or where
friendship between the sexes is preferred to an ordinary union for
procreation.
In Gemini we find the beginning of the unity, in Libra the
balancing of diverse forces, and in Aquarius the unification of the
Self with all other selves.
This trinity of influences runs through the whole of the zodiac.
We have seen its influence in the earthy or physical signs, in the form
of a woman, also of a man—Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. In the
watery signs, in the soul of a woman, also of a man—Cancer, Scorpio,
Pisces. In the airy signs as the signs of union of male and female,—
Gemini, Libra, Aquarius.
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What of the fiery signs ? These are the purely masculine signs.
The extremes, complexities and diversities of the watery and airy
signs may be hard and difficult to amalgamate, but who shall bring
the key that will unlock the mysteries of the fiery signs ? In these
signs we see the force, arrogance and selfishness of man, whose
physical strength and abundant vitality have given him command and
rule over the physical world. How can he be subdued and
transformed ?
This is the riddle for the coming woman to solve. She will
never master him by force, but can only conquer him by love and her
wonderful inspiration and intuition. A man sees the world externally ;
he is polarised toward the material side of action ; a woman sees the
world internally, she is polarised toward the spiritual side of action.
Follow the fiery signs round the zodiac and see how they are
succeeded by an earthy sign, Aries—Taurus ; Leo—Virgo; Sagit-
tarius—Capricorn. They are the essentially male and female signs,
the extremes of the masculine and feminine elements. Aries is
subdued by Taurus. Ask any Aries man as to his ideal of a perfect
woman, and he will tell you her beauty and her form. The passion of
Aries and the beauty of Taurus mingle in an ideal physical union,
from which is born Gemini. Ask any Leo man as to his ideal of a
perfect woman, and he will answer, her purity of soul and intuition.
The strength of the Lion is satisfied in the protection of Virgo. Leo
and Virgo are the signs of the Sphinx; the animal controlled by the
human. The child of Leo and Virgo is the sign Libra—balance.
Ask any Sagittarian man his ideal of a perfect woman, and he will
answer service and sacrifice. The aspiration and the philosophy of
Sagittarius find their complement in Service. The offspring of the
twain is Aquarius.
We must begin our social reconstruction on astrological lines, by
proving to the world that marriage is not a question of physical
attraction only, but a law by which two halves of one whole are
brought together.
Much as the question has been derided there is such a thing
as sex affinity, which harmonises physically, mentally and spiritu-
ally, and if our studies have been worth anything at all to us we
should use the knowledge we have gained in helping others to acquire
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that knowledge, not superficially as has hitherto been the ca.se, but
thoroughly.
It is NOT SUFFICIENT to say that the birth month influences are a
guide to successful unions. We" must be more practical and convince
others that the horoscopes must be compared in detail and have
elements of agreement in each.
This brings into prominence our first requisite in the work we
have to do in the reconstruction of society. We must each do our
utmost in insisting upon the actual time of birth being recorded on the
birth certificates in England, as it is on the Continent and in Scotland.
Every astrological student should take steps to see that this necessary
work is done for the future benefit of the race, and this is a thing that
all can do by writing to their parliamentary representative, and at
once begin practically to effect a change.
The next thing all readers of this magazine can do is to write their
views on the subject, and send them to this magazine, either in the
form of Letters to the Editor, or as articles, and if sufficient interest
is shown in the subject, it will be continued in these pages by the
present writer under the above beading.
What has already been said is only an introduction to the
subject with a view to awakening interest on all sides, and the time
has now arrived when we must express our views openly, and bring
them before others. The fundamental laws of Astrology will not be
shaken by a diversity of opinion, no matter how opposite our views
may be on the subject, but what is wanted now, more than at any
other time, is more than a passing interest, it is the desire to help the
world to THINK, and if advisable, ACT astrologically.

" That is the meaning of Devotion—that is the inner life of those who
love, who recognise that life is only meant for service, who recognise that the
only thing that makes life worthy is that it shall be burnt in the fire of
Devotion, in order that the world may be lighted and may be warmed,"
Devotion and the Spiritual Life.
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Jbtrologg for Brguitura

{Continued from page 35)

We considered last month the value of the'Sun when in each of the three
zodiacal signs, Aries, Taurus and Gemini, and now we shall consider his
passage through the next three signs, Cancer, Leo and Virgo. From the
time the Sun leaves Gemini, he alters the direction of his course and begins
to turn Southwards, while during the preceding six months he bad been
journeying Northwards.
He enters the sign Cancer, the Crab, about the 21st of June, and people
born during the month in which the Sun is travelling through this sign are
" clannish " and fond of their home, even as the Crab is of his house, which
be carries with him ; so the Cancer people believe in their people and their
Motherland, and yet are such ideal home-makers, that they make the best
and most successful colonisers wherever they happen to settle. Their " grip "
and tenacity equal that of the Crab, and along mental lines endow them with
an excellent and accurate memory. The sign Cancer (ffi) signifies two leaves
of the lotus, a plant noted for its wonderful powers of reproduction, and this
symbol has probably been adopted because the sign Cancer is so prolific. It
is called the " mother " sign, and in the physical body governs the breasts and
stomach. Great sensitiveness, often showing itself as " moods," is a marked
feature of those who come under the influence of Cancer, and their smile is
the most beautiful in the world, benevolent and all-comprehending as a
mother.
About July 21st the Sun leaves the sign Cancer and enters Leo, the
Lion (SU, and it is through this sign Leo, as a medium, that the Sun expresses
himself most truly.
The Sun gives life and colour to our Solar System, and we notice that
those born while the Sun is passing through Leo have immense vitality, like
vivid colouring, are magnanimous and generous and love to succour those
who suffer or are in any way afflicted; and as Leo rules the heart, his
children feel deeply and acutely, suffering by their affections and making
faithful lovers and friends. As we considered Cancer the ideal " mother "
sign, so might we regard Leo as the great protective " father " sigu.
A Leo Sun person makes a good organiser and worker, capable of
running large concerns but disregarding details. He is truthful, honourable
and honest, but looking at life in a large, grand way, bis words often take on an
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appearance of exaggeration, and are, for this reason, sometimes discredited
by bis friends.
The fulness of life everywhere observable in Nature during this Leo
month is abundantly reflected in the Leo children.
Leaving Leo about August 21st, the Sun enters the sign Virgo, the
Maiden (itg). This is the month of the " Mother Mary," and an almost
Madonna-like purity is a marked feature of many Sun in Virgo people. A
craving for the realisation of perfection causes them quickly to observe flaws
and faults, and their power of analysis and criticism cannot be excelled by
any other sign, but this critical faculty resolves into discrimination by
experience. In the physical body the sign governs the smaller intestines,
whose duty it is to analyse and reject.
All Sun in Virgo people have a liking for books and learning generally,
and express themselves well and easily, thus readily qualifying as secretaries
etc., and able quickly to carry out the conceptions of other minds.
They love chastity and hygiene, but their desire for perfection, when
carried to excess, tends to make them shrewd and over particular, and their
sensitiveness to make tbem intolerant of all that is unclean and unwholesome.
Secretary of the Lessons Department.

(To be continued, next month.)

"The New Aoe."—The Christmas number of this young people's

Quarterly Magazine is delightful. Fairy stories that make one feel the
reality of fairies and illustrated just as one would dream tbey should be, one
of Schiller's stories told with simplicity and beauty, an article by Mrs.
Besant on Courage, and a Nature Talk by W. C. Worsdell reminding one
that the winter rest of Nature is " the exact counterpart of the human rest
in the Heaven life between two incarnations, for in that state bis past
experiences are worked up into fresh material for the new birth of the next
incarnation," and these, to mention only a few of the good things contained
in this Christmas number !
One must not however omit the auuouncemeut of two competitions for
stories and essays, for the most excellent of which prizes are promised, and
as these need not be sent in until March 31st, ample time is thus being
allowed for all who wish to participate. Parents and other adults would do
well to subscribe for this Magazine to be sent to any young people in whose
best welfare they are deeply interested. Single copies may be obtained at
id., the post-free subscription being 2$. 6d. per annum, of the Editors,
19, Tavistock Square, London, W.C.
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MARCH, 1916.

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PERSONAL PREDICTIONS.

Many students of Astrology while experiencing the truth of their

judgments of astrological tendencies in a general way have also
discovered cases where some of their deductions have not received a
literal fulfilment in the actual event.
A peculiar case of this hind is well known in the office of this
magazine. Many years ago one of our staff was greatly concerned
about the indications of a death which he and others had foreseen in
his horoscope. The tendencies pointed very clearly to a death taking
place within a certain period. The afflictions were very severe, and
the question arose as to whose death they denoted. After much study
the native came to the conclusion that it was his wife who was
threatened, and being a very sympathetic man fond of his wife and
family it troubled him very much.
When the time arrived for the event to happen it was his own
death which took place, quite suddenly, from appendicitis, and not
that of his wife ; he was well, ill, and dead within a week !
It is a common practice amongst fairly advanced students to seek
an outside and unbiased judgment, and this is wise, for it is quite
easy to mistake the particular angle of a nativity which is the most
sensitive and most likely to denote the event. In cases like the above
a seventh house influence may easily be judged when it is the first
house which by sympathy is chiefly afflicted, the angles being intimately
related by sympathetic vibration the one with the other.
jk
* ' v
Precise judgment with regard to astrological tendencies, and the
direction in which they will eventuate, requires much practice and
experience. Sometimes a very definite happening is foreseen and at
other times the student sees possibilities clouded by uncertainties or
contradictory indications. Occasionally it happens that a definite
event is clearly foreseen which it is known will cause great pain and
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suffering to the native if disclosed. What, then, is the student to do
in such a case ?
We once had experience of this kind where we were able to see
that it would be unwise to disclose particulars; unfortunately we can-
not give the birth data until permission is obtained, but sufficient may
be said to help students by relating the facts.
A lady born with Saturn conjunction Mercury in the fifth house
was troubled with a very discontented nature owing to Mars, which
was in the sign Virgo on the cusp of the third house, being also in
square with this conjunction of Mercury and Saturn. She had derived
much benefit from Astrology, which had helped her to understand
herself And realise that much of her Virgo faultfinding tendencies came
from her own attitude towards others, and particularly towards
members of her own family. When the Great War broke out she
took up War work as a fashionable hobby, and consoled herself by
thinking that she was doing some useful work which for the time took
her out of herself.
In due course her husband went to the front as an officer, and
then she became quite convinced that she would become a widow.
This idea haunted her until she finally had the progressed horoscope
cast for the year 1915, The major influences were © par 2 □ d1,
S par 2, 8 From these influences it was judged that a death
would take place during that year. At our interview, the native
stated that she quite expected that her husband would be killed or die
abroad. We did not confirm this but simply stated that a death would
take place, and that much sorrow would follow it as Venus ruled the
fourth house. Soon after the departure of her husband, her eldest son
joined the army as an officer, and in the spring was sent to the
Dardanelles.
It did not seem to have struck the native that her son would be in
the same danger as her husband, and therefore his death, which occurred
near the summer quarter, was a great blow to her, and strange to say
quite unexpected, or even surmised ; although it was quite plain from
the nativity that the afflictions fell upon the fifth house ruling children
and not the seventh. In the early part of 1915 her progressed Moon
was in the sign Virgo, conjunction Mars, and at the time of her boy's
death it had progressed to the square aspect of Mercury conjunction
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Saturn in the fifth house. The transits at the time were dOp
and 'p JD r.
In this case the progressed horoscope revealed some instructive
facts; the progressed Sun was separating from the sextile of Saturn
ruling the seventh house at birth, and also the sextile of Jupiter ruling
the progressed seventh house, through which Jupiter was also passing
by transit. These aspects preserved the husband, who was devotedly
fond of his wife, but they did not preserve the son whose fatal end was
shown in his mother's nativity. We should have been glad to have
published much more data, particularly the son's horoscope, but the
lady moves in society and is well known, and we do not wish to add to
her grief, for we know how very keenly she has felt the loss of her
very promising boy ; by his death, however, the evil conjunction
of Mercury and Saturn afflicted by the square aspect of Mars has been
partially liquidated.
It will interest students to know that the son who was killed had
the following aspects in force at the time of his death : Op^<?r and
?r; D d i? , P'? r ; ? J'? and $ ; '? d W > exact; S P ^. Moreover
Mars at birth was in exact square to Venus (ruler). For the benefit
of those who believe in the " Part of Fortune " it may be added that
Venus was in conjunction with the Part of Fortune in the centre of
the eighth house, the house of death. In the report of his death it was
said that although wounded he continued to lead his men onward.
The parents received a message of sympathy from the King and Queen.
As we have done private work for members of this family for many
years, we hope that if the persons concerned in the above details are
recognised the particulars given will be respected and treated as
scientific information.

CONCERNING SUGGESTIONS AND CRITICISMS

There is a growing tendency for students to ask us to deal with

matters in these pages which by the time they have been published
are out of dale.
There is also a tendency for correspondents, especially from,
abroad, to send us criticisms of astrological methods adopted by other
students who publish their opinions in other journals, etc.
 THIi HDllOK'S OBSEKVATOliY 77
It should be unnecessary to state that we cannot deal fully or
successfully with these criticisms without publishing the names of
those who make them. The proper place for such criticisms is under
the heading of " Letters to Editor," giving the writer's name and
address, not for publication unless desired, but as an indication of
good faith. If such criticisms are not referred to inthese"Observatory "
notes it should be understood that we are either not concerned or
interested in the methods adopted by other students, or do not wish to
argue over them.
Suggestions, however, we are always glad to receive, as we are
ever trying to feel the pulse of our readers. The suggestion that we
shall continue the Astrological Dictionary is one that we have had
under consideration for some time past. Students who desire us to
extend our activities in various directions should however remember
that our time and energies are not unlimited, and until we have
entirely abandoned the professional work such as the judgment of
private horoscopes, etc., we are somewhat heavily handicapped, the
best part of a day very often being taken up with dictations on special
horoscopes.
While speaking of suggestions we are reminded that several
students find "Charubel's" interpretations and symbols of the Zodiac
published in the earlier part of the Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised
far more useful than the second series printed in the latter half of the
book. We do not see any reason why the latter should be omitted, as
the reason for both being published has been explained, but if those who
are competent to judge will mention the matter when writing to us we
will consider the advisability of publishing those of Charubel only
when the manual is reprinted.

A COMPLETE REFERENCE INDEX

There is a very healthy sign for the future of Astrology in the
increasing number of generous helpers we are now gathering around
us, many students giving time and labour not only gratuitously, but
willingly and with the pleasure of service. One of our latest helpers
is Mr W. S. Randall, who has prepared a Complete Repfrence
Index to the whole of our Text Books. The time, patience, and
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labour involved in the tabulation of each item in these seven large

books can only be appreciated by active students. In submitting the
first half of this big task Mr Randall says ; " This Index has been
made for the benefit of the Student, the Teacher, and the Lecturer.
But it is specially intended for the beginner who is in earnest and
determined to make astrology a life study."
In concluding his very clear Introduction he says:—" The work of
making this Index has been 'a labour of love' to the compiler and he
trusts that it will be a means of helping many students of Astrology
in the future."
We can assure Mr Randall that he has done a real service to our
cause by this unselfish and useful work, and by the very beautiful
manner in which he has arranged and typed his matter we can judge
how truly it has been a labour of love.
In order that there may be no delay in bringing this helpful work-
before students we propose to issue the whole of the Index bound for
students at a moderate price, probably at prime cost, so that Mr
Randall's work may be fully appreciated by every student of
Astrology who studies our Astrological Text Books.
This is by no means a single instance of the generous and
valuable help given by voluntary workers. The Astrological Society
is now in a very strong and virile state of activity, mainly due to the
devotion of its Hon. Secretary, and the Astrological Institute is an
accomplished fact, owing to the efforts of five of its Founder Members.
We may have appeared to have achieved great things in the steps we
have taken to purify astrology, but we could not have done half of
what has been done, were it not for the generous service of our
helpers. Add to this external help, given by those who had the
time and opportunity, the INTERNAL help of hundreds of well
wishers, and you have the secret of the success of our work in the
Astrological World. We have verified the truth of the saying that
" to those who have shall be given," and we can fearlessly say that as
we have received so we have been ready to give, as all who come in
touch with our work are aware.
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"MODERN ASTROLOGY" PUBLICATIONS

The subscriber who writes to say that the first part of the
Astrological Dictionary is a pleasure to read, and that he had wished
a thousand times that it was being continued, should help us to do so
by sending us any ideas he may have regarding any particular
astrological word. Other students, please note.
The Manual 1001 Notable Nativities has had a rapid sale and
will soon have to be reprinted. Mr Barley who so generously made
himself responsible for this work has gathered many fresh items of
information. Will those who have been collecting data for this work
kindly send in their results during the present month in time for the
reprinting.
With the Manuals in mind a statement may be made for the benefit
of students who buy these manuals for distribution amongst their friends.
The cost of binding has greatly increased of late and it may not be
possible, owing to the very small margin of profit resulting from
sales, to bind them in the same quality of cloth as before the war,
especially in view of the possibility that these manuals may in future
be printed through our publishers, instead of by ourselves as formerly.
Students are therefore advised to purchase as many of these well
bound manuals as possible within the next few months. The Is.
manuals now running out of their present editions are:
Everybody's Astrology.
What is a Horoscope, and How is it Cast ?
Planetary Influences.
1001 Notable Nativities.
The Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised.
While on this subject may we ask students if they like the bright
paper boards in which "Mars; the War Lord" is bound? If these
covers are appreciated it will enable us to insure cheaper editions of
such books as Practical Astrology, The Pathway of the Soul. A
post-card reply will be appreciated.
There is just one other item, with regard to our publications, and
that concerns the postage of Modern Astrology each month.
Some readers who obtain their copies through agents or other
publishing houses have written to say that they object to receiving
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their copies rolled. We do not send them from this office rolled in
wrappers, but in envelopes. But owing to the increase in the postal
rates those formerly sent in sealed envelopes are now sent in open ones,
and this some of our subscribers also object to. In future, subscribers
will please note that all magazines will be sent in open envelopes
unless the contrary is specially requested, in which case 2s. extra
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Those who have expressed a wish to see the pages of the
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Modern .Astrology does not cater for advertisers, the chief reason
for the publication of many monthly periodicals.

"THE STARLIGHT EXPRESS"

On January 24 we attended a matinee at the Kingsway Theatre

to witness "The Starlight Express" a brave attempt to present the
astral plane upon the Stage. It is a delightful play, and if it succeeds
in conveying the ideas intended we shall witness many more plays of
a similar nature. It.is the story of a
" wumbletl" English family, living for economy's sake in a village
among the Jura Mountains, who are troubled about many things. Various
folk in the village are troubled too. And their trouble is traceable to one
main source—that mis understanding which is due to lack of sympathy. The
story describes the happy change produced by the magical effect of sympathy.
This effect is obtained chiefly by the working of a Secret Society organised
by the children—a Star Society. For the children believe that, while their
bodies lie asleep, their spirits (" the part Mummie says goes to Heaven ") get
out aud play among the stars. They collect starlight, or, as they call it,
star-dust. It sticks to tbem and makes them sbiney. They stick to other
folk and make them shiney. Star-dnst is Sympathy! For, besides being the
softest light known to the world. Starlight never stops shining. Tbe Inter-
fering Sun may hide it, but it's alway's there. It collects, moreover, (according
 THE EDITOR'S ORSERVATOKV 8l
to Daddy) in certain "Star Caves" into which anyone who hopes to
accomplish anything useful in life must, sooner orlater, go.
The great desire of the children, therefore, is to get everybody out of
their bodies—out of their little Selves, that is—and into the Star Cave.
Above all, they wish to get their "wunibled" parents out. Their pass-word
obviously, is Stars and Out ' They do their work when the world lies
dreaming; and they work hard. With the help of Cousin Henry they
accomplish wonders. For, though the opening to the Cave is narrow, he
reminds them that " everybody is thin somewhere."
They get their practical-minded mother out. They get Daddy out too,
though (being an author) he sticks for a long time at the head. They get
various village folk out as well. One old lady, indeed, who has lost her
memory, they get out so elfectively that she never goes in again, but is quite
happy because at last she—remembers ! In a word, the children establish in
the end that happy state of sympathy known long ago as the Golden Age—
in their mountain village, at any rate. For Daddy finds his great Inspiration
that will light the world up; Mother learns that even mending and darning
are heroic; and the Earth, generally, remembers something it had forgotten
—that it is a Star !
Every person interested in Astrology should derive much pleasure
from a visit to the Kingsway Theatreywhile'the Starlight Express is
running; it seems almost too good, from the idealist point of view, to
be kept running when all those have seen it who can understand >1.

WHERE DO YOU VIBRATE FROM?

For some time past we have received occasional brief letters from
a Mr G. W. Rumble, of California, in which he asked : " Where do
yon vibrate from, where you are or where you appear to be ? " This
was repeated so often that we wondered what it meant and wrote
asking for information, and now discover that it refers to Heliocentric
v. Geocentric Astrology.
It is a great pily that men like our correspondent who is certainly
an intelligent man, will not take the trouble to investigate for themselves
these two systems. The so-called heliocentric system of Astrology is
in reality no system at all, and cannot be applied practically, for it has
no starting point. We vibrate from WHERE WE ARE, Mr Rumble,
and not from where we are not.
We are at present located on the physical globe we know as the
82 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Earth, and are bound to physical bodies while physical karma lasts.
We may imagine we live in the Sun, but we know we are not there
for we are only two glad to bask in the sunshine when we are
fortunate enough to find it in this present winter of 1916 in London.
The planets give us their influence through the earth's Zodiac,
and so, for us, where they appear to be. We are not in California,
but we CAN INFLUENCE our correspondent through the medium of the
Mail which carries the reply through the pages of this Magazine.
How is that, Mr Rumble ?

SURPRISES OF THE WAR

Amongst the many surprises this Great War has brought to the
Office of Modern Astrology is the number of letters opened by the
Censor, the average being about three every week. Why some of
the letters from Neutral Countries are unopened, and others chosen
for examination we cannot learn, but some of the letters must have
opened the eyes of a few of the Censors as to the faith many persons
have in Astrology.
The next surprise is the number of orders we receive for our
astrological works to be sent to the trenches. If you want to earn a
blessing send Rays of Truth to a man in the trenches. Sailors,
however, seem to be still more enthusiastic over this book. Why ?

MR WILDE'S NEW BOOK

Judging from letters already received Agnes Croysdale and George

Wilde's new book Your Destiny and the Stars is likely to raise
some controversy. Students sending criticisms of the strange state-
ments that are made in this book should enclose their name and
address, not necessarily for publication unless desired, but as a
guarantee of responsibility, which we should not be made to take upon
ourselves. We publish comments by " Malchidiel " who will kindly
note the above remark.
We receive many anonymous letters from amateur students to
which we cannot reply, when we feel that an answer is necessary,
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

neither can we publish them since they have no value without the
support of a bond fide. The statements made in a letter from
Ceylon regarding the Crown Prince of Germany are untrue!

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Speaking of publications reminds us that we have several books

waiting for review. The Curtiss Book Co. have sent us through their
agents The Key to the Uinverse published at 10s. bd. This book
should please and instruct those who are interested in Numbers. It
contains forty chapters dealing with Numbers, Letters, the Tarot
Cards, Circle, Triangle, Square, and Star, Pentacle, etc., etc., the Secret
Doctrine and other valuable books having been drawn upon for helpful
information. We have pleasure in recommending it to our readers.

THIC FIRST NON-OFFICIAL HINDU UNIVERSITY

Benares, Friday, Feb. sth.
Lord Hardinge to-day laid the foundation stone of the new Hindu University
buildings which are to be erected here. The estimated cost of the new University
will be three crores of rupees—about £2,000,000. One crore has already been
subscribed —(Renter.)
It was quite appropriate (writes Mr. St. Nihal Singh) that one of the
last acts of Lord Hardinge's Viceroyalty should be the laying of the corner-
stone of the Hindu University. It is fitting that this University should be
established at Benares, the Rome of the Hindus—beside the banl< of the
Ganges, their most sacred river. Many centuries ago, when Hinduism was
in its pristine state, a great Hindu University existed in this city. The
institution which is now being started will differ from its ancient prototype
in this respect, that it will teach English and other European languages,
physics, chemistry, and other sciences, and Western arts, in addition to
giving advanced instruction in the sacred lore of the Hindus.
Indians, with the exception of extremists,arc grateful to the Government
for granting a charter to the promoters of the University, and to Lord
Hardinge for laying the corner-stone. This is the first University in India
to be promoted and founded hy non-official agency, and will be the first to
impart religions instrnctiou. The Maharaja of Benares has given the site
for the institution, and many Maharajas and Rajas have given reenrriug
grants.
The name of Mrs. Annie Besant is imperishably connected with the
inception and completion cf the project. With that exception, Indian effort
is alone responsible for the establishment of the University. The internal
management of the institution is left in Indian hands, though the Government
have retained some powers to prevent mishaps.—The Observer, 6/2/1916.
 ^.n (DrmU of tlje (itilar

(Concluded from p. 65)

Let us now see whether some good has not already heen derived
by the world from this great conflict, and also whether we can discera
any future benefits to arise from its whirlpool of horrors. For a deep
truth lies behind the saying that "out of evil cometh good." It is not
by any means that.the good arises from the evil, for "men do not
gather grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles," but the active exhibition
of. the evil causes the good to appear as a set-off and to conquer or
control it. 'And so at the present world crisis. Consider for one item
what an immense amount of human loving-kindness and practical
charity has been called forth all over the world by the horrible suffering
of the victimised brave Belgian nation. Immortal Belgium ! We
hail thy radiant Spirit ! Our country and its Dominions have woven
a fair wreath around their brows by their brotherly actions in this
respect, and I rejoice to think that^we, in these smaller dependencies
of the British Crown, have also tried to contribute our little quota.
But even this is, from the point of view which we are now con-
sidering, one of the minor immediate effects. Certain greater results
have already been secured which would otherwise have taken long
periods of time to mature. For one thing, as is vividly stated by a
writer in one of the English papers, " The whole machinery of
civilisation has been scrapped. The social displacement has
been so cataclysmal that few of us know what is going to happen to
us." And it is indeed well for the world that this has happened, for
the form of civilisation referred to was based upon the individual, its
motto " every man for himself," and its battle cry " the survival of the
fittest." It has however outworn its day, for although the evolution
of strong individual members of human society was indeed necessary
before they could be useful citizens, and before they could co-operate
with and give satisfactory aid to their weaker brethren, the time now
approaches when the bundle of strong and weak sticks can be tied
 AN OCCULT VIEW OF THE WAK

together with the cords of brotherly love and co-operation. The

•coming new civilisation will make mankind interdependent, and will
induce the strong man to realise that it is both his duty and his
privilege to bear the burdens of life along with his weaker brothers
and to relieve them of much of their loads. As Lamennais puts it,
human society should be "based upon mutual giving, or upon the
sacrifice of man for man, or of each man for all other men, and
sacrifice is the very essence of all true society."
Then what is it we see happening on the battle front? At the
-fighting line barriers of birth, race and colour have disappeared.
Standing together as men and comrades are to be found " cook's son,
■duke's son, son of a belted Earl," as Kipling has it ; standing side by
side, in that last final test where one man's life is as good as another's,
we see the man of Caucasian blood, the dusky sons of the Indian Mother-
land, and the black children of Africa's tropical sunshine. All, all are
there as brothers in blood, brothers in fellow feeling, brothers in the
determination that the cause of right shall triumph. And never more
may this blood bond of brotherhood be washed away. Each has
learned to know and to respect the other, each is beginning to realise
that it is not the race into which he is born nor the colour of a man's
skin that makes him Man, but the soul which animates his body ; and
that soul may be great, may be that of a hero, whether for the time being
it occupies in this its present earthly life a body that is English, Indian
or African. A grand result this, and, if fully realised, it would almost
make the War justify itself.
And what of future happenings ? I can only be brief, but it can
be seen by those who know the trend of the future that this terrible
struggle of the Nations is paving the way for much that has been
longed for by the far seeing ones of our times. Not perhaps with
lightning rapidity, but as a sure certainty in the fairly immediate
future, shall emerge a Federation of the States of Europe side by side
with the United Empire of Great Britain and her Dominions. This
great event, this grand federation of the nations of Europe, the
possibility and the desirability of which has been foreseen by deep
thinkers such as the late W. T. Stead, will require a commanding
genius to engineer it, but as Irving Bachellor truly says in one of his
books :—"Godwill find a Caesar to perform His wonders. When it's
86 MODKRN ASTROI.OGV

time for a great thing to be done, it's done, and little people have to
get out of the way." This war and the awful suffering that has yet to
arise from it (for even when Peace comes the penalties are only half
paid), will open the eyes of the peoples of the Continent to the folly
and criminality of such internecine strife between neighbours, and will
dispose them to seek earnestly for some method of government, some
way of international living, that shall negative the possibility of a
similar disaster in the future. And when the hour comes the Man
will be ready, and thus out of much tribulation shall emerge that
future guarantee of co-operation between the great nations, the
European National Union.
And this Union will render possible the disappearance of
Militarism, as now understood, for with an assured peace and mutual
co-operation between the great nations of the Continent, and with the
great British Empire securing the Pax Britaunica in her extensive
dominion, the armies, and navies cf all the Powers will be reduced to
the minimum necessary to secure what I may term police supervision
on sea and land ; to uphold the sanctity of treaties and conventions
between the nations, and to enforce respect for international law.
Not that the arrival of the halcyon days when war shall be no
more is yet to be expected. For the necessary evolution of the
younger races and peoples of the Earth, war will probably survive, in
their case, for some considerable time longer ; but the business of the
great Peace-keepers of the world will be to ensure that all such
fighting is localised and minimised as far as possible, and to place it
out of the power of any people or combination of peoples to
destroy the peace of the whole of humanity as on the present
occasion. Germany's action this time has shown that without such
international guarantee for enforcing respect for treaties, conventions
and law, any documents and agreements between nations are absolutely
futile when one of them is rascally enough to repudiate its under-
takings. Such rascals will in the future be dealt with as criminals
are in a properly constructed community. Just as such a community
maintains a police force to deal with offenders against its laws and
customs so will the united nations provide a strong arm of the
international law to bring offending peoples to book.
And this task will be simplified by the disappearance as a national
 AN OCCULT VIEW OF THE WAR

entity of that people who have been the plague-spot of Europe and
Northern Asia for so many centuries. The passing bell of the Turk
is even now ringing in our ears, the hour of his dissolution is about to
strike. The cry of the myriads who have groaned under his cruel
oppression has reached to high heaven, and the fiat for his demoli-
tion has gone forth. No more shall this curse of Christendom eat
into the vitals of Europe. Even as a guardian of Islam shall he be
repudiated, for in proclaiming at the bidding of his Teutonic task-
master, this war to be a Jehad, a holy war of the Moslem, when
Mohammedan interests were not in the least involved in it, he has
signed the deposition of the Sultan of Turkey as Khalifa of the Faith,
and the shield of protection shall pass to more worthy hands.
And yet another reform, of surpassing interest and importance,
will be found to emerge from the struggles and the sufferings of this war.
It may not come with the speed of an avalanche, but the road is being
paved for its advent, and come it will. The solution of the great
labour question will be found in the organisation of industry by the State
and by the extension of the principle of co-operation to its legitimate
conclusion. Think you that for nothing has occurred this tremendous
awakening in England, France and Russia to the necessity of
organising the national resources to cope with the urgent demand for
munitions of war, and thus overcome the carefully planned similar
organisation of the Germans ? Think you that for nothing has the
British Government shown to the nations the satisfactory working of
the railways under governmental control in a time of supreme stress and
activity ? The gratifying results that have and will ensue from these
and other like actions will open the eyes of all classes to the utter
folly of existing conditions, where one man, company, or firm of
merchants is allowed to exploit their fellowmen in the supply of all
manner of necessaries of life for his or their own personal gain or
advantage. And has it been for nought that the great Trusts of the
United States have shown to the world the object lesson of pooling
their resources and combining for action ? No, none of these lessons
has been lost, and, with the economical stress which must follow on
the war, men will begin to apply them, tentatively perhaps at first
but with ever increasing zest and satisfaction.
(Reprinted from the Barbados Standard.)
88

Internatiaual Astrology

THE SPRING QUARTER

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(1) Berlin (2) Petrograd (3) Constanlinople (4) New York
THERE are rather contradictory aspects in this map, for it is very
fortunate in some respects and decidedly the reverse in others. There
is the promise of the success of our forces abroad, and triumphs both
by sea and land ; the navy°vvill gain renown, and oversea traffic will
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 8g

be maintained or even increased, and new vessels launched. There is

danger however of accidents, and loss of life at sea. The more
vitally important events are likely to take place abroad, and events at
home will turn upon these rather than upon internal affairs. Money
matters will be less fortunate than hitherto, especially as concerns
international affairs and relations, and more than one country will now
feel the financial strain very seriously; the positions are decidedly
better for Great Britain and France than for the centre and east of
Europe, where the problem will be very acute, but all will feel it more
or less. There will be losses, bankruptcies and depreciation of
securities, and there is danger of a bank failure and some Stock
Exchange failures, especially abroad.
Changes will take place in parliament. Not much will be
accomplished in legislation, and the government will not be remarkably
successful, and yet they should be able to carry on affairs and to hold
their own. Parliament will be concerned with the interests of the
masses, and legislation relating to their affairs will be under
consideration, but matters connected with army and navy will be
supreme over all others.
Scandals and problems connected with women and marriage will
give trouble; there may be some increase in the births over recent
months but a good many children will die. Accidents by rail or
aviation are likely. The influences are not favourable for literature,
publishing, the post-office, and telephones. Aged people will die,
especially among rich people and women. Mystical religion will be
under rather more favourable influences, but the orthodox churches
less so.
In Germany and the East of Europe the welfare of the masses
of the people will demand greater consideration, and there will be
more power in their hands and less in that of their rulers; greater
efforts will be made to ameliorate their conditions. Financial matters
will be very critical. A heavy death-rate among the people.
In the United States foreign affairs will be more peaceful and
prosperous, but the President and government will be unfortunate and
unpopular. Visits of important persons concerned with foreign
countries are likely to ibe received and exchanged, and generally
foreign affairs will bulk rather largely in the public mind.
go MODERN ASTROLOGY

The position of the Sun and Jupiter on the lower meridian should
shed a rather more prosperous and pacific influence over the east of
Europe, although it is partly spoiled by the square of Saturn from the
seventh house.
The Sun and Jupiter will be rising in China and the East Indies;
culminating in the Pacific Ocean ; setting in South America and the
east of Canada and the United States; and will be on the nadir in
Turkey, Serbia, Austria, and Poland.

THE PRESENT MONTH

New Moon 4/3/1916, 3.57 cr.fit.
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"113 f 3 7 20 V 7 s: 28 T14
111.27 ^'5 H t ■/321 X20 » 2
il25 IT! 27 i24 "1.13 * 15 1719
(I) London (2) Berlin (3) New York
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x 13.16 st 16.16 ras.t? a.12.1715? T4 43 og.3615? =117.14 a0.14!^?

The map speaks of very involved foreign affairs and international

relations for the greater part of Europe; contention and confusion are
likely to reign at this time and very little progress in public affairs
can be expected. There is danger of explosions and accidents of
various kinds, and loss of life by fire and by aircraft; and there will be
danger to public individuals, statesmen, and fighting men. Political
strife will be accentuated and much animosity be displayed; there
is likelihood of divisions among political parties, and ties between
friendly nations will be subjected to a heavy strain and may result in
antagonism. Financial affairs will claim a great deal of attention both
in their home and international relations and one or more of the nations
are likely to be re-arranging their taxation and expenditure or to be
floating a loan. There is danger of strikes and disputes. The deaths
of prominent people may be expected, especially among statesmen
and in the political world.
At Berlin and .Vienna financial affairs show signs of temporary
improvement; from here eastward either Jupiter or Venus or both
will be in the second house; but with this exception the map is not
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 91
very fortunate for any part of Europe; strife and contention will be
manifested in politics everywhere, but this is specially a danger in
central and eastern Europe, where Mercury and Uranus will rise and
Mars will be setting in opposition.
At New York the third and ninth houses are heavily afflicted;
accidents and deaths connected with railways, shipping and traffic
generally may be expected; strikes'will be threatened in one or
more of these directions. Political affairs threaten to be very
contentious, especially in the central and western states; a wave of
martial excitement will be manifested; the President and prominent
persons will be unfortunate and even in some danger.
Earthquake shocks will probably accompany the strong opposi-
tions from fixed signs.
The place of lunation falls as under in various horoscopes, but it is
probable that the strong transits from Leo and Aquarius will outweigh
the lunation in importance.
King Geohgk □ ra Czar a ?
Italy a©□ German Emperor rf MC a y.
Spain s j The Pope dy

RELIGION

There are different stages of religious development, as there are different

slages of physical, mental, and spiritual growth. On one plane of religion,
man lives a purely sensuous life; on another, the mind becomes enamoured
of creeds and rituals formulated by the human mind; on a third, man wor-
ships God in spirit and in truth. I believe there is no religion in the world
devoid of truth—that the truth it contains is that which holds it together ;
(bat all mankind is working for a single end; that, although we have
differences in the present, they exist rather in form than in spirit, and will
gradually melt away. We would rejoice with all people when they [rejoice.
In whatever way any hody of people, calling themselves Christian Scientists
or by any other name, hring greater happiness and a higher and truer know-
ledge of life to others, instead of finding fault, let us gladly indorse that
which they have accomplished. We know that whatever good is wrought is
of the Spirit of God—in both thought and work.
Charles Brodie Patterson.
92

totcatljer, (lljarartcr, an& Drbita

I.—WEATHER

In forecasting the weather by means of Astro-meteorology, as

described in Manual No. 14, on Weather Predicting, a distinction is
drawn between planetary influence exerted by the usual aspects and
that which results from position only. It is not necessary here to
refer to the aspects, for they are the same as those which are employed
in the horoscope of birth and will therefore be familiar to every
reader ; but the planetary positions that are considered to influence the
weather are as follows.
(i) On the Equator, when a planet has 0° declination.
(ii) In the Tropics, when a planet is entering the first degree o
the signs Cancer or Capricorn.
(iii) In extreme Declination, when a planet has reached its
maximum declination, whether north or south, and after becoming
stationary in declination, moves in the opposite direction.
(iv) Stationary, when a planet is not moving either forward or
backward in the zodiac.
Since the publication of the Manual the subject has been
developed, so that one or two revisions and additions may be suggested
in this .list; and particulars are given here in order that as many
students as possible may co-operate in considering the subject.
It is a matter for surprise that more persons do not take up this
branch of the starry science, for it is perhaps the easiest of all methods
of proving practically the influence of the heavenly bodies. Not
everyone who believes that there is something in Astrology is willing
to take the trouble to learn how to calculate a horoscope, or even to
become thoroughly familiar with the rules for judging it when
calculated. Many persons cannot spare the time, and others find the
subject a little too intricate; but few would be able to advance these
excuses for not taking an observation of the weather each day.
Nothing can be easier than to notice the influence of Mars and Jupiter
 WEATHER, CHARACTER, AND ORBITS 93
in raising the temperature, and that of Saturn and Uranus in lowering
it; and anyone who is sceptical about the alleged influence of the
planets upon this earth, or who considers that at any rate gravitation
exhausts the whole subject, can easily prove the contrary for himself
by noticing how changes in the weather accompany variations in the
aspects and positions of the planets as shown in the ephemeris. An
exhaustive study of the whole matter, of course, takes a good deal of
time, but it is simple and easy to observe the correlations between,
say, the major aspects and the weather.
To return to the influence of planets by position. I am now
inclined to think that position No. ii, In the Tropics, is less important,
and that No. iii, In extreme Declination, is highly important. When
any heavenly body has no latitude, like the Sun, to reach the tropic of
Cancer and to attain maximum declination are the same thing; but
when it has latitude, the time at which it enters the first point of
Cancer and the time at which it reaches its greatest declination are not
the same; and so far as concerns weather influence, thesecond of these
two positions appears the more important.
The greater the latitude, the longer is the interval between the
date on which the planet enters the first degree of Cancer and that on
which it reaches its greatest declination. For example Saturn entered
Cancer 11/5/T5, having then 0o45' South latitude, and it attained its
greatest declination on 29/5/T5, an interval of fifteen days. The
temperature fell on or shortly after each of the dates. Venus entered
Cancer on 10/'7/'15 with only O0!^ South latitude, and it reached
maximum declination four days later ; no rain fell on the first of these
dates, but there was a fairly heavy fall on the second date (at least in
the locality where I was residing).
This attainment by a planet of its greatest declination means that
after having moved in a given direction, north or south, it becomes
stationary in declination and then moves in the opposite direction, south
or north. But each planet becomes stationary in declination at least
twice every year, near the time when it becomes stationary in longitude,
quite apart from whether it is in extreme declination or not, except
when its motion in latitude prevents this; and it seems probable that
this stationary position in declination should be taken into account
whenever it occurs. The question is a little difficult to decide for
94 MODERN ASTROLOGY

various reasons. Sometimes the stationary position in declination does

not vary by more than one or two days from the stationary position in
longitude, and then it is not easy to discriminate between the effect
due to the one and that caused by the other. Again, it is often
difficult to distinguish how far weather changes are caused by a
stationary position and how far they are to be attributed to ordinary
aspects that fall close by in point of time. Moreover the ordinary
Ephemeris only gives latitude and declination to the minute of arc,
not the second, so that it maybe a matter of uncertainty with the
distant planets on which day the stationary position occurs.
Neptune was stationary in longitude 9/4/,15; there was a little
rain on the day before. It was stationary in declination on the 12th;
some light rain characteristic of the planet fell on that day. In 1914
it was stationary in longitude on November 3, and in declination
November 4; there was fog and rain on the second of these days;
while in the spring of the same year it was stationary in longitude on
April 7, and in declination on April 10, and there was rain on both days.
Uranus was stationary in longitude 21/5/'15; the temperature
rose because of other influences instead of failing, but the wind
increased in force the next day and blew strongly for two days. It
was stationary in declination on May 17; the temperature fell and
there was rain and a strong wind. In 1914 it was stationary in
longitude October 18, wind and a falling temperature ; in declination
October 15, not much effect beyond mist and rain; in longitude
May 17, little or no effect; in declination May 15, again little or
no effect.
In 1914 Saturn was stationary in longitude October 15, mist
and rain ; in declination October 29, squally with rain ; in longitude
February 11, slight fall in temperature, rain and wind; in declination
January 27, slight fall in temperature.
If we turn to the somewhat similar distinction between the date
when a planet enters Aries and that on which it has no declination, i.e.
is crossing the equator, this should throw light on the subject by
analogy. For when it enters Aries it may or may not have declina-
tion (according to whether it has latitude or not), just as when it
enters Cancer it may or may not also be at its greatest declination.
Mars entered Aries 16/4/'15 ; the temperature rose on that day,
 WEATHER, CHARACTER, AND ORBITS 95
but the rise, was not maintained and it fell during the next two days.
The planet had no declination late on 19/4/T5 ; the temperature rose
as before on this day, but immediately afterwards fell again.
Venus entered Aries 27/4/T5, the temperature was rising but
there was no rain ; there had been some rain two days before under
Venus in aspect to Mars, Saturn and Neptune. The planet had no
declination on April 30; the temperature rose again, but this time it
was misty and there was rain the next day.
Mercury entered Aries 10/4/T5, and the wind which had
previously been strong, under suitable aspects, slackened its force on
this and the next day. The planet had no declination on April 13, and
the wind increased considerably in force.

In addition to these changes in declination there is one question

that needs consideration in the light of its possible bearing upon
the weather; Have planetary changes in latitude any significance?
Two positions are suggested theoretically as deserving notice, namely
when a planet has no latitude and when it is stationary in latitude.
Latitude is distance north or south of the ecliptic (the Sun's apparent
path); therefore when a planet has no latitude, its apparent geocentric
orbit is crossing that of the San, and it would not be surprising if this
should turn out to be a position of some strength and importance, not
only in astro-meteorology but also in natal astrology. The other
position—stationary in latitude—means that the planet has been
moving in a given direction, towards or away from the ecliptic, and
that it then reverses the direction of its motion, away from or towards
the ecliptic. Whether this latter position, if significant at all, is one
of strength or of weakness it is not easy to decide from merely
theoretical considerations. The importance of the stationary position
-in longitude is beyond dispute, and it means that the planet is changing
the apparent direction of its motion with regard to the Sun as seen
from the earth ; but the stationary positions both in declination and
latitude are different.
When an electric current is passed through a wire that is
parallel or nearly so with another wire, the two wires being free to
approach or recede from each other, still remaining parallel all the
time, an induced current springs up in the second wire every time
g6 MODERN ASTROLOGV

the two wires are stationary in their motion relative to each other for
the moment; i.d. when they have been receding and are now preparing
to approach, or when they have been approaching and now pause
before reversing this direction of motion. Also the induced current is
strong in proportion to their parallelism and weak to the extent to
which they depart from it.
In the case of declination, the parallels are those due to the
apparent passage of a planet round the earth, caused by the daily
axial rotation of the earth, and referred to the earth's equator, which
the planet alternately recedes from and approaches in its northward
and southward motion in declination ; it being understood that there
are terrestrial electric currents passing round the earth constantly,
parallel to the equator. When two planets are said to be in parallel
declination with each other, it means that they are equidistant from the
equator in their apparent daily course as caused by the earth's axial
rotation ; but here analogy would suggest that we should take into
account whether they are approaching or receding from each other as
measured in declination, for the effect may differ in the two cases.
In the case of latitude, the apparent geocentric orbit of a planet
coincides with that of the Sun for so long as the planet has no latitude.
When it has motion in latitude, its orbit is receding from or approaching
that of the Sun by northward or southward motion, and its stationary
position in north or south latitude marks the point of reversal of motion.
It is of course not suggested that this question of electric currents
exhausts the problem of astrological influence. There must be other
forms of energy also involved, all of which may be grouped together
under the term fohatic, familiar to occultists. But the electric and
magnetic analogies are very significant, throwing much light upon
these and other questions in Astrology; and if the other forms of
energy follow similar laws, we have important clues to the explanation
of astrological influence, as indeed Mr. G. E. Sutcliffe has shown.
Analogy would also seem to suggest that the greater the latitude
of any heavenly body, the less its astrological influence probably is,
at any rate so far as this arises from co-incidence or parallelism of
orbit. But further investigation is required here, and in any case the
conclusion does not seem to apply to influence by parallel declination.
I have made several weather observations upon days when
 WEATHER, CHARACTER, AND ORBITS 97
planets have had no latitude or extreme latitude, but it is very
difficult to come to any decisive conclusion upon the subject. The
major planets only reach these positions at long intervals, and there-
fore afford few opportunities. Mercury and Venus move more
rapidly in latitude, but observations have to be extended over a long
period in order to enable us to disentangle the effects, if any, due to
latitude from those caused by synchronous aspects and positions.
Therefore I cannot do much more than invite other students to give
the matter their attention.
The following are dates on which Mercury had either no
latitude or was stationary in latitude :—in 1915, July 3, May 2,
February 3; in 1914, December 15, September 19, August 11, June 4,
May 16, March 1, February 17. On or about each of the dates there
was more or less increase in the force of the wind ; but here as with
declination there were in some cases synchronous aspects that might
have produced the effect. Other dales might be quoted on which
there was little or no increase, but this does not necessarily disprove
the theory, for sometimes even Mercury conjunction Sun has very
little effect, although usually productive of high winds.
On the following dates Venus was either stationary in latitude
or had no latitude, and the characteristic effects of mist, rain, or snow
were seen ;—in 1915, July 17, May 17, March 25, January 11 ; in
1914, December 4, October 28, August 13, June 24, April 23 (no
effect, 5 oif), February 27, January 1 (no downfall but rise in
temperature). On nearly every occasion these changes in latitude of
Venus were attended by some typical effect, either on the exact day or
within a very short time before or after; and this seems rather a
strong argument in favour of the importance of changes in latitude.
On the whole I am inclined to think that these cases and others
that might be quoted justify the idea that such changes in latitude
produce some effect, but much further observation is necessary before
we can be quite certain.
The matter may be summarised by saying that the new positions
to which I invite students to direct their attention are as follows:—
( v) Any slationary position in Decliiialioti.
(vi) ., ,, ,, ,, Lnt ihide,
(vii) Positions of 0° Latitude.
II. S. Green.
 ASTROLOGY AND HUMAN NATURK 99
religion, including all ranks of society, from the criminal and drunkard
to the college professor. One evening last year he could not obtain
admittance to the hall in which he was to speak for over half an hour
owing to the great crowd waiting outside, and it is said that thousands
are turned away from his meetings whenever he speaks in New York.
His sermons are reported entire in the Daily Press, and he seems to
receive as much criticism as he does credit, for he uses extraordinary
language while preaching. Some of his sayings are as follows ;
" I want to be a giant for God."
"God likes a little humour as is evidenced by the fact that He made the
parrot, the monkey—and some of you people."
" I will fight till hell freezes over."
" Whisky is all right in its place—but its place is in hell."
"Vou cannot shine for God on Sunday, and then be a London fog on
Monday."
" The race will appear as far above ns, as we are above the harem, when
godly girls marry godly men."
" Man was a fool in the Garden of Eden, and he has taken a good many
new degrees since."
" What have yon given the world that it never possessed before yon
came ? "
"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole ; yielding is opening
the door and inviting him in."
"There would be more power in the prayers of some folk, if they would
put more white money into the collection basket. I hate to see a man roll up
to church in a limousine, and then drop a quarter in the collection plate."
He appears to take the proceeds of a free-will offering at the last
of his meetings for himself, and it is said—with how much truth we
do not know—that he has made hundreds of thousands of dollars out
of his preaching. One of his idiosyncrasies is that he must have a
perfectly still audience, and he never lets a crowd get out of hand.
He appears to make use of a vigorous vocabulary and to have much
dramatic ability, and is very unconventional.
Turning now to the horoscope we find he has a remarkable
collection of planets rising in the sign Scorpio, and Mars, the ruler, is
in conjunction with Jupiter, which certainly accounts for his great
enthusiasm and his vigorous method of applying his peculiar sayings.
We have in this horoscope all the elements of a pioneer, enthusiast.
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6 o'clock in the morning, November 19, 1863; latitude 42.2n,
longitude 93.30 W.
We know very little about this remarkable man beyond the fact
that he is a " preacher " who uses exceptional methods in his work as
an Evangelist, and states that he is preaching for the age in which
he lives. He is said to have made about a quarter million converts to
IOO MODERN ASTROLOGV

and extreme religionist, and his success in making so many converts is

due to the Moon in trine to Mars, Jupiter and Mercury.
He is said to be illiterate, but this scarcely conveys a true
impression of the man, seeing that Mercury is in conjunction with
Jupiter rising, which gives him sufficient versatility and freedom of
expression, and the near presence of Mars will probably cause him to
include a good deal of sarcasm in his remarks when dealing with the
evil side of things.
It is said that he is very great on temperance work, and despises
drink in all forms, and many anecdotes are told concerning him in this
respect. His religious enthusiasm is quite easily traced to the
conjunction of Mars and Jupiter; his sincerity in his work, belief in
himself and the religion he preaches is very plainly indicated by the
Moon ruler of the ninth house being in the sign Pisces, the house of
Jupiter, and in trine to this planet; and although able to extract so
much money from others for his religious propaganda (which is shown
by Jupiter ruling the second house), he is undoubtedly generous with it,
and at times probably gives away very large sums.
His wife seems to be thoroughly interested in his work and helps
him considerably, for Venus ruling the seventh house is in conjunction
with Saturn, which would give him a good and faithful partner, and
being in the house of friends she would be a true friend to him. As
Venus and Mars are strong in their own signs, they are not only a
happy couple, but have undoubtedly a great deal of joint power in
influencing others.
He has caused a great sensation in America, and there is a book
published called Billy Sunday's Book, which is authorised by Mr
Sunday and sold at 4s. bd. nett. It contains a very good portrait of
him, his full name being Rev William Ashley Sunday, D.D. It is
written by William T. Ellis, LL.D., author of Man and Missions.
With regard to the Evangelist's future, there is no doubt that he
has passed some very critical periods, and is now on the crest of a
high wave, which will carry him into great popularity, and give him a
great deal of influence over others. He is said to have risen from the
ranks himself, having been a baseball player. His horoscope is
interesting to those who like to see a man's expression of himself in
his avocation or daily life.
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^.nahiira to d&iuattona1

MUNDANE OR ZODlA CA L.—In. a horoscope, are inunduiie or zodiacal

aspects of more importance ? For instance i/the Sun and Moon are in zodiacal
square but mundane se.xtile, will the evil effects of the square be modified ? (317)
Modified certainly, though not altogether eliminated, for each will
have its own sphere of influence. Broadly speaking zodiacal aspects
are more powerful than mundane, as we may see from the fact that
they continue longer in operation and must therefore influence a
larger number of people, and, in general, act on a more wholesale
scale. By that very fact, however, it is also evident that any given
mundane aspect in a person's horoscope must have a more exclusive
and particular relation to himself, than to the generality of people
born at about the same time. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude
that the " pressure " of this ' house-position ' aspect will be maintained
at full strength until the particular karmic debt to which it is related
is paid. And this will apply whether the debt be one due from man to
nature, or from nature to man. House-position, in a horoscope,
represents the immediate environment in closest contact with the
native ; sign-position the more remote environment, as for example the
social and general conditions of the century and decade.
" Sarastro," whose horoscope will be found in Notable Nativities,
had Jupiter exactly rising in zodiacal sextile to Saturn on the cusp of
the fourth house, the two planets being therefore in mundane square.
He suffered from a painful impediment in his speech and was thus
deprived of a considerable share of the social intercourse enjoyed by
the average person ; he had also other difficulties and straitnesses to
contend against. He was a student of Astrology and when
commenting upon this position said he thought it showed that his
character was better than his fortune (* zod., O mund.).

1
Questions must be of general interest. They sbotild be written upon
one side of the paper only, a separate sheet of paper biing used for each separate
question, and addressed to Question Departmenl, "Modern Astrology" Office.
40, Imperial Buildings, Lndgale Circus, E.G. Name and address of sender should
be attached to each question.
102

ileirieln

"Your Destiny and the Stars." By Agnes Croysdale

and George Wilde. 10s. 6d. W. Foulsham & Co., London.
This book will be of interest to astrologers for a variety of reasons,
but of all the subjects upon which the authors discourse two stand
forth as predominantly important; first the question of apparent
versus mean time, and second that of the new aspects which it is
alleged exist and produce effects.
Horoscopes should always be calculated by apparent time and
not by mean time so we are informed in this book ; and because
all astrologers are working by mean time, and have been doing so for
generations past, they are all mistaken and are introducing an error,
which may vary from a few seconds up to sixteen minutes of time,
into every map they calculate, with the exception of the very few
occasions (only four days in a year) on which apparent and mean time
agree. This is illustrated on p. 7 by giving an example for noon on
February 15, 1915. The Sun should be exactly on the meridian at
noon, and it is so in this case if the apparent time method is
followed; but if the usual or mean time method, as given in
all the text-books, manuals, and guides, is employed, the result is to
show the Sun nearly four degrees distant from the meridian.
Hence we are all hopelessly in error and should change our
methods at once!
" What an array of incorrect horoscopes there must be in people's
hands ! " the authors exclaim ; but they do not seem to realise that it
all depends upon the nature of the estimated time of birth with which
we start.
If we are told that a child was born exactly at apparent noon,
then by all means let us follow the apparent time system; but
if the birth was timed by an ordinary watch or clock, as it always is,
except when the estimate is a mere guess or rough approximation, then
the ordinary or mean time system is correct, because our time pieces
are regulated by mean time. And yet the student is instructed all
through this book to treat the estimated time of birth as apparent
time, which will not be a fact once in ten thousand cases; and nearly
forty horoscopes are given as illustrations, all presumably worked by
the apparent time method and therefore all incorrect. Of these
horoscopes several are repetitions of maps published in Natal
Astrology by Wilde and Dodson in 189+, and they therefore serve to
illustrate the difference that is made in the cusp of the ascendant by
working according to apparent time.
 REVIEW
Menu Time Apparent 7
S. T. CoLElilDG!; t 13-47 } 12
George Eliot itl 1.58 ^ 29
Frederick the Great n 4.13 n 9
Dr Gahnett itn 11.46 14-15
Victor Hugo ni 1.32 hi 4
George Washington B24.32 « 22
It is greatly to be regretted that the authors have gone astray over
this matter of apparent time, for they have introduced a source of
error that will invalidate nearly all horoscopes cast by students who
are so unfortunate as to obtain their introduction to the subject from
this book.
While on this subject it may be pointed out that the horoscope of
Harry Lauder on p. 206 is given for 2.45 a.m., whereas in his
" Reminiscences," published in the Strand Magazine for April 1909,.
the genial comedian gave his birth hour as "about half past five
in the morning." It would be interesting to know the reason of this,
discrepancy.
The second subject to which attention will be drawn is that of the
new aspects. These are formed by continual subdivision of the three
series of old and well-known aspects. Thus the opposition, 180°, gives
90, 45, 22k, Hi, and ends in 55. The trine, 120°, gives 60, 30, 15,
and ends in Ik- The quintile, 72°, gives 36 and 18, and ends in 9.
Then continual multiplication of these three end figures by 2, 3,4, 5, 6,
7 and the other numbers in order gives the new aspects.
A number of points arise here for comment. The trine is sub-
divided to 7k degrees, and we are told to multiply this number, and
yet its products when multiplied by 5, by 7, by 10, and by certain other
factors 37i, 52^, 75 are omitted from the list of new aspects,
without any explanation. Why is this ?
Some of the new aspects can be derived in two ways. For
instance, 312^ is both 7i X 35 and 5SX20, and this entitles it to belong
to a good and a bad series both alike. Whenever this happens the
aspect is always classed as had in the book ; but to maintain that when
good and evil meet the evil always triumphs, suggests a rather
pessimistic philosophy of life. Would it not be more logical to treat
such aspects as varying in nature like conjunctions ?
Another objection that will occur to most readers is that the
largest aspects, 180° and 120°,are the most important, and that the more
they are subdivided the weaker are their effects, so that some of the
very small aspects enumerated here, even if genuine, are trifling and
insignificant. The authors sweep this on one side by declaring that all
aspects have exactly the same value; 180° is no stronger than 45°, nor
120° than 30° or 36°. This is a bold way out of a serious difficulty but
it is so contrary to the experience of practically all astrologers ancient
and modern that I do not think the dictum will ever be accepted. It
is equivalent to maintaining that no matter at what angle an incident
ray, whether of light, heat, or anything else, falls upon a resistant and.
104 MODERN ASTROI.OGY

reflecting surface, the effect will be the same in all cases; but this
is contradicted by both theoretical and practical science and it is not
likely to be true here. We need only remember the difference between
midwinter, when sunlight reaches us at a very wide angle, and
midsummer, when the angle is entirely difterent, to perceive the great
difference in the effects. Spring tides under New and Full Moon, and
neap-tides under the first and last Quarter, are another practical
illustration. It is impossible, and contradicts the first principles of
science, to suppose that all angles are equally important.
Again, these new aspects are accompanied by a most repellent
nomenclature. " Septde-Quargenile," "Trede-Tricibinile," and
" Vinpri-Sexaquartile" are names with which I do not propose to
burden my memory even if the aspects should turn out to be correct,
which is unlikely.
Mr Wilde seems to have based his new aspects upon a funda-
mentally wrong principle. A smaller aspect is not a mere subdivision
of the number of degrees in a greater one, taken arithmetically; it
results from inscribing a regular figure within the circle. Mr Wilde
seems acquainted with this, for he dismisses it as "geometrical
duncery " and regards it as impossible because aspects are " distances
of longitude not on the same plane." If this objection were valid it
might be argued that because none of the planets revolve either in the
plane of the ecliptic or in that of the equator, therefore none of them
can have either longitude or right ascension.
A further difficulty arises out of the huge number of the aspects.
Taking both old and new, and including conjunction and parallel, there
are no fewer than 55 of them.1 The authors recognise mundane as
well as zodiacal aspects, so that this will make 110. Of the enormous
mass of directions that will here be possible a mere chance coincidence
will surely make one direction or another agree with any event that
may happen, whether good or bad. And yet we are told that—"The
new aspects will clear the air of absurdities. They will make Astrology
more scientific." Surely "more" here should read "less"! And it
is not very scientific to draw conclusions from a large number of
cases in which the hour of birth is unknown.
The authors are strong advocates of the importance of the Part of
Fortune and the Dragon's Head and Tail, and bring forward much
evidence in support of their contentious; but space will not allow of
further examination of these and of several other points which are
well worthy of consideration. Whether we agree with Miss Croysdale
and Mr Wilde or not, they have produced a book which is likely
to attract a good deal of attention and arouse much controversy.
H. S. Green

1
By-the-way, the now generally recognised angle of 150° with its possible
subdivisions is omitted. Why is this?
 105

better to tlje (Ebitor

HINTS TO COF<UESl->ONDl£NTS.—Letters of general interest only are
inserted. Writers of signed articles are alone responsible for the opinions contained
(herein. Correspondents desiring acknowledgment or reply will please enclose a
stamped addressed envelope.
Letters are inserted at the earliest-possible opportunity, but are sometimes
unavoidably held over through lack of space. Correspondents will please remember
(i) that all communications should be written upon one side of the paper only;
(ii) that planetary positions. well as bhth data, should be given where possible ;
(iii) that in forniHtioa should be pat as concisely as is compatible with clearness.
Neglect of these considerations may cause otherwise valuable letters to be
excluded from these pages.

"YOUR DESTLNY AND THE STARS"

It is to be hoped you will give Mr Wilde's new theories a
thorough analysis in an early number. The theory of sidereal and
mean time wants explaining as clearly as the "Precession of the
Equinoxes," but apparently the equation of time is allowed for in at
least Raphael's and Zadkiel's Ephemerides. The earth must turn on
its axis 366 times to produce 365 days; but it is a bit difficult to
understand how the Sun gets sometimes ahead and sometimes behind
"sidereal " time, when apparently it should always be about 3°' 57"
behind "conventional " sidereal time every day.
But he evidently dogmatises without due investigation, and here
is an instance that convicts him.
On page 38, last par., referring to the late Prince Consort, he
says, the brevity of his life is "inexplicable" without the "new"
aspects. But I have a copy of Zadkiel's Almanac for 1861 in which,
under May, it says—"A most malefic position is formed this month
for an eminent character who was born with Sun in Virgo 2.22, for in
that very degree doth '? become slaliottary"—"and on the 24th the
Sun squares Saturn and other evil testimonies concur to show that a
national loss is now threatened." Again under the full moon nearest
"Vernal Ingress it says, page 41 ; "The stationary position of Saturn
in Virgo 3 in May following upon this lunation will be very evil for all
persons born on or near the 26th Aug. ; among the sufferers
Prince Consort." Again under Prince of Wales, page 45, last line,
1861 is evil for the father of the native."
Here is a threefold prophecy of his probable death from quite
other than the ' new' aspects—without which his death was
" inexplicable "!
The orbs of the ' new' aspects must be infinitesimal, however
much multiplied. Moreover while Mr Wilde piles on the new "evil "
 MODERN ASTKOI.OGY

aspects he quite omits the " noniles," or trine subdivisions of the trine,
which should be as powerful for good as the semi-square and sesqui-
quadrate for evil.
His "Perpetual Table of the Sun's Right Ascension," etc., is
delightful. Every year is a leap year—or else, from Feb. 28 to
March 1 the Right Ascension jumps nearly 8M instead of 4°*. Whilst
from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1 there is less than a l1" difference. R.A.
evidently takes note of the Calendar !
Where does Zadkiel this year get his long train of "primary"
directions in the Royal Nativity beginning with O^Ifz.d; whereas
you and Raphael say there are only 2 directions, O P <7 r and *I)r. It
is all very confusing to amateurs with little time to spare, but who
want to keep a keen eye on the possibilities of their own directions.
I think current ephemera! aspects as well as transits to luminaries,
etc., in radical positions are quite as potent as former.
MAi.cn I DILI.

[(i.) As readers will have seen, the book referred to is reviewed in this
issue.
(ii.) As regards the Equation of Time, sufficient information for practical
purposes is given on pp. 10 x5 of Casting Ihi: Horoscope; but if a more
minute explanation is wished the reader may consult Harlow and Bryan's
Elementary Mathematical Astronomy (Clive), Chapter V.
(iii.) The direction z.d. given by Zadkiel in his Almanac is, of
course, a ' primary' direction; those given on p. 25 of our January issue are
' secondary,' the full list of Primary directions in King George's horoscope
having been published in the " Royal Number," 1910 (p. 307). Both primary
and secondary systems are taught in The Progressed Horoscope, and the
relation between them explained.
(iv.) Correspondents using a iwn.iU-plume arc reminded that name and
address must be enclosed in every case.—En.]

{Owing to pressure of other matter " Astrology for Beginners "

is held over till next month.]

J. W. writes, yo/t/'iG: "This war has more than once demonstrated

the difficulty of interpreting aspects whose dates have been correctly calcu-
lated. I thought November 16 to zo would lie noted for rapid progress in
peace negotiations, but those very days turned out to be those spent by
Kitchener at the Dardanelles and in Salonica ; very good for England, but
not in the way I expepted. I calculate the 16th February as a very important
time for foreign affairs: also z8th to 31st March."
CORRESPONDENCE LESSONS IN ASTROLOGY.—Mr Gco.
MacLoughlan of Newport,,Mon., has been awarded a Certificatkof Merit..
THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE

Modcri>

Astrology
{First published in i8go)

APRIL, 1916.

®lj£ (BDitor'a CDbscrliator^i

CRITICISM, AND OTHER MATTERS

The great war appears to have stirred into activity the martial
nature of most folk, and some of our correspondents seem to have
been smitten very badly by the martial fever. At the time of writing
many letters have come to hand displaying a critical spirit, especially
those from America.
Mr Handel Thomas sends some humorous comments on the
methods of European astrologers which he considers " wise or other-
wise." We esteem his warm appreciation of ourselves, and regret
that his criticisms are too personal to publish in full for they are very
amusing. Mr Becker, he says, " fails in his reputation as a German
chef by reason of his cooking England so badly; his baking of
Germany is fairly good, but alas ! the baking has been done all on one
side."
" The clarion cry of one astrologer," he says again, " denotes
an astrological war on hand, there being a severance of the triple
alliance—Fatalists, Casuists and Idealists."
What the censor thought when he opened a letter from America
signed Catherine Thompson we cannot imagine. It contained fourteen
108 MODERN ASTROLOGY

pages of the vilest abuse we have ever read, all of which is

apparently due to the word " garbled " being used in our footnote to
Mr Becker's article on page 443 of MODERN ASTROLOGY for last
November.1 Other astrologers are not spared, and it seems we
have all copied from this lady who in her letter claims to have
" great talents " whilst we " poor creatures are entirely lacking in
originality," etc. Fortunately she does not see MODERN ASTROLOGY
very often, for she says her attention was called to our remarks that
Mrs Thompson had "garbled" ZadkieVs Legacy. It seems that we
are not the only ones to make this charge, judging from the following
letter which appeared in the Adept for February ;
Dear Sir,
Some time ago in discussing the astrological (7) prospects ot the
European war Catherine Howard Thompson went on a rampage. That she
deliberately garbled " Zadkiel's Legacy)" has been conclusively shown by The
British Journal of Astrology, by Modern Astrologv and by The Adept. As an
excuse, her brief letter in The Adept for January is disappointing. She says:
"The original1 ZadkielLegacy ' was made into an article suitable for a news-
paper." The question naturally arises, was it necessary to garble it in order
to make it " suitable for a newspaper " ? If so, then it is somewhat of a reflec-
tion on " a newspaper." Furthermore, she says," it has served its purpose and
fulfilled its mission, which was to introduce me to new readers." Is Catherine
Howard Thompson quite satisfied to achieve notoriety through a garbled
article ? As a brother astrologer, I prefer to be charitable and to believe
that she realises and regrets her mistake.
Yours respectfully,
J. Lawson Hall.
If we published Mrs Catherine Thompson's letter there is not a
reader who would not cry ' shame !' We can only conclude that as a
pro-German this lady has been feeling the reaction of her enthusiasm.

" Who shall decide, when doctors disagree ?"

By the same mail we received a letter containing a criticism of a
quite different kind from the Rev Stanley G. Best. We are never
afraid of honest criticism, which is always healthy, but of carping
criticism we take no account since it arises from personal feeling and
is always biassed.
1
Readers interested are recommended to refer to the page in question and read
the footnote, and then, after comparing the " quotation " with the original, let them
ask themselves whether 'garbled ' was not the mildest word that could with truth
have been applied.
 THE EUITOR'S OESEUVATORV

Tn the Editor of Modern Astrology

Dear Sir,
As a constant reader of your magazine and as a student of
Astrology I must confess that one's faith is somewhat shattered, not in the
truth of the science, but in the interpretation of the same, as regards the war.
To begin with, no astrologer, to my knowledge, absolutely foretold the war
as to exact date. Some said "it might happen but would probably be
averted." But the[ discrepancy between the] interpretations of the signs as
given by the most learned of our English and German astrologers, as to the
result, is more palpable. Contrast the English with that of Mr Becker's,
given in your November issue. If such adepts interpret the signs in such
totally opposite ways, what are we to believe ? Where is the truth to be
found ? What chance have we poor mortals of even attempting to interpret
or reading a horoscope ?
May I suggest that more space be devoted in the future in your magazine
to the Question Department, which yon have dropped of late, and less space
be devoted to long articles, the opinions of one man. This I feel sure will
make it more interesting to yonr readers,
Wishing you the compliments of the season and a bright new year.
Balmain, Sydney, Australia. Faithfully yours,
Dec. 28, 1915. (Rev) Stanley G. Best.
We can sympathise with our correspondent, but is not his position
identical with that of many as regards the Christian faith, and the
teachers of Christianity ? Our faith in Christ is unshaken, although
our faith in the ministers has fallen. The interpretation of Chris-
tianity, through many creeds and sects, is quite on a par with the
many systems adopted by astrologers; these may affect the reputation
of the students, but they cannot alter the truth of Astrology.
It is a remarkable testimony to the truth of Astrology that no
matter how much the exponents of the science may disagree, the one
with the other, they are never able to assail the science itself, any
more than, the truths of Christianity can be destroyed by the
differences which exist between various sects or creeds.
The foolishness of its professors has always been a hindrance to
the unanimous acceptance of Astrology. We must not place too
much faith in mortal minds that are liable to err, but search for the
truth ourselves by study and meditation.
Our first realisation as responsible interpreters of the science was
that we could not afford to dabble in Astrology. We had either to
make it a life work, or, let it go altogether.
The fault lies in the hypocrisy of men who claim to be teachers
of Astrology whilst they are otherwise engaged in some other line of
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work which distracts their attention from the main subject. There is
also another serious fault, the LOVE OF PREDICTING dates of events
in the hope that they will " come off," and thus bring credit to the
prophet. It is not too much to say that there are some things that
can and may be known, there are others that cannot and must not be
known.
To say definitely when a war will begin, or end, is not a wise
thing to do. Those who in all honesty make such predictions are
Fatalists, and make no allowance for individual or national choice
and freewill.
. When the matter is thoroughly analysed it is not difficult to show
how unreasonable such an attitude of mind must be, and yet there
are astrologers who have given many decades to the study of the
subject—one in particular, a barrister-at-law—who hold fast to the
fatalistic view.
So far as we are concerned the common-sense view of Astrology
is that "the stars incline, they do NOT compel."
While the discrepancies of the interpreters of Astrology are
lamentable there is always one remedy open to all—the investigation
and study of Astrology for oneself; and it is fast coming to this, for
those who themselves are students are quick to discriminate between a
true and a false interpretation.
Horary v. Natal
AVe have however one criticism of our own to make. Why do
the professional astrologers so slavishly adhere to the rules of Horary
Astrology when judging nativities ?
We often receive work done by others for examination and notice
with regret that there is very little attempt made to qualify or modify
statements that cannot help being contradictory, especially where
health is concerned. Thus in one case before us at the present time>
there are four definite statements about health judged by the rules
affecting the ascendant, the Sun, the Moon, and the sixth house.
No attempt is made to summarise them, with the result that practically
the whole body is affected, and yet as a matter of fact the native has
not experienced one of the predicted ailments although now of middle
age.
 THK EOITOK'S OBSEKVATOKY III

Until the doctrines of Karma and Reincarnation are accepted by

the professional astrologer we cannot see how anything more than a
superficial reading of a horoscope can be given. We have been
responsible for the judgment of many thousands of horoscopes in the
past, but at no time have we failed to make allowance for some
individual choice in our delineations.
While Horary Astrology must be fatalistic and denote a definite
result, there is no reason why Genethliacal or Natal Astrology should
denote rigid and unalterable events. We hold fast to the belief in
man's free-will where thought is concerned, and refuse to consider man
as a mere machine,or a puppet pulled by the strings like a marionette.
This free-will is confined within certain limits it is true, it is not
absolute ; but that is no justification for ignoring its existence and for
circumscribing it still more by creating the idea of a "stonewall"
series of fatalities that must eventuate. The exercise of that degree
of free-will with which a man finds himself dowered, is the only way
to secure a wider freedom of choice in the future, whether in this life
or another.
Just as a new interpretation of Natal Astrology was necessary
when this magazine started on its career twenty-six years ago, so it is
true that a special interpretation is required for National or Mundane
Astrology. We shall gain more by being honest and stating that the
rules for National Astrology are not sufficiently known at present to
make the ordinary interpreter sanguine as to the results of any
predictions he may make.

Uranus and Neptune

We are speaking with knowledge when we say that the rediscovery
of the planets Uranus and Neptune brought a different complexion
into the methods of judging nativities. We learnt one great lesson
from the introduction of these influences into every nativity. They
taught us that there were vibrations affecting the human family
to which many were responding through the opportunities these new
influences were affording them to exercise their powers of initiative,
of intuition, or of insight. Uranus, for example, brought a flood of
new thought into the world from the time of its rediscovery onward,
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but its expansive influence is only just beginning to show itself in the
minds of men who are not bound by the limitations and conventions of
Saturn.
In National Astrology Uranus and Neptune are liberating
influences that are an unknown quantity for us as yet, and we are only
just learning how closely Uranus and Neptune are allied to the signs
Aquarius and Pisces. When we suggested this many years ago the
idea was rejected by those who thought they knew more than ourselves,
but we have since proved their relationship and have profited
accordingly.

Astrology an Experimental Science

There are very few students of Astrology who realise the fact
that it is an experimental science in the truest sense of the word, and
therefore it cannot possibly be a fatalistic system by which rigid and
fixed rules are adhered to without calling into operation the intuitive
faculties of the interpreter. This is of course the issue between our-
selves and the old Saturnian school of Astrologers. We say that it is
not possible to know all that is to be known regarding the influences of
the signs of the zodiac and the planets; the old school say (in effect,
if not in actual words) that the natures and attributes of the signs and
planets have been handed down to us from the ancients and that it is
idle for us to add to what they have told us. We can easily overthrow
this argument by pointing to the planets Uranus and Neptune about
which the ancients have told us nothing. Natal Astrology differs
from Horary Astrology as much as the Sun does from the Moon, and
National Astrology is as different from Natal Astrology as the whole
Cosmos to our solar system.
To know something definite about National Astrology we require
to know more than we do at present concerning Rounds and Races,
also the cyclic periods governing sub-races and the birth of nations.

Scientific Astrology
Is it not strange that the same question should be put to us that
we ourselves were asking last December—what is Scientific
Astrology ? And he who asks it practically admits that there is no
 THE EDITOR'S OUSEKVATOKY 113
such thing; for that is what his argument on the necessity for taking
into account planetary densities, distances, rates of motion and what
not really amounts to. Moreover, he forgets that the term Scientific
Astrology is not ours; we only quoted it; so that in demolishing it the
damage does not affect us, even if the argument is sound. It is his
own colleague who is affected.
Will there ever be a real Science of Astrology, or is this impossible ?
We believe honestly that all schools of thought are working in this
direction, each to the best of its ability and in different ways. Some
day they may meet in a greater unity than has ever yet been seen in
the astrological world. It rests with astrologers themselves whether
they hasten or hinder the coming of that day; for unity is not the
possession of sectaries but of the whole body of workers and thinkers.
In the February "Observatory" some remarks were included on
the subject of the direction of planets to planets, and we expressed the
opinion—to which we still adhere—that these are legitimate directions,
whether they occur in the primary, the secondary, or any other system.
The writer to whom we referred now explains bis position by saying
that he meant that it is wrong to direct promittors to promittors.
In our opinion the distinction between promittors and significators
is an arbitrary man-made distinction, not based upon anything occurring
in nature; and we repeat that any heavenly body may be directed to
any other heavenly body except when extreme difference of latitude
renders this of no effect.
To take King George's horoscope as an illustration. Saturn is in
the seventh house at birth. By the axial rotation of the earth, this
planet passes down through the sixth and fifth houses and forms
various aspects to radical positions as it does so. When it gets
somewhere near the cusp of the fifth house, so that it occupies a
similar relation to the meridian to that held by Mars in the horoscope
of birth, the direction Mars conjunction Saturn will be formed,
zodiacal or mundane as the case may be, according to whether the
zodiacal or the mundane position of Mars is employed in the calculation.
The effect of any such direction is similar to that which it would
have had if it had occurred as an aspect in the radical horoscope ; but
its influence is limited and conditioned, first by the fact that it is only
a temporary and passing influence; second, by the relative weakness
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or strength and by the benefic or malefic nature of the two planets by

position at birth ; and third, by the nature of the other directions
amidst which it falls.
In this case Mars in Leo and Saturn in Libra are both well placed
at birth, which strengthens them for good and limits the evil
possibilities. Saturn comes out of the seventh house, open enemies
and war; and the direction occurs in the midst of a great war.
Mars was in the fifth house at birth, " children " ; and not very
long before, Prince Albert, the King's second son, underwent an
operation for appendicitis. Moreover very soon afterwards occurred
the sudden collapse of the government and the formation of the
Coalition; in connection with which, notice that Mars in the fifth
house opposes the eleventh house, " Parliament," and that Saturn rules
the tenth and eleventh houses. But even this is not all, for Saturn
signifies, amongst other events, accidents from falls ; and the King's
fall from his horse on October 28 occurred on a day when the following
transits were within orbs:—Sun square Mars; Neptune conjunction
Mars; Mars conjunction Mars.
We do not say, of course, that this one direction was solely
responsible, astrologically speaking, for all these events ; but we do
say that it is not straining interpretation to point to them as agreeing
in nature with the direction.
These are facts, not mere theories like .the distinction between
significators and promittors; and if they are to be put aside as mere
coincidence why should not the whole of the rest of astrology be
dismissed as coincidence also ?

In answer to some correspondents, the correct solution to the problem

on p. 3 of January issue, is the conception and birth of a child after eight or
ten years of childless marriage—the lady's earlier children having been
born twelve or fourteen years ago. The point of the problem, of course, is
why should a period of sterility intervene after the birth of several children,
and then when all hope of further offspring had ceased a birth occur ?
Corrigendum.—March, p. 93, line 23. For ' fifteen ' read ' eighteen."
 "5

®lj« ^utt in ^ries

{March 21st to April 21st)
The Sun and Planets in space, as well as all terrestrial objects,
have their magnetic, odyllic and astral emanations, and these exert
an influence upon each other, in proportion to their sizes, distances,
and the velocity of their revolutions. These forces modify the
character and colour of leaves, flowers, growth of plants, etc. When
the Sun passes into the sign Aries at the spring equinox on March 21st,
the great miracle of the resurrection is enacted. Green leaves appear
again, and silently utter their great lesson of the resurrection of life to
the human heart; and yet for the most part mankind takes little heed
of spring's message.
As the Sun passes through Aries, energy awakes everywhere, life
in action is seen on all sides, and persons born with the Sun in Aries
(Sun in the house of Mars) partake of a similar nature. Their
temperament is warm and expansive, courageous, impulsive and
energetic, and their constitution generally strong and vigorous.
Expression is the very life of the Aries man, so that he is generally
very much to the front, a leader rather than a follower, but always a
pioneer and loving new things and new enterprises. He likes to break
up new ground and to disturb existing conditions for that which he
considers superior. Strength, force and energy being the attributes
of the Sun in Aries, life rather than consciousness is expressed by his
children. Boldness, aggressiveness, assertiveness, combined with
great positiveness, render the Aries mind imperious, versatile,
magnanimous, generous, but often too rash, excitable and impulsive.
The mind is combative and forceful, and impatience is the great fault
of all Aries people. Argument they love for its own sake, and a war
of wits is one of their keen pleasures. As this sign governs the head
and face, the consciousness of the Aries individual must express
itself through the head, of which the tongue is generally an active
member, requiring discipline and restraint. Aries people always are
futurists; the look forward, their ideals are generally in advance of
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the times, and they incline towards prophecy, and love to predict
things that they see are likely to happen; but they are more idealistic
than practical, seeing things as they desire them to be rather than as
they are. Their own point of view is seen so strongly, that it is
difficult to get them to understand another's, thus they get the credit
of being very intolerant. They are lovers of change, novelty, romance ;
in short, they live in a world of ideas and what they most lack are
caution and self-control. They are splendid workers in any cause that
does not need plodding or sustained labour. Obstacles, ram-like, they
nearly always leap over, for their enthusiasm knows no bounds and
generally withstands all difficulties and obstacles.
The true mission of these people is to inspire and lead, as they
are natural commanders, good speakers and sometimes even prophets.
Diseases.—As Aries rules the head, any strain or over-fatigue or
undue excitation of the emotions will produce very severe headaches,
neuralgia and neuritis. The eyes suffer when they are magnetically
depleted, and by reflex action the stomach and kidneys may be
impaired. Fresh air, warmth, rest and quiet are their best remedies:
and travel, change of scene, and harmonious surroundings will work
wonders. As they scatter their forces so much in speech, silence is
one of the greatest factors in restoring their equilibrium. Drugs are
of little avail and purgatives are harmful.
Occupation or Profession.—Persons of this type succeed as
leaders, designers, phrenologists, auctioneers, salesmen, elocutionists,
writers of fiction, lecturers, travelling companions, etc.
Gems.—All red stones; the ruby, coral, bloodstone, jasper, etc..
Their fortunate day is Tuesday. Their auric colour bright or rose red
and sometimes scarlet.
Moral Growth.—As Aries is inclined to self-love, salvation for
them is to love another better than self. As the Sun each spring
returns, bringing forth beauty and the fuller expression of life, so for
the Aries nature does the divine warmth of the Spirit bring that love
which is sacrifice (the mission of sacrifice is to make holy), and thus
is Mars transmuted into Venus. Strength merges into tenderness ;
ambition, self-assertion and selfishness into union and co-operation,
and thus does the spiritual nature become unfolded, and Aries is saved.
Bessie Leo
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International ^Btrologjj

THE APRIL NEW MOON

Q rf D 2^4/1916, 4.21 p.m., London
X XI
xi XII 11 111
(1) D17 <B24 A25 11120 ^=13 IU12
(2) 0 29 6 It* 6 nj 30 ^.23 11123
(3) ®!I5 ^123 11120 2VI0 111 4 /
(4) T 2 H 8 017 m2l 4110 ttji 3
(1) London (2) Berlin ((3) Petrograd (4) New York
GD 1 1 i
T 12.36 To.25 826.53 Jlix.io rii.48 5310.0 *18.38 5329.53

Jupiter, Sun, and Moon are in conjunction on the cusp of the

eighth house at London in trine to their dispositor Mars, which
planet is in mutual reception with the Sun. These are extremely
fortunate influences, and taking into account the signs in which they
fall and their positions in King George's horoscope, they indicate
increased energy infused into our foreign affairs, success abroad, good
fortune following our arms and our diplomacy, the support and good-
will of friends, and the overcoming of enemies. The luminaries and
Jupiter are in the seventh house from Berlin to Petrograd and it
seems likely that some attempts towards lessening the severity of the
war or even of securing peace may be made in central or eastern
Europe; and the positions are more favourable for the Allies than for
the Central Powers.
Against this is the fact that Saturn squares the luminaries and
Jupiter and is elevated above them, shedding a baleful light over the
whole of Europe from the mid-heaven; and Saturn is in its detriment and
has no strong good aspect. Royalties and fighting men will be popular
and successful, exchanging visits and appearing in public functions and
ceremonials, but governments and statesmen will be unfortunate,
unpopular, and with a very uncertain tenure of power. Some govern-
ment is likely to fall, some notable statesman or public personage will
die ; and with the Sun so near the eighth cusp death may claim someone
of royal blood, although on the whole monarchs will be more prosperous
 ii8 MODERN ASTROLOGV

than ministers. Diplomats will be very active in connection with

foreign affairs, and the various countries will be drawn more closely
together through their common interests. Problems bearing upon
international money matters will be of great importance and will
present grave difficulties, but Great Britain and France will be more
favourably situated than most.
Towards the end of the lunation Mars will draw near to the
opposition of Uranus, which will disturb the various parliaments and
legislative bodies very seriously and cause embittered debates; theatres
and places of amusement will be very unfortunate. Days on which
the Moon or any other body forms the conjunction or square of either
of these planets will be unfortunate: e.g., April 4, 5, 12, 19, 25, 26.
The luminaries will rise in the Pacific Ocean; culminate in the
West Indies, East Canada, and South America; set in the Balkans,
Turkey, and Poland; and will be on the nadir in China.
Saturn is a very critical point at this lunation, and therefore it is
worth noting that at the time of New Moon Saturn will rise in the
east of the United States; culminate in eastern Europe, Austria,
Poland, Greece, Turkey, and the Balkans; set in Japan; and will be
on the nadir in the Pacific Ocean.
The place of the lunation falls as follows in various horoscopes;
King George rfij) Czar dfa!
of Italy d^A Emperor Germany □ 8 a b
,, Spain d « ,, Austria □ V
,. Belgium a iji General Joffre aj

THE ENTRY OF JUPITER INTO ARIES

An error of calculation occurs on page 50, February. The
entry of Jupiter into Aries took place at 6h 271" 29' a.m. on 12/2/1916,
and the R.A.M.C. at London was 15h 51m 26*. This makes a difference
in the cusps of houses, which should read as under (to the nearest
degree) :—
x xi xii i ii iii
(i) / O / t8 W 6 V327 *26 H 6
2) / 13 n o «l8 5=lS Tio «22
3) 7 28 H11 VI29 K2i «23 nis
(4) T13 ^14 m8 "128 730 =6
(5) =t24 H26 » I nr 8 ® 3 2B27
(1) London (z) Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) New York (5) Calc.uta
The planets are as before, namely; Q=t22.i4. DII6.55, 5 =8.2, ? *28.21,
J iUg-iiP, %To.o. baaio.!?!", ^ =:i6.3.
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

No appreciable alteration is required in the prognostications

based upon the maps, but the indications are distinctly less favourable
for Berlin and more favourable for Petrograd. At Berlin the opposi-
tion of Uranus and Mars falls very close to the cusps of the first and
seventh house, an extremely unfortunate influence and threatening
the most serious disasters at the hands of enemies. At Petrograd
Jupiter and Venus are both rising, which is extremely fortunate, and
this agrees with the success that has attended Russian arms recently,
especially the capture of Erzerum. Russia is under better influences
than most countries and is likely to advance considerably if this cycle
of Jupiter has any importance. Its troubles fall from the twelfth and
sixth houses, but those of Berlin are angular.
Mars is too near the cusp of the fourth house at Calcutta to be
pleasant, and shows discontent with the Government and popular
agitations, but the Government is strong, and the Moon rising well
aspected is veiy fortunate for the people.
Mistakes will happen occasionaily and I am sorry that this was
not detected in .time. I am much obliged to a correspondent for
calling attention to it.
H. S. Green

A HEAvy Assize.—" In opening the .Manchester Winter Assizes to-day

(15/2/1916), Mr. Justice Bailhache, who took the criminal business, said the
marked diminution of crime which had been observed during the war in most
parts of the country not only was not showu in the calendar of that Assizes,
but the list of cases was unusually heavy and serious. It was very deplorable
to note that there were no fewer than six separate charges of murder in a
Calendar of 46 cases. He believed that there had not been so many charges
of murder in one Calendar in Manchester for many years."
The Manchester correspondent who forwards the foregoing cutting
remarks that the astrological interest lies in the fact that whereas there has
been considerably less crime in every other part of the Kingdom, in
Manchester (said to be under the rulership of Cancer)crimebasconsiderably
increased. The last conjunction of Mars and Saturn took place in Cancer,
and Saturn still occupies that sign.
Sigx-Rulership of Nations.—A group of students is considering the
question of the Sign-Rulership of Nations, the nation at present under
discussion being Great Britain, for whcm Sagittarius, Aries, Leo, and even
Capricorn have been suggested. Will readers who have ideas on this subject
kindly forward them, addressed to the Sub-Editor, 40, Imperial Buildings,
London, E.C.
120

JUfmlagy anJr tlje ^IjjjsiciaiL

Dk \V. jM. Storar, of Ramsgate, lectured on this subject to

the International Club for Psychical Research, London, on December
3, and delighted his audience not less by his breezy personality than
by his racy account of twenty-five years' observations concerning the
influence of the sun, moon, and planets on the lives of his patients.
The. doctor began by pointing out that the study of astrology was
ancient when Abraham left the land of Uz to settle in the land of
Canaan, and all ancient literatures had taken the science for granted.
Hippocrates recommended that no physician should be trusted with
the treatment of diseases who was ignorant of astrological science, and
maintained that the rising and setting of certain planets at birth had a
great effect on diseases. Lord Bacon, the biggest-brained man of his
age, had a firm belief in the old science, and in the time of the Stuarts
every physician professed some acquaintance with it. At the end of
the eighteenth century the great genius Mesmer, the originator of
mesmerism, graduated at Vienna with a thesis on "The Influence
of the Planets on the Human System." But since then, said the
doctor, no respectable physician had associated himself with the
subject. (Laughter.)
A friend of his own used to regale him with full-flavoured stories
as to the wonders of the science, and he could not refrain from laughter.
His friend, chagrined by his sneers, undertook to prove to him its
value. He cast the doctor's own horoscope and picked out the month
and year when he should have had ill-health. His friend was quite
accurate, and that was the only time in his life the doctor's health had
given serious concern to his friends. " And thus began my wisdom,"
said the doctor.
His friend assured him that a knowledge of astrology would help
towards a better estimation of his patients' original constitution, and
throw great light on many problems of diagnosis and prognosis. So
he began the study, much prejudiced against it, but soon discovered
there was something in it. He found in cases of deformed patients
 ASTUOLOGY AND THE PHYSICIAN 121

that the deformity was accounted for by certain malefic planetary

aspects at their birth. He took such a horoscope to his expert friend,
who immediately on looking at it said that if the man were alive he
was a hunchback. In another case he showed him the planetary map
of a young woman, and his friend said at once if that girl had not a
bad back she would have. She was at that moment being treated in
London for spinal curvature.
The result of his own observations in thousands of cases during
the past quarter of a century had led him to conclude that many
illnesses, their nature, and the time they would occur were predicable
from the moment of birth. He had found the science helpful, and
believed the official medical attitude towards it to be a mistake. He
exhibited to his audience horoscopes in which spinal disease, asthma,
heart-disease, epilepsy, bright's disease, and other complaints were
clearly indicated, and cited two cases where astrology had cleared up
delicate points in diagnosis and led immediately to appropriate and
successful treatment.
He stated also that it was possible to tell whether new-born
children would grow up from a study of their planetary maps. Many
children were not fitted from the moment of their birth for the stress
of the world, and they fell out early. The positions and aspects of
the Sun and Moon were most concerned in matters of vitality, and
each planet when on the ascendant at birth had a marked influence on
appearance and temperament. He mentioned as a curious fact that
children tended to be born either close to the date of their parents'
birth-times, or about four months from them, and quoted as an example
that four children of the Queen of Spain were bom on June 20, 21,22,
and 23, while her own birthday was on October 24, four months later.
The doctor said happy marriages would be perfectly assured if
the horoscopes of the man and woman were harmoniously comple-
mentary, and he suggested that marriage broking, based upon
astrological knowledge, might some day become a useful profession !
Each sign of the zodiac, when emphasised in a horoscope by being
on the ascendant or having the sun in it at birth, produced its own
type and temperament. In the Acts of the Apostles they were told
that the men of Lystia called Barnabas Jupiter because he gave gifts,
and Paul Mercury because he was the chief speaker. The late King
122 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Edward was a typical Jove, the soul of kindness and good nature.
Both Mr Gladstone and Mr Chamberlain were born with Mercury
just peeping over the eastern horizon, and they were the chief speakers
of the past generation. The doctor said he had been asked in 1891
how he would regard a young man born on January 17, 1863, at
8.55 a.m., at Manchester. He cast a horoscope for the time and said
—" The gentleman then born has a remarkably fine nature ; he has
good health, a pleasant appearance, much talent of a high order, and
a very graceful elocution. In fact, he is an orator. He has great
love of humanity, likes popular applause, and has great capacity for
winning it. I should judge him to be a first-rate actor, or someone
high in public estimation, with a brilliant and honourable career before
him." That young man was now The Right Hon. D. Lloyd George,
His Majesty's Minister of Munitions, and the doctor said that his pre-
diction of twenty-five years ago could scarcely be regarded as fortune-
telling in an opprobrious sense, as everything he said was clearly in
evidence in the horoscope.
Dr Abraham Wallace, the well-known Harley Street physician,
evinced much interest in Dr Storar's lecture, and asked him at the
close of the lecture for a list of the best books on the subject so that
he might look into it.

We have reprinted the foregoing report of the lecture given by

Dr W. M. Storar and published in the International Psychic Gazette
of January last, because Dr Storar has done Astrology a service which
he can hardly estimate.
We have had more enquiries concerning Astrology from the
medical practitioner than from followers of any other profession, and
in the whole course of our experience we have not known of a single
case where a medical man has questioned the truth of the science
after giving the subject his careful attention, and we have yet to
publish many interesting stories in this connection that will con-
siderably strengthen Dr Storar's statements.
 ASTROLOGY AND THE PHYSICIAN 123

VIEWS OF THE ANCIENTS

The lecturer did well to mention Hippocrates, who said that
" Astrology must be studied by physicians before they can be safely
trusted to arrive at a correct prognosis, and to employ the appropriate
medicines in the treatment of the case submitted to their care."
Galen said that the remedies appropriate to the cure of any
malady "are only to be known and judged by the stars."
Make this statement to an ordinary medical man, and if he does
not smile at your credulity he will change the subject at the first
opportunity.
Yet in the face of the many statements of eminent physicians it
is remarkable that modern practitioners should continue to ignore
Astrology. If this is pointed out to them, the usual reply is that under
present circumstances they have not sufficient time to give to the subject.
Paracelsus, and Cornelius Agrippa who was physician to
Emperor Charles V said exactly the same as Galen, who admonished
his contemporaries "not to trust themselves to that physician who is
not skilled in Astrology," and he considered that those were pretenders
who did not understand Astrology. Thus both Hippocrates and
Galen openly expressed their belief that medical knowledge was
dependent upon a knowledge of the stars.
We ourselves have had a peculiar experience with regard to the
ability of doctors to diagnose the cause of trouble in a certain case,
and with only one exception the temperament and peculiar sensitiveness
of the patient has been a secondary and not a primary consideration !
At first sight it may seem absurd to the materially minded to hold
that there are two principal sorts of crisis—the acute under Lunar
and the chronic under Solar influence, yet experience will confirm it.
At the time when a patient begins an illness the Moon's actual position
in the zodiac denotes the length and nature of the illness. Acute
diseases will run from the 8th to the 10th, 11th, 20th or 21st day or
even to the full cycle of the lunar month. The remittent increase of
the disease may be judged by the Moon's aspects to Mars or Saturn :
sub-acute diseases are terminated in three to eight days.
Chronic diseases are affected by the Sun and require special study
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" Crises are also distinguished as safe, doubtful, hazardous, and

not judged. The safe crisis is that which happens without any great
and pernicious accident. The doubtful crisis is that which appears
with great and pernicious accidents, and is the most dangerous. The
hazardous crisis is when, on the 4th day, the signs of concoction
appear, and therefore presage the crisis to be judged on the 7th day.
The crisis not judged is when the crisis is absolved on the 7th day,
yet was not to be judged on the 4th day by any sign of concoction.
" Hippocrates observed his indications from the hour at which a
man sickened of a fever, but not from the day whereon he perceived a
heaviness of the body merely, or suffered with headache."

THE APHORISMS OF ARGOL

The following is a translation of Argol's aphorisms on critical

periods :
" The chief [astrological] method of forming a judgment of the
violence and magnitude of a disease, or whether it is curable or fatal,
is by inspection of the scheme of the heavens erected for the moment
of birth of the patient, if can be procured, for sickness very seldom
happens but through some malignant directions of the luminaries, or
of the ascendant to the body or aspects of the malefic planets [Mars,
Saturn, and Uranus].
" Sickness also sometimes happens when an impending direction
capable of producing it, is united with some transit which may easily
cause it. If this direction be supported by the benefic influences of
Jupiter or Venus, nothing can prevent a happy termination. If the
revolution of the year be evil, and the direction likewise concur in the
evil, it foretells that the distemper will be very great, fatal, or difficult
to cure. If the direction be weak, the revolution not unfortunate, the
benefics assist, and the profection favourable, then the disease is
curable, and health will succeed.
" We know that the moment of birth is a consideration above all
others, as oftentimes from the figure for the decumbiture at the
commencement of a disease no cause of distemper is apparent; this
however is evident that from the strength of the direction of the hyleg
to the malefics, the unfortunate annual ingress [of the Sun], and the
 ASTROLOGY AND THE PHYSICIAN "5
evil profection, diseases derive their origin. The directions for the
year should therefore be examined, and also other divisions of time
that might apparently cause such an influx; because it may proceed from
the directions in the nativity, and the transits of the revolution, or the
position of the malefics; but if the figure of birth cannot be had, or
if it be not exact and rectified by accidents, in this case the figure for
the decumbiture must be had recourse to and used in its stead.
" To judge from a figure erected for a disease, the state of the
luminaries, and particularly of the Sun, must be considered, as well as
the ascendant and their dispositors, and in the first place regard must
be had to the lord of the eighth house of the figure. The benefics and
malefics must also be observed, namely, as to their situation respecting
the said luminaries, the ascendant and its lord ; also how the lord of
the sixth (or house of sickness) and the eighth (that of death) be
configurated with them; and also the luminaries with the ascendant,
and if they are by any means evilly configurated to the malefics, not
being extremely afflicted by or configurated with the lord of the eighth,
then endeavour to discover what help the benefics afford, and what
evil may be expected from the malefics. A safe recovery from
sickness may be predicted if the luminaries, the ascendant, and the lord
thereof, be afflicted by malefic stars of the same nature as the lord of
the eighth house, with sufficient assistance from the benefics to avert
the evil of the disease. A safe recovery may also be anticipated if the
Moon be with Venus or Jupiter, or have their sextiles or trines, and
Venus or Jupiter in their dignities, for these planets promise a happy
conclusion. Safety may also be prognosticated from a square or
opposition of the benefics to the Moon (/or benefics in any aspect
produce good, and never evil), though in a smaller degree than the
sextile or trine. Venus assists more in hot diseases, and Jupiter in
cold.
"Saturn at a decumbiture joined to the Moon is evil, and generally
denotes long and chronic diseases, and is more hurtful when his motion
is slow or retrograde than when quick or direct. He also prolongs
the course of the disease, and generally causes a relapse. When
oriental, the heat and violence of the disease is increased more than
when occidental, at which time cold is increased. The square or
opposition is less evil than the conjunction; Mars and the Moon in
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conjunction is fatal, but Mars injures the Moon more in increase than
in decrease, and the square or opposition is less injurious than the
conjunction. The Sun and Moon in conjunction is hurtful, particularly
if in same degree or minute of longitude, if the Moon has no latitude."

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
It was and is generally known to astrologers that when Mars
predominates at the equinox or solstice, the outbreak of a martial
disease—scarlatina, smallpox or measles—quickly follows. On the
other hand, when Jupiter approaches his perihelion, or is supreme at
the equinox or solstice, and free from the proximity of Mars or
Saturn, the public health is good and the rate of mortality below
the average.
Temperament, receptivity, and the power of resistance, are all
essential points for a physician to know. Astrologers know that a
serious, or fatal, attack of small-pox can only occur to an individual in
whom a state of receptivity exists, generally due to an aspect of Mars
to the hyleg (Sun, Moon, or ascendant) at birth, and an evil direction
of Mars coming into operation at the period of the attack. If neither
an aspect nor a direction of Mars to the hyleg take place, then the
epidemic will pass by that individual. Mars when in either of the
signs belonging to the earthy triplicity (b fE V^1) but more especially
when in Taurus, at the birth of a child, is most likely to produce
small-pox at such time when his influence shall come into operation.
The planets governing certain remedies should be well known to
the physician ; among these are :—
(p Aconite, asafoetida, belladonna, cannabis sativa, colcbicum, graphite,
conium, daphne meaereum, helleborusniger, hyoscyamus, sabadilia, plumbum
metallicum, verbascum, veratrum album, veratrum viride, rhus toxicodendron,
symphytum, etc.
'4 Asclepias, eupatorium, gelsemium, stramonium, stannum,
taraxacum, etc.
& Antimony, arnica, arsenic, bryonia alba, aloes, capsicum, gentian
ferrum, sassaparilla, scilla, sulphur, lobelia inflata, lactuca virosa, etc.
© Aurum, calendula, cbelidonium majus, chamomilia, drosera
rotundifolia, eupbrasia, crocus, ruta, etc.
$ Cuprum, digitalis, sambucus niger, viola odorata, pulsatilla, ziucum,
etc.
$ Agaricus, laurocerasus, dulcamara, filix mas, ledum palustre
mercury, valerian, etc.
X) Argentum, opium, iris versicolor, moonwort, and all herbs that turn
to the Moon.
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Amongst the early Egyptians, according to Herodotus, each physician

applied himself to one disease only, some for the eyes, others for the
head, others for the teeth, others for internal diseases, etc., etc.
Dr Storar will do well to instruct his medical contemporaries
as to the truth of Astrology, for the doctor should not only be a healer
in himself, but also a man without bias or prejudice where the healing
of the body is concerned. The present editor of ZadkieVs Almanac,
Dr Alfred J. Pearce, has done much to place the ancient wisdom of the
stars before the medical fraternity, and we cannot do better than reprint
an article which appeared in the Almanac many years ago, entitled

ASTROLOGY AND MEDICINE

Hippocrates said that " The physician who was ignorant of
Astrology deserved rather to be called a fool than a physician."
Many of the aphorisms and doctrines of Hippocrates are followed by
the wise physicians of the present day, and quoted in medical works.
But strange to say this deeply significant aphorism of Hippocrates,
in regard to the connection which should exist between Astrology and
medicine in the minds of scientific physicians, is never quoted, and
(except in very rare instances) never followed out to its logical
conclusion by his disciples of the nineteenth century.
Medical students are now required to pass an examination (termed
preliminary) in the various branches of ordinary education before
they are permitted to engage in the curriculum of medical studies.
During the period of four or five years, over which their medical
studies extend in the public colleges and schools, they are instructed
in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, botany, materia medica, midwifery,
etc., and they have to pass an examination in these subjects before
they can obtain the diploma which gives them the right to practise the
healing art for gain. This saying of Hippocrates is, however
neglected, the young physiciansand surgeons are ignorant of Astrology,
and despite their academical honours, diplomas, and knowledge, they
are doomed to be ' fools'—presuming that, as we believe, this saying is
founded on wisdom and truth.
In the course of their reading the students will have occasionally
come across some astrological terms and observations which may have
128 MODERM' ASTRULOGY

momentarily excited their curiosity, but are soon forgotten because

their meaning is not understood. Should one enquiring mind seek
further enlightenment as to the meaning of such terms as lunacy,
cancer, crisis, influenza, mercurial, saturnine, jovial, etc., at the hands
of one of his professors, probably he will be told the ordinary meaning
only, and even should the true astrological origin be communicated to
him, his teacher will be careful to pooh-pooh Astrology as an exploded
art. In this manner is the oldest of all sciences, the foster-mother of
Astronomy, Medicine, and Chemistry, the only true key to Mythology,
and the only reliable basis for ascertaining the crises of disease, and
determining their favourable or fatal influence; in this manner is
Astrology treated, dishonoured, and trampled upon by the soi-disant
" really scientific" men of the present day. What wonder then that
in spite of the improvement of medicine, the scientific training of its
professors, and the skilled nursing of patients, death still claims so
large a percentage of the sick ?
The belief in Astrology does not involve a belief in fatality.
Ptolemy clearly stated that the planets agunt, non cogunt—they influ-
ence or incline, but do not compel. lie also wrote," This defect, of not
sufficiently considering the opposing influences, has naturally induced
an opinion that all future events are entirely unalterable and inevitable.
But since the pre-knowledge of particular circumstances, although it
may not wholly claim infallibility, seems yet so far practicable as to
merit consideration, so the precaution it afibrds, in particular circum-
stances, deserves in like manner to be attended to; and if it be not of
universal advantage, but useful in few instances only, it is still most
worthy of estimation, and to be considered of no moderate value. Of
this the Egyptians seem to have been well aware; their discoveries of
the great facilities of this science have exceeded those of other nations,
and fhey have in all cases combined the medical art with astronomi-
cal prognostication. And had they been of opinion that all expected
events are unalterable and not to be averted, they would never have
instituted any propitiations, remedies, and preservatives against the
influence of the ambient, whether present or approaching, general
or particular. But, by means of the science called medical mathe-
matics, they combined with the power of prognostication the concurrent
secondary influence arising out of the institutions and courses of
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nature, as well as the contrary influence which might be procured out

of nature's variety; and by means of these they rendered the indicated
agency useful and advantageous, since their astronomy pointed out to
them the kind of temperament liable to be acted upon, as well as the
events about to proceed from the ambient, and the peculiar influence
of those events, while their medical skill made them acquainted with
everything suitable or unsuitable to each of the effects to be produced.
And it is by this process that remedies for present, and preservatives
against future disorders are to be acquired ; for without astronomical
knowledge medical aid would most frequently be unavailing ; since
the same identical remedies are not better calculated for all persons
whatsoever than they are for all diseases whatsoever."—Ashmand's
Translation of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, pp. "18, 19.

TREND OF MODERN IDEAS

The foregoing describes the attitude of our scientific men in the
past, but a change is coming and the following extract, taken from an
American publication, will show the increasing breadth of view that
is coming in the scientific and doubtless also in the medical world ;—
"We young chemists used to laugh at the alchemists, but to-day
we are learning that their ideas held much more than a germ of truth.
We have confirmed and explained their crude observations ; we have
added many new facts and have introduced accurate measurements;
we have placed the old atomic theory on a sure foundation. Yet we
hardly hesitate to say that the chemist of fifty years hence will more
closely resemble the mediaeval alchemist in his general conceptions
than he will the chemist of fifty years ago. He will have come around
to the same place on the spiral, but with a wider sweep. The
philosopher's stone ? Yes, we may have that too.

A CoRRiiSPONDENT sends the following unusual case for insertion in the

new series of Notable Nativities:—Female: born 9 a.m. 14/3/1913, 51.7N,
1.19E; horoscope, ^15.5, KM. Tt9: n 20.19. ffiS, 0525 ; 0'Y'3-7. D —29-4.
ST9.5I''. ? 810.28, <7^25.28, yiiyis-g, 1? 829.49, ^^6.35, W23.14''•
^<^3.21. The mother had a fit of coughing which caused the child to be
born sooner than expected while the mother was alone. The child died from
the accidental severing of the umbilical chord during this coughing. The
doctor said it was the finest baby in every respect he had seen. The time is
correct within a few minutes : note Zf rf 0, and previous full moon in eclipse.
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" All pure and noble and altruistic thought comes to us from the spirit
of Mercury. He is the Saviour and Redeemer of Mankind. The
faculty or power which Mercury gives is spiritual vision, whereby
the mind sees; we call it down here ' intuition,' but intuition is
the sight of Mercury, that sight which pierces all the veils of
illusion and sees truth as it is."
From "Plaititaiy Influences," by Bessie Leo
 HOROSCOPK OF MK G. S. AKUNDALE 131

The horoscope of a General Secretary of the Theosophical Society

is always interesting—a General Secretary's post being a peculiarly
trying one from many standpoints. He must possess a knowledge of
Theosophy, an abundance of tact and discretion, and, above all things,
the ability to adapt himself to the various forces that play through the
whole Society from time to time. A very fair knowledge of human
nature is likewise essential in order that the first object of the
Theosophical Society, which is " to form a nucleus of the Universal
Brotherhood of humanity without distinction of race, creed, sex,
caste or colour," may be fully observed.

THE SPECULUM

Lat Dtcl RA MD SA Mundane Position

0 0 0 t 0 r O c
0 21 50s 2
47 23 36 2 6O rr 4 5 out of 12 cusp
2 34H IS 54 42 98 47 11 9 from 2
2 24s 2 7 51s 336
258
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18 123 3 126 57
* 5 3 54 under 1
0 12N 21 27s 246 18 34 57 60 49 5 35 out of 12 ,,
0 24M 15 45S 221 54 10 33 69 31 10 33 from 10
n 0 4IS 19 S'S 306 46 84 35 116 37 6 50 out of 2 „
h 2 25S 3 45S 337 22 33 59 94 40 2 26 „ „ 3 ,.
V 0 46N 10 41N 156 23 54 58 103 32 14 3 from 8 ,,
1 50S 12 iqn 35 5i 4 3° 74 17 4 3° 4 ..

Mr G. S. Arundale, whose horoscope we have permission to

publish, does not know the hour of his birth, but it is supposed to be
two or three hours before noon. From his personal appearance
Sagittarius was judged to be the rising sign, and with this assumption
a very careful rectification of the horoscope has been made, and the
time found to be 9.27 a.m. (G.T.) when ■? 28° 52'was rising. Two
astrologers working quite independently from the same data deduced
the same birthtime. The first event was the death of native's mother,
3/12/78, two days after his birth, and the map shows Mars in the
tenth house in opposition to Neptune in the fourth, rather a threaten-
ing position for the mother, while the Moon has the square of the
Sun and Venus and the opposition of Uranus from the eighth house.
The Direction in force at birth was ^ 8 D zod., 0° 19'. It would
seem ominous to be born under an exact evil Direction, but the Moon
is not the native's hyleg. The arc is found thus;
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S J) n) 5 48'. Dec 9 23 x. HA 157° 36', MD 53045,> SA 101° 50'. Then say;
0 0 ,
As SA IJI 103° 32' is to Ijl's distance from eighth house cusp (140 3'), so is SA aspect
(101° 50') to the secondary distance of 5's# from eighth 13° 49'
Moon's primary distance from 8th 14 8
Arc : i|i ^ 5 zod o019'

Among other events used for rectification were the following:—

The native went to Cambridge University, 1895; Dd mundo,
16° 56', November, 1895. Took degree of LL.B. May, 1899, D * 2
mundo, 20° 13'. He went to India and became Professor of English
at College, February, 1903, under :—
MC * t zod con 23° 57' QAIJI
Asc d O con 24 g B d Asc
O Rapt Far S 24 12
Pecame Headmaster of College, July, 1904:
1
Asc d 2 zod con 25033'
2 d <r mundo (in roth) 25 43
Made Principal, 1909 :
Asc * 7/ zc So'sS'
Asc d % zod 30 50
MC * 2# zod 30 54
The most interesting feature about this life is an event which
occurred May 29, 1910, affording an opportunity for a great sacrifice
and a deep affection from the higher emotions, and involving a series
of unselfish acts that culminated in an abnormal experience on June
27, 1911.

Here is the horoscope of one whose strength lies in his marvellous

powers of adaptability. Lacking the ambition that usually dominates
the thoughts of men and urges them forward into positions of impor-
tance, he is nevertheless forced into prominence by the faculty he
possesses of stepping'out of old ruts and adapting himself to new
needs and unexpected developments, and of making the best of all
circumstances. This adaptability is partly given by the position of
Mercury rising exactly on the ascendant, and this also gives attention
to details and a refinement almost amounting to fastidiousness, which
is rather increased than diminished by the square aspect of Saturn
from the sign Pisces. The mind is very rapid in its workings, able to
probe deeply into hidden mysteries, but subject to fits of deep
 HOKOSCOPE OF MR G. S. AKUNDALE 135
depression and often haunted by the fears that come from over-
conscientiousness and too great a sensitiveness.
Students will notice that the mutable sign Sagittarius rises and
that there are six planets in mutable signs (five in the Jupiterian signs
■? and H), and remembering that the mutable signs are wholly
Jupiterian and Mercurial, they will readily see that a great spirit of
compassion acts in co-operation with the adaptability, and this strong
Jupiterian influence focussed round the ascendant and aided by the
expansive Neptune (which during the life will come to the ascendant),
on the cusp of the fourth house, becomes a real driving force in the
life, and will take the native to the goal he has in view.
In addition to all this the ruling planet Jupiter is well placed, and
beautifully aspected by the Sun and Venus, with Mercury between os
a niediuiii of reception for the good aspects of the benefics.
The polarity of the luminaries is another interesting feature of
this nativity; it is one in which the Sun gains a considerable
ascendancy over the horoscope, and causes the abnormal versatility,
shown by the majority of the planets in mutable signs and their
distribution throughout the houses.
Comparing this horoscope with that of a former General Secretary
of the T.S. given recently in this magazine, we find the same eager
responsiveness and the same remarkable human sensitiveness. The
animal in the present horoscope is practically a dumb note, and the
mind is not only fully rationalised but also full of sympathy and loving
kindness. It would be impossible for this man wilfully to hurt
anything, and he would far sooner choose to suffer himself than cause
others to suffer.
The position of Mars in this nativity shows great devotion to
those whom he loves, as well as moral courage ; for Mars is essentially
as well as accidentally dignified in the tenth house, in its own fixed
sign Scorpio, and if the planets in fixed signs be regarded as
representing karma to be worked off in this life, then the culminating
Mars will offer ample scope for its uprooting activities, and the
illusions given by the opposing Neptune may be safely and surely
battled with ; while the ascending Jupiter, the ruler of the map, in the
humanitarian sign Aquarius, and in sextile to Venus and the Sun, will
remain the Great Preserver of the body as well as the great com-
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passionate force that places the needs of others before personal

inclinations, cherished hopes and even bodily weaknesses.
This position will also give the native the courage of his convic-
tions, as Mars rules the third house, and will enable him to support
unflinchingly that which he believes to be good and true. The
prominence forced on him by the planets in angles is not welcomed
and is never sought after (no planets in cardinal signs), for there is a
diffidence, a nervous shrinking, about coming into publicity, that
amounts almost to fear, given by the square of Mercury to Saturn in
Pisces. But let him once be met by opposition or have to do battle
for those weaker than himself, or hear his friends unjustly attacked,
and all the fight in him is roused, fear flees, and pen and tongue are
ready to wage war for the cause he would espouse. Then his power
of speech might be shown in cutting sarcasm, poignant and acute,
laying bare all the artifices and shams of his opponents and the mock
shows that have passed for realities.
The power to do all this is ever present, but the spirit of com-
passion is even of greater force than the fighting spirit, and in the end
usually wins.
It was his good fortune during the present life to have all his
lunar moods and fancies smashed by the opposition of Uranus from
the sign Virgo. He may analyse but he will not criticise, and he may
see defects in others but he will discriminate and make allowances for
personal idiosyncrasies.
The watery triangle holds severely afflicted planets, bringing
suffering by way of the emotions, yet it is by this same suffering that the
compassion is increased and the intuitions are quickened. Personal
attachments and personal ties will tend to be broken for him, not by
his own inclinations, but by karma, through Uranus in square aspect
to Venus and the Sun, and he will often be the victim of deceit and
treachery, and women friends will become the unwitting instruments
of many of the shocks to the affections ; but it is from such disillusions
as these that swift intuitions will be born.
Unkind criticism will frequently assail him, even from the so-
called friend, but the rising Saturn in the compassionate sign Pisces
gives birth to a patience and an understanding that will compensate
for all the suffering.
 HOROSCOPE OF MR G. S. ARUNDALE 135
It is not always fair sailing. There are many contrary winds,
but they bring him to a fair haven.
The desire to be of service to humanity is the great impelling
force of this life, which is further enhanced by the warmth of the
affectional nature, devotion, deep insight and the longing to produce
rhythm and harmony in the world about him. The majority of the
planets on the eastern side of the map show that during this life
abundant opportunities will be given for self-expression and that
restrictions will be such as can be turned aside and even used as
stepping-stones to further development.
The organism is a very nervous one, highly sensitive and receptive,
and there is a tendency to be absolutely prodigal with the resources
at command and to bring about nervous depletion by a continuous
over-drawing on the bank of physical strength.
A scientific judgment of this nativity must give way to a
psychological rendering, owing to the fact that responsiveness rises
more toward things of the soul than towards physical things. It is
the horoscope of a living soul, therefore of a living man in whom the
germs of compassion and wide-mindedness are plainly marked. His
faults will be more feminine than masculine, such as love of ease,
lack of ambition, and a tendency to ultra-refinement in tastes and
habits. He will love on when there is no hope for return, and will go
out lovingly towards all new life; and for young folk, and for
interesting things that are useful, he will feel a love almost amounting
to a passion. He has a keen sense of humour, with so many planets
in mutable signs, and takes life in a very free, and in what to some
may appear to be a carelessly indifferent way, but no matter how
he may appear on the surface, he will always remain the handy
man of service.
The latter half of life will bring the most golden opportunities,
the greatest illumination ; but even now the ivory door of sleep opens
wide and admits to sights and scenes that help and strengthen and
illuminate, and offer still further possibilities and opportunities to be
of service to mankind.

The "Question Department" is not as some readers seem to think

discontinued, but we are obliged to hold it over this month.
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tRUeatljer. (S-ljarnrtcr, anil ©rliits

II.—CHARACTER AND FORTUNE

The aspects that are found to be accompanied by changes in the

weather are the same as those which are employed in the horoscope
of birth, except that for purposes of weather predicting no distinction
is drawn between good and bad aspects. It would be an interesting
subject for research if some student who has the leisure and
opportunity were to study the records of the type of weather that has
prevailed at the birth of great, famous or notorious people, and show
that the aspects that attend a given cast of character or fortune
produce a corresponding type of weather. It is known that certain
great battles—Trafalgar is one—have been accompanied or quickly
followed by storms, and it might be possible to show that typical
births have their weather correspondences also, at any rate so far as
zodiacal aspects are concerned, and neglecting the accidental positions
in the mundane houses due to axial rotation, which vary according to
the hour and minute of birth.
As previously remarked, although there are complexities and
intricacies in the art of weather predicting, it nevertheless remains
true that observation of the parallelism between weather changes and
planetary aspects and positions is one of the easiest ways of proving
that the heavenly bodies actually do have some effect upon this globe,
whatever may be the means by which that effect is produced.
Anyone who wishes to put this to the test should not be content with
merely reading the weather forecasts that are given in almanacs and
magazines; neither should he depend upon the private forecasts of
some other student. The best way to proceed is first to familiarise
himself with the rules of the subject in their main outlines, and then
to notice day by day whether the weather changes conform to those
rules sufficiently often to remove the agreements from the category of
chance coincidence. Any open minded person who conducts his
enquiry himself at first hand in this way, and who extends his
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37
investigation over a sufficiently long period, will find that the rules are
really borne out by practical experience, at least in general principle
if not always in all their details.
The step from this to the investigation of the claims made on
behalf of the horoscope of birth is easy. If the heavenly bodies
influence the atmosphere in some way and so produce weather
changes, they must also influence the solids and liquids of the globe,
including those that enter into the composition of man's body, and
through his body they will influence the man himself.
It is unnecessary to include all the steps of the argument in
favour of planetary influence that might be built up in this way ; and
the subject is only introduced, first, to urge the reader to investigate
the matter for himself and not to depend upon the opinions of others;
and, second, to point out that principles which are found to hold good
in weather predicting must have some bearing upon the horoscope of
birth.
In the first part of this paper it was pointed out that, for the
purpose of forecasting the weather, planetary influence is divided into
influence by aspect and influence by position. Whatever may be the
value of the new positions to which attention has been called—and
only experience can decide this point—it is quite certain that the
older and more familiar positions have considerable effect and cannot
safely be omitted; namely, when stationary in longitude, when in
extreme declination, and when on the equator. But if these positions
have effect in astro-meteorology, the conclusion is irresistible that
they must also be important in natal astrology. That which influences
the globe must also influence man.
It seems to be a fact, however, that little or no attention is paid
to this question by writers either ancient or modern. Observations
are recorded concerning a retrograde planet signifying matters that do
not come to perfection ; that it is more fortunate for a planet to be
rapid in motion than to be slow; and that planets with great latitude
signify either stoutness or tallness; and so on. But either these
points have not been fully investigated by modern workers or else they
are considered to be doubtful, for they are seldom quoted in books or
articles on Astrology or in practical delineations; and the special
positions just referred to seem never to be quoted at all.
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When a planet is stationary in longitude it usually has marked

effect upon the weather. What effect has it upon a man who is born
upon that day ? Does it make the planet strong or weak, fortunate or
unfortunate, we should all like to know ? And again, when a planet
becomes stationary a certain number of days after birth, what special
effect is produced in the corresponding year of life ? That it should
have a decided influence upon the weather and yet none upon man
through his horoscope will seem incredible to all who are convinced of
the general truth of Astrology.
Similar questions arise with respect to the other positions to
which reference was made in the first part of this article, and students
would do well to pay attention to the subject both in the horoscope of
birth and in directions. I have examined a few well-known natal
horoscopes taken at random,1 and append the following notes upon
their birth positions, but I have not yet tabulated directions.
The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria: Mars was stationary
going retrograde in Aries and setting. In view of the assassination of
the Empress and of the disasters from which he has suffered by war,
this position appears to be decidedly unfortunate.
The present Prince of Wales had Saturn stationary in Libra in
the eighth house one day after birth, but because of his comparative
youth it is premature to give any confident opinion as to its effect on
the whole in the life history. He also had Mars entering Aries on the
day of birth, which is probably strong and fortunate; but here again
it is difficult to speak decidedly until the war is over.
President Poincare had both Mars and Mercury stationary in
longitude going direct one day before birth. So far as concerns Mars
this seems to agree with the Austrian Emperor's map in suggesting
misfortune.
Mr Asquith had Mercury stationary in Virgo going direct one
day after birth. It is not easy to detect any great misfortune here.
Lorrf fififcftewer had Mercury stationary in Gemini going direct
two days before birth. Has this any significance in connection with

' Students wishing to investigate on these lines may be reminded that in many
if not all the maps tabulated in 1001 Notabh Nativities the Retrograde and Stationary
positions are indicated, the letters srf signifying stationary becoming direct and sr
stationary becoming retrograde.
 WEATHER, CHARACTER, AND ORBITS 139
the newspaper criticism from which he has suffered in common with
Mr. Asquith ?
General Joffre had Uranus stationary going direct in Taurus on
the day of birth.
The German Emperor Frederick (father of the present Kaiser)
had Uranus stationary going direct in Aquarius three days after birth.
President Abraham Lincoln had Uranus stationary going retro-
grade the day after birth.
The following are sundry illustrations of the frequency with
which the other positions to which reference has been made occur in
various horoscopes. The cases have not all been confined to the
actual day of birth, because being zodiacal or orbital and not mere
mundane positions, the influence, if any, will presumably extend over
more than twenty-four hours.
Queen Alexandra; Venus stationary in north latitude one day
afterbirth. King Vic/or Emanuel III of Italy; Venus stationary
in south declination on day of birth. Czar Nicholas II; The Moon
on the equator, and Saturn stationary in north latitude; both on the
day of birth. President Poincare; Moon stationary in north latitude
one day after birth. The German Emperor William II: The Moon
stationary in south latitude on day of birth. Mercury stationary in
south declination one day after birth. King Gustav V of Sweden :
Mars stationary in declination one day after birth. The Crown Prince
of Germany : The Moon stationary in south declination on day of
birth. Lord Kitchener; The Moon stationary in south declination
one day after birth. (if the published map is approximately
correct, he has the Moon in the same degree as the German Crown
Prince.) Lord Rosebery : Mercury stationary in south latitude the
day before birth. Mr Asquith: Mars only 0ol' latitude at birth.
Mr Lloyd George : The Moon no latitude one day before ; the Moon
stationary in declination one day before; Saturn no declination.
Pope Benedict XV: Mars entering Capricorn, stationary in extreme
south declination.
Queen Victoria: Neptune nearly stationary in declination.
Mercury stationary in south latitude next day. Napoleon III:
Venus no declination. German Emperor Frederick: Mercury
stationary in north latitude. President Lincoln; Mercury no latitude.
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Lord Beaconsfield: Mercury stationary in south latitude; the Sun

entered Capricorn the same day. General Gordon : Moon stationary
jn south latitude a few, hours before. Franz Liszt: Moon and
Mercury both stationary in north latitude. Mine H. P. Blavatsky:
Moon no declination. Mrs Annie Besant: Mars stationary in north
declination; Jupiter only 0° 5' latitude. "Chambel": Moon no
declination; Venus entered Capricorn same day. " Sepharial":
Neptune stationary in south latitude; Sun entered Aries same day.
Alan Leo: Mars stationary in extreme south declination; Uranus
only 0o3' latitude; Moon stationary in north latitude next day. Mrs
Leo ; Moon stationary in extreme south declination ; Moon stationary
in south latitude one day earlier. H. S. Green: Uranus only 0° I'
latitude; Venus no latitude one day earlier; Mercury no declination
a few hours earlier.
It would be rather premature to speculate on the possible effects
such positions as these may produce ; but it seems probable that while
some are to be classified as merely positions of strength or weakness,
others may be more decidedly fortunate or unfortunate.
II. S. GUliliN.

Kebielu
Immortality Established tukdugh Science: by John
O.Yeiser. National Magazine Association, Eee Building, Omaha,
Nebraska, U.S.A.: (7^ X 51, pp. 128, thick paper cover: price $1.00
post paid).
Some time ago we received a letter from the author offering to
send a copy of this book for review. The offer was accepted, the
book duly arrived, and was put on one side till adequate leisure should
afford opportunity to read the book with that restfulness of mind
necessary to a just appreciation of a work having such an aim.
The author is sincere and writes well without wordiness. The
book is illustrated with a number of drawings and photographs, each
of which is used to point some useful suggestion or analogy. The
whole book is an attempt—a successful attempt—to derive a coherent
argument for immortality from what we know of the actual facts by
which we are surrounded, apart from any existing dogmas on the
subject. It stands on a different level from the general run of what
are termed " Higher Thought" books emanating from America, and
deserves a fuller review than this.
A. H. B
 Astrology foi beginners

{Continued from pnge 72)

About the 21st of September the Sun ceases to pour his rays on to our
earth through the medium of the etheric space called Virgo, and begins to
scud his vibrations through the medium called Libra (ii), the Balance or
Scales.
Those born during the month following the Sun's entry into Libra are
ever striving to get the balance, to be impartial in judgment, to see equally
the two sides of any debated point, and for this the complaint is often lodged
against them that they do not say what they think aud are afraid to express
themselves freely. They are artistic, possessing a keen sense of the beauty
and sublimity of nature; (he sunset and the dawn often make them ecstatic,
the wind and the rain have messages of their own aud the sweet scents of the
country appeal to them keenly ; and it is this love of beauty that makes them
shudder away from all that is deformed and ugly among thechildrcnof men.
It is so easy, so natural for them to say the affable and pleasing thing
and to ignore the harsh and displeasing, that a habit of saying and acting
what is not gtatf true, but is just a little false (but pleasing), may be easily
aud unconsciously acquired. Herein lie their danger and their test—to keep
the even balance of truth and retain the beautiful; but Truth is Beauty and
Beauty is Truth.
The symbol of the sign (==0 does not only stand for a pair of scales, but
is said to represent the yoke into which an iuitiate placed bis head at initia-
tion, a thought that is sufficiently significant of the tests that will await the
man with Sun in Libra during the whole of his present incarnation. In the
human body this sign governs the kidneys.
Leaving the sign Libra about the aist of October, the Sun enters the
sign Scorpio, the Scorpion (»i), and those born when the Sun is in this sign
have great power and force of character. They are people with strong likes
and dislikes, with great passions and deep emotions, and when stirred to
anger they arc best avoided, for their words come with a perfect tornado of
feeling, cutting to the quick and biting with their sarcasm.
Yet because they are so forceful and to be dreaded when roused, their
immense powers when controlled arc almost limitless; for the sign Scorpio
governs the secret, and therefore sacred, parts of the body, and the powers
of generation and regeneration come under its control.
 MOUKKN ASTROLOGY
A Sun in Scorpio person resents all interference from others. He,
himself, never takes a liberty with another, and should one take a liberty
with him, its reception is such that i'. is never repeated.
He expresses himself best when he has to meet with difficulties and cope
with disasters, and until that time arrives be is more often sluggish and inert.
His knowledge of human nature is very keen and he has the power to see
quickly through all shams and deceptions ; indeed it is of little use to attempt
to hoodwink a Sun in Scorpio person, as be looks intensely, below the surface
and beneath the veneer, and beholds the real.
He is attracted by the occult sciences and is capable of probing into
deep mysteries, and when once he has turned his immense will and powers
along the lines of occult research he makes swift headway and discovers
secrets that to the majority lie always hidden.
The Scorpion is a little animal with a sting in bis tail. The Sun in
Scorpio person is fast learning self-control, when he has learned to turn the
venom at his command in upon himself.
When the passage through Scorpio has been accomplished by the Sun,
he enters, about the aist November, that division of the ether called
Sagittarius, the Archer (/), and those born while the Sun is passing through
this sign shoot their arrows with swiftness and dexterity, whether such
arrows be of the tongue or of the pen. The man who sees visions and
dreams dreams is found among those with the Sun in this sign, as also are the
Church dignitary and the University professor.
Out-door games and all athletic pursuits commend themselves to the
Sun in Sagittarius man, for be pants for air and motion, and unless bodily
infirmity forbids, is a tireless walker,recuperating his nervous system (which
he is prone to strain unduly), by the aid of out-door exercise. His love of
animals, and of horses in particular, often throws him among jockeys,
where the joy in motion of riding swiftly through the air finds satisfaction.
He is usually generous and extravagant, loves to keep "open house" and
dislikes aud contemns all meanness and monetary restrictions and prides
himself on always " playing the game."
In the human body this sign governs the thighs, and where the Sun is,
there one expects strength—hence the love of exercise that is a markedly
strong trait of those born with the Sun in this sign.
(To be continued.)

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THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE

Modcrp

Astrology
{First published in i8go)

MAY, ]916.

®Mt0:,T5 ©Iisjirbatoiir

A WAR OF THE GODS

The interest we have aroused in Astrology through the

instrumentality of our publications is apparent by the letters we
receive from readers of this journal, and many suggestions are offered
especially with regard to subjects arising out of the War. One writer
requests us to deal with the Kaiser's horoscope on purely astrological
lines and free from all national bias. Another asks if we can define
the attitude of the astrological mind with regard to the War, etc., etc.
Giving a general answer summing up all the various questions
and suggestions received this year we may say that we consider the
present crisis to be practically A War of the Gods. It is not
exactly a people's war, and seems to concern monarchs and the ruling
powers, who, as we have already suggested, are the instruments in
the hands of the Gods ; and if our vision is clear enough, we can see
in this great war a preparation on a gigantic scale for one of two things :
a New Democracy, purified by suffering ; or, a much wider and more
beneficent Aristocracy. At present both rising Democracy and
apparently setting Monarchy are on trial before the Gods.
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The cry has gone forth throughout the whole world for Men, and
for leaders of thought; strong men who can work for the nation are
said to be needed everywhere. Where are these men to be found ?
For once in the history of civilised nations Astrology can provide
the answer. Men are feORN, they are not wholly made even by effort,,
granting that effort may become stronger than fate or what some call
destiny. If it be true that men are made by effort alone, then we are
at the present time faced with a serious problem ; for the opportunity
has arisen, but the difficulty has beeu to find the men to embrace the
opportunity! Whatever feelings the British nation may have against
Prussian militarism, it must be admitted that the latter were better
organised and prepared for the world conflict and fully aware that it
was coming. We anticipated a European crisis on the death of King
Edward VII., owing to the changing configuration of the heavens at
the passing of the Great Peacemaker whose able diplomacy had
prevented an earlier explosion of the national ferment.
King Edward, by his peculiar experience and social influence is
admitted, even by those who have not the ability to read the stars in
their courses, to have prevented an earlier European War, and he
proved his success in diplomacy by earning the title of the Peace-
maker. He was a born statesman and ruler, as shown by Jupiter
rising in its own sign Sagittarius, with Saturn and Mars also rising
strong in the sign Capricorn.
It is unfortunate that the British nation was not ready for his
reforming influence.

The Cycle of Mars

Persons steeped in materialistic thought may see nothing specially
significant in the fact that King George V. was born under the
influence of Mars, the War Lord, and began to reign under the Cycle
of Mars ; or in the other potent fact, that the Kaiser was at this time
coming directly under the vibrations of the Sun and Mars forming an
adverse aspect. It is however something more than a coincidence^
that Mars the War Lord began his periodical reign at the death of King
Edward with two martial rulers practically pitted against each other
on the chess board of life at a time when the martial vibrations were
 THE EIJITOK'S OBSERVATOKY 145
stronger than they had been for many centuries. The uprising war
fever of the Prussian Militarism permeated the region of the martial
elementals and stirred up the wrath of the Gods, who responded to the
call and obsessed those who were blind to all reason and could not see
that war so far from being a necessity, as they preach, is simply a
curse.
We are quite willing to do as requested and deal with King
George's nativity and the Kaiser's horoscope from an unbiassed
standpoint, but to do so adequately would necessitate writing for
students only, for they alone would understand the method of our
judgment. We will, however, try as far as possible to make the
subject clear to all our readers. We have said that men are born, as
well as made ; and we mean much more than this statement seems to
imply. How many persons living to-day can say they chose the
particular parents to whom they owe their birth, or the environment
and circumstances into which they were born?. Are all men born
equal physically, socially, mentally and morally ? We KNOW THE"/
are NOT! Some men are born rulers, others mere slaves, the
majority mediocre or just between strength and weakness.
We believe, and Astrology supports that belief, that men are born
into conditions fitting for their souls. Souls gravitate to the national
and social environment suited to their natures, and instead of living in
a world of chance—as by our actions we profess to believe—we are
living in a world of LAW, governed by intelligences as far above us as
we are removed from the animals. Each soul encased in a physical
body to-day, is here and now fitting itself for the nation and environ-
ment to which it will gravitate in the future. Nations, like individuals,
rise and fall, they also are following ideals and working out principles
which appeal to their particular temperament. Just as nations are led
or influenced by higher and unseen powers, so are individuals subject to
the ruling powers of the nations to which they belong. According to
the quality of the souls in incarnation, so will the nations be affected,
the one acting and reacting on the other. In British countries the
people apparently aflect the State, in Germany it would seem as
though the State affected the people. We have known intuitively or
interiorly, by our study of Astrology, for many years that the conditions
of the civilised world were to go through a tremendous (rial, and that
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each nation throughout the world would be Weighed in the Scales of

the Gods, and that some of them would be found wanting.
Great Britain was tested most severely during the first eighteen
months of the war with the most critical test of Unity. The nation
had neither wanted war nor had thought seriously enough about it to
be prepared for the oft-prophesied European War.
Germany, on the other hand, was apparently well organised and—
from the material standpoint—practically unified, the whole nation
accepting the mandates of its monarch. Its test is yet to come, it is
one that concerns the acquisition of Worldly Possessions.
In the horoscope of Britain's representative, King George, Saturn
the Reaper is setting in the seventh house, and in the sign of The
Balance—the sign of Union. In the horoscope of Germany's repre-
sentative, Kaiser Wilhelm II., Saturn the Reaper is rising in the
second house, the house of worldly possessions, in OPPOSITION to
the Sun.

The Chess-Board

The world is a great chess board upon which the game of mortal
life is being played ; some men are pawns, and others are pieces of
more importance. There are Kings, Bishops and Knights in each
nation, and when they have become too much involved in the problems
of the game, the gods touch a few of the pieces and a problem is
solved, either by a new light being thrown upon it or by a rearrange-
ment which alters the direction of the whole game.
Men think, in the arrogance of their animal strength, that by
force alone they can both master life, and decide their ultimate destiny.
This they cannot do. They can generate and reproduce life, but they
cannot create it. Neither can they alter or afiect the ultimate destiny
of the world,—although they may hasten or retard its realisation.
Fate is confined to matter: Free Will is of the spirit.
Those who work with the gods come under (heir influence for
good or ill, the remainder are more or less to be compared with straws
blown hither and thither by the winds of circumstance.
 THK EDITOR'S OBSERVATOKY 147
Good and Evil Influences
Whether there are evil influences or not, is a question that even
astrological students have not yet seriously investigated. So far as the
Divine Powers are concerned there is no evil, but there are other than
Divine Powers working in the world. Jacob Bohme writing on the
powers of the constellations says : " Since the stars have their origin
simultaneously in the world of light, and the world of darkness, not
only good comes from them, but also that evil which is found in the
terrestrial world."
Evil appears to come to the terrestrial world from the so-called
malefic planetsMARS and Saturn ; but, so far, experience has taught us
that that evil is the result of misused energy or calculating skill.
From the Sun, at the centre of our Solar System, there flows a never
ending stream of beneficent influence, which strictly speaking is
neither good nor evil. It is an emanation from the source of all light
and life, an indescribable essence, to which all manifested life may
ultimately be traced. This essence is modified in its character by
flowing through the Spiritual Intelligences who preside over the
planets. It is not the same after passing through the sphere of Mars,
or Saturn, being coloured differently according to the nature of the
planetary ruler; in the former case it is converted into emotional
force, and in the latter changed into the quality we know as reason
The Emotional Force may fill the whole of the elemental kingdom
with the fires of passion and so work through men in various forms
such as anger or lust, and the Reason may be permitted to become
cold and subtle. But it is not the Force or the Reason that is evil,
but the use that is made of either by responsible beings, which makes
it evil by passing through men'sheartsand brains to fill the atmosphere
around them with evil thoughts and feelings.
Light and Dark Stars
Jacob Bohme is more explicit when he says: " Good and evil are
revealed in the constellations (zodiac); for the wrathful, fiery power
of eternal nature, as well as the power of the holy spiritual world,
is revealed in them as an exhaled essence. Thus there are many dark
stars we do not see, as well as many light ones which we see."
This statement of the philosopher can be fully understood only by
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those who stiuly Astrology from a metaphysical or occult aspect.

There are many entities who on other planes than the physical inhale
this essence of the spirits of the stars, and exhale it again converted
into good or evil influence, which is again inhaled by men who use it
to produce active results. "The evil like the good in all things comes
entirely from the stars; as the creatures on earth are in their properties,
so also are the stars," says Bohme. A clear statement that the
character, disposition, and nature found iu creatures on earth is
identical with that found in the stars. Whether monarchs realise this
or not we do not know; we are quite sure however that the majority
of men do not, seeing how much they allow themselves to be ruled by
the evil influences. Some monarchs seem to be the puppets of the
stars, others appear to work with the stellar forces; and others, less
fortunate, are swayed more by terrestrial than celestrial influences.
There is not a human creature in existence from the lowest to the
highest who is not moving (whether consciously or not) in the influence
of the zodiacal constellations. Jacob Bohme emphasises this when he
says: " Everything that lives and floats is awakened and brought
to life by the stars; for they are not only fire and water, but they are
hard and soft, sour and sweet, bitter and dark, they possess, in fact,
all powers of nature and everything that is in the earth
The constellation (zodiac) is the cause of all wit; also of all order
and government in the world ; it is that which awakens to growth all
plants and metals and trees. For everything lies in the earth which
the constellations possess ; and the constellations kindle the earth and
all in one spirit together."
The Two Worlds
There are practically two worlds in which we live, the world of
ether around the earth and the world of matter, the terrestrial world.
The one we see know and touch, the other is unseen, and unknown.
The world of ether around our physical globe is filled with elementals
or entities who bathe in the essence of fire, air and water, and also
live in the finer substances on the surface and in the bowels of the
earth. These elementals are malefic or beneficent according to a
mans individual nature. Man attracts and repels those entities
consciously or unconsciously by his thoughts and desires.
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The reason why the profound teachings of our philosophers are

ignored by the men of the world is because the wonders of the life
around them have become commonplace. A new invention or great
discovery, such as the phonograph or wireless telegraphy, is a nine
days' wonder, and then it is applied to some purely selfish end and
becomes a commonplace, with a certain money value, and accepted as
part of the material universe with no thought as to its real significance.
Men are born with natures inherited from the Ether; how can we
expect them to do more than live according to their nature inhaled
from the essence of the stars ? The fault however lies not in their
stars but in themselves, as Cassius truly said; for like attracts like,
and we become what we think and desire. In thought and desire we
are free to choose, but having chosen we are fated to absorb the
essence of the stars for good or ill. If men only knew what a
wonderful reservoir of this life essence there is around them, what is
there that they could not accomplish !

The Secret of Power

The secret of all man's power and ability lies in his effort to
express this essence of the stars in the direction of expansion, and
more expansion,—not in self-imposed limitations or in the desire for
worldly possessions.
From an unbiassed standpoint the Kaiser is a great man. He
sums up in himself the desires and thoughts of millions of other men,
and he is the instrument, not only of celestial but of terrestrial influences
also, in which are embodied the essences of those stars which make for
acquisition of physical power and worldly expansion. The German
nation thinks it a legitimate desire to crave worldly possessions, and it
has hailed the Kaiser as the man who can obtain for it its desires.
The Kaiser has inhaled the essence of the stars and has called to
his aid the martial elementals and through them is exhaling a terres-
trial influence mixed with the celestial. He is either consciously or
unconsciously working with these elementals, and astrological students
do not require to be told where to look for the influence in his
horoscope; for the most elementary student can see its workings at
the first glance at his nativity.
 MODKKN ASTKOLOGY

When Jacob Bohme compares the Heavens and the Earth to

man and wife, he gives us a choice piece of astrological knowledge
which we shall do well to remember. Me says ;—" The starry heaven
rules in all creatures as in its own domain ; it is as the man, and the
matrix or watery form, is as the wife, who bears what the heaven
makes. The upper desires the lower, and the lower the higher, the
hunger of the upper is great to the world, and the world hungers for
the upper. Thus both are toward each other as body and soul, or as
man and wife." It may not be necessary for a man to know of the
power that works through him, any more than it is necessary for him
to know the source and nature of the electric current which illuminates
the lamp by which he is working; but there can be no question as to
who is the better equipped, the man who knows the nature of the
planet from which he derives his energy or the man who does not
know it.
We will not dogmatise about the horoscopes of Kings. We will
assume for the purpose of unbiassed study that they are the mediums
or custodians of a nation's power, honour, and social life. They are,
whether in the front of or behind a Government, the representatives
of the nation, and their Royal Assent is necessary for the ratification
of law and authority. We will also assume that the present great
conflict is practically a struggle between two great Powers, and the
struggle is for ascendency and the command of the Seas.
Uranus and Neptune
Astrologically speaking there is an attempt being made by the
powers behind the machinery of the world, to bring about a greater
response on the part of mankind, to the vibrations of the planets
Uranus and Neptune. In a worldly sense the influence of these
planets represents a better order of Aristocracy and Democracy than
we have experienced on this earth for many thousands of years. They
are the synthesising influences of all the planetary vibrations. Just
as the Sun and the Moon are general interpreters of Nature's finer
forces in the physical world, so Uranus and Neptune are special
interpreters of the higher octave of planetary influences. The
Emperor of Austria's horoscope may be said to represent the last of
the old aristocratic monarchs ruling in the western world, while the
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Czar of Russia stands as an Autocratic Ruler between the East and

West.
The horoscope of King George V foreshadows the coming of a
New Democracy with revolutionary tendencies in all governmental
departments. " If King George," we said in 1910, "doesnot do more
than any other living man of to-day towards the settlement of the
socialistic problem, then it will never be done apart from a revolution..
The accession of King George foreshadows a complete revolution in
national politics, and the consequent rapid improvement in national
affairs" (Modern Astrology July 1910, p. 282). This judgment
was given upon King George's horoscope, as the instrument through
which great national changes were plainly indicated.

A Critical Horoscope
The horoscope of the Kaiser is a critical one. He is shown in
many respects to be the last of his line, and one who stands on the:
brink of a precipice losing power and dignity. From quite an
unbiassed standpoint we can judge that he plays a part. This is
shown by the Moon, ruler, in the fifth house in the sign Scorpio—a
dramatic influence. The Moon is in its "fall" in Scorpio which as
ruler of the nativity is most unfavourable for the end, as it is the
lowest planet in the map. The Sun is in its detriment in opposition
to Saturn, by no means a good influence for a Monarch.

The Issue op the War

The issue of the Great War undoubtedly lies between Great
Britain and Germany, and that issue is a far deeper one than the
majority suspect.
We speak what we believe to be the truth when we say that the-
Kaiser became the puppet of the evil forces in Nature, and through his-
person and his supporters he is exhaling the evil influences which
those who have ranged themselves on his side have inhaled from the
stars representing their own natures. Wars take place between the
souls of men as well as their bodies, the physical outlet is the-
expression of what has been for the most part unseen.
There are wars in heaven as well as on earth. There must
always be war between what we term good and evil, but it requires a.
 WODKRN ASTROT.OGY

•clearer vision to see the war in heaven before it takes place on earth.
For centuries the whole of the western world has been leading up to a
•climax, and the time came in the twentieth century for a readjustment
of national affairs, and that readjustment is now being accomplished.
For many years astrological students were curious to see the
results of the great opposition of Uranus and Neptune from the
solstitial signs Capricorn and Cancer. The result we now know.
The people of the West have been tested, the gods know where
they stand, and theirs is the war between two ideals. We may crudely
term them Might and Fight, but they have a far deeper meaning. It
is beyond all question a war between the spiritual and the material.

Spiritual v. Material
We have never stated it before quite so openly, but we think it is
time to say what we believe with regard to Uranus and Neptune as
synthesising planets. The former synthesises the spiritual forces and
the latter the material, but they also denote a crisis in the affairs of
individuals and nations. This is why we think monarchs or the heads
of nations are representative men. They are channels or agents of
the good or evil forces inhaling and exhaling through their Souls the
■essence of the stars.
Neptune rises in King George's horoscope ; it culminates in the
Kaiser's. The significance of these facts requires more than ordinary
-thought from astrological students. The planet Mars strengthens
Neptune in both cases, but there is just one aspect which makes all
the difference.
The tendencies shown in both horoscopes are intensely interesting.
They are the worlds roulette at present and the little wheel may be
stopped by the gods at any moment, at zero, double zero, or any
point when the necessary readjustment has taken place. Meneither
•consciously or unconsciously work for or with the gods.
There is no chance in life, everything works according to law.
Neptune's vibrations may be translated into glamour by evil spirits
■who throw their nets, like the Retiarii of Rome, over those upon
■whom they cast their spell; but the pure essence through which the
vibration of Neptune passes is neither good nor evil, it represents a
-quality which every mystic possesses when the threefold nature of his
 THE HUITOK'S OJ3SEKVATORY

personality is united and acts as one entire radiation instead of three

forces streaming out in separate directions.
We see in one nation chaos, unpreparedness, and lack of unity,
and in another organisation, scientific skill, and national unity..
Materially speaking, therefore, there should be no question as to the-
victor from the physical commonsense point of view ; but it may be
quite different when the gods take a hand in the game since they lead
the souls of men, and are not blinded by the glamour of false ideals.
The planet Mars is the War Lord over all fighting nations. As
a great entity he is not concerned with the rights or wrongs of
principles, his business as an astral influence is Warfare, and he lends
that influence to all who can use it, equally to the skilful and to the
unskilful. There are, however, higher Gods than Mars, who is only
the lesser infortune. Saturn the greater infortune is the Reaper,
and the God of Justice who weighs the souls of men. Mars may
sound the trumpet-blast and awaken all the martial spirits in Heaven
and Earth, but Saturn holds the sickle and the hour-glass, and when
the sands of time have run their course he is the judge of motives..
The influence of Mars can be used for weapons of destruction as well
as to form the iron that enters the blood, or souls, of men. Men may
blind themselves with the glamour of a cause, by the adulteration of
vibrations that belong to different experiences ; when the glamour has.
passed however the realities of life must be faced.

Aristocracy, or Democracy ?
Those who are intuitive enough to work it out will know that we are
on the eve of an entirely new civilisation which will come under the
dominant influence of either Ukanus, or, Neptune—Aristocracy, or
Democracy. Mars the War Lord will test the aristocrats, and Saturn
will try the democrats. The symbolism is plain enough for those who-
can read the handwriting on the wall of heaven.
That the Socialist's dream of " equality " is an impossible one, is
known to the student of Astrology who studies the diversities of life
plunging through forms of various types to realise unity—unity, not
equality. We cannot all be equal ; we may find affinities, affinities in
thought and affinities in feeling, but er/iiality is a delusion, a dream,
that cannot become a reality.
 MODERN ASTROLOGV

While nations exist as separate entities they will be subject to the

same vices and virtues as individuals—jealousy, love of power, competi-
tion, and other peculiarities. Those who are democratic m s/uV/i should
study the democracies of Britain and Germany and endeavour to
discover to which nation as democrats they belong. They will think
and feel as though they had been born in that nation.—Astrology
teaches this idea quite plainly.
Those who are aristocrats in spirit should study the Monarchs
and Rulers of Nations and endeavour to discover to whom they belong.
Can students see the meaning of this in its wider and astrological
application ? If not, the meaning of Astrology has yet to dawn upon
their minds. Kings, Rulers, Ministers, Generals, Bishops, Lawyers,
Physicians—all men, all peoples and all nations are coloured by the stars.
Jacob Bbhme has explained how and why. Astrologers have explained
how and why. It is for the student to seek to know how and why.

The Seven Spirits before the Throne

" God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him
in spirit and in truth." The Divine power colours the whole of the
solar system through the Sun, the focus of His Life and Light. The
Seven Spirits before His throne have taken some of that Life and Light
and modified the spiritual substance for the benefit of mortals, and
immortals. We could not look upon the face of God and live, in our
present condition. That is why we come to Him through the
redeeming spirit of the Christ.
If it were possible to convey an inner knowledge of Astrology to
all who are now students of this great science, life would become much
simpler and at the same time grander and fuller. Astrology teaches
that we have no other life than God's life, and we manifest it
according to the "constellation " to which we belong, and to which we
owe the means and garments by which we manifest. It is for us to
soil those garments, or to outgrow them and demand a finer or more
useful garment, either from our own "constellation" or anolher.
There are no limits to our possibilities, although we may limit our own
capacities for making use of them. In this idea lies the meaning of
the saying—" God helps those who help themselves."
The problem we have to solve as students of the stars is how
 THH EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY *55
much fate have we to work through by means of the garments or
bodies the Soul wears, and what are the possibilities inherent in the
life of our Souls.
Character, the prime factor in everything astrological, is of the
Soul, and'is the cause of the Effect-Bodies we wear. Whether we
think of the stars as intelligent forces guiding evolution, or as the
exhalers of a subtle essence which we absorb, matters little, the main
idea is that we are fitted with material clothing in our mental,
emotional, and physical bodies, according to our CHARACTERS. We
teach that Character is Destiny on this account, and if the Kaiser is
not the fit and proper person to rule over the German nation then of
what value is our study of Astrology when dealing with national
history and the purpose of evolution?
A profitable study for any scientific astrologer would be the
history of nations as influenced by their monarchs or rulers ; but the
character of the individual man must be seen apart from the monarch,
viewed as a synthetical representation of the nation's destiny at the time
when he comes to the throne, or becomes the actual ruling monarch.
With regard to the horoscopes of King George V and the Kaiser,
we make the following unbiassed observations. In one case the rulers
of the midheaven and the ascendant are respectively in their detriment
and fall (the Kaiser); and in the other they are respectively exalted,
and in a friendly triplicity (King George V). Many students of
astrology thought our remarks on the Austrian Emperor's nativity
extraordinary, but of all the statements made in our Royal Number of
July 1910 and reprinted in Mars the War Lord (p. 80) we think that
the judgment given on King George's horoscope on his accession to
the throne the most noteworthy, and more correct than many students
have yet realised.
The positions of Neptune and Uranus affecting the ascendant and
the nadir in this horoscope are remarkable and to our way of thinking
they point to great changes in the method of government and the
promise of an entirely New Democracy. The future monarchs of
nations will have to possess uncomnon nativities to represent the
changes in temperament of the nationalities now forming, and we
must look for unique tendencies in their horoscopes if they are to reign,
as kings, in the future.
 ^un in Taurus

The Sun in the sign Taurus gives great endurance and will
power, and a nature that can resist, repress and control. Like its
element, Mother earth, it is solid and stable, and its keynote might be
expressed as solidity, for Sun-in-Taurus people are always reliable and
dependable people.
They are averse to change and slow to move, but have always
great patience and steady plodding power, and favour occupations
that require time for their accomplishment and depend on accuracy
and thoroughness. The Sun in the sign of the Moon's exaltation
gives a love of romance and a strong and powerful love nature, though
not outwardly demonstrative. There is a ready response to feeling or
emotion in others, and always a kind and good hearted charity, but a
slowness in expression and an outlook that is naturally more subjective
than objective. Sun-in-Taurus people incline to the passive state,
rather than to the active; they are receivers rather than generators,
and are somewhat difficult to understand, as they are silent and
reserved, and slow to give their confidence, or show their feelings in
any way. They are very sensitive and love approval and desire
sympathy.
The mind being somewhat lethargic needs a strong stimulus to
arouse it into activity ; unlike the Sun-in-Aries person, who seizes
opportunity, the Sun-in-Taurus people wait for its arrival, sometimes
with apparent indifference. If, however, they are slow to seize, they
rarely let go that which they have taken.
This nature is self-reliant, industrious and resolute, and always
thorough, careful and conscientious. The chief faults of Sun-in-
Taurus people are secretiveness, obstinacy, jealousy, and a desire to
dominate others. They are very sensitive and magnetic, and have an
immense fund of recuperative power; and though liable to contact
diseases from others, they yet make the best healers of any of the
signs, as they can magnetically draw away disease, and throw vitality
 THE VICTOR 157
on the sick and feeble. If they know how to protect themselves and
train as healers they will generally be most successful.
They are fond of nature, and a quiet country life, and have a
passion for music, beauty and harmony, but their chief danger
physically comes from laziness. All Taurus people need to energise
both body and mind and live frugally, as there is the tendency to
suffer from throat troubles (quinsies and diphtheria), and from the
heart and the generative system.
They can succeed professionally as musicians, singers or artists,
and in trades such as drapers, upholsterers, perfumery, decorative
painters and florists, or in agricultural pursuits. Their stones are the
sky-blue turquoise, sapphire, the chrysolite and the moonstone.
Bessie Leo

THE VICTOR

In the citadel of the soul there dwells

A hero and a knave ;
And it is the life as a whole which tells
Who rules there—kuight or knave.
" I am free as the air," the hero cries,
" For my country I live or die I "
" But what of myself ? " the knave replies,
" Let others fight 1 Why should I ? "

Where'er he may be, the hero is free,

On batflefiehl or in mart;
But the slave is bound with chains around,
For self he will do his part.
" I will rule thee, my slave! " the hero cries.
And from chains for ever is freed;
But ah ! If the hero it is who dies,
The knave will be slave indeed.

Everyone in the world must by fire be tried.

And hero or slave will win ;
The hero by trial be purified.
The knave still be slave to sin.
For though every one is free to choose,
By his choice he must ever abide;
But who rules his stars can never lose.
Mars will fight, and Saturn guide.
E. L. F.
 International ^strologji

The influences at work during the new Moon for the month of May
are very potent. Revolutionary tendencies are powerful especially in
Germany and very little ferment is necessary to bring the affairs
of the German nation to a crisis. Reactions are shown and the
probability of the nation reaching a climax in its affairs owing to the
culmination of the revolutionary planet Uranus in the map for Berlin.
The Central Powers will feel the influences most keenly and they will
experience some very determined opposition against them which may
seal their doom during the month. For all concerned it marks a
critical period in the great war; we are on the eve of great events.
New Moon 2/5/1916 5.29 a.m. London
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(2) ^13 3€ n T27 n 20 ic> 8 5024
(3) K O r 3 »2Q ® 15 53 27 ^ XI
(4) '13 >3 4 K27 HI3 T23
(') London (2) Rerlin (3) Pelrograd (4) New York
Q» 2 ? U
a 11.28 a 2q. 15 1726.46 4718.50 t 18.50 OTii.53 5=19.30 sio.o
There are two new moons this month, May 2 and 31. The first of
these shows Gemini rising at London, with Mercury just risen in the
end of Taurus. The most important feature of the map is the
presence of six planets in fixed signs; Uranus in Aquarius near
the cusp of the eleventh house receives the close opposition of Mars,
while the luminaries in Taurus in the twelfth house apply to the
square of both. These are rather serious and even violent afflictions.
In this country and Western Europe they threaten serious trouble to
the Government in its conduct of affairs and in parliament; there will
be political disputes, sudden misfortunes, difficulty with legislation,
and some danger of defeat or loss of legislative measures. There
will be accidents, fires, explosions, and strikes or labour discontent;
theatres and places of amusement will need to guard against fires and
accidents ; there will be many deaths of children. Money matters will
be rather more fortunate for the time being, but trouble is indicated
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

through railways, aviation, and the post office. Charitable movements

and benevolent institutions will benefit through increased attention
being paid to them.
The greatest affliction from the fixed signs seems likely to fall
upon central Europe and part of the near east, where Uranus will
•either be on the cusp of the mid-heaven or close to it. There will be
danger to monarchs, governments, and public personages here; the
people will be discontented and inclined to demand redress of
grievances and to protest against their rulers ; outrages and violence
are probable. Saturn in the second house will bring serious money
troubles.
Uranus and Mars are in the first and seventh houses at New-
York; this will disturb public politics seriously and will cause grave
international complications.
Because of the close opposition of Mars and Uranus, the position
of these planets is probably of more importance than that of the
luminaries. Uranus will rise in the Atlantic Ocean ; culminate in
Turkey, Greece, Austria, Poland, and the Balkans; set in West China ;
and be on the nadir in the Pacific Ocean.
The lunation falls as under in various horoscopes ;
Kisc; George d ? Germax Emperor rf j p
of Itaj-v d if ,, Crown Prince d 1/
,, of Sweden S <f Austrian Emperor □ )fi a L
Pres. Poincare □ y H. H. Asquitii d
When referred to the map for the spring quarter the luminaries
are conjunction Venus, which is favourable for England in respect of
foreign affairs.
New Moon 31/5/1916 7.37 p.iu. London
X XI XII I 11 Ml
— 4 0,30 11120 t 6 KJ II = 25
ii8 m 12 11130 1 15 >924 KI2
ni 6 11124 / 8 t iS - 9 T 5
018 A 21 10.-21 ^'5 mi 114
(i) London (2) Perl in (3) Petrograd (4) New York
G5 ? 1 i n h y V
119.59 1117.42;- 2,17.20 nil I.27 T2J.20 <014.52 1:19.41 J),0.34
The positions in this map are of less importance than usual. The
seventh house is the only angle occupied at London ; attention will be
mainly turned upon foreign affairs all over Europe; diplomatic
activities will be concerned with various questions arising out of
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

international relations, friendly and hostile, and important visits will

be exchanged and negotiations be going on. Financial questions will
be very difficult, and money, loans and taxation will weigh heavily
upon all countries, but prospects are worse in this respect for central
and easternEurope than for Britain and the West; there will be heavy
expenditure, failures will occur, wealthy people will die, and the death
rate and death duties will be high. There will be accidents to shipping
and loss of life at sea ; some naval engagement is probable ; aviation
will be active and successful and new inventions and enterprises will
be heard of here. Occultism will be under better influences for the
time.
. At New York Saturn and Venus will culminate, which will be
unfortunate for the President and public affairs ; business and money
matters will be troubled; there will be money and other scandals
affecting public personages. Foreign affairs should be more prosperous
and peaceful.
The place of the lunation falls as under in various horoscopes :
King George d0 German Emreror rf U
,, cf Italy g i; Austrian a hi q }
Pres. Poincare # iji a E Pope e i;

A FAMOUS PROPHECY
About the year 1453 the famous Notradamus made a prophecy
which has been translated as follows :—
In twice two huiiilredyears, the Hear
The Crescent will assail;
But ij the Cock and Dull unite
The Dear will not prevail.
In twice ten years again—
IM Islam know and fear—
The Cross shall stand, the Crescent u-nne,
Dissolve and disappear.
About twice two hundred years thereafter, the Crimean War •
fulfilled the first four lines of this prophecy. It is more than twice
ten years since then, but the last four lines seem at present likely to
be fulfilled.
The Russian bear did not have the French Cock and the English
Bull on its side at the Crimea, but now the three are united, and it
seems quite probable that the Crescent over Constantinople wilt wane
and the Cross replace it.
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^nslufrs to fljuestians1

AFTER-DEATH CONDITIONS.—Do the planets {and signs) influence the

.human being in astral, etc., vehicles after death, and if so how and for how long ?
I have always been under the impression that the soul was injlnen ced,before birth—if
so then to what extent ? And surely if such is the case, tjun it will also be infhtenced
after death ?
To give an example, suppose a friend died a year ago: would a horoscope
cast correctly and progressed aspects taken for to-day, give any idea of the happiness
or otherwise of my friend in his present state ? (318)
Since the human being cannot escape the influence of the zodiac and
planetary spheres, while functioning in the three lower worlds, we think
the influences must have some effect upon the astral vehicles both
before and after the death of the physical body. We cannot say to
what extent, however, because we do not know. It would seem to us
to be a question of responsiveness, and the extent of the self-conscious-
ness in the astral world as to how far the soul was likely to be affected.
It is imagined by some astrologers who study psychic conditions in
connection with horoscopes that a relative or friend when he has
passed over into the astral world continues to affect those with whom
he is in touch, by affection, etc.
If we think of the aura which surrounds every human being as
extending into the realms of the three worlds, (for they are around and
about us at all times), we must be as much in touch with those on the
other side as we were while they were functioning in physical bodies.
It is here a question of interest; we do not lose interest in those we
love when they leave us but continue to think and feel lovingly toward
them and they, being still alive in another vehicle, must feel that
affection. If we lose interest in them they may practically die out of
our consciousness on any plane, and the same thing must occur with
regard to their interest in us.
With regard to the friend who died a year ago, if the astrological
1
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question, and addressed to Question Department, " Modern Astrology " Office,
40. Imperial Buildings, I.ndgate Circus. K.C. Name and address of sender should
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 MODEKN ASTKOI.OGY

influences can be translated in terms of the astral or emotional worht

then it is probable that the progressed aspects are valuable in showing
the general inclinations of his thoughts and feelings, etc. We are
affected here by the aspects according to the intensity of our link with
physical things, and the same may also apply with regard to the
emotional body. Your friend's happiness or otherwise will depend upon
his attitude toward the aspects and the manner in which he translates
them.
To understand problems like these we must think of a wide
sweep of influences ensouling matter in denser and denser degrees.
Souls on their way down into the physical from the finer and more
subtle regions of matter vibrate according to their inherent power of
response. The physical world is the limit, so to speak, of certain
vibratory forces, in which those vibrations are tempered, changed, and
transmuted, or absorbed, etc., etc. Now on the way up, on the circle
of evolutiog, the influences are no longer compelling, and repelling,
but attractive and subject to the laws of the inner spheres, and it is
then a question of quality or power as to how far the Soul can self-
consciously respond.
DIVINE GUIDANCE.—Do you icuch an individual guidance [by higher
spirits) for each soul—i.e., " design " in each life and incarnation ? Ought we to
believe that our lives have a definite purpose, which may of course be found in the
horoscope, a purpose designed by Higher Spirits; or by Our Own Spirit?
From personal experience it seems at limes as if every movement were previously,
that is to say prior to birth, designed or predetermined. I suppose the great
question of Free will comes in here?
If so, do you believe that the human being is impressed mentally with this" plan
of life " and so forms his own plans long in advance of the planetary influences which
seem to be the immediate cause of the events ? In my own case this seems true; —an
idea lakes hold of my mind some years before the event and is often abandoned,
when suddenly the opportunity comes for fulfilment and is then grasped solely
because of the years'-old idea.' I have queer experiences with directions: Thus
in June of last year under bad aspects to Saturn my father in South Africa "cut
up rough" and insisted on my return, etc., etc.; this news reached me under bad
aspects (June) though written while I myself was under good aspects a month
earlier! Then again while I myself am under bad aspects in Jime, my father sends
me money which enables me to disobey him by remaining here. I receive it in
July under good aspects !
So my directions a/ways " work," but never so badly under bad directions to
Saturn which is my progressed ruler. From all this it would seem that "cause
and effect" in planetary influences is a complicated matter. (3>9)
We teach a Divine guidance through planetary beings: but there
are evil spirits as well as good. Each individual has a destiny designed
by Spiritual Intelligences. Certainly there is a definite purpose for
 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

our lives in the three worlds, and although we may not know that
purpose in our personality the Ego knows. If from personal experience
you have come to believe that every movement is designed it may be
that your Higher Self is deeply interested in your personal develop-
ment. The Higher Self knows we have only to listen and try to
understand what is required of us to gain the necessary experience
for a fuller and a richer life while in manifestation. The question of
free-will does enter here, for we are free to listen to thehigher impulses
or choose to gratify our lower inclinations.
We believe that the Ego sees the plan of the personal life before
it sends its ray down into the lower worlds. With the exception of
the elheric or lunar body, which is the mould upon which the physical
is built, the Ego has an influence over the new mental body, and over
the emotions, when it has advanced sufficiently to work consciously
in shaping the lower vehicles ; but over the physical it has very little
power, being subject to the laws of Karma.
It is a nice point as to how far we can alter events. Your idea
of thinking and planning ahead must have some effect in changing the
normal run of events. We are greatly interested in the problem of
fate and free-will, but it would take up too much space at present to
deal adequately with the subject. Roughly, however, we may
suggest a general plan laid down, say by the Ego and the Lords of
Karma; this plan is clearly seen at the commencement, but as the
physical life progresses the plan is either modified or accentuated ; we
can by the exercise of thought and will or desire change the current
of force and allow it to work in another direction. Let us take a fair
illustration: We will suppose an Ego working through a personality
has strong emotional tendencies which lead to sensuous inclinations
bordering upon sensuality,and a free life is lived that is not altogether
moral. When the Ego withdraws its forces and reflects in the mental
world on the past, it may decide to correct the errors of the past under
different circumstances.
In the next incarnation the Rulers of man's destiny have provided
him with a body in which the sensuous inclinations may be realised ;
but the Ego, perhaps, has also been at work building into the mental
body some of the Saturnian elements, and the result may be some
conflict in that life between the influences of say Mars and Saturn.
 MODEUN ASTROI-OGY

Much will depend upon opportunity, and the deciding choice of action
either in an impulsive and emotional tendency or in a restraining and
self-controlling attitude of mind, as to the direction the life will take;
the elemental forces on their way down into matter will tempt him to
indulgence, while the good influence of his higher self will work
through conscience and other factors as the result of his reflections
upon the past. We may term those forces which bind him to the
material expression of his life as " fate," and those which restrain and
resist those forces as his efforts to overcome fate through what may be
traced to his " free-will " acting in the Higher Self.
As to the duration of planetary influences, they are cyclic, and
therefore enduring; but as there are cycles within cycles we may
leave a cycle of duration on one line for that of another by learning how
to travel upward by spirals.
DIRECT IS G UNDER POLES.—! have ban reading Sephariafs
" Directional Astrology." What is your opinion of his suggested method of
directing under poles ? (320)
A student of Sepharial's experience should have, and doubtless has,
adequate reasons for any system he may adopt or recommend; and
those who are competent to examine the matter should do so, and
form their own opinions, basing them as much on the principles
involved as on the success or failure that may attend the half-dozen or
more applications to practice that they may feel disposed to make.
This particularly in such a mailer as Primary Directions, where the
practical test is so often no test at all, from the fact of the actual
moment of birth being unknown and only derivable by inference
through the operation of the very system of directing it is desired to
' test' 1
Apart altogether from these considerations, we do not think it
quite fair to expect us to answer questions of this kind. If the reply
is favourable the result is to all intents and purposes an advertisement,
or appears so, and if unfavourable calls forth protests from the author
who expects to be allowed space to defend his views. (These remarks
of course, are quite general and have no special reference to the
author in question.)
If a student has any doubt concerning the methods advocated in
any text book, the most satisfactory course is to write a " Letter to the
 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

Editor" stating his views and making any criticisms that are
pertinent to the matter. The subject is then open for discussion, and
other students can contribute their views if interested.
SIGN-RULERSHIP OF NATIONS.—My Moon ul birth is in Gemini, and
I have during eleven months or more lived in the houses of women with Sun in
Gemini who help me in my work with the Dutch and German languages. And
now I live in a twin town on German frontier, viz.. " Dinxferls-Snderwick "—full
of Scorpios ami Capricorns. And according to Mr Thierens Capricorn rules
Getderland, and Scorpio Germany ! (321)
We are interested in Mr Thierens' idea that Scorpio rules Germany;
there are many students who hold the same opinion.
A PUZZLE.—The father of this boy died within three or four hoars after
his birth and the native himself suffered from black fever in ign April or May.
I fail to find out the causes of father's death and boy's illness. The birthtime is
very nearly to the time given, namely, 27/2/igoi, 8.25 p.m. local time, Hooghli,
near Calcutta.
Horoscope:—x a 26^, xi 027, xii 0528, i Sl27i-i ii 11K25, iii =^25 ; 01cf23 <t4.
V.S77.31, 2^7.36, Slort ifr, 1+ "122.57, "128.46, ^ )il2.4,
y S I2-53^. SS^=I6.I 1. (322)
The reader's attention is directed to the date of birth, and to the par-
ticulars of horoscope, as given by the questioner. It will be noticed
that the date, 27th February, does not tally with the Sun's position in
V23A4-. If this were all, one might surmise that by some error in
transcription the wrong date had been supplied. But it iswo/ all: not
only are the planetary positions given not correct for the given date
and time, but they are not correct for any date whatsoever! Let the
reader compare them with the positions given for the last sixty years in
" Casting the Horoscope " : Saturn did not pass through Scorpio during
the time that Neptune was passing through Taurus, nor were Saturn
and Jupiter ever in conjunction in Scorpio, as here represented—not
during the past 100 years at any rate. The thought occurred that the
questioner, who writes from Calcutta, might perhaps have reduced the
positions to the Hindu Zodiac by subtracting the "ayanamsha" of
22°, though no hint of this is given in the question. But even this
hypothesis, on examination, will be found to fail. Nor can they be
"heliocentric " positions.
We print the question, and the " horoscope," as an example of
of the unaccountable requests that from time to time we receive. We
should be glad to help the questioner, if he is in earnest. Or is it a
ioke ?
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^.strologo an& ^itntan iJatuw

By The Editor

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ALL information gathered from horoscopes revealing the influence

of the planet Neptune is valuable at the present time and the
following case will be of interest.
Many years ago, when the " Test Horoscopes" were first
advertised, a gentleman whom we will speak of as " No. 18365 "
wrote for a shilling test horoscope which, as he afterwards informed
us, he sent for out of mere curiosity, knowing at that time
nothing about the science of Astrology, although later, in common
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with many more who came to the knowledge in the same way, he
learned to love and appreciate it. This Test Horoscope was extended
in February 1905, and there ensued a genuine friendship and a special
interest in his life and affairs.
The native of the accompanying horoscope was born August 5-
1860, at Derby, the stated time of birth being 6.15 p.m. From data,
supplied by himself the horoscope was carefully rectified, bringing the
local time to 6h. 6ni. 28s. and G.M.T. 6h. 12m. 20s. He was the son
of a retired com merchant of comfortable middle class position, and
had been given a sound English and religious education.
At the time of writing for his horoscope "No. 18365 " was a
retail tobacconist in a flourishing seaside town, but having private
means he shortly afterwards left the business in the hands of a first
rate manager to whom he paid a liberal remuneration. Reference to
the horoscope shows the Moon conjunction Neptune in the second
house, an influence denoting narcotics, weeds and fungus growths, etc..
Being an inveterate smoker himself and smoking many strong
Indian cigars each day he desired to give up the business, and did so
at a favourable time making a very successful sale.
He also had beside the tobacconist's business a small nursery
garden in an inland town, which he desired to extend, and on our
advice he did so, growing tomatoes on a large scale for Covent Garden
market. Tomatoes are under the influence of Neptune and seem to-
have some affinity with the sign Pisces.
He became very prosperous in this enterprise and in time had a
considerable amount of land under glass, growing flowers, etc., as well
as tomatoes.
By way of recreation he went in for various speculations uncon-
nected with his business, he also travelled a good deal, until the time
of the Great War. Just before the war he had bought a motor car
from which he derived much pleasure, but at the beginning of the war
he became anxious about his financial affairs, and requested us to-
make a careful examination of his progressed horoscope. From these
calculations he was assured that he would not suffer the business-
losses he anticipated in spite of very adv erse influences for the close
of 1914 and 1915. He was however advised to insure his life, to-
safeguard his health and live as temperately as possible.
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In the fall of 1914 he became a Special Constable for the district

in which he resided, against our express advice, but as he said it was
the only work he could do for his country we found remonstrance
useless. Unfortunately he took upon himself some arduous night
duty in a very draughty place, and took a chill, affecting his throat
and chest, aggravating the mischief by drinking quantities of raw
spirits. Previous to this event we had warned him against the
dangers of excessive smoking, for he had been in the habit of smoking
about fourteen strong cigars each day.
At the close of 1913 he was anxious about his brother's health
■owing to the unfavourable "directions" which ended in his death.
We took this opportunity to advise him to make his will which he had
prepared and signed at the close of June 1914 and when writing about
his on 24y6/'14 he said: "I passed as first class life for insurance.
Expect this will be my last as I am getting rather old to secure full
benefit." This was followed by some remarks about the insurance
showing an investment of over 4% plus saving on income tax, " and of
■course large profit to my estate in event of early death." We had
told him that he would never suffer a long illness and that his death
would be rather sudden and quite unexpected.
In January of last year he called to say that he was suffering
from indigestion and that his directions were not good, and he had felt
the effects of Moon parallel Neptune during the whole of December
1914, and he wanted to know how the conjunction of the Moon with
Neptune would affect him in February 1913. We advised him to take
■more than ordinary care with regard to his health owing to the transits
of the months of January and February. He saw his family doctor as
a result of our interview and on 3rd February he sent the following
■letter;—
. My slops diet not only means semi-starvalion, hut very
troublesome tiatuleuce and sickness, so 1 am having a preliminary
interview with a specialist on Friday 2 p.m. Shall probably arrange for
■full exit at iiiulioit nnder auajsthetics, and possibly treatment with Radium—
which is the best date and time between now and Monday next for me to
sign Power of Attorney ? "
On 20/2/'15 a post-card was received from his daughter: "Am
grieved to say dear father passed away peacefully early this morning
at a nursing home."
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"An okilir tiictuni, in the language of (he law.
is a graluitons opinion, an individual im-
pertinence. which, whether it he wise or
fotlish, right or wrong, hindelh none —
not even the lips that utter it."
Ot.D JonoE.

WHAT IS CHUISTIANITY ?
At the present moment we are confronted with the amazing spectacle
of several nations, each professing to believe that all men are children of the
same God, praying to this God that He will aid them in slaughtering those of
His children who are not on their side. We hear people claiming that
Christianity has hroknn down, becauseit has failed topreventthe catastrophe..
It is quite true that onr so-called Christianity has failed, and it is likely to
continue to do so just as long as we make it a means of securing our own ends.
What is Christianity ?
Being a person of some curiosity, I made inquiries and was informed
that Christianity is based on the teachings of one Jesus, as set forth in
certain bookskuown as the four gospels. On looking these up, I concluded
that they were decidedly simple aud easy to understand ; in fact, one could
hardly misunderstand their meaning, that is, provided he were seeking infor-
mation rather than self-justification. The principles are set forth in a series
of headlines, such as the Sermon on the Mount and others. Christianity is
clearly above all else the practice of brotherhood, of unselfishness. To love
your neighbour as yourself, to render good for evil, to love your enemies, to
help the weak and unfortunate—these appear to be the gist of Christianity
as taught by its Founder. But having made some attempt to try out these
principles I was quickly told that they were utterly impracticable and that I
would ruin myself, that nobody really regarded them as other than the say-
ings of a visionary, and that the real Christianity consists in a body of
doctrines, assent to which would put me in the way of enjoying eternal bliss.
I was handed a document called the Apostles' Creed, which I found to con-
sist of a string of" I believe's " with not a single " I shall do" in it—all head
service with not a spark of heart service. Clearly, thought I, the original
Christianity is something which gives, while we have made of it a tool for
getting. No wonder we are shooting each other.
Christianity has not broken down; it simply has not yet reached the
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point of control. It is the majority which rules, aud it has not yet the
majority on its side, nor will it have even though we succeed in establishing
universal peace and in replacing militarism by commercialism. This point
will be reached the sooner, the sooner we drop our credo's and return to the
original teachings of Christ. It is a matter of individual development. I
have said that the Christ spirit is latent in each of us, but overshadowed by
our primitive selfish nature. It did not originate with Christ, but is part of
ourselves, a dormant quality of life. To appeal to this, to cultivate it by
self-sacrifice, by helping the unfortunate, by fighting that spirit of pessimism
which would lead us to stand aside with the feeling that it is not worth the
trouble, that is the way in which the majority is to be secured. Even as in
a battle the victory is due to the courage of the individual soldier, so in the
fight for human progress, success depends on the units, on what you yourself
do. To stand by, or to fall in line only when you see that success is about to
be gained, simply marks you as a moral coward. As Browning puts it :
How of the field's fortune ? That concerned our Leader 1
Led, we struck our stroke nor cared for doings left and right:
Each as on his sole head, failer or succeeder,
Lay the blame or lit the praise ; no care for cowards : fight.
O. E. Library Critic.

ASTROLOGY AND FREE-WILL

Q.—The page headed "Your Birthday " would seem to indicate a belief
in astrology. How do yon reconcile the New Thought teaching that men are
masters of their own fate, and their destinies in their own hands, with the
fatalism and foreordination that attributes rule to the stars ?
A.—The wise man governs not his stars but his life by intelligent under-
standing of their influences. This knowledge is to such a man as the chart
showing tides and currents of ocean and shoals and quicksands of the shore
to the master mariner. The spiritual man is absolute monarch over every
physical condition. Every malady aud misfortune, a tendency to which may
be indicated by the planetary conjunctions at the moment of birth, can be
•entirely dominated aud for ever cast out by those who realise that Mind is the
master and Body but the servant of Mind. An acquaintance with the
Domains and Signs of the Zodiac places in the hands of every iutelligent
person a strong overcoming force—and "the overcomer shall inherit all
things." Let it be remembered also that not to know one's special genius
and ability is to be tossed about by the storms of life or to drift on its waters.
To be able to knowingly embrace Opportunity is to live in the native sphere
whence all harmonies proceed.
(From " Mastery.")
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IMealljer, ®ljaracter, an& (0rbits

III.—ORBITS

ONE other point calls for consideration, arising out of a review of

the positions that influence the weather. A distinction is drawn
between the positions of a planet when entering Aries and when
crossing the equator with no declination ; and similarly a distinction
between its positions when entering Cancer or Capricorn and when
stationary in extreme declination.
In both astronomy and Astrology the position of a heavenly body
is always referred, geocentrically, either to the ecliptic in terms of
longitude and latitude or to the earth's equator in terms of right
ascension and declination. But except in the case of the Sun no
heavenly body ever revolves in either of these great circles, although
all of them cross the ecliptic and the equator at definite points in their
course, namely when they have no latitude and no declination respec-
tively. The actual orbit of the heavenly body differs from both these
circles in nearly every case. I"or example, in King George's horoscope
the rising planet, Neptune, is marked as being at T 10° 9', and yet it
is not really on the ecliptic because it has 1029' south latitude ; and
similarly it is set down in the speculum as being in 9°55' of right
ascension, and yet it is not really on the equator because it has 2° 39,
of north declination. That is to say, it is referred to two circles, in
neither of which is it actually present. It really moves in a third
course, its own geocentric orbit, which differs from both the circles
just mentioned.
Every astrologer, when studying a horoscope and when computing
directions, no matter by what system, is referring the planets to
pretended positions in two circles, the ecliptic and the equator, in
neither of which do they actually move, for every planet moves in its
own geocentric orbit.
My argument, of course, is not that the longitudes and right
ascensions are inaccurately calculated, for this is not the case ; the
 MODERN ASTROLOGV

mathematical rules are correct as they stand. Nor do I call in

question the old established astrological principles contained in the
text-books. My object is to call attention to two points.
In the first place, we mark a planet in a horoscope as having a
certain degree and minute of longitude; we direct to that place'and
notice transits over that place; and yet the actual body of the planet
is not there but somewhere else.
In the second place, let the reader ask himself the question—are
we right in ignoring as we do the geocentric orbit of the planet when,
as is nearly always the case, it is not coincident with either the ecliptic
or the equator, but follows a third course differing from both ? The
actual body of the planet is in this third course; not on the ecliptic
and not on the equator. Surely, it may be argued, a planet acts
where it really is, not where it is not.
With regard to the first point, I repeat that I am not trying to
overthrow the methods of reckoning by longitude and right ascension.
Whatever may be the ultimate scientific explanation of it all, there is
no doubt that these methods give good results and that they may be
trusted by the student at the present day just as they have been for
many centuries past. The importance of the ecliptic, commonly and
loosely styled the zodiac, seems to arise from the fact that it is the
apparent orbit of the Sun round the earth and the actual orbit of the
earth round the Sun; and to refer any planet to longitude in this orbit
is to show at what point the planet will interfere with the flow of
energies that travel in this orbit, and so induce modifications in them.
The importance of the equator apparently arises from the fact that it
is the neutral region between the north and south polarities of those
energies that are centred at the earth's poles ; so that when a ray from
a planet impinges upon the earth and passes across the equator, the
balance of those energies is disturbed ; and two planets in parallel
declination with each other are forming the same angle with the plane
of the equator and producing the same effect upon those energies, at
least so far as the influence of the angle is concerned.
With regard to the second point, is it not possible that the
1
This remark refers to the ordinary day-for-a-year system, often called
Secondary Directions. In Primary Directions, of course, (he latitude of planet is
duly taken into consideration.
 WEATHER,'CHARACTER, AND ORBITS

position of a planet in its own geocentric orbit may deserve investiga-

tion ? The Sun's geocentric orbit forms the ecliptic zodiac. Why
should not the corresponding orbit of each planet form a specialised
"zodiac " for that planet ?
The ecliptic zodiac begins at that point where the Sun appears to
pass across the equator northward about March 21 each year. The
specialised "zodiac" of any planet would begin where and when that
planet crosses the earth's equator in a northward direction.
The first point of Cancer in the ecliptic zodiac begins where the
Sun reaches extreme north declination. The corresponding point for
any planet would be where that planet reaches its extreme north
declination and turns to go southward again ; this would be the first
point of "Cancer" in the planetary orbit.
This may be illustrated in the case of Mars. The red planet
passed northward across the equator on 12/5/T3, which point would
be the first degree of Aries in the geocentic orbit of Mars. It went
stationary and did not reach its greatest north declination until
25/l/T4, which would correspond to the first point of Cancer in the
ecliptic zodiac. It passed over the equator going southward on
16/8/T4, corresponding to the first point of Libra ; and it reached
extreme south declination on 24/12/T4, which may be called the
Capricorn or southernmost point of the martial orbit.
The suggestion is that this orbit might be divided into 360 degrees
and the place of the planet reckoned in these degrees, and its posi-
tion in the horoscope of birth and by direction taken in terms of these
degrees. Then if in a given horoscope the Sun was situated at, say,
the first degree of Aries, and Mars was crossing the equator going
southward, whether at birth or by direction, the two would be
considered in opposition and influences would be drawn accordingly.
The idea being that two similar points in the two different orbits
would correspond to each other and influence each other ; and the
same with other points.
At present this can only be thrown out as a suggestion for future
investigation because there are serious difficulties in the way of
applying it in practice. The ephemeris does not supply enough
information to enable this to be done easily, and no ordinary student
will be willing to undertake the large amount of calculation necessary
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74 MODERN ASTROLOGY

to apply the idea. The Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars perform
their revolutions in periods sufficiently short to enable the dates of
these four points to be determined by inspecting the ephemeris for
two or three years; but with the outermost planets it is different; and
in each case intermediate positions would require elaborate calcula-
tions. So that the principles are here placed before all who are
willing to take them into consideration, but the practical application of
them must be postponed. I do not mean to call in question the accuracy
of present methods of calculating positions and aspects, but only to
point to another line of thought that may be worthy of investigation.
H. S. Green.

The Star of Bethlehem.—In a lecture delivered at Clacton by Mrs

John Hartness, a member of the London Astronomical Society, after giving
the historical account of the star as related by St Matthew, and showing
various conceptions of that and other incidents relative to the Saviour's birth,
as depicted by different great artists, summed up that part of the lecture by
staling that there certainly was a star; that it had been predicted that it
would appear; that it had been shining a long time; and that it was a
moving star.
Mrs H artness then proceeded to propound four ways of answering that
question. First there was the theory of it being a supernatural light, like
the zodiac al radiance seen at certain times of the year. Then there was the
idea of i t being a conjunction of planets, as suggested by Kepler some three
centuries ago; but as Jupiter and Saturn, the planets referred to by him did
not approach near enough to be mistaken for one star, and as, further, a
closer conjunction had occurred fifty-nine years earlier without any Magian
visit, that theory was untenable. A third idea was that the star was a Nova,
or new star, having but a temporary existence in brilliance, and brought about
by constructive impact (as suggested by Professor Bickerton) or otherwise.
But none of these theories fulfilled the three necessary conditions ; a star that
could be foretold as to the time of its appearance; a star that had a
prescribed course; and a star that was not only brilliant itself, but also cast
out great shafts of light. The only kind of star that fulfilled thoseconditions
was a periodic comet, such as Halley's and other well-known comets, the
date of whose re appearance could be very accurately foretold, as they ail
followed a prescribed course, and as comets had tails (though of varying
kinds) that pointed away from the sun, near which they were travelling, the
third condition was also fulfilled. Therefore she wasconfidentin her theory,
first propounded by her in a lecture before the University of London, that
the Star of Bethlehem was a comet.—Essex County Standard, 26/2/'16.
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3lstrolflgg for ^rginncrs

It is as we near the time of the great Christmas Festival that the Sun
begins to turn northwards, changing the direction of his course and heralding
the advent of new life aud increased light.
From about December aist to January 20th our Earth receives the
Sun's rays through that division of the ether of space called Capricorn (Vy),
the Goat. Now the goat in its natural state loves not the lowlands but the
mountain solitudes and heights almost inaccessible to other four-footed
animals. A swift and rapid climber he bounds over dangerous chasms with
safety and dexterity and reaches altitudes debarred to many of his fellow
creatures; and it is this same ability, shown in the goat as a prototype,
which enables the man born with the Sun in Capricorn to carry out his
ambitions with diplomacy and tact, and to obtain the realisations of his
dearest hopes and wishes. He may do this quietly and without any fuss, but
he can nurse an ambition for years until the right moment arrives that will
bring him the fulfilment of his heart's desires.
The glyph (Vy) bas been likened to a twisted serpent, a creature that is
"more subtil (rarefied, ethereal), than any beast of the field," and symboli-
cally denotes wisdom. Thus those born when the Sun is passing through
Capricorn are mental and have a keen desire for knowledge of some kind ; it
may be for the knowledge of how to acquire material possessions, or of how
to gain power to movethe minds of men in the political world and elsewhere;
or the thirst may be for a knowledge of the mystical powers latent in man.
They spare no effort to accomplish their end. Each day is started with
a clear idea of the work to be performed during that day, and no satisfaction
is felt if the day's end does not see the morning's programme carried through.
They find no moments for waste and allow themselves little time for leisure.
Organisation and management come to them naturally, and punctuality is
held by them to be a cardinal virtue.
Thrift and economy are practised without effort, and these qualities,
unless watched, may be developed into miserliness and over-caution. At the
same time they make the best possible ascetics, as mental pursuits attract
them, loneliness does not frighten them, and luxuries have no hold on them.
Leaving the sign Capricorn, the Sun enters the sign Aquarius (™), the
water-bearer, about January 21st, and the goal of each person born while the
Sun's vibrations pass through this sign should be to become bearers of living
water to those who thirst. There are, however, two quite distinct classes
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into which we may place the Sun in Aquarius people, for the glyph its), may
be regarded as two serpents, one white and the other black, and those who
choose to give themselves in utmost service unto others may be classed with
the white serpent, but those who desire the living water solely to quench their
own thirst, may be placed in that class denoted by the black serpent.
This sign must be regarded as a critical one, because of the subtle
temptation for self-increase that assails all who come under its sway.
Aquarius Sun people dislike to stand on ceremony. They prefer to go
and come as they please, and take their friends as they find them, though
they can be fairly exclusive in their own home circle. To study human
nature is to them a great delight, but they do it from a distance. They stand,
as it were, from an upper window and watch the crowd moving in the street
below, but they care not to become one of the crowd in order to understand it.
They have a better estimate than most people of a man's true worth,
but they find no place for useless people any more than they do for useless
furniture, even though the former be the owner of millions or nobly born.
Books, music and the arts in general delight them, and if ever they can
be accused of snobbery, it takes the form of judging people by their book-
learning and allowing insufficient value for the qualities of the heart.
About the aist of February the Sun passes into that division of the ether
of space called Pisces {*), the Fish. The glyph stands for two fish swim-
ming in opposite directions, and the people born with the Sun in this sign are
pulled in many directions by a very sea of emotions. They become one of
the crowd quite easily, and experience a difficulty in preserving their own
identity, as for the time being they become all they contact.
An appeal for protection is never disregarded by them, so that one finds
them working for such causes as anti-vivisection and in societies for the
prevention of cruelty to children as well as in all charitable and philanthropic
schemes. It is the weakness of age, the ignorance of the child, the trustful-
ness of. the sub-human that pulls at their very heartstrings and constitutes
them their natural and rightful protectors.
The symbol is often regarded as typifying the Christian religion, and
was used frequently iu the early days of the Church as a pass sign, and may
even now be seen on the Christian tombs in the Roman catacombs. The
emotional preacher is often a Piscian Sun person.
They are excellent in carrying out details and in finishing up work that
others have left unfinished. Responsibilities that are rightly theirs they
allow others to shoulder; lacking really a true spirit of independence. As
psycbism attracts tbem, tbey are oiten found, to t r own undoing, as
mediums in the stance room.
Secretary of the Lessons Department
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Otters to tljt (Sbitor

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therein. Correspondents desiring acknowledgment or reply will please enclose a
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Letters are inserted at the earliest possible opportunity, but are sometimes
unavoidably held over through lack of space. Correspondents will please remember
(i) that all coinmunications should be written upon one side of the paper only;
(ii) that planetary positions, as well us birth data, should be given where possible;
(iii) that information should be put as concisely as is compatible with clearness.
Neglect of these considerations may cause otherwise valuable letters to be
excluded from these pages.

THE ASTROLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCE LESSONS

Dear Sir,
When your Correspondence Lessons in Astrology were
first announced in the pages of Modern Astrology I immediately
decided that I would enter for the course, feeling sure that I should
get a great deal of useful information and instruction from them. And
now that I have worked through sixty-three out of the seventy Lessons,
omitting only the primary directions, I feel I cannot do less than write
and tell you how more than fulfilled my expectations have been.
The lessons give a very thorough ground-work in the science of
Astrology, starting as they do with an elementary course for the
beginner and ending with some glimpses of the full depth of its
meaning for the more advanced student.
All that can be taught of so vast a subject by correspondence is
written in the lessons, and the questions set for each series are
calculated to start the student thinking out the problems for himself.
Personally, it is specially for this help in the opening of the door that
I am so grateful to the lessons, for it is just this incentive to thought
that gives to the astrological mind the chance of finding itself.
I should like to add how much I appreciated the painstaking
patience of the Secretary, for without her encouragement and help some
of the "difficult stiles," such as 4th Series, might never have been
crossed.
I remain,
5, Sloane Court, S.W. Yours faithfully,
13/3/1916. Maud Margesson.
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THE PRINCE OF WALES

Dear Sir,
In the January issue of MODERN ASTROLOGY (p. 26)
you remark on the strong Venus influences in the horoscope of the
Prince of Wales during this present year but point out that there are
no strong similar lunar influences confirming the solar ones. This is
true, but it is well to note that Venus comes to a stationary position in
July very close to the Prince's Sun, and trine his natal Moon, and I
have frequently found that the stationary position of even the minor
planets is a very powerful excitant to solar directions provided the
transit of the stationary planet strongly aspects the body of the planet
in aspect with the Sun; and at times the stationary position of such a
planet seems to have almost the force of a direction itself.
I wonder if anyone's attention has been called to the harmony
existing between the Prince's chart and that of Princess Marie of
Russia, born at noon, Petrograd, June 26th, 1899. Some years ago
MODERN Astrology had an analysis of her nativity. It is not at
all unlikely for reasons of state that one of the daughters of the Czar
should be selected as a consort for the Prince and if so it would appear
from astrological harmony between the two nativities that this daughter
would be selected rather than the Princess Olga.
The stationary position of Venus in June must be very close to a
conjunction of her progressed M.C., while her progressed Venus is
close conjunction with her natal M.C. and Sun and close to the Prince's
natal Sun and trine his natal Moon. All of this is harmonised by the
stationary position of Venus in July.
The harmonious relationship between these horoscopes may be
studied out by any student and it will be at once remarked that the
ascendants of the two charts are in close trine. Furthermore her
natal Venus is in conjunction with King George's natal Sun showing
a harmonious family relationship all through. Other striking facts
may be noticed by the investigator. It is all rather remarkable, and
leads one to ask : Are we to see the Royal Houses of Great Britain
and Russia united by marriage ?
Mount Stephen House, Field, BC. Yours sincerely,
March 14f/i, 1916. STUART ARMOUR.

Mr Arthur Mee has been good enough to send us a copy of his

" Astrological Gossip," a little book of 20 pages consisting of a reprint of
articles Contributed by him under that heading to the Glamorgan Times
during the present year. The articles are chatty and pleasaut, and in
addition to original matter contain useful quotations from other writers,
forecasts regarding the War, etc. No price is mentioned, but the author
would doubtless send a copy on receipt of 6rf. in stamps, addressed to
Arthur Mee, Llanishen, Cardiff.
THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE

Modcrp

Astrology
{First published in 1890)

©n JUNE, 1916. ©n

QsDilor's (Blisfirlialor^

THE COMING REVOLUTIONS

We are fast approaching the climax of those revolutionary

tendencies which we foresaw in the year 1910, and to which we then
drew the attention of astrological students in our famous " Royal
Number" for July of that year. Like a gigantic spectre, leaving an
evil trail behind it, the great unrest has swept round the globe and
caught in its toils all those who were willing, or compelled, to respond
to its fatal influ^ice, until the World War has brought the spirits of
good and evil into a mortal combat that is likely to end in civil
revolutions more drastic and important in their thoroughness than the
world has ever known.
For confirmation of this climax eventuating in the near future, we
may glance at the horoscopes of those two monarchs who represent
nations whose ideals may be summed up in the influences of VENUS
and Maks. The situation is now well known to all intelligent students,
and whether they consider it a war between Right and Might, or
between Good and Evil, they must admit that the ideal of the one
nation is not that of the other.
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The whole world, indeed, is now ranged on either one side or the
other of these two camps,—whether consciously or not. We believe
that the Allies are making for the ideal of that spirit which is influenced
by the angelic hosts who move within the planetary sphere of Venus,
the guiding spirit of the human soul. The other side has, by action,
proclamation and motive, chosen for its ideal the spirit of Mars—the
counterfeit of the spirit of Venus—which favours the strength of the
physical man and his material aggrandisement.
In the horoscopes of King George Vand Kaiser Wilhelm II
we have the key to the idea that nothing short of what must prove to-
be revolutionary factors can accomplish the obtaining of these ideals;
subject, of course, to the higher forces of destiny. For instance in the
horoscope of King George the revolutionary planet Uranus is practically
in conjunction with the cusp of the fourth house, and in opposition to
the planet Jupiter, situated in the ninth house, the house of higher
science, philosophy and religion ; and this position was made active
by the recent great conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in Aquarius in
March 1914, when Uranus at nine and a half degrees of Aquarius was
in opposition to Mars in Leo, both being therefore in square to King
George's Venus in nine and a half degrees of Taurus, and affecting the
first and fifth houses of his nativity from the cusp of the twelfth, the
house of sorrow, self-undoing and inner realisations.
In the Kaiser's horoscope, on the other hand, we find Uranus in
the house of friends, in opposition to the Moon (ruler) in the fifth
house, the house of pleasure, offspring and the relics of the past. In
this horoscope the great cosmic conjunction was exceedingly potent,
as it took place on the cusp of the eighth house, in conjunction with the-
Sun in Aquarius, and in opposition to Saturn the Reaper.
It does not require an exceptional amount of intelligence to-
interpret the revolutionary tendencies in these two horoscopes, for no
one can fail to see how revolutionary they are from an astrological
standpoint. In one case the soul of the people is quickened, and
the opportunity is given to respond to higher things. The religion of
this nation is on trial, and will pass through a test that will either
revolutionise religious thought or cause an entire reaction against its
method of application as a national influence.
The great conjunction affects the fierytriplicity, and the first, fifth,
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and ninth houses in King George's Nativity, acting in no uncertain

manner on THE PRESENT—First House, THE PAST—Fifth House,
and THE FUTURE—Ninth House; in other words, on the Self of
the nation, its capabilities or inherent qualities, and the possibilities of
the future expression of the Self. The possibilities are a bloodless
revolution or a sanguinary one but in every sense of the word a
revolution nevertheless, whether we term it social reconstruction,
political reform or by any other suitable name. In July 1910 we
wrote these words (p. 310) ;—" It is a curious coincidence that the
entry of the Sun into the sign Cancer each year will occur on the
place of Uranus in King George's progressed horoscope and in square
to the place of the Moon at birth. This indicates the somewhat
sudden and unexpected events that will take place during each year
of his reign ; a semi-revolution will take place in his surroundings and
complete changes will ensue."
During the reign of King George revolutionary tendencies will
remain in force, and the nature of these tendencies will be physical,
as well as social and spiritual. Well may those who are intuitive
enough to see say that the world will never be the same after this
Great War ; they speak perhaps more truly than they know.
That it requires Uranian forces to break the hardness of the crab's
shell, might easily be made into an aphorism illustrated in the horoscope
of either King George or the Kaiser; but in the case of the former it
is destined to have better results owing to the elasticity of the influence,
while in the latter case it is more rigid and liberates a far more fatal
and retributive result, since the Moon and the fifth house are more
wholly martial than prospectively Venusian.
Whilst the civil revolutions that will take place in Britain and
Germany will be different in their character and methods, they
will both tend to achieve the same results:—an entirely New and
totally different Democracy than the world is at present prepared to
expect.
"The Stars Incline, they do not Compel"
We are all more or less aware of having reached a very critical
stage in human affairs and there are many students trying in their own
individual way to solve the problems which it is known must face us
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in the future. Already the questions have been asked—Are we

degenerating or progressing ? Is war amongst civilised nations
really necessary ? And can we hope to realise what Brotherhood
means when men are deliberately seeking to destroy each other ?
These and many other problems are facing us at the present
time ; for we are at a crisis in the world's history and so far as our
Western Civilisation is concerned we have reached a turning point,
the ultimate results of which none dare prophecy who have not a far
deeper insight into the laws which govern human evolution, and they
can only dimly discern the probable tendencies.
By the science of Astrology we may interpret national affairs
much more dispassionately than by other methods and although the
stars do not " compel" nations, any more than individuals, fatalistically,
yet we may judge the tendencies of a nation's welfare by its attitude
towards events and circumstances. When we find rulers and leaders
of a nation fighting for place and power regardless of the interests of
those who expect them to govern, we may know that the tendencies
are toward confusion when a crisis in national affairs arrives ; and the
results are fatalistic when reason and good judgment have lost control,
and the will of the rulers becomes subservient to a stronger will.
Humanity as a whole—that is the members of the human family
taken in the mass—are first " inclined," or perhaps we might even say
in the earlier stages " compelled," by planetary influences toward
certain experiences; but here and there, individuals, in increasing
numbers, gradually learn to use the inclinations of planetary influence
for their own progress. And in the same way nations rise or fall
according to the use they make of their opportunities.
At every stage of evolution there are propelling and retarding
influences, for the whole universe is governed by well-defined laws
and by a knowledge of those laws, and an understanding of how to
work with them, we may considerably aid our own evolution. The
secret of all real progress lies in the discovery of the Divine plan, in
•order that we may work with and not against it. The play of the
great World Drama is written : what is required are players who can
•effectually play the parts in each act. It is open for every soul to play
his part well or ill, according to his willingness or unwillingness to
co-operate with the divine plan.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

The Critical Period we have now reached in the progress of

western civilisation corresponds with great changes taking place in the
heavenly bodies. The better to understand these changes we make
use of a phrase which although not strictly correct is suitable for the
purpose—we are entering a minor cycle of the Aquarian, or human,
age. Some have definitely entered consciously into this cycle ; others
are about to enter; and the remainder, finding its vibrations too
powerful for them may have to wait for another opportunity to range
themselves on the side of the humans. Those who have separated
themselves from the sub-human are more or less Uranians. Students
of the deeper side of Astrology know that while Mars in certain aspects
to Jupiter is inimical, there is no more fatal influence than that of
Uranus to Mars, under certain conditions.
Mars as the counterfeit of the spirit may assume abnormal
powers, but to all Martial expansion there is a limit; should that limit
be forced, and the restraining influence of Saturn overcome, the
Martial force may meet the vibration of Uranus,—but the contact
means the breaking point beyond which the Red Ray cannot penetrate
unless nothing but the finer essence remains.
Over the three qualities of matter governed by Mars, Saturn, and
Jupiter, Uranus alone has higher power, and in all abnormal extremes
of their influence Uranus is the readjuster. That which Jupiter
cannot preserve or sustain Uranus readjusts.
The whole of evolution is destined to progress, and if portions of
those who are evolving degenerate they are powerless to alter the
destiny which is to bring all things ultimately to perfection. To those
who understand, who realise the meaning of Astrology, war is not
necessary amongst civilised nations. We quite honestly believe
that the Kaiser could have avoided war had he been so disposed,
but he must have been otherwise disposed and was therefore
a more or less willing agent in the hands of the degenerates,
probably the Prussian military caste who collectively represent
the extreme influence of the martial spirit embodied in themselves
and the desire to conquer the world by force; sub-human instincts
over-riding the principles of human feeling and brotherhood. The
influence of Mars in the Kaiser's horoscope is a culmination of
martial forces the full nature of which we have seen expressed in the
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war he has waged against the civilised world. If his martial desires
were stronger than the cosmic will of Uranus then he might rule the
earth; but in that case he would have a greater power than the
heavenly spheres, which we know he has not.
" Man's extremity is God's opportunity." The balance may tip
the beam for a certain number of cycles, but eventually the
readjustment must take place. In the airy triplicity of the zodiacal
signs we find the key-note of human character; the blood ties of
Gemini, and the union of opposites in Libra, culminate in the
friendship and brotherhood of Aquarius the Man. Revolutions,
whether they be bloody or bloodless, come when men revolt against
incompetent rulers and FIND themselves. The revolutions of the
heavenly bodies are spirals, each spiral curve carrying the whole to
greater heights. Humanity is also moving through spirals which
carry individuals on their own dead selves to higher things.

Circles or Spirals ?

Modern Astrology is destined to teach the many, as Ancient

Astrology taught the few. Future teaching will be concerned with
human development in spiral curves, and not by moving round in
narrow circles, seeking to escape individual fate instead of endeavouring
to understand it. Looking back over the history of the world, we shall
find that human evolution has moved in a series of cycles, the cream
or more highly evolved moving spirally through the series while the
normal round for the mediocre has advanced gradually from cycle to
cycle in more slowly moving circles.
We in the West are inclined to think at the present day that we
have reached a very high stage of civilisation compared with the past,
and have attained a great advance in human progress, surpassing in
culture and refinement earlier civilisations.
From the circular motion standpoint we are always advancing in
wider and wider circles, materially and physically, but unless we find
the real unfoldment of the spiritual life, and rise on the spiral waves
of the higher physical, we must inevitably meet with revolutions, and
reactions, that tend to arrest and readjust the circular progress of the
lower physical and material life. But are we to-day in a more
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 185
advanced stage than former civilisations ? Where are the schools of
Alexandria, Rome, and Greece ? Where are the great men like
Pythagoras, Plato and Socrates ? Where is the magnificent splendour
of ancient India ?—Chaldea ?—or Egypt ?
They were the spiral productions of civilisations that were
moving in circles.
Where is the engineer of our time who can raise great monuments
like the Pyramids of Egypt ? And where are there to be found
astronomers like unto those who designed those Pyramids and who by
their design clearly showed that they knew the mystery of the heavens ?
The earth can show no such genius now, whilst the circles trace their
weary round.
The true superman is not one who is bound by concrete matter,
Saturn, and seeks to conquer it by physical force, Mars, but he who
knows that he was made in the image of God, and must therefore
work as God works, with wisdom ; not as one blind and ignorant of
Nature's finer forces, but by understanding those finer forces and
knowing how to work with them.
Every nation has an ideal placed before it by those who strike the
key-note for that nation at its birth, and we know that the ideal for
Rome was Law. Rome fell because she had disregarded the law.
The present European civilization will fall through the breaking of
the law taught by the Teacher who struck the key-note for Europe
two thousand years ago—the law of Love.
" Master, which is the great commandment in the law ?
"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
" thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
"This is the first and great commandment. And the second is
"like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
Matt, xxii, 36-39.
Every civilisation the world has ever known has had its teacher
who had the power to strike the key-note fitting for the race forming
that particular civilisation. Before Christ it was Law ending in Duty
and the realisation of individual responsibility. After Christ it is the
law of Love in all its variations that must be the key-note for present
and future civilisations ; not merely the responsibility of the individual
but the ability of the individual to sacrifice through a wider love which
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will come through the realisation that our neighbour is ourself, since
in spirit we are all sons of God.
Astrologers, before all other men, should know that the law of
Love has a greater power than the law of force. It has been our
experience, and it must be that of other students also, that the influence
of Venus is not only more subtly protective than that of Mars, but
that it is one that does not produce reactions; Mars, on the other
hand, is always more or less reactionary. There is a flow from
Venus that is softening and healing and we veritably believe that if
we could measure the flow of Venus in " inches " we should number
so many angels of light and love to the " inch." The love of Venus
untainted by any foreign influence is not only all-embracing but there
is nothing that can withstand it. It forgives and heals every wound
and creates new life which refines and saves; but we must understand
and know what that subtle influence of Venus really is, before we
attempt to clothe ourselves with the wings of love.
For love is not sentiment, or emotion, neither is it affection or
demonstrativeness. Love is Wisdom and he who possesses it is strong
and firm, never weak or helpless. We say truly " Character is
Destiny," and we measure the extent of our destiny by the radiations
of those influences in ourselves which are but a reflection in minature
of the planetary spheres over which the Angels of the planets preside.
Responsibility every individual soul must meet, sooner or later,
otherwise the stability and patience of Saturn's influence cannot be
built into the character, and that responsibility has a very appreciable
influence upon the whole world. It makes all the difference whether
that influence which we radiate from us, unconsciously through our
atmosphere and consciously through our character is constructive or
destructive. We are either sympathetic, or critical; wideminded,
or narrow ; generous, or sordid; charitable, or cynical. It makes all
the difference to the world and those about us, does our attitude, and
it is useless to blame our stars, for the stars send forth vibrations
which we translate into Character—either bright and sunny or
gloomy and heavy. The Coming Revolution will find us either drift-
ing into the whirlpool of its atmosphere, or ready to stand firm and help
to guide it out of the narrow circle into the more elastic and expansive
spiral.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

The Awakening of the Mind

The world is getting ready to listen to the teachings of Astrology.
You know that by the interest you find in the world today, as against
the ridicule of the past.
The Old School of Astrology was concerned with the involution
of spirit into the lower physical, and therefore was naturally fatalistic:
the New School, to which you belong, is concerned with the unfoldment
of the spirit in the higher physical; therefore, we are more optimistic
and believe in the will, which is the spirit, that can raise itself out of
matter and work with Nature's forces. We should by now be
able to grasp the fact that the whole universe is God in manifestation,
and while we believe in the Unity we must ever seek to understand
the Diversity. The majority of those drifting to the whirlpool of the
Coming Revolution believe the physical body to be everything, and
they may have to learn the lesson of losing the body in order to
realise that Soul can exist without a physical body ; they are held by
Saturn, because they dare not look that mighty angel in the face and
know that he binds all who fear to be free. We know Saturn for
what he is, and instead of fearing him we respect him for the stability
and firmness he has helped us to acquire by our wrestlings with him in
the past, and we know that " It is liberty alone that fits men for
liberty,"—a sentence that is the very essence of the New Democracy
that you and I shall help to build.

The Attitude of the Astrologer

The attitude of the majority of astrological students toward the
present world crisis, so far as we have been able to discern, is a calm
and resigned condition of mind which seeks rather to understand than
to criticise. We are a body of students that must be unique, and there
is probably no other body in the world so singularly free from prejudice
or bias, having no particular creed or phase of religion to cause
disputes in our midst. We are trying to understand the universe in
which we live and the temperaments of those who are living in the
world with us. We know by observation, and the application of well-
tried rules, that there is a law for all things; and we dimly see that
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the ultimate of all laws must be the law of Love. We know that the
law of the Martial sphere is Force, which gives the race its strength
and vigour, and ultimately its moral power and devotion. Knowing
that this force permeates the whole of matter, endowing it with energy,
we can understand that at certain stages of the world's evolution there
must be a tendency to use that force selfishly and abuse the strength
which should be protective and energising. In certain cycles there is
more of the martial or impulsive force liberated than in others. For
instance there is more instantaneous and what may be termed
" centrifugal" force liberated at the springtime of the year, when the
Sun enters the sign Aries, and this is changed into conserving or
centripetal force at the fall of the year, when the Sun enters the sign
Scorpio.
It is a law of Nature to move force in greater or lesser cycles.
Abundant evidence is before us that one of the greater cycles of
Mars commenced in the year 1909. This cycle, which with its
sub-cycles will not be completed before 1944, began with the wave of
unrest which swept round the world and culminated when the sub-
influence of Saturn affected the martial cycle in 1914; and every
seventh year following that eventful year will be a critical one, until
the cycle ends. Revolutions of all kinds may be expected during this
martial cycle, physical, social, mental and moral. It is, then, the
iime for reforms of all kinds, and every living soul must now fight for
his ideal along the line of least resistance. The ground has been
broken up in more senses than one, and we must continue to break up
the old prejudices and sow into the open ground seeds of the higher
ideals we have set before us. Directly the war is over we must be
ready to work for those reforms that will raise the whole of the race
into the highest vibrations of the martial influence which we interpret
as mental and moral strength. When the mechanical force has
expanded itself on the battlefield we may expect some reaction of that
force in the civil world. Thousands of men who had hitherto drifted
through life will have come face to face with its realities on the
battlefield, and they can never he the same again. They will have
learnt how to live, through living with the thought of death ever before
them, and having faced death they will know that death has nothing
terrible in it but what life has made. If it is true that out of evil good
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may come then out of the intense life that war demands thoughts may
arise that will give birth to the thinking principle in man, and enable
him to realise that he is something more than a physical body, and in
thus thinking find his soul.
There is nothing like emotion to quicken the human soul, whether
that emotion be in the direction of love, or hate. The German soldiers
have sung the hymn of hate ; its reaction will carry the wave of that
emotion back to the civil life and affect the whole nation. Hate moves
in circles, it has nothing inspiring in it, nothing subtle enough to
ascend in a spiral, and therefore must expand itself within the circle.
Symbolically the planet Mars is the unconscious quickener of the
birth of the spiritual, its symbol is 2 the cross representing Matter
being placed over the circle or Spirit. Matter or force predominates
and the sphere or symbol has either to be reversed, or transmuted
into that of Venus 5, or, allied to another factor that will uplift the
force of Mars from the grossly physical to a more subtle mode of
motion. During the present cycle of Mars each year will afford fresh
opportunities for martial expansion, affecting all persons in whom the
emotions are active ; already we hear of cases of mental and nervous
disturbance among individuals who are normally fairly well controlled,
resulting in physical inertia and mental agitation through the psychic
forces liberated by the War.
Revolutions of some sort accompany the birth of every New Age,
and we judge by the attitude of nations whether they are ripe for
rebellion and an entire change of government, or whether they are
still liable to drift and accept existing conditions. When the great
unrest spread over the world at the commencement of the present
Martial Cycle in the year 1909 we were of opinion that mighty
changes were coming, which opinion was confirmed by the conditions
existing at the death of King Edward and the accession of King
George. The King is not to blame for this, he is but a representative
of the people in its highest social circle. He represents the moral and
social order. The Prime Minister and his fellow ministers are not to
blame, they are the highest forces in the Government, representing the
intellectual status of the people. The Government, as a whole, are not
to blame—they represent the emotional and desire nature of the
nation ; the people have CHOSEN their representatives and it is not
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the fault of a Government when it is overthrown but the changing

emotions of the people who feel differently than at the time when that
particular government was chosen.
What are the signs of the times ?
The great unrest has culminated in a terrible European war, and
both sides are determined to gain the victory.
Which side is destined to win ? The side which loudly proclaims
Might as the necessary factor in human evolution, or the side which
claims the Right to protect the weaker nations and prevent a return to
the tactics of the barbarian ?
We have said at the beginning of the war that those on the side
of might would not win.
The reaction from this war will be civil revolutions when the
great unrest will have swept the circle, rising in civil discontent
against the rule of the strong over the weak; for the weak have
been exploited by the strong. But as Mars is a reactionary planet the
" worm " even shall turn, and that which culminated in a wealthy war
in which the wealth acquired by the strong has been squandered in
destruction shall end iu a reformation in which there will be neither
extremely strong nor extremely weak, but the balance shall swing
more equal. It is the natural tendency of Mars to equalise force by
opposing it to force in order that real strength may be gained. When
balance cannot be achieved in this way then comes into operation the
readjusting influence of Uranus, whose vibrations are more subtle than
those of any other planet, whose influence is organised, and its adjust-
ment is concerned with Nature's finer forces as opposed to that of
Mars which rules Nature's grosser forces.
At the great conjunction in March 1914 Uranus and Jupiter
were united at the end of the first decanate of Aquarius in ^9032'5."
Charubel's Symbol for the tenth decree of Aquarius.—A ruiit
consisting of the remains of an ancient massive vtall, with an archway therein.
The massive wall of materialism, in which the European nations
have been steeped for centuries, will be in total ruin before the great
unrest ends its cycle in revolutions for which every student of the
higher physical life should be fully prepared. It is the dawn of the
New Age, human or Aquarian as you will, and none can stay the breaking
of a brighter day for the human family.
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This sign is characteristic of duality, being the sheath of
Mercury, which is a convertible and adaptable planet. To this sign
it gives a rather complex nature, with a temperament that is nervous
and a disposition that is mental. It is always characterised by a love
of intellectual attainments, and also by a lack of stability and
concentration, and a disposition to flit from one subject to another—
skimming the surface as it were. Those born when the Sun is in this
sign are therefore apt to be more or less superficial, though usually
observant. Fond of art, science and knowledge of all kinds, they
rather lack affection and feeling, living almost entirely in the mind.
Gemini people are generally quick, active and adaptable, their best
qualities being great mental activity and fertility. They have excellent
intuition on mental, artistic, or musical matters, and have facility in
speech and sometimes a ready practical ability. They love jokes,
puns and sprightly humour.
Appearance.—Gemini is slight in figure, slender and graceful, with
rather beautiful eyes. Their organic quality is good, and refinement
is a marked attribute.
Occupation.—Gemini people succeed best in all work where the
hands are used to express the brain ; thus they make excellent editors,
reporters, journalists, school masters, travellers, clerks, secretaries, pen
artists and actors ; but they must always have, like their native element
(air), change. Thus they often have two occupations going on at the
same time.
Health.—Gemini people must avoid nervous strain, as all worry
or anxiety quite disturbs their equilibrium. If they do not restrain
their activity, and rest as much as possible, they become victims
to insomnia and nervous prostration, or develop lung trouble. They
should always secure plenty of sleep and fresh air, avoiding excitement
and late hours. Their diet should be nourishing but not stimulating.
Gems.—The gems suitable are agate, firestone and all yellow
stones. Their fortunate day of the week is Wednesday.
Bessie Leo.
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tropical sign Cancer, which marks the beginning of summer, is very
similar to that for the New Moon of May 31 ; the chief difference is
in the position of the two luminaries, for the Sun is now in the seventh
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 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 193-
house in trine to Venus and Saturn in the eighth and separating from
the opposition of Mars in the ninth.
Mercury so near the cusp of the seventh house in close square to
Mars in the ninth shows diplomacy very active over foreign affairs
and tending to become involved in disputes and difficulties with some
other country, with deceit, treachery and underhand conduct; some
Gemini country, perhaps the United states, will be concerned, but the
whole district from London to Berlin is influenced by this position of
Mercury. Messengers and communications will be busily passing
between the nations and some very difficult question in dispute will
arise and cause much disturbance.
The Sun's position is more hopeful and peaceful, it will draw
allied nations more closely together, and some monarch or great
person will be working in the interests of peace and harmony. Visits
of ^important persons will be exchanged between friendly nations.
Two contrary tendencies are thus shown in international affairs, one
tending towards a more pacific state of things, and another providing
some fresh cause of dispute or threatening to draw in another nation.
Money matters and questions of taxation will be very troublesome
and unfortunate over practically the whole of Europe, but the prospect
is worse for central and eastern Europe than for Great Britain.
There will be many deaths and the death duties will be heavy. Some
woman in a high position will die, many wealthy people and many of
the lower classes. Storms, accidents, and deaths will occur at sea and
there are likely to be several cases of drowning. Acrimonious
parliamentary disputes are threatened, and foreign affairs will cause
disagreements in more than one European country. Storms, high
winds and hot weather will be experienced at home. Cases of spying
and underhand crime will occur. Accidents and trouble connected
with railways, aviation, the post office and means of transit will be
heard of, also cases of libel, and the positions are unfavourable for the
publishing trade.
At New York Saturn and Venus are close to the meridian and
state affairs will give trouble to the President and Government. With
Jupiter in the seventh house peace will be preserved and the
peaceful influence of the country will be exerted abroad, and yet some
very difficult question is likely to arise with some other country and
 194 MODERN ASTROLOGY

cause a great deal of trouble; international business and financial

affairs will cause much anxiety; some highly placed person will die,
and some public scandal is threatened affecting a prominent individual.
At the moment of ingress the Sun will be rising in the Pacific
Ocean near Japan, culminating in the United States and Mexico,
setting in eastern Europe, and on the nadir near Calcutta.

THE PRESENT MONTH

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the present year, namely financial troubles, and anxiety connected with
taxation and loans; and this is shown to be very widely spread ; it will
affect the whole of Europe, directly or indirectly, and even at New
York there are somewhat similar indications, for Saturn and Venus will
have just risen in Cancer there. The east of Europe will suffer
especiallyj for Saturn and Venus will culminate there ; few parts of the
civilised world will remain unaffected by the financial changes that have
been brought about by the war. In Great Britain and western Europe
the square of Mars to Mercury, rising and culminating, will cause a
great deal of unhealthy martial excitement which will inflame people's
minds and produce unwise results; the Government will be fairly strong
but they will be in difficulty over very contentious questions that will
arise ; some legislative measure is threatened with withdrawal or defeat;
prominent persons will be attacked and criticised; changes may take
place in the Cabinet or in the holders of important offices; even the
King will not escape trouble ; but this applies to France as much as
to England. The workers in the various nations will feel the pinch
either of poverty or of scarcity of food,and much discontent connected
with labour questions is likely to be expressed. The death-rate will
be high, and there will be cases of assault, quarrels, murder, and
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accidents in public life and affecting public persons ; cases for the
Law Courts will arise now and libels be reported, some well-known
person will suffer. Accidents and deaths connected with railways or
aviation will occur, and the Post Office will be under bad influences.
In central Europe the culmination of the luminaries will give
strength to rulers and governments, but financial troubles will be even
more serious here and the labouring classes will be very discontented;
new causes of dissatisfaction over foreign relations will arise, and much
secret and underhand diplomatic manoeuvring will be going on connected
with foreign countries. " Secret enmity" is written large over central
and eastern Europe.
Mars in Virgo brings accidents, fires and martial troubles in
Turkey, Greece, Switzerland, Paris, and other parts ruled by the sign.
Jupiter entering Taurus benefits Ireland, the Caucasus, Poland, Persia,
Asia Minor, and some adjacent parts.
Saturn transits the cusp of the ascendant of the German Emperor
in July and is very unfortunate for him, and nearly at the same time
Mars will transit the opposition of his mid-heaven, Neptune and Mars.
The two eclipses in July are both very unfortunate for him. His
directions were given last January, p. 50, and a reference will show
that he is now entering upon a very disastrous period, as was pointed
out then; financial and business troubles will grow more acute, and
political and popular discontent more pronounced.
At this New Moon the degree containing the luminaries will be
rising in the United States and Canada, culminating in Austria and
adjacent parts, setting in the east of China, and on the nadir in the
Pacific Ocean.
The exact square of Mars in Virgo to its dispositor Mercury in
Gemini makes the position of these planets very important all the
world over. Therefore it will be useful to note that Mars will rise in
Great Britain, west Europe and west Africa; culminate near Calcutta;
set in the Pacific Ocean; and be on the nadir near the central line of
Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
The lunation falls as follows in various horoscopes.
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King of Italy Si Emperor of Adstria
King of Spain rf General Joffre
King op Belgidm a? Lord Kitchener
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phical School, was born on May 24th 1866, at Newcastle, Co. Limerick,
52027'N, 903'W, between midnight and two o'clock in the morning.
No attempt has been made to rectify the horoscope, but students
desiring to do so will find the following data sufficient. We have
taken the mean and erected the map for 1 a.m.1
Dr Armstrong Smith left England for Honolulu in January 1883
to teach in a school there, and was for 18 years in the Sandwich
1
This time agrees very closely with the direction 3/ rf M.C. for the opening of
this school.
 HOROSCOPE OF DR ARMSTRONG SMITH, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. I97

Islands. In August 1895 he was a volunteer nurse in a cholera

Hospital. In March 1897 he suffered through slander, which
might have wrecked his career had he not made a very firm stand.
During the latter part of 1899 and early part of 1900 he was shut up
in a plague hospital as volunteer nurse.
In April 1905 he qualified as a doctor and in November 1906,
joined the P. and O. service as surgeon, but shortly afterwards left
the sea and settled in Bombay as a medical practitioner in January
1907. He relinquished his practice at the end of 1909, and journeyed
through Japan to England early in 1910.
His mother died 2/12/1907 and his father almost exactly seven
years later, 6/12/191+. On the 2nd of September 1914 he went to
France to help organise a hospital for the wounded ; prior to that had
been at an Anti-Vivisection Hospital.
He opened the Garden City Theosophical School on the 20th of
January 1915. The following are among the avowed objects of the
School:—
Character Building.—The aim of the school is to turn out men and
women capable of playing a useful part in the world. Hence the training of
character is of supreme importance. The children must be taught to respect
other people's wishes, views, personality : to shew gentleness, patience and
tolerance. They must not only never inflict pain, but must be prepared to
relieve it whenever an opportunity presents itself. All religions and denomi-
nations are welcome, and we hope to receive boys and girls of every belief,
and to help each child to understand and respect even those ideas from
which his own most diverge.
Self-Discipline.—The school will be run, as far as possible, as a self-
governing community, the children making their own rules and disciplining
themselves. The teacher will be a friend and adviser, and not a person who
lays down the law, and is continually saying " Don't 1 " There will be no
punishment. No child will ever be disgraced before his fellows. If any child
refuses to attend and behaves in such a way as to disturb the work of the
other members of the class, he will simply be asked to withdraw from the
lesson and do something more congenial to himself, for the class-room must
be a place of quiet and order. From experience we find the children are
glad to return, and make greater efl'orts in self-discipline and application to
their studies. All children want occupation. All children wish to learn.
Their capacity for curiosity is enormous, as their endless questions testify.
Surely then it should be unnecessary to compel them to work under a threat
of punishment.
Individual Development.—As far as possible each child will be
allowed freedom in the choice of subjects and classes, so that while receiving
a sound general education, he may be able to develop his own special talent.
That is, there will be some approximation to the College system whereby
each student makes a selection irotr. a series of classes. But it is not
intended to leave the children to make such choice unguided at a time when
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few of them have a really clear idea of what they DO want. The parent will
help, and the teacher too, whose business it is to study each individual boy
and girl and to find out which line of development is the best.
The children, too, will be encouraged to think out, or find out, answers to
their own questions, the teachers' aim being rather to draw out the latent
powers of the child's mind than to supply him with tabloid information. It
may be objected that such a method will be slow, and will produce small
results in the shape of knowledge. But it is better to allow the child to
unfold himself than to put knowledge into him and to mould him from without.
As Mrs Besant said in a recent lecture, speaking of education in India :
" There is now a certain amount of revolt going on against the old-
fashioned idea of taking the child as an empty vessel, inducing him to accept
certain facts and to pour them out in the examination room. The power of
pouring these out produces a youth in no way fitted for the life through
which he is passing."

The Horoscope

The rulers of this map are Saturn and Jupiter, as the last few
degrees of the Saturnian sign Aquarius are in the ascendant with the
planet Jupiter placed in that sign, but having already passed well into
the twelfth house, and the Jupiterian sign Pisces is intercepted in the
first house.
This Saturn-Jupiter blend receives another influence from the
presence of Neptune and Mars in conjunction in Aries, but still well in
the first house.
As every student knows, Aquarius is a sign that bestows strong
intuitions, a hatred of conventionalities, a contempt for the "guinea
stamp "and a positive hunger for realities and the beauty of unvarnished
truth. The expansion of Jupiter finds in this sign ample scope, and
an absence of the limitations he abhors. Here his intuitions and
imaginations may wing their flight, his humanitarian and compassionate
impulses may act with freedom and lack of restraint, and his broad
social instincts will be blind to the senseless barriers set by the
conventional and narrow-minded.
Dr Armstrong Smith is indeed fortunate in having Jupiter, the
greater benefic, so well placed, and as Jupiter rules the tenth house of
this horoscope, that house which has to do with one's honour and
reputation, as well as with one's profession in life, he will naturally
choose to work on broad humanitarian lines as a doctor, choosing
often the hospital and places of confinement where his great compassion
may minister to the greatest need and the deepest misery. This was
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•well borne out on two occasions when Dr Armstrong Smith volunteered

his services in Cholera and Plague Hospitals.
His broad compassions are increased by close trines from the
luminaries from the third and seventh houses, illuminating the mind,
and bestowing hope and cheerfulness, and liberal views on education.
These trines from the airy signs will always keep Dr Armstrong Smith
young in spirit, and will make him an immense favourite with young
people, and will cause him to be eagerly sought after in scholastic,
literary and artistic circles ; and especially will this be so as life
advances, as the fourth house cusp holds the sign Gemini, which
although a mental sign is preeminently the "child" sign, and is
guarded on either side by the Sun and Venus. Youth will be about
him at the end, and Love will add its quota to the latter half of life.
When we examine the position of Saturn, his part ruler, we see a
reason for the choice of medicine as a profession. Saturn is placed in
the occult sign Scorpio, a negative martial sign that is especially
prominent in the maps of dentists, soldiers, doctors, etc., for it is a sign
that bestows keen insight, and a power to diagnose correctly and
accurately the exact conditions of the physical body. Saturn's position
in Scorpio's natural house, the eighth, makes this faculty even stronger,
and the trine aspect from Uranus adds strength of will and tremendous
powers for laborious work and study, and the capacity for endurance
and patient striving. Saturn in Scorpio is considered to be ill-placed,
when estimated from the point of view of luck. Saturn is the Reaper,
and Scorpio governs the normal eighth house sign, the death house;
and those with Saturn in Scorpio, and placed prominently in the map,
suffer greatly from separations from their loved ones. It is as though
binding affections and deeply-rooted ties have been made in the past,
and these ties have to be broken one by one, in order that the Ego
may realise that no love is really his until he has learnt to do without
it. There comes then a feeling of isolation and aloneness, but swiftly
there is born the knowledge that " all things are yours," and from this
realisation springs an inner quiet and a great strength ; and it may be
judged that each time the Reaper has, with his gentle touch, loosened
one of the ties, the native of this horoscope has, as it were, passed
through a time of re-birth, and has emerged purified, stronger, freer.
Saturn in opposition to Mercury will, at different periods of his
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life, cause Dr Smith to be misrepresented and to suffer from slander

and unkind criticism, but a happy issue is foreseen, from the kindly
aid given by the trine of Uranus, enabling him by sheer strength of
will, to silence his detractors. We know that Dr Smith was subjected
to treatment of this kind in the spring of 1897, when in Honolulu, and
that it was only by taking a very firm stand that his career was not
wrecked.
With four planets in cardinal signs he will never mind taking
positions of responsibility, and the three planets in fixed signs will
impress others with the conviction that he can be trusted and wholly
depended upon ; but the influence of Saturn in Scorpio in opposition
to Mercury will make him feel to need times of withdrawal and the
necessity of absolute quiet in order to re-adjust the balance.
The four planets in airy signs make him more alive in the world
of ideas and intuitions than in the world that prides itself upon being
practical and having common sense.
The intuitional part of the nature is helped by the rising Neptune,
which gives some kind of psychic power, aided as it is by the sextile
from the Sun. Mars rising in Aries gives him energy and resource
and enables him to push a cause that he believes in, though there be
few to applaud. It was this strong Martial influence in the first house,
coupled with the Saturn in Scorpio that caused him, at the outbreak
of the present war, to offer himself for service. He went to France
as second in command to Dr Haden Guest and was appointed Chief
Medical Officer of the hospital at the Hotel Majestic and helped Dr
Guest to organise several other hospitals.
We have said that Dr Armstrong Smith is an idealist, and he is
even now putting into practice, as Principal of the Garden City School
at Letchworth, one of his most beautiful ideals. It is a school in
which boys and girls -work side by side, and in which punishment by
teachers is never given, but the children are themselves those who
punish, and this way is proving more satisfactory than the old method,
as the children earlier learn to recognise their own responsibility, and,
besides, hold no grudge against teachers as fault finders and judges of
their misdeeds. After three months' experience, the Principal, writing
of the School said " The tone of the school was not at first all that we
wished, but it is improving very rapidly. Many of the children are
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beginning thoroughly to grasp the ideals set before them, and are work-
ing splendidly towards their realisation. A spirit of helpfulness and
mutual service is spreading through the whole school. And a happier
set of children it would be difficult to find." To show how well
the " no punishment " scheme is working, let me quote the words of
one of the boys. " It isn't fair," he said, " to have no punishment; it
makes one too responsible."
In accepting the post of Principal of this school Dr Armstrong
Smith took a bold step, and we congratulate him on his success. It is
all in keeping with his broad altruistic views, his abhorrence of com-
pulsion and his love of freedomand initiative ; and the angular position
of the two benefics in his horoscope will always make him popular and
greatly loved, more especially by those who know him in the sanctity
of the home, as, for instance, those know him who have the happy
fortune to be school boarders in his Co-operation school at Letchworth.

NIGHT .MARCHING BY THE STARS

Lieoten'ant Colonel W. A. Tilnev, in a paper on " The Art of Finding
Your Way at Night Without a Compass," read before the Society of Arts
recently, said that Colonials, Basutos, Indians, and Arabs could instinctively
read the heavens as a compass, this knowledge having been transmitted from
father to son for generations. Troops depended in night attacks on one man
with a compass, and if he came to grief all were lost. Feeling that Ihe Great
War was not fardistant and that in case of trouble in India the power to
make rapid night inarches without the help of a guide would be of great value,
he went to Ouetta in 1913. Severe tests of his system were carried out, and it
was reported to be eminently sound, students of the Indian Cavalry School
finding no difficulty in iletennining the direction stars. Certain large stars
formed beacons indicating north, south, east, and west.
If the soldier put the front buttons of his coat on the North Star or other
direction star, his right and left breasts gave angles of 43 degrees, and his
shoulders gave a right angle. Also, with a little practice 15 degrees of horizon
could be measured with the hand, and it soon became second nature to
recognise the points of the compass at sight, a sense of direction similar to that
possessed by hushmen, Arabs, and others being thus acquired. A time-table of
direction stars had been prepared, and men engaged in night fighting, which
formed so important a part of modern warfare, or going up to trenches at night,
if they were familiar with only two or three of these stars, knew that they
could not lose their way. This gave them confidence, and it also gave the
power to strike an enemy from a distance by rapid marching across country.
The great difficulty of'fighting at night was to keep the direction. Com-
manders,did not dare to send British troops to the flanks, knowing that they
would probably be lost, bat Colonials, who had a hereditary sense of direction,
could find their way.
The problem, which had been solved after 14 years of investigation, was
how to enable exact bearings to be found at night without the process,
occupying at least 20 miuutes, of using a sextant.
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(©Intii- Dicta
"An obittr dictum, in (he language of the law,
is a gratuitous opinion, an individual im-
pertinence, which, whether it he wise Or
foolish, right or wrong, bindeth none —
not even the lips that utter it."
Old Judge.

A PROPHECY
Drawn by will of the Daityas from the uttermost ends of Maya's realms,
swiftly foregather the clouds in the Eastern sky, hiding the light of the Sun
from the holden eyes of men.
" Ha! Ha I " laugh the Daityas, " no God, no servant of the Lhas can
free the earth-born from our power, for we have o'ershadowed the source of
their life ; now can we stand and watch, while the brown and yellow slaves of
our will wreak vengeance on those who defy our power."
Cry aloud, ye sons of Earth, for the crashing of arms, the curses of the
frenzied, the shrieks of the murdered, now ascend to the fast-barred gates of
Devachan. and the Gods heed not, for the hour of judgment is not yet
passed. But hold! the Purified comes, to burst asunder the chains that
bind, to tear from their fastenings the bars of those gates. Then must
awaken the Gods who sleep, for the New Day will dawn. With swift flight
will They come to the desolated Earth; with Their breath will They drive
back the Daityas to their dwelling-place. They will open the inner and
outer heavens, and pour down food and drink. They will bind up the
wounds of the smitten, and bring the Holy Fire for the Altars long defiled
Peace and contentment will dwell on the Earth for a thousand rounds
Love will conquer hate ; and again, as of old, will the Gods dwell with men.
{Taken from" The Temple Artisan" of August 1905.)

NATIVITY OF A "KITCHENER CHAP "

A Fulfilled Prediction
A subscriber to Modern Astrology who was a friend and fellow-
student of the Sub-Editor in the early nineties, when they regularly visited
the Pharmaceutical Society's Museum in Blooinsbury Square together, sends
some interesting notes concerning the following nativity which is that of his
son, who has recently returned to the front after a brief stay with his
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parents—there to receive promotion as had been foretold. The horoscope
is a remarkable one, and we are glad to have it.
x xi xii i ii iii
A11 1:5:5 ==. n moj 11128 513
OSSS.J'M': ti'l1 Isis
111.27.25 813.54 59 m.xO 158.13 11122.27 11124.59 nig.sxr H21

The native was born at 5 a.m., 19/11/1896, close to London. A glance

at his horoscope will show that responsibility, and the ability to exercise it,
is clearly shown: (© in n rising, d 'ji ? and 1^).
When war was declared in August 1914 he was not long before deciding
to answer the call of his country, and enlisted into a Scotch territorial
regiment in September. The aspect in his progressed map 0 ^ p measures
to this.
He was sent to Bedford to train, and the months spent there were
amongst the happiest of his life. There were hardships to be borne it is true,
but he made many friends, and the hospitality of the inhabitants of the
town was boundless. It is interesting to note that he tried to obtain his
commission in December 1914 but owing to the illness of his Colonel, and
the consequent difficulty in getting his signature, be gave up the attempt for
a time, and decided to wait awhile till he had seen active service. It may be
here noted that trouble, and a certain amount of difficulty, has attended his
application for a commission, the aspect in bis progressed map ^ 8 (? due
about this time probably indicating some such state of affairs. Three
or four mouths after this date in March 1915, he went to France and
was very quickly sent up to the front: D * 9 . He was through the battle of
Neuve Chapelle, his battalion, which acted as a support to the main attacking
body, being in the front trenches. He, with seven or eight companions,
friends made at Bedford, came through this without a scratch.
His next big engagement was at Festubert. His company had to
advance over open ground, and take a certain trench. Unknown to them
this ground was intersected by deep ditches, in which many, laden with full
packs and equipment, were drowned. The trench was taken, but owing to
the tardy arrival of supports had to be abandoned, the loss of life being
very heavy. Here again he and his friends escaped.
In the meantime his father had been actively pushing forward his
application for a commission, and in the first week in August was informed by
the Adjutant General that his son had been selected to undergo a course of
training at the Base Cadet School: D* ^ in progressed map measures to
April 28th, and D d 2 is about due the same time.
The training being completed, he came home with his commission as
and Lieutenant on September 18th. Before he returned on September 34
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his father, the writer of this note, assured him that further promotion was in
store for him, as ? * tj measured to the new year.
He arrived back at the front on September 26, and at once joined his
new regiment. He found that in his absence the battle of Loos had been
fought, and that his new battalion had lost seventeen officers. He was
immediately placed in charge of a company, and so successfully was his work
undertaken that he was promoted to be captain early in November.
It is worthy of note that his old regiment in which he had been a
private was also in action, and that practically the whole of the remaining
members of his old section were killed by a high explosive shell 1

MINOR ASPECTS
{Submitted by Mr. L. Edward Johndrc, Detroit, Mich., U.S.A.)

This term is commonly given to the semi-sextile, the semi-square, the

quintile, the sesquiquadratc and the biquintile. But investigation and
observation tend more to show that all aspects within the square are really
the weak ones ; that is, the quintile (72°), the sextile (60°), the semi-square
(450), the scmi-quintile (36°), and the semi-sextile (30°) all seem to work out
as very weak and futile in their effects, increasingly so in the order given.
Anything below the square seems to fall short of any material or tangible
outcome. Sextile and quintile directions often promise good, or lead one to
begin likely ventures that come to nothing but a waste of good time. The
semi-square as often leads one to expect trouble that never eventuates, and
to waste time considering propositions that peter out. I am speaking here
of these aspects alone—when the planets or cusps concerned have no major
aspects at the same time.
On the other hand there is already considerable evidence to show that
not only the square (go'), trine (120°), and opposition (180°) are powerful, but
that the sesquiquadrate (135°) the bi-quintile (144°), and quincunx (150°) are
also major aspects, and that the three latter should not be termed inferior.
This consideration is best tested by cusp directions, for when the zenith
is in trine to a planet the nadir is in sextile to it and the strong effect on the
M.C. and the futile influence on the fourth house can then be observed. The
same method will test the biquintile as against the quintile, the sesqui-
quadrate as against the semi-square, etc. We seldom find opposite cusps
equally excited, and it is very important that we know upon which of the two
opposite houses the major effect will fall, when the direction is other than a
conjunction or opposition.
Modern astrological thought is wisely departing from the earlier idea
that a square and an opposition have identical meanings; we now know that
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a square is an interjcreuce and a delay, but not necessarily a frustration to the
same degree as an opposition. Similarly, we know that a trine and a
sextile do not mean the same thing, though their exact difference perhaps
escapes us as yet, beyond the fact that it is now accepted that a trine is far
more powerful than a sextile.
The distinction between the dexter and sinister aspects is clearly
traceable, and this point calls for a great deal of research. When planets
are in any aspect except the conjunction or opposition, it is the oriental (by
sign) planet which seems always to get the best end of the bargain, and I am
inclined to think that it is not so much a question of some aspects being good
and others had, but rather that the " eastern " end of every aspect is enhanced
somewhat at the expense of the " western " end. True, if the aspect be a
square, the bargain is settled very abruptly and with some strenuous rending
which gives it the appearance of evil or destructiveness, as against a more
gradual and tedious effect, of a constructive tone, from the trine or sextile.
For instance, if Jupiter be square to Saturn, and Saturn west of Jupiter
(in the signs), it seems to bring far more good than evil to finances; but if
Saturn square Jove from east of it there are bad results. If Saturn be square
to the Sun from east of it, Saturn seems to have the advantage and causes
sickness, and delays to the career thereby ; but if square from the west, the
Sun has the advantage (as though it were ahead in the celestial race, and so
it then is), and there is seldom the same ill-health as in the former case;
indeed, such natives are often exalted through the death of others who stand
in their way.
In other words, we cannot rest with the geometrical proposition that all
square angles are equal, for the laws of form do not embrace all the laws of
force. But we need not seek far for some explanation as to why aspects of
planets to the Sun, Venus or Mercury from Fast of them are weaker on
those three planets than when from West of them, for in the former case
the aspecting planet is retarding the earth's orbital motion and in the latter
case it is accelerating it. I trust these few comments will stimulate keener
discrimination on the part of students who feel disappointed in finding so
many honoured and successful persons born under more bad aspects than
good ones.

SEMI-HOUSE CUSPS
(Submitted by Mr L. Edward Johndro, Detroit, Mich., U.S.A.)
This is a little point investigators may care to consider, in connection
with the houses of the horoscope, just by way of experiment.
We are all agreed that the cusp of a house is far more important than
the space the house subtends; but this gives rise, finally, to the inquiry as to
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whether there are any other particular points in the house-spaces which are
also sensitive, and if so, how ought they to be calculated ?
Rather obviously, if such points of influence exist, they ought to be the
subdivisions of the normal bouses, and would have polar elevations of their
own, determinable by the usual method, but from l, ^ and S the ascensional
difference respectively. To the RAMC add 150, 450, 750, 105°, 1350 and 165°
for these respective points, and convert the resultant oblique ascensions into
longitude, under the three additional " poles," after the same manner of
determining the normal cusps: {Custiug lite Horoscope, p. 86, Formula vii a ;
also p. rai).
To give an example let us suppose the latitude of birthplace to be 45.3N.
Then the poles of the houses will be 18.59, 34 I4 and 45-3, and the poles of
our experimental points will prove tobe9.5i,27.i2and40.2i. Now supposing
the RAMC to be 145.36, we get the following results :—
MC it 23° 16'
mio 23 sensitive point in x
xi Itj25 50
(") ^ 9 tO sensitive point in xi
xii £.zr 30
in, 2 10 sensitive point in xii
i 11112 00
"<23 43 sensitive point in i
ii / ir 06
(6) 227 55 sensitive point in ii
iii n 16 02
ST 4 48 sensitive point in iii
These points can be safely tested only by adhering to very limited orbs—two
or three degrees at most. And the best test is to direct them under their
poles, just the same as the cusps of the bouses, and note if any events corres-
pond with their exact measures to planets. It is apparent that the points (<i)
and (6) are respectively the semisquarc and the sesquiquadrate measures
from the MC, in mttndo, just as the xii bouse is the mundane sextile from the
MC. If the experimentalist desires to substitute the quintile and bi-quintile
values instead of 750 and 165°, he must calculate poles for those ascensions ;
but this would change the point in the xii house and place two points in
the ii house and none in the iii, and the latter feature would frustrate the
original intent of inquiring into a sensitive point within each house.
Tests on this problem, to date, are too limited to warrant any opinion
more than that these points seem " promising," and I trust a few students
will try them out and give us the result of their investigations. But care
must be taken. For instance, in the tabulated case transits over 240 to 27®
Scorpio prove very powerful in this native's ascendant, but whether this is
due to their exciting the sensitive point 11125.43, or merely because such
transits are then square to the MC and trine to the v is not at all clear.
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The native formed a business partnership with a gentleman whose Jupiter is
127-55 : th'3 's exactly the sensitive pointin the ii, but as the native had the
Moon and Mars 1126.15 and 1127.02 this bit of "evidence " is also uncertain.
Therefore, be critical and exacting. Whatever is truth will not be injured
by third-degree methods, and if there is no influeuce through these points
let us force them to " fess up."
THE SINN FEIN REBELLION
The attempted rebellion in Ireland co incided with the passage of
the Sun and Mercury through Taurus, the ruling sign of the country, both
receiving severe afflictions. Fixed signs were then strongly occupied. Mars
was in Leo and Uranus io Aquarius. When the Sun entered Taurus on
April 20th it was in square with Neptune, which planet re-entered Leo on
May 2nd, and on that day there were six heavenly bodies in fixed signs. It
was pointed out on page 118 that days on which the Moon or any other body
formed the conjunction or square with Mars or Uranus would be very
unfortunate, and this turned out true. On April 19th, under Moon square
both planets, Mr Asquith announced disagreements in the Cabinet. Mercury
in Taurus squared both planets on April 25th, 26th, when the rebellion was
proceeding; and the secret session of Parliament and the bombardment of
Lowestoft and Yarmouth both occurred on April 25th.
THE HOROSCOPE OF GENERAL LORD FRENCH
WElearn that General Lord French has given his birth-time as4.30 p.m.
September 28 1852, near Walmer in Kent.
Mrs C. Despard, a sister of Lord French, has given us in answer to an
enquiry the information that he was born " from certain memories of mine "
in the afternoon, though she does not feel sure of the time.
x xi xii i ii iii
2 iG H4 1524 =26 T-as «26
O D S f <r 3/ 1? 13 I-'
et5.4i Tio.19 *4321.3 2119.31 1117.27 11121.41 »ly.nt- «7.42"
MrW. S. Randall has procured the birth-time, and from this has erected
the above horoscope.

Next month commences the first instalment of an important series of

articles on "THE GREAT WAR," by Mr G. E. Sutclifie, whose article in
jModeks Astrology for December, 1914^.542) may be remembered. After
giving prpofs of the statements there made, he proceeds to deal with the War
as an item in the series of influencesinitiated at the New Epoch of December
3rd, 1899, when there was a great conjunction of planets in Sagittarius, and
this is treated as the birth map of a New Era, directions from this nativity
being compared with events in the War.
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®Ijongljt Tatatiis
Items of Interest from All Quarters
C. C. writes : "I enclose birth-dates of two Champion Heavy-weight
Boxers:—Johnson,31/3/1878, Galveslon, Texas; Tommy Burns, 17/6/1881,
Hanover, Canada."
Still-Born Child (male);—x ^26, xi 11119, xii f 7, i $22, ii .srs,
K22; Q'/fzs, 2/20, i/b1!, 2 bH, d1 B26, 2/ /7i, t? B i3r, igbag, 1'9522-
An Interesting Case.—Female, born at midday, 2o/ii/'88. jasper
Alabama, U.S.A. Lost hearing totally when a child : poor circumstances.
Mother at Thirteen : —Probably the youngest mother in Kentucky is
Mrs. Kate Fields, of this city. She is thirteen years old, and the grand-
mother of her newborn daughter is just thirty.—4/5/1912.
Twins After a Twin Wedding.—Twins have been born to Dr. and
Mrs. Armstrong, of Galveston, Indiana, each of whom is ajtwin. They were
married by a clergyman who is a twin, and a twin was best man.—h/ia/'ra.
Triplets by Instalments.— The wife of A. V. Gran tout, a Chicago
labourer, gave birth to three children on three consecutive nights.
A Case of Scarlet Fever.—" Here are particulars of the birth of my
nephew who died of malignant scarlet ;fever on February 23rd, 1912, at 7.4
p.m. He was born July 25 th, 1901, at about 6.10 a.m. at South Norwood, S.E.
Family Data: Consumption.—Hwsftflin/.b.ai/g/'bo.'g.is a.m.;"d. i3/g/,86,
of consumption : married, 28/i/,83. IVi/e, b. n/s/'dj, 0.30 p.m. (still living).
Children-, male, b. 8/i/'84, 4 a.m., d. i3/6/'89, of consumption: female,
b. i2/8/'86, 0.0 p.m., d. ry/S/'Sb, cause not known. [Data from an old
Family Bible, forwarded by E. C. C.J
Died by Poison taken by Mistake.—Mr. J. B. of Johannesburg died by
poison accidentally administered, at about 10 a.m., 13/5/1913. His horoscope
is as follows: x xi isi6, xii 1117, i "124, ii ^25, iii crd; ©0328.9,
20520.13, 50512.3, 2 2/ia22.8r., tj H7.i5r-, ^SliS.se,
BS-'S. SH22.41.
Oldest Woman in London.—From the Daily Express of io/4/'n :
" Mrs. Bristow, mother of Canon Bristow, and the oldest woman in London,
celebrates her 104th birthday to-day at Lee."—Planet's places at noon
10/4/1807: OV20, 2 B 17, 5'Faol?.. 2 B 14. (Jt'ESsL, IfarS, t? "tSil).,
(tj^agl)., f .1125E. (Mrs. Bristow died on May 31, 1911.)
Comet 1916 a (K'eujmin).—The following are the stated positions of this
comet at 12 p.m. G.M.T.
RA. Declin. Long. RA. Declin. Long.
O O / o
April 6 144 2 S3 12 J127 27 April 22 151 42 8 7 iip6 45
„ 10 145 49 S4 36 il29 42 .. 26 153
I
47 9
10
9 119 11
,, 14 147 42 S6 4 nn 2 5 .. 3° 55 56 7 38
18 149 40 S7 37 iip 4 37 May 4 158 7 11 2 14 6
8 160 20 11 54 16 34
Period 6.21 years. Perihelion passage 11/3/1916.
 Astrology for Beginners

PERSONAL .APPEARANCE
We shall consider for the next few months the personal characteristics of
each of the twelve zodiacal signs when rising in the East at birth, limiting
ourselves this month to the first cardinal sign Aries (t).
When Aries is the sign directly East of the birth-place, the native will
exhibit facial expressions and movements that remind one of the ram or of
the sheep, which are really the prototypes for this sign. There thus appear
to be two quite distinct types of people born under the sign Aries : the ram-
like one suggesting the defensive demeanour of the ram, and the other the
quiet and inoffensive appearance of the sheep.
The height of the Aries person is not much above the average, and the
body is thiu and wiry. The head, which is round and short, is held erectly,
and there is often great dignity and pride in the bearing. The face itself is
wide at the temples, but the jaw is narrow and tapers towards the chin.
There is no surplus flesh on the face, or indeed on any part of the body.
Those faces that suggest the ram have wiry black, or sandy hair, that
often stands up, horn like, on either side of the temples: though after the
first youth is passed, the hair quickly recedes from there. The eyes have a
quick alert look, as though saying " Who goes there ?" and the nose is either
long and close to the face, with a slight rise in the middle of the bone, or it
is thin and aquiline. The complexion, usually pale, is sometimes ruddy.
The teeth, white and strong, are wide apart, and often stand out angularly
from the gums.
The type that suggests the sheep has a softer look in the face and a
gentler demeanour, the nose slightly aquiline and the eyes often blue.
Watch an Aries person speaking under great emotion, and you will
notice the head, or upper part of the body, butt forward spasmodically, as
though, ram-like, about to do battle with the head. The walk suggests
energy, enterprise and great alertness. The voice is strong and the speech
quick and direct.
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THE PRENATAL EPOCH

In Chapter II., Book III., of Ptolemy's " Tetrabiblos"
(Ashmand's trans.) we read : " The actual moment, in which human
"generation commences, is in fact, by nature, the moment of the
" conception itself ; but, in efficacy with regard to subsequent events,
" it is the parturition, or birth.
"in every case, however, where the actual time of conception
" may be ascertained, either casually or by observation, it is useful to
" remark the effective influence of the configuration of thestars,etc.,as
" it existed at that time ; and, from that influence, to infer the future
" personal peculiarities of mind and body. For the seed will, at the
" very first, and at once, receive its due quality, as then dispensed by
" the Ambient; and, although in subsequent periods its substance
" is varied by growth and conformation, it will still, by the laws of
" nature, congregate, during its growth, only such matter as may
"appear proper to itself, and will become more and more imbued
" with the peculiar property of the first quality impressed on it at the
" time of conception. These precepts must always be attended to,
" when that time can be ascertained.
212 MODERN ASTROLOGY

" But, if the time of conception cannot be precisely made out,

" that of the birth must be received as the original date of generation ;
" for it is virtually the most important, and is in no respect deficient, on
" comparison with the primary origin by conception, except in one view
" only; viz., that the origin by conception affords the inference of
" occurrences, which take place previously to the birth, whereas the
"origin by birth can, of course, be available only for such as arise
" subsequently.1 And, although the birth should in strictness be called
" the secondary beginning, while the conception might be insisted on as
" the primary beginning, it is still found to be equal to the conception
" in its efficacy, and much more complete, although later in time. For
" the conception may, in fact, be said to be the generation of mere
"human seed, but the birth that of man himself ; since the infant at its
" birth acquires numerous qualities which it could not possess while in
" the womb, and which are proper to human nature alone ; such, for
" instance, as the particular action of the senses and the movement of
" the body and limbs. Besides, even if the position of the Ambient,
"actually existing at the birth, cannot be considered to assist in forming
"and engendering the particular shape and qualities of the infant, it is
" nevertheless still auxiliary to the infant's entrance into the world :
" because nature after completing the formation in the womb, always
" affects the birth in immediate obedience to some certain position of
" the Ambient, corresponding and sympathising with the primary
" position which operated the incipient formation. It is therefore
" perfectly admissable, and consistent with reason, that the configura-
" tion of the stars, as it exists at the time of birth, although it cannot
" be said to possess any share of the creative cause, should still be
"considered to act in signification as fully as the configuration at the
" time of conception ; because it has, of necessity, a power corres-
" ponding to that configuration which actually possessed the creative
6( ,,
cause.
The real importance of the Prenatal Epoch is concealed in the

1
[From the use of the expression " of course " here, it may be inferred that
what are known as 1 converse ' (sometimes termed prenatal) directions were not
regarded by Ptolemy ; for, logically, if converse directions can measure to events
after birth, on the same principle direct directions may be taken to measure to
events prior to birth.]
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 213

above extract from the Tetrabiblos, and it is for the esotericist to make
the valuable ideas connected therewith intelligible and serviceable.
To arouse more interest in this subject than is generally given to it
we hope to deal with it more fully in these pages in the future; we
cannot however deal with this subject in a satisfactory manner unless
the reader understands, or is prepared to accept, certain laws which
govern our physical, psychic, and spiritual heredity. It is not easy to
explain these matters in an ordinary article without entering into
technical details which might easily cause misunderstanding, and we
have therefore decided to open the subject in this place and take the
responsibility of introducing it to those of our readers whom we
believe to be more than superficially interested.
We cannot approach the study of the Prenatal Epoch without
first knowing something about the responsibility of parentage and its
part in working with, or against, the laws of evolution. At a certain
moment in the lives of all parents, whether of legitimate or illegitimate
children, there is generated a swirl of sensation and emotion caused
by the thoughts and feelings connected either with the desire for the
birth of a child, or with some passional and generative impulse, over
which the prospective parents may or may not have conscious control.
Normally this generative swirl, composed of a certain mode of
thought and feeling, will coincide with the "configuration of the
stars" at that time; it contains a certain parental power mingled with
a corresponding quality of the celestial influences.
It is necessary to state that this swirl of generative force may, or
may not, liberate itself in any act that leads to conception at the
moment when it is generated; it may subside or be reinforced
according to opportunity or circumstance.
Corresponding to the generative swirl, which is connected with
"the condition of the parents, there is something analogous set up in
the ambient which may be termed a magnetic vortex, the radiations of
which should coalesce with the generative or parental force. It is
quite possible to have a magnetic vortex affecting two persons of
opposite sex without finding a corresponding generative impulse, but
it is a rare occurrence, and we have not sufficient knowledge to
enable us to deal definitely with the fate of a magnetic vortex apart
from conception in such cases, although we have some interesting
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

particulars concerning them which cannot be dealt with apart from

occultism.
It would seem a reasonable hypothesis to accept, that the Moon's
position in the heavens, at the time when these celestial and terrestrial
spheres of influence were formed, linked the two together and made
them for the time being one.
One difficulty experienced by many students who study the Pre-
natal Epoch and find that coition does not always coincide with
conception, is apparently connected with the attractive or repelling
influence of these two spheres. There is, however, a far greater
difficulty in the way of students who do not study the matter from the
standpoint of occultism.
The occult statement on this subject is that no active human
etheric mould can be laid down in a mother's womb (except in the
case of still-born children and other exceptional cases), without the
consent of those Beings who are connected with the Creative Principles,
for They are the givers of life to all forms.
The Lords of Creation employ artificial elementals for the purpose
of carrying out Their will so far as human births are concerned, and it
is clear from all occult teaching on the subject, that there can be no
development of an embryo capable of being born alive without the
aid of an elemental specially created for that purpose. Astrologically,
we may for the time being consider the Moon as representing the
elemental link between the spheres and the embryo, and until that
link is supplied there can be no vitalisation or incarnation of a soul.
From the physical standpoint the father supplies an atom from
his body which is the nucleus around which an etheric body is built,
and the mother supplies the materials out of which the denser body
will be formed. This is simple enough, and from a purely material
standpoint would suffice with a study of embryology ; but there are
other factors which make the whole question an important study from
an astrological point of view, and these we will now consider.
An ego, as a ray or a " divine fragment," has to be linked
magnetically with the body that is forming at the trine of conception,
and it is the formation of this link at the ego's incoming which we are
mainly concerned with ; we are told by Ptolemy that it is from the
influence of the stars at conception that we are " to infer the future
 THE EDITOR'S observatorv

personal peculiarities of mind and body." Occultism teaches us that

the Recording Angels, acting in a region beyond our ken, create in
the finest substance a mould of such a type that it affords expression
for so much of the past karma of the ego who is to inhabit it, as They
see to be fitting. An elemental is created whose sole mission it is to
make a copy of this mould in living matter within the womb of the
mother to whom it has been directed, and this furnishes the etheric
double of the future form, " and molecule by molecule the nature spirits
lay down the dense matter in the etheric matrix. Inspired with a single
idea of exactly reproducing the model, the elemental selects the
approximate materials from the infinite variety of combinations in the
etheric sub-planes, and thus builds a body whose capacities and
limitations will make it the exact physical instrument for the working
out of the karma which is ripe for manifestation." Ptolemy says:
" For the seed will at the very first and at once receive its due quality
as then dispensed by the ambient.

The Permanent Atom

Occultism teaches that each human being remains permanently

attached to one atom of matter on each of the great planes or regions
of nature. For instance, even while out of incarnation after the death
of the physical body, the soul retains a link with one physical atom ;
and no matter how long the interval between two incarnations may
be, this link is never broken. The same Permanent Atom has
accompanied the soul through all past incarnations, even those in the
animal kingdom millions of years ago ; and it forms a nucleus round
which the physical body is built at each new birth.
These permanent atoms have marked characteristics of theirown,
which to a large extent have been gained by their close association
with the same soul in all its experiences throughout long ages of time.
Such characteristics are expressed outwardly in various complex
modes of vibration, each significant of some inner quality or power,
which both help and hinder the soul; help it when the vibratory mode
accords with a power which the ego wishes to express, but hinder it
when the ego desires to learn or acquire some new quality to which
the permanent atom has never learned to vibrate.
ai5 MODERN ASTROLOGY

" Quickening "

While the soul is away from the physical plane after death, the
physical permanent atom is more or less dormant and inactive, but
when the time for rebirth arrives a current of vital energy flows down
from the ego into the atormand starts it vibrating in all its characteristic
modes. This atom, permanently attached to an ego, must be present
within the fertilised ovum if the birth of an intelligent human being is
to follow; its presence is not absolutely necessary to conception in
the first place, but no "quickening" can occur unless a permanent
atom is present within the embryonic form. The reason for this is
that " quickening," which takes place about the fourth month, is
caused by the astral permanent atom awaking to activity, as a result
of which a downflow of astral vital energy is sent along the link which
connects the astral with the physical permanent atom, and then
quickening follows. If there is no physical permanent atom present
there can be no downflow of astral life and therefore no " quickening."
Conception may take place without the presence of a physical
permanent atom, but in that case a miscarriage will follow soon or
later: "Nature unaided fails.'"
Similarly about the seventh month a downflow of vital and
conscious energy takes place from the mental body on the mental plane,
and then the child is viable. If anything occurs to hinder this mental
downflow the consequence will be mental deficiency in the child,
though this is not the only cause of idiocy, which may result from
abnormality of the physical brain alone. It is not, however, until the
seventh year of life that all the links between the ego and its physical
body are fully active. Before that period what happens is that
currents of vital, emotional, passional and intelligent energy have been
sent down into the body, much as a man may send out similar currents
into a thought form or artificial elemental which he has created at a
distance for some purpose of his own and which remains linked to him
all the time.
At seven years, the personal soul may be said to be present
in the body; before that it may be more correctly described as " in
touch with " the body than actually " in " it.
 THIi EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 217

Critical Dates

There is one important consideration in connection with all this

which makes Astrology valuable, namely the study of the Prenatal
Epoch and all that it implies during the period preceding birth. A
review of the various factors at work in influencing the different
stages of the process will show that the following dates must be of
importance astrologically speaking; for although some of them are
superphysical in their origin, yet they are physical in their affects.
(a) The date when the soul that is to be re-born first comes into physical
touch with the human parent (father) through its permanent
physical atom. This happens without the knowledge of the soul.
(i) Coition.
(c) Conception, or the blending of the paternal and maternal cells in
the womb of the mother. This is separate in time from coition by
a varying interval.
(it) Quickening, or the downflow of astral life into the embryo about
the fourth month.
(«) The downflow of mental life into the embryo about the seventh
mouth.
(/) Birth.
These stages, starting with conception, may be said to correspond with
the lower planes of being and the human principles in an inverse
order. Conception starts the process on the physical plane and
compares with man's dense physical body; it is accompanied by the
development of the etheric double and the inflow of prana or vital
force ; this covers the first third of prenatal life. Quickening brings
the astral energies down into physical matter, and covers the second
third of the whole prenatal period. The downflow of mental life
brings energies from the mental plane down into the physical,
and covers the third phase of the whole period. Finally birth
brings a separate human ..being into existence and corresponds to the
individualisation of the Ego in the Causal Body.
This is only a general correspondence, and other classifications
are possible from other points of view.
2l8 MODEKN ASTROLOGY

An Illustration
It will probably assist the majority of our readers if we now take
a map of the Prenatal Epoch1 of some well-known character on the
world's stage, say for example that of Kaiser William II. The
striking feature of this map is the cluster of planets rising in the
sign Taurus, accentuating the quality of that fixed-earth sign.

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The Moon culminates, Mars sets and Saturn is upon the nadir.
Neptune is the only planet that is not angular.
The twenty-seventh degree of Taurus was upon the ascendant at
the moment of Epoch, the time when the connecting link from the

' The method of calculating the Regular Epoch is given in Chapter viii of
Casting the Horoscope.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

life side was made with the embryo, so that the fifty-seventh degree
of the zodiac represented the vital point in the ambient when the ego
was bound to the physical world by the magnetic cord.
The clairvoyant astrologer "Charubel" in The Degrees of the
Zodiac Symbolised says of this degree:
8 270 A dark cloud passing over a part of the earth. The cloud is
charged with elemental shapes most hideous and repulsive.
Charubel interprets this symbol as follows: " Such a person must
beware or he will be tempted to dabble in Black Magic, which would
terminate in his utter ruin."
How far this is to be verified remains for the future to disclose,
it certainly coincides with the idea many students have that the
Kaiser is obsessed by evil elementals, or, as Jacob Bohme would say,
by evil stars.
In illustrating the value of the Prenatal Epoch from the side of
character and the strength of the ego we must note the Sun's position
in the second decanate of the sign Taurus. The zodiac as a whole
represents the prototypes of all things to be made manifest in the
physical world. So far as the human family is concerned there are
a certain number of types to be evolved: in the main, twelve sorts of
people. Behind each sign of the zodiac there is an Archetype, and
perfection is reached by becoming like unto that archetype, Our
" Father in Heaven."
The physical type is derived from the Sun and the zodiac, and
belongs to either the fixed, cardinal or mutable group of signs,
producing what are known as the vital, motive and mental
temperaments.
The astral or psychic types are derived from the Moon and
the Zodiacal Signs. It is the Moon's place at epoch which decides
the ascending sign at birth. It is the Moon's position therefore, at
epoch and at birth, that is the most important; for the Moon sums up
the astral or psychic conditions which are the bases of the personality.
The occult teaching says: The astral permanent atom links itself
with the physical atom so that the life current can pass, at the period
called the " quickening," during the fourth month of ante-natal life.
It would appear from this that the "quickening" takes place in the
 220 MODERN ASTROLOGY

same triplicity as that in which the Sun is placed at the epoch, and
that it has probably some connection with the decansof each triplicity.
In the Kaiser's case, " quickening," we may assume, took place in
the sign Virgo, toward the end of the sign, or in the Taurus decanate,
maybe about the 17th September, 1858.
The Moon's place in this epoch occupies the opposite sign to
that rising at birth—the sign Cancer; and the Moon is here not only
the symbol for the astral conditions but the mental also, as the Moon
becomes the ruler over the nativity.
The symbol for the 27th degree of Scorpio, the Moon's place at
birth, seems to fit in with that for the ascending degree of the sign
Cancer; its symbol is * * * three stars interpreted as follows:
"The native will prove a very extraordinary person ; one destined to
take an active part in public life, and one who will exercise a great
influence on mankind."
Turning now to the map of the prenatal epoch we find it a
powerful one, forming a cross from the angles and reflecting in the
nativity many of its strong positions; for instance the planet Mars in
the epoch is almost exactly opposite to the ascendant, and in the same
position by sign as is the Moon at birth. Saturn's place at epoch is
the ascendant at birth, and the Moon's place at epoch Mercury's place
at birth. The opposition of the Moon and Saturn at epoch is reflected
in the opposition of the Sun and Saturn at birth. The place of Mars
at birth is joined with that of Neptune at epoch. That which had
set at epoch culminates at birth, a very significant symbol for the
intuitive student.
Mercury the ray of the thinker, or reincarnating ego, was in the
third decanate of Taurus at epoch, and in the sign Capricorn at birth,
the rising position thus being changed to a setting position. The
occult teaching with regard to the ego's activity at the period of re-
incarnation is remarkable when applied to the Kaiser's prenatal epoch,
showing that he had aconsiderableamount of power over the conditions
of this incarnation as to choice of parents, environment, etc. But
as the Recording Angels have the final choice in the adjustment of
karma or physical activities, he had no power over the time element,
so far as the events in his future life were concerned.
The occult teaching says: The amount of conscious action in the
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 221

ego depends upon the stage of unfoldment that he has reached;

speaking generally, the agents in rebuilding the astral and mental
bodies are the ego and the devas of the lower mental and astral
planes ; on the physical plane the ego can only very slightly influence
the work and the agents are the artificial elemental, embodying the
thought of the Recording Angels, and the building, after the model
given by Them, and certain nature-spirits; their choice of materials is
limited by the father and mother, the agents who by physical heredity
provide suitable karmic materials, etc.
If the ego is at a low stage of evolution, he can do nothing; but
if highly developed he consciously selects the materials, and then the
agents co-operate with him. Everything depends upon the vibrations
of the permanent atoms, and the material that can harmonise with
those vibrations. For instance, the power of resistance, determination
and will are plainly the principal vibrations in the Kaiser's pre-natal
epoch; but how much of that power is he able to manifest through
his nativity, over which the Recording Angel had the last word ?
The main feature of the Kaiser's epoch is the fact that all the
planets were in negative signs at that time. In the Text Book
Esoteric Astrology this is termed the Star of the Personality, and
the three grades of that Star are set forth diagrammatically in
Diagrams XIV, XVI and XVIII, culminating in Diagram XX, all of
which are worth careful study by those who are interested in the
esoteric side of Astrology.
In comparing the negative with the positive signs of the zodiac it
is assumed that the negative signs are destructive and disintegrative,
while the positive are constructive and progressive.
The keynote of the Kaiser's prenatal epoch is expressed in the
words secretion and absorption. In characterlhe is shown to be fixed
in ideas, conservative in opinions, and very jealous in feeling.
The animal soul, represented by the planet Mars (as explained
in Mars the War Lord), is setting, and opposes no less than four
planets—Mercury, the Thinker; Jupiter, the Uplifter; Uranus, the
Awakener; and Venus the Unifier, the human soul. The animal
soul is therefore dominating the potency of the sign Taurus, and
colouring it with a strong scorpionic element.
At birth the planet Mars carries this influence into the_Star of
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the Personality by a conjunction with Neptune, which is culminating

and dominating the whole of the tenth house, the house of merit and
the apex of physical expansion.

Space will not allow for the many other interesting details
connected with the prenatal epoch but we may conclude by summing
up the elements in the Kaiser's epoch as reflected in the nativity and
shown in the Star of the Pentagon. At the apex of this star is the
planet Mars, the dominating factor, in the sign Pisces. This may
be summed up Personally as showing Pan-Germanism; (see Esoteric
Astrology, p. 159, third par.). Saturn opposing the Moon in the
epoch meets the opposition of the Sun in the nativity, while the Moon
at birth meets the opposition of Uranus. Compare this star with the
diagrams XXII and XXIII in Esoteric Astrology.
The word "genescope" igen-e-scope) has been proposed as a
convenient term for a map of the prenatal epoch, and if this should
meet with general approval we shall in future adopt it.
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International ^.atrolog^

Eclipse of the Moon, 15/7/1916, 4.40 a.m. London,

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This is a partial eclipse of the Moon partly visible in England

and western Europe; it will be visible in Africa and North and
South America. At London at the time of Full Moon jthe Sun and
Saturn will be rising in conjunction, and the eclipsed Moon will just
have set in the third decanate of Capricorn in opposition to the Sun
and Saturn. Except for this affliction of the luminaries by Saturn
there are very few bad aspects in the map, and there are several good
ones. Neptune is rising in square to Jupiter in the mid-heaven.
Foreign affairs will be involved and complicated; many changes
will take place in our foreign dispositions and plans but we shall make
headway abroad and progress in the face of many obstacles, especially
in the west of Europe. Our forces are likely to be moving actively
from place to place and scoring successes.. The opposition of the
Moon to Saturn is mitigated by their being in mutual reception ; the
conjunction with the Sun is very unfortunate and signifies the downfall
or death of some monarch or highly placed personage. Money matters
will be weighing very heavily upon practically the whole of Europe.
The elevation of Jupiter gives hope of a brighter and more successful
period on the whole. Some measures concerning the condition and
welfare of the people will occupy the attention of parliament; and
although problems confronting governments in the west will be very
serious, nevertheless a more hopeful tone will prevail in public life.
Spain and Portugal will feel the effects of this eclipse because
the Moon will be definitely in the seventh house there and Mars near
224 MODERN ASTROLOGY

the cusp of the fourth house ; foreign relations will give trouble and
the governments be disturbed.
At Serlin and Vienna the luminaries are in the twelfth and sixth
houses and Neptune rising ; the ruling powers will be weaker here and
more unfortunate, with the democratic spirit and the people growing
stronger. Jupiter will culminate at Petrograd and in parts of East
Europe, bringing success and promising a more fortunate time.
Jupiter rises at New York with financial prosperity for the country;
but the President and government will be seriously troubled by the
eclipse in the mid-heaven,—changes in the balance of parties and in
national politics will follow.
The degree containing the Moon will rise in north west Canada
and the Pacific Ocean, culminate in South America, the West Indies,
and the east of North America; set in west Europe and Africa, and
be on the nadir in India and west Asia. The eclipse falls as under in
various horoscopes:—
King of Iialv f^ German Emperor cusp yth
,, Norway s <r Austrian ,, dV'S f
,, Sweden $ s Gen. Joefrb dO
Pres. Poincare £ s d d The Pope d If
Wilson d S Queen Wilhelmina f p
An eclipse in an earthy sign brings trouble through business, money
and employment; it disturbs governments and monarchs; the
crops will suffer; drought may follow. In western Europe foreign
complications are threatened in this case; but in central Europe the
rulers will be losing power and popularity and the people be
discontented. Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Mexico and other parts
ruled by Capricorn will suffer through the eclipse in their ruling sign.
The ascendant and descendant of the German Emperor are seriously
afflicted by this eclipse, and Mars is transiting the opposition of its
place in his horoscope.
Eclipse of the Sun, 30/7/1916, 2.15 a.m. London
X XJ in 1 11 ill
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(0 London (2) Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) New York
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 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

This is an annular eclipse of the Sun, visible in Australia and

New Zealand, invisible in Great Britain. The Sun and Moon are in
the seventh degree of Leo, either in the second house or near its cusp
from London to Berlin, in square to Jupiter in the eleventh house,
in sextile to Mars in the fourth, and in conjunction with Mercury and
Neptune. Very heavy expenses and serious financial problems as the
result of the war are shown here ; and in one shape or another they
will affect practically the whole of Europe up to Petrograd, for where
the Sun is not" eclipsed .in the second house it is the ruler of that
house.
The sextile of Mars to the luminaries shows good earning capacity
and that the money required will be raised, but money questions will
weigh very heavily upon the nations, and some of them will find their
position very serious; it will be distinctly worse for the Central
Powers than for the Allies.
Venus rising in sextile to Jupiter in the eleventh house indicates
strong efforts towards peace made by friendly or neutral powers;
and as Venus is the dispositor of Jupiter and is in the sign of Jupiter's
exaltation, peace might be achieved if it were not for the square of
Mars to Venus and the four squares thrown to Jupiter; but there will
be continued ill-feeling between the nations, difficulty of arriving at
an understanding, and unsolved problems turning upon money matters
and territory.
Saturn is in the ascendant with no aspect, but is lord of the
seventh ; it is exactly on the cusp of the ascendant at Berlin, and
Venus is well in the twelfth house there. This makes the prospects
distinctly worse there than at London, and both the people and their
rulers will be weaker and more unfortunate.
The eclipse is near the cusp of the ascendant at Petrograd, which
will cause troubles in the country, but the Sun is strong in Leo, and
Jupiter will be in the mid-heaven. There will be changes in the method
of governing the nation, but the ruling power will be strong and will
make progress. The prospects for Turkey are distinctly worse, and
for Bulgaria worse still.
France, Italy, and other parts ruled by Leo will be troubled by
the eclipse in that sign. An eclipse in a fiery and fixed sign is said to
cause danger of war, death or disasters to Kings and eminent persons,
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

changes in parliament and methods of government, financial problems,

and a high death rate.
The degree containing the Sun will be rising in east Europe and
west Asia, culminating in Japan and east Australia, setting in parts of
Canada, the United States, and Mexico; and on the nadir in the
Atlantic Ocean. The eclipse falls as under in various horoscopes :
King George rf J □ S Gen. Joffre 6 <f
Pres. PoincaRfe <j r # ^ p H. H. Asqcith 6 i
German Emperor d ^ i O Lord Kitchener d t
Adstrian * iji D. Lloyd George <p ?
King of Belgium d iji
Pres. Poincare is likely to be troubled by the eclipse falling near
the opposition of his progressed Mars because he has the direction
? □ <7 now due; public politics will prove contentious and hostile
criticisms be made.
The German Emperor will suffer seriously by its falling near his
Saturn, because he has the direction t? □ b r in force; it is very
unfortunate.
The Emperor of Austria will suffer similarly because it is near
the opposition of his Uranus, and he has the direction ^ o W due this
month, and Mars transits his ascendant.
The entrance of Jupiter into Taurus will benefit Ireland, the
Caucasus, Poland, Persia, and other parts ruled.

Daylight Saving in Italy.—Daylight saving was successfully put in

force at midnight on Sunday throughout the whole of Italy.— {D. Express,
6/6/'i6).
J. W. writes, ao/s/'ih :—" No definite signs of peace are evident. About
17th June there are distinct signs of an attempt, but as Mercury is retrog.
I judge it will fail. Mars is in the 9th iu Virgo and also at the solstice. The
main fighting then appears to be in Turkey. Interesting events mark the
beginning of July: possibly Portugal is involved iu them. About the 4th
August there seems to be a very important agreement relating to finance."
Owing to the reduction in size of magazine we have been obliged to hold
over matter which we would gladly have printed. Will correspondeuts
please accept our thanks for their communications, and note that wc shall
attempt to extract the salient points of each letter and present them in a
condensed form, when shortness of space prevents publishing letters in full.
Mr Arthur Mee writes enquiring about the horoscopes of Bacon and
Shakespeare, and we hope to deal with his questions in our next issue.
 ^igit ©atter

The sign Cancer is perhaps the most sensitive sign of the whole
twelve. Cancer people are always reserved, shy, timid and very
conventional, desiring the world's approval, and being made happy or
miserable by what people think or say about them. Their feelings
are very strong indeed, and they cling tenaciously to home, kindred,
clan, or person loved, and so form strong personal ties. Cancer people
should endeavour not to mistrust others and should try to overcome
fear, but when they have overcome their personal idiosyncrasies and
have learnt to live individually, they begin to express their great latent
power and psychic force, for they are natural mediums, able to draw
down and through them influences of a very high order.
They are sympathetic and kind, and the desire to " mother " and
protect the helpless is a marked feature in them,. The great drawback
of their character is their love of change and their many moods. They
have unusual power to recall past events, their memory being
remarkably tenacious.
As this sign governs the stomach, this organ will be very
sensitive, and under the emotionsof fear or worry the gastric secretions
will be upset. Care in diet is therefore a necessity, and Cancerians
should never eat when upset or fatigued, but should wait until emotion
has subsided or they are rested, else they may develop tendencies to
gastritis, colic and active indigestion. Cancerians are careful, frugal
and saving ; they are fond of ancient buildings, curios and all antiques.
Monday is generally their fortunate day of the week, and their supreme
virtue is tenacity.
Profession or Occupation.—They excel as dealers in curios and
antiques, as valuers and hotel proprietors, caterers or confectioners,
and as actors and naval officers. Cancer women succeed as nurses,
cooks, dressmakers, and in occupations connected with liquids such as
stewardesses, barmaids or laundry maids.
Gems.—The moonstone, opal and pearl, the chrysolite and selenite,
and all soft stones. The mineral is silver, and colours are silvery-
white and violet. B. Leo.
228

By G. E. Sutclikfe,
Author of " The Foundations of Physical Astrology "

I.—THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA

In the issue of Modern Astrology for May 1915 (p. 198) the
Editor invited suggestions from astrological students on the subject of
National or Mundane Astrology, and the present series is an expansion
of some ideas in a lecture given by the writer at Adyar, Madras, in
December 1914.
It occurred to the writer that it was futile to look for an
astrological explanation of the Great War in planetary configurations
that are of frequent occurrence. An event of this magnitude does not
occur in the world's history more than once in several thousand years,
and in searching for astrological conditionswhich maybe said to bring
it about, we should take note only of planetary configurations that are
equally rare. It is evident that aspects which normally occur several
times a century, cannot be regarded as a suflicient explanation of an
event of such importance to the human race that to find a parallel we
have to trace back history to the fall of Atlantis.
In recent years there have been two astrological events which
may be said to have approximately the same rarity as the cataclysm
at present running its-course. One of these was the great planetary
conjunction of December 3rd, 1899, an account of which may be read
in my lecture in Bombay on that date, "The Dawn of a New Era";1
the other was the cruciform configuration of the planets on
January 11th, 1910, particulars of which are given in the Theosophist
for January 1910 (p. 529).

1
[This lecture has lately been reprinted, copies of the first issue being no longer
obtainable, and this reprint is now on sale at Modern Astrology office, price i/-
post free.—Ed.]
 THE GREAT WAR 22g

It appears to me therefore that an investigation of one or both of

these events according to the rules of Astrology may throw some light
on the stellar forces which have precipitated the war. I propose to
confine attention in this article principally to one of these events, the
conjunction.
In the Secret Doctrine (Third Edition, Vol. i, p. 720), great stress
is laid upon "the grand and universal importance of all such planetary
conjunctions, each of which is a CLIMACTERIC year of Humanity.
It is not only a critical period, during which some great change
is periodically expected, whether in human or cosmic constitution, but
it likewise pertains to UNIVERSAL SPIRITUAL CHANGES."
We may regard the time of a conjunction therefore as the moment
chosen by the planetary gods to project a new spiritual impulse, which
will dominate the cycle initiated by the conjunction; and the rarer
the conjunction, the more important and the more powerful the
impulse. Five thousand years ago the Hindus chose such a conjunc-
tion as the commencement of their era, the Kali Yuga, and it is probable
that this was done under occult guidance. According to tradition
this previous conjunction was followed by a great war amongst the
Aryan races, the story of which is told in the Indian Epic, the
" Mahabharata,"—the object of the war, as in its modern duplicate,
being the destruction of militarism. It may be noted as a further
parallelism, that the present war is practically confined to the Aryan
Races, the Fifth Root-Race.
The Hindus say that the former conjunction took place at the
beginning of their Zodiac, which was 54° behind the equinox of that
period. {Sec. Doc. i, 724.) The spring equinox then coincided with
the star Aldebaran, or nearly so. At the conjunction of 3/12/1899 the
Sun and Moon were jointly in conjunction with the star Antares, which
is diametrically opposite to the star Aldebaran, and these two stars
mark the positions where the earth's orbit, the ecliptic, crosses the Sun's
equator. The orbits of most of the planets cross the Sun's equator at
or near these two points. They are therefore probably sensitive points
on the Zodiac.
It seems to me that the conjunction of seven planets on
December 3rd, 1899, with the eighth planet Neptune (the planet of
mysticism) in opposition to all, was an event of the highest astrological
 MODERN ASTROLOGV

importance, and I propose to treat it as the birth-moment of a New

Era, according to the rules of Natal Astrology.
The planets grouped in approximate conjunction were the Sun,
Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, with
Neptune in opposition to the group, and we may take the moment of
conjunction as that of the Sun and Moon. The conjunction of the

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Sun and Moon in longitude took place at 12.48 a.m., but the moment
I have chosen for this investigation is that of the conjunction in right
ascension, which, since it was a solar eclipse, is given very accurately
by the Nautical Almanac.
The time of conjunction in right ascension was l" lm SO.M- a.m.,
G.M.T., Dec. 3rd, 1899, which for the latitude of London, and the
meridian of Greenwich, makes the R.A.M.C, 5b 48m 25.,24, or
 THE GREAT WAR 231

SPECULUM

Long. RA Dtclinalioit
O ' 0 T U o
MC 027 21 87 6 15 N 23 25 32
178 7 41 N O 48 43
Asc np 27 58 S 22 3 34.0
Q i IO 41 249 5 15
f to 49 249 5 15 S 22 56 13-7
I s 22 34 25-5
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» V3 0 I? 270 20 '5 • 24 29 3.6
s I 21 53 261 6 0 s 23 55 40.7
1425 7 232 57 45 s 18 15 30.4
V. 263 51 3o s 22 17 31.0
•? ^24 20 s 21 39 150
V 7 8 16 246 41 3°
II26 ir 85 43 0 N 22 5 23-4

SEMI-arcs
Upper Lower
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MC 122 58 25 57 1 35
Asc 91 1 11 88 58 49
O 59 24 1 120 35 59
53 15 122 6 45
S 57 8 121 28 521
5 58 3i 124 4
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Tl 65 31 2
59 0 14 120 59 46
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Meridian Distance Cusp Distance

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87° 6' 15". Owing to the importance of the epoch I have calculated
all the cusps of the houses by the trigonometrical method, to minutes
and seconds of arc, and the cusps of the houses have the following
positions in the zodiac of 1900 A.D.;—[see pages 230, 231)'
In developing the progressed positions in this horoscope I have
examined the Primary Directions, the Secondary Directions and the
Transits, so that all the recognised forms of prediction have been
tested; but, in order to avoid too great complexity, I have confined
myself to the five major aspects, two favourable, the trine and sextile,
two unfavourable, the square and opposition, and the conjunction
which can be either favourable or unfavourable, according to the
character of the cycle which it initiates; (A-3f □ 8 d). Parallels of
all kinds have been left out of consideration, as in the opinion of some
they need separate treatment. Astrology may be regarded as the
science of time, in the same sense as geometry is the science of space.
The aspects are then the time phases of a vibration or cycle, but in the
case of parallels this interpretation cannot be as clearly applied; they
appear to correspond rather with intensities than with time phases. It
has been felt by some that the number of aspects formed by Primary
Directions are bewildering both by their variety and complexity
[Casting the Horoscope, p. 105), but this objection does not apply
under the limitations above imposed. All primary directions are here
regarded as direct, so that in this investigation there are no converse
or pre-natal aspects.
The concept on which this method is based may be thus described.
Conceive that at the instant of birth, when the separated life takes
charge of its vehicles, the two hemispheres of stars and planets, the
upper and lower, are photographed on the soul, after the manner of an
instantaneous photograph, and are carried round with the native by the
earth's axial rotation. The sensitive points of the horoscope will then
form aspects with the heavenly bodies, and both the direct and converse
aspects will be included. There will be small differences in the case
of the converse aspects, as usually calculated, due to latitude ; but if

1
The minutes and seconds are omitted from the bouse cusps in the
map-block to avoid crowding the figures.
 THE GREAT WAR 233
all the planets are regarded as being in the plane of the ecliptic, as
has been suggested, this difference will vanish.
A mode of interpreting Primary and Secondary Directions 'which
I have found helpful may be thus stated. The forces impressed on
the native by the primary aspects, act on the First Elemental Essence,
the matter of the higher mental plane. The forces impressed by the
secondary aspects act on the Second and Third Elemental Essence,
the matter of the lower mental and astral planes. A somewhat
similar suggestion will be found in Casting the Horoscope (p. 168).
It is known to students of occultism that, previous to incarna-
tion, the centre of consciousness ascends to the higher mental level,
and there sees the plan and principal events of the coming incarnation.
And it is suggested that this process is coincident with the formation
of Primary Directions, during the first six hours after birth.
During the first three months after birth when the secondary
aspects are formed (commonly termed the " progressed horoscope "),
the native may be regarded as in a state of semi-incarnation, the centre
of consciousness being situated probably in the lower mental and
astral planes.*

Intuitional
Much of what now follows, is not based upon the known facts of
science, but upon Tradition, and the exercise of the Intuitions,
fortified here and there by a modicum of experience.
At the present stage of evolution the Intuitions are imperfectly
developed and the following should not be accepted by students of
Astrology unless it is confirmed by their own experience and Intuitions.
The method of testing the truth of an Intuition is the same as
the method of testing the truth of a musical composition, it is the test
of harmony. The way of acquiring the art, is to seek the Truth, in
everything, and live IT. Falsehood or exaggeration, in any form,
tends to throw the intuitional apparatus out of order.

" [At this point the author has inserted an interesting digression on the relation
of the "primary " and ■' secondary " measures of direction to the velocity of brain-
molecules, with numerical proofs of the statements made on p. 543 of Mouerh
AsTROLoOy for December 1914. This we have ventured to hold over for a later
instalment, in order that the valuable matter which follows may be included in the
present issue.—Ed.]
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

The Meridian of the Fifth Root-Race

In erecting the horoscope for a New Era, which may fore-
shadow the history of civilisation, or of the Fifth Root-Race, for many
thousands of years, it is necessary to choose a meridian which will
represent the whole Root-Race, and not be confined to a particular
nation. Now the only meridian possible for the major purpose, is the
meridian of Greenwich.4 It divides the Root-Race into two equal
halves, having India and America on the two wings, and it governs
the clocks of the whole world by universal agreement. This last
may be regarded as only a human convention and therefore not
astrologically valid ; but human conventions are sometimes arranged
by the Occult Hierarchy, in accordance with the Divine Will, and
I have reasons to believe that the modern system of scientific units,
the centimetre-gramme-second, has been so arranged, probably by
the Count St. Germain, and the English foot rule, which is linked
with Masonry, is suspected to have had a similar origin. Some
writers claim to have discovered systems of measurement hidden
in the language of Divine Writ, as in the case of " The Source of
Measures," by Ralston Skinner {Sec. Doc. i, 118); for numbers have
an occult significance, and depend upon the units chosen. Then why
should there not be a particular meridian for the whole Root-Race ?
The Occult Hierarchy must watch over and control the evolution of
mankind according to the rules of Astrology [ib. p. 708), if it be a real
science, for they ever conform to the Law, and in The Voice oj the
Silence (p. 62) we learn that a condition imposed upon members of
this Hierarchy is one of
" helpless pity for the men of karmic sorrow ; the fruit of Karma Sages
dare not still. For it is written : Teach to eschew all causes ; the ripple of
effect, as the great tidal wave, thou shalt let run its course."
Another rule of members of the Hierarchy is never to expend a
great amount of energy to effect a purpose when a small amount will
effect the same purpose equally well. But to influence mankind for
its benefit, with the smallest expenditure of energy, implies the proper
choice of the times when the energy shall be used, which perhaps

* [Pages 188-190 of Casting the Horoscope contain some ideas that are quite in
harmony with the suggestion here made.]
 THE GKEAT WAR 235
can only be ascertained by astrological rules, or it may be only
legitimate to apply it according to astrological rules, and the laws of
arithmetic and mathematics are the same for the Hierarchy as for
mankind. The calculations of planetary positions and hour angles to
a special meridian, requires tedious computations, by whomsoever they
may be performed, and to employ Arhats and Supermen on work
which could be as efficiently performed by a computing clerk in the
office of the Nautical Almanac, would constitute a tremendous waste
of energy. To induce mankind therefore to adopt the proper meridian,
and proper system of units would not only be a blessing to humanity,
and thus carry out the principal purpose of the Hierarchy, but would
enable it to confer still greater blessings upon mankind. The fact
therefore that men have been induced, in spite of all national prejudices,
to adopt a particular meridian for the whole world, is printa jade
evidence that this meridian'is the meridian for the current Root-Race.
It is probable that the birth of each ^Eon, or cycle of history, has
a special meridian associated with it.
The cycle of 5000 years which came to an end in December 1899
was a sub-cycle of the Kali Yuga, and its meridian was probably in
India. It is associated in the Surya Siddhanta with the name of a
famous Atlantean Astronomer, Asuramaya, a pupil of the Deva-Rishi
Narada. It was Narada who chose the time when the inevitable
Karma of the nations should be precipitated in the present war:
(Speech of the President of the Theosophical Society, at the
Theosophical Convention, Adyar Madras, December, 1914). Narada
" is the mysterious guiding intelligent power, which gives the impulse
to, and regulates the impetus of Cycles, Kalpas, and universal events.
He is Karma's visible adjuster on a general scale ; the inspirer and
leader of the greatest heroes of this Manvantara. What
Narada really is, cannot be explained in print; , . It is he who
has charge of our progress and national weal or woe. It is he WHO
BRINGS ON WARS AND PUTS AN END TO THEM." (Sec. Doc. ii, 52-3.)
A cycle of the Kali Yuga is short in relation to the other cycles:
it is followed by a cycle of Satya Yuga, which has four times the
length of the Kali, so that the present cycle will probably last about
20,000 years.
If the current cycle has a special meridian, as above suggested,
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it has doubtless been selected by Narada. He is one of the cosmic

Devas, who arranges the critical affairs for the whole solar system,
so that his government is not confided to any one particular planet. 11
is probable that H e controls the mechanism of Transits to precipitate
particular events at a suitable time. Mr. Sinnett has stated that the
Dark Powers strove to precipitate the war in 1913, but this object
was defeated. It will be seen later that the Secondary Directions
point to 1913, but that suitable transits were not then operating, whilst
in August 1914 an extraordinary combination of evil transits are
operating. Even Lunar Transits, which are usually ignored, are
significant at this time. For at the central solar eclipse of 3/12/1899
when the cycle began, the R.A. of the Sun and the Moon was
16'' 360> 20*.87; and at noon G.M.T. on the 1st of August 1914 the
Moon's R.A. was 16" 35™ 59*.48. Noon at Greenwich corresponds to
2 p.m. at St. Petersburg (Petrograd), and the German Ambassador
presented the ultimatum to Russia which precipitated the war in the
afternoon of the 1st of August. The conjunction of the Transit Moon
with the radical positions of the Sun and Moon in the horoscope of the
cycle was therefore coincident with the precipitation of the war.
For this reason amongst others I am inclined to believe that
Narada is the cosmic Deva who controls the mechanism of Transits.
In a Kali Yuga cycle, man is his own master, and is left to manage
his own affairs. Advice is tendered by the Hierarchy which he is free
to accept or reject. On the last occasion he rejected the message and
killed the Messenger. The advice given was based on the love principle,
the method of Brotherhood and co-operation. He adopted the hate
principle, the method of selfish competition, and the present war is its
logical development. In the current Satya Yuga cycle, man will be
less free to choose the wrong course, and after the experience of the
present war, he will probably prefer this. The cycle will conform to
a Dictum emanating from the Highest Source, " the autocracy of the
wise is the salvation of the foolish." In the Satya Yuga when
established, man enters once more the nursery, or training school of
the gods, and the gods mix freely with men, as in the days of ancient
tradition. The general character of the cycle will be found described
in Mem ; Whence, How and Whither, p. 341.
(To be continued.)
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®Ij£ ^pprcadj of ^lclj£mn

"Thirty years ago the chemical atom was considered the ultimate
unit of matter. We do not say that thinking chemists actually
insisted on its indestructability and unchangeableness, though many of
the small fry did, without being condemned for their dogmatism. But
there was no valid evidence to the contrary; anything else was pure
speculation. Atoms and energy—these were unchangeable in amount
as far as the balance and the calorimeter could determine. The
innumerable forms of matter were reducible to perhaps seventy kinds of
elementary atoms, and with these for bricksand with energy for mortar
the scientist set about explaining the universe, life and mind included.
" Then came the discoveries of Crookes on radiant matter, the
observations of Le Bon and others on the mysterious effluvia emitted
by matter under certain conditions, notably by the metal uranium, and
finally the discovery of radium and its allies, which completely upset
the dogma of the ultimate atom. Radium, as everybody knows now,
is a metal which is going to pieces. It is shooting out particles with a
speed comparable with that of light, and which we have every reason
to believe are minute fragments of the radium atoms. At the same
time there is formed the well-known element helium—the first
established case of transmutation. Here we find ourselves face to face
with the alchemist's idea once more. Equally astonishing is the fact
that in so decomposing radium gives out enough heat to be easily
detected. It is as if a piece of iron should always remain hot; should
always keep giving off heat without ever getting cooler. The heat
comes from the stuff itself; a horrible discovery for those who swore
that matter could contain nothing that had not been pumped into it;
that the atom in itself was as dead as a door nail. After much pooh-
poohing it had to be conceded that the energy is in the radium itself,
not derived from without, just as the energy of dynamite is in the
dynamite, but with this difference, that it is in the atoms themselves.
In short, the atom is rather to be compared to a swarm of bees than to
a solid body which is inert except in so far as it vibrates or spins."
 (ftlriter Dicta

"THE GREAT WAR"; (p. 229)

Ths first instalment of this article (pp r-ig m-s) was received by us on
February 4th 1916, accompanied by a letter stating that further instalments
would follow by each mail as they were typed. In due course instalment
number thru arrived, but number two miscarried in the post, aud a letter
enquiring for it went down in the " Sussex," by which double delay a second
copy kindly made by the author was not received until i/s/'ifi. This of
course meant postponement of publication, much to our regret, and in a
letter received just as we are going to press the author refers to this and says,
" Owing to these mishaps in the post, if you decide to publish these articles
at all some will be too late to appear before the war is over, and hence as a
test 0}prediction they will he useless. With this in view I have published a
few pages from one of the articles not yet sent to you, giving a ' summary '
of results, and I enclose cuttings from New India and the Times oj India,
containing these predictions."
The cutting from New India is dated 11/3/19:6 and that from the Times
0] India 22/3/19:6; neither is short enough to quote entire, but the following
extract contains a summary of the ideas;—"A casual glance at the lists of
aspects for 19:5 [calculated as described in 'The Great War'] will show
that it accords well with the events of the War, if we interpret the good
aspects as favourable to the Allies, and the bad as unfavourable.
Good Bad
1914 Aug to Dec 31 6 . , ■ 3
igas Jan to Apr 8 . . ■ 9
O Apr to July 3 . . . 8
(* July to Oct • • . 8
•f « Get to Dec 31 2 . . . 2
1916 Jan lo Apr 4 ■ • . 5
*1 Apr to July 9 • • . 0
if July to Oct 4 ■■ . . 0
1■ Oct to Dec 31 9 ■ • . 0
" An interesting feature of the Russian retreat in Galicia, and the Anglo-
French retreat from Moos, is that they were both preceded by the same
aspect. Saturn conjunction M.C. on July 28 1914 when the Germans were
concentrating enormous forces to suddenly overwhelm the western armies of
the Allies, was followed a month later by the retreat from Mons; and
Saturn conjunction M.C. on April 14 rgrs, when Germany was also secretly
 OBITER DICTA 239
concentrating enormous forces to overwhelm the eastern forces of the Allies,
was similarly followed a month later by the retreat in Galicia. . . .
"The principle of good aspects favouring the Allies, and bad aspects the
Germanic Powers, gives consistent interpretations ; and when, therefore, we
find that from May 1916 we find that the : secondary directions' are generally
favourable and that from March 20 1916 the ' transits ' are without exception
favourable, we have substantial grounds for concluding that during the last
nine months of 1916 the Allies will be generally victorious, and will probably
be able to bring the war to a satisfactory termination."—(Tinus of India,
dated 22/j/'t6).
This prediction deserves notice.

THE PLANET ISIS

Those students who are interested in the hypothetical planet " Isis," the
position and annual movement of which was communicated by Mr Sutcliffe
in 1906 (A/.A. Ill 113), may like to know of an interesting coincidence in
connection with the receipt of the Articleabove referred to. It was received
by the Sub-Editor, to whom it was addressed, at 1.15.30 p.m. 4/2/1916,
g.u.t. ; this time being correct to within a second or two, being taken from
a carefully regulated clock kept and adjusted by solar observations. The
position of the Moon at that instant was
Now the position of " Isis" in his own nativity, (geocentric longitude) is
rr260 49''8. And the coincidence does not end here. The time of receipt
was noted, because it was a long time since any communication had been
received from Mr Sutcliffe, and to receive an Article as well as a letter was
rather a surprise. But it was not until the article had been read through,
that curiosity prompted him to turn to the ephemeris with the express object
of seeing if either the Moon or Mercury was in aspect to Isis. This was
some forty minutes later: as nearly as memory serves, it was five minutes to
two. And in forty minutes the Moon at her then rate would travel 24',
which is just the quantity required to bring it exactly to the position of Isis at
birth, as above set forth.
If this is a coincidence, and only a coincidence, it is certainly a curious
one I
But a further coincidence comes atop of it. While setting down these
notes,—just after the word ' nativity ' in the foregoing paragraph, to be exact,
the writer was called downstairs, and on the hall table found a letter which
had arrived some time earlier and been put aside for him. It contained an
offer of a copy of a book which he was very anxious to secure. The time
(within 10 sees) was 7.50.8 summer time or 6.50.8 g.m.t., 23/5/1916 and the
place London, N.W. The Moon at that instant was in ^36°^i' I
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
The book was John A. Parker's Quadrature of tin Circle, and deals of
course with the value of ?r, " Pi." And on p. 114 of the volume of Modern
Astrology already referred to, Mr Sutcliffe in dealing with the planets
arranges them in groups of 3, t, 4, i, 5, corresponding to the value of Pi. to
which he makes specific reference.
The Greek capital letter 11 is curiously like the symbol of Gemini, and
students who have written intuitively about "Isis" have associated it with
duality. In this connection therefore it may be worth recording that when a
book entitled Dual Arithmetic was received, the above mentioned degree
■srafijr was on the ascendant, the writer's progressed Moon being near the
opposite degree, in Stag0.
It is not often that personal items are allowed a place in these pages, but
in this case it seems justifiable. One can hardly think all these coincidences
due to chance.

DAYLIGHT SAVING AND FALSE HOROSCOPES

By Orion
From the " Daily Express " of lo/s/'ifi

I don't know bow this article will turn out, because at the time of writing
feel absolutely done to the world. I'm that tired I can hardly hold up my
head. It's my own fault for trying to anticipate the Daylight Saving Act.
I thought it would be a good joke to put all the clocks in my house an hour
forward without telling anyone about it. It would have been completely
successful if a similar idea hadn't occurred separately to two other foolish
people in the same house. I'm shocking at some sort of arithmetic, but my
feelings tell me that I must have arisen at about 6 o'clock yesterday morning.
If I could have my way I would penalise severely anyone who touched
a clock without the permission of its owner. Why, there's no telling what
complaints a man can contract through getting up in the middle of the night.
Between you and me, I don't think too much of this daylight-saving
scheme. It may be all right for some people, but I never was good at
" kidding " my own self. I can " tell the tale " to other people, but I'm
positive that when I am called by law at g o'clock my prompt question will
be, " is that proper time or ' bogey ' time ?" and upon the answer will
depend whether I have another hour in bed or not.
Mind you, I believe there's a great deal to be said for it, or we shouldn't
find Sir Frederick Ban bury voting against it. But what about the people
who have horoscopes cast for their children ? It's a nice look-out for
astrologers! They will be unable now to foretell with accuracy the fortunes
 OBITER DICTA 241
of persons, as horoscopes depend on the position of the stars at the exact
time of the subject's birth. Owing to the confusion in the daj's of birth
astrologers will be found advising parents to put their sons to cinema-acting
when they should be M.P's. I expect there will be any amount of law cases
in years to come to decide whether children were born on a Tuesday or a
Wednesday. And what about the astrological almanacs, with their prophetic
pictorial forecasts ? How will they get on ? I don't suppose anyone has
thought of them. I can see a nice mix-up presently,
[The New Summer Time officially commenced at 2 a.m. on Sunday
May 21st 1916, all clocks then being advanced one hour, so that
2 rt.w. 21/5/1916 G.M.T. = J a.«x. 21/5/1916 N.S.T.
From then until October 1st, therefore, one hour must be subtracted
from clock time in order to reduce it to Greenwich time, and students of
Astrology should be alive to the possibility of inadvertently omitting this,
with results such as " Orion "graphically depicts. Custom is strong, and the
habit of glancing from the clock to the ephemeris, andthenceto the Table
of Houses, may betray even the most experienced into occasional " slips."
The general feeling appears to be that the New Time should be given a fair
trial before condemnation or approval, and the unanimity with which the
public has cheerfully accepted any inconveniences attendant on the change
speaks well for the nation's good will.]
SLANG AND TRITE SAYINGS APPLIED TO ZODIACAL SIGNS
T Mad as a March hare.
Like a bull in a china shop,
n Up to monkey tricks.
He " crabs " everything ; (i.e. restricts or vetos).
As a raging lion.
uj2 Bends like corn before the wind.
— Silting on the fence ; or, Wait and See.
m The trail of the serpent, or on the War path.
f On his hind legs,
kj Playing the giddy goat.
Like water on a duck's back.
H Flabby as a fish; or while about the gills.

ASTROLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCE LESSONS.—The following

students have been awarded the Certificate of Merit: Mr Herbert B.
Hammond, Dover; Mr Ernest H. Simpson, Derby.
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Question department

MARRIAGE.—If a man's Moon receive no aspects or only one or two at the

most it would indicate that his wife would lead a quiet sort of life, giving him little
stimulus in his sphere of life, but at the same time she would place no obstacles in
his path. Is the thought a correct one, or would it be subject to modification as to
what sign and house the Moon was in ? (311)
If the thought is a correct one then it would be subject to considerable
modification. Each individual horoscope must be studied to know
the temperament of the partner and the attitude the one bears to
the other, otherwise the judgment is too general or vague. The
feminine influence in a male horoscope is represented by the Moon
as is the masculine in a female horoscope, but these are only
symbolical representations. It is generally accepted that the planets
aspected by the Moon in a male horoscope denote the types of women
a man will meet and be associated with socially, mentally and
physically ; but they are only general indications.
MALAY PENINSULA.—What is the ruling sign of the Malay
Peninsula ? (322)
Will any student who has made observations on this point kindly give
us the benefit of his experience.

WAR EXPENSES
OwrNG to the War, the expenses in connection with the upkeep
of MODERN Astrology, its offices and various industries have
reached a proportion out of keeping with its income. The printers have
made an increase of 15 per cent on their previous charges, the binders
have raised their terms, and lastly the paper makers have advanced
their prices to such an extent that we feel this item of expenditure
more than any other, since we use large quantities of paper for
typewriting and other purposes. Now although subject to an
additional item of " plus 10 per cent " or " plus 15 per cent " on all
our bills, we have not made any extra charges for our work etc., but
we have been forced to reduce the size of this magazine to thirty-two
pages, instead of fifty-six and sometimes sixty-four as formerly, in
order to keep the magazine going during the period that paper is
scarce.
This leads us to the statement that we shall for the future be
unable to publish any new books on Astrology while the War lasts,
also that new editions of those Text Books and Manuals now running
out of print are not likely to be issued for a long time to come.
Verbum tap.
THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE

Modcrp

Astrology
{First published in 1890)

AUGUST, 1916.

®5yor's ObscrliatoriJ

THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT, THE DAY IS AT HAND

If God is not conscious of us, how can we hope to be consciousof
God ?
A successful interpretation of Esoteric Astrology depends upon au
understanding of the above sentence. Europe at the present time
appears to be plunged in chaos, the earth is shaken by a wicked
waste of explosives, the sea is strewn with wreckage, and the heavens
are darkened with hideous monsters of destruction. Is it the wrath of
God, or of man, that has turned Europe into a hell of fire and
murder ?
The astrologer believes in God, and by the nature ot his calling
has- faith in God and His Ministers; but his faith is not without
knowledge. The aspostle Paul, speaking to the Romans, drew their
attention to the influence of the higher powers—" For there is no
" power but of God : the powers that be are ordained of God. . . .
" For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou
" then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou
" shalt have the praise of the same."
In the earlier civilisations of the world there was a definite
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

teaching with regard to the law of Heaven and Earth, and the powers
of Heaven were understood by the teachers of men. St. Paul knew
of the influence of the " sphere of Mars " in the heavens, and its effect
upon humanity, as evidenced by the fourth verse of the thirteenth
chapter of Romans:—" For he is the Minister of God to thee for
"good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he
"beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the Minister of God, a
"revenger taexecute wrath apon him that doeth evil."
The problem that many followers of the Christian religion
cannot successfully face is how to reconcile the wrath with the love
of God, although they know, or should know, that God has His
ministers who watch over the world and work to restore the
harmony of the spheres, which the clashing wills of men on earth
disturb. To the astrological mind it seems useless to say that "Love
worketh no ill to his neighbour, therefore love is the fulfilling of the
law," without understanding what the law is that has to be fulfilled.
The Ministers of God are one with God ; .they are His Will. If the
power of Mars is translated into a force and energy that man may use
to overcome sloth and inertia, it is his own reward if the abuse of that
power causes undesirable reactions and brings into a vicious circle of
strife all those who are unable to see that power comes from on high,
of which man has but stewardship and not possession.
Europe is learning a bitter lesson and is destined to suffer much
pain before a realisation can be obtained that God's Ministers do not
favour adultery, murder, and hate.
Is there any student of Astrology who has realised the value of
his studies, who is incapable of seeing what a wonderful system of
teaching is concealed in Esoteric Astrology, a system by which new
civilisations can be built up on facts that demonstrate the doctrines
arising out of our well established star-lore? If there is, then
the science is surely being used by him for selfish ends instead of as
a method of instruction whereby it is demonstrated that Astrology is
God's law by which the universe is governed. "And that, knowing
" the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep ; for now is
"our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent,
"the day is at band; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness,
" and let us put on the armour of light."
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 245

The Three Biological Fates

The problem of life is beginning to show some of our scientists
that materialistic thought has failed to discover the reason for the
great diversity of expression we find around us on all sides. Prof.
J. Arthur Thomson asks some very pertinent questions in the Eugenics
Reviexv for May and we feel tempted to claim that in Astrology alone
are the solutions to be found. He says : " Our mental capacity
primarily determined by heredity. It can be encouraged and augmented,
or inhibited and depressed, within wide limits by nurture . "
" Horoscopes," he supposes, " are not much in fashion nowadays
" except among the undisciplined, but the problem is always with us
"as we look at the child. What manner of person lies there in
" possibility ? How far is the final result already fixed, how far is the
" outcome an open question ? Is life in some measure an unpredictable
" adventure ?"
These questions Prof. Thomson practically sums up by asking ;—
" What are the factors or influences that determine the shaping of an
"organism and its life"; and he concludes that there are three
biological "Fates"—Heredity, Function and Environment, and he
considers that the greatest factor in the shaping of an organism is
NURTURE, for he says ; " Nurture can create nothing ; but without it
the buds that are there may fail to open or to unfold freely or to
blossom. We cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but by
trading with our talent we may make it two, or peradventure five,
talents."
To the student of Astrology these observations have a special
significance. From the Genescope we may trace heredity, the past
living on in the present.1 From the Horoscope we may discover the
natural environment. From a study of the action and interaction of
the Genescope and Horoscope we may judge of the function.
When all students of Astrology are ready to accept the theory of
reincarnation, and to endeavour to understand the meaning of the
word "karma," we may hope to deal with the problem of heredity from
the standpoint of the/r/e, as distinct from that of the/or/«,and then

1
See foot of p. 222 and whole of last month's " Observatory."
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

by linking the two discover the true teachings of Astrology with regard
to the problems of life which the horoscope alone does not reveal,
since it is the scope and limitations of the personality that are shown
and not the wider and more permanent life of the Individuality.
We are ready and quite willing to deal with the questions that
Prof. Thomson asks in his article in the Eugenics Review, but we do
not feel justified in taking up the valuable space of this magazine at
the present time, unless we have the assurance that students are ready
and anxious for this particular form of teaching, a teaching which calls
for more sensitive and refined apprehension than does the material
interpretation of facts and physical conditions divorced from their
spiritual basis.
A Question of Time—
We went to press too early last month to deal with the new
" Summer time" which came into action at 2 a.m. May 21st.
A few students are concerned as to the difference it will make in
recording birth times, and anticipate some confusion in future
horoscopes. Much confusion will be avoided if the true time, that is
G.M.T., is recorded as EXACT TIME, and the altered time as SUMMER
Time.
Lord Balfour of Burleigh's objection to the Slimmer Time Bill, that a
tivin born just after the clock had been put back in October would be legally
older than his brother born just before the alteration, is one of those
ingenious subtleties which bother only those who instinctively resent all
changes.
We need not " resent " the change, as suggested by the Daily Chronicle
in the above cutting, but we have some cause to concern ourselves
with the change, which may conceivably lead to difficulties in the
future.
—And Opportunity
There is therefore now an excellent opportunity to move in the
direction of obtaining an Act of Parliament to register the exact time
of all births on the Birth Certificate, and the Member of Parliament
who succeeds in getting this Act passed will not only earn our
gratitude, but will confer a boon upon millions of unborn children.
There is one advantage in such an Act of Parliament, it will
 THE EDITOR'S OBSEKVATOKY 247

injure no one and benefit all who in the future may wish to be sure of
their birth hour.
If Lord Balfour of Burleigh will interest himself in this matter
we are sure that he will have all the support he needs for the purpose
though indeed we fail to see how any objection could arise over such
a simple matter, and if readers of MODERN AsTOLOGY will write to
Lord Balfour of Burleigh and simply ask him to frame a Bill for the
purpose we feel sure he will readily respond. This is a matter in
which every reader can assist. See Miss Head's letter on p. 274.

Lord Kitchener's Horoscope

The tragic end of Lord Kitchener has brought many letters from
students, all of them pointing out the position of Neptune in the
eighth house of his nativity. The following from Mr H. Roberts is
interesting:—
Referring to the drowning at sea of Lord Kitchener, I find that his
progressed Sun had arrived at nji 50 and was in opposition to the progressed
Neptune at X 5°- Although his Venus was also in opposition to Saturn during
1916, there is no doubt of the Neptunian influence being the cause of death,
especially considering the nature of the death and the fact that Neptune
rules the Ocean. The point I wish to draw attention to is the statement
often made that progressed directions must be interpreted in terms of the
radical aspects. In Lord Kitchener's case, however, the Sun was trine
Neptune at birth but on arriving at the opposition apparently brings death,
—although of course this is not necessarily synonymous with misfortune.
The horoscope published in our issue for August 1915 seems to have
been a fairly correct estimate. Many of Lord Kitchener's intimate
friends have spoken of his kind nature and of his happy disposition
when the mask of the soldier was lowered.
The question arises, had he fulfilled his mission and completed the
work he was destined to carry out ? We think he had successfully
finished the work that was given him to do, and that he was taken
away from the stage of life in a manner suitable to the Gods who
closed his career in a way most appropriate to his Karma.
Lord Kitchener was one of those strange Men of Destiny whose
lives fit them to play an important part on the national stage as
servants of the higher powers.
 HhtitrnffUonal ^strologiJ

New Moon, 28/8/1916, 5.24 p.m., London

X XI XM 1 li iii
/ 0 / 18 KS 6 >3 27 )(25 6
2 i 12 J 29 K!i8 = 17 T19 » 21
3) /28 KS12 KS30 K2I B 22 0^
4) Vi 12 ^13 "1 7 11128 t 29 ~ 5
(T) London (2) Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) New York
OD 5 ? <f V k y W
"IS-I nR29.2i ®20.4 ^22.46 »5.2.3>- 1525.54 ssiy.ir Ji3 3(5
In the west of Europe the seventh house is strongly tenanted, and
with Saturn setting squared by Mars we must be prepared for trouble
and possibly some loss or temporary reverse abroad, with a heavy
death-rate and bitter hostility. Uranus will rise at Berlin and Vienna;
there will be discontent abroad and the people will be restless and
dissatisfied. Heavy losses are probable both on sea and land, though
some success may be achieved by aircraft; but both army and navy
will be under bad influences, and the Central Powers especially should
avoid conflicts, particularly at sea, at this time. Mercury throws a
sextile between Saturn and Neptune, and as the Sun and Moon are
well aspected in the seventh house, the Sun ruling that house at
Berlin, strong diplomatic attempts will be made in more than one
quarter to bring about a better state of affairs and to restore harmony,
and this will not seem so impossible as hitherto in Germany and
Austria. In fact those countries have the seventh house under better
influences on the whole than at London, and this seems to show either
some success for them in the struggle or peace terms that will be less
impracticable than previously.
Mercury will be setting at Petrograd and in the east of Europe,
indicating a more prosperous time and efforts towards peace. The
sqnarp of Mars to Saturn (each in its detriment) seems a serious
obstacle and threatens to spoil everything, nevertheless some step
may be taken towards a better understanding between some of the
nations.
 IMTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGV 249

The President and government of the United States will benefit

and be strengthened by the culmination of Mercury and the luminaries.
The square of Mars to Saturn will disturb legislation and be followed by
crimes of violence and a heavy death-rate; business and money
matters will prosper; some eminent statesman or state official will die.
The Sun and Moon will rise in the Pacific Ocean, culminate in
North and Central America, set in parts of Austria, Russia and the
Balkans; and will be on the nadir in India and Burma.
Jupiter in Taurus in exact trine to the luminaries will benefit
Ireland, the Caucasus, Poland, Persia and other parts ruled by the
sign ; but countries under Libra and Cancer will suffer, such as Africa,
China, and Austria. The square of Mars to Saturn is unfortunate for
the German Emperor and is not good for King George. The place of
the lunation falls as under in various horoscopes:
King George a? Emp. Austria rf S a
Italy a? H. H, Asquith rf «
,, Belgium f ? AV General Joffrb tfyjA 2 AI?
Czar Cusp Asc
The square of Mars to Saturn falls from the third decanatesof Cancer
and Libra and afflicts several horcscopes. It appears as undertaking
Mars in Libra as the starting point.
King George d A (Ji * If Pres. Poincare dpa« □J
„ Italy f Vn iji The Pope a%
,, Belgium d vs o H. H, Asquith d <f
Czar 88 D. Lloyd George d 2/ D 0
Emp. Germany □ Asc Gen. Jopfre <? 00
,, Austria □ J ay

Comet, 1916 b (Wolf).—This was discovered by photography at

Konigstuhl Observatory on 3/4/1916, when it was of magnitude 13, and had
R.A. 193° 14', Decl. 0° 1 i'N, and Long. Its orbit is still somewhat
uncertain, but at present its distance from the earth is increasing, and its
perihelion will not be until June 1917. The following are given as
approximate positions.
R.A. Decl. Long.
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The time of President Carranza's birth has been supplied to us
by a subscriber and student. Venustiano Carranza was born when
the first degrees of Libra were rising and Venus the ruling planet was
placed in the first degree of the sign Aquarius. The benefic Jupiter
was culminating in the sign of his exaltation Cancer, and the Moon
was setting in the sign Pisces.
Opinions are divided as to the sincerity of the President, and
some hard statements are made with regard to his character. It is
not easy to judge a man who occupies the position of a leading
statesman in any country, unless one is quite familiar with his motives;
 THE HOROSCOPE OF VENUSTIANO CARRANZA 251

and if Astrology is to escape another downfall through meddling in

politics we shall be well advised if we steer clear of all parties and
judge each map upon its astrological merits alone. Had we the
horoscopes of the former Presidents of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz,
Francisco Madero, and Victoriano Huerta to compare with that of
Carranza, we might be able to discern a great deal more about the
revolution in Mexico than we can at present: failing these, we must
seek to judge President Carranza's horoscope on its merits.
Before making a study of the horoscope we may say that Mexico,
- in common with other parts of the world, is feeling the effects of past
causes, or as the theosophist would say, reaping fruits of some very
bad karma. It is quite unnecessary to speculate upon the idea that
the principal actors in the Mexican drama are the re-incarnated
inquisitors of Spain, but we may accept the statement that the
tragedies of Mexico are the result of a great struggle between Freedom
and Tyranny, and we may expect to find the heads of the Government
alternating between good and bad rulers. So far as can be surmised
Porfirio Diaz was a bad, and Francisco Madero a good, ruler.
Victoriano Huerta then follows as a usurper who tried the " iron
hand," and through militarism established a reign of terror against
which the people revolted. There then comes on the scene Don
Venustiano Carranza as the lawful representative of the people.
Amid the revolutionary conditions of Mexico at the present time
there is required a strong and honest ruler, and the question tnat
troubles the Mexican people is: Can a wise and peaceful Government
be established, or must the " iron hand " still rule ? At the moment
of writing President Carranza is in power, and is supposed to be
endeavouring to establish peace. Let us examine his horoscope.
At the birth of Carranza the planet Mars was rising in the sign
Scorpio, on the cusp of the second house, and although not in actual
square aspect to Saturn, rulers of] the fourth house, the planet Mars
was in parallel of declination with Saturn, strengthening the three
planets in fixed signs and adding to the^steadfast determination which
Mars rising in Scorpio denotes. Mars in the second house and Saturn
in the eleventh cast their rays upon the ascendant of the horoscope,
and tinge the first house withja'strong red and green colouring, which
may be good or evil according to the interior motives of the man.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

the sign Libra holding the balance of action, ready to be moved

either for personal or altruistic ends.
The position and aspect of the ruling planet Venus is a peculiar
one, for Venus is on the cusp of the fifth house in the sign Aquarius,
and in trine aspect to Uranus from the cusp of the ninth house, an
aspect that is strengthened by a parallel with Uranus; with' the
exception of the application to a square aspect of Mars, this is the only
colouring Venus receives, and this supports the claim of Carranza to
be the legal representative of the country as well as a would-be
reformer, and hence we judge that his revolutionary tendencies are on
the -side of a loyal patriotism, that his motives are sincere, and
that the question of Saturn colouring the ascendant from the eleventh
house will decide how far his "friends" will allow him to succeed;
while the position of Mars sextile the Sun shows how far he will have
his own say over his " friends " and advisers. For the Sun and
Saturn are in mutual reception, and therefore, given a free hand,
Carranza will rule with the best of motives. The emotional influence
in this horoscope is stronger than the purely intellectual, as judged by
Jupiter ruler of the third house, accidentally and essentially dignified
and exalted over Mercury as tenant of the third house. The time-
serving element in this case is subservient to the motives, and Carranza,
although not over ambitious (having only two planets in Cardinal signs),
is shown to be a man fit to lead and rule others, and this is supported
by the Moon, the ruler of the tenth, in the sixth house, which however
shows the insecurity of his position, which can only be maintained by
the favourable aspects of the Moon's separation from a trine aspect of
Mars to an application of a similar aspect to Jupiter.
The whole question as to whether Carranza's good motives will
hold or not, depends upon how far he can use the " iron hand" of
Mars rising to maintain his authority as a leader. The weakness of
the horoscope is its versatility, and it may make him too adaptable and
pliable. A ruler must have a firm will, and though he need not have a
powerful intellect, he must be courageously strong and unflinching in
his decisions. As already said, Carranza is a ruler and a man fit to
rule ; he is not a wicked man or merely a time server, and his destiny,
so far as the Presidency is concerned depends upon the influence of
his friends aud advisers, denoted by Saturn in the eleventh house, in
 THE HOROSCOPE OF VENUSTIANO CAKRAN2A 253
the sign Leo. His enemies may well be those of his own kindred;
(Mercury ruler of the twelfth in the third). His enemies are not the
people, but may easily be his " friends." Saturn rules the fourth
house and it is in its detriment in the sign Leo, and as ruler of the
third decanate it shows that his opponents (lord of the seventh) may be
amongst his " friends." If his "friends" should discover his weak
spot, and he has one, and they can tempt him through it, they may
bring about his downfall. In this matter it is not the business of the
astrologer to point out the weak spots, but we may point out that
Carranza will prosper as he trusts the people and gives his service as
leader for them, but should he allow the mutable influences in his
horoscope to make him too mutable, then his end is not an enviable
one. Fortunately for him, the transit of Saturn through Cancer is not
so harmful as it would have been had he not Jupiter in the M.C. at
birth. He is however passing through a critical time, out of which he
might come safely if he knew how to read his stars. We would
recommend him to think about this—forhis own and his people'sgood.

The New Sommek Time.—France adopted daylight saving at midnight,

June 14th ; and Portugal at eleven o'clock on the night of June 17th. (Refer
also to notes on pp. 226, 241, last month's issue, for dates of introduction
in Italy and Great Britain.)
Dorking.—Will the writer of a letter from Dorking, enclosing the
horoscope of a naval officer born under Libra, kindly communicate with us ?
We cannot make out the signature, and the address is not given.
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This sign gives a very strong will and a lofty nature; the mind
is just, confident and often highly gifted.
Leo persons are always generous, love to give and bestow their
substance on others. Having a communal feeling, they consider all
that they have and hold as "ours" rather than "mine." Leo persons
love the drama, poetry and the fine arts generally, and are more or
less idealistic, and whatever work they undertake they do effectually,
as they are very thorough in all their actions, as well as persevering
and painstaking. *
The Sun in Leo improves the moral nature and gives great
sincerity in all matters connected with the heart and the affections;
and firmness, self-reliance and independence are marked characteristics
of this sign.
Leo people are born rulers and organisers, for Leo is a sign of
power, and one can never order Leo persons to do things, for though
they will work willingly with you, or for you, they will do so on their
own initiative, but will do nothing by compulsion. They may be led,
but never will they be driven.
Their faults are their pride, dogmatism and strong passions, yet
their self-control is great when they care to use it. They have a
wonderful love nature, constant, faithful and abundant. Their power
represents the heart of all things, and when their heart is safely
anchored and their feelings satisfied, their power for good in the world
is enormous, so that their feelings are their strength and also their
weakness Their keynote should be faith and love.
Profession or Occupation—Commanders, organisers, bankers,
dramatists, actors, novelists, poets, musicians, goldsmiths and farmers.
Diseases.—Heart affections (arteries), difficulties of the blood
and circulatory system, troubles with the eyes, varicose veins, lumbago
and throat affections. Sunshine, rest and quiet, alone if possible, are
their best medicine. Drugs are of little avail.
Gepts.—Diamond, ruby, carbuncle, bloodstone and garnet.
Bessie Leo.
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By G. E. Sutcliffe,
Author of " The Foundations of Physical Astrology"

I.—THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA {continued front p. 236)'

The Influence of Neptune

IN this horoscope all the planets except Neptune are in con-
junction, and their influences are inextricably mingled in the horoscope
of the cycle. Neptune however stands apart, and his influence can
be treated separately. It will be noticed that he is the only planet
above the horizon, that he dominates the horoscope, being in close
conjunction with the meridian, on the cusp of the tenth house, where
he will culminate by slow secondary progression, in A.D. 2102. He is
in opposition to all the other planets, as it were trampling them under
his feet. It is a clear case of "Neptune contra mundum." It is
evident therefore that unless we can arrive at a true conception of
what is the nature of the Neptunian influence, we are liable to go
astray in judging the horoscope.
Since astrological traditions do not include Neptune, to interpret
its influences we have to depend largely upon the intuitive faculty,
supplemented here and there by a limited experience. Kelow are
given intuitions on the subject, which the student may compare with
those of others. It is said in The Art of Synthesis (p. 114) that
" to really grasp the peculiar capabilities of Neptune necessitates a
prominence of that body in the scheme of nativity," and as the writer
1
Note by the Editor.—It was originally intended to print the whole of this
6rsl Article last month, but as the space available did not admit of this, the portion
relating to Neptune was held over. We now print the whole of Article II, as well
as the remainder of Article I.
This necessarily renders the present instalment an exceptionally long one.
We are convinced, however, that when the student has read it he will approve
our decision to include the whole of Article 11 in this issue. It would have seriously
suffered by being divided, and moreover the appearance of Article III which deals
with the Great Conjunction, would thereby have been further delayed. Nor could
any rearrangement of matter have been contrived, for the present instalment as
well as last month's will be found to be quite essential to the study of Article III.
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has Neptune in Pisces the reputed house of Neptune, in conjanction

with the Sun, he may perhaps possess some claim to be regarded as a
Neptunian. [The map has been published in Modern Astrology
V 156, and in 1001 N.N. The conjunction with the Sun is not
very close in the radical (4° 53') but by secondary progression it
has become closer (2° 59'), and both these bodies conjointly are
in trine with the ascendant.]
The intuitions of a " Neptunian," on the character of Neptune,
whilst the nativity is being deluged with Neptunian influence, will
probably be of some astrological interest, especially in view of the
Neptunian character of the current cycle. He has found the following
extract from the Arf of Synthesis (p. 118) very true : " The malefic
"influence of Neptune is terrible to those who have not overcome. To
"come under the true influx of this planet's nature means spiritual
" awakening of the highest kind ; to be under the dark side is enthral-
" ment of the fleshly senses. It is the planet of Regeneration, that is,
" the turning of the material generative forces to purposes of spiritual
" enlightenment. In other words to disenchain the soul from the
" instincts of the clay and the action of generation in the world of matter,
"and hold it to its duty, to know the will of the divine Father. We
" are to foster and create spirit instead of matter, and to seek and know
" At-one-ment, the act of being at one with the Christ—the casting
" out of the self, the leaving without regret the ' lower quaternary ' as the
" Easterns call it, the personality. Until a man has control over the
" Scorpio faculties, denominated among the ancient mysticsFonudation
" —whereby their great importance is typified to those who would rear
" a solid structure—he will not appreciate anything that Neptune has
" to bestow."
If asked to state in a sentence the nature of Neptune, one might
reply, " It is the planet of Alchemy."
And what is Alchemy ? It is the science of the Foundations of
the Universe. There are certain properties of matter which science
so far has not been able to affect in any way, they are bound up with
the mechanism of gravitation and radio-activity, and associated with
certain constants, such as the charge and mass of the electron and
some constants of radiation : (.Modern Electrical Theory, 2nd ed. p.
305). The key to these properties is contained in the science of
 THE GREAT WAR 2
57
Alchemy. A knowledge of the mncr mechanism of these properties
confers enormous powers, compared with which those at present
wielded by science are insignificant. Science at present is only
placed in control of molecular forces, but Alchemy is concerned with
atomic forces, which are one hundred million times as great. Alchemy
is the Master Key to the Occult Sciences, including Astrology, for in
the atom there are two planes of revolution fixed in relation to each
other at an angle the tangent of which is 2V'r, and this angle is
24-0 14'7", which is about the mean value of the obliquity of the
ecliptic during the historical period. These forces control the position
and inclination of the earth's axis, and the period of its rotation.
They further divide the plane of rotation into twelve zones, each of
30°, the signs of the zodiac ; (" Unpublished Researches "). A little
more than two years ago, when Neptune was applying rather closely
to the trine aspect of the writer's ascendant he hit upon a fruitful line
of research, which he followed with great interest, not knowing where
it was going to lead him. It was like following along the Ariadne
string in a labyrinth. At length he saw that the goal to which it
pointed was Alchemy, and then a curious thing happened. It was a
kind of inner command which seemed to say : " Proceed no further
with Physical Alchemy, until thou has mastered Spiritual Alchemy."
Readers of the works of the medieval Alchemists will have noticed
that what they say refers mostly to Spiritual Alchemy, and those who
had discovered Physical Alchemy seemed terrified lest the secret
N
should leak out [Alchemy Ancient and Modem, II. Stanley Redgrove,
p. 85). These Alchemists were Rosicrucians, and the Rose and
Cross are the symbols of the Christian Master. Whilst Uranus
represents the Will Ray (Atma), the ray of the Manu, the warrior
Occultist, who hews his way through all obstacles, Neptune is the
Ray of Love and Wisdom (Buddhi), the ray of the Bodhisattva or
World-Teacher, which proceeds by transmutation and Regeneration. It
is the higher Venus, as has been said elsewhere, but the love must have
no physical outlet, but must ascend and pour itself through the heart
in a stream of universal love, as the spirit of brotherhood. Neptune
represents the cosmic Virgin, whose children are always born immacu-
lately in the hearts of mankind, and the age of Neptune brings back
the World-Teacher. The prophecy of this return (Mark xiii., 24)
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should be read with its astrological key, which appears to me to be

the horoscope of the present article.
"The sun shall be darkened,and On Dec. 3rd, 1899, there was a
the moon shall not give her light. solar eclipse, and both Sun and
Moon were invisible in Europe.
"And the stars of heaven shall All the astrological stars, planets,
fall. are at the Nadir of the horoscope.
"And the powers that are in The present war was preceded
heaven shall be shaken. by a struggle on the higher planes.
" And then shall they see the Neptune culminating at the
Son of man coming in theclouds wilh Zenith of the horoscope, the clouds
great power and glory." perhaps correspond to Chaos with
which Neptune is associated.
Although Neptune is gentle in his methods, it is a case of snaviter
in modo, fortiter in re. As stated above, the Neptunian Ray is
connected with the most powerful forces in Nature. The last
appearance of the World Teacher was associated with what the
world regarded as weakness, but it does not necessarily follow that it
will be so at His next appearance. The last appearance was near the
middle of a cycle of the Kali Yuga, when man is more master of his
own destiny, but in a Satya Yuga cycle, this is less so. The tradition
that the next appearance of the World Teacher would be associated
with power, has, I think, an occult significance behind it.
Some astrologers have concluded that the influence of Neptune is
evil, but this seems to me to be due to misapprehension. The evil
does not emanate from Neptune, but from "the Dwellers on the
Threshold." Since Neptune is the planet of mysticism it stimulates
into activity the mysticism in one's nature, in any nativity which is
susceptible to such an influence, and to grasp the full meaning of this
it may be well to define the difference between the Mystic Path, and
the Occult Path. On the Occult Path, or the Uranian Ray, the
pupil has to obey strict rules, and force bis way by will power. On
the Mystic Path, the Neptunian Ray, there are no rules, and the pupil
must be a law unto himself. His only Law is the Law of Love, the
Universal Solvent of the Spiritual Alchemist. Hut, when any one
enters on either of these two paths, by an automatic process he lets
loose "the Hounds of Gods," the Guardians of the Threshold, and
precipitates his Karma. It is an invitation to the Lords of Karma to
send in their bill, and demand an immediate payment on account:
(Sec. Doc. iii. 435). Now a similar thing happens, on a less pronounced
 THE GREAT WAR 259
•scale, whenever the mystic nature is stimulated into activity by a
Neptunian influence and this I think has led some to conclude that
the Neptunian influence is evil.
I have drawn attention to this point because it has an important
bearing on the present war. For as in the case of individuals, so with
the race as a whole, a move in the direction of Mysticism awakens
the Dwellers on the Threshold, and the question is asked " Hast thou
complied with all the rules"? Now the present age has taken a
strong dose of Mysticism, so much so that one begins to hear the
phrase: " we are all Mystics now." Moreover it is invading the
territory of Practical Occultism, which gives powers hitherto confined
to " Adepts." The Chemist is becoming the Alchemist: {Radio-
Activity, Part II., Soddy, p. 29).
This, in my opinion, is one of the principal underlying reasons for
the precipitation of the present conflict. I have reason to believe that
a knowledge of physical Alchemy is not permissible, by the rules of
the Occult Hierarchy, until some measure of progress has been made
in Spiritual Alchemy, for the simple reason that the powers such
knowledge would bestow, are too great, 'and too dangerous, to be
wielded by the " Unregenerate."
Let those who are inclined to find fault with Narada, " the Deva-
Rishi of Occultism par excellence" (S.D. ii. 87) for precipitating
Armageddon, consider for a moment what would have happened if the
Central Powers were able to use forces 100,000,000 times as great as
they wield at present; and since Germany was the most advanced
nation in Chemistry, the door-way to Alchemy, she would probably
have been the first nation to make the discovery and thus have stolen
a march upon the other nations. If therefore the war had been
deferred until these discoveries had been made, it would have become
a veritable battle of the Titans, in which the mountains would have
been literally torn from their seats, and hurled upon our cities. No
civilisation could possibly have survived such a catastrophe. When
the religious history of the last twc thousand years is viewed in the
light of the above facts, it takes on a new meaning. The only
authoritative definition of a Christian, the definition of the Founder
{John xiii. 35), " By this shall all men know that ye are my
disciples, if ye have love one to another," is likewise a definition of
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the Neptunian, the Spiritual Alchemist; for Love is his corner stone,
the foundation of his edifice, his Philosopher's Stone, and his Elixir
of Life.
The institutions of the Christian Church, the monastic life, the
celibacy of the clergy, the army of the devoted women offering
themselves as the bride of Christ, are for the most part expedients for
facilitating the evolution of the Neptunian age. The Neptunian when
once firmly established is not necessarily a celibate, but celibacy is
helpful in the initial stages. What may be defined as a certain love-
pressure, must be borne by the physical vehicle, before a channel can
be pierced through the chalcra communicating with the buddhic plane,
and the art of transmutation acquired; and where there is much
physical leakage, the operation is impossible. The adoration of the
Virgin, and the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception are additional
aids to Neptunian evolution. Whether the man Jesus was
immaculately conceived, or not, has nothing to do with the question.
The Christos in the heart of man is always conceived immaculately,
and this constitutes transmutation and Spiritual Alchemy.
The incipient Neptunian is rather prone to sexual errors, for the
fire of the passions is the raw material out of which he is made,
the " forging of passion into power " could not be accomplished if
the passions were not there. Many of our modern Magdalenes are
incipient Neptunians, and this may account for the marked tenderness
with which the Christian Master regarded them, as shown in the case
of the woman taken in adultery. Humanity contains much base
metal, the raw material for the Coming Alchemist. This was the case
two thousand years ago, when the cry went forth " the harvest truly is
plenteous, but the labourers are few."
When the Neptunian Age is once established, the labourers will
be numerous. When Tennyson advised the present generation to
"Let knowledge grow from more to more
But let more reverence with it dwell,"
he struck the note that it needed most, for there is a sense in which
all knowledge is sacred, and this is especially the case with knowledge
which confers divine powers. The present generation was entering
the " Holy of Holies " with unclean feet, and this brings on it the
agonies of crucifixion. The Nations at the present time are being
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crucified, but the Cross is without the Rose. This was probably
symbolised, and perhaps precipitated, by the cruciform configuration
of the planets on January II 1910, when an initiation into Spiritual
Alchemy, or " crucifixion on the Rose and Cross " is known to have
taken place. In crucifixions of the higher kind, the Rose lying over
the heart of the victim, is pierced, not from without, but from within.
The result is not pain but ecstasy, the ecstasy of the mystic, and the
highly developed love nature, restrained from physical outlet, pours
itself from the Chakra of the heart, in a Love which is Divine, and
embraces the whole of humanity. A Saviour of the race is born.
On the other hand humanity is also being stretched upon the
cross, but this is not the Rosy-Cross of the Christian Master ; never-
theless it is hastily adopting the advice tendered to it, two thousand
years ago, for the combatant nations are tumbling over each other in
their efforts to practically carry out the Christian Precepts. Every-
where the cry is heard, " we must co-operate, or die," and we have to
choose either Brotherhood or annihilation ; but the motive is fear, not
love, the heart of humanity is being pierced, but pierced from without.
This is the Cross without the Rose. It is the penalty which the
Physical Alchemist automatically brings upon himself, when Spiritual
Alchemy has not been achieved. It is the dark side of the planet
Neptune, the star of the Bodhisattva, wielded by the Dwellers on the
Threshold.

II.—PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DIRECTIONS, AND

THEIR RELATION TO TRANSITS

Primary Directions
We may now turn from that which is intuitional to that which
may fairly be called scientific, inasmuch as the hypothesis to be
presented is capable of examination, and, to a certain extent, of
quantitative demonstration.
It has been already stated that " it is known to students of
occultism that previous to incarnation the centre of consciousness
ascends to the higher mental level, and there sees the plan and principal
events of the coming incarnation." And it was suggested (i) that
this process is coincident with the formation of Primary Directions
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during the first six hours after birth ; and (ii) that for the first three
months after birth, during which time the whole of the Secondary
Directions are formed, the native may be regarded as in a state of
" semi-incarnation " with the centre of consciousness situated probably
in the lower mental and astral planes : (see p. 233 of last month's
issue).
The above suggestion, implying a certain relation between
primary and secondary directions, is based on an extension of the
Law of the Conservation of Energy. It is assumed that a centre of
-consciousness has the same energy per unit volume on the three
planes through which it normally circulates. Now energy is pro-
portionate to the product of mass by the square of velocity, so that if
a vehicle of consciousness on one plane has a mass per unit volume
one thousand times as great as on another, the square of the vibratory
velocity of the heavier vehicle, will be a thousand times less than the
other. In the Times of India for 12/9/1914 (republished in MODERN
Astrology for December 1914, p. 342), I endeavoured to explain on
this basis the time ratio between events in the life of the native,
and the Primary Directions according with those events, i.e. 1 year
— 1 degree. This was stated to be the same as the ratio of two
velocities, the velocity of light in free space, and the molecular
velocity of the human brain. This ratio was there given as 731500.
The exact ratio if we use the sidereal year is2
365.256 x 24 x 60/4 = 131492.3 (5.1189003) (1)
The velocity of light in free space is 3 X lO'2 centimetres, hence from
(l), the molecular velocity of the human brain is
3 x 10" -v- 131492.3 = 228150.3 (5.35S2210) (2)
It would have been out of place in a newspaper to have given detailed
reasons for the above, as they would have been regarded as too
technical for the readers of a daily paper, but as the matter affects the
interpretation which I propose to give to Primary and Secondary
aspects, and as I think it may be of general interest to students of
Astrology I will give these details here.
It is a fact known to physicists that molecular velocities are
2
[Equations are numbered for convenience of reference. The logarithm of any
-quantity is appended in parentheses.]
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closely connected with the velocities of sound: {Physico-Chemical

Tables, G. Griffin & Co., vol. 2, p. 564). Now since the human body
consists of more than 90% of water, the molecular velocity of the
human body is practically the same as that of water at the same
temperature. The relationship between molecular velocity and the-
velocity of sound, appears to be that whilst molecular velocity is more
or less circular, the velocity of sound is in straight lines. This is the
relationship of the velocity of a crank pin to the velocity of the piston
rod in a steam engine. If the distance of a crank pin from the centre
of the crank shaft is r, the ratio of the mean velocity of the pin to the-
mean velocity of the rod is
~r/2. i- , 1.5708 (0.19612) (3)
or the ratio of half the circumference of a circle to its diameter. If s
be the molcular velocity of air at the freezing point, and s' the velocity
of sound at the same temperature, then (ib. pp. 560-6),
J = 48481 (4 gs557) (4)
s' - 33100 (4-5i983) (5)
s/s' r-4647 (0.1*574) (6
It will be observed that the agreement between (3) and (6), is not quite
exact. This may be because molecular motions are not exactly
circular but elliptical, and the ratio of half the circumference of an
ellipse to its greater diameter is always less than ii".
The velocity of sound in water at 30° C or 86° F., (ib. p. 568), is
S' = 152850 (5.18427) (7)
If S be the molecular velocity of the human brain, as given by (2),
being taken as identical with the molecular velocity of water at the
same temperature, we then have from (2)
S 228150.3 (8)
and the ratio between the molecular velocity of the human brain and
the velocity of sound in water is, from (7) and (8),
SIS' 1:4926 (0.1739s) (9)
It will be seen that this ratio is just a little greater than the ratio
between the molecular velocity and that of sound in air as given by
(6), but the temperature of the human body is a little greater than
86° F, at which the velocity of sound in water S' has been measured, so
that at the temperature of the human body, which is 98° F., S' would
be a little greater, and we should have a perfect agreement between
(6) and (9).
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Thus the molecular velocity of the human brain as given by

(2) is in close accord with the facts of science as far as they are
known, and the ratio of events in the life of the native to the Primary
Directions, as given by (l) may be regarded as having a TRUE
SCIENTIFIC BASIS.

Secondary Directions

If to the above results we apply an extension of the law of the

Conservation of Energy, it is possible to obtain a basis for the time
ratio between Secondary Directions and the events with which they
accord (i.e. 1 day=l year), which can also be linked up with the facts
of modern science.
Let us assume that a migrating centre of consciousness has the
same vibratory energy per unit volume of the vehicle through which
it functions on the three planes, physical, astral and mental. Then if
d! be the density of the physical vehicle, and v its vibratory velocity,
we have by a law of mechanics for the energy per unit volume
a) Jd'!)4 (to)
where from (2), the brain velocity
v 228150.3 (")
and since the human body has the same density as water, which has
unit density, we have also
d' = 1 (12)
hence the volume energy common to all planes is
= 2.60263 x 'O10 ergs, (10.415411 (13)
If now D be the density of the first elemental essence, on which the
Primary Directions are impressed, then since the vibratory velocity of
this essence is the velocity of light c, we have also for the energy per
unit volume of the first elementary kingdom, since c= 3 X 10'°,
<>< = JDr' 2.60263 x io10 (14)
from which
.D ■= 2..£h/C4= 5.7836 4-u51 (11,76220) (15)
The above value of the density of the first elemental essence, D, is of
the same order of magnitude as the etheric densities of the planets as
given in MODERN ASTROLOGY for October 1907, p. 466.
Now let d be the density of the elemental essence upon which the
forces of the secondary directions impress themselves during the first
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three months after birth, and V the vibratory velocity of the essence;
then, as in (10) and (14), we have for the energy per unit volume,
w = jrfP2 = 2.60263 x 1010 (16)
but as the right-hand member of this equation contains two unknown
quantities, d and V, we require a second equation before we can
obtain a solution.
In occult studies, even more than in ordinary scientific investiga-
tions, it is necessary to make use of intuition when data are lacking.
Astrologers are fully aware of this necessity. Let us therefore try to
obtain a value of the density d in (16) by means of intuition ; remem-
bering that intuition is merely commonsense raised to a higher power,
embracing a wider horizon.
Since in the process of incarnation above sketched the centre of
consciousness begins in a vehicle of density D, and terminates in a
vehicle of density d', it is obvious that in an intermediate stage of
incarnation, as during the first three months of physical life, the life
centre must be functioning in a vehicle of density intermediate
between D and d'. If we take it at the midway point, then the
density d is the geometrical mean of D and d', so that
rf" = Dd' (17)
d =. (Di1)! (18)
But from (12) £#'=7, so that (18) becomes
<i = D* = 7.6050 ^ ion (6.8S110) (19)
from (15), and from (16) and (18) we have for the vibratory velocity
of the vehicle on which the secondary directions are impressed,
V * {zwlity =. 8.2731 x 107 (7.91767) (20)
If a certain train travel between London and Manchester at twice
the mean velocity of another train, its time period is half that of the
other; so that the time ratio is the reciprocal of the velocity ratio.
Similarly with the velocities we are considering. So that if T be the
time period corresponding to the velocity V, and t be the time period
corresponding to the velocity v, we have from (ll) and (20),
tjT = V/v = 3G2.62 (2-55945) (27)
or,
£/T — One Year/One Day (approx.) (22)
which differs only from the time ratio of secondary directions by less
than 1%.
We thus see that whilst the Primary Directions impress them-
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selves apparently upon the ' Causal Body," previous to incarnation,

the Secondary Directions impress themselves upon some body or
vehicle almost exactly midway between the Casual Body and the
Physical Body, whilst the centre of consciousness of the native is in a
state of " semi-incarnation."
The density of this " body " or vehicle as given by equation (19) is.
about one-twelfth the density of hydrogen, and if matter were disin-
tegrated into the state in which it exists on the second sub-plane of the
physical, the ' hyper-meta-proto' stage of Occult Chemistry, it would
have a density equal to d in equation (19).
Now the second sub-plane is directly linked with the second of
the Seven Planes of our system, and this SECOND PLANE is that of
the Monad.
It would thus seem that during the period of formation of
the Secondary Directions the centre of consciousness broods over
the personality from the second sub-plane of the physical, for a single
incarnation, just as the Monad broods over the Individuality, from
the SECOND PLANE, for the entire series of incarnations.

The Delta Rays

When electrons move with a velocity s, it has become the custom
of physicists to express this velocity in terms of the difference of
potential which will produce this velocity; this difference of potential
is measured in volts, and the number of volts E which will produce
the velocity in electrons s, is given by'
E = sa x 2.82 -j- io10 [16.4502]. (23)
{X-Rays, Kaye, p. 96). Applying this equation to the velocity of the
vehicle on which the Secondary Directions operate, as given by (20),
we have for the corresponding electromotive force
E — [16.4502]. r1 mi 2,067 volts .(24}
Hence if there be a group of electrons, having a velocity corresponding
to a potential difference of TWO VOLTS,' the velocity would be V as

8
The placing of digits in square Ijracketi signifies—" the number whose logarithm
is. . ." Here, for instance, what is meant is that the number represented by its
logarithm 16.4502, is to be multiplied by s'.
* It may be useful to remind the reader that the ordinary shilling " dry cell
used for an electric bell shows a potential difference of about volts.
 THE GREAT WAR

given by (20), and the time ratio between physical brain consciousness
and consciousness working in a group of such electrons, would be
One Year/One Day,
as given by (22).
But electrons moving with a velocity which on the
AVERAGE IS GIVEN BY A POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE OF TWO VOLTS
ARE IDENTICAL WITH WHAT ARE KNOWN TO SCIENCE AS 'DELTA
RA YS': {Modern Electrical Theory, Campbell, 2nd Ed., p. 323).
The Delta Rays are a recently discovered class of rays which
like the Beta Rays consist of moving electrons, but they are much slower
than Beta Rays : the velocity of the Beta Rays being equivalent to a
potential difference of about 100 000 volts, whilst half the delta rays
have a velocity which would be acquired by a P.D. of less than two
volts, and halfhy a P.D. greater than two volts,—hence the mean is
about two volts as stated above. Like the Alpha, Beta and Gamma
Rays the Delta Rays are not altered by temperature, or any artificial
means of production; but I am not aware of any treatise specially
devoted to their properties, as their discovery and investigation is too
recent. A full account of them can only be obtained in articles
scattered through the scientific journals. The latest investigation
proves that the velocity of the rays IS A UNIVERSAL CONSTANT;
{Philosophical Magazine, vol. 22, p. 300, and vol. 24, p. 786).
In a series of articles on these rays by Dr. Campbell of the
University of Leeds, in the " Philosophical Magazine " (vols. 22-24,
Jul 1911 to Nov 1912), this authority concludes the series by the
following definite pronouncement:—" The properties of the Delta
Rays are a function neither of the properties of the ionising rays
nor of the material which they ionise; they are a function of the
properties of some mechanism which is concerned in ALL ionisation."
Now what is Ionisation ? It is the process of depriving a molecule
of an electron, and an electron is astral matter, the astral soul of a
molecule: {Theosophist, Nov 1912, p. 301). The electron is the
'spook ' of the molecule, and the science of Radio-activity which deals
with such phenomena as ionisation, has been named by physicists the
" Chemistry of Phantoms " : {The Chemistry of the Radio-Elements,
Soddy, 2nd Ed., p. 17). When an Alpha or Beta Ray strikes a
molecule and ionises it, " It knocks its soul out." It is essentially a
268 MODERN ASTROLOGY

dis-incarnating process, or the process of incarnation with the minus

sign prefixed ; it is the mechanism of the birth and death of molecules r
[Theosophisf, March 1910, p. 793).

A Universal Constant
When therefore we find:—(i) that this ' birth-mechanism ' has a
velocity which is a Universal Constant of terrestrial nature, and (ii)
that this velocity bears the same ratio to the velocity of physical
molecules, as the time ratio between events and Secondary Directions,
we have hit upon a fact of the highest importance to the science
of Astrology, since it definitely links up the traditions handed down to
us by Ancient Science, with the established facts of Modern Science,
and shows its feet firmly planted on
" the solid ground
of Nature .... which builds for aye."
It demonstrates that the time ratio of Secondary Directions, applies
not only to the molecules which are constituents of human beings, but
also to the molecules which are constituents of the animal, vegetable,
and mineral kingdoms. It applies therefore not only to Natal
Astrology, BUT ALSO to Mundane Astrology.
This excursion into the physical meaning of the time ratios used in
Natal Astrology, therefore, is not a digression although it may have
appeared so. For since this Series of articles is one involving Mundane
Astrology, it was important to show that the same time ratios apply
equally to both natal and mundane, for only in this way could we
secure a reliable basis of interpretation. This Series deals not with
the birth of a human being, but with the birth of an age. And, to
the Ancients, an Age, or Mon, was a Divine Being, a ' Dhyan Chohan,'
whose life history manifested itself partly in the history of the nations
during that ^Eon: (Sec. Doc., iii, 465-9). Those who wish to
understand the occult side of this birth process will do well to
mediate upon the pages of the "Secret Doctrine" above given.

Why Secondary Directions are of such Importance

An electron according to modern science is an electrically charged
sphere, and such a sphere when in motion, as in the case of Delta
 THE GREAT WAR

Rays, carries with it a whirl of magnetism; [Electricity and Matter,

J. J. Thomson, p. 21). Some unpublished researches which I have
recently made in connection with Occult Chemistry, have enabled
me to obtain valid proofs that Magnetism is the matter of the mental
plane, the vehicle of Manas. The Delta Rays therefore, being
electrons, the matter of the astral plane, with their accompanying
magnetism, the matter of the mental plane, are probably identical
with what we call the Kama-Manasic plane, the second and third
elemental kingdoms of the text-books. The seven sub-planes of the;
niental plane are perhaps the seven magnetisms of the "Secret
Doctrine."
We thus arrive by circumstantial evidence amounting almost to
proof, at the conclusion that THE FORCES IMPRESSED ON THE NATIVE
by Secondary Directions are applied to a vehicle con-
sisting of the Second and Third elemental kingdoms,
FUNCTIONING ON THE SECOND SUB-PLANE OF THE PHYSICAL.
Since we are in the Fourth Round, and the great bulk of humanity
is evolving at the Kama-Manasic level, Secondary Directions may be
regarded as of ^rfwrrry j/)/^)or/(7«ce, though it might be a mistake to
consider them as exclusively dominant.

Transits
Before leaving this part of the subject it may be advisable to
devote a little space to the meaning and function of transits. Since
these act directly on the physical vehicle the time ratio is unity, and
the precipitation of events coincides in time with the transit. The
Primary and Secondary Directions may therefore be regarded as
implanting potentialities within the soul, which potentialities depend
for kinetic manifestation on the Transits.
The Primary Directions may be likened to the sowing of the
seed, the Secondary Directions to the growing of the plant, and the
Transits to the gathering time of the harvest. Now the harvest may be
gathered a little time before it is ripe, or a little time after, or it may
not be gathered at all, but allowed to rot. All three alternatives,
taken separately, or a mixture of each in varying proportions, may
depend upon suitable Transits. If this be so, the time of ripening as
shown either in the Primary or Secondary Directions does not
 MODERM ASTROI-OGY

necessarily determine the exact time of the event, but only the
approximate time when the event is possible, if suitable transits enable
it to find a physical expression. We are told that the total karma
behind the average individual is very large compared with the amount
that can be compressed into one incarnation ; and if the total Karma
is expressed in the Horoscope, and in the Primary and Secondary
Directions, it is evident that much caution is required in giving
definite predictions. If Primary, Secondary, and Transit aspects
simultaneously point to an event, there is the highest probability of it
happening. If Primary and Secondary Aspects alone or together,
point to an event, but no Transits are in conformity with them, the
event is improbable, perhaps impossible.
I merely state the above as the method of interpretation adopted
in these articles; each student of Astrology will, of course, interpret for
himself according to the system he has found most reliable.

Summary of the Second Article

The principal conclusions arrived at in this Article may be

summarised as follows:
(a) The forces connected with Primary Directions are
impressed upon the matter of the First Elemental Kingdom, or the
Higher Mental Plane, on which functions the Causal Body of the
Native; and the time ratio, Owe Year/Foitr Minutes, is equal to the
ratio between the velocity of Light and the molecular velocity of the
Human Brain.
(&) The forces connected with Secondary Directions, are
impressed upon the matter of the Second and Third Elemental
Kingdoms, the Kama-Manasic Plane, operating from the second sub-
plane of the physical; and the time ratio, One Year/One Day, is
equal to the ratio between the mean velocity of the 'Delta Rays,' a
Universal Constant, and the molecular velocity of the Human Brain.
It is intimately associated with the 'ionising' mechanism of the
physical molecule.
(c) The forces connected with Transit Aspects, are impressed
directly upon the physical vehicle, and the time ratio is Unity.
(To be continued)
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(®bitcr Btctii
" An obits)- did mil, in the language of the law,
is a gratuitous opinion, an individual im-
pertinence, which, whether it he wise or
foolish, right or wrong, bindeth none—
not even the lips that inter it."
Ot.0 J OOOE.

CONCERNING SHAKESPEARE'S HOROSCOPE

" On opening the astrological periodicals for May I was somewha
disappointed," writes Mr. Arthur Mee, " to find no allusion to Shakespeare
from the standpoint of ' our ' science."
'• It is most unfortunate that neither the hour nor even the day of birth
of the immortal Bard is exactly known ; but a speculative horoscope for the
reputed day will be found in 1001 JVoMi/rA'nfm/tes. which little book is of
course known to most of our readers and I hope to all. We have a fine
Shakespeare Exhibition here [Cardiff] just now, and I have been kindly
permitted to show a copy of the above figure with some remarks thereon.
" I think if anyone studies this horoscope he will discover that it reveals
the great Poet much more as the profoundphilosopher and student of human
nature than the mere rustic play actor of the Baconians. I speak quite
dispassionately in the matter, as I have long thought there is a mystery about
the authorship of the plays.
" By the way, Bacon's horoscope is not one of those given in Notable
Nativities. His birthday is accuralely known, but I can find no trace of the
hour in Spedding or other biographies. May I appeal to you to publish a
horoscope of Shakespeare's great contemporary—or even the noon positions ?
If it were possible to have the horoscope in each case (as, alas, it is not in
Shakespeare's) the Shakespeare-Bacon problem would be speedily solved—
to the satisfaction of astrologers at any rate."
As Mr. Mee justly remarks, neither the hour nor even the day of
Shakespeare's birth is definitely known, and therefore the speculative
horoscope to which he refers must be taken with great reserve ; so that it is
hardly surprising that astrological writers have hesitated to use it for
" tercenlenerizing."
As regards Bacon's horoscope, a map was published many years ago, in
which the birth-time was given as 7.28 a.m., 22/1/1561, N.S.,and showing the
following positions :—fS, J 26,'/fn, zzioi, Tu, B t6 ; 0~ n ,58, DT 27-21 v
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
^^7.56, 2 K9-5. & 15*44i ^Tig.ie, lj D 13.56, 1112413! W b28.30 wrf)
But as we found that the ephemeris of Stadius gave ^^718° for that date,
and as moreover the authority for the time was not stated, we hesitated to
print it.
It may confidently be stated that there is as much mystery about the
time and date and place of Bacon's birth, as about that of the author of the
world famous plays. Bacon's chaplain and biographer Rawley was interested
in Astrology, " as his notebook shows " ; yet in alluding to the fainting fits to
which Bacon was subject on (he occasion of lunar eclipses, he contents
himself with observing that " probably " the Moon was important in Bacon's
geuitnre. Again, ' York House or York Place in the Strand' is said to have
been his birthplace; but, according to one recent writer on Bacon, "York
Place " was the then name of the royal palace later known as Whitehall,
and he cites passages from the plays in support of his contention. See
Henry 1 ■. " You must no more call it York-place, . . 'tis now
the King's, and called—Whitehall." In the life written by Rawley in Latin
he says ' natus est in pnlalio Eboracensi, infra plateam dictam Le Strand.'
No mention is made of York House, and " infra " is hardly to be translated
as " in." Why then does Rawley write explicitly in Latin and .obscurely, not
to say ambiguously, in English?
Are there two problems, one wonders, or one ?

An interesting article by Mr. A. E. Thierens on the figure for the

coronation of King George V., is unable to appear owing to lack of space.
The Planet Isis.—The book referred to in the first line of p. 240
of last issue, came to hand 22/6/1916, 11.49.0 a.m. g.m.t. (within ten seconds)
London, N.W.; Mercury lord of the ascendant was in exact sextile to Isis,
while the Sun and Moon were respectively in exact square and close
conjunction with " No. 3," another ultra-Neptunian planet. Aspects to
Uranus and Neptune not marked.
Somewhat Cryptic.— Here is a specimen of the odd letters we receive
from time to time. It is written on half a page of quarto and, though dated,
bears neither name nor address: "Dear Sir, Why do yen not publish the
most interesting of the 364 horoscopes, you hold, for the day of 28/2/80.
Feb: 2Rth 1880." The date is presumably that of the writer's birth, but
why we should be supposed to hold 364 horoscopes for that particular date
we do not understand.
An Appreciation.—\V. H. W. writes from Nova Scotia : " Please send
me an extra copy of May number. Mr. Leo is magnificent, and I am sure it
is the duty of readers to express their admiration of his wonderfully clear and
logical astrological teachings. He is of enormous help to students."
N o author or editor, however impersonal he may strive to be, can be
quite insensitive to such warm-hearted praise, and we cordially thank our
fellow-student for his kindly expression.
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Astrology for Beginners

PERSONAL APPEARANCE
{Continued from p. 209)
Those people born when the sign Cancer (95), is directly East of the
birth place are of two types ; one type being much taller and slimmer than
the other—longer-looking altogether. This long type is fair, with usually
blue eyes and thick brown hair, and a long narrow face ; or with hair of a
sad, ash colour and the eyes greyish. The mouth is seldom small, the teeth
often crowd over each other, and the cheeks are sometimes pendulous.
The body of the shorter type is much more rounded, the face and head
round and the forehead low. The eyes and hair may be somewhat colourless
and the nose small and round, or it may be crabbed, bending over at the tip
and with a slightly caught-up look at the nostrils. A watery and puffy
condition of the body is often observable, which, in older age, hides Time's
wrinkles.
A person with Cancer rising may be seen, when off his guard, sitting
with legs either encircling the rails of the chair he sits upon, or with the toes
of the two feet pointing towards each other; these attitudes suggesting first
the clutch of the crab (Cancer), and, secondly, the crab's two claws opposing
each other.
Watch a Cancer person walking towards you from a distance, and he
will appear to be turning his toes inwards and to be placing one foot slightly
in front of the other, though as you near him, this peculiarity in walking
gradually disappears.
The complexion of the shorter Cancer type is pallid and even sometimes
muddled-looking ; the eyes large and the lids often baggy-looking.
Secretary of the Lessons Department.
A TESTIMONIAL
To the Secretary of the " Lessons Department "
" I must say I have enjoyed the Lessons very much. Although I knew
nothing of Astrology to begin with (beyond the primary astronomical
definitions), the explanations are so clear and the subject matter so well
arranged, and following in such natural sequence, that I have had very little
difficulty in understanding what was meant. My difficulty lies in remembering
and digesting the immense amount of information given and in judging and
syuthesising the horoscopes when cast. I must thank you for the patience
you have shown in answering my questions and objections.
M. Howson (Blackpool).
 31 !tcttcr to our flesfora
RECORDS OF BIRTH-DATA
Dear Readers,
As is commonly known amongst astrologers, it is a
matter of great importance when erecting a horoscope to have the
correct time of birth, (or failing that, as near as posssible, so that the
horoscope can be rectified). Now whereas the day, month, year and
place are always obtainable, the Time, in the majority of cases, is
a neglected factor in this country as the Government do not require
the time of birth to be registered with the other details. This
registering of the hour is required in France and other countries on
the continent, and it seems a pity for many reasons that this is not
also law in England. Now indeed is the opportunity for a Member of
Parliament to get such a bill passed through the House in connection
with the SummerTime Bill,—abill which should require the registration
of the hour of birth of all children. Apart from Astrology it might,
in the case of inheritance of estates, be of importance to know the
exact hour when twins were born between the change from Summer
Time to ordinary Greenwich Time or vice versa, and still more so
when the heirs were not brothers; and as other countries find it
useful there seems no reason for it not being adopted here.
Meantime until a Member of Parliament comes forward who will
interest himself in this and have it made law, the Astrological Institute
intends to collect and keep a record of all the authenticated birth hours
obtainable, and I am writing this letter to ask the co-operation and assis-
tance of all readers of Modern Astrology, for Mr. Alan Leo our
Principal has appointed me Recorder of Birth data at the Astrological
Institute, and I want you all to try and send me at least one birth date
complete with hour and to your knowledge reliable. Above all I
require the birth hour, with other data, of those who are now
children and infants; the importance and value of this is not
difficult to see, for amongst the children of to-day are the statesmen,
inventors, rulers and great citizens of to-morrow. For the present
/ do not require any data if the hour cannot be given. My wish is
that astrological students of the future should have no difficulty or
uncertainty in obtaining the correct birth-hour of the great men of the
day, but should be able to find it in the Birth Records of the Astrological
Institute.
A printed postcard will be found in this copy of the Modern
Astrology and I do hope that each one of you who reads this will
respond to my appeal and send me back the post-card filled in, or still
better, a letter with several complete and correct birth data ; and I
wish to thank here and now every one of you for your assistance
which is most valuable to me and still more so to astrological students
of the future. Yours faithfully,
2, Upper Woburn Place, Mary Head,
London, W.C. Recorder of birth data.
THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE

Modcri>

Astrology
(First 'published in 1890)

SEPTEMBER, 1916.

®Ijc (BMtor's ©IiscrlratoriJ

WHAT IS "MODERN ASTROLOGY"?

That a considerable amount of attention has been drawn to

Astrology during the present Great War we have now abundant
evidence. An officer in the Military Service writes to say that the
following questions are frequently put to him :—
"Why did Astrology, which was so universally accepted up to the
" middle ages, vanish so completely, and to what was its downfall
" due ? " and,
" Is Modern Astrology being reconstructed on a new or exactly
" the old basis ? "
These are questions that are often put to ourselves and many
others, and they are perfectly natural questions. There is another
oft-recurring question: It is said that Astrology is an exploded
science ; if so, who was the person to explode it ?
We may answer the last question first, since the previous ones
depend upon it. Towards the end of that period termed the middle
ages a system known as the Copernican, which viewed the Sun as the
centre of the Solar System, replaced the former Ptolemaic system
 MOIJliKN ASTKOLOC:V

which made the earth the centre, and this change of view-point has
been regarded as incompatible with Astrology. As Chambers'
Encyclopcedia puts it: "The Copernican system gave the death
blow to Astrology. When the earth itself was found to be only one
of the planets, it seemed absurd that all the others should be occupied
in influencing it. The argument has little force-but it produced the
effect. " True enough, The argument has little force ; how
little, is shown by the fact that Kepler, one of the first converts to the
Copernican theory, and its consistent supporter, wrote concerning
Astrology : " An tin failing experience of the excitement of sublunary
natures by the conjttiiclions and aspects of the planets has instructed
and compelled my unwilling belief."1 That he had studied the subject
and studied it, not in a superficial manner, but as we study it, his
published horoscope of Wallenstein shows.
We need not enter into the well-established fact that Pythagoras
had, centuries before, taught the heliocentric system. It is sufficient
to repeat the reiterated statement that inasmuch as the planetary
positions and aspects are matters of observation it is immaterial
whether the Copernican or Ptolemaic system of astronomy be in
vogue, the fact remains that Astrology stands or falls on its own
merits as a science, capable of study and investigation like\ any other
science, though of little use to mankind if pursued for personal ends,
and for this reason fitly termed a heavenly science.
The astronomer who is still under the cloud of material thought
may honestly believe that Astrology is an " exploded " science, and
may repeat the statement; but the moment he has the courage to
investigate the science of Astrology for himself, instead of accepting
the opinions of others, he will remain silent, or, if a man, he will
honestly admit the truth—as for example Mr Arthur Mee has done.
It is true that in face of the materialism of the closing "middle
ages," Astrology appeared to vanish, and in reality did vanish into the
safe keeping of the Rosicrucians who preserved its essential teachings
in the symbology we find so valuable to-day.
1
" Sed me conslantissima (quantum in naturalibus sperari potest) experientia
de commotione sublunarium naturarum sub conjunctiones et aspectus errorum [i.e.
planets, plmdes. wanderers] edocuit et reluctantem vicit."—Keplek, Opna Omnia,
Frankfort, 1S58, Vol ii p O39.
 THE EDITOR'S OESi-.RVATORY 277

If Astrology suffered any downfall, as alleged, it could only

fall in the minds of the materialist; it could never fall in the
minds of those who know the universe to be governed by a perfect
law.
There is no theory on earth at the present day teaching the laws
of God and the angels that has the same facility for practically
demonstrating its truth as Astrology. Man is made in the image of
God, and Astrology proves it. The Heavenly Man is the prototype of
the earthly man, and Astrology proves it. "As above, so below."
That which has been will return again. As in heaven, so on earth.
All these things Astrology demonstrates, and that is why the enemies
of Astrology have not and never had the power to kill or to
explode " it.

Arc we reconstructing the teachings of Astrology- ? Yes, we are

making a new presentation of the same truths, and are not following
exactly the old basis.
We cannot add to the ancient statement that the Sun is the
outward glory of the Supreme Intelligence who fills the whole of the
solar system with Life.
We cannot alter the fact that mighty angels brood over the
destiny of nations and as ministers before the throne of God carry out
His will.
We can, however, present ancient truths in modern garb, and
demonstrate the truth that every manifested life isclothed in appropriate
materials which are governed by the laws of their being.
It is a profound truth that in the Zodiac we find the prototypes of
ail the elementary forces in nature. The archetypes of all forms are
hidden in the zodiac, and Astrology is the only science known to man
that reveals the model after which all forms are fashioned. It is
beyond the intellect of the material scientist either to discover the
originator of the Zodiac, or refute the truths therein concealed.
For every single attempted refutation of Astrology there are a
thousand affirmations, and the best advice we can give to our
questioners is to recommend the doubtful to use as much energy in
the study of Astrology for themselves as they very often expend in
cavilling over it.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

THE OCEAN OF THOUGHT

Here we have to our hand an illustration, though maybe an

unintentional one, of the working of planetary influences. Mr. Harold
Begbie writing on " The Romance of Marconi" in The Daily
Chronicle of May 24 said :
Think of the universe as an ocean of ether. In that ether swims this
planet with its envelope of atmosphere. It does not disturb that ether, which
may be described loosely as an atomless solid. This great world rushes
through it at a frightful velocity, hut neither displaces it nor shakes it. The
ocean of ether has the everlastinguess and the uncliangeableness of God.
It is there whatever we do. We can neither see it nor grasp it. We can
only prove its existence. No man can imagine it. The thing is invisible,
inaudible, intangible. No ghost was ever more ghoslly. But it is there—an
enormous ocean of invisibility, through which the light of the farthest star
travels to this earth and the rays of our familiar sun come to the roses at the
window of the night nursery where our baby is waking from sleep.
Something else is travelling through this ether. It is thought. Above
the heads of the men in the trenches, above the llight of the shells through
the air, this thing which we call thought is travelling at an inconceivable
velocity through the invisible ether and striking through an instrument into
the brain of listeners. Day and right men are listening all over the world to
these etheric waves. The Sun finds these listeners at their posts. The
Moon sees them as she travels the earth, listening to sounds from the
soundless ether. And could we climb into the air and in one glance behold
the vision of our earth, we should see thousands of human beings listening
all day and listening all night for sounds which may make the difference
between victory and defeat. What a spectacle for the angels—those
listeners on the earth receiving out of silence the unuttered words of distant
men I
Each living man and woman is a wireless receiver—a listener—
played upon by uncounted vibrations that reach him and her through the
ethers of space. Each receives just that which he is " tuned " to, and
" cuts out" that to which he does not respond; the martial man
responds to Mars, the saturnian to Saturn, the uranian to Uranus.
The wireless operator "tunes out" those waves with which he
does not wish to put himself into communication, and adjusts his
receiver to accept as fully as possible those for which he is listening :
he can adapt himself to all. The wise astrologer acts similarly. Here
we have the whole teaching of Astrology in a nutshell.

EUGENICS AND SIN

The phrase " Horoscopes are not much in fashion nowadays
except amongst the undisciplined," used by Prof. J. A. Thomson in the
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

Eugenics Review, and quoted by us last month, has brought us many

comments, and the natural question—" Why is Astrology ignored by
the intellectuals ? "
It has been one of the greatest problems to the intellectual
person who takes up the study of Astrology to find that although
surrounded by a body of students whose intelligence is beyond
question, those amongst them who are the most intuitive and correct
in their judgments are not the most intellectual. It has often puzzled
the worldly-wise, on being convinced of the truth of Astrology, why its
" mysteries " were known to persons who were apparently illiterate,
whereas they were ignored by the intellectuals.
The mistake lies with the intellect that has been allowed to
become too hard and prejudiced, causing the pride of the intellectual
man to shut himself away from that receptive state, which would
allow him to accept the heavenly influence which radiates its finer
vibrations on the soul of the innocent.
We will grant Prof. Thomson that the " undisciplined " who open
their hearts to receive the heavenly influences are not trained in
worldly wisdom to the extent where their minds and intellects have
hardened them sufficiently to shut out the heavenly spheres. The
discipline imposed upon the mind by the so-called " intellectuals " of
the present disintegrating civilisation is such that it kills all free and
independent thinking. Until quite recently it was not safe to claim
any knowledge of Astrology, without laying oneself open to the charge
of being a charlatan, or foolish (that is, unintellectual).
Quite recently an "intellectual" man from a public platform
denounced Astrology, because astrologers had not predicted the war,
and yet that same "intellectual" man had previously denounced
Astrology because he believed it to be a predictive art! When a
public lecturer and author who prides himself on his intellect can be
so inconsistent, we cannot say much for such intellect. Every
deep student of Astrology knows that there is such a thing as solar
knowledge, as distinct from lunar knowledge; the one enlightens the
heart, and the other the brain. The pure intelligence of the heart
perceives heavenly wisdom as coming from God and the Intelligences
of the finer spheres, which never mingle with the gross matter of the
earth. The intellect of the brain gropes in the dense matter of the
 MODERN ASTROI.OOV

earth, and is forced to separate the heavenly or ideal from the real or
literal before it can understand.
What is the student of Astrology, " undisciplined " or otherwise^
seeking to do ? He is seeking to bring about the aspiration of all who
are pure in heart—"Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
To him the heavens show forth a perfect harmony which he knows
exists (in essence) within himself, and through his knowledge he is
seeking to make that harmony manifest in his life.
If the undisciplined " caster of horoscopes knows in his soul
that the remains of Astrology have survived the crash of empires and
the decay of civilisations through a perfect symbology, he also knows
that when this " intellectual " civilisation has passed and given way to
one of higher intelligence, horoscopes will still remain in fashion with
those whose soul knowledge is far higher than the literary brain work
of men. Not all the vain assertions of modern scholars will suffice to
purge the languages of the world of their most expressive astrological
terms, since they are roof words, of simple form, yet full of meaning,
being divine or heavenly words. There are endless schools of educa-
tion and sects of religion, but there is only one interpretation of
Astrology or heavenly wisdom—" In Him we live and move and have
our being."
The more intellectual people become, the more do they tend to
divisions and sub-divisions of opinion. The heavens are a mirror in
which the pure minded man may, for his own guidance, see reflected
the painfully subduing experiences of his own pilgrimage *11 earth, as
well as the ineffable recompenses which await him at his journey's end.
Viewed from the earth, the Sun, the Moon, and all the stars
appear to rise, to culminate, and set. The intellect feeds on the husks
of the earth, but the soul draws the essence of its life from the heavens.
As a man feeds his body with coarse or pure food so his body becomes.
As he feeds his mind on material intellections or refined reflections, so
will his mind be heavy or intuitive. It is the same with the soul, if it
turns to earth and seeks for sensuous delights, it will be the slave of
the senses, but if its gaze is turned to the heavens in wonder and
receptivity it will be filled with heavenly graces.
The greatest men on earth have merged their souls in the poetry
of Heaven. Were they " undisciplined '' ?
 the Enrrou's obseuvatoky

Vicarious sacrifice, which is the essence of human hope for

salvation, may never be understood by the disciplined intellect, and yet
the " undisciplined" caster of horoscopes may intuitively comprehend
why every personality must die unto sin before his soul is conscious of
his heavenly Father.
If Prof. Thomson would solve the problem of the child he should
seek to know why in man's fallen state sexual intercourse is sin. Man
while he sows to the flesh must reap of the flesh in spiritual death.
Every act is a sowing of seed, and sin is said to be sowing to the flesh,
and the consequence, the Bible teaches, is to reap corruption. The
Bible is full of teaching regarding the sowing of seed, but it is open to
question whether the intellectual "disciplined" understand the full
meaning of the words as " A man sows, he also reaps."
Sin is loving that which is below and beneath ourselves, and so
attaching it toourselves, from mere sense motives. We are not seeking
to teach Prof. Thomson eugenics, but we can assure him that many an
" undisciplined " caster of horoscopes could tell him from a glance of
a child's horoscope how it was begotten, whether by a soul love, or the
lust of the senses. And we can assure him that until men and women
begin to regenerate themselves and understand the depth of their
sin in unwise sexual intercourse, they will never produce children
healthy in mind and body.
It is not the sowing of the seed that matters so much as the
choice of the soil into which it is sown, and the truth of the whole
matter begins and ends in the statement that true marriages are made
in the heavens, while false marriages are made on earth.
" The Mother sees her child the Microcosm,
And, like a priestly breastplate worn of old,
Prayerfully, she clasps it to her sacred bosom;
And through it, Heaven's great music seas are rolled,
In thousand harmonies of Love Divine,
Thrilling her soul, that sacredotal shrine,
With Wisdom's first born words, too grand and deep
For outward utterance ; and her pulses leap
Like moonlit billows on a fairy sea,
Moved by these tidal powers of melody."
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THE AUTUMN QUARTER

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THIS map contains some strong and contradictory positions and
aspects. Mars is rising in its own sign Scorpio in opposition to Jupiter
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

setting, in square to Neptune in the ninth house and to Uranus on the

cusp of the fourth. The Moon and Venus are in conjunction in Leo
on the cusp of the tenth in opposition to Uranus. So that angles and
fixed signs are very strongly tenanted for London and western Europe.
Very exciting events are likely to happen during the quarter with
determined struggles of men, nations, and opinions. Good and evil
are strongly at variance and are contending for mastery.
The influence of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter, if unafflicted,
would have been extremely fortunate, tending to peace, prosperity and
friendship at home and abroad ; and even as it is we may expect some
measure of this good fortune. The rising Mars shows our forces to
be strong both on sea and land; but the drawback is that the planet
receives no good aspect, and that it is also rising at Berlin, which
foreshadows strenuous attempts at victory on both sides, great efforts
put forth, and some measure of success gained by each. But taking
the stronger angular positions into account in the west, and the angles
not so strongly tenanted at Berlin,the greater gain is likely to go to the
side of the Allies. We shall be making headway abroad and advancing
successfully, although in the face of many difficulties, and there will
be very exciting struggles across the sea. Strong efforts at peace will
be made and diplomatic overtures will go on beneath the surface and
may even achieve some measure of success, but the afflictions are too
serious to promise a final peace yet. Taxation and expenditure will
continue very heavy, financial problems and relations between the
nations will give trouble, but trade will be good; there will
be loss of life and vessels at sea and round the coast, with naval
fighting.
The King and government will be popular, and public ceremonials
or rejoicings of some sort will occur; visits between friendly nations
will take place; and some engagement or marriage in exalted or
royal circles is likely in that district of western Europe that is covered
by the Moon and Venus on the meridian.
Unfortunately Uranus on the fourth cusp indicates trouble for
rulers and governments within the same district, tending to changes
among Cabinets and statesmen, the instability of those in power, and
fluctuations in policy. Unexpected troubles will occur and there is
some danger of a government defeat or an agitation for a General
 MODERN ASTROLOGV

Election ; but should that take place in this country the government is
likely to secure a large majority.
At Berlin, Mars is just above the cusp of the ascendant, but the
other fixed sign planets are cadent and the map is less fortunate ; there
will be trouble at sea, misfortune in foreign countries, accidents by rail
and aviation, discontent among workers, and sickness in the land.
At Petrograd, Mars is in the twelfth house and the Sun in the mid-
heaven. The Czar and the country will be strong; diplomatic move-
ments towards peace will be made and the outlook is rather better in
this respect than in some other parts of Europe; but treachery from
secret enemies is to be feared.
The transits are strongly unfavourable for the German Emperor.
The Sun will rise in Brazil and the Atlantic Ocean ; culminate in
parts of Russia, Turkey, Arabia, and east Africa; set in Australia and
between east China and Japan, and be on the nadir in the Pacific Ocean.
The position of Mars with its strong aspects is important here.
It will rise from west to central Europe; culminate in India; set in
Japan, New Zealand, and the Pacific; and be on the nadir in Mexico
and the middle of the United States and Canada. Jupiter will be at the
opposite point in each case.
Strong aspects from fixed signs are likely to be followed by shocks
of earthquake. France and Italy will benefit from the position of the
Moon and Venus in Leo. The weather is likely to be stormy; mild
on the whole but with some very cold spells.

NEXT MONTH

New Moon 27/9/1916, 7.34 a.m., G.M.T.

x xi xii i ii iii
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(2) SI 10 nji 14 ^3^ 11117 vj 1
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(1) London (2) Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) New York
This map shows serious trouble for rulers and statesmen in the
western area of Europe. Saturn and Neptune both in the midheaven
threaten many misfortunes and a very involved and difficult state of
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

affairs. A section of the people will be dissatisfied; there will be

some amount of popular discontent or agitation ; and the government
will be in danger ; statesman and public personages will incur criticism,
discredit, and unpopularity; much hostility and controversy will rage
over public affairs; there is danger of mistakes, loss of repute, and
change of policy. National expenditure will be very great and money
problems serious all round. Efforts towards peace will be made in
various quarters, visits exchanged between nations, and allies be drawn
more closely together. There will be public meetings discussing
foreign affairs ; international relations and regulations will be considered
officially, and the rising of Mercury well aspected should bring some
piece of good fortune as between the nations ( 5 rules 9th and 11th),
some international agreement or understanding.
At Berlin the indications are not very different except that Saturn
is in the ninth house and Mercury in the twelfth, but Neptune is still
near the tenth cusp. Venus will bring some success or good fortune
to the Emperor or the nation. Mars will rise at Petrograd, upholding
the arms and forces, naval and military, of Russia. Foreign affairs
will cause great excitement. Expenditure very heavy. The Sun and
Moon will rise in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa;
culminate about 650E in Afghanistan and parts of western Asia; set
in the Pacific Ocean off the east coast of Japan, and be on the nadir
in the west of the United States and Canada.

Jupiter in Taurus.—The entry of Jupiter into Taurus, the ruling sign

of Ireland, on June 25 was quickly followed by a provisional agreement
between Nationalists and the representatives of Ulster, and it looked for a
time as if at least a temporary solution of the Irish problem had been
reached. But it will be noticed that when the planet entered Taurus its
aspects were : *0,^5, Ocf, O'i'. The first of these was favourable and
promised much, but the other three were evil, especially the square of the
deceptive Neptune, and they have apparently overpowered the good.
Neptune was in the eleventh house, that of parliament, at the New Moon of
June 30; and on July 24, when the debate on the agreement took place, the
Sun was applying to the conjunction with Neptune and the square of
J upiter. At the time of writing it looks as if the attempted settlement will be
a failure. The map for the autumn equinox shows Jupiter setting in Taurus,
gf, □'? , O unless a real agreement can be reached before then the
prospect is a poor one and there is likelihood of serious trouble ahead.
286

^un in Hirgo

The sign Virgo gives a retiring, ingenious, discriminative and

mercurial nature, keen withal and generally self-possessed. The
temperament is the mental one, and in common with the Sun in
Pisces people, those born with a Virgo Sun are too fond of details,
preferring the form side of life to the creative, and so succeeding better
as critics of other men's work than as creators or originators of new
ideas. For this reason they can always work under a leader. To
express themselves with neatness and precision is a great joy to the
Virginian type. The undeveloped Virgo type looks on life with a
limited and microscopic view, and thus often frets and worries about
trifles, and is quick to sound the note of don't rather than do ! The
greatest faults observable in this type are a lack of enthusiasm,
enterprise and hope. All Virginians should train themselves to
appreciate all that is beautiful in others, and should not allow their
fine discriminative abilities to degenerate into fault-finding and hard
criticism, but should look for all the good points in the character and
work of others, as well as at their shortcomings. The character is pure,
chaste, modest and unassuming; they are rarely ambitious and do not
seek fame or recognition for their undoubted capacity, for they are
always amongst the most clever of the twelve signs, and are able to
combine the work of head and hands, and are always industrious and
painstaking.
Health. The health is generally good, as they possess recuperative
power, and being students of the laws of hygiene, they know how to
live physically. They should never if unwell take drugs, as they
absorb the poison through the bowels, and the reaction would be severe.
Virgo people out of health should seek Nature, and live alone with her,
gardening of a light nature being very beneficial.
Occupation. Lawyers, litterateurs, doctors, school teachers,
chemists, traders, landscape gardeners, nurses, dressmakers, domestic
helps.
Gems. Topaz, firestone, agate. Wednesday is their most
fortunate day.
B. Leo.
 S!je (Bxcst mar

By G. E. Sutcliffe,

Author of " The Foundations of Physical Astrology "

{Continued from p. 270)

III.—THE WORLD-MAP, TREATED

AS A PROGRESSED HOROSCOPE

Keeping in mind what was said last month about the predominant
influence of Neptune in the map for the Great Conjunction printed
on pp. 230 and 231, let us proceed to a consideration of the Directions
in operation during the present decade, both Primary and Secondary,
treating the map as a nativity and examining the radical and
progressed positions. These will be interpreted in accordance with the
principles explained in the previous Articles.
In Primary Directions, a direct direction is usually obtained by
supposing the Sun and Moon to stand still, and the other factors of the
nativity to move round in a direction opposite to that of the axial
rotation of the earth, thus forming aspects with them : (The Progressed
Horoscope, p. 229 First Edition; p. 297 Second Edition.) In the
Primary Directions here given, instead of restricting attention to the
Sun and Moon in this way, all the factors of the horoscope (planets,
ascendant, etc.), are supposed severally to stand still, or to move, as
above explained. The moving and the stationary thus form aspects,
and in naming them the moving planet is mentioned first.
These aspects are all regarded as direct and mundane. Zodiacal
Directions are not considered as belonging to this category.
In the writer's opinion the latter are impressed on the Kama-
Manasic plane, their time ratio being One Year/One Day, and should
be classed with secondary directions like the Progressed Ascendan
288 MODERN ASTROLOGY

PRIMARY DIRECTIONS
(Mmidtne and Direct]
igio July IS 5 d 1915 Apr 9 HI d
igit {Nil.) 1913 June 9 Asc □ y
1912 Feb 29 i d V 191(5 Apr 27 <y<f j
1912 May 18 d dQ 1916 July 9 VdG
1913 May 3 A sea 5 1917 Nov 10 "2 d y
1913 June 3 ids 1917 Dec 15 QdU
1913 July 9 Asc 0 G 1918 Jan 2
4 u.c.e d
1914 July 3 ■? d 5 1918 Apr 15 M.C. S G
1914 Sept "5 •j d G 1918 May 6 5d«
1915 Jan 6 d d, Ijl
SECONDARY DIRECTIONS
Aipecti in the Progressed Horoscope
1910 Oct 5A? 1914 May 5d «
ign Feb d d i 1914 July jdd p
1911 Sept V e 21 1915 Jan G d <P
1911 Oct '2 fV P 1915 Feb Gd H p
1911 Nov } f 2/ p 1916 Jan B d?
1* i» D a Asc 1916 May G d M.C
tgn Dec Odd ,, ,, IA«
1912 June D#? p 1916 Aug J) * As
1912 Sept D d Hi ,, D A J# ;
1912 Oct H <f H1 P 1916 Dec G □ Asc
1912 Nov D <f O 1917 May BA5 p
i> Dd5 1917 June J> A III
if * Asc 1917 July D Ay p
1913 May Od b 1917 Aug JAG
,, D <f 5 ,, ,, BAB
1913 Sept D <f d 1918 Apr BA5
1913 Nov Dfb 1918 Aug BAd
1914 Jan 5 <f G P 1918 Oct BAH
,, D d H' 1918 Nov V 1 2t
tr 5 d H' p B * H'1 p
t» 5 dH P B*H
19x4 Feb 5 d M.C. 0 Asc 1918 Dec BaH p
1914 May bSV
Principal Events Leading up to the Great War:—1911
1911 May 21 General Moinier, in conunand of French troops, enters
Fez, Morocco.
1911 July i- German Warships, Panther and Berlin, sent to
Agadir, Morocco.
1911 July 6 Mr. Asquith states in the House of Commons that
Britain will fulfil her treatj-obligations to France.
1911 July 27 Mr. Asquith and Mr. Balfour warn the German
Government.
1911 Aug 19 Russia announces that she will adhere firmly to the
Triple Entente.
Sept 9 Panic on the German Bourse, through fear of war.
and British Fleet concentrated on north east
coast, followed by the withdrawal of the German
menace.
Sept 29 Italian expedition to Tripoli, and war with Turkey.
 THE GREAT WAR

Principal Events Leadinc Up to the Great War:—1912-13-14

1913 Mar Failure of Neutrality Negotiations between England

and Germany.
1912 Apr 14 Death of the Great Apostle of Pace, W. T. Stead,
the promoter of the Hague Tribunal, in the
•' Titanic " disaster.
1912 Summer of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Servia, form an
alliance against Turkey.
1912 Beginning of August Massacre of Bulgarians by Turks at Kotchana,
•iplomatic rupture between Turkey and
Montenegro.
mz Oct 8 Montenegro declares war on Turkey. Balkan War
begins.
1912 Oct '5 Turkey makes peace with Italy.
<912 Oct 17 Turkey declares war on Bulgaria.
1912 Nov Letter from Sir Edward Grey to French Ambassador
in London, defining terms o( military co-
operation with France. {Times' History of Iht
li'nr. vol. 1, p. 17.)
1912 Dec 3 Bulgaria Servia and Montenegro conclude armistice
with Turkey.
1912 Dec 10 Peace Conference of Balkan belligerents opened at
St. James' Palace, London.
1913 Feb 3 End of the Armistice. Balkan War resumed.
1913 Feb 25 The Bulgarians and Greeks take Adrianople.
1913 Apr A second armistice concluded.
1913 May 30 End of the First Balkan War. Peace of London
signed.
June 30 Second Balkan War begins between Greece, Servia
and Montenegro on one side, and Bulgaria on the
other.
19:3 July 20 Turks retake Adrianople.
1913 July 31 Bulgaria yields.
1913 Aug 7 Palace of Peace inaugurated at the Hague.
1913 Aug 9 Austria-Hungary made the proposal to Italy that
Italy should allow Austria-Hungary to attack
Servia. Italy refused. {Times' History of the
IFac, vol. 5, p. 14.)
1913 Aug 10 Treaty of Bukarest signed. End of the second
Balkan War.
1914 Mar 30 Mr Asquith takes over the ministry of war.
1914 June Visit of the British Navy to Kiel.
1914 Juno 28 Assassination of the Austrian Heir-apparent.
1914 June 29 to July 22nd. Lull of three weeks before the storm.
1914 July 23 Austrian Ultimatum to Servia.
1914 July 28 Austria declares war on Servia.
1914 Aug 1 German ultimatum to Russia, and declaration of war.
1914 Aug 4 British ultimatum to Germany, and declaration of
war. Armageddon begins.
iBK Sept 9 Retreat of the German army at the Marne.
 MODERN ASTROLOGV

The Gathering of the Storm, 1911-1914

A table of the Primary and Secondary directions is given on

p. 288, and below it a list of the principal events leading up to the
war. The connection of these events with the present war will be
seen from the following extracts from an article by a writer who is
described as one of the most distinguished and best informed
publicists in Europe. As it was written more than two years before
the war broke out, it is free from the exaggerated form of national
prejudice which may have been aroused by the present conflict. It
was published in the " Daily Mail Year Book for 1912" (p. 5).
" The shadow of war lies over Europe, a shadow cast less by the
"strife in Tripoli than by the conflicting aims of European Powers.
" . . France, schooled by six years of humiliating pressure, no longer
" quails before Germany, nor fears the arbitriment of war. . . England
" is dissatisfied with French action in Morocco, and will not resent
" German intervention, reported the German Ambassador in London.
" The cordial reception accorded to Queen Victoria's grandson (the
" presence of the German Emperor at the unveiling of Queen Victoria's
"monument in May 1911), was thought to substantiate this report;
"and six weeks later the Panther was sent to an Atlantic
" harbour of Morocco. Then England spoke by the Chancellor of the
" Exchequer's mouth (Mr. Lloyd George) . . . Germany will no more
" forget nor forgive Mr. Lloyd George's Mansion House speech than
" Prussia forgot or forgave the peace of Ohnutz. . . She (England)
"has the men and the money, but have the men the training, the
" organisation, the ammunition? . . . At this moment the weakest point
" in the Anglo-French entente is believed by Germany to lie in London.
" . . Must the next phase of European civilisation be inaugurated by
" a bloody and pitiless struggle ? . . . By sending the Panther to
"Agadir, Germany forced on a premature solution of the Morocco
"question, and drove Italy into precipitate descent upon Tripoli, . . .
"The action of Italy threatened the very existence of the Turkish
" Empire, with which the development of German trade and influence
"in the East is bound up . . . The aim of German policy has not
" changed, will not change, cannot change until Germany puts her own
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"affairs in order, . . . Until then it behoves England to take counsel

"of France, and to keep her store of powder not only dry but large."
A fourth Navy Bill was brought in by Germany in 1912, and from
about that time they were able to say that " Germany had a fleet of
such strength that even for the mightiest naval power a war with her
would involve such risks as to jeopardise its own supremacy" ; (Times'
History of the War, vol. 1, p. 17).
"Before the end of 1912, Germany had resolved upon enormous
increase of the Army. It was announced in the spring of 1913 that
they were to cost from £"60,000,000 to ^"65,000,000 ... .■ all
the most important measures were treated as urgent and carried out
by October, 1913" {Times' History of the War, i, 22).
The results of the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 were very discon-
certing to Germany; "The enfeeblement of Turkey and the new
partition of her European provinces before Germany had completed
her exploitation of the Turkish Empire, and the aggrandisement of
Servia and Greece, which barred the way to Salonika against Austria
and checked the growth of Austro-German preponderence in the
Balkan Peninsula, constituted a severe, if indirect, blow to the whole
fabric of European relationships which the Austro-German alliance
had slowly and laboriously sought to build up " ■.{Times' History of the
War, i, 19).
Transits
The transits of the jovian planets, Neptune, Uranus, Satum and
Jupiter are tabulated separately in the first instance. The transits of
the terrestrial planets, Mars, Venus and Mercury are so frequent that,
taken alone, they have probably not much significance. At a time
when jovian transits are operating, the terrestrial transits should be
studied as supplementary to them them. This will be our method of
treatment in a later analysis. The secondary progression of the
jovian planets is so slow that for natal purposes, the progression is
usually disregarded. I am inclined to the opinion that the jovian
transits take the place of this secondary progression in a nativity.
Just as geometry deals with quantity of space, Astrology deals
with quantity of time, and, other things equal, the strength of an aspect
may be considered proportionate to the length of the cycle required by
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the body to move around the horoscope. Thus a transit of Saturn,

•which passes around the horoscope in thirty years, may have about the
same strength and significance, as an aspect of the progressed Moon,
which passes around the horoscope in twenty-seven years.

Transits of the Jovian Planets

1910-1911
1910 Feb 0. « 1910 Oct 5 V* i
1910 Mar 12 •? IW 1910 Oct 16 1( * h
1910 Mar 23 21 * O and D 1910 Oct 24 V A if
1910 Apr 1 h^ 1910 Oct 3° VA M.C.
1910 Apr 0 V * lit 1910 Dec 25 V□V
1910 Apr 13 W* ^ 1911 Jan 13 V * 2/
1910 Apr 15 ij * if 1911 Jan 27 'I A ?
IQ'O Apr 26 ^ M.C. 1911 Mar 6 IJt A Asc
1910 May 16 <V * V 1911 July 5 IJI A Asc
1910 July 24 V*w 1911 Oct 6 tyl stationary » if
1910 Aug 8 V * O and 5 1911 Nov iS nan
1910 Sept i? 3/ * S 1911 Dec 26 ly A Asc
A mere glance at the above series of Transits, and at the Primary
and Secondary Directions for 1910, will show that no bad karma could
be precipitated on the world in 1910. Yet this was the year in which
all the planets in the heavens were muie or less in square and opposition
aspect with each other, the great cross in the sky taking place on
January 11th, 1910. This event did not fail to raise some astrological
apprehensions, but most astrologers having no World Horoscope on
which to place the planets were rather at sea as to its true significance.
An important event did happen in this year, (January 11th) which in
the opinion of many will cause posterity to look upon it as a year of
great benefit to humanity, and such benefit is clearly implied by the
uninterrupted series of sextiles and trines. The secondary direction
in October 1910, Moon trine Venus, strengthens this view.
Since the primary aspects were nil in 1911, the planetary
influences were confined to secondary aspects and transits. In the
secondary aspects, the <? d 2 and the O d (? at the beginning and end
of the year, were fortified in the middle period, by three oppositions, ])
8 U,*? 8 W p., and 5 8 p., and toned down by the5 A Asc. It will
further be seen that the transits gave no opening for the precipitation
of much evil Karma. Hence the threat of war in Europe evaporated,
and ended merely in the Italian expedition to Tripoli. The most
likely aspects responsible for the war spirit exhibited in 1911 are per-
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haps 'p 8 ? p., and 0 d i? p., the two other oppositions being with a
benefic Jupiter. It will be noticed that '? 8 W occurs again in May
1914, but then the opposition is with the radical Neptune, which gave
it increased strength. Although the opposition of the Moon to Jupiter
is not usually regarded as particularly bad, it nevertheless implies a
state of disharmony between the higher and the lower. The Indian
name for Jupiter is Guru, meaning spiritual teacher, and the state of
antagonism between man's lower nature, the Moon, and his higher
spiritual nature, Jupiter, often leads to grave misfortune. The strike
of the London transport workers, the strike riots in Liverpool, and the •
general railway strike in August 1911, were manifestations of this inner
disharmony.
The peaceful victory of England owing to her firm attitude,
accords well with the known effects of the trine aspects of Uranus as
shown in the Transits. This trine of Uranus was operating all the
year, and indicates the victory of will power.

An Illustration
The victory-giving characteristics of the trine of Uranus is well
illustrated by the progressed horoscope of a typical Uranian, the
President of the Theosophical Society. Mrs Besant has Uranus for
her ruling planet, with a liberal sprinkling of Mars thrown in, and she
is evidently of the warrior class. She is known to be evolving on the
will ray, the ray of Uranus, the planetary ray of the Manu, and the
warrior. Under moon trine Uranus in 1877, she won the case in the
law courts in connection with the Knowlton Pamphlet, and the same
trine in 1887 brought her many victories in the law courts, and
culminated with her victory for the match girls in 1888. Her
progressed Sun was trine with the progressed Uranus in March 1914,
and trine with the radical Uranus in April 1916, so that the whole of
this period is dominated by this trine aspect. Part way through the
period on her birthday, Oct. 1 1914, the transit sun was trine with
Uranus in Aquarius, the house of Uranus, and this coinciding with a
new cycle in the horoscope, Moon conjunction Sun, rightly marked
a period of remarkable victories. What she will regard as her greatest
victory, was the case which she won in the House of Lords, in the
early summer of 1914, and from that time victory has followed victory.
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The trine aspect of Uranus, therefore, which dominated the year

1911 in the world horoscope, and which avoided a world war by a
peaceful victory, was in good accord with the known facts of Astrology.
Turning now to the secondary aspect h 8 Wp., the events of that
time fully bear out its character. Taking Saturn to represent worldly
power, the principle of might versus right (as illustrated by the
militarism of the Central Powers), and Neptune, the star of the
Bodhisattva, as representing the opposite principle of right versus
might, we see that their opposition was a characteristic of the events
of this period. The conjunction of Mars and Venus, which is
largely evil, and the sun conjunction Mars, inflaming the passions
will fairly represent the angry spirit which at that time was smouldering
beneath the surface.
Thus far therefore the world horoscope may be said to indicate
and typify the actual course of events.

The Year of the TITANIC Disaster

igia Jan 21 2M Ijl 1912 Oct 2 yd©
1912 Feb 4 iV ,, ydd
,, 1> D 1912 Nov 10 yd 5
1912 May 2(3 •? J i 1912 Nov 28 ydd
1912 May 30 y80 1912 Dec 8 yd
1> ydD 1912 Dec 16 y # t'
1912 June 18 y d i-t 1912 Dec 22 ii 8 M.C.
1912 June 19 lj A Asc 1912 Dec 24 y □ Asc
1912 Sept Vay 1912 Dec 28 if a y
1912 Sept 15 ydy 1912 Dec 3° A ASC
The primary Directions operating in 1912 were <? d O and
<? d D which are snfliciently war-like, and the secondary direction
O d <? in December 1911, being still operating in the early part of
1912, would further accentuate this tendency. The other secondary
aspects in 1912 were IiS 5 p, BS W fi Pi D8 1)8 I, if * Asc., all
of which except the last would do nothing to mitigate the belligerent
instincts of humanity. They indicate the lower nature in a state of
rebellion against the higher. The war between Italy and Turkey was
raging during this period, and the general relations between many of
the great powers were far from cordial. Italy nearly came to an open
rupture with her ally Austria-Hungary in April 1912, and there was
an angry passage at arms between France and Italy in January,
owing to Italy seizing the French mail steamer "Carthage," whilst
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adverse criticism in the British press caused disappointment and

resentment in Italy: [Times' History of the \ViTr,v, 10-11). It will
be seen however that the Transits in 1912 were mostly favourable, and
not much of the world karma could precipitate in consequence ; it was
like damming up a river in flood, which by rapid accumulation and
overflowing its banks would eventually break through all obstacles.
I have recorded the death of the great apostle of peace, W. T.
Stead, on April 14th, 1912, because it probably marked the time when
the Occult Hierarchy abandoned their efforts to obtain a peaceful
solution of the political problem in Europe. Just as in the case of the
war of the Mahabharata where Shri Krishna made great efforts to in-
duce the combatants to settle their differencespeacefully before the war
broke out, so in the same way elforts were made to induce the western
nations to abandon militarism by voluntary agreement. The Hague
Tribunal was one of the marks of this effort, and in all probability
W. T. Stead was an instrument of the Hierarchy for this purpose. If
this peaceful project had not been abandoned as hopeless, I do not
think Mr Stead would have sailed on the ill-fated Titanic: (see
Modern Astrology, November 1915, p. 421, eight lines from
bottom). It will be noticed that immediately after this event, the
worst of the Transits, b 8 If, came into operation, indicating the
worldly powers in opposition to the spiritual teacher.
The outbreak of the Balkan War in October may appear to be
quite contrary to the Transits then operating, which were If dQ,
if d J). But the critical time is not always when the war actually
begins, but the time when the decision to go to war is made. The
Balkan War was preceded by a Treaty between Serbia, Greece,
Bulgaria and Montenegro. The war commenced after the gathering
of the harvests, when the men were free, and this was doubtless
arranged some time beforehand.
When warlike tendencies are raging within, and their manifesta-
tion is suppressed by Transits, the tension induced produces a state of
irritability, and the adverse forces being nearly balanced, a minor
transit may tip the beam. These minor transits therefore, though
normally unimportant, become significant under these conditions.
The exact date when the Balkan Allies decided on war with Turkey,
does not appear to be known, but the astrological indications are that
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it was about July-August, when there was a massacre of Bulgarians

by the Turks at Kotchana, and a diplomatic rupture between Turkey
and Montenegro; {Hasell's Annual for 1914, p. 356).
The Twelfth House
On July 21st 1912, the transit Mars entered the twelfth house of
the World Horoscope, the house in which karma is normally precipi-
tated, and was in this house until the end of August, during which
time the following Transits were successively formed :—3 Q W, ©■ Ik
5, i?', , M.C., Asc.! This was a formidable series of adverse
aspects from the twelfth house to be compressed into one month, under
warlike Primary and Secondary Directions.
An exactly similar series began on July 2rd, 1914, and ended on
August 11th, when the European war broke out. Of course this
happens every two years, and would mean little if other aspects were
not co-operating, but under adverse directions, both primary and
secondary, in 1912, it seems likely that it was sufficient to induce the
Balkan Allies to decide on war. The peace conference of the Balkan
belligerents in December 1912 was not satisfactory to any of the
parties, and war was resumed on February 3rd, 1913.
It will be seen that even the Transit aspects during this peace
conference were unfavourable. The agreement between England
and France, in November, and the renewal of the Triple Alliance of
Italy, Germany and Austria, on Dec. 7th 1912, were likewise made
under the same unfavourable influences. Both these events may be
said to have contributed to the outbreak of war in 1914. The agree-
ment with France was too indefinite and contingent, and caused
England to hesitate at the critical moment until the German ultimatum
to Russia had made it impossible for Germany to recede. On the
other hand the renewal of the Triple Alliance which was previously
moribund, gave a ficticious strength to the Central Powers, and
probably encouraged them to take up an aggressive attitude.
(To be continued.)
Many of our readers will be interested to know that Mrs Marie Kussak,
whose horoscope we published on page 41S of Vol. IX. Modern Astrology
(1912), was manied on Sunday, ninth July, to Mr Henry Hotchner,
at Hollywood, California. As soon as possible we hope to publish Mr
Hotcbner's horoscope.
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QjucatiDii 0cp«rtmcut

SATURN THE REAPER.—I wnnl please to try to unJerstand the full

meaning of the sentence on page 37 of " Saturn the Reaper," concerning 1 he Seven
Steps 0/ Saturn to the Throne of the Sun? I want 1to understand this in connection
with my own horoscope:—"Vagi, mo, ffiiH, JL ?, "E4i "i!29, O o I2i. D|,129>
^ b I. 2 n 16, <? b 7. '4~2.C), Ij n 14^, ^ b .fKi?}. Are the seven steps
iianied, the reaching out to this Q goal, at varied altitudes, some acquired in one
life anil some in another ? (323)
The " Seven steps of Saturn leading to the throne of the Sun"
may be made just as practical as they are symbolical. The Sun gives
life universal, and Saturn specialises that life in a form. During the
involution of life into forms we are seeking individualisation or self-
consciousness ; when that stage is reached, we seek through evolution
to turn our self-consciousness into super or cosmic consciousness.
Saturn limits our progress until we have learnt his secrets. His first
secret is the value of responsibility learnt through the performance of
duty. His second the bondage of the personal self to attachment.
Third, the secret of the overcoming of fear, discovered by living a pure
life. Fourth, the art of balancing life and form, found in a true
sense of proportion. Fifth, learning that knowledge puts an end to
pain. Sixth, that love is the universal solvent. Seventh, the
meaning of unity.

The Seven Steps of Saturn

(1) Take your life as yon find it; do your duty well. Your life
is assumed to be the outcome of your former living, therefore, the
result of past experiences. Your attitude toward it is to do your duty
well; your duty being the responsibilities incurred through your
activities in the past.
(2) Do all things without personal attachment. If you do your
duty well you will not be influenced too much by personal attachment
and thus swayed by prejudice, bias, or unbalanced inclinations—the
curse of an " afflicting " Saturn.
(3) Destroy the evil in your own heart first, which will kill the
evil around you, for a white surface will reflect a white light only.
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The purifying influence of Saturn begins in purging the heart of all

impurities caused by bad feeling, and injurious thoughts ; first in the
vehicles and then in the life.
(4) Be good; be clean 0} thought and clean of heart. When
the life and form are purs something more than goodness arises on the
human horizon.
(5) The ceasing of sorrow is the aim of life. Sorrow is the
great purifier, for first we transmute pleasure and then we transmute
pain into the essence of Saturn—experience.
(5) Be gods and God will be yours. Having transmuted
pleasure and pain we become more than human—super-human, using
the human principles as an intermediate stage between heaven and
earth.
(7) Von are He and He is you. The labours of Saturn are
ended when we realise we are a " Divine Fragment" of God.
You were born with Saturn on the cusp of the eleventh house
in the sign Gemini in conjunction with Venus. This denotes that
Saturn is on the life side in your horoscope and affects the life side in
involution. If you will examine the chart on page 70 of Esoteric
Astrology you will find that Reason is the human principle that may
be made most active, and from a pure reason you may enter the
abstract mind and link yourself with the human soul as hinted in
Diagram II on page 22 of the same work.
The details connected with the seven steps of Saturn would
require much space to deal with effectually, and cover much of the
ground traversed in Esoteric Astrology. It will be sufficient now to
say that Saturn has a peculiar value in every horoscope; with the life,
when in a positive sign, and the form when in a negative sign. Our
place in human evolution may be fairly well ascertained by making a
study of Saturn in our nativities, in conjunction with the Esoteric
Chart supplied with every full and complete horoscope and published
in Esoteric Astrology. Saturn is the critical planet in every horoscope;
it is the " bridge " between the life and the form, or consciousness and
its vehicles.
Saturn is a very potent influence in your horoscope : it is in the
sign Gemini, second decanate, and conjunction Venus. This links it
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up through Libra, with the third house in your nativity and promises
the combination of perception with reflection which ultimately leads to
intuition and spiritual perception. You could easily make '? d 2 n,
11th house, the high-watermark in your nativity.
You would have, as a set off, the square aspect of Neptune
to the conjunction, four planets in Taurus, and the Moon square
Jupiter from fixed signs. You should then consider the actual value
of the fixed-earth combination and the meaning of six planets out of
nine in the negative signs. A full and complete horoscope would deal
with all these points in what may be termed an esoteric rendering, and
would show you exactly how to transmute the inharmonious influences
into the harmonious.
The seven steps of Saturn have three distinct interpretations
in terms of life, form, and consciousness. The future teaching of
Astrology will consist of a study of the human—i.e. creative—
principles.

PREMA TURE BIRTH.— What is your opinion of the reliability of the

horoscope of a person whose birth has been brought about prematurely for medical
reasons and who, in the ordinary course of events, would have been born some two
months later? How would such a birth tally with the pre natal epoch? (3*4)
The ordinary rules for calculating the horoscope should be followed
just as in an ordinary case of unassisted delivery and normal birth.
So far as we know no evidence has yet been adduced to prove that
horoscopes for surgically assisted births are unreliable; if any exists
we shall be pleased to publish it.
When a birth is known to be that of a seven months' child, the
pre-natal epoch should be calculated by going back only seven months'
from birth; but with this exception the ordinary rules should be
followed.

DURA TION OF DIRECTIONS.— What is the duration of the direction

M.C, progressed ccnjunctiou a radical planet ? Is it a year, as the M.C. advances
at the rale of u degree a year ? I conclude that the duration would be the same
for any planet whether Saturn or Mercury. (325)
Progressed M.C. d a radical planet will have a speedy or durable
effect according to the nature of the planet and what it indicates at
birth. It would have a sudden and somewhat unexpected effect if
Uranus and a slow and long drawn out effect if Saturn, and so on.
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We are indebted to Mrs Maud Lindon of Chicago for the birth

data of the late Mr David S. M. Unger, also of Chicago, a noted
Theosophical worker who died on February 21st 1915, at 7.54 p.m.
He was born, our informant tells us, on August 5th 1858, at
5.14 p.m., seven miles S.W. from Kittaning, Pa., 40° 48' N., 79°
30' W.: the horoscope that we give is calculated according to
these data, and has not been rectified.
The sign Cancer plays a conspicuous part in this nativity; Saturn,
the ruler, being in the Cancerian decanate of the watery sign Scorpio,
three planets being in the sign Cancer and the Moon being in the
Cancerian decanate of Pisces—five planets in all in watery signs,
showing the native to have been of a deeply emotional nature,
 THE HOltOSCOl'K OT MR DAVID S. M. UNGER 30t

reflecting quickly the thoughts of others, taking on readily their moods

and their fears, their hopes and their wishes, and so sensitive that
foul atmospheres and impure magnetisms must often have made him
physically ill, and it was indeed a fortunate thing that the Sun was
placed in the fixed and fiery Leo, giving him the power to put a wall
of defence about himself in moments of danger and stress, and the
ability to retreat into the silence within himself, when the need for
recuperation of forces and readjustment was pressing.
Deeply sympathetic, it must have been almost impossible to turn
a deaf car to any story of suffering and want, and his strong personal
magnetism, due to his Saturn in Scorpio, and Venus in close
conjunction with Uranus, must have drawn the distressed and afflicted
to him in numbers, and then the powerful Leo Sun in trine to Neptune
and Jupiter from the Leo decanate of Aries in the third house
would cause heart and head to co-operate in finding ways and means
whereby injustice might be righted, poverty alleviated and the
oppressed go free. The planet Jupiter is ruler of the twelfth house,
and placed as he is in conjunction with the expansive Neptune, acts
of charity and philanthropy must have been as the very breath of life
to this man. The psychic power and insight evidenced throughout
the map would have made him setise the conditions of others before
being told verbally. Yet he knew his fellow men intimately, with
Saturn his ruler in Scorpio, in trine to Mercury, but the rising Moon
in Pisces would cause him to err, when he did err, on the side of
mercy, and often contrary to the dictates of his judgment.
He married under the Sun conjuction Mercury, by Secondary
Direction, in July 1891.
Mrs Lindon tells us that he changed his business in 1894,
when we see Mercury was in sextile to Mars, a fortunate aspect
indeed under which to begin a new venture, giving him all the energy
and push necessary for such a change. It will be seen that the sign
Scorpio is on the midheaven and has dominance over the whole of the
tenth house, the house having control over one's business and one's
reputation, but it will be noted that the ruler Mars is placed in Gemini,
in the house of service, and receives only one aspect, and that the
weak semi-sextile from Mercury, so that although Mr Unger took
advantage of the best aspect possible to him, the radical map does not
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show success along business lines ; and v/e find that he again changed
his business in 1901, under Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn, and one
cannot be surprised in seeing that the business failed in the year 1908,
under Mars parallel Uranus.
On February 17th 1915 he underwent an operation, but succumbed
to its effects on the 21st, when Mercury, the planet ruling his death
house, was in square to Uranus.
For the last thirteen years of his life he was an active member
and a much valued worker for Theosophy in America, and from
several American correspondents we have received loving expressions
of gratitude for the services he rendered to the Theosophical Lodges
of which they were members. Though we did not know Mr Unger
personally, we know him through his horoscope, and we offer to his
memory our appreciation of the services he rendered for the common
weal and for the large-hearted sympathy he extended to all he met.

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 Obiter Birtd

THE PRENATAL EPOCH

Uxdek this title a 10/i bool; has I)een published by Messrs. Foulsham
which will be of interest to all students of the subject. The author is Mr
E. H. Bailey, editor of the British Journal of Astroloay, and he has performed
his task in a very capable manner.
The rules for the Regular Epoch as given in chapter viii of Cusling the
Horoscope are now well known ; they are simple and easily applied, and when
—as they very often do—they yield an epoch which closely accords with the
stated time of birth, it may with confidence be taken as the true epoch and
made the basis of rectification. When this is not the case, or when the birth
time is only vaguely known within about an hour or so, difTiculties enter, and
the author of this work has made an earnest attempt to reduce the various
modifications of the regular epoch, termed "irregular" epochs, to order
so that in any given case a systematic trial may be made to see which best
accords with the facts of birth—including sex.
Briefly outlined, it is as follows. The circle of the zodiac is divided into
twenty eight segments, by placing the apex of a seven-pointed star successively
at each of the cardinal points and tabulating those degrees on which a point
of the star falls. To each of these degrees—termed 1 critical' degrees—is
assigned a sex value ; thus for example Iryo" is a critical degree of the male
sex, while $0° is female. These degrees have certain " orbs " of influence,
and should the Moon or Ascendant at epoch be within this orb it is inclined
toward the sex of that degree. It may happen, then, that in a supposed
epoch the Moon is found within orbs of a male degree and the Ascendant
within orbs of a female degree. A third determinant is therefore required,
and this is supplied by the quadrant in which the Moon is found at epoch :
of these the N.E. and S.W. are male, and the N.W. and S.E. female. In
any epoch, regular or irregular, there are these three factors and the
principle adopted is that according to the sex of all three, or of two out of
the three, at epoch, so will be the sex of the child born.
All (his, as the author fully acknowledges, was put forward many years
ago in the New Manual of Astrology by Sepharial, and what the author has
done in the present work is to arrange and systematise the various " orders "
of epoch thus resulting, so that those first taking up this rather complicated
subject shall not be hopelessely confused. This he has done in a very lucid
manner. The author claims to have made certain discovei ies of his own
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during liis investigations, notably as regards tlie 'orbs' of the critical
degrees. It is worthy of remarh also that the sex of the degrees 254° of the
cardinal and 43° of the aintable signs, has been changed from that given in
the earlier work above referred to, though no express mention is made of this.
The ambitious scope of the book may he gathered from the titles of the
various sections: The Scientific Basis and Laws of the Epoch ; The Pre-
natal Epoch as a Factor in Rectification ; Some Astro.Physiological Problems ;
The Prenatal Epoch and Multiple Pregnancy; The Epoch in Relation to
Prenatal Affections; The Prenatal Epoch as a Factor in Directing; The
Prenatal Epoch and Infant Mortality. Among the nninerous examples
several Royal births occur, and it is to be regretted that King George's is not
included as this is a particularly diflicnlt nativity to fit with an epoch, albeit
the time is given so precisely in the official bulletin as i.tS a.m.

After the foregoing had been sent to the printers the following note was
received from Mr H. S. Green:—"Many astrologers must have wondered
why a book on what is called the Preuatal Epoch was not published before
this. The subject was brought forward about five and twenty years ago by
Sepharial, and although a good deal of controversy has taken place con-
cerning it and some writers have criticised it unfavourably, most students
have satisfied themselves, we thiuk, that it contains a great deal of truth and
that it deserves investigation. If Sepharial was not to explain the whole
matter in a separate work Mr E. H. Bailey is certainly the right man to do
it, for he has studied the subject carefully during many years and is in a
position to appreciate its difficulties better than most people. All the
information available up to the present date is now before the world in this
volume, which is well got up and clearly written, and which removes many of
the obscurities that have seemed to surround the practical application of the
prenatal theory. The simple form in which the subject was originally stated
in The Astrologer's Magazine was, a few years later, qualified by the introduc-
tion of the Law of Sex, which explained many of the apparent irregularities,
and the classification of the various kinds of horoscope and epoch is extended
further here. We have now four orders of epochs, three variations, and six-
classes, and the problem of how to treat a horoscope that will not adapt itself
to the simplest form of epoch is explained. But while throwing much new
light upon the matter and clearing up many difficulties, the whole subject is
becoming decidedly complex and it is highly probable that the end has cot
yet been reached."
An interesting commentary upon the last twelve words is supplied by the
fact that Mr Bailey on p. 162 of the B; i<is/i Jonnml of Astivlogji (or August
says of the prenatal epoch of the Kaiser published in our July issue (p. 21S)
that " it is altogether wrong, as the sex denoted by the figure is female."
 emiTER DICTA
Yet ihe iti;ip we published was taken from an article written by
Sepharial in 1902 (.U..-!. xi 157) and was later quoted and endorsed by
Mr Bailey himself (M.A. xi 251); and the sex rules as regards the epoch were
then substantially exactly the same as now stated in Mr Bailey's book. The
only difference is, as stated above, that the sexes of two critical points, viz.
cardinal signs zji*1
mutable signs 47°
have been reversed from that given in the 1898 Mnnuetl-, so that which
was formerly male is now female,—and hence in the Kaiser's case the Regular
Epoch is invalidated. And yet, as we have already pointed out, we arc not
told why the change has been made, nor even that there is any change.
Now it so happens that the same critical degree.is concerned
in the regular epoch of the present writer, and by the sex formerly assigned
would have invalidated it for purposes of rectification. The sex now accorded
this degree, however, juslifies it as the true epoch! That which was
formerly wrong is therefore now right, and a previously discarded Epoch is
reinstated: and it may be worth adding that extensive investigations by
means of primary directions, etc., etc., have confirmed the writer in the
belief that a corrected hirth-time originally bnstil on this Rcgulnr Epoch, is the
true one.
Is it not then conceivable that a like reversal of one of the other critical
.degrees concerned in the Kaiser's Epoch might in due time similarly
reinstate that ?
These considerations will serve to remind the student that the laws of
the Epoch, especially those concerning sex, arc still to be regarded as only
tentatively formulated.
In style and printing the book is a credit to both author and publisher,
and it is greatly to be hoped that students now having this clear presentation
before them will apply the rules in all cases where the time of birth is
accurately known and thus bring to bear that test of experience which alone
can set the seal of value on a work however conscientiously performed.

Concekning THE word " Genescope ": (July issue, p. 222 at Joot).—Mr
A. Smith, of Dorking, writing approvingly of our observations, remarks
concerning this word, that some years ago when pondering the subject he
was induced to select the word "zoescope" as suitably describing the
prenatal map, which he thinks might with advantage he substituted for the
.above. We are content to leave the choice in the hands of our readers, if
they will indicate their preference.
 Astrology for Beginners
PERSONAL APPEARANCE
(Continued from page 273)
The third Cardiual sign Libra (a) is the only one of the twelve signs to
which no human or sub-human is given as a prototype, and the fact that it is
an airy, mental and positive sign and ruled by the planet Venus, accounts
for the fact that a Libran does not seek in the person beloved a protector, but
a companion on an equal footing, who can give an understanding and
sympathy with the mental and artistic pursuits and tastes of the true Libran.
When this sign rises, the native is tall or of medium height, slight in
build, but putting on flesh as age advances. The feet and hands arc small
and plump, and the fingers short. The head which is small, round and
shapely, is usually held on one side, and the expression of the face is often
either one of dissatisfaction or of plaintiveness. The hair is fine, smooth and
brown (often parted in the middle), and the eyes are blue or bluish in colour.
In the most beautiful types the well-formed nose makes a straight line with
the brow, or is prettily upturned and " tip-tilted like a flower " ; in other
cases the nostrils are wide and the nose appears to be abruptly cut off at the
end. The curves of the lips are well and delicately marked, and the teeth
are small and even in size. The chin is small, well-shaped and round, and
the skin delicate and fine, though the less beautiful Librans have quite
indifferent complexions.
The movements of the Librans are invariably graceful and their voices
are soft, though oftentimes having a curious ring of pctulancy and
dissatisfaction.
The walk of the Librans has in it an up-and-down movement, when
watched from a distance, as though at each step, they stopped on the toes-
and balanced themselves.
Secretarv of the Lessoss Department.

Malay Peninsula.—Referring to the question on p. 242, a kindly

correspondent sends us an extract from a periodical showing that the late
Singapore mutiny broke out at, or very nearly at, haif-past three p.m. on
February 15th 1915, and thinks this may be a useful item for those who are
endeavouring to find out the ruling sign of the Peninsula.
Due Philippe d'Orleans.—The Almanack de Goiha states that he was
born at Twickenham on February 6th 1S69. If any reader of Modern
Astrology can supply us with the time of birth, or indicate likely sources
whence it might be obtained, he would earn the gratitude of a fellow student.
THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE

Modcrp

Astrol#^y
{First published in i8go)

OCTOBER, 1916.

®lj£ (BUtot's (©bsfiiiminry

MRS BESANT'S BIRTHDAY

Many Happy Returns of her birthday October 1st to Mrs

Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society, whose sympathy
with our work is well known to the majority of our readers throughout
the world.
Mrs Besant is now engaged in a most heroic task, probably the
most difficult she has ever undertaken in the long course of her
wonderful and strenuous life ; she is working diligently, and sacri-
ficing herself daily, tobringabouta true reconciliation and better under-
standing between the East and the West. Her knowledge of human
nature and national characteristics is unique, and there is probably no
living soul to-day leading an active public life who understands the
destiny of nations so perfectly.
Many years ago we said in these pages that the Rising Star of
Great Britain was exalted in the Ruling Sign of India. From a
totally different standpoint Mrs Besant knows that Great Britain has
everything to gain through harmonious and peaceful relationship with
India, and all to lose by exciting or accentuating the disruptive and
discontented forces that are latent in the East. We have always had
308 MODERN ASTROLOGY

failh and trust in this truly great woman's intuition, love of truth, and
service and consider her friendship to ourselves and sympathy with
our work to have been the most helpful and encouraging incentives
we have had in our own strenuous life. To us she has indeed been a
blessing and we hope all who read our testimony to her sincerity and
loyalty will unite with us in wishing Mrs Annie Besant many happy
returns of her birthday. May she long be spared to us.

THE RULING SIGNS OF NATIONS

More than usual interest has been aroused lately concerning the
signs of the zodiac under which the nations of the world should be
placed, and we have received many valuable suggestions upon which we
hope to work later on during our studies of the national horoscopes.
Mr Jules Fermaud, who is a most painstaking student, has sent
us some carefully prepared notes which he desires us to make use of,
and we have much pleasure in printing the conclusions reached by
him after a very exhaustive examination of the influences affecting
Russia during the present century—a nation Mr Fermaud thinks we
are correct in assuming is destined to play an important part in the
great world drama. Summing up the influences affecting nations
through the various signs of the zodiac he concludes that:—
In the general evolution of the human soul, the ultimate point of the
mystic quest is the attainment of, the merging in, Unity. Spiritual unity is
then the ultimate aim of Humanity. But unity is manifested in diversity,
and diversity has to be evolved before unity can be realised. Setting aside
the individual evolution, which is relatively independent, we are here
concerned only in collective national evolution. Why, in God's plan, are
the various nations, as it seems, destined to grow, rise and fall in succession,
each time developing what is called a ' civilisation ' ? This is certainly
intended for something, and the most apparent intention is that each special
civilisation is nothing else but a work of unification. For a growing nation,
to evolve a leading principle of its own, and to make it the centre of absorption
of all the forces of the nation and if possible of the world, after its conquest
by the sword,—to group the whole world round its own law-giving will, and
to unify it in obedience to one single leading principle,—is the spontaneous,
unconscious, automatic aspiration of every nation, and particularly of every
strong nation. This is as much a blind force of nature as the batching of
eggs by a female, and when that nation is in the magnetic ring where the
 THE EDITOR S OBSERVATORy
Sun in its path in due time ripens her to maturity, that turn of rising is for
her a mission to fulfil—whence is to come out a message for the world. And
that message is another step of unification of humanity round some principle,
in order that the consciousness of humanity may gradually evolve through
all principles, and thus as a collective entity may advance towards Unity.
Thus national pride and ambition as a blind force is only serving the purpose
of God's will in leading humanity towards Unity, just as individual
aspirations lead the individual soul to the same goal in a shorter time.
What should be now the particular message and work which befell to
European risen powers in turn ? In a few words I should put it thus :—
Greece ^ Harmony of proportions, true perception; the bringing
of humanity to the realisation of its true value as the
members of a living and evolving entity, no longer as
the playthings of a blind nature. Right pevceplion of
tin uorhi.
Rome n Rightful relations between men ; the fixation of personal
limitations, of how far can go the expressions, mine
and thine, without which society would become a
chaotic and suicidal community. Rtlatiaits from man
to man.
France tig Political relations without which right discernment of
earthly relations would be lost in religious dreaminess.
The alfirmation of a certain degree of liberty, just to
prevent man from falling a slave to superstition and
false authority. The awakening inEuropeof patriotism.
Relations Of man to country.
Germany K Human general relations from soul to soul. The
awakening of Europe, through misunderstood and
despotic patriotism, to a general feeling of compassion
to the downtrodden and suffering. Relations of man to
humanity.
England V The shaping of the European unity, the watch and
keeping of the spiritual conquests, through protection
extended to the weak. The keeping together of the whole.
It is more than I can do to qualify the future message of Russia. Asia
in its new push will have to do with it, and that blending must be powerful
indeed.
We must not forget the law of decrease though. For it is certain that
as Europe gets more and more awake in its own consciousness, the leading
powers who get the turn have less and less to do in forcing it into the
reception of the new message, which is already partially or virtually evolved
all through the mass. That is perhaps why Germany's message does not
appear at first sight as being itsownonly,sinceeveryonemay haveasnfficient
intuition of it. A leading nation, however, does not work for isolated
individual consciousness, but as a national lever for the transmuting of the
whole community.
3io MODERN ASTROLOGY

Monarchs and Their Horoscopes

From the foregoing it will be seen that Mr Jules Fermaud thinks
that Germany is now evolving under the sign Pisces, France under
Virgo, and that Rome worked out the ideals of Gemini and Greece
those of Libra. He says:—
1 believe the principle that the horoscope of a monarch fits the whole
nation for the time being is a truth, but there is more than that; in the whole
course of the rising and falling of a nation, there are several kings, but there
is one at the very point of the culmination who is the true representative and
the highest manifestation of the working principle of the race, who embodies
the whole spirit of the nation at the time of its greatest expansion, thus
bringing to light and to operation the whole force of its ruling sign. We
have seen already that the conjunction of Mars and Neptune is the strongest
planetary infiuence which points to the full liberation of all the relative force
contained in the sign, and that Napoleon was the one who embodied the
French culmination. Now it is noticeable that before Napoleon, Robespierre
had that fateful conjunction of Mars and Neptune, and be had it in the sign
Leo, the sign of France. Robespierre may be considered as a trial king,
yet he failed. Only later on, Napoleon, whom Mme de Stael called "a
riding Robespierre, (un Robespierre i cheval)" had the conjunction in
Virgo, which apparently was nearer the mark, and he succeeded. Now
Virgo means well all that we could expect of the intended French expansion ;
as a Mercurial influence it meant a liberation from old bonds and a revision
of old standards in the light of critical reason ; as an earthy influence, it
meant the substitution of earthly practical standards for traditional and
doctrinal ones. That which had disappeared was the divine right of kings,
and the new standard was the declaration of rights of man founded on
political equality, the political side being denoted by the conjunction being
in the eleventh house. That substitulion of earthly standards for traditional
ones, which in itself was good at first, has come to be even the great sin of
France, when after the divine right of kings all things divine were dethroned
and spiritual standards lost all credit and power. This was undoubtedly the
cause of the subsequent weakness of France, until a new spiritual force, born
of adversity, came to lift her.
Now the man of Germany in the point of culmination of its power and
of the expansion of its genius is the actual Kaiser, whose conjunction is in
Pisces. It seems to point to Pisces rather than any other sign, as the true
characterof theGerman nation. Notwithstanding the influence of any other
sign, it seems a fact that Pisces fits them well. All things occult are used by
them ; not only as a necessity, but they glory in them : although they know
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORV
how to fifiht openly when it cannot be helped, underhand ways are always
preferred. The system of spies is quite a German institution, and has
reached its greatest possible perfection, submarine attacks, the war under-
ground in trenches, even the methodical system of lies and calumnies in their
press, all are Pisces characteristics. Everybody knows how German
employees have ever proceeded in the foreign offices where they were
employed, ever trying to ruin their principals and often their benefactors by
underhand proceedings, so that they could eventually take possession.
Pisces is Jupiterian, but the negative side of Jupiterian influence; it meant
law, but oppressive, restrictive, negative law: " Thou shall not" ever
pressing the human soul more and more, until life becomes a prison. So is
the over-ruling system in Germany. Pisces is thus well placed in the M.C.
to feed the glamour of autocracy willingly,—they dream to become themselves
the autocrats of the world. Then the watery side of Pisces means negative
feeling, and it must be recognised in the history of German expansion,
feeling is uppermost, indeed it seems to be the most exhaustive experience
of what feeling is capable of. From school to barracks the young German is
taught to hate someone or something; hatred is the lever of their patriotism.
The hatred of France has been fed for forty years, and now that Great
Britain proves to be a more dangerous enemy, the hatred of England has
become their motive power. Soldiers are not wanted to be moderate and
generous: "Violence and passion," writes a German general, "are the
necessary -conditions for a soldier to become a hero." Such a display of
hatred is not to be found at any turn of the French history. Perhaps France
and Germany shall have to evolve their opposites, France the religious
occult side of Pisces, which on the ruins of the earthly creates a spiritual
hierarchy, the true devotional self-undoing at the feet of the Master, while
Germany which is self-undoing by over-doing herself, shall have to learn all
the moderate practicality of the mercurian sign Virgo.
England, half isolated out of the continental circle, is as the surveyor of
the revolving wheel and the keeper of European liberties. She is under
Aries and has to evolve Libra; Aries means to her self-sacrifice as a champion
of the cause of justice, and Libra the constant endeavour to preserve the
right balance in European life; she is the champion David who rises in arms
against all the European Goliaths, and if we consider how many Goliaths
have already endangered the even flow of life and free development of small
nations, and that those giants have been bred in turn in all nations of the
European ring, it appears clearly enough in the real sense of the word,
England is all by herself the whole European equilibrium. It well appears that
in the course of her history she never failed to fulfil that mission, and her
reward lies in a double invaluable prize, the first, a physical one, is the God-
like privilege of being invincible, because God's own cause cannot be defeated,
 MODIiltN ASTROLOGY
and the second, a moral one, is to be recognised and loved by the healthy
souls of all humanity.
If this is indeed so, we find that the whole European civilisation has been
evolved by three sets of opposed principles, Greece and England (=flsT)i
Rome and Spain (n^), France and Germany (ngjf)- With the seventh
principle we are launched into the Aquarian age by means of the Aquarian
power, Russia, the new portion of Asia. Great must be the new message and
high our expectations of the future.
Jules Fermaud

The writer has evidently given much thought to the idea that the
horoscopes of monarchs do affect nations and we like his idea that we
may trace the history of a nation by a succession of horoscopes until
a culminating point is reached, which becomes a crisis for the nation.
We gave some hints in our Royal Number with regard to the influence
of the King or ruler of a nation, and may have more to say on this
subject later,

THE ASTROLOGICAL INSTITUTE

The first Annual Report of the Astrological Institute lias now been
issued, and a copy will be sent to any one interested on receipt of post
card. A healthy year's work is recorded, and attention is called to a Special
Course of Lessons to be given by the Principal, Mr Alan Leo, on " The
Physical, Psychic and Moral Strength of a Horoscope."
To these Instruction Lectures members will be admitted free of charge,
but noa-members may attend on payment of 2/6 per lecture or i5/-forthe
course of seveu lectures. The first lecture is on Thursday September 2S at
7 p.m. For other particulars, conditions, etc., readers are referred to the
advertisement on p. iv of cover.

J. W. writes: •'The negotiations I predicted for i6lh June turned out

to be the Economic in Paris. It remains to be seen whether the retrograde
$ will make them abortive. The great push arrived on tst July. I
anticipated Portugal would be involved. It has since been announced that
a Lisbon minister has been to London to negotiate a loan so that Portugal
may actually join us.
" The figure for © in ^ shows IL setting and ^ rising,—contrary
influences: but £ is so strong that I Judge the war will coutinue. I expect
some effort for peace about 15 Oct. Heavy casualties mark the end of Oct.,
but I think the 5th Nov. will be marked by some gratifying announcement."
 313

.^an in ISilira

In this sign harmony, proportion and balance are seeking

manifestation. The Librans are all beauty lovers. In music, in art.
and in nature, they seek the cult of beauty, and all discord, inharmony
and ugliness are a positive pain to them, and although compassionate
and tender-hearted, they shrink from deformity, wounds and painful
diseases, even while compelling themselves to minister to the suffering,
through their kind and amiable nature. They are very appreciative
of excellency, and see the best in everything and everyone. They are
generally courteous, well-behaved and pleasant people, but their great
desire to please and be pleased sometimes renders them apparently
somewhat insincere. They will rarely disagree with others, fearing
the discord or disharmony that may ensue.
They are very intuitive, and their perceptions are'acute. They
gain their knowledge of life by comparison, and this faculty as well as
perception is a strong feature of their nature. The Librans are rarely
hard workers, though they are capable of much sacrifice through their
love nature. Women as wives and mothers are capable of a great
deal of drudgery in the home circle, but they never work because they
like it, and uncongenial occupations cause them much discomfort.
The rough and tumble of life is not for the Librans ; they ever prefer
work of a literary or artistic nature, being unfitted for heavy labour.
Libra people are essentially refined, and are generally led by their
characteristic feature, which is intuition. They are sometimes careless
of detail,- and not always as methodical as might be desired, but they
can always unite with others and are always liked and appreciated by
those about them for their kind non-carping altitude of mind.
Health. Kidneys and bladder are the most sensitive part of the
body, but recuperation is brought about by removal of all disharmony.
Occupation. Musicians, painters, singers, actors, florists, novel
writers, perfumers, professional work (except doctors and surgeons).
Gems. Diamond, opal, sapphire, lapis lazuli, and all blue and
white stones. The most fortunate day is Friday.
B. Leo.
 Shtternatianal Jlstrology

New Moon, 26/10/1916, 8.37 p.m., G.M.T.

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(i) London (2) Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) New York

The chief feature in the map for London, which also covers a
considerable area of west Europe, is the conjunction of Saturn and
Neptune in the second house in square to the two luminaries in the
fifth and to Jupiter in the eleventh.
This shows trouble of the most serious description connected with
business, taxation and money mailers generally. The outlay resulting
from the war will give rise to problems that will tax the wits of the
wisest to solve; statesmen will be seriously concerned over this,
Parliament will be troubled, some failures will occur as the result, and
heavy losses from fluctuations of stocks and shares. Money relations
as between foreign countries (b rules 7th and 8th) will be involved ;
the pressure of past expenditure will be felt; some difficulty connected
with a loan will be experienced by one of the countries; but the
money will be raised, for Mars on the cusp of the sixth throws a trine
to Saturn and Neptune and is in mutual reception with Jupiter. The
lunation falls close to the place of Mars rising in the map for the
autumn quarter and will considerably increase martial excitement and
activities; our forces will gain credit both by sea and land; the air
service will be under favourable influences and new methods or
inventions will appear; new vessels will be launched and troops raised,
but there will be danger and some loss by water.
At Berlin, Saturn and Neptune will have risen out of the second
house but the influence upon money will remain very unfortunate
because the Sun rules the second house, and from here for some
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

distance eastward Saturn will be close to, or on the cusp of, the
ascendant.
At Petrograd Neptune has just risen and squares the luminaries
in the fourth house, which weakens the country, the government, and
the people; but Jupiter is definitely in the tenth house, and Uranus
although setting is in trine with Mercury and free from affliction ; this
will uphold the country and bring success abroad and with Allies.
At New York Jupiter will rise and Mercury set; diplomacy will
be active over foreign affairs with credit and success ; but the president
and government will meet with much trouble, some eminent persons
will die and the death rate will be heavy.
The lunation falls as follows in various horoscopes, nearly all very
unfortunate.
King George .??□<? Emperor Austria □ ip
,, Italy rf 5 ,, Germany f p
,, Belciom H. H. Asqoith s iy
Czar SJ D. Llcyu George sJ
Gen. Jopfre S JJI
The luminaries will rise in the Pacific Ocean and Australia,
culminate off the west coast of North America, set in the Atlantic off
the east coast of Canada ; and be on the nadir in the Caucasus and in
parts of Russia, Turkey in Asia, and Persia.

Sum.merTime.—British Summer Time ends at 3 a.m. 1/10/1916, clocks

being then put hack to 2 a.m. The instant of 2 a.m. G.M.T. (= 3 a.m.
B.S.T.) is therefore the moment of change.
Charlie Chaplin.—An American reader has sent us a speculative
horoscope of this popular " hero," giving Cancer as the rising sign. What
do our readers think of this as a probable ascendant ?
Interesting Case.—Boy born 25/4/16: 5.45 p.m., Graaff Reinet,
32.16 S, 24.53 E. Our correspondent writes: "This child was nearly killed
at his birth. He weighed lolbs. and is very beautiful. He was nearly
asphyxiated and his neck was severely injured with instruments at birth and
arm paralysed. His neck injuries developed a succession of abscesses and
the doctors fear the paralysis of arm—(which is better now)—may later in '
life return. He has a most aristocratic Roman nose, ruddy hair, a magnifi-
cent chest and very aristocratic hands. Quite 'mechanically' (?) his name
'happens' to be the Leo name ' Hans,' and all his admirers and observers
have nicknamed him the ' soldier ' because he looks like a wounded warrior!
He can't suck and must be spoon fed—so severe are the injuries to neck
(abscesses). I feel pretty certain a lately-killed German officer has furiously
reincarnated here and will give his family a warm time."
 ftfre Horoscope of Cabell

By The Editor

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Manv crimes have been committed by Germany during the

present European war, but the most cruel of them all was the murder
of Edit h Cavell—a woman whose love for humanity caused her to say
" I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or
 THE HOROSCOPE OF EDITH CAVELL

bitterness towards anyone." A cruel nation is said to be God's enemy,

and by their acts the responsible heads of the German nation have
forfeited all right to be considered human, since they have acted as
animal-men and having sown the wind shall surely reap the whirlwind.
We have been fortunate in securing the birth time of Miss Edith
Cavell through Mrs Martha Watson, a member of the Astrological
Institute. The time is 2.30 a.m. December 4 1865, and the place
Norwich.
Miss Cavell was born with the middle of the sign Libra rising, in
which the second decanate has a decided humanitarian influence.
Nearly all Libraians born under this aquarian decanate are lovers of
human nature, well disposed, and inclined to give their lives to a cause
or a principle.
In this horoscope the ruling planet Venus is placed in the sign
Scorpio, and is rising in the second house, though not favourably
aspected. The position of Venus between Saturn and Mars, the
malefics, and in the sign Scorpio denotes the tragic end of her life—
Venus also ruling the eighth house, the house of death, as well as the
first, the house of life.
The Moon's conjunction with Uranus denotes an extraordinary life
filled with uncommon and strange events especially in connection with
avocation as the Moon rules the tenth house of calling, honour, etc.
The Moon is very much afflicted by the opposition to Mercury and
Jupiter, and the square aspect to Neptune. Saturn the lord of the
fourth house denoting the end of life, is placed in the tragic sign
Scorpio, and is the first planet to rise.
The planet Saturn is here the most important planet, and may in
this particular case be termed the planet of destiny. It is part ruler
of the horoscope by its position (in the first house) and through the
decanate ascending and as ruler the fourth house denotes the
nature of the end of the current life. It is in the eighth degree of
Scorpio. Charubel's interpretation of this degree is:—"A Comet:
Denotes waywardness and eccentricity: but he {or she) will do
some great deed in his life."
Edith Cavell did do a great deed in her life, she realised that
patriotism was not enough, she had a glorious ideal—to have no
hatred or bitterness to anyone.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Well might the clairvoyant astrologer see a comet in connection

with this degree. Miss Cavell's end was like the passage of a comet:
she drew the attention of the whole world to an act of heroism and
self-sacrifice, and like a comet she passed through the sky to earn the
reward of a good and faithful servant, and we may rest assured that
those Guardians of Humanity who know that courage consists not in
hazarding without fear, but in being resolutely minded in a just cause,
have noted and appreciated her act.

Edith Cavell was shot on October 12 1915. The cosmic Saturn

was in transit over her midheaven in the sign Cancer, and in square
aspect to her ascendant. In her progressed horoscope, measuring to
the commencement of October, the Moon's position is T 20° and shews
a train of afflictions as follows;—separating from the square aspect of
Uranus, Mercury, Neptune (radical), Mars and Saturn (progressed),
and applying to a square aspect of Venus (progressed); the latter
being all in the sign Capricorn ruling the Jourth house. Moreover,
the Moon was in exact square to the midheaven from the western
angle. The Moon was in the house of Mars and in affliction with no
less than six planets from angles.
Although the body of Edith Cavell was fated to die a tragic death,
the soul of the woman was indestructibly pure and saved alive by her
heroic acts. The Sun and Mars in parallel, in the sign Sagittarius,
made her a fearless soul and the conjunction of Mercury with Jupiter
gave her the human touch which the unconventional and original
influence of the Moon conjunction Uranus allowed her to carry out.
Few souls cared less for fame or personal recognition, and yet
she has gained immortal fame and what is of inestimable value—the
recognition of the Gods.
This verse of William Cowper is well fitted for such a soul as
Edith Cavell.

" Let laurels, drenched in pure Parnassian dews

Reward her memory, dear to every muse,
Who, with a courage of unshaken root,
In honour's field advancing her firm foot,
Plants it upon the line that justice draws,
And will prevail—or perish—in her cause."
 Qjrnat Max1:

By g. E. Sutcliffe,

Author of " The Foundations of Physical Astrology"

{Continued from p. 296)

III.—THE WORLD-MAP, TREATED AS A

PROGRESSED HOROSCOPE {concluded')

What are Important Events ?

ONE of the difficulties that has to be overcome in the interpreta-

tion of the progressed aspects of a World Horoscope in connection
with the course of events, is that of deciding what are really the most
important events.
What appears in the newspapers is merely the froth on the
surface, and the underlying causes of world changes do not usually
emerge from obscurity until long after their occurrence. But the
planetary aspects correspond to the really important events, the
knowledge of which is confined largely to occultists. Astrology is
essentially an occult science, and none but occultists can hope to
probe it to its depths. Now occultists are practically unanimous in
telling us that the present war was preceded by war upon the planes
above the physical, which was raging during the years 1912-13. It
would therefore be the phases of this superphysical campaign between
the Occult Hierarchy and what is known as the " Dark Brotherhood,"
that would be in the closest correspondence with the Primary and
Secondary Directions. As details of these phases are not available
apart from the final victory of the Occult Hierarchy, a true interpreta-
tion of the planetary aspects is rather handicapped. All who have
even a small connection with occult schools are aware that the years
1912-13 were years of acute tension, which was a faint reflection of
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the fierce battle that was raging on the inner planes. The Occult
Hierarchy has several organised societies connected with it on the
physical plane, but the only one having a recorded history open to the
public appears to be the Theosophical Society. The history of this
society in 1912-13 may be consulted with advantage in connection with
the progressed directions for this period, since it may be expected to be
a reflection of the struggle between the powers of light and darkness.
Two events of this history may be noted. One of these
was the attempt in 1912 to secure the control of the Society for
Germany. The full significance of this bold stroke was not realised
until quite recently; (see the Theosophist for January 1915, p.
350-1). We are told by occultists that in the present struggle
Germany is the instrument of the Dark Brotherhood, and to have
secured a world-wide organisation like the Theosophical Society for
the propagation of German interests would have been a master
stroke if it had been successful. The other incident was the attempt
in 1912 to secure the custody of one who is believed by many to be the
vehicle for a coming World Teacher, and thus to prevent him being
trained for this purpose.
Both these attempts were defeated.
Saturn opposition Neptune
A reference to the radical horoscope will show that the closest
opposition is that of Saturn and Neptune, which in Christian phraseo-
logy may be symbolised by Satan and Christ, or the war in heaven of
the book of Revelation. The secondary progression b 8 ¥ p. in
October 1911, and b 8 in May 1914, would precipitate the effect of
this aspect existing in the radical horoscope, in the intervening period,
and the other oppositions would add to its virulence. The opposition
of Saturn and Neptune is in my opinion an epitome of the horoscope,
and the backbone upon which hangs a correct interpretation.
In April 1912, whilst the Primary Directions, 8 8 0 and D, were
operating, an Occultist wrote, " Be not dismayed because some agents
of the Dark Powers are busily at work. In the figurative
language of the Christian Scriptures, ' the devil is come down unto you,
having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short
time." "
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At the end of 1912 the President of the Theosophical Society,

who amongst public characters is probably the one in closest touch
with the Occult Hierarchy, wrote " A hearty greeting to all in western
lands, . . May all the evils which threaten Europe be averted—
if so it may be—or turned to good purposes, if hap they must. Such
troubles have ever heralded great changes, and as we know that the
changes are ' near, even at the door," it would be childish to fret over
or fear the 'things that are coming on the earth'"; {Theosophist,
January 1913, p. 480). These quotations sufficiently indicate the
nature of the struggle that was going on in the planes above the
. physical, and that it was known that a terrible catastrophe in Europe
was imminent; (consult the Secret Doctrine, 3rd Ed., vol. i, p. 708).
In some occult researches into the beginning of the sixth root-
race some seven or more centuries hence, a description of Europe at
that time is given; {Theosophist, March 1910, p. 755, also Man;
Whence, How and Whither, p. 460). London, Paris, and Holland,
are described, but it is singular to note that Germany is not mentioned
nor any city in Germany. I understand that this was omitted
because it might have offended German Theosophists. When a nation
developes in a direction so as to fit it to become a vehicle for the
Dark Powers, it is unfortunate for that nation. When the Powers of
Light make use of a physical vehicle they build it up and strengthen
it. When the Dark Powers use a vehicle, they exhaust and destroy it.
Speaking generally, then, we may say of the year 1912 that the
Primary and Secondary Directions indicate the beginning of a great
struggle between the Higher and Lower Powers, on the inner planes
of Nature, the intensity of which caused here and there a sputtering
through into the physical, but that owing to a series of favourable
transits, the major effects could not be precipitated into the world of men.

The Year 1913

Transits
1913 Jan 3 Vd * 1913 Sept 20 he*
1913 Jan 27 stat a Asc 1913 Sept 3° h stat g 9
1913 June 5 hem ,, d Asc
1913 June 23 heO 1913 Oct tt h91
,, •? <? D 1913 Dec 2 V * A sc
1913 July 1 Y A 2* 1913 Dec 30 V*V
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The Primary Directions operating in 1913 were, Asc OD, 2 d 5

and Asc o O. The Secondary Directions were, Od 'p, 58 5,1)8 (?,
and 1)8 The interpretation given to the aspects in 1912, can be
repeated in 1913 in an intensified form, and the Transits are now
becoming more unfavourable, so that more of the adverse influences
can be precipitated on to the physical plane. The first Balkan war was
resumed on February 3rd, and terminated with the Peace of London
at the end of May (transit <? A and A Oil), but at the end of June
the Second Balkan war began, (transit b 8 ©5)) in which Greece and
Servia fought with their former ally Bulgaria, the result being that
Turkey regained Adrianople, and Bulgaria lost all that she had won, or
nearly so. The peace of Bukarest on August 10th, was evidently only
an armistice, due to the exhaustion of Bulgaria. It was clear to all
that war in the Balkans would be resumed at the first favourable
opportunity.
But this was the least of the evils which this patched-up peace
had left in its train, for it made a general European war a certainty, since
it stood directly in the way of the ambitions of the Central Powers. The
Central Powers were determined to have an outlet through Constanti-
nople to Asia Minor and the Bagdad railway, and the arrangement
come to in the peace of Bukarest effectively blocked the way. The
application of Austria-Hungary to Italy to be allowed to attack Servia,
the day previous to that on which the treaty of Bukarest was signed,
sufficiently indicates that Germany and Austria had fully made up
their minds.
In June 1913 Germany passed a Law intended to provide
her army with a fully trained reserve of 5,400,000 men {Times' History
of the War, i, 210), and was at this time expending enormous sums
on her army, and doubtless accumulating the vast store of muni-
tions which placed her at such an advantage in the campaigns of
1914-15.
The peace of Bukarest therefore had all the effect of an act
of war and the minor transits of that time sufficiently indicate this, for
on August 11th, the day after the Peace, we have transit Mars
opposition Uranus, and on August 14th, transit Mars opposition
Sun and Moon.
 THE. GRHAT WAR

The Precipitation ok the Conflict

Transits
1914
1914 Jan H*V 1914 July 4 I? <■ l?
1914 Jan 12 2/ a Asc 1914 July 6 IJI * O and )
1914 Feb 11 13 * 1914 July 17 ij rf V
1914 Feb 12 h St £ O and D 1914 July 21 V* Asc
1914 Feb 27 a * ijl 1914 July 2B i? rf M.C.. enters
1914 Mar g V * O and ]> 10th House
1914 Mar 30 lil * O and ]) 1914 Aug 3 I? □ Asc
1914 Apr 7 U* St a a 1914 Auk 5 a* 9
1914 Apr 18 a*S 1914 Aug 28 hS 1
1914 May 15 b <■ S 1914 Sept 4 iji * iji
1914 May 19 Ijl St * O and J) 1914 Oct 19 ly St * Ijl
1914 May 26 11 * i 1914 Nov 29 Kl * W
1914 June 12 a St * <f 1914 Dec 3 i? <■ ?
1914 June 14 i? <■ J 1914 Dec 9 a*9
1914 June 27 a * <f 1914 Dec 29 a*
The Primary Directions operating in 1914 were, ^ d D and '? d
O, in July and September. The Secondary Directions were 1) 8 Q Pi
I) d W, I) d W p, I) 8 '? p, I) d MC and □ Asc, '? 8 ^, D 8 ?, and
T) 8 S p.
If we now glance at the formidable series of adverse aspects
from 1911 to 1914, both Primary and Secondary, the precipitation of
which had been prevented by favourable transits, we may be able to
realise the vast accumulation of evil karma that was ready to fall
upon humanity at the first opportunity. The Transits during the first
six months of 1914 were mostly of a very favourable nature, and held
back the impending disaster until the end of June. In July the
adverse transit aspects of Saturn became very powerful, and coincided
with the two Primary Directions b d ®, b d p. The Austrian
declaration of war with Servia on July 28 coincided with the transit
Saturn arriving at the culminating point of the World-Horoscope, its
conjunction with the M.C. Between this date and the transit b D
Asc on August 3 all the events occurred which made certain a
general European war. The usual interpretation of Saturn culminating
on the M.C. of a horoscope is, I think, a sudden downfall, or a rapid
precipitation of karma, hence the events were quite in accord with the
rules of Astrology. Further light is thrown on this critical period by
taking account of the minor transits. On June 28, the date on which
the Austrian Heir-Apparent was assassinated, the transit Moon was in
conjunction with the transit Mars, near the cusp of the twelfth house
324 MODERN ASTKOLOGY

of the horoscope. Mars did not enter the twelfth house until a
few days later, July 2, but the Moon after conjunction entered the
twelfth house on the day of the murder, and doubtless carried with it
the Mars influence. This was the spark which set all Europe aflame.
Then followed three weeks of quiet before the storm. During this
three weeks the Entente Powers were asleep as far as foreign politics
were concerned. England was occupied with the Irish problem, which
brought us to the verge of civil war. France was wholly absorbed in
the Caillaux Trial, and the great strike in Petrograd was engaging the
attention of Russia. But the Central Powers were not asleep. They
were busily engaged putting the finishing touches to their armies, so
that at the end of July Germany was able to say that her army was
ready to the last button. During this three weeks when the Central
Powers were stealing a march upon a slumbering Europe, the minor
transits are significant. On July 2nd the transit Mars enters the
twelfth house of the World Horoscope, on July 10th it is square
Uranus, on the 14th square Sun and Moon, on the 25th when
diplomatic relations between Austria and Servia had been broken off,
the transit Mars was square Mercury, on the 1st August when
Germany declared war on Russia, it was square Mars. On August 5th,
the first day of war between England and Germany, we have the
transit Mars square Saturn. On August Hth the transit Mars is in
conjunction with the Ascendant, and on the 12th England declares
war with Austria. To add to this series of significant planetary
positions, we may again refer to the fact that on August 1st when the
European war really began, the transit Moon was in conjunction
with the radical sun and moon, or at the centre of the eclipse of
Dec. 3rd 1899.
Not only the transits, but also the mutual aspects of the planets
in the heavens were significant in July-August 1914. In India public
attention was directed to a conjunction of Mars and Venus which took
place on August 5. This was a close conjunction as the two planets
were also in parallel. A conjunction of Mars and Venus is generally
evil, for just as a game cock is more pugnacious in the presence of the
hens, so the lower passions of man are increased by a feminine
stimulus. But when it is noted that the conjunction took place whilst
both bodies were applying to the square of Saturn, the evil influence
 THE GREAT WAR

became still more accentuated. Such a combination would be adverse

under almost any conditions, but when the triple aspects are placed
upon the World Horoscope, and we find that the mutual square
aspects were so arranged that Saturn was in conjunction with the
M.C., and Mars and Venus together in conjunction with the Ascendant,
or applying to it from the twelfth house, the sinister nature of the
combination is overwhelming.
The strengthening of the influence of Mars by its conjunction
with Venus should be taken into account in its passage through the
twelfth house of the horoscope, and the evil aspects it formed during
the process as above given, for Mars was nearly in conjunction during
the greater part of this passage. I think any astrologer with this
World Horoscope beforehim.aftertakingintoaccounttheaccumnlated
adverse aspects of the Primary and Secondary Directions, which owing
to favourable transits could not be precipitated, and then noting the
sudden crash of evil transits about August 1st 1914, would have been
able to predict a world catastrophe at the beginning of August.
I lay stress on this point, because if generally recognised, it will
enable us to place Mundane Astrology upon a firmer basis than before.
For this Horoscope is not confined to the period of the present war,
but will be equally applicable to later periods of human history.

IV.—ARMAGEDDON.

When the Great War broke out, in the first week of August
1914, there was a general impression that the days of Armageddon
had arrived. This impression was not confined to the biblical fanatic,
for the daily newspapers headed their leaders with the startling title
" Armageddon." !t was the only word capable of conveying an
adequate idea of the tremendous nature of the catastrophe which had
fallen upon mankind. There are times when it may be truly said
that the voice of the people is the voice of God, and this was one of
them. The real Armageddon, as foreshadowed in the Book of
Revelations, was upon us.
In estimating the value to be given to the scriptures of various
races, the occult student is careful to avoid extreme views ; the belief
in literal inspiration of the orthodox devotee on the one hand, and the
 MODEKN ASTKOLOGY

total rejection of the materialistic sceptic on the other. Knowing as

he does that human evolution is under divine guidance, he can
confidently infer that a scripture which is the basis of the religious
beliefs of races of men for many generations, has moulded their
thoughts, and influenced their conduct, is bound to contain a large
substratum of truth. A characteristic of the trained occultist is said
to be that he misses no opportunity. But the launching into the
world of a scripture which will be the foundation of religious belief
for more than a millenium, is one of the greatest opportunities for the
guidance of human evolution ; we may therefore be sure that when a
new scripture is being launched, the Occult Hierarchy who watch
over and guide our evolution are fully alert, and impart to the
compilation a plenary measure of inspiration.
Mr Leadbeater has recently pointed out {Theosophist, Nov.
1915, pp. 182-3) that the English translation of the Christian Scriptures
is far finer in many respects than the original, and that this translation
was inspired by a member of the Occult Hierarchy. The reason of
this is clear, for the effect on men's minds has been produced not by
the original texts, but by the translation.
From this point of view the question raised by the "Higher
Criticism," much of which is of German origin, whether or no the
word Armageddon should be spelt with an H, or whether in the mind
of the original writer it referred to the district about Megiddo, or the
fruitful mountain, har migdo {Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Ed.
vol. 2, p. 551), is obviously beside the mark. The question for us as
occult students is : What effect on the minds of western nations was
intended to be produced by the Occult Hierarchy when they caused it
to be selected as a portion of the accepted scriptures of the western
races ? Now since the Occult Hierarchy have been controlling the
evolution of humanity for many thousands of years, it is reasonable to
assume that they understand their business, and if this be the case,
the effect intended is the effect that has been produced. And what
has been the effect produced on the minds of men by this particular
scripture ? It has linked together by indissoluble association three
prophetic events.
(i) the occurrence of a world war, which would be unmistakably
recognised as Armageddon.
 THE GREAT WAR
(ii) the end of an age, and the beginning of a new one, known as The
Millenium.
(iii) the Second Advent, or the return of the Founder of Christianity,
who is known to occultists as the World-Teacher.
The first, the Armageddon, being unmistakable in its nature becomes
thus the indicator of the other two, which otherwise might have
passed without adequate recognition. This apparently was one
of the purposes of the book of Revelation, to prepare men's minds
for the new order of things, and to make them receptive to the
teachings which will make possible the new era. After the earthquake
will come the "still small voice" of the Teacher.
The course of events as foreshadowed in the book of Revelation,
and the series of astrological configurations of the planets have a
correspondence which I think is significant. The seven 'trumpets' of
chapter 8, and the seven 'vials' of chapter 16, maybe tabulated alongside
the seven oppositions of the progressed moon (trumpets), and the
transit Saturn (vials), to the radical positions of the planets, as shown
below:
Progressed Moom Transit Satdrn
iqii Sept ■l) S V 1912 May 26 S V
1912 Sept »* 1913 ] une 5
1912 Nov B5Q 1913 June 23 •? f 0
1913 May B if ? 1913 Sept 20 h# ?
1913 Sept B f 1914 June 14 "? <r
1913 Nov B <f b 1914 July 4 '? -f i?
1914 May B <f ? 1914 Aug 28 hs v
In Revelations (ch. 16, v. 14-16) the war of Armageddon began
after the sixth vial, and before the seventh, just as the present war
commenced in the first week of August 1914, after Saturn opposition
Saturn, and before Saturn opposition Venus; which in the above
tabulation correspond to the sixth and seventh vials. The seventh vial
on August 28th coincided with the disastrous retreat from Mons.
The ' trumpets' may be likened to the rumblings of the storm
from the Kama-Manasic plane, indicated by the secondary directions
of the progressd Moon. The ' vials' imply precipitation on the
physical plane, and thus correspond to the transits. The first trumpet
in September 1911, occurred when a European war was threatened
but averted. The first vial on May 26 1912 produced the alliance of
Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia, which began the war in
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

eastern Europe. The second and third vials on June 5 and 23 1913
brought on the second Balkan war the results of which made a general
European war inevitable. The fourth vial on September 20 1913
probably coincided with some definite decision of Austria and Germany
to bring about the present debacle. The fifth vial on June 14 1914
perhaps initiated the conspiracy which resulted in the assassination of
the Austrian Heir-Apparent on June 28. The sixth vial on July 4
saw the central Powers in rapid preparation for war. Whilst the
seventh vial on August 28 enabled them to deliver the first blow to the
Allies, all unprepared for battle.

Adverse Transits
1914 June 14 #J 1914 July 28 '? rf M.C.
1914 June i? SOU 19x4 July 31 9 Q5
1914 June 28 ]) enters xii 1914 Aug 1 ^O^
house after rf G S transit iji
with transit S 1914 Aug 3 k 0 Asc
1914 1 uly 2 <f enters xii 1914 Aug 4 ?0^
1914 [uly 4 ■2 <P ■? 1914 Aug 5 <J 0 '2
1914 J[uly 10 <4 DIJ ,, ,, 9□ ^
1914 J[uly 11 ? O 2/ 1914 Aug 8 <r oV
1914 J[uly 14 <f □ G >) ,, 9 □1'
1914 J[uly 14 <f □ D 1914 Aug 10 9 a M.C.
j|uly 17 h rf'li •» <f 0 M.C.
1914 J[uly 19 9 enters xii 1914 Aug 11 9 a Asc
1914 1[uly 22 ? a HJ 1914 11 S 4 Asc
2914 J[uly 24 f oG 1914 Aug I
4 9O 9
r) ».J ,, «aD „ ,, rf □ 9
26 <f a 5 ig'14 Aug 28 #9
The seven trumpets cannot be linked up in the same way with
terrestrial events, because as they correspond to secondary directions,
they were acting on the kama-manasic plane, and their precipitation on
to the physical plane would depend on transits. It will be observed
that the last of the trumpets is dated May 1914, or a month before the
assassination of the Austrian Heir-Apparent. It would thus appear
that when all the evil karma had been received on the higher planes,
its precipitation on to the physical began in earnest, and could be no
longer held back. The work of precipitation was largely the function
of the planets Saturn and Mars, intensified here and there by the Moon
and Venus. This series of adverse transits is here given, also the
favourable transits occurring about the same time.
It would be difficult I think to conceive a more formidable series
•of adverse aspects, 32 in number, all compressed into two short
 THE GREAT WAR

months. And when we remember that the primary and secondary

directions were similarly adverse, and mostly of a virulent type,
need we wonder at the stupendous disaster that has fallen upon us.
It is true that there were some good aspects that were operating
simultaneously with the above, but as these good aspects were transits,
and there were no good primary and secondary directions, the favour-
able transits could not exert their normal influences; transits cannot
precipitate good karma when there is none to precipitate from the
inner planes. Nevertheless it will be well to consider them.
Favourable Transits
1914 Aug 18 ? * H1 1914 Sept j ? A M.C
1914 Aug 20 ? * O and p 1914 Sept 7 ?* ?
1914 Aug 21 (Geclipsedby J))*M.C. 1914 Sept 11 <1 * S
1914 Aug 27 e * 111 1914 Sept 16 j enters ii house
1914 Aug 28 ? *? 1914 Sept 17 <f * J
1914 Aug 3° ? * <j 1914 Sept 21 <f * >?
1914 Aug 31 <r * O 1914 Sept 23 J AV
>> »« <f * D 1914 Sept 25 A JI.C.
1914 Sept 2 « * 1914 Sept 29 <f A ?
1914 Sept 3 1914 Oct 4 <S d V
1914 Sept 4 U*W 1914 Oct 8 g * Asc
The most critical day in the retreat from Mons, according to Sir
John French's despatch, was August 26: [The Year 1914 Illusiraied,
Headley Bros., Bishopsgate, London, p. 131).
This was the day on which the German army nearly surrounded
and cut off the British and French forces. On September 4 this
attempt was abandoned,.and two days later the allied armies made
their stand at the Marne. This was the turning point of the whole
war, so much so that in the early days of September 1914 it may be
said that the battle of Armageddon was won and lost. It was about
this time that took place the wonderful visions of the English and
French armies, which are evidence of divine help given to the Allies,
at the most critical moment of the fight. No one who has realised
the true issues that were at stake in these fatal days, and certainly no
occultist, can doubt the reality of this divine interference. Without it
the present civilisation might have sunk once more into the condition
of the dark ages. Astrologically we may be said to have escaped by
the skin of our teeth, for there were only favourable transits, and
mostly minor ones, to save us.
(To be con fin ued)
 33°

(Qiuatton Jhpttrtnunt1
BIRTH OF THE CHRIST /.V MAX.— iViteit, astrologicuUy and thto-
sophically, is the Christ said to be born in a man, and what are the aspects
indicating this ? Is it not true that the Christ is born in every man—for the planet
Mercury may be said to influence alrtosl everyone to some extent ? (326)
If we attempt to answer this question from an astrological standpoint
it must be understood that we alone take responsibility for the answer,
. for the last astrological word on this subject can only be given by an
Initiate, and this we do not claim to be.
The whole of our human pilgrimage on the wheel of destiny is a
descent (involution), and ascent (evolution), of the soul, from its
divine source as a seed, until it is a full grown conscious entity.
The involution of the divine spark is represented by the planet
Mars, symbolised as the cross over the circle, matter dominating
spirit. The battlefield is the earth, and also the physical body, where
the great contest between impulse (5 or <?) and self-control or
restraint (•?) begins. When the balance has been achieved between
spirit and matter {—), the symbol is reversed and the generative forces
of Mars are changed for the creative force of Venus: the symbol is
reversed, 5 becomes 9 , and spirit begins to dominate matter. As
the involution of the soul was under the compelling infiuence of Mars,
so its evolution is under the influence of Mercury, 5 , and the soul is
likened to a cup upturned to receive the heavenly influence.
Instead of thinking of individuals as separate, we think of the
whole of humanity as one body, and the representative body for
humanity will be Christ, who, belonging to the second person of the
trinity, is astrologically represented by the planet Mercury.
In passing it may be stated that Mercury represents the human
family in all its diversities, or the adept who tempers these diversities
in himself. Jupiter is however the cosmic representative of the
world saviours. The human family is seen by us in its heterogeneous
1
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parts, but in reality humanity is a complete organised body. The
heart of this body is the Christ, (or, if preferred, the Christ Principle) ;
and it is the Christ who reconstructs the heterogeneous parts and
makes the body whole.
Astrologers may view the matter from a purely symbolical stand-
point, but nevertheless there is a living Christ who is the pivot around
which humanity turns, and Christ the Son of God does descend into
the lower worlds to raise men from their " fall " into sin, or their
descent into gross matter.
If we look upon Christ as the Son of God, we must also consider
each individual as a potential Son of God. Man came through Adam,
the earthly prototype, into the physical world, and returns to heaven
through Christ who is intermediary between man and God. Christ is
fully representative on every plane on the downward and upward arcs,
and embodied in Himself the whole life history of each race. Just as
Adam represents the earthly man, so Christ represents the heavenly
man, and as such is the most human of humans, containing within
Himself the sensitiveness of the whole race, and He is thus able to
compassionate all.
In Astrology we may find a pictorial representation of the descent
and ascent of the Christ-principle in every man. The Sun is a repre-
sentative of the divine life in manifestation throughout the whole Solar
system, and the planetary bodies are the physical centres of spheres of
influence over which preside Spiritual Intelligences. The zodiac
represents the prototypes of what may be termed the emotional
principle; it is the field that is to be ploughed and sown, the plane of
Instinct or Impulse, and practically represents the battlefield of man's
senses and emotional nature. At the end of every Major Cycle the
zodiac is a closed circle—to be reopened at the birth of a New Cycle
or Age; hence all the World-Saviours are said to be born in the sign
Pisces.
When the zodiac is regarded as divided into two halves the Sun
rules the positive signs, and the Moon the negative; but the Moon is
practically the ruler of the whole Zodiac in its lower terms. The
earth is the cross, and its turning to the four quarters denotes the
changing conditions of matter, etc. The Sun represents spirit and
vitality, the Moon soul and mind, and the Earth matter or body.
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Man is not complete until he unites spirit, soul and body self-
consciously, and the symbology of Astrology pourtrays the tempering
and uniting of all the parts until the Christ is born.
The symbol of Mercury is a perfectly homogeneous symbol at
the beginning, and may be represented by a card diagram made of the
Crescent, Circle and Cross, in equal proportions, the crescent and cross
being first folded into the circle as one symbol ©. Unfold the symbol,
letting the cross be uppermost, and it is the symbol of Mars, 2 3,
symbolising the descent of spirit into matter; reverse it and it is the
symbol of Venus, 2 , indicating the ascent of spirit; and if we unfold
the crescent we have the complete symbol of Mercury ^ . We may
also look upon Mercury as the Quicksilver which may be separated
into many globules and reunited again.
The planetary symbols represent the stages of our evolution, and
our growth is shown by our inner sensitiveness and responsiveness to
the " spheres of influence " as Intelligences. We veritably " belong "
to that planet to whose influence we habitually respond, and the
response shows our stage in evolution. Responding to the whole,
and tempering every intelligent experience in our soul, we give birth
to the Christ whose teaching consists of " Love thy neighbour as
thyself.''
This is but a brief sketch of an astrological interpretation or
answer to your question, which may be better answered through
meditation.
I'ATIC AXD FREE-WILL.—/ have just read the remarks concerning the
lute Lord Kitchener by Mr Roberts, in your issue for August: f. 247. I should
like to knout whether W via □ p, xvilh fjt s xi, would necessarily shew death by
drowning; and in fact how could it do so, in the case of one who never travels or
leaves home at all, and who lives far from the sea ?
I am puzzled at the attitude of experienced astrologers regarding "fate."
At one lime, or in respect of one event, they admit their belief in fate. On
another occasion they denounce a belief in fate as totally wrong, and insist upon
man's free-will. There must be truth in one or the other theory.
The old hymn writer said : " Father I know that all my life is portioned out
for me," and I am inclined to think that that is true. (327)
Neptune in the 8th, op, would coincide with a death by drowning.
Even a person who never travels or leaves home may be drowned in
a bath, a water butt, etc.
With regard to Fate and Free-will there is truth in both views.
We have free-will xcilhin limits—just as the ocean is limited by the
 QUESTION DEPARTMENT 333
shore, or a river by its course. An animal with four legs cannot fly
like a bird with only two, a man cannot live in the water or beyond a.
certain height in the air, and so on. We are free, within our limita-
tions, which we learn to overcome by knowledge. Some astrologers
study the fate side more than the free-will aspect, others the reverse;
it is a question of temperament, for both are right, since we are neither
wholly fated nor have unlimited free-will.
You are not correct in thinking we cannot alter the events of life,
we may not be able to escape certain experiences which the Great
Lords of Destiny have chosen for us, but we can modify the effects of
certain actions that lead to events. We are apt to forget that the
Supreme Ruler of the Universe has given the world to humanity in
order that men and women may CONQUER matter and make it
subservient to the Spirit which is ever flowing into appropriate
channels. Inherent in matter there are three modes of motion: we
have only to understand them to make matter our servant instead of
our master. The Soul of man is free to lust after the flesh or soar in
aspiration to the seat of the Most High. " Choose ye this day whom
ye will serve "—God or mammon.
DIREC'nO.YS.—Is I.I.C. p □ Asr r a direction worth noting0 ? For
instance, in a nativity with y 8° rising on cusp oj first house and 16 on M.C.,
at about the twenty third year of life the M.C. would be .™S0, in sijuare to the
radical ascendant. Would that have any signification ? (j2S)
We have no record of this aspect of M.C. p o Asc r, and so far
have failed to note any appreciable effect.
SLIGHT SCAR.— Will Neptune in the Ascendant, well aspccted, ever cause
a slight scar on the head or face? (3^9)
As a birthmark this would be quite possible but otherwise doubtful.

Loud Kitchener's Death.—M.M. writes; " I have been interested in

reading Mr H. Robert's letter on p. 247, but I don't think I agiee with Lim
that OpS yr was the cause of death. 1 should have said that OS W alone
would never have killed him, even though '■*> was in the eighth house
especially as they were in trine at birth. It seems to me that pa Qr in
1914 was still operative and that this together with QpO b r in iqiC was the
factor that killed, and that the aspect to ^ only determined the manner of
death."
334

ISeltfr to tbe (Editor

HINTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.—Letlers of general interest only are
inserted. Writers of signed articles are alone responsible for the opinions contained
therein. Correspondents desiring acknowledgment or reply will please enclose a
stamped addressed envelope.
Letters are inserted at the earliest possible opportunity, but are sometimes
unavoidably held over through lack of space. Correspondents will please remember
(i) that all communications should be written upon onb side of the paper only ;
(ii) that planetary positions, as well as birth data, should be given where possible ;
(iii) that information should be put as concisely as is compatible with clearness.
Neglect of these considerations may cause otherwise valuable letters to be
excluded from these pages.

THE PRENATAL EPOCH

An Indian Method
Dear Sir,
Reading " Sepharial's " excellent Manual of Astrology I
was interested in his theory of the Prenatal Epoch as a means of
fixing the exact degree and minute of the ascendant at birth. I tried
it in several cases and the results cast grave doubts on the intrinsic
value of the theory.
What is the Epoch ? According to Indian Astrology it is clearly
the moment of the physiological act of conception. Again " the rule
of Hermes teaches by the Moon's place in the nativity to come to the
time of conception": (Casting the Horoscope, p. 63; A. for A.,
Part II., p. 48.) Sepharial seemed originally to favour this view, but
subsequently he modified his views and states the Law in Vols. ix.
and x. of Modern Astrology [Old Series] which are unfortunately
not available to me here. In later editions of the Manual of Astrology
in Addenda to Prenatal Epoch he says " it is not presumed that the
Epoch is related in point of time with any of the preliminary stages of
generation, but in a causative sense the Epoch must be related to the
final act of birth, and therefore in some special, but at present
undetermined sense, with all the preliminary conditions of birth . . .
and further experience has already dissociated the Epoch in point of
time with the physiological act of conception." In the three cases
appended below the Epochs given by Sepharial's method are several
days prior to the possible time of conception; and in one case the
Epoch is even prior to the marriage of the parents. It requires
a good imagination in the above cases and especially in the last
mentioned case to find a relation " in the causative sense " between
the Epoch and " the preliminary conditions of birth" or the final act
of birth.
 LETTER TO THE EDITOR 333

I shall now give the three cases in the order hi which they were
examined;
Case 1.—Girl born in Bombay at 3.15 a.m. on 7th September 1914.
0
* Epoch 3rd December 1913
Birth Asc 812 Asc
DT 9 43 " ^ 9 43
Gnc 13 z7 S~ 9 35
After the result of Case 2 it was ascertained on inquiries made
of the mother that the period of gestation could not have exceeded 9
months and 6 or 7 days.
Case 2.—Boy born in Bombay at about 6 a.m. on 7th May 1887.
0
' Epoch 26th July 1866 at0 about 0.30 p.m.
Asc M 23 26 Asc
'
5 lit 8 39 "I 8 39
Oa 16 8 B« 22 11
The marriage of the parents took place on the evening of the 26th
July, 1886. It was found on inquiries from very reliable sources that
conception before 9th August 1886 \V3.S3.physical impossibility. The
mother of the child had informed me at the outset that the period of
gestation did not exceed nine months.
Case 3.—Girl Born in Bombay at 10.35 a.m. on 27th June 1893.
0
' Epoch 20th September 1892
Asc nji 13 6 0 1
17 13 27 Asc t 13 27
G® 6 14 B nj! 18 54
The period of gestation according to the mother was in this case
much less than 9 months.
I am no advocate of the Indian method of Epoch, but having
referred to it, I think it might interest some students to have it here.
The method given below is the only one which I have come across.
In it, by calculations based on the Zodiacal distance between the Moon
and the ascendant at birth and by the aid of an Indian ephemeris,
the Epoch is calculated, in which the Moon at Birth coincides
with the Ascendant at Epoch and the Moon at Epoch coincides with
the ascendant at birth. In the method given below, the principle of
the Indian method is retained though the mathematical portion of the
latter is eliminated.
The method is thus very much simplified and an ordinary
ephemeris can be used in its calculations instead of an Indian one.
For calculating the Epoch, find the Zodiacal distance between the
Moon and Ascendant at birth by subtracting the Zodiacal position of
the Ascendant from that of the Moon. Divide this difference by
13°20'which is equivalent to a "Nakshetra " or lunar mansion. To the
quotient add 246. The result will be the number of days'of gestation.
Subtract these from the date of birth. The remainder will be the date.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

of Epoch. The Moon on that date will be found to cross the point
of the ascendant at birth.
On account of the elimination of the mathematical portion it
sometimes happens that the Moon does not pass the point of the
ascendant at birth on the date arrived at, but that it does so on the
subsequent or previous day. In that case, this day on which the moon
passes the point of the ascendant-at-birth should be taken as the day
of Epoch.
The rest of the method is similar to Sepharial's. Find out from
the table of houses the time when the point occupied by the Moon at
birth is on the casp of the first house. This will be the time of the
Epoch. Calculate the position of the Moon for the time thus found,
and the position of the Moon so found will indicate the exact ascendant
at birth. Example ; Case 1 given above :—
Zodiacal position
O 0 0
D T9-43 = 9 43 -f 30o 369 43
Asc ,9.8.12 12-55 12
Difference 241 31
Divide by or i3j0=iS+a fraction
Add 246 to the integers= 18+246 = 264
7th September 1914 minus 264 days=17 December 1913. The
Moon passes the point of ascendant at birth on the 15th and T 9.43
•comes to the Ascendant on the 15th :—
A m s
i5ih December 1913 at Sidereal Time 18 30 30
Sidereal Time at noon on 16/12/13 *7 4^ 2
Local time of Epoch, approx. p.m. o 48 28
Moon's place at 0.48. 28 p.m. Bombay Time on 16/12/1913= ft 1
Therefore the exact ascendant at birth is SI 11.25. Similarly in Cases
2 and 3.
Case 2 Case 3
Epoch 22nd August
o / 1886 Epoch 17th October
c 1 1892
Asc in 8 39 Asc t 13 27
D » 22 11 5 ns 14 57
The birth-times in all these cases were not noted with any special
reference to astrological purposes and are hence accurate to a few
minutes only as in all ordinary cases. In Case 1 Sepharial's method
gives better results. In Cases 2 and 3 the results obtained by the
Indian method require much less rectification than those that came by
Sepharial's method.
I have unfortunately not the facility of obtaining a sufficient
number of cases in which accurate birth time may be observed as also
the other necessary data obtained, and I am therefore not in a position
 LETTER TO THE EDITOR 337
to express any opinion as to the results obtained by the Indian method.
Should Sepharial or some other student think it worth while to try the
Indian method I shall be much interested to know the result.
Is the Epoch calculated by Sepharial's method the same as the
Epoch spoken of by old astrologers ? The three cases mentioned
above show that the method gives a time much prior either to
conception or cohibition.
I omit the other cases as the data given as to the maximum period
of gestation arc not quite so positive and reliable as in these three ;
I might say that they confirm the result obtained from these three
cases. In fact I have not come across a single case in which the
period calculated by Sepharial's method was less than the calculated
maximum period of gestation.
It would be hasty to draw any conclusion from these few cases
especially as the method seems to have been adopted by many leading
astrologers. It seems that Sepharial himself has not thoroughly
investigated this side of his law. It would be worth while for some
earnesi student to investigate it.1
Yours faithfully,
" R. M. A."

A Case of Paralysis
x xi xii t ii hi
= 26 K28 S17 (044 C019 its
O D 5 ? <r V f
»0.n in,22i TI3 j<14i 11316 nB27i 2534 -4i w 24
Male. Native is paralysed, right side, cannot use right hand whatever,
fingers automatically lock, he has to loosen them with other hand. He is a
tall, raw-boned fellow, about 6 feet high, was very sickly as a child.
Quadruplets.—A correspondent writes: Enclosed find clipping of
Quadruplets born at Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., May 19th, 1916, 414 N. Lat.
8i| W. Long.
xst Boy Born 3.30 a.m. Standard Time Weight 3 lbs.
and Girl ,, 7 a.m. ,, ,, zjlbs.
3rd Boy ,, 7.30 a.m. „ 24lbs.
4th Girl ,, 8 a.m. ,, ajlbs.
The 3rd, a boy, died 5 hours after birth. The other 3 died about the same
time 24 hours later,—or 29 hours after birth. The doctor thought they were
going to live.
Adnormal Eyesight.—fn a lecture before the members of the Institute
of Ophthalmic Opticians, Dr. G. Lindsay Johnson mentioned the case of a
young negro who possesses four times the normal sight. This negro can see
three of Jupiter's moons with the naked eye, and can read a leading article
in the Times at a distance of ten feet.—Glasgow Evening News, 28/io/'ii.

■ This rather lengthy letter has been awaiting insertion for several months.
Mr Bailey's book on the Prenatal Epoch, noticed in our last issue, has since been
published and may perhaps assist our correspondent.—Ed.
 Astrology for Beginners
PERSONAL APPEARANCE
(Continued from page 306)
When the sign Capricorn the Goat, rises in the East at a native's
birth, he gives a medium stature and spareness of flesh, but the bony
structure well deflued. The ascetic monk and the recluse, with finely
chiselled features that pourtray chastity, resolution and strong determination,
are usually found to have Capricorn rising at birth. Their beauty is that
bestowed by strong and clear definition, but never that of softness,
winsomeness or witchery.
The skin, eyes and hair are usually dark, and the last named' straight
and scanty, and the beard of Capricorn men is sparse.
The month in the more beautiful types has thin, but well-formed lips, and
strong, bluish-white teeth; and the chin is well defined, prominent and bony,
but in many of the less beautiful types there may be seen the " lantern jaw."
The bones of the brow are well in evidence and the eyes are often deeply set.
In one type the nose is strongly aquiline, and in age inclines to bend
over the mouth, thus giving a melancholy and sad look to the face. The
Jewish race is said to be ruled by the sign Capricorn, an< this type of nose
is a marked characteristic of many of its children.
In the less beautiful Capricornian types there is irregularity of feature,
an awkward gait, and often deformity of the bones and a swarthy skin.
The voice of the Capricornian may be strong, but will have occasional
harsh and rasping notes, and in talking or laughing may, at times, display
an unexepected " crack" in it.
The word that most aptly describes their walk is circumspect, and
although there may be alertness in the demeanour, there is ever a gravity
and a soberness. Secretary of the Lessons Department.

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THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE

Modcrp

Astrology
{First published in l8go)

NOVEMBER, I-9I6.

Elje CcOitcr's ©Jjacrtiatcry

INTELLECTUAL APATHY OF THE BRITISH

The Daily Chronicle of September 6th, in a leading article under

the heading of " Neglecting the things of the Mind," drew attention
to Sir Arthur Evans' presidential address to the British Association
in which he said ; " It is a lamentable fact that beyond any nation
of the West the bulk of our people remains sunk not in comparative
ignorance—for that is less difficult to overcome—but in intellectual
apathy. The dull incnria of the parents is reflected in the children,
and the desire for the acquirement of knowledge in our schools and
colleges is appreciably less than elsewhere."
If we compare this statement with many made by those who are
seeking to discourage the cultivation of the * mortal mind' we are
faced with a problem well worth our understanding. That the bulk
of our people are sunk'in intellectual apathy we agree, for we have
had first hand'experience of the fact for many years. Between the
activities of the ' mortal mind' and the pure intellect there is an
abyss—an abyss, however, which any astrological student may safely
bridge.
 349 MODERN ASTROLOGY

During our astrological work in the past we have met men whom
the world thought " intellectual," but their knowledge we discovered
more often than not to be founded only on book-reading and to consist
of preconceived notions, resulting in their substituting prejudice for
judgment, while in place of REASON we found an INTELLECTUAL
APATHY which would not constrain them to take even a little trouble
to investigate a new subject/or themselves.
The triumphs of the Cretan civilisation,—to the wonders of which
Sir Arthur Evans in his speech1 paid such a striking tribute,—like
those of many other wonderful civilisations have passed away leaving
but traces behind. The stars, however, still continue to tell to us the
same story they told to all the civilisations of the past; yet the bulk of
our people in the West are intellectually too apathetic to take the
trouble to read them.
What is the story of the stars ? That every human being is a
" divine fragment," an emanation from God, a living spirit made
in the image of God, and with the latent ability to create through
love and truth a world in which he may live and move and have his
being. That every human being derived the germ of his intelligence
from his Father Star in heaven, whose brooding wings of wisdom
have spread over every civilisation the world has known, and will
continue to brood over all present and future civilisations until each
individual human being finishes the education that will teach him that
all humanity is One Family, destined to inherit the Kingdom of
Heaven.
This is the story that each student of Astrology may tell with
truth to those who seek the bridge between the ' mortal mind ' and
the pure intellect. The germ intelligence born with every man who
can respond to his horoscope, is Love, which expands into Wisdom by
loving without ceasing,—not one's own family alone, but the human
family which despite differences of race, colour, or creed is indissolubly
ONE. .r
The spiritual verities are the same to-day as they were in the past,

1
A veibatim report of this exceedingly interesting address was printed in the
English Mechanic and World of Science tor Sepiembi r 6th 1916. which can bo had for
z^d post free from Effingham House, Arundel Street. Strand, W.C.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSEKVATOKV 34
for Truth is undying, and Love is the essence of our being. Alas,
that we should possess it and not realise that it is there, hidden by the
clouds of the ' mortal mind! '
We may all ponder over the weighty words of Sir Arthur Evans
when he declares that " we live in a murky atmosphere amidst the
suggestion of the false, and there seems a real danger that the
recognition of truth as itself a tower of strength may suffer an eclipse."
Every student of Astrology, who is true to himself, must awake and
show the world that the murky atmosphere of materialism is
worshipped by the 'mortal mind,' and that the heaven we are seeking,
where love and wisdom reign, is reached by the intelligence that is
purified of all the dross which binds the selfish and personal mind.
Sir Arthur Evans, sharply as he criticises this nation, does not
despair of the educational future of a people that, as he says, " has
risen to the full height of the great emergency with which they were
confronted." He adds, " Can we doubt that out of the crucible of
fiery trial a new England is already in the moulding?" And he closes
his speech with these splendid words : " Let us champion the cause
of education, in the best sense of the word, as having regard to its
spiritual as well as its scientific side."
Here is a happy augury for the future. Ring out the old, ring
in the new, ring out the false, ring in the true.
We can see the dawn of a brighter day in the New Era into
which we are now entering and although we may not hasten the rising
of the Sun of truth yet we may point to its glory and voice the teaching
of the ancient astrologers who saw His Star rising in the East when
some two thousand years ago the Christ came to the Western world.
He will come again, we can even fee) His coming in our hearts to-day
amid the struggle between the false and the true; and we have seen
His Star at the apex of the trinity that shines over the destiny of a
new race.
It is the privilege of every reader of this magazine, and the
duty as well, to pass into the circulation of the new educational stream
that is now flowing as much sound astrological impetus as he or she
is capable of projecting-by his thought and action.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

THE COLLECTION OF BIRTHTIMES

" Sagittarius," whose letter appears in this issue, makes a protest

against the proposed collection of birthtimes advocated by our Recorder
in the August issue. We should have made no comment upon this
letter had it not been that " Sagittarius " is a particularly able student
whose aptitude in the study of Astrology we admire. There is much
to be said for, arid against, the remarks of Sagittarius. Those in
favour of this collection have a very strong argument in the fact that
all birthdays are registered by the law in various countries, and in
some, namely France and Scotland, the actual birthtimes are recorded;
and we can see no reason why an astrological institute should not do
the same and make an appeal to students of Astrology for information
that must be very helpful to future generations. The motive for the-
collection we can assure " Sagittarius " is a pure one, and while open
to abuse, like all other good motives, it will be less likely to be
harmful if the records are kept by those whom astrological students
can trust.
We know from a continuous experience that many persons who
are desirous of obtaining a correct copy of their nativities are prevented
from doing so by being unable to secure the time of their birth. Had
there been a record of the time on the birth certificate, or had such
a collection as is proposed been already in existence, this difficulty
would not have arisen.
" Sagittarius " does not object apparently to the birth-data being
recorded, provided permission has been given by the person or
parents concerned. Surely there can be little or no difficulty in
obtaining this permission ?
If we are Correctly informed the birthtimes of infants are
required, much more than those of adults, by the Recorder for future
reference, and the fact of asking for them publicly shows that there
is no desire to obtain the data without the permission of those interested.
In his biography of Prince Bismarck Mr Charles Lowe observes
that " a striking instance of human inability to see into the future was
presented by the parental announcement in a Berlin-newspaper of the-
birth of the future Chancellor, which, while recording the momentous.
 THli JiDIiOU'S OBSH]}VATOKV 343
fact, requested the friends of the family ' to dispense with their
congratulations.' "
In the New Age now dawning we want to discover our future men
and women leaders and to encourage those whose horoscopes show merit
and moral worth prevailing over self-seeking motives. We can without
hesitation say this in favour of the proposed collection, that no one
who believes in Astrology need fear the publication of his horoscope :
ail he has to fear is—A FOOL'S INTERPRETATION OF IT.
Since the question is one of vital interest to all students, we shall
be glad to know what our readers think of " Sagittarius's " protest.

A PROFESSIONAL ASTROLOGER

The statement has been made that the influence of the planet
Venus will be found to be prominent in the horoscopes of the most
skilful astrologers. Whether this be true or not, in a'statistical sense,
there is a very good reason why it should be so from a spiritual point
of view.
The question of talent or ability, where professional astrologers
are concerned, is decided by the enlightenment of the student who can
blend his intuition and reasoning faculties with a fair amount of
practical common sense. There are some professional astrologers
who are quite competent to judge a horoscope and interpret it in
scientific terms; who can, that is to say, give a very good reading and
judgment according to the ordinarily accepted rules ; but who cannot,
under any circumstances, allow for two very important considerations
—culture and environment.
We have known professional astrologers who could judge the
nature and tendency of certain influences with great accuracy, and
who yet failed to infer the manner in which those influences would be
translated ; while others without the scientific knowledge would
forecast with remarkable precision the exact nature of events.
The story has been told in the early numbers of this Magazine
how, during the course of our first investigations into the status of
Astrology in this country, we visited all the professional astrologers
we could find in Great Britain, in order to learn the actual conditions
 344 MODHItN ASTROLOGY

of those prnctising Astrology, Those of our friends who have known

us for many years, are aware that the very last intention connected
with all our thoughts on Astrology was to take up professional work.
Indeed, in the truest sense we may say the work was thrust upon us;
and happily so, for it has turned out to have been a more helpful
method of spreading a knowledge of Astrology than we could ever
have dreamed of. However, in the course of our wanderings from
town to town some twenty years ago we came to Halifax, and
discovered there the most conscientious and intuitive astrologer we
had ever met, in the person of Mr Martin Ringrose—then known in
the professional world as "Helios." Martin Ringrose was a
spiritually minded man whose belief in Astrology was founded on a
truly religious basis, and the judgments he gave (and we were
fortunate in seeing many of them), were destined to help and comfort
those who received them. His terms were very moderate, and he
gave more pains and labour to his work than any student we have ever
met. Martin Ringrose was born at 1.44 a.m., rectified time, 23/ll/,55
- Yorkshire. He was a handsome man with full intelligent eyes, fair
hair and clear complexion, and a most pleasing expression. He died a
few years ago, at Harrogate, where we last saw him in very comfortable
circumstances.
We spent several hours with Mr Ringrose in Halifax, and
having first visited him in that town we enquired of him if he
knew Mr George Wilde, a professional astrologer, also living in
Halifax. And it is out of no disrespect to the late Mr George Wilde
that we say that owing to the information that was given us at that
time it was not thought advisable to reveal our identity to Mr Wilde.
We therefore decided to call and consult him professionally without
giving any name, and this we did, having about one hour's very
interesting conversation with him. The following particulars, however,
were learned later.
Mr Geo. Wilde was born at 11.30 p.m. IfiM/'fiO, Leeds,and had
been employed as a railway signalman before he entered into practice as
a professional astrologer. He undoubtedly had much ability to interpret
a
The horoscope was published in O.M.M.M for April 1914. and is as follows ;
x ^19. xi III 12, xii to. i / 14. ii iii K12; 0r27-io. 5x9.52. 5 T6.29.
? 011.7, ^2517.17. 1? 4119.11, I? n 5.32, Vx 27.57
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 345
horoscopes scientifically, though he was prone to give hasty judgment
and was not at all neat or over careful in his work. For many years
he used an ordinary rubber stamp for his maps instead of the usual
printed map-forms, and perhaps did not spend quite sufficient time in
getting the ascendant as exact as he might have done. However he
could give a very quick and ready judgment, which in the main was
good and useful to his clients.
During the twenty years of our professional work we have had
many of Mr Wilde's maps and delineations forwarded to us, and so
far as this enables us to judge of his work we can say that where his
clients were of the working or lower middle class order he was
generally successful in his judgments, but when they moved in refined
surroundings and were of the higher intellectual order his judgments
were faulty and did not sufficiently allow for the facilities that come
through culture and opportunity.
We were especially interested in his work, for at times we
differed very much in our judgment of the same horoscope, and this
especially where the influence of Saturn was concerned—which he
considered wholly bad and fateful.
At one time about the year 1911 we were engaged in much
correspondence over a client who sent us a cheque for some work with
instructions that if we would not do the work we should forward the
cheque to Mr Geo. Wilde asking him to undertake it. Mr Wilde
however returned the cheque, being unwilling to accept the work as
we had declined it, and the correspondence resulted in an exchange of
views which at the time was very interesting from a professional
point of view.
We do not feel much hesitation in saying that while we
considered Mr Geo. Wilde a fatalistic astrologer, we do not think
that he was pessimistic. This tendency to fatalism however made
him very definite in some of his statements, and we are bound to
admit that at times he did much harm by the positive and assertive
manner in which he made his predictions. Advertising extensively,
he had a large clienthle and his continuation in this line of work for so
long a period proved that he was successful. With his scientific
deductions he blended a certain amount of intuition which he derived
from Venus conjunction Uranus, and Jupiter, his ruling planet, exalted
346 MODEKN ASTROLOGY

in the sign Cancer. But he was at times far too impulsive and
outspoken, due to Mars rising in square aspect to Mercury and
opposition Jupiter.
We cannot say that he was very philosophical. His astrology
was a purely scientific method of divination into which no occult or
metaphysical considerations must enter. With him Astrology stood on
its merits as an experimental science ; he fully believed it to be a
science, and was quite honest in his declarations that Astrology was
quite sufficient without Theosophy or any other system of thought
applied to human nature. He could not be accused of having any
exceptional fads or notions, with the exception of his " new aspects "
and his strange misunderstanding of 'apparent time* in relation to
the horoscope, both of which are dealt with in a review by Mr H. S.
Green on p. 102 of this volume. He had studied on the old lines
and most implicitly believed the ancient -astrologers knew ail there
was to know about the science, and while not exactly a copyist he did
not allow himself to do much independent thinking except where his
new aspects were concerned. But we are inclined to think that he
availed himself of these ' new aspects' in order to account for
happenings he could not trace to the ordinary influences.
Mr George Wilde was fortunate in securing the friendship of
Dr Richard Garnett, the Keeper of Books at the British Museum,
and ws were aware that much correspondence passed between them.
The friendship was planetary, as a comparison of their horoscopes
will show, and although Mr Wilde will never be widely known for
his literary attainments in the astrological field of work he did good
service by reprinting Tim Sou! and the Stars by A. G. Trent (Dr
Richard Garnett), which had originally appeared in the University.
Magazine in 1880, and which is now out of print. In collaboration
with Mr Dobson he published a book entitled Natal Astrology which
has had some success, but when he tried his hand at almanac making
and published " Antares Almanac" it turned out a failure. He was
for many years very friendly with Raphael, but finally fell out with
him, in fact he was not very agreeable towards his contemporaries and
if we may say so we suspected him of being too ready to look down
upon those in the same line of work as himself.
Towards the close of his life he wrote us some very friendly
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 347
letters, and we feel quite sure that had we encouraged him he would
have written some good articles for this magazine, but unfortunately
our methods of working evidently displeased him very much. We
cannot however accuse him of jealousy or rivalry in any sense. lie
simply disagreed with our " occult " interpretation of Astrology and
what is more he was quite incapable of understanding it. Astrology
to him was a practical science: why then introduce such notions as
the soul's re-embodiment, or such far-fetched ideas as "karma" or
" ruling one's stars," etc.—ridiculous 1
Fortunately the astrological field is a very large one and there is
room for many professional astrologers. Astrologers will come and
go, some will leave their mark on the sands of time and others will be
forgotten, but it does not matter who they are or what their particular
notions may be, provided they are honest and live up to what they
profess to teach. George Wilde was a virile and outspoken man
who according to his lights did his very best to give his clients not
only the best value for the remuneration he received from them, but
also the best that was in him. We are thankful that at no time have
we sent him one unkind thought, and at all times we have placed him
as a man who lived up to the high-water mark of his intelligence.
He will live in our memory as one of the professional astrologers
of the old school and not of the new.

THE TfIEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY AND POLITICS

This is the anniversary month of the Theosophical Society founded
by Madame Blavatsky and Colonel H. S. Olcott in New York,
November 17, 1875.
On page 91 of RaphaeVs Almanac for the coming year 1917 the
proprietor says " I am not a member of the Theosophical Society ; bat
" left it some years ago. Yet I believe in Theosophy from top to toe.
" It is the one doctrine which will satisfy the human mind and explain
" the apparently extraordinary contradictions of human life. Study
" it yourself with an open mind. Pay no attention to the scribblers
" who seek to belittle everything which their feeble intellects canact
(t «j
grasp.
Yet surely Raphael has brought himself to the same level as
these 'scribblers ' whan he assumes the right'to criticise the President
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

of the Theosophical Society, although he is not even a member of

that society ?
As a member of the T.S. for nearly thirty years we can assure
Raphael, with an assurance bom of knowledge, that Mrs Besant will
never "wreck" the Theosophical Society. It is a great pity that
Mrs Besant's work in India is so little understood. She has done
more to reconcile the many sects in India than it is possible to describe.
She is loved by the majority of the Indians who know of her, and it
is only necessary to witness the arrival of Mrs Besant in India after
a short absence to be convinced that they love her with a loyalty and
devotion that very few people of the world enjoy to-day. Mrs Besant
understands the Indians in a peculiar manner, which is often a puzzle
to those who have lived with them for many years without gaining
their confidence. She is unflinching in her love of TRUTH, and
untiring in her efforts to encourage the realisation of the first object
of the Society—"To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood
of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour."
If, as Raphael says, " politics belong to the region of human
selfishness," is it not time that Mrs Besant should bring some of her
great theosophical knowledge to bear upon politics, especially when
she KNOWS how much the British nation has to gain by her unity
with India? Raphael is fully aware of the importance of the
exaltation of Britain's star in India's ruling sign. He also knows
Mrs Besant's horoscope, which should have revealed to him much
more than the 'scribbler's' remarks in the Times about the Home
Rule for India League, or the short-sighted policy of the Madras
Government in requiring a surety of £123 6s. Sd. from her paper
New India" for which sudden demand no justification has even been
pretended—no reply having been sent to Mrs Besant's letter asking
upon what grounds the demand was made.
Mrs Besant pays the penalty of all reformers, and advanced
thinkers; she is misunderstood, criticised, and libelled. But she is
Mrs Besant, and goes on her way undaunted and undeterred.
The Theosophical Society is honoured in having Mrs Besant
for its President, yet it is important to remember that the political
work done by Mrs Besant in India is done by herself, as Mrs Besant,
and not in any way as an official of the Theosophical Society.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 349

INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY
New Moon 25/11/1916 8.50 a.m. G.M.T.
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/ 2.47 /3 30 iiie.si *25.13 T26.33!^ 310.26R. sti6.io
(1) London (2) Berlin (5) PetroRrad (4) New York
Mars is rising over nearly the whole of Europe, making the
spirit of martial excitement active everywhere. Fortunately it is well
aspected, being in trine and mutual reception with Jupiter and
sextile Venus, which two planets are in the fourth and tenth houses
respectively at London. This will bring good fortune to the
nation and to western Europe generally ; we shall have friends abroad
and shall meet with success; there will be increase of credit and of
international good will, and some occasion for rejoicing. It indicates
a rather less embittered and contentious period and more inclination
toward toleration, friendliness, and the lessening of strife. Our forces
will prosper by land and sea. Visits will be exchanged between
friendly powers: the bonds between the Allies will be drawn closer;
and rulers and statesmen will reap increased popularity. International
diplomacy will be very active, probably beneath the surface; secret
treaties or arrangements not openly known will be satisfactorily
conducted ; and this will be a favourable time for international finance.
It will be a less anxious time both for the people and their rulers, and
indicates a quieter and more prosperous period on the whole than for
some time past.
Some engagement or marriage in exalted circles is probable.
The weather is likely to be mild for the time of year.
These indications apply chiefly to England and France, but they
are not very dilferent at Berlin, where Venus and Jupiter will be only
a very little way past the upper and lower meridian; and this should
extend their pacific and harmonising influence over a wide area.
Venus culminates between 9° and 10oE, which runs through Western
Germany, Switzerland, and northern Italy. The chief influence
350 MODERN ASTROLOGY

contrary to peace here is that Mars is much closer to the cusp of the
ascendant at Berlin than at London, and Saturn is in the seventh
house there.
At New York, Venus will rise andjupiter set, showing prosperity
and peaceful relations ; some friendly understanding is likely to be
arrived at with a foreign nation, and some visitor of importance
received from abroad. Some important commercial or financial
problem will arise and cause much trouble. The President and
government will be unfortunate and unpopular.
The place of the lunation falls as under in various horoscopes:—
King George a Asc * J Emteror Germany ff fll
Czar <1 ^ a V. Austria a. <s
The lunation will rise in the Atlantic Ocean ; culminate in East
Russia, the Caucasus, Turkey in Asia, and Persia ; set in China ; and
be on the nadir in the Pacific Ocean.

"THE KEY OF HEAVEN

OR
The Religion ok the Stars"

Our attention has been drawn to a small booklet having the above
title and issued from an address in Liverpool, by someone terming
himself a " pill specialist " and giving the name of
A. Leo
The character of the book will sufficiently reveal itself to the
thoughtful person at a glance, and in mentioning it we have given it
more attention than it deserves. We do so because, as it professes to
deal with Astrology, it is possible that those who know nothing of our
work or who have a prejudice against the subject of Astrology may
imagine that this mischievous publication has some connection with
Modern Astrology, whose Editor since first he began to write on
Astrology in 1890 has never used any other signature than
Alan Leo
We ask our friends to be on the alert to prevent any such false
impression.
 35r

^uit tti Scorpio

This sign has always been considered the Judas of the twelve;
yet it is capable of the most heroic virtues, as well as vices.
There are no milk and water characters born in this sign of fixed
water, Scorpio. They have the power of attachment to one loved
and can indeed lay down their lives for love's sake. At the same time,
they are capable of great hatred; their greatest faults are jealousy,
pride, secretiveness and suspicion, and their power of harsh speech
and criticism. They are somewhat self-righteous and expect others
to live up to their standard.
Their power of concentration is remarkable and they are very
industrious and thorough in all they do; indeed strenuous effort and
great endurance is the breath of life to Scorpio.
The evolved type of Scorpio is a very fine character, giving
pyschic gifts and the mystic power, great self-control and enormous
energy.
Health.—Scorpio people are liable to severe internal complaints,
fistula, tumours, jaundice, etc. They need the rest cure, and careful
simple diet,—not drugs, which Scorpio is inclined to use to a dangerous
extent.
Occitfralions.—Surgeon, doctor, masseur, apothecary, sailor,
publican, butcher, etc.
Gems.—Bloodstone, garnet, jasper ; all deep red stones.
B. Leo.

" Ah, ne'er so dire a thirst of glory boast,

Nor in the critic let the man be lost!
Good nature and good sense must ever join—
To err is human, to forgive divine."
352

<33bit£t; jUicta

TO ALL CORRESPONDENTS

We are constantly receiving communications of one kind or another

from readers of this magazine. Some are suggestions, some criticisms,
some letters intended for publication, some birth data or nativities of interest
to ourselves or to other readers. It is impossible to reply to all these
correspondents-personally, or even to acknowledge their communications
severally except where stamped addressed envelopes are enclosed for this
purpose: were we to do so, we should certainly do nothing else, for time
would not suffice.
But we do not wish the senders to think we are unmindful of their
communications, or ungrateful for them. On the contrary we realise fully
the immense value of being kept in touch with the thoughts of our readers in
this way, and wish that our correspondents were even more numerous than
they are. Each letter is read with interest, and careful consideration is
given to the writer's remarks. Often some item of value is extracted which
later appears in the magazine, but owing to the constant pressure oti the
space available such items in nearly every case have to be held over for
several months before they can appear, and it may easily happen that the
sender thinks we have ignored or forgotten the item he or she has taken the
trouble to send us. Where this has happened, will such senders please
accept our assurance that such has not been the care. We do not despise
any item of information likely to be of value or interest to readers, and those
not published are collected and retained for a future occasion when leisure
and printing facilities may permit of their being made use of.
It is true that such items are rarely received in a form suitable for
printing without rctranscription or rearrangement, and we wonder whether
this is always due to the sender's lack of acquaintance with the requirements
of a sub-editor, or just want of thought: we suspect the latter, in most
cases. Where matter is concise, accurate, and written on one side of the
paper only, it can be sent to the printer without further preparation, and
this naturally increases the likelihood of its early appearance. Perhaps
casual contributors will kindly bear this in mind.
Mr Stuart Armour, of Field, B.C.—to mention one name at random—has
more than once sent us newspaper cuttings relating to children born under
remarkable conditions (e.g. in a motor-car), thoughtfully adding name and
 OBITER DICTA 353
date of publication. Items of this kind are always valued, and we some-
times wonder whether readers unconsciously take it for granted that we
see the same daily and weekly papers as they do—else surely we should
oftener receive cuttings of this kind. Or can it be that each thinks some
one else is sure to do it ? Scarcely a day passes but some paragraph
directly or indirectly interesting to astrologers appears, and though we keep
keenly on the look out we cannot expect not to miss some unless we receive
outside help.

OUR FIRST SUBSCRIBER

The first subscriber to " Modern Astrology," Mr Harry Adams, passed

away at 3 p.m., Friday, September Sth, at Beresford Lodge, Monkton,
Kent. Many of our old subscribers who visited Margate for their summer
holidays can recollect the bungalow of Mr Adams near f lodge's Flagstaff at
Cliftouville. Mr Adam exhibited a large advertisement board of Modern
Astrology, at his own expense, and was never more happy than when
engaged in voicing his belief in Astrology to all he met. He was an enthu-
siastic propagandist for our literature and did much to convince others of
the value of our work. He was an extremely generous man, and incapable
of doing harm. He possessed a wonderful fund of humour and a very
hospitable nature.

"FORTUNE TELLERS' LETTERS"

" The War Office states that owing to the fact that correspondence with
book-makers, lottery agencies, fortune tellers, and pseudo-scientific institu-
tions affords an easy method of conveying information to and from neutral
and enemy countries which might be of value to the enemy, and that the
tolti/tte and obscurity of such correspondence make it difficult to control, the
Censor will in future stop all letters of this kind found in the mails to or from
neutral or enemy countries. Letters, any part of which is in code, will also
be stopped. In all letters addressed to neutral or enemy countries, the full
name and addressof the writer should be given, otherwise such correspondence
is liable to retention."
The foregoing cutting from the daily paper will be read with interest by
all our subscribers abroad. It is possible some letters intended for Modern
Astrology Office may have been relumed to their senders ; if so we regret
it. Clearness and brevity are great excellencies in correspondence at all
times, and especially so now, to judge by the passage we have italicised.
334 HOUiniN AS'I'KOLOOV

" MODERN ASTROLOGY" OFFICE

The address of Mooerm Astrology Office has NOT been changed. It
is, as heretofore, 40 Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, E.C.
In one or two cases enquiries for iiooks, letters dealing with professional
work, etc., have been addressed to the Astrological Institute at 2, Upper
Woburn Place. This means delay, as they have to he readJressed.
It is perhaps natural that mistakes should occasionally have been made,
but the organisations known as (i) Modern Astrology Office, (ii) the Astro-
logical Institute, and (iii) the Astrological Society, are, as working units,
entirely distinct and separate from each other. All these organisations were
founded under the same auspices and to further the same end—the re-estab-
lishment of the ancient science of Astrology, which through planetary
symbology seeks to explain the one universal spirit in its varied manifesta-
tions. But this object they serve in different capacities. The Staff of each
is diTcrent, and each has its own field »f activity, and it will make greatly for
economy of time and ease of working if our friends will bear in mind that;—
(i) All Letters intended for Mr Alan Leo should be addressed to
" Modern Astrology " Office,
40, Imperial Buildings,
London, E.C.
(ii) All Letters concerning the Astrological Institute should be
addressed to
The Secretary to the Principal
Astrological I ustitute,
2, Upper Woburn Place,
W.C.
(iii) All Letters relating to the/ir/ro/ogifR/ Society should bo addressed
Hon. Secretary,
Astrological Society,
2, Upper Woburn Place, W.C.
The Astrological Institute acd the Astrological Society rent rooms in
the same premises, but they arc distinct organisations, although many
members of the Society have also become members of the Institute.

Greenwich Time in Ireland.—Greenwich Mean Time is now adopted

as the standard in place of Dublin mean time as heretofore, tin: change
dating from 2 a.m. G.M.T. October 1st.
 35'5

(Steal lEar
By G. E. Sutcmffe,
Aii/hor of " The Foundations of Physical Astrology"
IV.—ARMAGEDDON
(Concluded front p. 329)
It will be seen from the foregoing that the solar eclipse which
immediately preceded the crisis of the war was in good aspect to the
M.C. of the world-horoscope, and that after the critical day August 26
there was a rapid succession.of favourable transits. The abandonment
of the German attempt to surround and cut of! the allied armies, which
had nearly succeeded, coincided with one of the strongest of these
favourable transits, ^ ^ on September 4. From September 6 to 12
the German Army was in retreat, after which it took up a strong
position on the north of the river Aisne.
Although the admixture of good and evil aspects from the second
week of August to the end •f September agrees with a similar
admixture in the character of the events, it is desirable to consider
them separately, in order to avoid confusion. We will first dispose of
the evil aspects, as they are small in number, though powerful in nature.
On August 10 and 11 we have <? □ M.C. and d - S d Asc. On
the 10th France declared war on Austria, but as this was a necessary
consequence of preceding aspects and events, it need not be related to
the above aspects. On the 10th the German warships Goeben and
Breslau reached the Dardanelles, and this was followed on the 14th,
when we have .T - ? □ ? , by the Officers of the British Naval Mission
at Constantinople being replaced by Germans. The exact coincidence
of the above aspects and events should be carefully noted.
1914 Aug io Arrival of the Cueton and Breslau at lite Dardanelles:
<J a M.C.
1914 Aug it Purchase of the two warships by Turkey [Whittabcr's
Aimanack, 1915, p. 7S6); S-t i Asc.
1914 Aug 14 Replacement of the British'Naval Mission by Germans
rf - S D ? .
The failure of the British and French Fleets to capture or destroy
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

these two vessels after they left Messina on the 6th, was one of the
greatest disasters sustained by the Entente Powers since the war
began. The series of events above recorded were not of great
importance taken by themselves, but the consequences that followed
from them were extremely serious. They enabled Germany to force
Turkey into the war on the side of the Central Powers, thus closing
the Dardanelles, and partially isolating Russia. The trouble in Egypt,
the disasters in Gallipoli, the wars in the Caucusus, and the Persian
Gulf, the expedition to Salonica, the destruction of Servia by
Bulgaria, and the treachery and indecision of Greece and Roumania,
are all the direct effects of this inititial failure and the events above
enumerated. The initial failure on the 6th is perhaps explained by
the double transit <? - 2 Q i? on the afternoon of the 5th, followed by
J - 2 O W on the 8th, for the German warships did not reach a place
of safety until the 10th.

The Seventh Vial

The remaining aspect of evil import was'? 8 2 on August 28 1914.

This was an aspect of primary importance since it was the last of
the seven vials of the book of Revelations. We shall see that the
events coincident with it were also of primary importance. In
considering the effects of evil aspects, we should bear in mind that at
this time they were acting with special virulence, owing to the primary
directions, b O and I, and the secondary direction D 8 <? p. Saturn
being slow in movement, a transit of this planet covers a longer period
than that of a transit of a quickly moving planet. The battle of
Mons began on August 23 and the retreat of the British and French
armies continued until September 3, a period of ten days. The
middle date was August 28, which was the date of the transit, '? 8 2 .
This retreat was not only a calamity in itself, but the consequences
were still more serious. They involved the loss of the whole of
Belgium and the north of France for an indefinite period, and the
cruel martyrdom of two nations. The total loss by England and
France from this retreat is at present incalculable. linearly involved
the loss of Calais, and the possible invasion of England. It was a
disaster of the first magnitude.
 THE GREAT WAR 357
Simultaneous with the above was the German victory of
Tannenberg in East Prussia. At this famous battle the fighting
began on August 26 and lasted until August 31 ; but the victory was
practically gained on the 28th {Times History of the War, iii 233),
although the Russian army did not receive its coup da grace until the
31st, when General SamsonofF was killed and the greater portion of
his army destroyed or taken prisoner. The mid-period of this event,
as well as the time when the victory was practically decided, coincided
with what has been termed the seventh vial, '? 8 2 , on August 28 1914,
"The dashing Russian invasion of East Prussia had failed, and
had cost our ally the loss of an army": ib. p. 237. Hindenberg
had won the most complete victory which had so far fallen to any
commander in any single battle of war : p. 236. His prisoners were
as numerous as those taken at Sedan. "He had indeed destroyed a
Russian army in a battle which was perhaps the most decisive victory,
as it was intellectually the most brilliant performance of the whole
war " : ib. p. 240.

The Favourable Aspects

Having now seea that adverse aspects of the transits coincide

with disasters to the Entente Powers, we will turn our attention to the
favourable aspects on p. 329, Since there are no favourable directions,
primary or secondary, the favourable transits are necessarily limited in
scope. They can only serve to mitigate or leaven the evils precipitated.
The first of the favourable transits (2 * on August 18
coincided with the Serbian victory over Austria at Shabatz at the
battle of the Jadar, whilst that of August 20 ( 2 * 0-])) was coincident
with the occupation of Gumbinnen and Lyck in East Prussia by the
Russian army, and the complete rout of the Austriansby Serbia at the
battle of the Drina. The Serbian victory "necessitated the continued
concentration in the southern theatre of the war of five Austrian
army corps which the Teutons would fain have transferred to the
battlefields of France or Galicia":. T. H. IF. ii 316. The fall of
Gumbinnen on the other hand compelled the Germans to take the
invasion of East Prussia seriously: ii. iii 231. Loth events there-
fore tended to lighten the pressure of the Germans on the French and
35S MODKHN ASTUOl 0;JY

British anrjies, at a time when the object of the Central Powers could
only be obtained by a decisive victory in the west.
The solar eclipse on August 21 in close sextile with the M.C. of
the World-Horoscope should have an important influence for good.
The effects of an eclipse are usually regarded as not immediate, but
spread over a certain period following the eclipse. Such was the
effect in the present instance.
The important, and for Germany fatal, event that took place
about August 21 will be found described in detail in the Times History
of the War: ii 44-51. We will here indicate only the main points.
As stated by military critics, " concentration of superior force at the
decisive point is the grand rule of war, for success at the decisive point
is success everywhere." The plan of Germany was to gain a decisive
victory in the west in the early days of the war, and thus have her
army free to crush Russia afterwards. For this purpose she arranged
her army so as to be strong at the two wings, and relatively weak at
the centre. The slowly moving centre had to engage the armies of
England and France, whilst the two wings were to swing around the
flanks of the enemy, completely envelope him, and produce a " super-
Sedan " : ib. p. 42. It would not do for the German left wing to enter
France vih Lorraine because there it would be faced by the French
fortified line Verdun-Toul. Hence the whole army had to pass
through Belgium.
The above object needed to be carried out at all costs if Germany
hoped to win the war. The Russian invasion of East Prussia did not
matter, the French invasion of Alsace-Lorraine did not matter, the
Russian invasion of Galicia did not matter. None of these were
decisive points. The decisive point at that time was the north of
France, and success there would have been success every^vhere.

A Fatal Decision
What happened about August 21, when the moon and the eclipsed
sun were in sextile with the M.C. of the Worid-Horcscope, was that
at that time Germany made a fatal decision. She detached four army
corps from her left wing to drive the French out of Lorraine. These
four corps defeated the French next day, August 22, at Saarburg, but
had so weakened her left wing that its grand strategy could not be
 THE GKEAT \VA14 359
carried out. Since the left wing could not act, neither could the right,
and the whole plan collapsed. The detached army corps at the
critical moment found themselves faced by the fortified line Verdun-
Toul, the obstacle which Germany had invaded neutral Belgium in
order to avoid ! When we remember that the violation of Belgian
territory brought England into the war, and caused Germany to have
to contend against the strongest navy in the world, and that the
advantage she hoped to gain at so great a cost was actually thrown
away by this fatal decision, we have some conception of the colossal
blunder that Germany made about August 21 1914 when the sextile
aspect with our world-horoscope was operating. When Von Moltke
was placed in a similar dilemma in 1870, he rigidly stuck to his plan,
though thereby he apparently abandoned ninety miles of country to the
enemy : ib. p. 40. But on this occasion Germany was without her
Moltke. This grand mistake in tactics has been attributed to the
German Emperor, and in all probability this is true, for the solar eclipse
was square with both his radical moon and radical Uranus. Some sf
the fruitage of this mistake will probably be reaped by the Emperor
about the time of another eclipse, that of July 30 1916, which is in
conjunction with his Saturn, r. and p., and in opposition to his radical
Sun whilst his progressed Mars is in square to his radical Saturn.
The German Emperor is considered by some to have theatrical
tendencies, and to be fond of playing to the gallery. He could not
endure a temporary invasion of Alsace-Lorraine by the French,
but must needs smash them at once. He succeeded in accomplishing
his immediate object. He played to the gallery, but he lost the war.

The Kaiser's Choice

It is said in occult circles, that some years ago there was a crisis
in the life of the German Emperor. He had placed before him for
decision " The Great Choice." The Occult Hierarchy had hoped
that at the next great contest between the Light and Dark Powers,
the whole of the Teutonic races would be on the side of the Occult
Hierarchy; Theosophist, February 1916, p. 518. The German
Emperor was offered the post of leader in a movement which would
have linked the sub-races of the fifth Root-Race together in peace
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and amity. He decided differently. He chose the path of worldly

pomp, and military glory. It is a general rule that when a soul
rejects the higher for the lower, heshall lose both, the worldly dominion
which tempted him shall vanish away. " All the kingdoms of the
world will I give thee," says the Saturnian tempter, " if thou wilt fall
down and worship me " ; but these treaties of the evil one, like those
of his German pupil, are ' scraps of paper.' When Mars is square
to Saturn, and the sun and moon conjoined therewith, in July-August
1915, we shall see how these Saturnian promises will be fulfilled.1

The Favourable Aspects—[coniiuucd)

From August 27 to the end of the month, there was a rapid series
of good transits. On August 27 28 ?*?, 30
31 (7*0 and <?*!). As stated above the most critical day in the
retreat from Mons was August 25. On the 27th, therefore,
the retreat had passed the point of extreme danger, and England's
" contemptible little army" had not been wiped out. But for an
explanation of the effects of the above good aspects we must look to
the Eastern theatre.

The Eastern Front

The Russian invasion of Galicia was effected by two armies under
Generals Ruzsky and Brusiloff. Ruzsky's army crossed the Austrian
frontier and occupied Brody, whilst Brusiloff crossed the frontier
further south at \Voloszysk. The two armies effected a junction on
the 27th, and henceforth was one army, which successfully attacked
the Austrian army under von Auffenberg along the whole front. This
junction had been preceded by two days'fighting in which the Austrian
position fortified by field works had been taken by assault: T. H. W.
iii, 250-251. The junction of the two armies therefore on the 27th
(i? * y) was a victory for the Allies. The battle raged, but was

1
[The MS of this article was received some months before the above date. It
will be remembered that the great forward push of the Allies was initiated by them
on the first of July 1916; the entry of Rontnania into the war on the side of the
Allies followeo on August 27th ; while the monster Zeppelin attack on London,
which proved a complete failure, look place during the night of September 2-3,
within a few hours of the actual completion of the aspect <S O —Ed,]
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favourable to Russia on the 2Sth (2*5). On the 29th the Austrian

front was still unbroken, but the battle was decided : ib. p. 251.
The " crucial and brilliant operation which determined the fate of the
battle" was the arrival of Russian reinforcements under General
Radho Dmitrieff on the 30th (2*(?): j6. p. 252. On the following
day the Russian army made a breach in the Austrian position near
the little village of Botszonce, and once the line had been pierced the
entire Austrian right gave way. The retreat became a headlong flight,
and the Austrian army temporarily lost all fighting value: ib. p. 252.
This was on August 31; <?*!;). On September 2
(2 * b), the anniversary of Sedan, the great city of Lemberg was in
possession of the Russians, after seven days' continuous fighting, and
the Austrians were retreating in complete disorder: ib. p. 253. On
September 3 the Russians entered Lemberg without a shot being
fired (2 A $); ib. p. 255.
The lowest estimate of the Austrian losses in this battle was
130,000, and some authorities place them at nearly double that
number; ib. p. 254. Apart from the moral effect of the capture of
Lemberg the strategical value of its possession to the Russians was
of the greatest, for its railways radiated in all directions : ib. The
victory of von Hindenberg at Tannenberg was a poor set-off for the
utter debacle of the Austrians two days later at Lemberg : ib. ii 46.

The Western Front

The same date and aspect, September 3 (2 Af), brings us

back to the Western front, for on this date the German army arrived
at its nearest approach to Paris : " The fiery flood of German invasion
which had swept across the fields of France and Belgium, burning
and blotting out like molten lava, burst in thunder on the steel-bound
barrier of the French-British army at bay—AND RECOILED":
T.H.W., ii. 47. "Thursday September 3," said the British
official report, " marked the end of our Army's long retirement from
the Belgian frontier through Northern France " : ib. p. 41.
On September 4 we arrive at the important Jovian transit y * ^.
The importance of this aspect is enhanced by the fact that it was in
operation during practically the whole of 1914: it was exact on
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February 11, September 4 and November 29 of that year. Since it
represents the will aspect of our cosmos, it may be expected to have
a powerful influence at crititical phases of the war.
In Sir John French's despatch published on September 14 he
said:—"the German strategic plan had been entirely foiled. The
" German army since the battle near Hons on August 23 had been
" playing its part in the colossal strategic endeavour to create a Sedan
" for the Allies by outflanking and enveloping the left of their whole
" line, so as to encircle and drive both British and French to the
"south. On September 4 THIS scheme was ABANDONED." On
this date also the Russian armies assumed the offensive along a front
between the Vistula and the Bug,—" The announcement was received
by the Russian people, flushed and rejoicing over the victory of
Lemberg, with immense enthusiasm": T. H. IV. iii 257. The
Germans had suspended their movement on Paris, and the eastern wing
of their armies was west of the Argonne, where they were prevented
from operating by the French fortified line Verdun-Toul: ih. i 480.
They had sacrificed the campaign by the fatal decision to drive
the French out of Lorraine on the day of the solar eclipse, August 21.
On September 4 a like fatal decision was made, for four or
five German Army Corps were then transferred from the western
to the eastern front, to the aid of the retreating Austrian army :
ib. ii 46, 51, 55. Once more the fate of western civilisation had been
decided on the field of Chalons, where Attila had been overwhelmed,
and "where prophets innumerable had declared that some day
Armageddon would be fought" : ih. p. 54. Uranus was in conjunc-
tion with the radical Sun in the German Emperor's horoscope, and in
opposition to his radical and progressed Saturn, the fatal aspect in his
nativity, (0 S b )• The will aspect of the cosmos was against him.
Thus were two fatal decisions come to, which scattered to the
winds the whole German plan,—the plan for the carrying out of which
Germany had pledged her soul to the Evil One, and by the invasion of
neutral Belgium perpetrated one of the greatest crimes in history. On
the first of these fatal dates, the day of the solar eclipse, August 21,
the German army had 100 divisions against 75 divisions on the other
side; after the second fatal decision, September 4, owing to the
transfer of part of her army to Galicia, Germany had 80 divisions on
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the western front, with 95 divisions against her; ib. p. 51. In the
opinion of military critics, Germany ought to have allowed Alsace-
Lorraine and East Prussia to be invaded, and caused Austria to fight
a retiring action in Galicia, whilst she concentrated all her available
forces at the decisive point in Northern France. When success at
this decisive point had been attained, as under a Moltke it would have
been, victory at the other places would have come to her automatically.
"Success at the decisive point is success everywhere " : ib. p. 44.
" A Scrap of Paper "
Just one month after Germany had deliberately dishonoured
her sacred pledge, and thereby brought against her all the forces of
the British Empire, lost the sympathy and gained the execration of
the civilised nations, the weapon she had paid for so dearly fell from
her grasp. In order to use this powerful weapon, it was.necessary to
endure for a time the appearance of defeat, but one could not do this
and play to the gallery. Moltke would have ignored the gallery, and
played to the dress circle, but the German Emperor could not do this.
The weapon which, according to promise, the Evil One had placed in
his hands was beyond his strength. His arm was not strong enough
to wield it. All the kingdoms ir. the world may be given to a man,
but if he has not the strength to govern those kingdoms, the promise
is ' a scrap of paper.' Only he car. govern the world who has risen
above being effectively influenced by its praise or blame. The club
of a giant is a useless weapon in the hands of an infant, but the proud
bargainer with Mephistopheles never doubts his own strength, and it
is not the business of the other side to draw attention to the point.
The devotee of the Right Hand Path, who is usually a more advanced
soul, asks for no powers, but humbly prays that strength and wisdom
will be given him to use those rightly that may be conferred upon him.
The two actions which threw down the sceptre of a World-
Empire from the enfeebled grasp of the Kaiser occurred on August 21
and Sept. 4 : (0 eclipsed by J-H- M.C. and ^ * ^f). The first transit
was square to his radical Moon and Uranus; the second transit was
in conjunction with his radical Sun, and in opposition to his Saturn.
The wielder of the Saturnian Ray had kept his promise. The
wily Mephistopheles could afford to smile. " The stars in their
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courses" had fought against Germany; " He that sitteth in the

heavens shall laugh ; the Lord shall have them in derision " : Ps. ii 4.
Saturn, the planet sacred to the Jews, who in the Book of Job, i 6,
is classed among the sons of God, is that aspect of the Divine Nature
which is pitted against the proud and haughty, and which manifests
through worldly Principalities and Powers. Its functions are amongst
the profoundest mysteries of Occultism, One of the keys to this
mystery will be found in Anna Kingsford's Perfect. Wrty, in the
Appendix entitled " The Secret of Satan." There appears a close
link between this planet and the Hindu Narada, the Rishi of
Occultism par excellence ; Sec. Doc. ii 52."

Sedan and Super-Sedan

On September 5, 1914 we have Venus trine M.C., another good
transit which like the rest was tavourable to the Entente Powers.
On this day General Joffre met General French, when it was decided
to take the offensive forthwith: see Sir John French's despatch of
Sept. 17th. There was also a conference of the Powers which
changed the Entente into an Alliance, and the Allies agreed not to
treat for peace separately : T/ie Book of the Year, 1914, p. 167.
Moreover the German army corps sent from the western front to the
aid of Austria arrived too late, " for the Russians caught the Austrian
First Army at Tomasow on September 5 and drove it westwards " :
T.H.W. ii 46. Thus the object for the sake of which Germany
had sacrificed her sole chance of a decisive victory was not attained.
On September 5 the British were beyond the Seine, the Allied
Armies now rested to the west on Paris, and to the east on Verdun.
The moment had arrived when a blow- could be struck against the
a
Note.—The above passage was written about Sp.m. Indian Standard Time.
Shoiapur, India, on Sunday, Keb. 13th, 1916. Immediately after writing it, I
observed the close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, on the western horizon. The
point of this conjunction was that of my radical Sun, and was trine to my ascendant:
it was also in trine to the transit Neptune (which was tbenin trine to the ascendant],
and within orbs of conjunction with my radical and progressed Neptune. I mention
this fact because the above passage is mostly intuitional, and there is reason to
believe that at the present stage of evolution, the satisfactory working of the
intuitions depends largely upon favourable planetary aspects. There are five trines
in all, a combination which if not unique must be extremely rare. If the progressed
Neptune be counted, there were six trines, and when it is further noted that my
progressed Jupiter is permanenth in trine with my radical Moon, there was a total
of seven trines.—the sacred number.
 THE GREAT WAR

German communications ; ib. i 4S0. On the 6th, Generals Joffre and

French beRan their offensive, and the British army advancing through
the forest of Crecy: ib. ii 59.
On September 7 ( ? * ?) the British drove the enemy before it,
and the Germans commenced to retire towards the north-east. This
was the first time these troops had turned back since their attack on
Mons a fortnight before, and from reports received, the order to retreat
when so close to Paris was a bitter disappointment: ib. p. 59.
The battle of the Marne lasted from the morning of the 6th to
the evening of the 10th, but the German retreat began only on the 7th
and coincided with the sextile of Venus. This aspect governs the
period up to the 11th, when the battle of the Aisne began, which was
coincident with the next aspect, <7 * ? , which again is favourable.
On September 8 the French Sixth Army got to grips with the
German flank guard on the Ourcq, and the fighting became of the
most sanguinary character. The British fought their way to the
line of the Marne and Petit Morin. The Fifth French Army, greatly
assisted by the British operations, attacked the enemy fiercely, stormed
Montmirail and two other villages by hand-to-hand fighting, and
established itself on the Petit Morin. The flank of the second German
Army being now uncovered was obliged to withdraw, and the ninth
French Army was enabled to advance its centre and left to the line
of the Petit Morin : T.H.W. ii 62. It was not till three days later
that the full extent of the victory gained by the Allies on this day
was appreciated.
The moral effect of this success was enormous: ib. p. 67. On
September 9 the German Army had resigned itself to the idea of
general retreat, and the French Army was in full possession of the
west bank of the Marne: ib. p. 62. On September 10 the first and
second German Armies beat a hasty retreat, {ib. p. 63), and thus
came to an end the famous Battle of the Marne. The period embracing
this important battle, from September 4 when the retreat from Mons
had ceased, to September 11th when the battle of the Aisne began,
was under the influence of fourfavourable transits,—® , ? A M.C.,
?*?,<?* 9 .
"The Marne was no ordinary battle. History records a score or
"more of so-called 'decisive battles,' each of which in turn has stood
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*' like a mighty rock to divert the fortunes of the human race into this
" channel or that; and there is hardly one of these which had not
"been more immediately decisive in itself and, therefore, more
" apparently decisive in its effects upon history than the ' Battle of
" the Marne '; but the more we appreciate the issues at stake and the
" really final character of the decision determined in the basin of the
" Marne, the more we shall be convinced that the importance of that
" tremendous trial was as much greater than any previous conflict as
" the population and prosperity of the world to-day exceeds those of
"time past. The tide of Teutonic invasion here reached its pitch.
" For months the rollers continued to hurl themselves upon the
"breakwater, but thebarrier did not break—the tide was on the ebb":
ib. p. 47.
In order to realise the full significance of the Battle of the Marne
we must remember that the German invasion was very similar to the
attack on a sleeping household by an armed burglar. It was essential
for'the burglar to disable the household before it became aroused and
was able to defend itself. Once the household was aroused, without
disablement, the case of the burglar was hopeless, for the forces of
law and order would then increase continually until the burglar was
overwhelmed. The anniversary of Sedan was on September 2,
and the plan of Germany was to accomplish a super-Sedan on the
same date by enveloping the whole of the French and British Armies.
This was its sole chance of accomplishing its object; and with a
Moltke at its head, it might have been accomplished:—
" When the French advanced beyond the Moseile in 1870, von
" Moltke detrained on the Rhine instead of on the Saar, and thus
" apparently abandoned ninety miles of country to the enemy. In that
" crisis the Germans had kept their heads, and, in exactly similar
" circumstances it behoved their sons to keep theirs. ■. . The
" distracted Kaiser compromised," AND LOST : ib. p. 52.
The word of the prophets had been fulfilled. The Battle of
Armageddon had been decided on the field of Chalons.
The civilisation of the Fifth Root-Race had escaped destruction:
77)eoso/>//is/, Feb. 1916, p. 514-5. Uranus, the Ray of the Manu,
had saved His people : (W * %' )■
[To bi coniitiueii.)
 ^Cfttcrs to the (EDitor
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Neglect of these considerations may cause otherwise valuable letters to be
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RECORDING BIRTHTIMES
Dear Sir,
I see that in the August number of your journal (p. 27+)
you insert a letter from the Recorder of Birth data at the Astrological
Institute, which requests that readers will send in particulars of their
own birth times, and also those of every other person1 whose birth
time they happen to know—presumably either with, or without, the
other person's permission having been first obtained.
This appears to be something in the nature of an attack upon the
rights and liberties of the individual; and as it is possible that the
making of such a collection of birth times—which, by the way, would'
I suppose be for the exclusive use of the members of the Institute and
their friends—is obviously open to various kinds of abuse, I for one
emphatically protest against any collection of birth data being made,.
except only in those cases where the permission of the person
concerned has first been given, or, in case of public men,-those whose
birthtimes have been published.
You, sir, tacitly admit the soundness of this principle, because you
make it a rule to keep private the horoscopes of your clients, unless
you have either expressly received permission to do otherwise, or the-
native is deceased.
Hove. Yours faithfully,
Sf/i September, 1916. Sagittarius.

FATALISM : A Friendly Criticism

Dear Sir,
I have frequently noticed your much quoted dictum that
" the Stars incline but do not compel," and your corresponding

'[ This expression ("every other person") is not used by the writer of the
letter referred to. nor does it quite accurately convey the general tenour of the
letter, which will repay a second reading.—En.]
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disavowal of ' Fatalistic Astrology." But in carefully reading your
arguments on the question of fatalism, one finds a good many instances
wherein your own views as stated are contradicted. An elastic or
uncertain interpretation of planetary influences may come very handy
as a loophole of escape or explanation when predicted events do not
materialise, but it will not commend the science of astrology to the
man in the street. If Causes are supposed to result in Efleets, why
the hesitancy in admitting it? If at the time of a heavy shower one
were to say the rain " may " make things wet, people would at once
question one's sincerity—or one's sanity. The same principle applies
in the case of a reluctance to risk one's astrological ability in definite
opinions on definite planetary data.
Moreover, the repeated denial of fatalism carries with it the
suggestion that perhaps you are not sure of your ground, and that in
imputing to astrological teachings a non-fatalistic meaning, the wish
is father to the thought.
In view of the oft-repeated comments about "Free-Will," and
" Ruling one's Stars," it is reassuring amid a sea of uncertainties to
come across a solid flat-footed statement that " Men think . .
"they can master life, and decide their ultimate destiny. This they
"cannot do": (Modern Astrology, page 146, May, 1916). If that
is not fatalistic, what is it ? I don't agree with your opinion that a
fatalist " is always inclined to be pessimistic " : (Oct. 1915, p. 382).
For fatalism is not necessarily pessimism. It is in this last quoted
statement that I think I see your objection to fatalism. And it shows
that you have apparently been labouring under a wrong view of
fatalism—a one-sided view. To come right to the point, what is
there about fatalism so fearsome, that a philosophic mind need be in
dread of ? It reminds one of the childish fears that made—not the
policeman, but his buttons the object of dread. The much repeated
adage that " the Stars incline, but do not compel," with its consequent
teaching that the effects of planetary inlluehce may not be inev itable,
implies more than a suggestion of moral cowardice that fears to face
one's fate ; but would wish Jonah-like to run away from the inevitable.
One cannot avoid a thing by being afraid of it. In fact the reverse is
almost sure to happen. When bad directions are coming, and one
knows they are coming, in one's horoscope, what is to be gained by
trying to avoid them ? It is better to face the threatened evil, and
say with Paul " none of these things move me."
We hear much of loyalty these days. Why not encourage a
feeling of loyalty to one's own horoscope—whether lucky or unlucky—
and taking the fate therein shown, say " I am to have this fate, for it
is mine," or " I know my own shall come to me."
In the turn of the wheel one gets both favourable and unfavour-
able directions. I have had a good many bad ones. But I am not dead
yet, nor am I a pessimist; although fatalism is supposed to imply
pessimism. When sometimes I have been " under bad directions," I
was not foolish enough to "kick against the pricks" by defying or
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ignoring them, but tried to sit tight until they were past. I was
fatalist enough to accept the bad directions as my fate—for the time
being—without grumbling. And this is where the one-sidedness of
your fatalism comes in. Knowing that in the next year or two,
directions of a very favourable nature will be due, I am fatalist
enough to feel confident that they will come—and bring their effects.
Is this sort of fatalism very pessimistic ? I don't think so.
We need only quote one Bible incident to show that faith is of
two kinds, pessimistic and optimistic. When Peter thought he could
walk on the water, he did. When he thought he would sink he did !
There is no such thing as lack of faith. A vacuum is against nature,
both in material and spiritual realms. A person has faith either of
one kind or the other. Too many have too much of the wrong kind—
pessimistic faith. They are sure that the country is going (or already
gone) to the dogs, etc., etc. They don't need more faith, but should
throw overboard all they have of the wrong sort. To be full of faith
is as natural as to be full of breath. But let it be the right sort—
optimistic faith. What is commonly called " want of faith " should
be rendered " want of sense."
The same line of argument applies to fatalism, for I repeat that
fatalism does not necessarily imply pessimism. If one has reason to
expect a certain event will come, and firmly believes it will, that is
fatalism. But it may happen that it was a very enjoyable and pleasant
thing one was expecting. So where does the pessimism come in ?
As for predictions being frowned down because they are fatalistic,
you say you don't think it justifiable to make any prediction as to the
time of the end of the war (Ocf. 1915,^. 384): and think it "soul-
killing" to think that the war was planned to begin or end at any time
" already fixed." I may be hardened in my views, but such a thought
is not soul-killing to me ! And what will you say of Daniel's prophetic
dates "already fixed" ages ago. Really it's time astrologers were
studying Daniel, instead of fighting shy of fatalism. Non-committal,
" free-will " statements on Astrology will only bring it into disrepute.
And they bring too many IP's into a mathematical science. If a given
planetary influence cannot be interpreted by a qualified astrologer, as
resulting in certain events, then Astrology is not reliable. And if it is
not, what good is it ?
Yours sincerely,
Harold Clift

[Since wc are seeking all the light we can obtain upon the subject of
Fate and Freewill, which is summed up in the word "karma," we welcome
your friendly criticism. We are too busy to reply at present, but your
letter shall be made the subject of one of our future " Observatory"
comments. Inthemoantime thequestion of " Fate and Freewill " is open for
discussion.—En.J
37°

Astrology for Beginners

PERSONAL APPEARANCE
(Continued from page 338)
Having dealt with the cardinal signs, we shall, for the next four months,
speak of the four fixed signs, in relation to personal appearance.
These four signs are Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, and when
either of these signs rises in the East at the moment of a person's birth, the
body tends to be squarish and thick-set and the head also to be square and
broad.
When Taurus (y ), the Bull, the first of these signs, is the rising sign, it
gives an average height, a long thick body, short legs and short thick neck,
causing the head to appear well-set into the shoulders ; the hands and feet
are short, thick and plump; the skin is thick tin the more beautiful types of
a creamy white, though coarser in the less beautiful), (he hair dark and
often curly, and the eyes of a medium brown colour, large, slow-moving, and
as mild and gentle as those of the cow, with the lids partially covering them
and bestowing sometimes a sleepy look to the face. The nose often makes
a straight line with the brow and is well-shaped, the nostrils usually being
thick; the lips, too, are full, and at times, as well-shaped as a cupid's bow.
At other times, the space between nose and upper lip is flat and wall-like,
and the lips thinner—a type often seen in Ireland, whose people are said to
be born under Taurus.
The Taurean type is one that thickens in bulk as age creeps on, and as
it is a type that is fond of good living, the body easily coarsens and stores
away diseases due to surfeit, for discussion in later years.
Their voice is deep, musical and strong, and many public singers have
Taurus rising or planets in the. sign Taurus. No other sign appears so well
adapted to stand the continuous strain of a public singer's life.
In walking, the body keeps remarkably still and set-looking, and the
steps taken are small.
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®(lf ®i>Uor's <9bs<rbatory

THE ASTROLOGER'S RELIGION : HUMANITY

The British Isles, with London as the centre, is considered to be

the hub of the World at our present day. This hub has its spokes in
the wheel of Empire running to the Colonies and what are termed
Britain's Dependencies. We measure the lines of influence, corres-
ponding to the zodiac, from Greenwich, and the first point of the
sign Aries, from which we derive our National Horoscope.
In a recent issue of Modern Astrology Mr G. E. Sutclifle,
a competent astronomer, said (p. 228) that it was " futile to look for an
astrological explanation of the Great War in planetary configurations
that are of frequent occurrence." To this we must all agree, but
even the periods of great planetary configurations with which Mr
Sutclifle deals so ably, can only show in the climacteric years as a part
of the plan, for they are but spokes in the greater wheel of destiny.
What we require is a better knowledge of the time-periods governing
the great " Yugas " or World Ages. We are now in what is known
as the Kali Vuga, or Iron Age, which is said to be drawing to a
close although the actual time of its closing is not definitely known.
If however Mr. Sutclifle is correct, it ended—or rather a minor cycle
of the Kali Yuga ended—in December 1899.
In dealing with the zodiac and its antiquity the Secret Doctrine
informs us that "the sidereal ' prophecies ' of the zodiac, as they are
called by the Christian Mystics, never point to any one particular
event, however solemn and sacred it may be for some portion of
humanity, but to ever-recurrent, periodical laws in nature, understood
only by the Initiates of the Sidereal Gods themselves."
The great planetary conjunctions are, in all probability, the
indications of cyclic changes in the great world periods, but Astrology
as we know it to-day is a science concerned with such great periods of
time that it is too vast for a finite brain to compass, and therefore we
are compelled to build up our speculations from the minor horoscopes
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 373

to the major national cycles until our intuition cancgain a glimpse of

the mighty plan of our universe.
The circle of active physical life at the present time flows in and
out of the British Empire as a centre, and the hope of its continuing
a centre for the real spiritual life in the future lies in the promised
Federation of that Empire. But this is only the beginning of a
greater federation, which is to include the whole of Europe and we
shall do well to watch the influence of that mysterious human sign
Aquarius, the sign of the Man, as it unfolds the spiritual life that is
hidden within its suggestive symbol. The vibrations of the planet
Uranus act upon the sign Aquarius as an awakening or "quickening "
influence, and it may be that the position of this planet on December
3 1899 denoted the beginning of the end of a great cycle. Uranus at
the solar eclipse was then in close conjunction with the luminaries,
between them and the planet Jupiter, ruler of the sign Sagittarius in
which the Great Conjunction took place. From this conjunction with
Jupiter in Sagittarius the planet Uranus passed, after its opposition to
Neptune, through the sign Capricorn and into the sign Aquarius,
coming to its next conjunction with Jupiter in that sign on March 4
1914. And on the day that a state of war was declared by Great
Britain Uranus had returned to the very same place in Aquarius in
which the conjunction with Jupiter took place (~ 9° 33').
We have attached more importance to this.conjunction of Uranus
and Jupiter in the sign Aquarius than any other student of Astrology,
and we hope to see our views confirmed with regard to the great
federating influences we believe that conjunction foreshadowed.
Jupiter, as the preserver of life in form, has a most harmonising
influence, while Uranus, as the " awakener" and the adjuster, is a
disturber of all life-in-form, prior to its work of reforming human
ideals and actions.
The third house in a horoscope denotes the educational mind, and
affects more or less all matters where the objective or outgoing human
mind is concerned. In the great planetary conjunction of December 3
1899 the satellitium of planets occupied the THIRD house and the
ninth sign, so that the ninth sign influence—science, philosophy, and
religion—were reversed or projected into the third house, or brought
down to a state of practical politics.
 374 MODERN ASTROLOG V

We judged this to mean the readjustment of educational systems,

and from an astrological standpoint we consider this a fair judgment;
and in view of the changing of opinions, Gemini, and of ideals
Sagittarius, we may claim that it has been confirmed by subsequent
events. The planet Neptune was the only planet above the earth,
placed on the cusp of the meridian in the sign Gemini, the third sign
of the zodiac, and was opposed to Saturn and Mars, denoting the
straining of conventions and the breaking of illusions. This is plain
enough, and "he who runs may read." The Jupiter-Uranus
conjunction that followed early in March 1914 is equally significant;
it took place on the cusp of the second house (ruling finance), the Sun
and Venus being also in this house, in the sign of the latter's
exaltation. The effect upon the financial world following thisUranian
conjunction is now well known.
Immediately following this conjunction, on March 21st, the
opening of the astrological new year, the Sun entering the sign Aries
was applying to the square of the planet Mars on the cusp of the
ascendant in the sign Cancer. The ascending degree ffi 16° the
clairvoyant astrologer " Charubel," author of The Degrees of the
Zodiac Symbolised, found too occult for interpretation ; he termed it a
' blank ' degree. It is the square of four, and contained a mystery the
seer could not solve. This national horoscope evidently contained a
warning to the world. At the Summer Solstice on June 22
apparently the planet Uranus was far too potent in its setting to
prevent the rising of Mars in the 28th degree of the sign Leo, in
opposition to Jupiter in Aquarius, from causing an outbreak of war;
for at the Solar eclipse in the ensuing month the luminaries were on
the place of Mars in this degree.
The Great War was precipitated by the powerful and exciting
influence of the national horoscope for the year 1914 affecting the
sensitive points in all despotic rulers' horoscopes. First in that of
the Emperor of Austria, the one horoscope in the world having Uranus
at the same place as Uranus at the Conjunction, and the most
sensitive horoscope to respond to transits, etc. At the Spring
quarter the Sun's entry into the sign Aries not only affected Mars in
Aries in the Emperor's horoscope, but also placed the cosmic Mars in
his meridian—an excessive irritant at such a time. The Emperor of
 THE EDITOR'S OBSEKVATORY 375
Austria could have passed through this safely had he acted alone, but
the Summer quarter brought Mars in the national horoscope too near
the luminaries in his nativity and anticipated the solar eclipse that
followed. Secondly, the Kaiser felt the intrusion of Mars and
Neptune upon his ascendant at the Spring quarter of 1914, and the
opposition of the Sun and Saturn in his nativity coming to the angles
of the national horoscope for the Summer quarter. These facts prove
the truth of the idea that the destinies of nations are affected by the
horoscopes of their rulers. They aresensitivereceiversbetween God's
will and the warring wills of men.
Out of evil, it is said, good cometh ; and the good we may look
for is the federation of the world and the unification of religions.
From the planetary conjunctions of 1899 we may foresee the
revolution of educational methods, and great reforms affecting the
objective mind of humanity. The advent of the flying machine and
its wonderful use as the eyes of the armies on the battlefields is but
an outward symbol of the loosening of the concrete mind from its
fetters and limitations due to cramming the mind with facts instead
of giving it ideas to feed upon. The world is ready for a reform in
educational methods: all that it waits for is teachers who are
not younger but older souls than the children they teach.
The great conjunction of Uranus and Jupiter in Aquarius promises
a reform in our financial methods after great revolutions in the
industrial and social worlds, the very probable nationalisation of
railways, and some extraordinary inventions in connection with
travelling and electricity. This conjunction will also bring about a
better understanding between the different races, and the theosophical
ideal of universal brotherhood will take a practical form, probably
commencing with local self-government and universal suffrage in
which the rights and true place of women will be generally recognised.
Arising out of the third house and the ninth sign in the great
planetary conjunction at the close of 1899 the sub-influence of the
Uranian conjunction appears to affect the second house with the fifth
and eleventh signs of the zodiac. The new generation now coming to
birth will be an entirely new class of egos, for Aquarius was on the
cusp of the fifth house at the 1899 conjunction.
Much as there is of discord following the planetary configurations
 MODKUN ASTKOLoGV

beginning at the close of 1899 and culminating in 1914, the reforming

element is too strong to break down before it brings to the thinking
portion of humanity the realisation of the brotherhood of man. Astro-
logy is destined to play a great part in this method of the world's
education of the future, for the human mind is one, though reflected in
many brains, and coloured by different temperaments and national
characteristics.
We are now watching the birth throes of a new world democracy
in which a higher education will be the first ideal, and through
education the freedom of the poor and the training of the ignorant.
The Gods are working through these cyclic changes and the time
is drawing near when not only the few but the many may read the
mystic handwriting on the wall of heaven in a universal language
contained in the star lore that dates from the birth of humanity; and,
lest it be forgotten, let us reiterate our oft-expressed statement that
HUMANITY is the religion of Astrology, for we study human nature
not to discover its defects but to see how near it can approach the
prototypes revealed in the heavens, and we believe in very truth that
Man was made in the image of God and that in Him we live and
move and have our being.
Aboii-Bdii-Ailhem—niiiy his tribe increase!
A xvokc one night front a street dream of peace,
And saw, u ithin the moonlight of his room.
Making it rich and like a lily bloom.
An Angel writing in a book of gold.
Exceeding peace had made Ucn Adhem hold,:
And to the Vision in his room he said—
" What tvritest thou ? " The Vision raised its head,
And with a look made all of street accord.
Answered " The names of those who love the Lord."
" Ami is mine one ? " said A bun. " Xay not so,"
Replied the Angel. Ahon spoke more low.
But cheerily still, and said, " I pray thee then.
Write me as one who loves his fellow men."
The Angel wrote and vanished; the next night
It came again, with a great awakening light.
Ami showed the names which love of God had blest.
And lo ! Ben-Adheni's name led all the rest.
Lf.icn Hunt.
 377

^un in Sagittarius

This being a dual sign gives great duality to the' character,

combined with much restlessness and activity. Movement is an.
essential feature, for Sagittarius is as expressive in action as Aries is
in mind. This sign has a genius for details, is excellent at working
out ideas and suggestions. The Sun in this sign gives a strong
religious and mystical side to the nature, which has in it usually
somewhat of the prophet or the seer. There is also a great love of
form and ceremony. The disposition is cheerful, frank, honest and
benevolent and generally unselfish but too impulsive and too hasty,
and somewhat lacking in restraint, having more enthusiasm than
balance and equilibrium.
Faults : A tendency to exaggerate and to " draw the long bow,"
and to be somewhat caustic and intolerant in speech; balance, repose
and self-control should be cultivated.
Occupation : Priest, lawyer, courier, agriculturist, traveller,
woollen draper, jeweller, scent manufacturer.
Diseases: Lungs, liver, varicose veins, and blood disorders
generally.
Gems : Amethyst, sapphire, topaz, all mauve or violet stones.
B. Leo

Planf.t/ry Hours.—F. T. A. writes: " Do you or any of your corres-

pondents know from actual experience whether the planetary hours from
day to day are conditioned by the current state of the planets that are said
to rule the various hours ? I mean if Venus happens to be afflicted by an
adverse aspect of Saturn, wouid the planetary hours of Venus during the
period of such affliction locally suffer from said aspect ? "
Astroi.ocy and the Stock Markets.—A correspondent is anxious to
secure "name and address of books, MS. magazine or persons who have any
methods of applying astrology for presignifying the price movement of a
stock from low to high and low again ; would like to collect all that is known
upon this department of astrology." Address : Editor of Modern Astrology,
HO, Imperial Buildings. Ludgate Circus, E.C.; meution this page, and mark
envelope " \V. C. W." in top left-hand corner.
378

Intfrnational ^strologij

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(D d J rising in m . J^ in... fall. ? in (letriment; 5 rules ix, ? rules vii and xii.
They also rise at Berlin and Petrograd.)

These influences are decidedly more pacific than hitherto, and if

only some less martial sign than Scorpio had been rising there would
■have been a strong probability of peace. The martial spirit, however,
is slowly wearing itself out although not yet exhausted, and there will
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGy 379
be more likelihood of the views of rival nations being soberly
considered ; one or more of our enemies is likely either to retire
within its own borders or to make overtures for peace. Allied
countries will be drawn more closely together and will be busily
discussing their common interests; diplomatic messengers will be
actively employed and there will be much travelling on land and sea
on political errands.
The government at home will be strong and successful, and the
Allies will be achieving successes: © ruler x A If. At Berlin the
militant spirit will still be dominant and unyielding: 5 ruler x d (7
in >3". Some one or more highly placed personages in Germany and
Austria will die, and a feeling of militant discontent will increase
within these nations : 5 ruler viii and x d <7 .
Money matters will be under better influences than of late in
England and the west of Europe: © in ii A 2f lord of ii. Neverthe-
less there are several indications of heavy expenditure in connection
with army and navy: b in ix □ If in vi. But the financial prospects
are distinctly worse over the whole of Europe from Berlin eastward;
5 d <7 in ii.
There will be serious accidents and loss of life both by sea, land
and air, but the army and" navy will prosper and gain credit: 5 d (7
in kf cusp iii; b d 'P in ix; If in vi. The health of the country will
be good.
India, Mexico and parts of eastern Europe governed by
Capricorn will feel the disturbing influence of Mars in that sign ;
political excitement and martial feeling will be greatly intensified.
Saturn retrograde in Cancer is unfortunate for Africa, Holland, and
the German Emperor; but Jupiter in Aries will benefit England,
King George, and the Czar.
The Sun will rise in part of eastern Asia, Turkey in Asia, and
Persia; culminate in east China and west Australia; set in the
Pacific Ocean ; and be. on the nadir in South America and the extreme
east of Canada.
In Great Britain the weather is likely to be rather milder than
usual but with a great deal of rain.
380 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Eclipse of Sun, 24/12/1916, 8.31 p.m., G.M.T.

X Ml 1 11 in
(I) B 13 0 22 <£>27 J125 "JUS as 10
(2) B 26 us 5 Jl 9 ts 5 "825 at 22
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(4) *25 X26 a 8 0 19 ran il 1
0D S 2 i u >2 V V
'■62.45 19.23 f 3-9 W 17.46 T25.27 si 29.01- =117.14 /l4-i8r
(1) London (2) Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) New York
This eclipse is invisible at London and only visible in the
neighbourhood of the Antarctic Ocean ; only about one hundredth of
the Sun's disc is hidden; so that it is not likely to have much more
significance than an ordinary New Moon. In addition to this only
one planet is angular at London and Berlin, namely Venus in the
fourth house; so that the map seems comparatively unimportant.
Political debates will be very active and contentious ( 5 ruler xi
d <?) and parliamentary affairs will arouse much interest in the
country, chiefly in connection with matters arising out of the war.
The condition of the workers will call for attention, and pensions,
charities and benevolent movements for soldiers and sailors will be
to the fore, their usefulness will be extended but complaints of their
administration are likely to be made: S in iv A l? ^ in xii. Profuse
expenditure will continue and will cause anxiety both within
parliamentary and business circles, but efforts at economy and
retrenchment will be made: 5ruler xi and ii <3 (?, □ '?, 4 planets
in These indications seem distinctly worse at Berlin : •? d W in
xi. Someone eminent in the religious world will die, and .there will
be a good deal of religious controversy ; the churches and religious
movements are not under good influences for the time: "4 ruler viii in
ix □ 5 <?; <? ruler ix d 5 .
The indications do not seem of first rate importance in any par
of Europe.
The place of the lunation falls as follows in various horoscopes;
King George cusp M.C. Emr. Austria cusp iv o <f
Frincs op Wales so Gen. Johfre aO
King Italy << s Pope rf i
Belgium
The Sun will rise in the Pacific Ocean; culminate in north west
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 38x-

Canada and the Pacific ; set in the Atlantic and on the east of North
America; and be on the nadir in east Europe and west Asia.
At New York, accidents or financial trouble connected with
railways: '? d W iii; deaths by accident and violence; 5 ruler asc.
d <? in viii. Foreign affairs will give trouble in matters arising out of
the war and also in connection with trade : © d I) in vii P <? . Mexico
may be disturbed.
As we predicted the map for the Autumn Quarter (p. 282)
heralded many interesting events. Jupiter setting was followed by
unofficial feelers towards peace, made through the U.S.A., but
Mars rising in opposition showed the rejection of these by our
statesmen. We continued to make headway abroad, as predicted ;
and expenditure remained very heavy, and the German War Loan
was completed and a British vote of credit passed. The German
Loan was begun under the New Moon of Aug. 28, which showed
Jupiter in the second house at Berlin. The announcement that the
government had taken over the control of wheat and flour was made
on Oct. 11, and came under Venus in Virgo trine Jupiter in Taurus,
accompanied by Sun trine Uranus. The Autumn Quarter began with
weather warm but stormy, as predicted ; which resulted from Mars,
J upiter and Venus all angular at London ; and this type of weather
has continued up to the time of writing this note.

"Casting the Horoscope."—A Correspondent kindly sends ns a note

of the following misprints which he has detected in Castuig the Horoscope.
Most of them have been announced before in these pages, but not all. Will
readers kindly note the corrections ?
Sep. 19 1901 J) should be 8^3(1
April 6 1896 3 „ 4crif)
7 1896 3 16™ 2 5
,, 1 1890 3 26SI.27
Jan. 30 1879 3 ., 10S24
Feb. 27 1861 3 11 11^17
The Moon's place is also given incorrectly from Sep. 23rd to 30th
inclusive, 1887; .£21.15 should be inserted at Sep 23 and remaining entries
brought one line lower. The stationary position of Venus on Dec. 31, 1866
should be n £51, not 11^31.
Fate and Freewill Discussion.—Several letters are held over until
next year, when the discussion on this subject will be opened. Letters
intended for publication should be sent to the Fditor as early as possible.
 Sn tlj£ iStime of Science

(From the October issue (igi6) of" Science Progress" Quarterly)

Anxient Astronomy in Egypt aSd its Significance. By Frederick

Dick, Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics, School of Antiquity,
Point Loma, California; The Aryan Theosophical.Press, January 1916.
Modern Astrology. Edited by Alan Leo. Published at Modem
Astrology Offices, Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, E.C. Price Crf.
monthly.
These two pamphlets furnish melancholy evidence of the credulity still
prevailing among civilised mankind. The first appears to be issued in the
interests of the superstition known asTheosophy. Although characteristically
vagiie in style and purpose, its main thesis exhibits a desire to discredit
modern astronomical science, and to suggest that true knowledge is to be
found in the works of the ancient Hindus and Egyptians. The observations
of the Hindus, we are told, extended over 850,000 years. By statements
such as this, the doctrine of the pamphlet is maintained. It is, indeed, not
easy to follow the author's meaning. Like all works of "thcosophy" and
" occult science," vagueness is the chief characteristic. Clearness and
lucidity are as fatal to mysticism as oxygen is to the microbe of tetanus.
Although we may regret the attitude adopted by Mr Dick in this
pamphlet on Ancient Astronomy, we may yet admit that he has taken the
trouble to acquire some information on the subject of which he endeavours
to treat. No such extenuating circumstance can be pleaded in favour of the
editor of the second pamphlet on Modern Astrology ; for that periodical
(as it appears to be) contains no information and displays no knowledge of
any kind whatever.
The advertisement pages are filled with notices of publications on
Astrology which may be purchased by the public for varying prices. Nearly
all appear, to be written by the editor, who is also prepared to give a course
of lessons in astrology for the sum of ten guineas. One advertisement
naively attempts to define the difference between an astrologer and a
charlatan. To which category the editor of Modern Astrology belongs we
are not Informed. But to all who value civilisation and truth it is a
scandalous and depressing circumstance that there exist apparently a
number of people in this country who are prepared to part with their money
for the purpose of such literary trash, as is here presented, for the con-
sumption of the weaker-minded of our compatriots. If any analogy is
justifiable, it can only be with those vendors of patent remedies who fill an
eight-ounce bottle with water from the tap, and sell it to the public for a
guinea as a cure for cancer, tuberculosis, measles, and all other diseases
great or small. But tap-water at least is harmless as a rule; whereas a
penisal of these publications may well engender, among hysterical women
and others, a form of psychological measles which causes crooked and
unhealthy vision, and is a curse both to themselves and their associates.
 IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE
The effrontery with which such doctrines are set forth is shown hy the
fact that the editors of. Modern Astrology actually venture to send a
review copy to Science Progress. Hugh Elliot
These two notices furnish melancholy evidence of the flaccidity of
mind which still exists among those who deem themselves competent
to speak in the name of Science, which means knowledge. We have
read them through three times, in the endeavour to discover clearness
and lucidity, without avail; in place thereof we have observed
—effrontery. That is the word which correctly describes Mr Hugh
Elliot's performance, in which he presumes to judge that of which he
has made no study. The date of the issue of Modern" Astrology
which has called forth this outburst is not given, but from the
reference to an advertisement which has not appeared for nearly three
years, it is evidently the number for December 1913 and one wonders
why this fact is not mentioned.
We may however repeat the naive definition of the difference
between an astrologer and a charlatan which the reviewer wisely
refrains from quoting:—
An Astrologer is one who has the knowledge and the ability to
interpret the wisdom of the stars.
A Charlatan is one who pretends to knowledge he does not possess.
The reader will see the application. In order that there should
be justification for the contemptuous tone of Mr Elliot's remarks, it
is necessary that he should know what he is passing judgment upon.
This is plainly not the case. The Editor of this Magazine which
was founded in 1890—and is therefore just times as old as
Science Progress which was founded in 1906—has during allthattime
been a writer on Astrology whose works have gained increasing
publicity and esteem: no student of Modern Astrology could
plead ignorance of their existence. When therefore this reviewer
insinuates that the Editor has not " taken the trouble to acquire some
information on the subject of which he endeavours to treat," he is
going beyond his brief and very badly giving his case away. For
every ordinary reader of this magazine is in a position to KNOW that
this insinuation is laughably untrue, and the irony of the situation is
this:—that these observations will be read by a wider circle of people,
and in more countries of the world, than was the original review !
These people, one of whom by the way is a New South Wales bank
 MODERN ASTROl.OGY

manager, while another is a retired Governor of a British Colony, will

be highly diverted to find themselves classed among "hysterical
women and others " of the u-eaker minded of our compatriots.
Although characteristically vague in style and purpose, the main
thesis of this " review" exhibits a desire to discredit modern
astrology and to suggest that strong thought and staunch devotion
to truth are to be found only amongst those whose thoughts do no
run counter to the opinion of its writer. This attitude on the part of
those who should be men of science is not new ; it was met with two
centuries ago. " If you would particularly advise your colleague,
Dr ," wrote Flamstead somewhat tartly, " to have a care ot
discoursing of things he is not acquainted with, and has only false,
imperfect or prejudiced information of—you would oblige me much."*
John Flamstead, or Flamsteed as it is nowadays the fashion to
spell his name, was the founder of Greenwich Observatory and the
first Astronomer Royal. He studied astrology, and cast a figure for
the laying of the foundation stone of the Observatory: (see No. 728in
1001 Notable Nativities). That was his weak-mindedness.
Mr Hugh Elliot's weak-mindedness consists in assuming his
premises, which are, in substance, that there can be no such thing as
astrology and that any one professing to teach astrology is ipso facto
a fraudulent person, while those willing to be taught are mental
weaklings.
We think our readers will agree with us that a weak mind is one
which is ready to pass judgment upon that which it has not studied,
rather than be considered ignorant or unorthodox; and that a strong
mind is one which fearlessly declares the result of its investigations,
even when these prove unacceptable to one's contemporaries. Such
a mind was exhibited by Kepler when he wrote ;—" A most unfailing
experience (as far as can be hoped for in natural phenomena) of the
excitement of sublunary natures by the conjunctions and aspects of
the planets, has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief."4
s Extract from letter of John Flamstead to the Rev Dr Wallis, 24th June 1701.
v0
P- 55<
4 ' 33 Flamstead MS.
Life of Kepler in " Lives of Eminent Persons " published by the Sociily for the
Diffusion 0} Useful Knowledge in 1833, pp. 12, 13. The original passage runs as
follows : " Sed meconstantissima (quantum in naturalibussperari potest) experlentia
de commotione sublunarium naturarum subconjuncliones et aspectus errorum
edocuit et reluctantem vicit": Kepler, Opera Omnia. Frankfort, 1858, Vol ii p. G35.
 IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE

What statement could be stronger or possess greater clearness and

lucidity than that ?
Flamstead founded Greenwich Observatory. Kepler, by the
discovery of his Three Laws, founded Modern Astronomy. Mr
Hugh Elliot
Faitcs vos jeux, messieurs !

" Science Progress " is a five shilling quarterly published by John

Murray occupying much the same position in relation to current
science as did the late W. T. Stead's " Review ol Reviews " with
respect to current literature, and while containing important original
articles consists largely of reviews. Misnamed ' reviews' of such a
character as those we have quoted, however, (whatever be the subject
with which they profess to deal), are no credit to the publication in
which they appear, and we trust that the editor, Sir Ronald Ross,
will exercise a closer supervision in future. The reviewer should be
encouraged to develop his powers of inference, so that when as in
this case he finds in bold type at the foot of cover ' price 6d. monthly'
he may confidently refer to the publication as a periodical without the
timorous parenthesis "as it appears to be." He should be invited to
give some indication of the fact that the publication in question was
sent for review 2 years and 9 months ago. And finally he should be
recommended to include the contents of the magazine as tuell as the
advertisement pages within the purview of his comments, for it has
become the habit of readers to expect this.
However, as comment in this case has been restricted to the
advertisement pages, we will bring these remarks to a conclusion by
two extracts from one of them (p. ii supplement, December 1913):
For our own part, we must confess that what Mr Leo designates as
Esoteric Astrology is far more intellectually acceptable than the Astrology
which teaches—or is supposed to teach—that our lives, our actions, and our
destinies are all directly influenced by the purely physical action of the
planets. This, we are aware, is not a correct description of even exoteric
astrology, but it is an undoubtedly true statement of what most people
suppose it to be ; and it is possible that a serious study of Mr Leo's present
book [Esoteric Astrology] will induce many sceptics at the least to modify
their opinions on the subject.—From The Globe, April iSth, 1913.
The author views astrology as haying the same relationship to astrouomy
that psychology has to physiology. This careful, complete, and copiously
illustrated work sets out the doctrine in its practical application. The
 MODUKN ASIKUl.OGY
author is extremely well known as a consultant, and is regarded by Mrs
Besant and others as an authority. He writes admirably, and is "not to be
compared with random soothsayers. —From T.P.'s Weekly, Muy gtlt, 1913.
There is one respect in which these two reviews differ from those
previously quoted: for though neither of the last two writers professes
to criticise the book as an expert, weighing values, yet both exhibit a
tolerant attitude and refrain from persecuting where they cannot
altogether follow.
The progress of Science will be the surer when that attitude is
commoner among its reviewers. The spirit of the Inquisition, as
John o' London observes,—in a passage quoted in that very issue of
Modern Astrology in^which Mr Elliot could discover no informa-
tion and no knowledge of any kind whatever,—is not yet departed
from us. " The auto-da-fe was but the forced fruit of intolerance, and
intolerance is not dead. . , . What is our guarantee that when the
next great creed or revival comes—be it religious, social, or scientific—
it will be free from at least the spirit of persecution. The best,
the only guarantee lies in our desire to understand persecution while we
execrate it, to remember that all men are of the same blood and prone-
ness to error And for this reason we hope that the reviewer
and the editor of Science Progress will take our observations in good
part, and be willing to credit us with a desire for truth and a wish for the
ad vauce of knowledge not much less keen than their own; while we
011 our part are willing to recognise that however unjudicial in temper
the reviewer's remarks may have been, the acerbity of their tone had its
origin in a love for truth. For if this attitude of mind prevail, then
the time may be not so far distant when a common ground may be found
and the progress of ' exact' science recognised as compatible with a
study of ' occult' science.
S. M. I. B.

"THE GREAT WAR."—Four articles of this important Series have

now been published and the first portion of Article V, on " Why Good
Aspects favour the Allies " will appear next month, as we have deemed it
better to hold it over rather than print the very small portion for which we
should have room in this issue owing to the space occupied by Contents and
Index.
 Obiter Bictn

" An obiter ilidnm, in the language of tile law,

is a gratuitous opinion, an individual im-
pertinence. which, whether it be wise or
foolish, right or wrong, bindeth none—
not even the lips that utter it."
Old JnnGB.
NEPTUNE AND THE WAR.
Leo 28°.

I was much impressed with the citation of coincidences relative to

correspondence, etc., concerning the hypothetical planet Isis: p. 239 [and
272J. Very soon after the breaking out of the war I noticed aiong train of
incidents in which about the 26th or 27th degrees of the signs Leo and
Aquarius were involved with the war; I cannot now recall them all but take
this occasion to mention what I believe are the most important.
First I was struck by the prominence of Neptune in practically every
figure connected with the war—i.e., the Mundane configurations leading up to
it, and the nativities of all the monarchs and leaders figuring prominently in
it. From this I concluded that the war chiefly involved a conflict over the
ideals represented in and disseminated by the vibrationsof Neptune. Looking
up the history of that planet I found that it was discovered on September
23 1846 when it was in 2^26° in close conjunction with Saturn. I also
find that on October 21 1845 John Couch Adams filed at the Greenwich
Observatory papers in which he had figured the place where this then
' hypothetical' planet should be. At that time the planet was not far from
the same place in Aquarius at which it was a year later discovered, but Mars
was also close to the opposition of the same spot, or at Leo 28°, and the
Sun and Mercury in close trine aspect thereto. And on August 31 1846 Jean
Joseph Leverrier, the noted French astronomer, published his figures
indicating the place at which this planet should be found,—acting upon
which the German astronomer Galle at the Berlin observatory turned his
telescope and found the planet. On the date that Leverrier made his
announcement Mercury, the " Messenger," was at Leo 28° with the Moon
passing the trine aspect from the prophetic Sagittarius on that day.
But the significant coincidences do not end here by any means. In fact
this is but a small prelude to what I am sure would prove to be a startling
388 MODERN ASTROLOGY
revelation should any equipped and capable student pursue the subject to its
conclusion. At the outbreak of the war these degrees of Leo and Aquarius
respectively occupied the ascendant and descendant in the German Kaiser's
progressed horoscope—and signiiicantly they square the radical places of his
Moon and Uranus. And the great Solar Eclipse that occurred coincident
with the outbreak of the war was at this same vital part of Leo, and last
winter the fiery Mars became stationary very close (o the same spot—a
phenomenon which was chiefly responsible (as I believe) in stimulating the
Kaiser and his chieftains to the mad fury of their murderous and suicidal
assaults upon Verdun.
I regret that the records of my former studies on this matter are stored
with my things in Lakewood so that I cannot make this communication
more complete.
I regard it as very suggestive of the recognised differences in the
national characteristics that it should have been a German astronomer who
availed himself of the studious labours and inspirational genius of the French
astronomer and accomplished that which the average person regards as the
essential or material thing—i.e., make the actual discovery. It is also
characteristic of the English to disregard their intuitions and real genius as
did John Couch Adams, who was satisfied merely to put himself on record as
having performed the stupendous labors involved in figuring out the place of
the supposititious planet. And Leverrier was true to the native French spirit
in giving out for the interest of the public the information he had laboured to
produce. The Germans are by no means as original or inspired as are the
French and English, hut they are richly endowed with the ultilitarian instinct
for putting to use whatever they may discover themselves or what they may
learn from the discoveries of others. And who can measure their wonderful
achievements when they, in common with their fellows of all other nations,
make it a matter of principle to apply all their genius to truly constructive
activities instead of devoting such monumental energies to the building up of
mighty engines of destruction ?
May it not be significant of the overthrow of the selfish and worldliness
represented by Saturn that at the time when men first discovered the
altruistic and Utopian Neptune that Saturn should he in such close
conjunction.1
F. T. A.

1
[ This communication is dated 26/7/1916, and it is interesting to notice the
general coincidence of the writer's vie«s with the suggestions made in the article on
the Great War. pp. 255-261 of August issue, which of course had not then left the
press.—En.]
 ^.ushifrs to GJiu'stions1

UNWANTED CHILDREN.—Hozvis it possible for souls to incarnate with

parents who don't want them, and whom the children hate {sooner or later) ? (330)
It is made possible by the Recording Augels who arrange all human
births. The germs of hatred in the children attract them either to
the objects of their hate, or to those parents who have hatred in them.
Any parent who procreates without wanting children commits a sin,
since love should make sacred the procreative act. Like attracts like,
hence hate begets hate and hateful parents attract children who reflect
or return the hate.
MIDWAY-POINT.—Commenting on the horoscope of Venusliano Carranza,
the writer says [p. 251 August), "Mars in the second house and Saturn in
eleventh cast their rays on the ascendant of the horoscope and tinge the first house
with a strong red and green colouring, etc." But neither of these planets, as far as
I can see, is in any aspect good or bad with the ascendant. (330
Thank you for raising the question. The reference is to the " mid-
way point." The longitude of 1 b is 145° 36', that of £ 220° 21'and
the ascendant 182° 44'. Subtract the longitude of '? from that of <?
and the difference is 74° 45', the half of which is 37022i'. Add this
to the longitude of b and it gives 182° 58^', which is within 26i' or
less than a half degree of the ascendant, and there the rays of d1 and
•? converge.
MAURI AGE.—Would you tell me whether in judging the likelihood of a
native marrying, more stress should be laid on planets being in Leo or in Libra.
(332)
Libra for marriage; Leo for courtship, and conjugality if married.
Libra must have a mate; Leo can survive without one, being more
self-sustaining.

1
yuestions must be of general interest. They should be written upon
one side of the paper only, a separate sheet of paper being used for each separate
queslion. and addressed to Question Department, "Modern Astrology" Office,
.jo. Imperial Huildings, Ludgato Circus. R.C. Name and address of sender should
be attached to each question. Questions should be put as concisely as possible.
 iltlnebs

Primary Directions Maue Easy : by Sepharial. 3s. 6d.

net. W. Foulsham & Co., Ltd.
This is Sepharial's latest work, and it is devoted to the subject of
primary directions, but these are here calculated by means of the
Poles of the Significators (i.e. the mid-heaven, ascendant, Sun, and
Moon) and not by Semi-arcs. Full instructions are given for calcu-
lating these Poles from the data given in the horoscope and the
ordinary Speculum ; and when this has been done, directions may be
calculated from Tables of Houses by those students who do not wish
to be troubled with trigonometry. In Sepharial's opinion calculation
by Poles gives results superior to that by Semi-arcs, and he writes
that " directions by Primary Arcs as commonly practised are unreliable.
. The notable failure of the Semi-arc method to find adequate
directions for the most astounding War that was ever waged by men
on this planet, ought to show that at the crucial point of test this
system was a failure."
This is a hold challenge, and the devotees of Semi-arcs will he
interested to know what are the directions that result when calculation
is made by Poles. A list is given of the directions in the horoscope of
the German Emperor from the year 1912 onwards. In estimating
the probable astrological causation of such a war in terms of directions,
as a mere matter of theory, most students would expect to find the
planet Mars—" the War Lord "—heavily involved, and it is rather
surprising therefore to find that in this list of directions the red planet
only appears once, namely as Ascendant sextile Mars zod. con.,
measuring to December 1912. In the period reaching from this date
to the spring of 1919 all the other planets in the solar system are
represented by directions, some of them two or three times, Neptune
five times, but Mars only this once. For the actual year of the out-
break of the war there are:—Ascendant parallel Saturn, February ;
Moon parallel Mercury, September ; Moon square Uranus, October.
These are suitable so far as they go, but it is more than doubtful
whether an ordinary astrologer, writing beforehand, would have
predicted a great war from them, even taking into account the
rulership of Saturn over the seventh house.
Ordinary Secondary Directions in comparison seem to give
results superior to both Poles and Semi-arcs in this horoscope; for
Mars had progressed to the square of the Sun in February 1914, less
than six months before the outbreak of the war; and it went from this
to the square of Saturn ('? S 0 at birth) in August 1916 when the
forward movement of the Allies was triumphantly in progress.
 KEVIEWS 391
Moreover in July-August-September 1914 the progressed Moon was
translating light between the Sun, Mars, and Saturn. So that those
who follow the Secondary system may justly feel satisfied with the
results of its application in this case.
Sepharial is a prolific author and is very fertile and ingenious in
introducing new ideas and methods, and this book is likely to attract
attention and perhaps arouse some controversy. It can be heartily
recommended to all who wish to investigate the subject of directions
by Poles, especially as it is, so far as we know, the only modern work
on this special method.

Sudden Death and The War: by Minnie B. Theobald.

Price sixpence. John M. Watkins, 21 <26011 Court, Charing Cross
Road, W.C.
Miss Minnie Theobald is an earnest student of Astrology and she
has not failed to emphasise her belief in this ancient science in this
her latest book where she says; " Astrology is the science and
symbolism the language which attempt to bridge that mighty gulf
between the World Order and the Eternal Order. Astrology is the
summation of all sciences which contacts both orders. It is the basis
of religion ; in its highest, truest and most worthy aspect it is the apex
of science. It is in and through astrology that science and religion
unite and are seen to be not contradictory but complementary."
In dealing with the subject of Sudden Death and the War,
although Miss Theobald wisely observes that her little book " is an
attempt to talk about that which none of us can hope fully to under-
stand," nevertheless she makes the attempt with more success than
those not possessing her knowledge of Astrology would be able to
accomplish.
We regret that we have not the space to give a complete review,
but the gist of the booklet is well summed up in the only sentence in
the book that is printed in italics :—" This war is the direct result of
OHtragiiid the luiturallaws of birth. Precipitated deaths throughout
a nation arc the natural reflex activity of precipitated births." The
wonderful astrological thought concealed in these two sentences
indicates the nature of the booklet, but we recommend our readers to
procure a copy either direct from our office or the publisher.

No man should ever he ashamed to own h« has been wrong, which is

but saying in other words, that he is wiser to day than he was yesterday.
392

letter to tlje (Ebttor

THE PRE-NATAL EPOCH

Dear Sir,
Your correspondent " R. M. A." has added something of
interest to the debateable ground in which the thesis of the Prenatal
Epoch is still involved in the minds of many students. He has added
the statement, hitherto lying dormant in some inaccessible kadjan,
that Indian Astrology has actually formulated rules for determining
the date of conception by retrogressive calculation from the moment
of birth. That statement of itself commands my profound attention.
I should be most obliged to your correspondent if he would quote me
the original texts of the paragraphs dealing with this point.
There are fundamental errors in this Indian theory as stated. In
the first place it is considered that the value of the Moon's revolution
is 27 days 8 hours, whereas it is 27d 7h 43m 11s only, so that nine
revolutions is not actually equal to 246 days, though for approximate
calculation it may be regarded so. Then again the mean motion of
the Moon is taken at 13o20', whereas it is only 13° 10'. Further, it
presumes that all epochs are regular ones and that the count is always
from the Moon to the ascendant. This gives a period of gestation
ranging from 246 days when the Moon is on the ascendant at birth, to
259 days when it is in opposition, closing finally at 273 days when the
Moon comes round again to the ascendant. Now as 273 days is 10
lunar and approximately 9 solar months, we see that there is no
provision made for cases that exceed the norm, whereas ample
provision is made for those that are less than the norm.
When, however, your correspondent adverts to the Prenatal
Epoch as now formulated and pursued, he appears to lose sight of the
controlling factors. In the three cases cited: No. 1 shows a regular
epoch of the Third Order occuning on 2nd December at 9.4 p.m.
Greenwich time=3rd Deer at 1.55 a.m. at Eombay. The Ascendant
is thereby corrected to Leo 9° 37'. At the epoch the Moon is in a
female degree and the ascendant in a female degree, showing the
birth to be of that sex. Case No. 2 gives a short period epoch on the
22nd August 1886 <?!' 5.51 a.m. Greenwich time, with the Moon in a
male degree and the ascendant in a male degree, showing the birth to
be male. The radical ascendant is thereby corrected from Taurus
23 26' to 22° 9' of the same sign. It is through failure to comprehend
the controlling factors that false epochs are derived and your
correspondent is certainly incorrect in saying that my method brings
a n epoch in Case 2 on the 26th July, 1886. Making ample allowance
 I.li'J TliR TO THE EDITOR 393
for possible error in observation of the birth time, we cannot admit
that an epoch on the 26th July, with the Moon in Taurus 27° 18' is a
valid epoch, nor can we admit the epoch of August 7th with the Moon
in Scorpio 19° 37'. My reason is that neither of these are syntonic
with any degree within the possible limits of an error of observation,
in the radical time. Elsewhere this point will receive elaboration
Entirely different sets of egos, with dissimilar objectives, would be
generated under these conditions, and this statement involves a know-
ledge of certain facts connected with the nature of the degrees of the
zodiac intimately connected with the Prenatal Epoch.
When I argued for abnormal cases of pre-marital epochs, I was
fully alive to the fact that in the major view it would involve social
considerations of an invidious nature. I therefore explained that in
my experience the prenatal epoch does not bear direct relations in
point of time with any of the preliminary stages of generation. I did
not say that it bears no mathematical relationship. On the contrary,
I have proved that the astronomical and therefore the mathematical
relations are implicit and inviolable. As to the causal connection
between such pre-marital epochs and the act of generation, I think
there is little difficulty. If from the horoscope of a female child we
are able to say that when she grows up and marries she will give birth
to a son whose career will be phenomenal, we are tacitly providing for
the necessary connection between (a) man and wife through wedlock,
(6) mother and child through generation. In other words the child is
implicit in the horoscope of a child, as the future is implicit in the
present. Pathologically we know that the potential mother is
dominated by the tastes and peculiarities of the progeny in utero. We
also know that the mother is fulfilling the potentialities of her own
horoscope. Do wc know that the mother is thus controlled only from
her conception of the new life ? If the birth of this son is already
provided for in the correlated successiveness of phenomena, then all
preliminary stages towards that birth must be already provided for,
and this involves the/n-for action on the astral plane and the noumenal,
since these are causative as regards the emotional and phenomenal.
Yours faithfully,
Sephakial.

Note.—Even if we adopted the time measure of " R. M. A," it

would still be necessary to distinguish between radices in which the
Moon is increscent and those in which it is decrescent, making the
radical Moon to rise or set at epoch accordingly and not uniformly to
rise as required by the thesis.

" So far (he lessons have been interesting and highly instructive, and I
consider (hem well worth the price I pay for them."
F. R. [Stoke or. Trent).
394

Astrology for Beginners

PERSONAL APPEARANCE
(Continued from page 370)
When, at a person's birth, the sign Leo (SU, the Lioir, rises in the East,
the body is firmly set, inclining more to squarishness than to great length,
though the majority of those who have Leo rising, are above the average
height. It is exceptional to find a Leo person undignified in appearance,
and usually there is an uprightness and majesty in the bearing. The back
is usually strong, straight and long, and the bones of the body firm. The
head is large and well-domed and the check-bones curved.
The lion and cat belong to the same family, and the small straight nose
observable in both is often seen on the human Leo face, with eyelids and
eyebrows lying cloje together and covering much of the eye-ball, but not
producing the roll and sleepiness of the Taurean eye, but, instead, a oue-
pointeduess and all observing look. The eyes are yellawish—sherry coloured
oftentimes—and the hair is light and plentiful, and sometimes as tawny as a
lion's mane, but falls off with age. The teeth are large, strong and yellowish
white, and the corners of the mouth often down-droop.
The mouth is usually large and the lips well held together ; the voice is
strong and powerful, though not always beautiful, andthechinis pronounced
and strong. ,
The walk has often a royal grandeur about it; the well-poised head
being always held erectly and the square-set shoulders never becoming
rounded, but keeping their firmly-knit look to the end.
Skcuetary of the Lessons Drpaktment

A Testimonial
To Ike Secretary of the Lessons Department
" Having studied the entire Course of the Astrological Correspondence
Lessons, it is with great pleasure that 1 testify to the benefit I have received,
both spiritually and morally. The scientific, as well as the esoteric side of
the science is fully described in an instructive and interesting manner; and
no earnest stndetit could go through this Course of Lessons without feeling
an uplifting influence ; heart and mind being gradually prepared to perceive
the divine light manifesting behind the Stars. Very many happy hours
have I spent preparing my lessons, and I deeply regret I have come to the
final one. The beginner need not fear to enter on this Course of Corres-
pondence Lessons, for all the little dirticnlties are cleared away by the
unfailing kindness and patience of our teacher."
M. Whittle (Rossull Beach).
 iSfifeisno! Suiter
TO

VOL. XIII., NEW SERIES (XXVII., OLD SERIES)

NOTE.—in compiling this Index the intention has been to aeilttate rejerence to all nuxllir deoltng wilk
any given subject. The headings given, therefore, ore rather indicative of the purpoit of the u: titles than mere
literal contenis of their titles; in some cases they refer to notes which either bear ;;■> lilies at all, or such as are not
entirely descriptive of their contents. Brackets indicate references or corrections which should be looked
up. Subjects indexed under the same heading are arranged, not alphabetically, but in the order of their
occurrence in the volume. It is useful to give a thought to possible variations of title, as it has not been
feasible to include all; thus Ascendant might be indexed as " Rising Sign," and Midheaven as " Tenth House,"
or vice vend, while Part of Fortune might be included under cither "Part "or " Fortune," and so on—these
are Only illustrations.
Anything not found in this Index should be looked for in the Table op Contents at the beginning of
the volume. For Ops ? "U •? IJIV see also under "Planets," and for Signs see also under " Zodiac" as
well as A ties, T aurns, etc. For names of people, see also under " Horoscopes."
Readers are rei/nested to refer to the item "Corrigenda " and to make the emendations necessary.

A Famocs Provhecv : —160. Astrologer:—attitude of the, 187: a profes-

A Fatal Decision :—358. sional, 343 ; a spiritually minded. 344: and
A. Leo not Alan Leo:—350. pill specialist, 350 ; religion of the, 372 ;
A New Era (207), 228. 255. and charlatan defined. 384.
A Scrap op Paper :—363. Astrological Gossip;—(review], 178.
A Thought Ocean :—278. Astrological Institute, The :—312, 354.
A Universal Constant:—268. Astrological Society, The :—354.
Abnormal Eyesight :—337. Astrological Lessons ;—from the War. 37 ;
Aboc Ben Adhem :—376. Correspondence. (106), 177, 209,241,(273),
Action :—skill in, 4. (302). (338), (37°)• (394)-
Advice:—Flamstead's, 384. Astrology :—Horary v. Natal, no; an ex-
After-death conditions :—161. perimental science, 112; scientific, 42, 112;
Airy Signs ; —(d8). and the physician, 120 ; and medicine, 127 :
AldeuaraN and Axtares:—importance of. and free-will, 170; what is' Modern Astro-
229. logy'? 275; reconstructing, 277, ref Modern.
Alchemy, The Approach of:—237, (256). Astrology and Human Nature ;—(5), 54, 98.
Aphorisms,of Argol :—124. 166.
Apparent Time :—(102). Astrology and Social Reform:—19. 66.
Apjsearance, Personal :—209. 273, 306. 338. " Astrology for All " Series ;—A Complete
37°. 394- Reference Index to. 77, 253, 302.
Aries:—Entry of Major Planets into. 45, 118, Astrology for Beginners:—34, 71,141.175 ;
re/. Zodiac. personal appearance, 209, 273, 306, 338, 370.
Aristocracy or Democracy ?—153. 394 •
Armageddon :—325. 355. Astrology. International :—(see Mundane).
Army Veteran of 14 :—18. Astrology, Mundane :—2, 3. 4, 5. 9, 45. 88.
Assize, A Heavy 119. (106), 117. (119), (126), 158, 192.223,(226).
Aspects:—Mundane or zodiacal, 101 ; " new." 248. 282, 285, (312). 314. 349. S?8- See also
82, 103, 105, 346 ; minor, 204. " The Great War " pp. 228 ef seq.
See Note above.
 REFHKENCK INDEX
" Astrology, Scientific " 42, 112.
Astronomy, Ancient, in Egypt :—(382).
Asorahaya :—235.
Atom, Permanent:—215.
Austria, Emperor of :—31.
Awakening of the Mind :—187.
Besant, Mrs Annie :—and the Hindu Uni-
versity, 83 ; 293 ; birthday of. 307.
Biological Fates, Three. 245.
Birth of the Christ in man ;—330.
Bi rth. Premature :—299.
Births. Precipitated :—(390).
Birth-Times Registered !—246, 274, 342, 367.
Boeiime, Jacob;—147. 150.
Britain's test ;—146, 151.
British ;—iiitellectual apathy of the, 339 ; Isles
the hub ot the world. 372, hope of continuing
centre, 372.
" By the skin of our teeth " (329).
Censor, The :—82, (353).
Character (92). 136. (171).
Chessboard of Life :—146.
Children;—unwanted. 389.
Choice of Soil for seed:—281.
Christianity, What is?—169. 2C0.
Circles or Spirals;—184.
Climacteric Year :—229.
Comet 1916 a :—208, ii 249.
Coming Revolutions:—179.
Conjunction ok Uranus and Jupiter :—190,
373. 375-
Correspondents, To All 352. (353). 354-
Corrigenda ;—114.
Crisis in Disease :—two kinds of. 123.
Critical Dates prior to birth ;—217.
Critical Period reached :—183.
Criticism ;—76. 107. 382.
Cross and Rose :—261.
Cycles a law of Nature 188.
" Daylight Saving " 240,246, 315: in Italy,
226; France and Portugal, 253 ; (354).
Deaths, Precipitated ;—(390).
Declination;—extreme, 92; parallel of, 96,
172; no, 139. 173.
Delta Rays;—a universal constant. 206. 268.
Democracy on Trial:—143,
Devotion :—70.
Directions;—Royal, 25 : Problems of, 38, 40.
43. 113. 131. (247). 333; Primary and
Secondary, 233. 261. 264, 270, 388; why
Secondary are important. 2C8 ; in the World-
Map, 287. 319 ; duration of, 299.
Directional Astrology;—{review], 39.
Divine Guidance :—162.
Dorking .—(253).
o'o See Note on p. 395. .%
Earthy Signs :—(6g).
Eclipses in 191C ;—13, 17.
Entry of Maior Planets into Aries :—45.
Equinox defined ! (33), ref. Aries.
Eugenics ;—278, ref. Prenatal Epoch, 211.
Pate and Prke-Will :—332, 367.
Fiery Signs:—(Cg).
Flamstead's Advice :—384.
FortuneTellers' Letters;—353.
Geocentric Zodiac, Earth's ;—S (footnote).
" GenescopE " :—305.
"Germany's Position in the Great War" ;
—5- 4-L (63- 86). (107), (259), (388). ref. Kaiser.
Germany's test :—14O, 131.
Gtobe, The .—quoted, 3S5.
Greenwich meridian :—importance of, 234,
(■M'L (354). 37^
Hercules, The Twelve Laiiouks of :—
(review), 33.
Hereros :—(64. 65).
Hindu University:—The first Non-Official, 83.
Hippocrates;—123, 127.
HOROSCOPES :—Army Veteran of fourteen,
18; Kaiser. 38. 151; Napoleon. 38; Officer
in British Army, 40: Romantic Career, 55
(husband 57); Capt. D. Graham Pole, (58):
Billy Sunday, 98 ; Birth through coughing,
129 ; G. S. Arundale, Gen. Stc. of theT.S.,
130; with retrograde or stationary planets,
13S ; no lat. or dec., 139 ; a piteele I 165 ; Dr
Armstrong Smilh, 196: a 1 Kitchener Chap,'
202; General Lord French, 207; still-born
child, 208 (compare 129) ; Boxers (Johnson
and Tommy Burns), (208); sundry interest-
ing cases. 208 ; Great Planetary Conjunction
in 1899. 230. Speculum 231 : daylight saving
and false, 240; Lord Kitchener. (247, 333) ;
Pres. Carran/a, 250; G. E. Sutdiffie, (256);
Shakespeare's and Bacon's, (271); " most
interesting," (272) ; Monarchs. (310) ; Mrs
Besant. (293): W. T. Stead, (295); Mrs
Marie Rnssak, (296); David S. M. Unger,
300; Due Philipped'Orleans, (306) ; Charlie
Chaplin. (315); reincarnated German officer?
315; Edith Cavell, 316; paralysis, 337;
quadruplets, 337; Mr Martin Ringrose.
(344); Mr George Wilde. 344.
Horoscope, Progressed ;—ref. Directions.
Humanity :—the astrologer's religion, 372.
Immortality established through science:
—(review), 140.
Inquisition :—spirit2 of the, 386.
Intuition :—(145). 33. (255)- 364-
Isis 1—239, 272. (387).
Italy, King of :—29
 UEFIiKENCli INDEX 397
Kaiser. The 24, 30, (38), (145). 149. 151. Primary Directions made Easy: —
218,359, 388; r</. Germany : The Great War. 390-
Kali Ydga :—372. Prince of Wales:—26. 178.
Kepler :—on astrology, 276, 384. Problem for Students;—5,114.
Kino George :—25 ; and cycle of Mars, 144. Promittors and Significators :—113.
Ptolemy:—quoted, 128. 211.
Labour Questions, Solution of :—(87).
Latitude or Declination :—planets with no. Quickening 216.
139-
Leo 28°:—387. Race, Fifth Root- :—234.
Leo :—A. not Alan, 350. Rectification :—an example, 131 : (re/, also
Letters to Editor ; —(77) (353. 354)- Directions, Predictions).
London :—centre of the world, 372: rtf. Reference Index to Text Books :—77. 253,
Greenwich. 302.
Relation between weather and character :
Malay Peninsula :—242. 306. — r38.
Marriage:—19. (5O. 57). O7, 242. 389. Religion :—91.
Mars;—Influence of, during 1916, 1. Retrograde or Stationary:—138.
Medical :—astrology. 120. Reviewkr:—advice to a, (385).
Meridian of Fifth Koot Race;—234. Revolutions:—179. 189; Sinn Fein, 207.
Midway-Point :—389. Rose and Cross ;—2O1.
<• MODERN ASTROLOGY" Publications, Royal Directions :—25.
77. 79. 253. (302) 339. 371 ; reduction in size. Ruling Signs of Nations;—36. (119), 165.
73, 226, 242 ; an appreciation, 272 ; what is. 308.
275; death'ofour firstsubscriber, 353; address Russia, Czar op :—28.
of. 354 ; ' review' of. 382.
Modern Ideas, Trend of:—129, 237. Sale and Exchange :—(O5).
Monarchy on trial:—143, (310). Saturn :—The Seven Steps of, 297 ; ray of,
(363) ; ref. Planets.
L akada :—235, 259, 364. Science :—In the name of. 382.
Nations:—>tf. Ruling Signs. Science Progress :—quoted, 3S2.
Neptune:—255; discovery of, 387; ref. Planets. Scientific :—explanation of Directions. 261.
New Age:—(Oi) ; (irvifw) 72; or Era. 207 til 2O2.
foot, 228. 255, 372. Secret or Power, The :—149.
New Moon :—see Astrology. Mundane. Sedan and Super-Sedan :—3O4.
Notabilia ;—208. Semi-House Cusps :—205.
Seven Spirits before the Throne :—154.
Orbits:—(92), (13O). 171. Seven Steps of Saturn :—297,
Seven Trumpets ano Vials:—327.
Paper Scarcity :—73 ; reduction in size of Sexual intercourse :—why sin. in man's
magazine, 22G, 242, 371. fallen state, 281.
Personal Appearance :—see Appearance. Shakespeare's Horoscope :—(271).
Pill Specialist :—an astrological, 350. Sign-Rulership;—k/. Ruling Signs.
Planets:—li' 9, 24, in, 150. 152. 1C6. 255. Significators and Promittors:—113.
320. (333). 387: Hi (7). 10. MI, 150, 152, Signs :—uf. Ruling, Zodiac.
190. 373= ■? ".46. 147. 297. 320; U 13. 45. Sinn Fein Rebellion :—207.
50. 118, 190, 285. 373: * 13. 47. I44. '47: Sir Herbert Tree :—(35).
" Isis," 239, 272. (387) ; and plants, 126. Social Reconstruction :—69.
Platonic Union :—19. Soul Marriages ;—20.
Poincare, President ;—27. Star of Bethlehem :—174.
Predictions :—personal. 74 ; discrepancies in. " Starlight Express" :—80.
109: medical, 128; dated August 1905,202; Stars:—light and dark, 147; Aldebaran and
a fulfilled, 202; of Allies' success, 238, 239, Antares, 229 ; Night marching by the, 201.
381 ; it/. Directions. "Stars Incline, they do not Compel";—
Premature Birth :—129. 299. 39. no. 181.
Prenatal Epoch, The:—2ti, (281), 303, 334, Stationary or Retrograde :—138.
392: of the Kaiser, 218: and premature Sudden Death and the War '.—{review), 390.
birth, 299 " Summer Time " ;—ref. Daylight Saving.
Primary Directions:—rtf. Directions. Sweden, King of :—32.
»*. See Note on p. 395,
T.P.'s Wtukly quoted, 3S6
Text Books :—see Reference Index.
Tkeosophical Society and Politics :—347.
Third Hodse;—and ninth sign, 373.
Two Worlds, The' :—14S.
-Transits-;—relation to Directions, 261, 26'Q.
(291)-
Trend op Modern Ideas 129. 237.
"Undisciplined" :—278, 280..
Universal Law. The :—8 (at foot),
WAR. THE Great:—(I), 37. 143. (207), 243:
an . occult view of the, 59. 84; surprises of,
827 issue of, 151. 228. (re/. 238) ; events
leading to, 289 ; what are important events.
319; precipitation of the. 374. [See also
Coiil enls.)
v'i Ste Note M p. 395;
War in Heaven :i-:i43, ;5i.
Watery Signs :—(22).
Weather 92;, (136); (171).
Where do vou vibrate prom ?—81.
Wilde's New Aspects. Mr :—82,102, 105,346.
World-Teacher, Retorn of:—257, 258.'
" ¥odk Destiny and the Stars " §24 Wi.
105.
Yoga :—Kali, 233 ; Satya, 235, 236.-
Zodiac :—-What is the, 6 : Circle a whole, 23;
slang and trite sayings applied to the Signs,
241; O in r its. b 156.(285), n 191, m'227,
41 254. im 286, 313. ill 351. f 377^ [NoltL
—An important series 011 V The Zodiac "
will be a special feature of the ensuing
Volume.]