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An
argument for Astrology
It has
been argued that astrology has no scientific foundation, and as such
is nothing more than a hoax, though it has been used to identify
seasons and times the stars and planets have absolutely no effect
upon the personality or future of individuals. But is this true?
Everything is energy, and energy is influenced by magnetism and
gravity. Thus when large bodies enter the proximity of earth do these
have a magnetic, energy or gravitational effect upon the person or
persons unborn? And why would anyone say nay to this? I don't agree
with the western method does not mean I don't agree with it. As the
influences of stellar bodies have effects upon nature and energy why
would they not effect the mind as it grows. The reason I do not agree
with western methods of astrology is not that they are unfounded but
that they do not take into consideration the full astral bodies and
effects from the point of conception. Let alone the state when the
brain is in development. With modern science we can now evaluate to a
greater degree the stellar bodies and the development of the
personality by looking deeper into the effects that are going on and
the stages that are in development of the mind of the unborn person.
week five,
your baby has grown to the size of the tip of a pen, yet even at such
a small size significant development still occurs – your baby’s
brain, spinal cord, lungs, and heart will begin to form! Then,
in week six, signs of your baby’s eyes, nose, and ears appear
along with small buds, which will soon become arms and legs. At
week 11 your baby can now be described as a fetus In such an
astrology chart should be started 5 weeks after conception.
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Astrology
consists of several pseudoscientific systems of divination[1]
based on the premise that there is a relationship between
astronomical phenomena and events in the human world. Many cultures
have attached importance to astronomical events, and the Indians,
Chinese,
and Mayans
developed elaborate systems for predicting terrestrial events from
celestial observations. In the West, astrology most often consists of
a system of horoscopes
purporting to explain aspects of a person's personality
and predict future events in their life based on the positions of the
sun, moon, and other celestial objects at the time of their birth.
The majority of professional astrologers rely on such systems.[2]:83
Throughout most of its history, astrology was considered a scholarly
tradition. It was accepted in political and academic contexts, and
was connected with other studies, such as astronomy,
alchemy,
meteorology,
and medicine.[3]
At the end of the 17th century, new scientific concepts in astronomy
and physics (such as heliocentrism
and Newtonian
mechanics) called astrology into question. Astrology thus lost
its academic and theoretical standing, and common belief in astrology
has largely declined.[4]
Astrology has been rejected by the scientific community as a
pseudoscience,
having no validity or explanatory power for describing the universe.
Among other issues, there is no proposed mechanism of action by which
the positions and motions of stars and planets could affect people
and events on Earth that does not contradict well understood basic
aspects of biology and physics.[5]:249[6]
Scientific
testing of astrology has found no evidence to support any of the
premises or purported effects outlined in astrological traditions. In
one study, participating astrologers attempting to match natal charts
with profiles generated by a psychological inventory produced results
not significantly at variance with random chance.[7]:424
Astrology
has been dated to at least the 2nd millennium BCE,
with roots in calendrical
systems used to predict seasonal shifts and to interpret celestial
cycles as signs of divine communications.[8]
A form of astrology was practised in the first dynasty of Mesopotamia
(1950–1651 BCE). Chinese astrology was elaborated in the Zhou
dynasty (1046–256 BCE). Hellenistic
astrology after 332 BCE mixed Babylonian
astrology with Egyptian Decanic
astrology in Alexandria,
creating horoscopic
astrology. Alexander
the Great's conquest of Asia
allowed astrology to spread to Ancient
Greece and Rome.
In Rome, astrology was associated with "Chaldean
wisdom". After the conquest of Alexandria in the 7th century,
astrology was taken up by Islamic scholars, and Hellenistic texts
were translated into Arabic and Persian. In the 12th century, Arabic
texts were imported to Europe and translated
into Latin, helping to initiate the European Renaissance,
when major astronomers including Tycho
Brahe, Johannes
Kepler and Galileo
practised as court astrologers. Astrological references appear in
literature in the works of poets such as Dante
Alighieri and Geoffrey
Chaucer, and of playwrights such as Christopher
Marlowe and William
Shakespeare.
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Very interesting article on Saturn
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To understand my argument about astrology
Please compair readings below
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PLACEMENTS
Rising
Sign
Capricorn Ascendant
Capricorn was
rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element earth and of
the cardinal or movable quality. This gives you a quiet, steady, and
persevering disposition, patient, enduring and tactful. You are at
times inclined to melancholy and to too serious a frame of mind; are
a little lacking in cheerfulness, hopefulness, and buoyancy; and
sometimes look too much on the dark side of things. You have much
practical executive ability, are a steady useful worker and will
carry out faithfully any work you undertake. You have much
self-control and strength of will, and can pursue your ends
persistently in the face of many obstacles. You believe in justice,
economy, caution and prudence, and you usually think before you act.
You are ambitious of power and are capable of exercising it; are
self-possessed and can order, direct and manage subordinates very
efficiently, although you are apt to be more respected than loved by
them. You possess reserve and restraint; you do not make friends very
easily, but you are very faithful to those you possess and are a
stern and rather pitiless enemy. You have a quiet persistence and
steadfast determination that will enable you to do almost anything
you set your mind on. Saturn is the planet ruling the sign Capricorn.
Sun
The Sun stands for
the individuality, just as the Moon expresses the personality. It
also governs the constitution and is the Life force and backbone of
the whole system. Where the Sun is strong by position of aspects, it
gives strength of character, a powerful will and a vigorous
constitution, all of which contribute toward making the life
successful. Where the Sun is weak, there is danger of short life or
one broken by spells of illness or much misfortune.
It cannot be too
strongly emphasized that an analysis of the meaning of every factor
in Astrology is dependent upon its relation to every other factor.
For instance, the Sun in each sign has a certain definite influence
which it invariably exerts, but that influence, thus exerted, is
combined with every other influence of the Sun in its house position
and in its aspects, as well as in reference to the ascending sign and
other planetary positions and aspects. Thus, it is from the sum of
the forces and not from each one of them separately judged, that an
analysis is made.
The reader should
remember, therefore, that to read the analysis of the Sun in the
signs as it follows, as an analysis verbatim of the solar position in
a nativity, to read it except as one of the forces of a nativity to
be united, accentuated or modified by the other factors involved, is
not scientific astrology and will not give a true interpretation. The
statements true in themselves, must be united intellectually, in each
particular nativity, with other particular factors of that nativity;
and then, and only then, are the peculiarities of individual
instances described.
Sun in Scorpio
The Sun in Scorpio,
the house of death, is very strong, but the native is very likely to
suffer violence. It is quite frequently found that people with this
position suffer from diseases which bring them to a premature end, as
for example R.L. Stevenson and Stephen T. Crane, or, when badly
aspected, they may meet a violent death like Marie Antoinette,
President Garfield and Stanford White. This is physically the most
magnetic sign in the Zodiac. There are three main types, classed
respectively under eagle, serpent, and scorpion. But in every case,
an extremely forceful and dominating personality is to be expected.
With even the best types, the appearance is often somewhat austere.
Tremendous will-power is evident in every line of the countenance,,
which is frequently what conventional people call ugly and
occasionally this native bears scars. This rather formidable
appearance is, however, frequently combined with a kindly
disposition. However dark and forbidding may be the countenance, the
nature has yet the fascination of the serpent.
The native is
easily aroused to anger, and makes a most dangerous enemy, for he
cannot be trusted to fight fair, as with Leo, but will take any means
in his power to injure his antagonist; nor is he held back by any
feeling of pity, but will go on to the bitter end. Occasionally, this
is so pronounced as to cause actual defect in the fighting quality.
But it is doubtful
if any sign in the Zodiac illustrates so markedly the contrast
between the spiritually awakened soul and its opposite. Crafty and
cunning, with intense passions and jealousies and with a
vindictiveness which will wreak insatiable revenges, the Scorpio
native becomes, under higher impulses, indefatigable in his desire to
help mankind, and his coldness and insensibility to the sufferings of
others is transmuted into devotion and self-sacrifice. The coolness
of demeanor and stern sense of justice and integrity, together with
uncontrollable desire for freedom, may degenerate into harshness,
selfishness and discontent, or blossom into efficiency, sympathy and
true generosity.
Where the Sun is
fairly well aspected and Mars is free from affliction, the
constitution is extraordinarily strong; the resisting power is
greater than with any other sign. The native is capable of infinite
hard work and is most dogged, persevering and tenacious in carrying
out his plans. He does not, however, go at them like a bull at a
gate. He is always exercising his intelligence to out-maneuver his
opponent. Where Scorpio assumes the eagle type, the noblest qualities
of Mars and the Sun are found combined, and there is a certain,
subtlety and intellectuality about them which come more from the
nature of the sign itself than from either of the planets. There is
no better sign in the Zodiac for commanding success, but this success
nearly always comes through bitter fighting. There is a strong
tendency to science and all other branches of life which demand the
blending of the two qualities, energy and subtlety. Provided that the
Sun is strengthened by some good aspects, it is as favorable a
position as could be wished for him. At the same time, the student
must never forget to expect something secret and sinister in the
nature.
Scorpio rules the
glands of the pelvis and, from its opposition to Taurus, often
affects the corresponding parts in the neck and throat, but its most
special signification is in connection with the organs of
reproduction. Scorpio is particularly to be feared in the recurrence
of Cancer after operations, for such secondary growths are usually
glandular and such diseases are more dangerous than ordinary local
afflictions of the reproductive organs.
Sun in the Tenth
House
Honors and success
in life; high patronage and success in governmental circles,
embassies, etc. the credit of the native is fairly secure, his
success steady and generally productive of honors in middle life. A
servant with this position will secure service in high circles.
Moon
The Moon has to do
largely with personality, just as the Sun has to do with
individuality. The sign in which the Moon is placed describes the
type of the personality, showing its variety and quality just as the
Sun shows the type and quality of the individuality. As the
personality is the intimate and more immediate expression of the
temperament and measures the quality and power of sense impression,
and therefore the scope and precision of the mental forces, it
indirectly determines what we might call the fluid of being.
Moreover, as both mental and emotional forces depend first upon sense
impression, and since personality is that singular union of the
mental and the emotional, it follows that the Moon's position is the
focal point wherein sense, mind, and emotion meet in the formation of
character.
The Moon largely
determines the kind of life and activity with which the average human
being meets life day by day.
Moon in Capricorn
Capricorn is, on
the whole, a very bad position for the Moon, for here she is in her
detriment and the whole nature of Capricorn is unsympathetic. Almost
the worst feature of the Moon is her coldness, and this Capricorn
accentuates. The senses of people with the Moon in this sign are not
likely to be particularly acute. The mental response to impression is
rather quick, angry, and antagonistic, yet there is an extreme
keenness to receive information. Where the Moon is well-dignified,
this may be of very happy augury. There is a faculty for unusual
quickness of judgment, the power of sudden and correct decision, seen
particularly in Napoleon, but also in Augustus Caesar, Darwin,
Hitler, Lincoln, Patton, and Washington.
Bismarck has a wide
sextile of Mercury, a trine of Venus, a square of the Sun and
Jupiter, and semi-sextiles of Saturn and Uranus, all of which aspects
may be taken as greatly strengthening and solidifying the mental
reaction. We often find, however, illusions of sense, sometimes so
serious as almost to justify ascribing their cause to what is called
obsession. It is usually a case of definite obsession that we find
with the Moon in Capricorn, differing from her nature in Pisces,
where we get a different kind of dream-world, the romantic sphere of
the poet and the mystic. In Capricorn, the Moon often gives a
tendency in persons of the average type to intoxication, always in
the nature of obsession. This tendency to obsession is certainly the
most characteristic of all the qualities of the Moon in Capricorn.
Even in the best cases, people with this position tend to have the
idea fixed. Bismarck, Napoleon, and Savonarola are obvious examples.
In their cases, the fixed idea was very much in tune with the general
purpose of the life, and so was not an affliction, but in a case like
that of George III, who had Uranus in conjunction with his Moon and
Mars square, there could be no result but madness.
Mary, Queen of
Scots, and George Eliot, both had somewhat of a morbid strain, and it
is evident that neither of them possessed the disposition to make any
man permanently happy. The position of their Moon is to be held, for
the most part, responsible for this. There is also in women an
evident tendency to brood, and brooding is often a condition
antecedent to obsession.
The women with whom
the native will probably be associated may possess excellent
practical qualities, but they will be apt to be exacting and
capricious, sometimes exceedingly cold and unsympathetic, or, if not
cold, they may have a callous quality which is almost worse than
coldness. They will, however, in all probability be thoroughly
reliable, and possess a strong sense of moral responsibility. They
will also be patient, and generally speaking, faithful, but the
callousness of their disposition will hardly be conducive to the
happiness of the men whose lives they influence. If the reader will
run his eye back over the people mentioned as having the Moon in this
sign, and add the names of Isaac Pitman, Cicero, and Edward VI, he
will notice that in none of these cases have women played a really
important part in the life, for sympathy is the true foundation of
influence. The most important woman in the life of Pisces Sun
composer Frédéric Chopin ended up being the independent
and assertive George Sand - his Capricorn Moon was favored by
sextiles from Uranus and Pluto.
Women having the
Moon in this sign attract women who are not in sympathy with them.
They are more likely to benefit their women friends than to receive
benefit from them.
Mothers having
children with the Moon in Capricorn will be naturally efficient and
practical regarding their physical and material needs; unless they
can be proud of such children, however, they will seldom give them
the love and sympathy which the children will naturally crave.
Moon in the First
House
Inconstancy,
timidity, changefulness, publicity; liability to many changes of
residence and reversals of fortune; if in a movable sign, constant
changes in life and a roving disposition; tendency to sleep-walking
at some time in life; fruitful imagination; sensitive and intuitive
nature.
Mercury
Mercury is the most
truly sensitive of all the planets. Venus and the Moon are more
easily affected, it is true, but for them a better term is
"impressionable." Mercury is the adolescent; he responds to
every impression like the weather-vane, which is a very different
thing from the reception and reflection of every impression. In
slightly different language, Mercury is not modified by the signs as
are the more passive planets; rather each excites him to give a
special expression of opinion. Mercury is, as we know, the mind; and
while the contents of the mind are determined by the food of the
mind, yet different minds deal quite differently with identical
foods. It has been said that thousands of people before Newton saw
apples fall from trees, but their only impulse was to eat them.
The proper and best
influence upon Mercury is Saturn, and without his steadying hand to
hold him in tutorship to a profounder wisdom, Mercury may be
frivolous and vain. It is only when Mercury is overpowered by Venus
that the mental qualities become subservient and slavish, so that one
may say of the native "he has no mind of his own." There
is, however, always the safeguard of the proximity of the Sun,
especially when the conjunction is not too close.
Mercury in Scorpio
In Scorpio Mercury
is "quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword." No
other position so thoroughly accentuates the fierce acuteness of the
mind. People with Mercury in this sign are far-seeing and
clear-sighted; it is almost impossible to deceive them, but on the
contrary they are often over-critical and sometimes incurably
suspicious. The thought is bitter and eager, often vitriolic, and the
word follows suit. They have an uncanny faculty of knowing exactly
where to wound. They make admirable vivisectors on every plane, and
they are usually quite unscrupulous in their methods and careless of
what pain they may inflict. Furthermore, they are intensely
secretive; they hate to commit themselves to any positive statement,
but their capacity for insinuation and innuendo may well be described
as infernal. They make the most dangerous enemies, and in some cases
(though, fortunately, this is rare) there is something of the snake
in their temperament, and they may turn suddenly and treacherously
upon their antagonists. They make excellent secret-service men. They
are capable of long continued dissimulation and, the imagination
being exceedingly vivid, they are well fitted to deceive others. With
all these qualities, goes an intense skepticism, an intolerance of
the opinions of others whom they regard as inferior, and a supreme
contempt for those who disagree with them. On the other hand, the
secretive side of the sign may sometimes develop as mysticism or some
profound interest in secret societies (particularly, of course, when
Mercury is in the twelfth house) or in hidden and obscure matters of
one sort or another. They have tremendous capacity for investigation
and are quite ruthless in their methods. These qualities often
cooperate to bring about success, and some of the most profound
seekers into the mysteries of life have this position of Mercury.
This is exemplified
in its highest and best form by William Blake, probably the most
profound mystic that the English race has produced. The activity of
mind and the love for secret subjects of thought are shown in the
horoscope of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Gandhi and Nehru
exemplify the militant, persistent spirit of the mind conferred by
this position.
An example of the
vigorous eloquence and keen critical instincts of this position
manifesting in matters of less universal importance is given by John
Bright, and of these same qualities in more intense form by Theodore
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. W. S. Gilbert, the greatest of the
social satirists of the Victorian Age, has Mercury in this sign,
conjunct cynical Saturn.
Something of the
brilliancy and secretiveness, with a most unfortunate turn, not only
for repartee, which made him enemies, but for obscure thoughts, which
gave them their weapon against him, is shown in the nativity of Oscar
Wilde.
Mercury in the
Tenth House
Many occupations;
restless spirit; uncertain position; taste for literature; success in
trading and in general agencies and commissions; vexations and
worries; literary or scholastic profession.
Venus
It may, on first
consideration, appear somewhat difficult to differentiate between the
action of Venus, the "Lesser Fortune," and that of Jupiter,
the "Greater Fortune." Both represent the expansive and
altruistic spirit. But Venus is the handmaiden of the Sun and she is
consequently attached to the vital force, even as Jupiter is more
closely an emanation of Neptune, the other extreme of the system, the
Soul. The altruism of Venus, therefore, means love in a quite
conventional and often selfish or personal sense; her expansiveness
is often mere amiability, possibly assumed in order to gain some end
associated with the instinct of self-preservation; and, finally,
Venus is altogether more material and, so to speak, fleshy, than
Jupiter. Venus in any sign has so much connotation or reference that
it is very necessary to take into consideration not only the sign in
which it is placed, but also its aspects to other planets before
judging of its effects. But the importance of the impact of the
different signs is very great. In fact, the more material a planet
is, the more easily it is influenced. We see no such violent
commotion in the vaster planets; Uranus in Aries is not so different
from Uranus in Libra, but Venus in Gemini is utterly different from
Venus in Scorpio.
In dealing with
Venus on the lines hitherto followed with the other planets, we are
confronted with a difficulty peculiar to the nature of her own
influence. It is easy to observe most of the effects of other planets
in the life, character, and work of great men, but we know little of
the inner details of their domestic and intimate relations.
Alexander the Great
may have beaten his wife, and Cromwell may have been a very clever
and tactful father, but in the majority of those examples which have
hitherto served us so well, we know little or nothing of the private
life. And it is essentially, and first of all, the private life that
Venus influences. The reader must, therefore, be content to rely, to
a certain extent, upon the authority of the author regarding the
influence of Venus.
Venus in Scorpio
It is very
unfortunate for Venus to find herself in a sign which is both martial
and watery. It completely destroys any altruistic tendencies, and it
may turn her amiability not only into sensuality but into something
grosser still. Her influence is often extremely violent; passion is
intense and physical; unless gratified it is likely to turn into
hatred; and, even when it is reciprocated, its career is likely to be
stormy, in particular afflictions it may end in treacheries and
tragedies. People with this position run the greatest danger of
getting themselves into social trouble. It is particularly important
to guard against misalliance either with or without the assent of the
law. The extreme violence of the feelings may also react ultimately
upon the health; since, great as the capacity is, the desires are
still stronger and may easily lead to dangerous excess.
A disappointment
also frequently arises from too great straightforwardness. Such
people are likely to frighten the birds which they wish to ensnare.
They are sometimes unscrupulous in the pursuit of their plans. No
consideration seems to weigh with them. This naturally results in
what may pass with the world for success, and unquestionably the
physical magnetism is as great of its kind as in any other sign. In
fact Libra alone rivals it. But the magnetism of Libra is subtle and
perverse, whereas that of Scorpio is coarse and gross.
In dealing with the
nativities of people who have lacked the refining influences of
education, this position stands for quite animal dissipation and is
nearly always associated with drunkenness. People of a higher type
naturally escape such extremes. But frequently the cynical
temperament develops as a result of satiety. This is marked in the
cases of Sainte Beuve, Benjamin Disraeli, and Marie Antoinette. In
the last case one may regard this position of Venus in her horoscope
as one of the principal causes of the French Revolution. One has only
to examine the innumerable pamphlets which were written against her
to see how this came about.
Venus in Scorpio
does not appear compatible with any striking tendencies towards
artistic development, and she is also here very weak in tact and
amiability. In the case of Swiss-German artist Paul Klee she is
inspired as part of a tight Mystic Rectangle with Jupiter, Uranus,
and Neptune - but until he met Kandinsky, his art consisted of
black-and-white grotesques and satires. It must be remembered that in
this sign she is in her detriment. Of course, the usual modifications
caused by aspects are always to be considered, but the position is so
sensual that it takes a great deal to overcome its natural
tendencies.
People with this
position are extremely self-possessive in the matter of affection.
Jealousy with them is a passion far more consuming than the love
which has given birth to it. A trifling disappointment will turn love
into hate - relentless and unscrupulous. The character of the passion
is as physical as when Venus is in Taurus, but in the earthy sign,
she connects with all the natural, genial, domestic, human qualities.
Venus in Scorpio may be called almost demoniac; weary, but
unsatisfied, is her motto. She never rests. Scorpio in many of its
aspects is symbolized by the sea in storm, and the qualities of that
element accurately symbolize this temperament.
The magnetism is
extraordinarily strong, but may be called primitive. There is a kind
of fascination which the innocent frequently fail to recognize, and
which consequently makes them fall an easy prey. This type is
curiously open to flattery. A compliment is always taken as
surrender, as a tribute to the superiority of the native.
Venus in Scorpio is
extremely passionate and irresistible. It will not be content with
anything but exact fulfillment of its desires. It is consequently
necessary for the loved one to comply absolutely, or at least to seem
to comply with sufficient skill to pretend; and this is, evidently,
by no means a dignified or worthy position for anyone to maintain.
It must be borne in
mind that, when Venus is in Scorpio, the Sun and Mercury may, at the
same time, be in either Libra or Sagittarius; in such case, much that
has been said would be largely modified, or the education and
circumstances of the native would be such that the qualities imparted
by the pure Venus in Scorpio would be latent and never be brought to
the surface. They might be expressed through a feeling of great
dissatisfaction and suppression.
Venus in the Tenth
House
Frequently confers
a gift of prophecy and taste for divinatory arts; artistic pursuits;
success in poetry, music, or the drama; high patronage among ladies;
success in love affairs, and general prosperity. A peaceful and
secure position. Honors, according to the sphere of life occupied by
the native.
Mars
Mars represents the
muscular system; it is often found that a weak brain goes with great
development of physical strength, and vice versa. It might even occur
that the whole of the higher faculties might be harmonious and
strong, yet fail to make good, owing to the lack of practical energy,
boldness, and capacity for rather brutal work. The material plane
continually presents obstacles to the higher nature; Mars is the
force which pushes such obstacles aside, or demolishes them.
His external
influence upon the man as distinguished from his internal influence
within the character, is that of excitement, inflammation, violence,
and accident. Thus a square of Mars to the Sun might give a rugged
constitution and dauntless energy, and at the same time subject the
native to fevers and accidents from fire or steel.
The power of Mars
will, of course, as before, be modified by his position in the
Zodiac, and, owing to his material and therefore easily-molded
nature, the variations will be, on the whole, more extreme than we
have found to be the case with planets of greater spirituality.
Yet so great is his
importance, that a badly afflicted Mars practically inhibits the
native from making wise use of his enormous energy. It is a curious
and somewhat paradoxical situation, and the student cannot pay too
much attention to its study.
Mars in Scorpio
Although Mars is in
his own house, he cannot be called strong for good. We have noticed
that Aries did not bring out the highest qualities of Mars; Scorpio
brings out his worst. Mars is the most unbalanced of the planets; the
one most in need of restriction or direction. Almost any influence
but his own touches his fire to rationality, generosity, or grace.
But Scorpio, while in some ways the most powerful of the signs, may
be described as snake-tempered; and in it he easily becomes
bloodthirsty. It is even amusing to note how one of the gentlest
spirits that ever dwelt within the human form, Robert Louis
Stevenson, is often in method outrageous almost beyond the "penny
dreadful." In "Treasure Island," cold-blooded
murderers tumble over each other's heels, in circumstances of
unparalleled atrocity. Who, without the help of Mars in Scorpio,
could have invented Long John Silver, hopping after his comrade and
braining him with his crutch, or the attempt, in "The Ebb-Tide,"
of Hurst to throw vitriol over Atwater, and the breaking of the
bottle in his hand by the ready rifle of the pearler?
There can be a
complete lack of adaptability in this position of Mars; it is
sometimes replaced by treacherous cunning; but, as a general rule,
the method of the native tends to be brute force. The anarchist
Vaillant may be cited as an illustration. Such extreme cases are
fortunately rare and imply bad aspects. In this particular instance,
Mars has the sextiles of Jupiter and Saturn, which make him
effective, but his quality is deteriorated by the square of Venus.
Stalin has Pluto opposing his Mars; made effective by a trine from
Saturn. The violence of Mrs. Pankhurst, again, is undoubtedly due to
this position, for Mars is not otherwise afflicted. On the contrary,
he is helped by a sextile of the Moon and trines of Neptune and the
Sun. Her undoubted nobility of character and the altruism of her
violent action indicate the vision conferred by the trines of Neptune
and the Sun which the sextile of the Moon directs toward the masses
of women. Miss Frances E. Willard may be advantageously compared with
Mrs. Pankhurst. Mercury is sextile to Mars, Jupiter semi-sextile; and
the complex is important, Sagittarius being the rising sign and Mars
only six degrees above the Eastern Horizon. Hers is a far more
rational and effective method than that of the later suffragist. Mme.
Patti has Mars trined by Uranus, and squared by the Sun and Neptune
in conjunction, which appears an extremely advantageous disposition.
Medical lexicographer Sir Richard Quain has both Mercury and the Sun,
Lord of the Ascendant, in conjunction with Mars, and Venus is
semi-sextile. These aspects go far to minimize the effect of Scorpio.
Psychologist
Roberto Assagioli has his Scorpio Mars square to both Venus and
Saturn, plus a wide sextile to the Moon; Mars aspecting these planets
added energy to his knowledge of relationships and the feeling self.
The Mars of singing tenor Enrico Caruso is trine to a conjunction of
Mercury with the Sun. The Mars of Gandhi is part of a powerful
complex - conjunct peaceful Venus, but opposing Jupiter and Pluto and
square to the Moon; his Mars also contacts a close square between
outer planets Uranus and Neptune; Scorpio can give the strength to
master these transcendent energies. Joseph P. Kennedy was born with
Mars conjunct Jupiter and sextile to Mercury and Venus - all
fortunate aspects. Lawrence of Arabia had his Mars square a
conjunction of Mercury-Saturn in Leo, adding energy to the mental and
linguistic faculty plus rugged endurance, but not promising
happiness. Albert Schweitzer was born with Scorpio Mars exactly
squaring an exact opposition of Saturn in Aquarius to Uranus in Leo,
where Uranus is high in the tenth house; Schweitzer devoted his life
to humanitarian service. The Scorpio Mars of George Washington is
strong by position, angular on the Descendant, but the only aspects
to be found are to its higher octave, Pluto. Mars and Pluto co-rule
Scorpio - the Mars influence, with its tendency towards manifestation
on the bodily plane, will be stronger among less evolved natives.
Henry VI of England
is an example of the unfortunate influence which this sign exerts on
Mars. He has the softening trine of Neptune exact, and only the
slight help of a semi-sextile of the Sun.
Mars in the
Eleventh House
Contentions among
friends; unsatisfactory relations with others in social life. Friends
lead the native into extravagance or some form of dissipation. Danger
to the wife in childbirth. In a woman's horoscope, the husband is
often profligate.
Jupiter
Jupiter, in a
general classification, may be said to be the precise contrary of
Saturn. The latter constricts and conserves; the former expands and
spends. The one is egoism; the other altruism. In religious symbolism
Saturn is Jehovah - "I am that I am" - which is only a
theocratic way of saying "everything for myself." Jupiter
is the divine Son, Jesus - the benevolently spendthrift heir - who
gives his very life for others. Jupiter is the instinct of creation,
of generosity and hospitality, and of the religious emotions
generally; and, of course, in so far as the man is passive to
Jupiter, he represents these qualities in the cosmos bestowed upon
the man, and hence "Good fortune." Naturally, his action
depends, with regard to its scope, upon Neptune and Uranus. Unless
these planets, signifying respectively the soul and the divine will,
indicate bigness in the career, a good Jupiter will be no more than a
luck-bringer in business or profession, and make the character noble,
generous, and easy-going; and a weak Jupiter will only defeat
advancement in life, and tend to enfeeble the character by making it
spendthrift, luxurious, and unable to resist the influence of others.
We have intimated
above through what channels Jupiter comes to express his creative and
generous tendencies in material prosperity; but another point which
should be emphasized in this regard is that Jupiter represents to a
very great extent the ambition of the native. The force, quality, and
degree of success of this ambition will be indicated by the strength
and position of the planet, and the direction or channel through
which this ambition may work out its best prosperity will be shown by
the sign which Jupiter occupies, modified of course by other
contributory conditions.
In the days when a
man was either a lord or a serf, a knight or an innkeeper, it was
comparatively easy to determine with exactness a man's vocation. In
modern days, however, there are thousands of different and
characteristic types of employment. While Jupiter is the key to the
type of work which may bring a man money or profit, it does not
necessarily follow that it is the kind of vocation for which he has
the greatest inclination. Too often, indeed, his inclination is not
that for which he is best adapted, or it is incompatible with his
environment and education. On the other hand, an accurate observer
may often see a person with distinct abilities for a certain type of
work, and yet he recognizes that, for some other reason, he had an
inability to make a success of that work.
Jupiter in Aquarius
The Uranian
qualities of Aquarius are rather helpful in steadying Jupiter against
the tendency to laxity, which is his chief danger. His religious side
is, however, not strongly developed, though there may be a tendency
to uncommon religious beliefs of a mystical or occult nature. In
general, however, political astuteness is far more to the front in
Jupiter's activity, as is witnessed by Queen Victoria and Caesar
Borgia, whose careers, despite the difference of their eras, are not
altogether unlike. The sextile of Mars from Aries assures the
efficiency of Victoria's Jupiter; he culminates in the tenth house,
and there is no trace of any aspect from a planet to disturb his
political bent. The real character of Caesar Borgia is not altogether
unlovable. The Sun is trine to Jupiter, making him open and scornful
of meanness, but Mars and Saturn in conjunction oppose Jupiter, and
these aspects doubtless brought his ultimate ruin.
Another interesting
comparison involves George Eliot and John Ruskin. The same coldness
is apparent in both. In the former, a sextile of Venus to Jupiter
tends to loosen the conventional ties, and the opposition of Mars
must have been a great handicap. But in this complex, Mars, as Lord
of the Ascendant, is the important factor, especially as he is near
the cusp of the Midheaven, and Jupiter is in a subordinate position.
John Ruskin's Jupiter is seriously afflicted by a conjunction of Mars
and by the opposition of the Moon to both these planets; and, the
Moon being in the sixth house, an actual physical defect was
apparently the cause of his physical incapacity. But had Jupiter not
been in zero of Aquarius, taking on some of the coldness of
Capricorn, the calamity of the aspects might not have been so
serious.
Coleridge's Jupiter
was squared by Uranus and opposed by the Moon; fortunately, however,
the Sun is nearly trine. Observe how each of these has its own
peculiar effect. Jupiter, Lord of the Ascendant, is the key to the
complex; and, as he is rising (though rather low in the second
house), the personality is altogether suffused with expansive,
generous, and noble religious instincts. But Uranus makes his
character rather original (to our profit, indeed, though to the
poet's own material detriment) and turns it into unusual channels.
The weird horror of the one great poem and the two fragments by which
he lives in literature are admirably suggested by this aspect plus
the Lunar opposition. The trine of his Libra Sun is yet deeper and
more personal; it is the undertow of his thought to love all. Hence
all the fantastic and gruesome imagery of the Ancient Mariner only
decorates the simple truth:
"He prayeth
best, who loveth best,
All things both
great and small."
It is a noble,
unfortunate complex, highly instructive to the student, and it
operates on every plane. Jupiter afflicted by Uranus in the house of
pleasure squared by the Moon could only mean, on the physical side,
addiction to drugs.
Jupiter in Aquarius
gives to the native sincere friends who bring both benefit and
pleasures. It strengthens the intuition, inclines to originality in
ideas, and favors the acquirement and development of almost any of
the higher mental qualities. It gives little love for money as such,
and great sensitiveness to the material needs of others. Its natives
develop as physicians, lecturers, teachers and promoters of large
schemes, especially when they are of a philanthropic kind.
Those born with
Jupiter in Aquarius enjoy all phases of work relating to human
beings. It is a splendid position for diplomats, labor leaders,
psychologists, sociologists, and for those types of business men or
women who handle many employees. In a business way, these people
often prove more fortunate to others than to themselves, and for this
reason they should hesitate before assuming the responsibility of
conducting a business of their own; they would do better by being
part of a large organization or in an advisory capacity. If they are
following a profession, they would do well to have a competent
secretary who will look after the financial end in a businesslike
manner; otherwise, because of their leniency, they are likely to
suffer from delinquent accounts or from attracting too many clients
who take advantage of their humanitarianism. Many competent
physicians, architects, inventors, bankers, brokers, ambassadors,
statesmen, lecturers and teachers, as well as promoters of big
schemes, particularly of a philanthropic kind, or where the object is
to improve the general condition of the masses, have Jupiter thus
placed. They are often bored by ordinary commercial business; and, if
forced into this channel, they should also have a hobby or other
interest, in order that their life may be complete.
Jupiter in the
First House
Good health,
fortunate nature, generous disposition, love of justice and equity.
It increases the chances of success in life, and brings the efforts
of the native to successful issues.
Saturn
Saturn, in a
general classification, may be said to be the precise contrary of
Jupiter. Where the latter expands and spends; the former constricts
and conserves. Where Jupiter is bold and extravagant, Saturn is
cautious and ascetic. Responsible Saturn acts to protect the
interests of self, family, society, and the world from harm. Where
Jupiter boldly seeks and grows with experience, Saturn has the wisdom
of having learned from experience. But the wisdom and knowledge of
Saturn relate to the material world, to the world of conditions,
consequences, and rules. Saturn can be ambitious, controlling, and
egoistic. Saturn protects the self against hurt by judging according
to lower-mind polarities, such as smart versus stupid or winner
versus loser. The function of the outer planets, which represent the
higher mind, is to rebel against the limitations of the lower mind,
providing opportunities for freedom from the tyranny of the everyday
world's rules, conditions, polarities, and judgments.
Man may be master
of life and of death - if he will. To the worker in the fields of the
intelligence, the farmer of mind, the harvest grows continually.
Saturn is once again the golden god. The brain of the brain worker
improves constantly until the age of sixty, and even then retains its
vigor until the end. Such old men we often see. Instead of the vices
and infirmities of age, they have consolidated virtues, conserved
strength. Dignity and austerity crown and cloak them. They are
simple, strenuous and lofty-minded. Even if they are of solitary
habit, they are kind. The purpose of their lives has crystallized;
and, because they have desired only the infinite, satiety does not
touch them. Life is to them a religion of which they are the priests,
an eternal sacrament of which perhaps the ecstasy is dulled, but
which they consume with ever-increasing reverence. Joy and sorrow
have been balanced, and the tale thereof is holy calm. They know that
peace of God which passeth all understanding.
The commoner aspect
of Saturn, however, is this: the malicious oldster, envious of youth,
hating life because he has failed to live it according to the law of
righteousness. His will-power is merely obstinacy, opposition to
reform, failure to accommodate himself to changed conditions, the
conservatism of the hardened brain. He feels his waning powers and
tries to receive - to receive, when all his sensibility is gone!
Feeling himself impotent, he vents his toothless rage upon the young.
Unhappy himself, he seeks to make others wretched. Sordid and
heartless, he sneers at enthusiasm and generosity. Weary of life, he
thinks life holds no joy.
Saturn represents
what one does in the world, one's career, and life's lessons. Look to
the planets that form aspects to Saturn for a guide to the activities
that will mainly occupy the native's life. Conjunction, sextile, and
trine aspects represent activities that will come easily to the
native. The best of all of Saturn's dignities is illumination by the
Sun. Square, inconjunct, and opposition aspects represent lessons
that need to be learned or areas where the native feels blocked and
must fight. When Saturn has favorable aspects, the native tends to
receive the benefit; when it has unfavorable aspects, then Saturn
tends to act as a blocking agent.
Saturn in Capricorn
Saturn being in his
own sign in Capricorn, he is naturally strong, even without help from
outside sources. His quality here, however, is rather rough and
crude, and this does not tend to produce the best results, in so far
as the effect upon the external world is concerned. There will be no
altruistic thought to soften the egotism, and opposition will be
likely to infuriate. In a word, Saturn in this sign makes the native
harsh and overbearing, unless there be some very strong counteracting
influence to soften its asperity.
The most dense form
of the arrogant selfishness which Saturn in Capricorn may give is
well illustrated by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. In both charts,
Saturn is badly afflicted and is situated in the fourth and eighth
houses respectively. In his case, Saturn in Capricorn squares Venus,
the planet of social relations; in her case Saturn squares the Moon,
denying sympathy with or feeling for the common man, the public. Not
only was this evil Saturn the moral cause of their downfall, but his
house position also predicted their tragic end.
Where Louis XVI had
a square of Venus to his Saturn, the great lover of women, Giacomo
Casanova, has only a close sextile of Venus to his Saturn in
Capricorn.
Edward VII had
Saturn rising in Capricorn, but with little affliction; even the
semi-sextile of Mercury could save him from the stupidity of allowing
such tendencies to manifest themselves, while his other planets gave
him many lovable qualities which ensured his popularity. The Saturn
of Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of phonic shorthand, has a
conjunction of the Sun, a semi-sextile of Neptune and Venus, a
semi-square of Uranus, and a sextile of Mars, We get in this a very
good astrological map of the kind of force required for proper
development of the ego, a steady and vigorous push, but executed on
proper lines with tact and with intelligence.
In the nativity of
Richard Wagner, the only support for Saturn in Capricorn is a sextile
from the slow and deep planet Pluto. There is a great deal of
brusquerie and instability, which was a serious limitation to the
greatness of the man. He wasted incalculable energy in sterile and
fruitless controversy, antagonizing some whose support might have
been most valuable.
The general
influence of Saturn in Capricorn is to give ambition, independence,
power, authority or rulership to the native, according to his station
in life. This may be accompanied by great selfishness and loneliness,
or isolation may be characteristic of the life. It is frequently the
case that this position of Saturn gives an unusual degree of
melancholy to the mind.
Saturn in the First
House
Melancholy mind,
solitary habits; shy, nervous manners; subjects the native to colds;
causes bruises to the head; an uphill struggle; patient disposition.
Uranus
As the race
evolves, it seems that man must learn to adapt himself more and more
to the vibrations of Uranus and its powerful influx, which appear to
be growing more and more potent in the unfolding of genius, or the
transcending of intellect. Through the harmonious vibrations of
Uranus, it is found that people become prophetic, keen, perceptive,
executive, inventive, original, given to roaming, untrammeled by
tradition, impatient of creeds, opinionated, argumentative, stubborn,
and eccentric. They speak to the point; asserting, with startling
confidence, opinions far in advance of their fellows. They come into
possession of wealth in unexpected and strange ways, yet often appear
to pass under the yoke of discipline as though cast down for a
purpose from opulence to poverty, only to rise again by the unfolding
of unexpected resources. Always ahead of their time, the natives of
Uranus are often dreamers in philanthropy; poetic, though their
writings need interpretation and are often unintelligible even to the
imaginative, because of their mystical origin and transcendental
coloring.
In the few years
during which Uranus has been under observation, it has been found
that, if afflicted, it is the source of incurable organic diseases,
collapse of fortune, and individual as well as national destruction.
It is demonstrable that, in inharmonious nativities, evil Uranian
influences, both through transits and directions, have brought about
headlong destruction from bad habits, misdirected affection, illicit
connections before or after legal marriage; according to the
signification of the place of radical affliction in the horoscope.
Every psychic thus
far studied by the writer has been found, by careful consideration of
the authentic birth data, to be under powerful Uranian influence; and
to this vibration may be attributed clairvoyance, warning dreams,
second-sight, clairaudience and similar phenomena.
The occupations or
avocations which seem in sympathy with this strange planet are
progressive, inventive, exploring, and of a humanitarian nature. The
influence of Uranus is the least personal, and the most universal in
the Zodiac; consequently, any endeavor for the betterment of humanity
is favored by those who are strongly responsive to its vibration.
Uranus produces
lecturers, public figures, travelers, inventors, aviators, radio
operators, astrologers, electricians, scientists, physiologists,
mesmerists, metaphysicians.
Uranus makes one
impulsive and extremely eccentric; the native does not know his own
mind, but is continually moved by providential agencies; he often
becomes a fatalist, feeling that his destiny is beyond his own
control.
Uranus emphasizes
the will, causing the native to move spontaneously from an inner
urge; the native is active, original, inventive, and is notable for
his love of liberty and an idealistic sense of justice. The planet
bestows leadership and causes the native to become a pioneer and to
establish new orders of things.
Uranus makes the
mind independent, original, and not amenable to control. The native
is unconventional, altruistic and subject to sudden changes of
attitude. There is an uncanny ability to sense motives.
Circumstances
induced by Uranus are sudden changes, estrangements, exiles, blind
impulses, catastrophes, suicides, romantic tragedies, inexplicable
changes of fortune, accidents, secret enemies, plottings, and sudden
elevations.
Every living soul
is presumed to have a purpose, and that purpose single. Not one in a
million, perhaps, is conscious of that purpose; we seem for the most
part to be a mass of vacillations. Even the main objective career of
an individual cannot be considered as necessarily an expression of
the interior will.
But Uranus
indicates divine will; and the reason why he is so explosive and
violent and upsetting to human affairs is that he represents the real
intention, which, lying deeper than the conscious purpose, often
contradicts it. The outer and the inner are then in conflict; and
whenever battle is joined, the inner must win. To the outer
consciousness, this naturally appears as disaster; for the native
does not recognize the force as part of himself, or, if so, he
regards it as a disturbing entity, and resents its dominion. Uranus
is, in Egyptian symbolism, the Royal Uraeus Serpent; slow, yet
sudden, Lord of life and death. It takes a great deal to move him;
but, when once in motion, he is irresistible. This is why, to the
normal mind, he appears so terrible.
As has been seen,
the deep-lying interior purpose of any being is nearly always obscure
and undecipherable to the mortal eye; but there is an indication or
hieroglyph of it which is usually very significant. One can hardly
call it more than the artistic expression of the purpose, and this
appears a very good way to describe it. We call it the Temperament.
It does not define the Will itself, but it sets limits to the sphere
wherein the Will may work.
We have already
found that the personality is imaged in the sign on the Ascendant;
and from this we now turn to a consideration of the sign in which
Uranus may be situated. Where these two factors are harmonious, we
get a character with unity of moral purpose; where otherwise, a
self-tortured waverer. It might be cited as an objection that those
who have Uranus in the Ascendant are usually eccentric characters;
but the argument is on the other side. Such eccentricity is
temperament in its highest development; it shows the entire
over-ruling of the superficial qualities by this deep-seated,
turbulent, magical will. It is only to others that the person with
Uranus rising appears so eccentric.
Uranus in Virgo
So earthy,
mercurial, passive a sign as Virgo can have little in common with the
fire and activity of Uranus. Sometimes, the influence, as in the case
of Cancer, becomes harmonized and fixed; but this will only be in
special cases. For the most part, one is likely to find eccentricity
and mental instability, and it is not often that any great driving
force is developed.
Nevertheless, we
are at once confronted with the case of Balzac, presumably one of the
greatest novelists that ever lived. But here Leo is rising, and
Uranus, though just within the second house, has no planet between
him and the horizon. The Sun, lord of the Ascendant, is in
conjunction with Jupiter in the tenth house. There is no lack of
harmony between the personality and the temperament, except for the
mercurial touch given by Virgo, which made the master personally very
eccentric in manner, and somewhat unintelligible in his actions, at
least to the majority of his contemporaries. But this could also be
due to the Moon in Sagittarius being in square aspect to Uranus.
Brigham Young has
Uranus rising in Virgo, just within the second house, in exact
sextile to Mars which is within four degrees of the conjunction of
Jupiter. Mercury, the lord of Virgo, is in close conjunction with the
Sun. This combination gives that tremendous energy and ability which
he had, and which the mere position of Uranus would have denied him.
The Scottish
satirical writer, essayist, historian and mathematics teacher Thomas
Carlyle shows the decidedly mental orientation of Uranus in Virgo. In
his case Uranus is strong as a result of squaring an opposition
between Saturn in Gemini and the Sun in Sagittarius. The rising sign
is Cancer, ruled by the Moon which trines Jupiter but squares Venus,
both of which aspects describe his supportive but unhappy marriage to
fellow writer and muse Jane Welsh. Carlyle's combination of a
religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity
made his work appealing to many Victorians who were grappling with
scientific and political changes that threatened the traditional
social order. We can see the influence of Uranus on the erratic,
original style of his first major work Sartor Resartus (1832), which
described the philosophical voyage of a free mind, anticipating both
existentialism and transcendentalism. Carlyle had little sympathy for
weakness - but despite that common attitude, Nietzsche regarded him
as a thinker who failed to free himself from the very
petty-mindedness that he professed to condemn.
Uranus in the
Eighth House
Difficulties in
financial affairs after marriage - sudden losses through the partner;
danger of sudden and extraordinary death from violence, or, if
natural, from some nervous affliction such as epilepsy or paralysis.
Neptune
To arrive at the
true valuation of Neptune's influence in the signs of the Zodiac and
upon the native as he comes under the dominion of the signs, the
reader must constantly bear in mind the peculiar nature of the planet
as distinguished from other planets.
Whereas Mars,
Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Saturn exert their influences chiefly
upon man in his mundane capacities, his evolutionary life, Neptune
exerts a spiritual influence upon man in the midst of the latter's
mundane existence, for Neptune is the planet of spiritual forces, of
the revolutionary spirit itself.
Neptune's influence
upon a life dominated wholly or chiefly by physical or materialistic
interests is likely to be wholly bad or malefic, while this same
influence, stressed upon a life already under a spiritual leading,
will be wholly good or benefic.
It is the Neptune
influence that gives the wings of vision to humanity in its long
struggle out of darkness into the light of eternity.
Materialistic
persons can think only in relative values of a day, a month, a year
at most; intellectually developed persons think in values of a
lifetime; but those of our sphere who are spiritually conscious think
and work in terms of the eternal; to these a century is as a year, a
cycle as a life; they are the true Neptunians. The materialistic
astrologer classes Neptune "malefic, sinister, obscure,"
but the enlightened astrologian thoroughly understands that Neptune
causes upon this earth and upon its natives the influx of a spiritual
element unrelated to strictly earthly affairs. While the other
planets are commensurable and deal with the relative, Neptune is
incommensurable; he intrudes the absolute. In other words, for those
developed spiritually Neptune is wholly "good," for others
he seems wholly "bad." Neptune stirs the soul to aspiration
toward the infinite; the result is that a humanitarian influence is
projected by the native for the benefit of humanity's advance as a
whole. On the other hand, for those whose desires cause them to
plunge and wallow in the troughs of mere material delights and
satisfactions, the Neptune influence is as a lightning bolt that
shatters their temples of materialism to the very foundations.
Neptune's orbit,
being the outer circle of our known universe, is so vast, the effect
of his movement upon the earth is so slow, that we may best consider
his influence as negative upon our physical life, and as positive
upon our spiritual impulses. He is as an indication of the tendency
of the period, the planet of the new era, a barometer of the
latter-day Universe.
Neptune requires
approximately fourteen years to move through a single sign. To give
an account of his effects upon humanity would be to write the history
of the world.
One can gauge him,
to some extent, by considering certain events of comparatively recent
times. Matters requiring wisdom are usually directed by men of
between forty-five and fifty-five years, and the consensus of their
influence may be divined from the place of Neptune at their birth.
Thus the Revolution
of 1848 was brought about by men influenced by Neptune in Libra; they
struggled for freedom and justice, but their policy lacked virility,
while their methods failed because of indirectness. Similarly, the
French Revolution was begun by people influenced by Neptune in Leo,
but the generations of preparation toward that event involved people
with that planet in Cancer or Gemini. Cromwell's Neptune was also in
Leo.
The recent Great
War was doubtless due to the influence of people born with Neptune in
Aries; while the rebuilding of civilization has fallen upon those
laborious and initiative men and women for whom Neptune works through
Taurus and Gemini.
The scientific
advance of the Nineteenth Century was due to pioneers stimulated by
Neptune in Capricorn; and the fruits of their labors were gathered by
men born with Neptune in Aquarius. Neptune was in Pisces, influencing
the artistic, psychic decadent generation of the Nineties.
Times when
skeptical thought attacks tradition by purely intellectual methods
and makes constructive work possible are those influenced by Neptune
in Gemini. Immanuel Kant, who destroyed the old philosophy, Voltaire,
who destroyed the old religion, and their contemporaries were of such
a generation.
Neptune, being the
planet of spiritual forces, is always revolutionary. Forever he
quickens the old life and increases the new life; the principle is
the same; only the material varies according to the signs through
which he moves.
Because of the
character of Neptune and the long period of time it requires to pass
through a single sign, its influence upon the individual is very
dependent upon its position and aspect to other planets. It is,
therefore, obviously unnecessary to go into a lengthy account of its
effect upon the individual in the twelve signs.
Neptune in Scorpio
People who have
Neptune in Scorpio are in danger of being too critical, skeptical and
sarcastic. It is a distinctly malefic, reactive and materialistic
position for this planet. It tends to exert a destructive influence
in the lives of those having it so placed. A power so spiritual as
Neptune finds scant opportunity for expression in so militant,
physical and harsh a sign as Scorpio.
Thus, although we
find major minds with Neptune in this position, we find few that are
free from a strong hint of perversity. Even Michelangelo, majestic
figure that he was, was no angel; he possessed strong material
passions, a proud, almost arrogant will, and a fierce temper. Yet
were his energy, determination and courage those of a Hercules -
endowments in which this position of Neptune played no small part.
But he was fortunate to have only favorable aspects from the Sun,
Mars, Saturn, and Pluto to his Scorpio Neptune.
In general, we must
remember that those born with Neptune in Scorpio have never been born
save in a time of war, pestilence and unrest. Peace seems not to
attend the passage of Neptune through the scorpion. Thus, while the
mature generals who assisted Napoleon and Wellington were men with
Neptune in Leo or Virgo, the young soldiers who composed the bulk of
their armies were men with Neptune in Scorpio. The main theme
observed in famous charts having Neptune in Scorpio is one of power.
Famous charts with
a strong Scorpio Neptune are few - one such is Disraeli, in whose
chart Neptune is rising and made positive by conjunctions of Jupiter
and Venus, although Neptune squares his Leo Moon. Successful as an
author of romances, he earned Queen Victoria's trust as Prime
Minister. Another strong Neptune is found in romantic poet John
Keats, with a conjunction to his Scorpio Sun and a sextile to Uranus
- the Scorpio influence is seen in that he was a medical student.
Similarly, Sainte-Beuve started as a medical student - his Scorpio
Neptune conjoins Jupiter and Venus and sextiles the Moon. He wrote a
partly autobiographical novel Volupté; he had befriended
Victor Hugo, but then had an affair with Hugo's wife. He was noted
for his temper and for his acute perception of what was vital and
significant in the subjects of his biographies and histories. Italian
civil servant Machiavelli had Neptune conjunct his Scorpio Midheaven,
trine to Mars, sextile to Pluto, but afflicted by a Saturn opposition
and a square from the Moon. He authored The Art of War and The Prince
- his name has come to refer to the use of cunning and deceitful
tactics in politics. A chart that has only squares from the Moon and
Saturn to Scorpio Neptune is that of polygamist Brigham Young.
When Neptune in
Scorpio is afflicted, it arouses the vilest impulses, obsessions and
neurotic perversions that man is heir to. During the last passage of
Neptune through Scorpio, so many criminals of a brutal fierceness
were at large that England maintained a regular series of criminal
ships to Australia, while France built up the African provinces in
the same way.
Neptune in the
Tenth House
Gives a strange and
eventful career; chance of honors in some artistic field; a highly
inspirational nature capable of attaining honors through some unique
achievement. The native does so, however, under curious
circumstances, either using an assumed name or some covert means. It
endangers the life of one of the parents - according to the sex of
the horoscope.
Pluto
Pluto is a cold,
remote, and austere planet. But for all its great distance from
Earth, astrologers have found it to have a powerful influence in the
life - as significant as is Saturn for the direction of one's life.
Pluto gives the courage and intensity to transform oneself, sometimes
in unexpected ways. All the outer planets symbolize higher mind
functions and give awareness of the big picture - Pluto confers
breadth, versatility, consciousness and judgment. Pluto's choices may
violate social custom; it sees in terms of longer cycles and needs.
Pluto is not by itself spiritual in nature, rather it is remorseless.
It sometimes correlates with efficiency and a Spartan simplicity.
Pluto in Virgo
With Pluto in
Earthy, Mercury-ruled Virgo, your generation will be pragmatic,
idealistic but realistic, comfortable with dissent, and able to come
up with new ways to solve problems. There have been many changes
during your life, to which you have had to adjust. Lacking a big ego,
you see the need for service. You take for granted your ability to
use different communication technologies. Perhaps your low-key
approach is just what the doctor ordered.
Pluto in the Eighth
House
Gives a deep
understanding of psychological motivations. You have a need to go
back and understand origins. Good at conserving money and resources.
With favorable aspects, is indicative of a long career and long life.
Gives a female many children.
ASPECTS
Mercury conjunct
Venus (10.94)
This aspect always
gives some charm to the manners, speech, and writings. The
sensitiveness is not marked, and is of the kind normally associated
with refinement and good breeding.
The conjunction
bestows good spirits, a charming, cheerful, happy nature, with much
friendliness and sociability. There is, as a rule, a liking for young
people and the native himself is often juvenile in his tastes :
sometimes there is an element of what is called the child-psychology
with its harmless, rather superficial interests and lack of real
depth of purpose. This is naturally most observable when the
influence of Saturn is not pronounced.
The aspect does not
of itself bestow genius, but is of great value to a writer or orator,
for, though it does not indicate a brilliant intellect, it will give
a pleasing expression to the native's thoughts.
In respect of the
health it operates very beneficially, indicating absence of mental
friction and healthy nerves.
It may bring profit
through art, writings, speaking, and any 3rd house activity.
For some reason
that I cannot explain the conjunction does not seem favorable to the
children of the native. Often indeed there are none; and in other
cases there is separation or a lack of common interests. It seems to
tend more to the production of intellectual offspring, such as works
of art or literature.
Moon sextile Venus
(9.18)
These aspects have
a strong mental effect that is not always recognized; they enable the
native who is fortunate enough to possess them to take a calm and
steady view of things, with an accurate perception of relative values
and perspective. For this reason we find them in the maps of great
generals, who, also, very frequently have bodies of importance in
Libra. In a similar manner they are valuable to statesmen and
politicians, and also to athletes giving a power to do the right
thing at the right time and in the right way. They have a more widely
recognized value to the artist, and they are, in all cases, likely to
promote popularity. Kindness of heart and sociability do not seem to
be a noteworthy feature of the contact - for example, Bismarck. But
there is no doubt that they tend to make the mind cheerful and
optimistic, and they are excellent for the family-life, both in
childhood and after marriage. The wife is, in a man's case, almost
always a real help-meet, and she is likely to possess the Venus
qualities of form and mind, unless there are severe afflictions. I am
not sure if the same applies to the husband in a woman's horoscope,
but in this case the native will certainly possess considerable
charm, and, probably, a liberal measure of the Venus temperament and
abilities.
Mercury square
Jupiter (8.65)
The inharmonious
contacts of these bodies are by no means altogether unfavorable, the
mind being active and very fertile of new ideas.
But there is a
tendency for each planet to injure the other. Mercury loses some of
its sharpness and acuteness. There may be a propensity to forget
names and words sometimes in the midst of conversation, and
absent-mindedness is frequent. There may be a woolgathering tendency.
The mind may be skeptical in religious matters, or, on the other
hand, there may be superstition; that not uncommon person, the
superstitious infidel, seems to come under these configurations. It
is not a combination that will give balance in religious thought or
practice, and although it is often kind and generous, nevertheless
here too its action is often eccentric. Reason and faith are commonly
in conflict. It is often found in maps of those who have "religious
difficulties."
It inclines to
carelessness and imprudence, especially in small things; the native
tends to exaggerate and scorns the dull formality of facts. Judgment
is poor and the native is not likely to give good advice, especially
in matters coming under either planet. He is a poor prophet, and
astrologers with these afflictions are not likely to win credit for
themselves or their art so far as predictive work is concerned.
Sometimes there is
considerable self-assurance and conceit, even to the extent of
intolerable self-opiniation and self-sufficiency. But under quick
cross-examination this bluff is easily dispelled, for the native can
rarely collect his mental resources rapidly and is readily flustered;
he cannot, as it were, maneuver under fire. In fact, he will do well
to learn to refuse to be hurried into answering questions, and to
cultivate the faculty of forming cool, precise opinions.
It is generally an
indiscreet contact, apt to "let the cat out of the bag" in
an embarrassing manner.
In ordinary life
this combination usually denotes many little troubles, but if the
native should occupy himself with matters ruled by the two planets he
may find them a constant and possibly serious danger, owing to the
deception, duplicity, and muddle that they may cause. Thus, in any
matter coming under banking, insurance, any kind of guaranteeing or
going surety, sports, and hunting, publishing and travelling their
influence is often strong. It often denotes losses through the
mistakes or dishonesty of employees or subordinates of some sort, and
sometimes through imprudent optimism on the native's own part. There
is a danger of loss through the bankruptcy of others. With other more
serious afflictions it may combine to indicate danger of fraud,
libel, slander, and similar Mercurial attacks on one's money and
reputation.
It tends to injure
the health through the liver, and there is often a direct poisoning
of the nervous system in consequence.
The artistic and
literary proclivities of the good aspects are equally present with
the bad, and sometimes there is more activity and ambition with the
latter. The religious or philosophic motif is often present, and such
a poem as Tennyson's *In Memoriam* may, as regards its general tenor,
be considered a good exemplification of this aspect.
There is often a
distinct tendency to neglect worldly matters for art, religion,
literature, or some cognate occupation.
Moon sextile
Mercury (8.44)
These
configurations indicate a happy relationship between brain and
common-sense, two things by no means always found in unison. There is
usually a shrewd, careful, understanding mind, with a good deal of
sense and a kindly disposition, the benevolence of the Moon tempering
the Mercurial matter-of-fact tendencies.
Often there is
nothing strikingly brilliant in the mentality, but it is sound,
logical, and judicious. Usually it is honest and straight-dealing.
The contacts are
excellent for all mental matters and for affairs of the 3rd house,
such as writing, lecturing, and all ways and means of communicating
ideas, news, and information.
Further, the 4th
house benefits through the lunar influence; the mind is fitted to
deal with all domestic things; with land, house-property, furniture,
and so forth. It is good for an architect, builder, brick-maker,
carpenter, plumber, or dealer in furnishings of any sort.
In monarchs,
officials, and governors it seems to make for popularity and a good
Press.
The speech and
literary style are usually plain, direct, and matter-of-fact.
Through the 6th
house the configuration benefits health, gives healthful habits,
prudence in care of the body, and sound nerves.
To a man the
marriage is usually beneficial, unless other factors, such as the 7th
house, contradict this. The wife is often clever, entertaining,
astute, and helpful in business matters.
Venus square
Jupiter (8.32)
As in most cases
there are two reactions, the one showing the fault of one planet, and
the other of the other.
There is a
distinctly vain, idle, and even licentious type, and there is a
reckless, revolutionary pattern. Again, in some cases there is
conceit without idleness. I have never found any of them conspicuous
for unassuming modesty, nor do they seek the corner of the room or
yearn to blush unseen. Oftentimes they like to strike a dramatic
note, with themselves, be it understood, in the center of the stage.
Sometimes there is an element of profusion. The feelings are
frequently susceptible and the love-affairs numerous. But a prominent
malefic influence will readily introduce a much sterner element into
the character, and we may get the second or rebellious type.
It is a rather
passive note in many cases, and its influence is specially liable to
be overlaid by more positive factors, so that, although it can be
plainly detected on analysis, its specific manifestations are almost
always determined for it. The gist of its influence is *excess of
feeling*.
There is an element
of change and even adventure in the lives of most natives with this
combination, and sometimes they are veritable storm-centers. The
influence of Jupiter is always restless and prone to seek fresh
experiences and variations on old ones; it represents the principle
of Cosmic Variety, or the concept of one branch developing into many
ramifications. The matters ruled by the two planets will clash or
injure each other : for example, love or finance or both will suffer
through foreigners or foreign travel, law, or some other 9th house
matter, or perhaps through things of the 12th house.
The effect on
*health* is probably slight, but Venus afflictions may always cause
indulgence, and Jupiter inclines to excess in all directions.
Moon trine Uranus
(8.09)
These bodies have
little in common, the Moon being concerned chiefly with the usual and
the ordinary, whilst Uranus is of an exactly contrary nature.
The good aspects
appear above all to bestow firmness and determination of a singularly
unflinching kind, and, moreover, there is a distinct tendency for the
native to interest himself in occultism, spiritist phenomena,
Christian Science, and various cryptic matters, ranging from the less
reputable up to the truly scientific and elevative, such as
Astrology. Sometimes the effects of the contacts are apparently
slight, and the same is often true, I believe, of directions between
the same bodies. It seems that the good aspects favor the rigid
performance of duty and make the native capable of enduring and
sacrificing much for anything that he conceives as being an
obligation or an ideal. He will be of the type that cannot be argued
with; he seems to get his inspirations and beliefs from another
world, or, as is sometimes said, intuitively - a word often used to
indicate feelings that cannot be justified rationally and are not to
be submitted to rational analysis. Even the good aspects seem to make
people too inflexible.
It is probable that
they are also indications of help from friends, and in some cases
they are certainly found in the maps of persons of extraordinary
genius. Apart from such cases, the probability of helpful friends is,
I think, almost the only practically useful result of these
configurations, for the determination bestowed by them is a dubious
boon unless the rest of the map offers promise that there is judgment
and sense behind it.
Venus sextile
Uranus (6.18)
This is a
combination which usually signifies unusual taste and some degree of
artistic ability.
There may be talent
for music, literature, or the drama; it is often witty, fascinating,
humorous, or charming, especially if Leo rises. With a prominent Mars
there may be ability for work in metals.
It tends somewhat
to eccentricity, sentiment, and romance, the passions being very
sensitive.
In many cases it
seems to be rather a dumb note and goes no further than a mild liking
for music.
So far as externals
are concerned it favors popularity, easy circumstances, and
enjoyable, though not always steadfast, relations with the other sex.
Very much depends upon the ability of the native to find an adequate
outlet for the emotional nature, for there is a proclivity towards
adventures in love, and the romantic part of the nature may lead to
looseness of conduct unless it can be "sublimated" in some
harmless way. For example, Petrarch with Venus in Gemini trine Uranus
in Libra, expressed his romantic nature by writing sonnets to Laura,
while living a perfectly comfortable and respectable life with a wife
and several children, being plump and well-fed at a time when,
according to his writings, Love denied him food, sleep, and most
other necessaries. Or, again, romance may be sought in stranger
directions, as in the case of William Blake, who was most happily
married, but allowed the eccentricity of Uranus to find vent for
itself in such peculiar habits as insisting on receiving and
entertaining his guests in a completely unclothed condition, by way
of demonstrating beyond all argument the fact of his having regained
man's pristine "innocence of childhood pure." Another
eccentric, but (so far as I know) perfectly moral Venus-Uranus man
was Joseph Smith, the Mormon, who "rationalized" the inner
cravings of the aspect by producing a polygamous religion,
miraculously revealed.
On the other hand,
we owe it to this aspect to record that Queen Victoria had it; but it
was wide and separating. Venus was in Aries, and the sudden loss of
her husband (Uranus between 7th and 8th houses) seems to have been
its exterior effect.
Mercury sextile
Uranus (5.52)
The contacts of
these planets indicate some degree of original talent; they usually
give a quick and capable mind, with a very considerable degree of
independence.
The native is very
often clever in certain special directions, and he works well so long
as he is fond of his work. Other matters, outside the range of his
interests, often do not enter his vision at all; he is indifferent to
them, and may seem very stupid in relation to them. Hence the
contacts are not useful for the common affairs of life. The native
may be brilliant rather than sound, intuitive rather than logical.
It is a common
aspect in the maps of astrologers. It seems to occur less frequently
in the maps of natural scientists, and appears to have an affinity
with the finer forces of nature. There is a weak sextile in the case
of Edison.
It is sometimes
oratorical; the native is able to express himself well and has a
dramatic sense. It inclines also to make the native popular. He may
coin striking phrases, or, if a writer, he may invent characters that
seize the popular imagination. It is often classical, while Neptune
is more democratic and modernist.
It is an influence
of mental dexterity, adroitness, and appositeness.
The memory is often
exceptionally good.
Mars square Uranus
(4.19)
The contacts
between these planets are of an important character, producing some
of the most marked results of any aspects. They are valuable, and
yet, unless the planets are well placed by sign and have no other
aspects of a discordant kind, they may be somewhat critical, even
when they are technically of a benefic nature.
They greatly add to
the energy, vigor, decision, and will-power of the native, who is
very rarely of a milk-and-water or nondescript character. He will as
a rule know his own mind excellently well, and much will depend on
the rest of the map, for, unless this shows sense and judgment, the
strength of Mars-Uranus may lead to disaster because of its very
strength and courage.
With the
inharmonious aspects we get a good deal of self-will and
eccentricity. There is no lack of energy, but it is often fitful and
ill-directed, and the native is often a relative failure, being
unable for some reason to make as good use of his talents as might
reasonably be expected. Ill-temper is common, but is not always
present; sometimes there is a tendency rather to fretfulness and
erratic self-will; the native may be blunt and abrupt, or irritable
and querulous. Sometimes the nervous conditions lead to shyness and
retirement. The native is often what is known as edgy or ornery, and
is frequently not well-fitted for ordinary existence; it is
distinctly unfavorable for married life or for any restricted or
ordered way of living, but it is not an aspect which as a rule
indicates any essential ill-nature or vice.
Like all
combinations which create a desire for freedom and unrestriction,
this often externalizes in the shape of suicidal tendencies, the
native being unfitted to brook patiently the checks and delays that
occur in most walks of life. Patience is a virtue that is seldom
present, and humility is also rare. The native is likely to scorn
diplomacy and any kind of maneuvering, and is prone to throw up the
sponge as soon as this is called for. In a word, he wants his own way
at all costs.
As we have
mentioned before, there are often attacks on the native's morals or
honor, and sometimes there are direct assaults on his person,
provided other more vital points are afflicted as well.
Accidents are not
infrequent, and these aspects do not make for longevity, for there is
seldom much placidity with Mars-Uranus, and the ability to acquiesce
cheerfully and readily in the dispensations of Providence is not
often very noticeable.
There is often a
disposition to take risks, and to overwork.
Moon conjunct
Ascendant (4.14)
The Moon rising at
the time of your birth will give you a mutable disposition - you will
be a lover of change and novelty. This position will make you very
receptive, not only to the thought-spheres of others, but to your own
surroundings also; feeling will play a prominent part in your life.
It is important for you to exercise great care with regard to your
companions and acquaintances, for there is some liability for you to
become easily psychologized and quickly influenced by them. You will
love travel and may be a little restless sometimes - much will depend
upon your environment and home life, however. You are very sensitive
and somewhat impressionable.
Neptune sextile
Pluto (2.52)
This aspect was
present in many late 20th century charts. It may give a certain New
Age awareness of community. It is not that important in an individual
chart, except to give background awareness that we are all in it
together, that it is as a community that we grow, thrive, and
survive.
Mars sextile
Jupiter (1.44)
This combination is
mainly one of optimism and enthusiasm, and the native has as a rule
the ability fully to enjoy life, while such interests as attract him
are strenuously and wholeheartedly pursued. These are generally of a
Jovian character, for the heavier planet appears to be the directive
factor, whilst Mars supplies the energy. Thus we find enthusiasm for
sport, travel, hunting, the stage, religion, political freedom, and
science, though as regards the last, it is what may be called the
"live" sciences which attract, such as psychology and
astrology.
The native is often
a propagandist or publicist, and enjoys nothing more than acting the
evangelist proclaiming the truth that sets men free. It is excellent
for a missionary, a slum-worker, or one engaged with young people.
There is usually
plenty of loyalty, pride, and honor.
In a worldly way it
is a distinctly fortunate combination, and the native is rarely other
than comfortable in a worldly sense, though there is not always
wealth. Yet even if this is denied by other factors the native is
generally close to it, perhaps missing it narrowly through some
special circumstances. However well placed financially, the native is
rarely lazy.
Mars sextile Saturn
(0.41)
These planets can
only be said to act harmoniously, in the full sense of the word, when
they are in good aspect and also well placed in other respects. In
other circumstances they tend to produce a greater or less degree of
hardship of some kind, though other good features may appear.
This combination is
excellent for those who have to undergo hardship or danger. The
Martian influence is, as it were, tempered, and rendered more
adaptable, ordered, and controlled, while the Saturnian is energized
and made more enterprising and courageous. Such people have as a rule
small regard for personal comfort or even safety, and may be
excellent explorers, rulers of savage tribes, or organizers of men
needing firm control. It denotes orderly and courageous action,
endurance, and sound practical abilities.
It tends to
hardship, self-abnegation, and a disciplined life.
Probably good for
all occupations that bring the native into contact with rough or
dirty conditions, and primitive types of men, such as mining or
engineering.
These planets in
combination nearly always add to the energy, although, as stated,
there may be great fitfulness of activity, and, in inharmonious
cases, a lack of tact and common-sense in dealing with others.
Venus square Saturn
(0.31)
Here there is
usually a definite sacrifice of happiness, either to an ideal, to a
material ambition, or to duty, as in the case of soldiers and
sailors, whose vocation demands the sacrifice of ordinary home
comforts.
In regard to
character the worst side of the configuration lies in its exacting
and selfish character, which, though by no means a necessary
phenomenon, occurs regularly in the lower types. A sort of mean
jealousy, unredeemed by the romance of Uranus or even the passion of
Mars, may be observed, and, with Mercury-Mars afflictions, nagging
may occur. Wives may carry punctuality to such a point that lateness
at a meal may mean a day of disharmony; husbands may be household
tyrants waging constant battle over domestic accounts.
One may credit
Venus-Saturn natives with fidelity; they are often very cold in some
part of their nature, and, even with ascendants such as Taurus or
Libra, may astonish one with unsuspected hardness.
The life is
generally a hard one, either through poverty or worldly failure, or,
if this does not occur owing to other counteracting indications, then
there is usually either depression and moodiness, loneliness (often
with bereavement), or ill-health. This last is, however, the least
characteristic feature of the configuration, which centers above all
in the emotional and affectional spheres.
Childhood does not
seem to suffer particularly, as is usually the case with Venus-Mars
aspects, but one of the parents - as a rule the father - is apt to be
a burden. Frequently he is a forceful, tyrannical, exacting, or
dominating type, whose will allows little free development in his
children. Sometimes, though less often, he is unpractical, a failure,
and a financial burden to his family. Sometimes his early death is
denoted, and step-parents may occur. He is rather likely, in some
instances, to require his children to grow up too soon, to realize
their responsibilities too early, and to work more strenuously than
an all-round unfoldment might call for.
The mother is often
affected and is as a rule strongly tinged with Saturnian
characteristics, as in the way of being ambitious, worldly, snobbish,
or aloof.
Generally there is
apt to be a condition of "fixation" in respect of one or
both parents. The child is too strongly marked with their impress and
tries to grow into their likeness or that of one of them, each sex
tending to assimilate itself to the parent of the opposite gender.
Sometimes the limitation is more purely external, as when the child
has to deny itself to support its parents in old age. But the general
effect of the parents on the child is in the direction of increasing
its seriousness and its responsibilities, and those born with this
configuration are peculiarly susceptible to this sort of influence,
which is none the less detrimental because often exceedingly
well-intentioned.
In marriage it can
be easily understood that Venus-Saturn afflictions act very badly.
The good aspects are compatible with great happiness and mutual love,
but even thus, bereavement and other forms of separation are
possible. Considerable differences of age, and less often of social
status, are common both with good and bad aspects.
Bad aspects may
delay marriage or even assist in preventing it altogether. If it
occurs, then ill-health or misfortune often befalls the partner, or
gradual estrangement may ensue, in which respect the aspect (if it
takes this form at all) is very deadly and far more dangerous in my
experience than Venus-Mars.
It must be frankly
stated that this combination is of a serious kind. I have certainly
known cases wherein a minor evil aspect has apparently been
completely externalized - that is to say, the character does not seem
to have suffered at all - yet one cannot but imagine that true peace
and joy are difficult to attain for those who have such contacts. As
a rule either the life is exceptionally sad, or the nature is such
that normal misfortunes are felt abnormally. It is a distinct demand
that happiness should not be sought in the things of Saturn and in
his kingdom.
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Horoscope
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PLACEMENTS
Rising
Sign
Gemini
Ascendant
Gemini was
rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element air and to the
common or mutable quality. You have good mental abilities and an
active and flexible mind. This is one of the intellectual signs, and
those who are born under it usually have abilities for writing,
studying, speaking or thinking. You are fond of books and reading,
you can learn easily from books or lectures, you can apply your mind
to a variety of subjects and are ingenious and inventive. You are
suitable for receiving a good education and are adapted for almost
any literary pursuit or clerical work. You have good reasoning
powers, a thoughtful mind, and are fluent either of speech or pen.
You have ability for languages and science and are also fond of
travel. You have comprehensiveness of mind and a quick adaptability
to various pursuits and studies, but you are somewhat lacking in
concentration and perseverance. You are rather irresolute, uncertain,
and changeable at times, do not feel sure of yourself and may even
hold or express contradictory opinions. You are liable to worry and
irritation and are easily upset by little annoyances. You are kind,
humane and sympathetic, but you know what it is to have fits of
shyness, nervousness, and reserve, when you withdraw into yourself.
Reason and understanding are your strong faculties, but you are
liable to lack continuity and strength of will. Mercury is the ruling
planet of the sign Gemini.
Sun
The Sun
stands for the individuality, just as the Moon expresses the
personality. It also governs the constitution and is the Life force
and backbone of the whole system. Where the Sun is strong by position
of aspects, it gives strength of character, a powerful will and a
vigorous constitution, all of which contribute toward making the life
successful. Where the Sun is weak, there is danger of short life or
one broken by spells of illness or much misfortune.
It cannot
be too strongly emphasized that an analysis of the meaning of every
factor in Astrology is dependent upon its relation to every other
factor. For instance, the Sun in each sign has a certain definite
influence which it invariably exerts, but that influence, thus
exerted, is combined with every other influence of the Sun in its
house position and in its aspects, as well as in reference to the
ascending sign and other planetary positions and aspects. Thus, it is
from the sum of the forces and not from each one of them separately
judged, that an analysis is made.
The reader
should remember, therefore, that to read the analysis of the Sun in
the signs as it follows, as an analysis verbatim of the solar
position in a nativity, to read it except as one of the forces of a
nativity to be united, accentuated or modified by the other factors
involved, is not scientific astrology and will not give a true
interpretation. The statements true in themselves, must be united
intellectually, in each particular nativity, with other particular
factors of that nativity; and then, and only then, are the
peculiarities of individual instances described.
Sun in
Pisces
The
influence of Pisces upon the Sun does not make specially for
strength, except in the last decanate, which is ruled by Mars.
Otherwise, there is a certain softness and placidity which diminish
the vitality. The Pisces type is extraordinarily psychic, more so
than is the case with that of any other sign, but this manifests
itself in an entirely passive way. The native depends upon intuition
and impressions generally, and the active qualities of the soul which
make the great mystic are rarely present. Rudolph Steiner is
fortunate enough to have aspects of Pluto, Uranus, Saturn and Mars,
which increase his practical power. Picus de Mirandola is a more
typical example of this sign. Unless the dignities of the planets
concerned in this matter are extremely good, the native may suffer
from illusions and be led constantly astray. There is in him a
notable lack of correlation in practical details, and he is apt to
leave things at loose ends. His constructive power being psychic does
not exactly translate itself into the objective. In spite of this,
however, there is a great deal of practical good sense in the
composition, but sometimes the native will be accused of hypocrisy,
owing to the extreme contrast between the idealism expressed and the
course of action undertaken, and people not similarly constituted may
take it into their heads to "read them a lesson." The
native is inclined to self-indulgence in emotional experience, and
this in the undeveloped type very often takes the form of the abuse
of alcoholic liquors or even occasionally of noxious drugs. This is
partly due to the watery nature of the sign, and its ruler, Neptune,
and partly to the soft and seductive influence of Venus, who is
exalted in the sign, and to its connection with the Moon.
There is a
good deal of discontent in this sign, naturally caused by such
conflict between the aspirations and the expression of the life. This
often manifests itself in restlessness and in inattentiveness, and in
attaching far too much importance to trifles, the least of which
often appears to them highly significant. Even in external manner,
the native, though seemingly calm upon the surface, is full of tremor
within, like the sea. The native is very fond of others and may be so
solicitous as to their well-being that the result will often be
trying to the recipient of his extreme devotion.
The
constitution is, generally speaking, not particularly robust; the
general health is good, but there is a lack of power to resist
disease. The native is more susceptible than in almost any other
sign. Michelangelo and Sir Richard Burton had magnificent
constitutions, but the Sun being in the last decanate of Pisces, the
influence of Mars is able to correct the general weakness.
In the
human, body, Pisces rules primarily the feet, but his action extends
throughout the whole body, over the lymph and all watery secretions
of an excretory character, such as mucus. The principal diseases
characteristic of this sign are edema, ascites, and dropsies (tissue
swelling) in general. Another very common disease associated with
Pisces is gout. In the consideration of Pisces as a rising sign,
there is also danger of tuberculosis if the system is allowed to
become depleted.
Sun in the
Tenth House
Honors and
success in life; high patronage and success in governmental circles,
embassies, etc. the credit of the native is fairly secure, his
success steady and generally productive of honors in middle life. A
servant with this position will secure service in high circles.
Moon
The Moon
has to do largely with personality, just as the Sun has to do with
individuality. The sign in which the Moon is placed describes the
type of the personality, showing its variety and quality just as the
Sun shows the type and quality of the individuality. As the
personality is the intimate and more immediate expression of the
temperament and measures the quality and power of sense impression,
and therefore the scope and precision of the mental forces, it
indirectly determines what we might call the fluid of being.
Moreover, as both mental and emotional forces depend first upon sense
impression, and since personality is that singular union of the
mental and the emotional, it follows that the Moon's position is the
focal point wherein sense, mind, and emotion meet in the formation of
character.
The Moon
largely determines the kind of life and activity with which the
average human being meets life day by day.
Moon in
Capricorn
Capricorn
is, on the whole, a very bad position for the Moon, for here she is
in her detriment and the whole nature of Capricorn is unsympathetic.
Almost the worst feature of the Moon is her coldness, and this
Capricorn accentuates. The senses of people with the Moon in this
sign are not likely to be particularly acute. The mental response to
impression is rather quick, angry, and antagonistic, yet there is an
extreme keenness to receive information. Where the Moon is
well-dignified, this may be of very happy augury. There is a faculty
for unusual quickness of judgment, the power of sudden and correct
decision, seen particularly in Napoleon, but also in Augustus Caesar,
Darwin, Hitler, Lincoln, Patton, and Washington.
Bismarck
has a wide sextile of Mercury, a trine of Venus, a square of the Sun
and Jupiter, and semi-sextiles of Saturn and Uranus, all of which
aspects may be taken as greatly strengthening and solidifying the
mental reaction. We often find, however, illusions of sense,
sometimes so serious as almost to justify ascribing their cause to
what is called obsession. It is usually a case of definite obsession
that we find with the Moon in Capricorn, differing from her nature in
Pisces, where we get a different kind of dream-world, the romantic
sphere of the poet and the mystic. In Capricorn, the Moon often gives
a tendency in persons of the average type to intoxication, always in
the nature of obsession. This tendency to obsession is certainly the
most characteristic of all the qualities of the Moon in Capricorn.
Even in the best cases, people with this position tend to have the
idea fixed. Bismarck, Napoleon, and Savonarola are obvious examples.
In their cases, the fixed idea was very much in tune with the general
purpose of the life, and so was not an affliction, but in a case like
that of George III, who had Uranus in conjunction with his Moon and
Mars square, there could be no result but madness.
Mary,
Queen of Scots, and George Eliot, both had somewhat of a morbid
strain, and it is evident that neither of them possessed the
disposition to make any man permanently happy. The position of their
Moon is to be held, for the most part, responsible for this. There is
also in women an evident tendency to brood, and brooding is often a
condition antecedent to obsession.
The women
with whom the native will probably be associated may possess
excellent practical qualities, but they will be apt to be exacting
and capricious, sometimes exceedingly cold and unsympathetic, or, if
not cold, they may have a callous quality which is almost worse than
coldness. They will, however, in all probability be thoroughly
reliable, and possess a strong sense of moral responsibility. They
will also be patient, and generally speaking, faithful, but the
callousness of their disposition will hardly be conducive to the
happiness of the men whose lives they influence. If the reader will
run his eye back over the people mentioned as having the Moon in this
sign, and add the names of Isaac Pitman, Cicero, and Edward VI, he
will notice that in none of these cases have women played a really
important part in the life, for sympathy is the true foundation of
influence. The most important woman in the life of Pisces Sun
composer Frédéric Chopin ended up being the independent
and assertive George Sand - his Capricorn Moon was favored by
sextiles from Uranus and Pluto.
Women
having the Moon in this sign attract women who are not in sympathy
with them. They are more likely to benefit their women friends than
to receive benefit from them.
Mothers
having children with the Moon in Capricorn will be naturally
efficient and practical regarding their physical and material needs;
unless they can be proud of such children, however, they will seldom
give them the love and sympathy which the children will naturally
crave.
Moon in
the Eighth House
Unsettled
fortunes after marriage; gain in public affairs by the partner. The
death is more or less public, and may take place in a public resort
or in the open streets, or through a voyage.
Mercury
Mercury is
the most truly sensitive of all the planets. Venus and the Moon are
more easily affected, it is true, but for them a better term is
"impressionable." Mercury is the adolescent; he responds to
every impression like the weather-vane, which is a very different
thing from the reception and reflection of every impression. In
slightly different language, Mercury is not modified by the signs as
are the more passive planets; rather each excites him to give a
special expression of opinion. Mercury is, as we know, the mind; and
while the contents of the mind are determined by the food of the
mind, yet different minds deal quite differently with identical
foods. It has been said that thousands of people before Newton saw
apples fall from trees, but their only impulse was to eat them.
The proper
and best influence upon Mercury is Saturn, and without his steadying
hand to hold him in tutorship to a profounder wisdom, Mercury may be
frivolous and vain. It is only when Mercury is overpowered by Venus
that the mental qualities become subservient and slavish, so that one
may say of the native "he has no mind of his own." There
is, however, always the safeguard of the proximity of the Sun,
especially when the conjunction is not too close.
Mercury in
Aquarius
In
Aquarius we again find the influence of Saturn decidedly beneficial
to Mercury. It is an even better position for the planet than
Capricorn, since Aquarius is also air, and does not fix the mind in
such stubbornness as the previous sign. We must also reflect upon the
good influence of the sign itself. The mind of the native having this
position of Mercury tends naturally to science and humanitarianism.
Its interests are not so earth-bound and selfish. There is not quite
the same faculty of steady application for this very reason. One must
not expect any sign to combine all the virtues and exclude all the
vices. But the faculty of concentration is admirable, and the mind is
ingenious, resourceful, and logical, and that in a much better sense
than we found with Capricorn. The logic of Capricorn is too rigid for
application to practical affairs. It reigns supreme only in the exact
sciences. The native loves truth for its own sake, but more in truth
as a quality than in a mere collocation of facts. He understands
Cardinal Newman's statement, "As if ... evidence were the test
of truth!"
It may be
said here that there are two general types of minds among men, and
this remark of Newman's is a very touchstone by which to recognize
them. To one class, Newman's remark appears a triumphant refutation
of academic precision and scholastic dullness. The other is
absolutely bewildered by such a remark. He cannot conceive of any
other test of truth than evidence. To him the sentence appears
meaningless. And yet he may be subconsciously distressed by the mere
existence of any man who can say such a thing. Now, we should not
like to say definitely that Mercury in Aquarius would be violently
partisan on either side. On the contrary, it is just these people who
understand both positions and lean strongly to neither. The
antithesis on this point would be Capricorn and Pisces - the former
understanding nothing that could not be proved in Barbary, the other
contemptuous of all such conventional sources of knowledge. This rule
will be found practically invaluable.
The native
with Mercury in Aquarius is a clever reasoner, but does not
altogether disdain sophistry. He consequently makes a dangerous
opponent in any argument, but he is amenable to reason and he often
pronounces, for the sake of exercising his wits, propositions in
which he does not seriously believe. He is usually a good judge of
human nature, deriving his conclusions both from intuition and from
experience. Where these conflict he is sometimes found at a loss.
The weak
point of this sign is the absence of artistic impulse. Even where the
power of visualization is great, its expression tends to be
commonplace. Compare Swedenborg, who had this position, with Blake,
whose Mercury was in Scorpio, the writings of both dealing with
visions of a character decidedly similar. This sign gives a very
pronounced tendency to investigations into the occult, but on lines
much less mystical than we found in Scorpio. Besides Swedenborg, we
have Proclus, Picus de Mirandola, and Swami Vivekananda. All these
possessed immense learning, a strong power of vision, and were
accurate observers and devoted students, but not one of them
possessed the power of imagination in its highest sense.
As common
as the capacity for research into these subtler matters of the soul
is that for practical invention. In this connection one need only
mention the name of Edison.
Mercury in
the Tenth House
Many
occupations; restless spirit; uncertain position; taste for
literature; success in trading and in general agencies and
commissions; vexations and worries; literary or scholastic
profession.
Venus
It may, on
first consideration, appear somewhat difficult to differentiate
between the action of Venus, the "Lesser Fortune," and that
of Jupiter, the "Greater Fortune." Both represent the
expansive and altruistic spirit. But Venus is the handmaiden of the
Sun and she is consequently attached to the vital force, even as
Jupiter is more closely an emanation of Neptune, the other extreme of
the system, the Soul. The altruism of Venus, therefore, means love in
a quite conventional and often selfish or personal sense; her
expansiveness is often mere amiability, possibly assumed in order to
gain some end associated with the instinct of self-preservation; and,
finally, Venus is altogether more material and, so to speak, fleshy,
than Jupiter. Venus in any sign has so much connotation or reference
that it is very necessary to take into consideration not only the
sign in which it is placed, but also its aspects to other planets
before judging of its effects. But the importance of the impact of
the different signs is very great. In fact, the more material a
planet is, the more easily it is influenced. We see no such violent
commotion in the vaster planets; Uranus in Aries is not so different
from Uranus in Libra, but Venus in Gemini is utterly different from
Venus in Scorpio.
In dealing
with Venus on the lines hitherto followed with the other planets, we
are confronted with a difficulty peculiar to the nature of her own
influence. It is easy to observe most of the effects of other planets
in the life, character, and work of great men, but we know little of
the inner details of their domestic and intimate relations.
Alexander
the Great may have beaten his wife, and Cromwell may have been a very
clever and tactful father, but in the majority of those examples
which have hitherto served us so well, we know little or nothing of
the private life. And it is essentially, and first of all, the
private life that Venus influences. The reader must, therefore, be
content to rely, to a certain extent, upon the authority of the
author regarding the influence of Venus.
Venus in
Aries
Venus in
this sign is in her fall, and the position is not fortunate, on the
whole. There is evidence of the action of Mars in a certain rash
impulsiveness in emotion, but the effect is rarely lasting or deep
even at the moment. There is a strong tendency to be what the French
call cerebral, and also to what is really coldness, though it may
manifest itself in fiery sparks.
It is only
necessary to study the writings of Baudelaire and Swinburne, to see
the attitude taken towards love and art by both of them, to
understand this position of Venus. There is fierceness and glitter,
but it is the fire of the lightning rather than that of the hearth.
Among women we see the same quality - modified in certain ways - in
Mme. Steinheil and Queen Victoria. The former example needs no
comment; the latter does. Victoria appeared a most domesticated
person, but she was not; it was merely part of her ambitious policy
to appear so.
In music
one sees this fitful brilliancy of Venus represented by Tchaikovsky,
and in literature by Bulwer-Lytton. The domestic affairs of the
latter are well known, too well known, and show in life what he also
expressed in his novels.
The
tendency to lack stability is also manifest in Robespierre. The
trouble seems to be not that there is any lack of activity in Venus
when she is in this sign, but that that activity is ill-directed. She
is not really fickle, but appears to be so because of her idealism.
Reality failing to respond to her mental conception, she becomes
discontented. At the same time, it must be understood that no
fulfillment of her desires, however nearly perfect, would satisfy
her. It is in the contemplation of her wishes that she finds pleasure
rather than in the enjoyment of them. She is extraordinarily
imaginative; the merest hint excites her. She loves by sight, but
touch disappoints her. When a person with this position of Venus
discovers that Shelley quarreled with his wife or that Browning
smoked a pipe or that Matthew Arnold wore whiskers, disappointment
and disillusion follow. The poetry is spoiled for them, because it is
not written by a creature who not only does not, and did not, but
never could exist.
A
remarkable example of the idealism of this position is afforded us by
Abraham Lincoln, whose Venus trined Neptune on the Midheaven. This is
an unsurpassable position for unfaltering devotion to an ideal.
Lincoln was as conscious as any other man, as prescient as any seer
could possibly have been, of what it meant in immediate agony to
humanity to call for volunteers, as he did on that dramatic day which
changed the whole history of these States. But his high purpose was
not overwhelmed by his great sympathy for the temporary sufferings of
humanity. To him, right was right, and must be supported, no matter
what the cost. Had Neptune been in Capricorn, and Venus in Taurus,
instead of in Sagittarius and Aries respectively, he would have
thought far more of the material miseries which immediately
threatened his country, and secession might have become an
accomplished fact. It was his idealism which not only prevented the
disruption of the Union, but implanted as a principle, which will
never cease to be paramount in this country, to do the right thing no
matter what the cost. One can readily understand how this attitude
may be misinterpreted by the other party as lack of sympathy.
Venus in
this sign is extraordinarily brilliant; she is the beauty of the
sparks which are struck from the sword of Mars as he goes into
battle, but she is robbed of all the importance which she has as
tenderness and graciousness. She becomes the Amazon, panoplied and
splendid, with no trace of the Hausfrau. She is hard, brilliant,
subtle, passionate, but not enduring and not inclined to please. She
attacks and she repels, but all her operations are operations of
assault and battery. She stirs to activity and quits. In women, this
position is exceptionally unpleasant. She may be extraordinarily
attractive but, even if she gratifies, will never satisfy. She
excites and irritates, never calms and soothes. Even in art, one
perceives clearly how unsatisfactory, from the point of view of Venus
herself, so to speak, is this position for her. When Swinburne wrote
"Dolores," he was trying to paint a picture of Venus in
Libra or in Scorpio; he only succeeded in painting a Venus in Aries
type.
We see the
same thing in the writing of Baudelaire and the music of Tchaikovsky.
It is always irritation without satisfaction; it is not Isis veiled,
but Isis in armor. As indicated above, this position is very much
better for men than it is for women, but it is good even for them
only where Venus is a subsidiary figure, not only in the horoscope
itself, but in the general character of the native. Where his general
pursuit in life is of the character of Venus, it is bad, but it is
not bad for such men as Lincoln and J. P. Morgan to have Venus under
arms.
It may be
of great value in the horoscope of any man of the more studious and
serious sort not to have Venus flower too fully. We find her in this
position in the horoscopes of such men as Emerson, Alexander Graham
Bell and the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Where, however, the native is
an artist, the limitations may be regarded as troublesome. Thus we
find comic illustrator Palmer Cox in art and Frank R. Stockton in
literature somewhat lacking in the graciousness and floridity that
seem appropriate to the artistic temperament. Occasionally, the
effect of Venus in Aries is very bad indeed, implying heartlessness,
and this will particularly apply when the general temperament is
already mercurial. We class the position as a decided restriction
upon Venus. She always fails to attain her full development, and
whether this be good or bad for the native, in a general way, must
depend upon considerations entirely foreign to her. It is evident,
for example, that a great soldier will not be benefited by having
Venus of equal importance with Mars, or a great man of science by
having her stronger than Uranus, Saturn and Mercury. Consideration,
such as the foregoing, must always be taken into account, in
estimating the real value to the native of any particular position of
any particular planet. Each description must be regarded as an
isolated statement, merely one pawn in a complex position of many
pieces.
Venus in
the Eleventh House
Gain and
happiness through friends; fondness for society; favors from females;
fruitful marriage; happy associations.
Mars
Mars
represents the muscular system; it is often found that a weak brain
goes with great development of physical strength, and vice versa. It
might even occur that the whole of the higher faculties might be
harmonious and strong, yet fail to make good, owing to the lack of
practical energy, boldness, and capacity for rather brutal work. The
material plane continually presents obstacles to the higher nature;
Mars is the force which pushes such obstacles aside, or demolishes
them.
His
external influence upon the man as distinguished from his internal
influence within the character, is that of excitement, inflammation,
violence, and accident. Thus a square of Mars to the Sun might give a
rugged constitution and dauntless energy, and at the same time
subject the native to fevers and accidents from fire or steel.
The power
of Mars will, of course, as before, be modified by his position in
the Zodiac, and, owing to his material and therefore easily-molded
nature, the variations will be, on the whole, more extreme than we
have found to be the case with planets of greater spirituality.
Yet so
great is his importance, that a badly afflicted Mars practically
inhibits the native from making wise use of his enormous energy. It
is a curious and somewhat paradoxical situation, and the student
cannot pay too much attention to its study.
Mars in
Cancer
In Cancer,
Mars is in his fall; but Cancer is so receptive a sign that its
influence is not antagonistic. In fact, it makes the martial energy
subtle and profound, dissolving it, as it were, and thus making it
more active, just as a solution of phenol is more corrosive than the
crystals themselves.
Some of
the very greatest artists that have ever lived have this position of
Mars; it seems as if the specialized energy which he represents were
somehow made universal. There is not that same concentration upon a
single line that is shown, for example, by Mars in Aries; there have
been found very few instances of politicians or conquerors or even
great generals with this position - the military exceptions that
prove the rule include Lafayette, the Duke of Wellington, and Sir
Francis Younghusband. Every one of our illustrations has worked for
the general good, not the particular good of any person or even any
country, unless we consider Alexander II as having done so. But even
his action with regard to the serfs should be regarded as the limited
expression of a wide humanitarian intention. And in this case Mars
has the opposition of Jupiter, though it is directed wisely by
Saturn's trine, and made gentle by the sextile of Venus.
There is,
of course, one very unfortunate career to consider; that of Marie
Antoinette. Here Mars is very strong, rising trine to Uranus, with no
affliction but a square of the Moon. The Moon ruling the female life,
and in this case being Lady of the Ascendant, we must regard her
rather than Mars as the key to the complex. We must say then that her
Moon is afflicted by the presence on the Ascendant of Mars in his
fall. All the good she gets from the complex is a towering practical
ambition, which was indeed successful, so far as it went, Uranus
trined by Mars being in her tenth house. But Saturn, lord of the
seventh, being in his own house in the eighth, afflicting and
afflicted by the square of the Moon, even the marriage which
gratified her ambition resulted in her death.
To return
to artists, we have the most amazing galaxy: Shakespeare, Petrarch,
Byron, Balzac, Mozart, and, in their wake, Coleridge. It is to be
noted how, in each case, the universality of sympathy is evident.
Each has an enormous field of expression. There is not the intensity
of Baudelaire or the single-minded passion of Blake; it is, rather,
breadth and objectivity of outlook, and completeness of comprehension
of humanity that stand revealed. And to this heavenly court of
artists we may add a philosopher, one of the greatest, in every way,
that ever lived: Immanuel Kant; while, should they need a mystic,
they may include in their ranks the seers Nostradamus and Cheiro.
Mars in
the First House
Causes a
mark or scar on the head or face; gives danger of cuts, burns,
scalds, and abrasions. Makes the native bold, free and independent,
fond of competition and strife, haughty, scorning defeat, and
reckless of danger.
Jupiter
Jupiter,
in a general classification, may be said to be the precise contrary
of Saturn. The latter constricts and conserves; the former expands
and spends. The one is egoism; the other altruism. In religious
symbolism Saturn is Jehovah - "I am that I am" - which is
only a theocratic way of saying "everything for myself."
Jupiter is the divine Son, Jesus - the benevolently spendthrift heir
- who gives his very life for others. Jupiter is the instinct of
creation, of generosity and hospitality, and of the religious
emotions generally; and, of course, in so far as the man is passive
to Jupiter, he represents these qualities in the cosmos bestowed upon
the man, and hence "Good fortune." Naturally, his action
depends, with regard to its scope, upon Neptune and Uranus. Unless
these planets, signifying respectively the soul and the divine will,
indicate bigness in the career, a good Jupiter will be no more than a
luck-bringer in business or profession, and make the character noble,
generous, and easy-going; and a weak Jupiter will only defeat
advancement in life, and tend to enfeeble the character by making it
spendthrift, luxurious, and unable to resist the influence of others.
We have
intimated above through what channels Jupiter comes to express his
creative and generous tendencies in material prosperity; but another
point which should be emphasized in this regard is that Jupiter
represents to a very great extent the ambition of the native. The
force, quality, and degree of success of this ambition will be
indicated by the strength and position of the planet, and the
direction or channel through which this ambition may work out its
best prosperity will be shown by the sign which Jupiter occupies,
modified of course by other contributory conditions.
In the
days when a man was either a lord or a serf, a knight or an
innkeeper, it was comparatively easy to determine with exactness a
man's vocation. In modern days, however, there are thousands of
different and characteristic types of employment. While Jupiter is
the key to the type of work which may bring a man money or profit, it
does not necessarily follow that it is the kind of vocation for which
he has the greatest inclination. Too often, indeed, his inclination
is not that for which he is best adapted, or it is incompatible with
his environment and education. On the other hand, an accurate
observer may often see a person with distinct abilities for a certain
type of work, and yet he recognizes that, for some other reason, he
had an inability to make a success of that work.
Jupiter in
Capricorn
Jupiter
being in his fall in Capricorn, the earthy qualities of the sign
detract from the buoyancy and good humor of the planet and tend to
"freeze the genial currents of the soul." The mind is more
serious and less hopeful than is usual with Jupiter; and, while the
position may incline the nature to philosophy and contemplative
learning, the religious instincts, though serious, are not always
orthodox. Jupiter badly aspected may become the demon of debauch.
This is evidently the case with Oscar Wilde, in whose case the legend
of Ganymede may be remembered.
Wilde's
Jupiter is squared by the Sun, which is apt to make its influence
loose and gross, and the trine of Uranus and sextile of Neptune can
give no counterbalance to such impulses, for these rather tend to
accentuate so-called perversions. Jupiter, too, is in the house of
pleasures, allowing the full development of the sensual side of his
nature; and we have seen that Venus in Libra tends to strange
refinements of the sex life. It is, taking it altogether, a most
unfortunate position. The Scottish poet Robert Burns was born with
Jupiter rising in Capricorn with the only aspect a semi-sextile to a
conjunction of Venus and Mars in Aquarius; he created a reputation
for dissolute behavior by fathering numerous illegitimate children
through casual love affairs. But as a poet he wrote of the humble
characters that he knew from his own difficult farm background and
worked to collect traditional Scottish folk songs, some of which
provided the tunes for his own poetic songs, such as Auld Lang Syne.
We have
one great visionary, Swedenborg, with this position of Jupiter, and
the material character of his visions is no doubt due to this. No man
ever went so far in bringing angels to earth; his heaven is as
objective as that of the orthodox Christian; indeed, more so, because
it is more detailed. No man was ever less mystic in the true sense of
the word, or held together more firmly the bonds of spirit and
matter. Uranus, in conjunction with the Moon, is trine to Jupiter;
and here the Moon stands for materiality, while Uranus gives the
illumination and the originality. A touch of the fleshy may be
conferred by Venus rising twelve degrees above Jupiter, who, as the
Lord of the Ascendant, is certainly the key of the complex.
Karl Marx,
who made the study of large-scale economies his life's work, had this
Jupiter trine to a conjunction of the Sun and Moon in both the sign
and house of money; and there is a constructive sextile to Saturn, in
idealistic Pisces, where Saturn itself squares revolutionary Uranus.
As the sign of the tenth house Capricorn can assume a responsible
stewardship role as opposed to the personal pleasure emphasis that we
saw with Cancer. Whatever you say about Marxian economics, he was
working for the greater good. The philosopher and psychologist
William James, who struggled with paralysis of the will and
depression in his personal life, has Jupiter near a conjunction of
Saturn and Venus, sextile to Mars in Pisces; he also has Sun and Moon
conjunct in Capricorn. He found relief from his Capricorn seriousness
in 'acting as if he had free will', which astrologically corresponded
to energizing his Mars-Jupiter sextile.
It is
extremely interesting to observe through such cases, how, in every
complex, the key dominates the entire configuration on the large
scale, and yet how every single aspect insists upon achieving its own
special signification. The position gives a curiously paradoxical
combination of shrewd economy and extravagance; the native being apt
to be parsimonious in small matters and to spend liberally in large
amounts. Many successful merchants and manufacturers are found with
this position; and, of course Capricorn endows Jupiter with fortunate
influences in any occupation connected with the earth.
Those born
with Jupiter in Capricorn have an enormous capacity for detail and
routine and are conscientious plodders. They make successful
manufacturers, wholesale clothiers, builders, real estate dealers,
miners, agriculturists and foresters.
Jupiter in
the Ninth House
Clerical
honors; success in religious and philosophical pursuits, legal
matters, and foreign affairs; gain in foreign lands.
Saturn
Saturn, in
a general classification, may be said to be the precise contrary of
Jupiter. Where the latter expands and spends; the former constricts
and conserves. Where Jupiter is bold and extravagant, Saturn is
cautious and ascetic. Responsible Saturn acts to protect the
interests of self, family, society, and the world from harm. Where
Jupiter boldly seeks and grows with experience, Saturn has the wisdom
of having learned from experience. But the wisdom and knowledge of
Saturn relate to the material world, to the world of conditions,
consequences, and rules. Saturn can be ambitious, controlling, and
egoistic. Saturn protects the self against hurt by judging according
to lower-mind polarities, such as smart versus stupid or winner
versus loser. The function of the outer planets, which represent the
higher mind, is to rebel against the limitations of the lower mind,
providing opportunities for freedom from the tyranny of the everyday
world's rules, conditions, polarities, and judgments.
Man may be
master of life and of death - if he will. To the worker in the fields
of the intelligence, the farmer of mind, the harvest grows
continually. Saturn is once again the golden god. The brain of the
brain worker improves constantly until the age of sixty, and even
then retains its vigor until the end. Such old men we often see.
Instead of the vices and infirmities of age, they have consolidated
virtues, conserved strength. Dignity and austerity crown and cloak
them. They are simple, strenuous and lofty-minded. Even if they are
of solitary habit, they are kind. The purpose of their lives has
crystallized; and, because they have desired only the infinite,
satiety does not touch them. Life is to them a religion of which they
are the priests, an eternal sacrament of which perhaps the ecstasy is
dulled, but which they consume with ever-increasing reverence. Joy
and sorrow have been balanced, and the tale thereof is holy calm.
They know that peace of God which passeth all understanding.
The
commoner aspect of Saturn, however, is this: the malicious oldster,
envious of youth, hating life because he has failed to live it
according to the law of righteousness. His will-power is merely
obstinacy, opposition to reform, failure to accommodate himself to
changed conditions, the conservatism of the hardened brain. He feels
his waning powers and tries to receive - to receive, when all his
sensibility is gone! Feeling himself impotent, he vents his toothless
rage upon the young. Unhappy himself, he seeks to make others
wretched. Sordid and heartless, he sneers at enthusiasm and
generosity. Weary of life, he thinks life holds no joy.
Saturn
represents what one does in the world, one's career, and life's
lessons. Look to the planets that form aspects to Saturn for a guide
to the activities that will mainly occupy the native's life.
Conjunction, sextile, and trine aspects represent activities that
will come easily to the native. The best of all of Saturn's dignities
is illumination by the Sun. Square, inconjunct, and opposition
aspects represent lessons that need to be learned or areas where the
native feels blocked and must fight. When Saturn has favorable
aspects, the native tends to receive the benefit; when it has
unfavorable aspects, then Saturn tends to act as a blocking agent.
Saturn in
Capricorn
Saturn
being in his own sign in Capricorn, he is naturally strong, even
without help from outside sources. His quality here, however, is
rather rough and crude, and this does not tend to produce the best
results, in so far as the effect upon the external world is
concerned. There will be no altruistic thought to soften the egotism,
and opposition will be likely to infuriate. In a word, Saturn in this
sign makes the native harsh and overbearing, unless there be some
very strong counteracting influence to soften its asperity.
The most
dense form of the arrogant selfishness which Saturn in Capricorn may
give is well illustrated by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. In both
charts, Saturn is badly afflicted and is situated in the fourth and
eighth houses respectively. In his case, Saturn in Capricorn squares
Venus, the planet of social relations; in her case Saturn squares the
Moon, denying sympathy with or feeling for the common man, the
public. Not only was this evil Saturn the moral cause of their
downfall, but his house position also predicted their tragic end.
Where
Louis XVI had a square of Venus to his Saturn, the great lover of
women, Giacomo Casanova, has only a close sextile of Venus to his
Saturn in Capricorn.
Edward VII
had Saturn rising in Capricorn, but with little affliction; even the
semi-sextile of Mercury could save him from the stupidity of allowing
such tendencies to manifest themselves, while his other planets gave
him many lovable qualities which ensured his popularity. The Saturn
of Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of phonic shorthand, has a
conjunction of the Sun, a semi-sextile of Neptune and Venus, a
semi-square of Uranus, and a sextile of Mars, We get in this a very
good astrological map of the kind of force required for proper
development of the ego, a steady and vigorous push, but executed on
proper lines with tact and with intelligence.
In the
nativity of Richard Wagner, the only support for Saturn in Capricorn
is a sextile from the slow and deep planet Pluto. There is a great
deal of brusquerie and instability, which was a serious limitation to
the greatness of the man. He wasted incalculable energy in sterile
and fruitless controversy, antagonizing some whose support might have
been most valuable.
The
general influence of Saturn in Capricorn is to give ambition,
independence, power, authority or rulership to the native, according
to his station in life. This may be accompanied by great selfishness
and loneliness, or isolation may be characteristic of the life. It is
frequently the case that this position of Saturn gives an unusual
degree of melancholy to the mind.
Saturn in
the Ninth House
Taste for
philosophy; religious spirit; troubles in foreign lands; dangerous
voyages; loss through legal suits; deceit among relatives by
marriage; studious and thoughtful nature.
Uranus
As the
race evolves, it seems that man must learn to adapt himself more and
more to the vibrations of Uranus and its powerful influx, which
appear to be growing more and more potent in the unfolding of genius,
or the transcending of intellect. Through the harmonious vibrations
of Uranus, it is found that people become prophetic, keen,
perceptive, executive, inventive, original, given to roaming,
untrammeled by tradition, impatient of creeds, opinionated,
argumentative, stubborn, and eccentric. They speak to the point;
asserting, with startling confidence, opinions far in advance of
their fellows. They come into possession of wealth in unexpected and
strange ways, yet often appear to pass under the yoke of discipline
as though cast down for a purpose from opulence to poverty, only to
rise again by the unfolding of unexpected resources. Always ahead of
their time, the natives of Uranus are often dreamers in philanthropy;
poetic, though their writings need interpretation and are often
unintelligible even to the imaginative, because of their mystical
origin and transcendental coloring.
In the few
years during which Uranus has been under observation, it has been
found that, if afflicted, it is the source of incurable organic
diseases, collapse of fortune, and individual as well as national
destruction. It is demonstrable that, in inharmonious nativities,
evil Uranian influences, both through transits and directions, have
brought about headlong destruction from bad habits, misdirected
affection, illicit connections before or after legal marriage;
according to the signification of the place of radical affliction in
the horoscope.
Every
psychic thus far studied by the writer has been found, by careful
consideration of the authentic birth data, to be under powerful
Uranian influence; and to this vibration may be attributed
clairvoyance, warning dreams, second-sight, clairaudience and similar
phenomena.
The
occupations or avocations which seem in sympathy with this strange
planet are progressive, inventive, exploring, and of a humanitarian
nature. The influence of Uranus is the least personal, and the most
universal in the Zodiac; consequently, any endeavor for the
betterment of humanity is favored by those who are strongly
responsive to its vibration.
Uranus
produces lecturers, public figures, travelers, inventors, aviators,
radio operators, astrologers, electricians, scientists,
physiologists, mesmerists, metaphysicians.
Uranus
makes one impulsive and extremely eccentric; the native does not know
his own mind, but is continually moved by providential agencies; he
often becomes a fatalist, feeling that his destiny is beyond his own
control.
Uranus
emphasizes the will, causing the native to move spontaneously from an
inner urge; the native is active, original, inventive, and is notable
for his love of liberty and an idealistic sense of justice. The
planet bestows leadership and causes the native to become a pioneer
and to establish new orders of things.
Uranus
makes the mind independent, original, and not amenable to control.
The native is unconventional, altruistic and subject to sudden
changes of attitude. There is an uncanny ability to sense motives.
Circumstances
induced by Uranus are sudden changes, estrangements, exiles, blind
impulses, catastrophes, suicides, romantic tragedies, inexplicable
changes of fortune, accidents, secret enemies, plottings, and sudden
elevations.
Every
living soul is presumed to have a purpose, and that purpose single.
Not one in a million, perhaps, is conscious of that purpose; we seem
for the most part to be a mass of vacillations. Even the main
objective career of an individual cannot be considered as necessarily
an expression of the interior will.
But Uranus
indicates divine will; and the reason why he is so explosive and
violent and upsetting to human affairs is that he represents the real
intention, which, lying deeper than the conscious purpose, often
contradicts it. The outer and the inner are then in conflict; and
whenever battle is joined, the inner must win. To the outer
consciousness, this naturally appears as disaster; for the native
does not recognize the force as part of himself, or, if so, he
regards it as a disturbing entity, and resents its dominion. Uranus
is, in Egyptian symbolism, the Royal Uraeus Serpent; slow, yet
sudden, Lord of life and death. It takes a great deal to move him;
but, when once in motion, he is irresistible. This is why, to the
normal mind, he appears so terrible.
As has
been seen, the deep-lying interior purpose of any being is nearly
always obscure and undecipherable to the mortal eye; but there is an
indication or hieroglyph of it which is usually very significant. One
can hardly call it more than the artistic expression of the purpose,
and this appears a very good way to describe it. We call it the
Temperament. It does not define the Will itself, but it sets limits
to the sphere wherein the Will may work.
We have
already found that the personality is imaged in the sign on the
Ascendant; and from this we now turn to a consideration of the sign
in which Uranus may be situated. Where these two factors are
harmonious, we get a character with unity of moral purpose; where
otherwise, a self-tortured waverer. It might be cited as an objection
that those who have Uranus in the Ascendant are usually eccentric
characters; but the argument is on the other side. Such eccentricity
is temperament in its highest development; it shows the entire
over-ruling of the superficial qualities by this deep-seated,
turbulent, magical will. It is only to others that the person with
Uranus rising appears so eccentric.
Uranus in
Leo
There is a
peculiar sympathy between Uranus and Leo, because it is in a solar
sign, and Uranus is the secret generative force by which we call the
Sun, "Father." Fierceness and subtlety alternate in his
mode of action; he is weighty in his onset, but dangerously sudden;
and he is the giver of life and death.
There is,
however, one serious drawback to this position of Uranus, a danger
that its very sympathy with the secret part of the Solar force
creates. Apollo is called "creator and destroyer"; the
Lingam is addressed by the Greeks as "all-begetter, all
devourer," and this force is now seen to be concentrated in
Uranus. Unless the Sun in a man's horoscope is reasonably
well-dignified, there is danger to the life of the native. The
presence of Uranus in the house of the Sun is itself an affliction of
the Sun on the material plane; and so the Sun must be well-dignified
in other ways, or the native is likely to die before the occult power
of the planet has time to manifest itself.
There is,
accordingly, a notable paucity of examples of the proposition which
we have put forward as to its natural action when isolated; since,
from the nature of the case, such isolation is rather rare. Shelley
is our one great example; and his case is, fortunately, very perfect.
We see the revolutionary influence at work in Greatheart; the rebel
against the fetters that bind humanity, overflowing with solar force
and love which blazes on high, melting the cold passions of age and
experience with his flaming jets of white-hot vapor of gold. Such
works as "Prometheus Unbound" and "The World's
Tragedy" are pure Uranus in Leo. Shelley was saved from
premature death through illness by the conjunction of the Sun with
Venus, lord of his Taurus ascendant; they are both within six degrees
from Uranus in the fifth house of creative play. For the
circumstances of Shelley's early death, look to the lord of the
eighth house, Jupiter, contained between a conjunction of Mars and
Neptune. Early as this came, he had done his work; he had sown a new
seed in the fields of humanity, one of the most fruitful ever
planted.
Another
case of the most promising talent cut short is King Edward VI,
admittedly the most accomplished scholar of his period. At an age
when most boys are still struggling with the elements of Latin, he
spoke fluently not only that comparatively easy language, but also
Greek and Hebrew. Here again, however, the Sun is only seven degrees
from the square of Uranus, and is himself squared within one degree
by the Moon. Mercury, lord of the Ascendant, Virgo, is squared by
Mars, again within one degree; with such aspects it was impossible
for the promise of youth to be fulfilled in the achievement of age.
Another
striking example of the seductive, fascinating temperament given by
Uranus in Leo is Mary Queen of Scots. She stands out from all other
queens, for beauty and tragedy, not because these elements were so
much greater than in the others, but on account of the temperament
itself, which has the faculty of inspiring the most amazing extremes
of attraction and repulsion. There is never anything half-hearted
about the feeling with which such people are regarded. With Shelley,
half the world made him Apollo incarnate; the rest thought, and even
wrote, that he was, in sober truth, not a man at all, but a devil
sent specially from hell to plague humanity. So with Mary Queen of
Scots. She had Taurus rising, and Venus in square to Uranus and
semi-square to the Moon. The Sun is trine to Uranus; but, the Sun
being in the eighth house, a violent death was presaged as soon as
the directions permitted; which duly came to pass. Rather similar is
the personality of Cleo de Merode, whose fascination may be held to
match that of the unhappy Stuart queen, having the same serpentine
quality. Here Pisces is rising; the life is made secure by the trine
of Mars to the Moon; and there are no afflictions to injure the
native.
Another
example of fascination is Winston Churchill, perhaps the most
attractive personality in English politics. At an age when most men,
even if they started with his advantages of birth and wealth, are
just taking their seats for the first time in Parliament, he was a
Cabinet Minister, holding the most responsible portfolios. The
Ascendant is right on the cusp between Virgo and Libra, and Mars and
Jupiter are in the Ascendant; the Sun is sextile to Saturn, so that
the life is well-protected. However, Mercury, ruler of the career
tenth house, squares Uranus, and a sudden fall from power, such as
took place in 1915, was naturally to be expected.
Sometimes
the temperament of Uranus in Leo confers unique powers in some
obscure direction. One may instance "Datas, The Memory Man"
(W.J.M. Bottle) with Cancer rising, and the Moon in opposition to
Uranus, limiting the mental powers to his peculiar faculty of
remembering dates. Somewhat like him, is Houdini, with unequalled
dexterity in one trivial, but most unusual accomplishment, that of
being able to extricate himself from bars or fetters. The square and
opposition of Mars and Saturn to Uranus, ruler of Aquarius the
Ascendant, indicate the special line in which the temperament is
displayed.
Uranus in
the Fourth House
Unsettled
residence, many changes of house; misfortune in the place of birth;
trouble through the parents; danger of paralysis or other incurable
infirmity in old age; a sudden end to life.
Neptune
To arrive
at the true valuation of Neptune's influence in the signs of the
Zodiac and upon the native as he comes under the dominion of the
signs, the reader must constantly bear in mind the peculiar nature of
the planet as distinguished from other planets.
Whereas
Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Saturn exert their influences
chiefly upon man in his mundane capacities, his evolutionary life,
Neptune exerts a spiritual influence upon man in the midst of the
latter's mundane existence, for Neptune is the planet of spiritual
forces, of the revolutionary spirit itself.
Neptune's
influence upon a life dominated wholly or chiefly by physical or
materialistic interests is likely to be wholly bad or malefic, while
this same influence, stressed upon a life already under a spiritual
leading, will be wholly good or benefic.
It is the
Neptune influence that gives the wings of vision to humanity in its
long struggle out of darkness into the light of eternity.
Materialistic
persons can think only in relative values of a day, a month, a year
at most; intellectually developed persons think in values of a
lifetime; but those of our sphere who are spiritually conscious think
and work in terms of the eternal; to these a century is as a year, a
cycle as a life; they are the true Neptunians. The materialistic
astrologer classes Neptune "malefic, sinister, obscure,"
but the enlightened astrologian thoroughly understands that Neptune
causes upon this earth and upon its natives the influx of a spiritual
element unrelated to strictly earthly affairs. While the other
planets are commensurable and deal with the relative, Neptune is
incommensurable; he intrudes the absolute. In other words, for those
developed spiritually Neptune is wholly "good," for others
he seems wholly "bad." Neptune stirs the soul to aspiration
toward the infinite; the result is that a humanitarian influence is
projected by the native for the benefit of humanity's advance as a
whole. On the other hand, for those whose desires cause them to
plunge and wallow in the troughs of mere material delights and
satisfactions, the Neptune influence is as a lightning bolt that
shatters their temples of materialism to the very foundations.
Neptune's
orbit, being the outer circle of our known universe, is so vast, the
effect of his movement upon the earth is so slow, that we may best
consider his influence as negative upon our physical life, and as
positive upon our spiritual impulses. He is as an indication of the
tendency of the period, the planet of the new era, a barometer of the
latter-day Universe.
Neptune
requires approximately fourteen years to move through a single sign.
To give an account of his effects upon humanity would be to write the
history of the world.
One can
gauge him, to some extent, by considering certain events of
comparatively recent times. Matters requiring wisdom are usually
directed by men of between forty-five and fifty-five years, and the
consensus of their influence may be divined from the place of Neptune
at their birth.
Thus the
Revolution of 1848 was brought about by men influenced by Neptune in
Libra; they struggled for freedom and justice, but their policy
lacked virility, while their methods failed because of indirectness.
Similarly, the French Revolution was begun by people influenced by
Neptune in Leo, but the generations of preparation toward that event
involved people with that planet in Cancer or Gemini. Cromwell's
Neptune was also in Leo.
The recent
Great War was doubtless due to the influence of people born with
Neptune in Aries; while the rebuilding of civilization has fallen
upon those laborious and initiative men and women for whom Neptune
works through Taurus and Gemini.
The
scientific advance of the Nineteenth Century was due to pioneers
stimulated by Neptune in Capricorn; and the fruits of their labors
were gathered by men born with Neptune in Aquarius. Neptune was in
Pisces, influencing the artistic, psychic decadent generation of the
Nineties.
Times when
skeptical thought attacks tradition by purely intellectual methods
and makes constructive work possible are those influenced by Neptune
in Gemini. Immanuel Kant, who destroyed the old philosophy, Voltaire,
who destroyed the old religion, and their contemporaries were of such
a generation.
Neptune,
being the planet of spiritual forces, is always revolutionary.
Forever he quickens the old life and increases the new life; the
principle is the same; only the material varies according to the
signs through which he moves.
Because of
the character of Neptune and the long period of time it requires to
pass through a single sign, its influence upon the individual is very
dependent upon its position and aspect to other planets. It is,
therefore, obviously unnecessary to go into a lengthy account of its
effect upon the individual in the twelve signs.
Neptune in
Scorpio
People who
have Neptune in Scorpio are in danger of being too critical,
skeptical and sarcastic. It is a distinctly malefic, reactive and
materialistic position for this planet. It tends to exert a
destructive influence in the lives of those having it so placed. A
power so spiritual as Neptune finds scant opportunity for expression
in so militant, physical and harsh a sign as Scorpio.
Thus,
although we find major minds with Neptune in this position, we find
few that are free from a strong hint of perversity. Even
Michelangelo, majestic figure that he was, was no angel; he possessed
strong material passions, a proud, almost arrogant will, and a fierce
temper. Yet were his energy, determination and courage those of a
Hercules - endowments in which this position of Neptune played no
small part. But he was fortunate to have only favorable aspects from
the Sun, Mars, Saturn, and Pluto to his Scorpio Neptune.
In
general, we must remember that those born with Neptune in Scorpio
have never been born save in a time of war, pestilence and unrest.
Peace seems not to attend the passage of Neptune through the
scorpion. Thus, while the mature generals who assisted Napoleon and
Wellington were men with Neptune in Leo or Virgo, the young soldiers
who composed the bulk of their armies were men with Neptune in
Scorpio. The main theme observed in famous charts having Neptune in
Scorpio is one of power.
Famous
charts with a strong Scorpio Neptune are few - one such is Disraeli,
in whose chart Neptune is rising and made positive by conjunctions of
Jupiter and Venus, although Neptune squares his Leo Moon. Successful
as an author of romances, he earned Queen Victoria's trust as Prime
Minister. Another strong Neptune is found in romantic poet John
Keats, with a conjunction to his Scorpio Sun and a sextile to Uranus
- the Scorpio influence is seen in that he was a medical student.
Similarly, Sainte-Beuve started as a medical student - his Scorpio
Neptune conjoins Jupiter and Venus and sextiles the Moon. He wrote a
partly autobiographical novel Volupté; he had befriended
Victor Hugo, but then had an affair with Hugo's wife. He was noted
for his temper and for his acute perception of what was vital and
significant in the subjects of his biographies and histories. Italian
civil servant Machiavelli had Neptune conjunct his Scorpio Midheaven,
trine to Mars, sextile to Pluto, but afflicted by a Saturn opposition
and a square from the Moon. He authored The Art of War and The Prince
- his name has come to refer to the use of cunning and deceitful
tactics in politics. A chart that has only squares from the Moon and
Saturn to Scorpio Neptune is that of polygamist Brigham Young.
When
Neptune in Scorpio is afflicted, it arouses the vilest impulses,
obsessions and neurotic perversions that man is heir to. During the
last passage of Neptune through Scorpio, so many criminals of a
brutal fierceness were at large that England maintained a regular
series of criminal ships to Australia, while France built up the
African provinces in the same way.
Neptune in
the Sixth House
Gives a
wasting sickness; treachery among servants and employees; peculiar
tastes in food and clothing; loss of physical comforts.
Pluto
Pluto is a
cold, remote, and austere planet. But for all its great distance from
Earth, astrologers have found it to have a powerful influence in the
life - as significant as is Saturn for the direction of one's life.
Pluto gives the courage and intensity to transform oneself, sometimes
in unexpected ways. All the outer planets symbolize higher mind
functions and give awareness of the big picture - Pluto confers
breadth, versatility, consciousness and judgment. Pluto's choices may
violate social custom; it sees in terms of longer cycles and needs.
Pluto is not by itself spiritual in nature, rather it is remorseless.
It sometimes correlates with efficiency and a Spartan simplicity.
Pluto in
Virgo
With Pluto
in Earthy, Mercury-ruled Virgo, your generation will be pragmatic,
idealistic but realistic, comfortable with dissent, and able to come
up with new ways to solve problems. There have been many changes
during your life, to which you have had to adjust. Lacking a big ego,
you see the need for service. You take for granted your ability to
use different communication technologies. Perhaps your low-key
approach is just what the doctor ordered.
Pluto in
the Fourth House
Endangers
the home. There may be violence in the home or violence may affect
the early life, especially if Pluto has multiple afflictions. Raises
the consciousness about the foundations of life. The native tends to
avoid settling down.
ASPECTS
Mercury
opposite Uranus (5.70)
The
contacts of these planets indicate some degree of original talent;
they usually give a quick and capable mind, with a very considerable
degree of independence.
The native
is very often clever in certain special directions, and he works well
so long as he is fond of his work. Other matters, outside the range
of his interests, often do not enter his vision at all; he is
indifferent to them, and may seem very stupid in relation to them.
Hence the contacts are not useful for the common affairs of life. The
native may be brilliant rather than sound, intuitive rather than
logical.
The
inharmonious aspects must be considered as serious obstacles to
success, chiefly by reason of the unpopularity that they engender,
this being often due to the native's brusqueness and lack of tact.
The native is often exceedingly outspoken and lacking in discretion,
and makes enemies unnecessarily.
It also
indicates strange beliefs, usually of the self-exalting kind; the
native may easily be persuaded that he or she is a chosen prophet,
messenger, or representative of those on high; the self-esteem is
generally considerable, and the native readily accepts anything that
panders to this vanity.
The
abilities are often great - greater, perhaps, than with the trine and
sextile - but they are often used injudiciously, either in foolish
causes or in a manner that occasions trouble. Measureless conceit and
self-will appear to be the basis of most of the errors, the native
persisting in his illusions in the face of all opposition and reason
- indeed these often seem to increase the stubbornness.
In some
cases the effects are mainly external, and in such examples we find
the native the target for more or less unmerited attacks of a bitter
character, as for instance the slanders directed against Albert the
Prince Consort in the time of the Crimean War.
It is
perhaps most fair to say, in this and similar cases, that the
native's opinions will be at variance with those of his associates
and others; but it is not always easy to judge astrologically which
view is correct. In some instances the beliefs of the
Mercury-afflicted-by-Uranus native are almost universally rejected,
as, for example, the alleged supernatural revelations of Joseph
Smith, the Mormon prophet, and the claims to special divine
protection made by the ex-Kaiser. In other cases posterity may
justify the native as against his assailants. As a general rule, I
think, this type of affliction denotes definite wrong-headedness at
least on some matters.
Venus
square Saturn (5.68)
Here there
is usually a definite sacrifice of happiness, either to an ideal, to
a material ambition, or to duty, as in the case of soldiers and
sailors, whose vocation demands the sacrifice of ordinary home
comforts.
In regard
to character the worst side of the configuration lies in its exacting
and selfish character, which, though by no means a necessary
phenomenon, occurs regularly in the lower types. A sort of mean
jealousy, unredeemed by the romance of Uranus or even the passion of
Mars, may be observed, and, with Mercury-Mars afflictions, nagging
may occur. Wives may carry punctuality to such a point that lateness
at a meal may mean a day of disharmony; husbands may be household
tyrants waging constant battle over domestic accounts.
One may
credit Venus-Saturn natives with fidelity; they are often very cold
in some part of their nature, and, even with ascendants such as
Taurus or Libra, may astonish one with unsuspected hardness.
The life
is generally a hard one, either through poverty or worldly failure,
or, if this does not occur owing to other counteracting indications,
then there is usually either depression and moodiness, loneliness
(often with bereavement), or ill-health. This last is, however, the
least characteristic feature of the configuration, which centers
above all in the emotional and affectional spheres.
Childhood
does not seem to suffer particularly, as is usually the case with
Venus-Mars aspects, but one of the parents - as a rule the father -
is apt to be a burden. Frequently he is a forceful, tyrannical,
exacting, or dominating type, whose will allows little free
development in his children. Sometimes, though less often, he is
unpractical, a failure, and a financial burden to his family.
Sometimes his early death is denoted, and step-parents may occur. He
is rather likely, in some instances, to require his children to grow
up too soon, to realize their responsibilities too early, and to work
more strenuously than an all-round unfoldment might call for.
The mother
is often affected and is as a rule strongly tinged with Saturnian
characteristics, as in the way of being ambitious, worldly, snobbish,
or aloof.
Generally
there is apt to be a condition of "fixation" in respect of
one or both parents. The child is too strongly marked with their
impress and tries to grow into their likeness or that of one of them,
each sex tending to assimilate itself to the parent of the opposite
gender. Sometimes the limitation is more purely external, as when the
child has to deny itself to support its parents in old age. But the
general effect of the parents on the child is in the direction of
increasing its seriousness and its responsibilities, and those born
with this configuration are peculiarly susceptible to this sort of
influence, which is none the less detrimental because often
exceedingly well-intentioned.
In
marriage it can be easily understood that Venus-Saturn afflictions
act very badly. The good aspects are compatible with great happiness
and mutual love, but even thus, bereavement and other forms of
separation are possible. Considerable differences of age, and less
often of social status, are common both with good and bad aspects.
Bad
aspects may delay marriage or even assist in preventing it
altogether. If it occurs, then ill-health or misfortune often befalls
the partner, or gradual estrangement may ensue, in which respect the
aspect (if it takes this form at all) is very deadly and far more
dangerous in my experience than Venus-Mars.
It must be
frankly stated that this combination is of a serious kind. I have
certainly known cases wherein a minor evil aspect has apparently been
completely externalized - that is to say, the character does not seem
to have suffered at all - yet one cannot but imagine that true peace
and joy are difficult to attain for those who have such contacts. As
a rule either the life is exceptionally sad, or the nature is such
that normal misfortunes are felt abnormally. It is a distinct demand
that happiness should not be sought in the things of Saturn and in
his kingdom.
Venus
square Jupiter (4.18)
As in most
cases there are two reactions, the one showing the fault of one
planet, and the other of the other.
There is a
distinctly vain, idle, and even licentious type, and there is a
reckless, revolutionary pattern. Again, in some cases there is
conceit without idleness. I have never found any of them conspicuous
for unassuming modesty, nor do they seek the corner of the room or
yearn to blush unseen. Oftentimes they like to strike a dramatic
note, with themselves, be it understood, in the center of the stage.
Sometimes there is an element of profusion. The feelings are
frequently susceptible and the love-affairs numerous. But a prominent
malefic influence will readily introduce a much sterner element into
the character, and we may get the second or rebellious type.
It is a
rather passive note in many cases, and its influence is specially
liable to be overlaid by more positive factors, so that, although it
can be plainly detected on analysis, its specific manifestations are
almost always determined for it. The gist of its influence is *excess
of feeling*.
There is
an element of change and even adventure in the lives of most natives
with this combination, and sometimes they are veritable
storm-centers. The influence of Jupiter is always restless and prone
to seek fresh experiences and variations on old ones; it represents
the principle of Cosmic Variety, or the concept of one branch
developing into many ramifications. The matters ruled by the two
planets will clash or injure each other : for example, love or
finance or both will suffer through foreigners or foreign travel,
law, or some other 9th house matter, or perhaps through things of the
12th house.
The effect
on *health* is probably slight, but Venus afflictions may always
cause indulgence, and Jupiter inclines to excess in all directions.
Jupiter
conjunct Saturn (3.86)
A powerful
but admittedly critical position. It must be regarded as potentially
gloomy, for it occurs sometimes in maps of suicide, especially if it
falls in Virgo. It distinctly favors a hard life, with privation,
struggle, or danger (Lindbergh). The native essays difficult though
sometimes glorious feats, and may acquire fame through performances
of great arduousness, either mental, physical, or spiritual. It is
distinctly a sign of great possibilities to be realized by hard work.
It favors
great singleness of purpose and endless patience. A case is recorded
of a soldier who, during twenty-one years' service, unremittingly
knitted socks and sold them for a trifle. At the end of his term of
military service he was able to set up in business on his savings and
attained considerable success, was beaten in competition by large
American stores opened opposite him, but, thanks to his abilities,
succeeded in making good terms with them, obtaining a post as their
manager.
The native
is generally religious, favoring old and established communions.
There is
often a rather eccentric tendency as regards the use of money : the
native may be generous to the wrong persons and niggardly to the
deserving.
Jealousy
sometimes occurs.
The native
will have the ability to take long views and he will work steadily
towards one end in life, year after year, with the utmost patience,
learning from the past and adapting its lessons for the future, as
with the harmonious aspects, but the elements of toil and danger are
likely to be more in evidence.
Moon
sextile Neptune (3.86)
The
contacts of these two bodies are not easy to interpret, for they
operate in many seemingly diverse ways. Both the Moon and Neptune
affect the emotional nature, and the action of the latter is greatly
to sensitize it and as it were enlarge its scope. Perhaps the
dominant feature is the desire to do something great and unusual. In
the more ordinary types we find chiefly a desire to do comparatively
usual things in an unusual manner or on a grandiose scale. In more
exceptional horoscopes the desire takes all sorts of strange forms.
The
contacts are undoubtedly beneficial in a worldly sense, tending to
bestow wealth and ease, and very often there are more of the good
things of life than the native seems to merit; he may benefit
considerably by others' brains and toil and may be a conscious or
unconscious parasite.
It is
specially good for the numerous Neptunian features of modern
business, such as hire-purchase.
In some
cases there is much spiritual ambition, inclining, if the rest of the
map shows afflictions, to such unbalance as we find in Joseph Smith
the Mormon, Wilhelm II of Germany, Gandhi, and Archbishop Laud (who
was a very superstitious man).
It has a
mediumistic and spiritist side, for Neptune has particularly intimate
relations with the so-called "astral plane"; but this
tendency has been exaggerated, and is more commonly found under other
aspects to Neptune.
It is a
rather unsatisfying configuration, for there is no boundary to the
aspirations of Neptune, and we often find an overweening desire to
push further and further ahead, without due acceptance of the
limitations which mundane conditions necessarily impose upon all of
us.
Mars
sextile Pluto (3.40)
You have a
toughness that allows you to play with the big boys. The energy that
flows through you could make you successful as an athlete. You have
confidence and take risks. It tends to make you prolific in your
work. A woman with this aspect can see things from a man's point of
view. You think in terms of growth and evolution.
Mercury
sextile Venus (3.16)
This
aspect always gives some charm to the manners, speech, and writings.
It bestows good spirits, a charming, cheerful, happy nature, with
much friendliness and sociability. There is, as a rule, a liking for
young people and the native himself is often juvenile in his tastes :
sometimes there is an element of what is called the child-psychology
with its harmless, rather superficial interests and lack of real
depth of purpose. This is naturally most observable when the
influence of Saturn is not pronounced.
These
aspects do not of themselves bestow genius, but they are of great
value to a writer or orator, for, though they will not indicate a
brilliant intellect, they will give a pleasing expression to the
native's thoughts.
In respect
of the health it operates very beneficially, indicating absence of
mental friction and healthy nerves.
It may
bring profit through art, writings, speaking, and any 3rd house
activity, although this will be much subordinated to the rest of the
map.
For some
reason that I cannot explain, the sextile appears to deny or limit
the number of children; or there may be a tragic bereavement (Lord
Rosebery, Sir Henry Irving), or sorrow of some kind through one of
them. It is said that "Genius is sterile"; but it seems
strange that a good aspect of Venus to Mercury should have these
results. Since Venus dislikes pain and responsibility it might
incline the native to avoid the having of children, but it is hard to
see why it should affect children adversely when they have arrived.
Nevertheless, I refer those who may question this observation to an
examination of actual cases.
Venus
trine Uranus (1.51)
This is a
combination which usually signifies unusual taste and some degree of
artistic ability.
There may
be talent for music, literature, or the drama; it is often witty,
fascinating, humorous, or charming, especially if Leo rises. With a
prominent Mars there may be ability for work in metals.
It tends
somewhat to eccentricity, sentiment, and romance, the passions being
very sensitive.
In many
cases it seems to be rather a dumb note and goes no further than a
mild liking for music.
So far as
externals are concerned it favors popularity, easy circumstances, and
enjoyable, though not always steadfast, relations with the other sex.
Very much depends upon the ability of the native to find an adequate
outlet for the emotional nature, for there is a proclivity towards
adventures in love, and the romantic part of the nature may lead to
looseness of conduct unless it can be "sublimated" in some
harmless way. For example, Petrarch with Venus in Gemini trine Uranus
in Libra, expressed his romantic nature by writing sonnets to Laura,
while living a perfectly comfortable and respectable life with a wife
and several children, being plump and well-fed at a time when,
according to his writings, Love denied him food, sleep, and most
other necessaries. Or, again, romance may be sought in stranger
directions, as in the case of William Blake, who was most happily
married, but allowed the eccentricity of Uranus to find vent for
itself in such peculiar habits as insisting on receiving and
entertaining his guests in a completely unclothed condition, by way
of demonstrating beyond all argument the fact of his having regained
man's pristine "innocence of childhood pure." Another
eccentric, but (so far as I know) perfectly moral Venus-Uranus man
was Joseph Smith, the Mormon, who "rationalized" the inner
cravings of the aspect by producing a polygamous religion,
miraculously revealed.
On the
other hand, we owe it to this aspect to record that Queen Victoria
had it; but it was wide and separating. Venus was in Aries, and the
sudden loss of her husband (Uranus between 7th and 8th houses) seems
to have been its exterior effect.
Moon trine
Pluto (1.25)
You
understand how life works at a deep level. You love life and readily
share what you know with others. You could have a knack for finance
and investment. You are not a hermit; you like to contribute and be
involved with people. You could be a performer or a social activist,
bringing something new to the masses. You have a commanding presence.
It is not a chore for you to exercise because you like the results.
Your mother may be particularly important in your life, which will
likely see frequent change and travel. You are good at discarding the
old, unneeded stuff to which most people become emotionally attached.
Mars trine
Neptune (0.79)
These
contacts appear to indicate a clean-minded, honest, straight-dealing
character, with decided leanings towards practical helpfulness. The
native is charitable, and sees the best in people so far as he is
able, but there is also a power to detect insincerity and duplicity.
Even with the good aspects the native is likely to have to exert this
faculty.
They favor
abstemiousness in drink and self-control generally; often there is
great care for personal cleanliness. The emotions and passions are
often powerful, but controlled and well-directed.
They may
bring benefits through the sea and maritime things in general, such
as cables, marine stores and instruments, submarine telegraphy, and
other shipping matters.
There is
frequently a liking for the arts or one of them, but this is much
more pronounced with the inharmonious contacts, the harmonious
inclining rather to practical affairs.
The health
may receive benefit from residence by the sea.
Moon
opposite Mars (0.65)
Both the
good and bad contacts of these bodies operate in two distinct
channels, corresponding to the positive and the negative sides of
Mars.
The
positive side augments courage, daring, enterprise, and bodily vigor;
the negative relates rather to the mental and intellectual parts, and
frequently indicates a deep thinker. These two subtypes are very
different, the one being essentially vigorous; the other profound.
But in both cases there tends to be a practical outlook - it does not
incline to a purely intellectual point of view, though a large amount
of air in the horoscope may introduce this.
The most
usual effect of these aspects in the horoscopes of "nice"
people is ill-health - it is rarer to find accidents under the
Luni-Martian aspects than it is under those in which the Sun is
implicated. Often the health is not robust, there are many illnesses
of greater or less severity, and life is not likely to run its full
measure, though one may point to such a case as that of Lord Balfour,
who after a very delicate infancy lived to an advanced age. Alan Leo
is a case wherein, after a healthy life, death came suddenly and
unexpectedly.
In another
class we find the combative and pugnacious side of the contacts in
full play, as for example in the case of Georges Clemenceau, Gandhi,
and Ruskin.
The
tendency to deep thought is common in the bad contacts, but the
native is apt to be influenced too much by his emotions, and there is
a rebellious and intolerant element which refuses to see any good in
its opponents.
A more
disagreeable type is the self-indulgent prodigal, with tendencies to
drink and promiscuity. There seems always to be a certain degree of
kindheartedness, of a rough and selfish kind - the sort that is kind
with other people's money, or when no personal sacrifice is involved.
Otherwise this contact may go with a pretty considerable blackguard,
the native having little self-respect, self-control, or refinement.
Thus we have the cases of "Defalcating Bank Clerk, "Drunkard,"
"Adventuress," "Young Prodigal," and "Opium
and Alcohol."
Sometimes
there is obstinacy and self-will, and probably in all examples there
is a liability to hot temper or sullenness, but it is certain that in
many cases this is not very prominent.
The
effects of this influence on the vocation are to incline the native
very strongly to seek his own career and make himself independent of
others. It points to one who strikes out his own course, and it is
probable that in some of the criminal examples this course of life
was adopted in order to avoid drudgery, routine, and control by
others.
It is
unfavorable for the parents, either or both of whom may die young or
suffer misfortunes which will affect the whole family. Thus Charles
II suffered prolonged exile after his father's beheading, and George
IV's father was insane for many years. Frederick the Great of Prussia
underwent great cruelties at the hands of his father. Sometimes this
influence seems only to extend so far as to make the parent Martian
in character or occupation, and sometimes the native is brought into
danger by the example of the father, or when following him. It
generally denotes that the family history is not altogether a happy
or prosperous one.
It is
distinctly unfavorable for marriage in the case of males. The wife
may be an invalid, meet with accidents, or be of a domineering
disposition; or there may be mutual incompatibility.
In the
case of women, I think it is unfavorable because of the independence
which it signifies; if there is marriage, then I believe that the
husband chosen will usually be of the meeker kind, for this contact
is intolerant of restraint.
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