The Signs

Sign Sign Good Manifestation Bad Manifestation 1 V Aries the Ram impulsive, pioneering over-estimate, deceiving 2 tf Taurus the Bull conservative, solid dogmatic, obstinate 3 n Gemini the Twins inspirational, movable unreliable, cunning 4 25 Cancer the Crab economical, receptive retiring, over-sensitive 5 Q.

Leo the Lion faithful, self-concious bombastic, proud 6 np Virgo the Virgin methodical, analysing narrow-minded, criticising 7 =0= Libra the Balance harmonizing indolent 30 NO.

uu 8nx 9* 10^11s: 12X Sign Sign Good Manifestation Bad Manifestation Scorpio the Scorpion powerful, mystical haughty, suspicious, jealous Sagittarius the Archer philosophical, intuitive rebellious, restless Capricorn the Goat persevering, serving slaving, plodding Aquarius the Man (Water-bearer) idealistic chaotic Pisces the Fishes universal love moral death In columns 5 and 6 an attempt is made to give approximately in one word the character of the Sign, how it expresses itself in its most perfect and in its most imperfect way.

Between these extremes of very high and very low expression numerous gradations occur.

The following esoteric treatise on the signs of the Zodiac in relation to each other, is taken from "The Prophecy of the Zodiac".

How far into time immemorial the zodiacal signs and their names go back, who shall say?

Certain it is that they, as idea, were born together with and out of the human mind.

It is not by accident that man, struggling in this life, inwardly and outwardly anxious, lifts his heart up to the stars which seem unmoved, inexorably fixed, untouched by all that stirs down here.

Indeed, rest and calm come back to him, their quiet and their fixedness make him quiet and fixed.

Does not man know that just as his wheel of life revolves from cradle to grave, the planets do from coming into being till setting?

Does not he know that their light is fire, their warmth glow, their movement a speed that con tains destruction?

How can such an unrest give him rest?

Yea, all this man knows well enough, but above all, he, looking at the stars from below, is conscious of the fixedness in their revolution, certainty in their whizzing, law in their fieriness.

The law which bears all these things bears him also; the law in movement and change, in rising and setting, is his law of life and death as well.

This great thought that nothing proves to be chance, is the thought which makes man quiet when regarding the starry-sky above him.

And that which he by day in the heat of the fight, in the cloudless blue of the midday-sun cannot discover, only rises for his dark heart with every light that stands out against the black shadow of the night, with every star that rises.

Is it wonderful that at the birth of man under the nightly sky of history (Gen.

1:31 "for it had been evening and morning, the sixth day") the thinker in him stood up from the dark chaos to seek the light?

Is it wonderful that this man, approaching the stars in his spirit, stood still, waking?

Is it wonderful that he built houses with roofs for the night, walls with towers for the night?

Is it wonderful that he made his!) By L.

de Hartog-Meyjes from "Nieuwe Banen" (New Paths) Sept.

31 dwelling place in the midst of the stars and his chair between sun and moon?

Somewhere the great heart must throb, which keeps all these things moving!

And, like the man of exact science, discovering law in all outward happenings, as broad as daylight, knows himself to be a knower of these laws, so do the wise ones of olden times fix their hearts on the fixed signs of the nightly mystery, trying to find there and to understand the inner ground and cause of all world-change.

The Great Heart they did not find it in nature!

Who could find the cause of movement in movement?

But His throbbing they heard.

And what they learned from the great order of life was wisdom which demonstrates itself in the kingdom of the spirit.

The wise ones saw the fixed signs and divided them and gave them names and numbered them by dozens.

The pious ones understood with their hearts and ornamented their temples with the signs of the zodiac, representing the ascent of the spirit from the pression of nature.

Three were called divine: Aries, the Thinker; Taurus, the Word; Gemini, the Spirit.

Through these three was put Cancer, space, in order that there would be room for the birth of Leo, the burning heart of the world.

While thus Aries, Thought, has become Word in Taurus, and Action in Gemini, "spin like a cloth" space in Cancer, Leo, the Lion, the fiery spirit, elevates itself over the passive Virgo, Matter, Mater, Mary the Virgin.

What is born out of her is spir it and matter in one, of two kinds of births, of two kinds of sex.

Libra, the Balance of spirit and matter is in equilibrium.

But innocence cannot be virtue, nor simplicity merit, man is only that which he has conquered.

Near the innocence of Libra, man under the green trees of his childish play, shuffles the serpent, the sign Scorpio, the Tempter.

Libra, the ideal-man, born of the overshadowing of the Spirit over the Virginal Matter is nothing but a beautiful possibility, as long as he is not tested.

The Spirit, therefore, leads man into the wilderness to be tried.

Scorpio, the tempter, is thus called the sign of death as well as of life.

For he who falls for temptation goes down into the law of "dust unto dust." But he who stands, comes into the sign of the new life.

For, like the serpent, stripping its skin, appears as newly-born, so does this sign picture the dying of life after nature in order to beget the other, the higher life after the spirit.

He, who is tempted in Scorpio must begin the fight with his own nature and desire.

For the next sign is that of Sagittarius, the Archer, often pictured as a centaur.

The upper-body that is thought, human; the lower-body, that is desire, animal.

With the arrow of thought he aims at the highest good, but his desire prevents him from virtually reaching it.

That is why he has to climb the mountain of hardships further.

What he saw in Sagittarius with the eye of spirit, he must now try to reach 32 with the foot of action.

That means: not from afar he may shoot only arrows of thought, thought which is not of space, boundless and eternal; nay, with his will, with his whole energy he must follow that thought.

And so it is that we find the next sign grasped in Capricorn, the Goat, which solitary and still climbs the mountains, higher and higher, more and more difficult, ever lonelier.

It is the man that must go and realize what he saw.

But even that is not sufficient.

He who mounts the mountain top of the spirit, estranges from humanity, from the world, and on the heights, which are deserted, he remains to himself alone.

He who keeps the treasures of the Spirit to himself, knowing that there are only few who expect salvation and peace of the mountains of solitude, misses his calling.

Therefore the sign that follows must be Aquarius, the Waterbearer, the man who falls on his knees to pour out the pitcher full of living water, into the valley at his feet down there.

And this water is the life-element for the fish, pictured in the next Sign Pisces; at the same time the sign, that as two arches, connects heaven and earth.

But also the sign of the cross, the sign of dying off.

Thus the sign Pisces turns and we get Aries, the sign of the Divine (see above), also the sign of offering.

Everything animal, that remained in man, must be offered as lamb in the Temple of God.

He, Whose Thought (which, as we saw, pre-cedes as His Advice every Word and Act ion of creation) is higher than our thoughts, He requires the offering of an unsullied body...

Which way soever we turn and re-turn the Zodiac, every time the light of the eternal Truth revealed in Christ, shines on us.

Therefore, different from the above: Leo is the burning Heart of the Father; Virgo is the Virgin, Matter, the Mother who receives the Son; Libra is this Son himself in His divine equanimity, weighed after the balance of the two natures; Scorpio is His temptation in the wilderness of birth-in-time; Sagittarius is His glory which aims high at the seat on the right-hand of the Father; Capricorn is His steady course along the road of suffering to glory on the mountain of the cross; Aquarius is the sign of the streams of living water, flowing from His most inward part All happenings in the dominion of the spirit, find themselves reflected in the lower kingdoms, include the material plane, they are taken part in as well by nature round us, as in our own innermost being.

The work of the Logos in his Cosmos through the "Seven planetary Logoi" and through the twelve zodiacal signs, or as they are called in the Bible, "the Hierarchies" (see esoteric part) did not take place only at the beginning of the Universe, but takes place daily in us and round us in nature, in our thinking and acting, in the blossoming and decaying of nature.

33 We can regard the Zodiacal signs from different points of view and so draw our consequences in many different ways.

1) We divide the signs into 4 cardinal (♈, ♋, ♎, ♑), 4 fixed (♉, ♌, ♏, ♒) and 4 mutable (or common) signs (♊, ♍, ♐, ♓) and further, into four triplicities, named after the element which they represent.

fiery, earthy, airy and watery triplicity (Compare the following pages).

So we have a triplicity which joins a quadruple (3+4).

The triplicity represents in its three aspects respectively the qualities: will, love, wisdom, while the quadruple symbolises the 4 elements of the ancients or also the 4 form-aspects or aggregates of matter.

The astrological triplicity thus is: 1 cardinal, 2 fixed, 3 mutable.

Symbolises the outgoing, driving force in the Universe (Rajas), in which the desire to create expresses itself; movement and energy, the wish to manifest (♈, ♋, ♎, ♑).

The driving, directing force has become a quiet, organising force, power, (Tamas) which constructs, materialises, shapes and is persevering and constant in its expression.

It is fixation-solidification (♉, ♌, ♏, ♒).

The keystone here is adaptation, harmonising; wisdom and love are crystalised from the two preceding forces.

It is polarisation (Sattva) (♊, ♍, ♐, ♓).

When we make this theoretical division, we must always bear in mind that in reality the three are always one and go together her, though the manifestation differs.

The key-note of 1, 2 and 3 respectively is Will, Love, Wisdom.

It is evident that without the guiding wisdom, the driving force of the will would work destruction instead of construction, and that harmonising striving without perseverance and unmovable power could never be eternal, but would be only temporary.

This triplicity of manifesting power finds its expression in a fourfold way by fire-, air-, water- and earth-elements, as the Ancients called them.

We have to regard them as the different conditions of form or aggregates in which the manifestation expresses itself.

So we get in every manifestation a combination of the 3 and the 4 or of the triangle A with the +, i.e.

of Spirit and Matter.

The signs of each triplicity we may regard as follows.

Let us take for example the fiery triplicity V, Q.,, ?.

In the first sign V we may compare the driving force of the Universe to the beginning of a rectilinear or parabolic movement towards !).

We have in our treatise this principle underlying, that thought precedes any manifestation, and thought, looked upon in that way, is therefore the driving force which makes everything shoot forth to being.

That is why Aries (the head) is our starting point, the spiritual centre from which manifestation begins.

Only after this has begun, there can be question of love for that manifestation, ^(the heart) the second sign of the fiery triplicity (also prana, life).

The Ancients therefore took the sign Aries for the beginning of the Zodiac.

Both revelations did of course not take place separately, but simultaneously in a sense.

an arrow that is shot.

It is the actual realising of the fiery triplicity (Mental expression).

(Aries = the planner, the pioneer).

always expresses an organising, directing, nutritive quality out of which the driving force is, as it were, condensed, as in an accumulator (Astral expression).

(Leo = powerful commander).

The 3rd sign ^ expresses a releasing, a coming free of the accumulated strain of power and may therefore be compared to the hitting of the arrow in the bull's eye.

(Physical expression).

(Sagittarius = expressive, daring).

We can summarise all in the image of an avalanche plunging down in a valley; the beginning is here the first impulse which is the cause of the mass of snow on the mountain-slope coming into movement (V) the snow comes off, begins to move and rolls down increasing to enormous masses (Q,) and a moment after, it plunges down in the valley with roaring noise (,?).

The signs, divided into 4 cardinal signs (T, 25, ==, ^), 4 fixed signs (V.

&, "I, ~), 4 mutable signs (n, tip, , ?, 3C), form angles of 90 and 180 with each other.

A Cardinal Cross, a Fixed Cross, a Mutable Cross.

Two succeeding cardinal, fixed or mutable signs are always 90° from each other (forming a square aspect, □).

A further division is in 3 fiery signs (♈, ♌, ♐), 3 earthy signs (♉, ♍, ♑), 3 airy signs (♊, ♎, ♒), 3 watery signs (♋, ♏, ♓) - The three fiery signs form always an angle of 120° (trine aspect, △) and this is also the case with the airy, earthy and watery signs.

A fiery triplicity ft A.25 earthy triplicity airy triplicity watery triplicity Fiery signs form always an angle of 60, *(sextile aspect) with the next following airy sign, and so do the earthy with the watery signs.

They both make respectively an angle of 180, 8 (opposition) with the second airy or watery sign.

The 4 elements, fire, air, water, earth represent the 4 planes on 35 which Man the Ego is manifested, viz.

respectively: the higher mental, the lower mental, the astral and the physical plane.

Or, when we compare them with man himself, resp.

spirit, intellect, the astral body (desire body), the material body.

The 3 crosses we may compare to the 3 Guna's of the Hindu's, viz.

the cardinal cross to Rajas (activity), the fixed cross to Tamas (constancy) and the mutable cross to Sattua (rhythm).

The cardinal signs govern the head and the intellect.

The fixed signs govern the soul and the will.

The mutable signs govern the body and the senses.

The greater part of the planets in fiery signs (V, &>?) makes the native positive, energetic, acting, progressive-minded, impulsive.

The greater part of the planets in airy signs (n, =o=, 2s) makes the native talented, refined, pensive, courteous, idealistic, often inconstant.

The greater part of the planets in watery signs (25, ni, DC) makes the native negative, sensitive, dreamy, psychic, shy, timid, romantic, often lacking in energy.

The greater part of the planets in earthy signs (V, W, *T) makes the native steady, practical, plodding, economical, cautious, patient, reserved.

The four castes of the Hindus are under the four Elements.

The Priests under the element of Air, the Warriors under the element of Fire, the Merchants under the element of Water, and the Artisans under the element of Earth.

In a judgment of a horoscope first of all the a Ascendant, the sun, the moon and the ruler of the rising sign (the ruler of the horoscope) must be considered.

Every sign is ruled by a planet*), as is indicated in the following table, and every sign rules a certain part of the human body.

Sign Part of the Body Lrer 1 Aries fiery sign governs head and face d 1 2 Taurus earthy throat and neck $ 3 Gemini airy lungs and arms $ 4 Cancer watery stomach, breasts D 5 Leo fiery heart and back O 6 Virgo earthy bowels, abdomen $ 7 Libra airy reins $ 8 Scorpio watery secrets, generative organs, bladder cf 9 Sagittarius fiery thighs, hips Q |.

10 Capricorn earthy knees and bones I ?

11 Aquarius airy lower legs and ankles ft # 12 Pisces watery feet and tissues 2 | .

*) To be ruler of a sign means that the influence of a certain planet in a certain sign (see next table) is shown more strongly and more harmoniously than in other signs.

This is in connection with the beginning of the material manifestation of the 36 Masculine signs are V, n, Q., =o=, J, s: (positive) Feminine tf, 25.

(negative) x) Northern V, tf, n, 25, Q,, np.

Southern A, n\,, ?, ^, s, 3C - The Tropic 25 and %.

Signs rising short 25, Q, "P, ==, HI,, ?.

^ For the Northern Hemisphere; the long %, zz, X, "Y1, XH.) reverse for the Southern Hemisphere.

Every sign of 30 is divided into three equal parts of 10, the decanates.

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd decanates of each sign have the same principal ruler as the whole sign, but as sub-ruler the 2nd and 3rd decanate have resp.

the rulers of the two signs of the same group, e.g.

the sub-ruler of the 2nd decanate of V is the ruler of Q.

(the 2nd fiery sign) and that of the 3rd decanate the ruler of J (the 3rd fiery sign) etc.

Seeing that these sub-rulers have, in the judgment of the ascendant, an influence secondary to that the principal ruler, it is necessary that we indicate the decanates and their sub-rulers further.

15, it is not sufficient to study the ruler of the horoscope, 2|., but also the position and the aspects of the sub ruler d1 (of the 2nd decanate).

V Ruler d1 Ruler n Ruler 25 Ruler V Dec.

ft = 0 = Ruler 25 Dec.

20-30V Dec.^ J Ruler 2J.

ft 20-30 n Dec.: s Ruler in Dec.

1 planet in a certain part of the heavens.

The treatment of this subject belongs to esoteric astrology.

At the end, in the esoteric part, something more about this will be said.

37 The Ascendant or Rising Sign.

Appearance, Temperament, General Character.

That part of the sign *) which at birth was rising on the eastern horizon, gives the form of the body, the temperament and the character in general, modified, however, by the signs in which ☉ and ☽ are placed and by the influence of those planets which occupy a prominent place in the horoscope e.g.

in the ascendant or in M.C.

The ascendant expresses in general the characteristics and tendencies which the native has made his own in preceding lives in opposition to its antipode the descendant which expresses qualities not sufficiently developed, and which would be desirable in spouse, co-operator or partner in order to form together a harmonic whole.

Also the sign occupied by the M.C.

has often a very strong influence on appearance and character.

We must not take the expression, that the ascendant gives the form of the body and the general nature of the character, too literally, but rather imagine that above mentioned qualities of body and soul represent the reflexion of the whole heavens with all their constellations at the moment when a certain degree of a sign is rising.

Conceived in that way, it will necessarily lead to the conclusion that at different latitudes the reflexion of the heavens or i.o.w.

the effect of the ascendant on body and soul must be somewhat different, because the heavens are different at different latitudes with the same degree rising.

In how far this influence can differ, closer scrutiny will show; for the time being only little is known of it.

What is known is, that the difference cannot be very large.

is the only point of which we may be completely sure, but this is not the case with the other cusps, including the ascendant.

This is observed now and again when the character and the build of the body as they ought to be according to the subdivision of the sign are compared to the image as reality gives it.

in such cases sometimes the image of the preceding or of the following sign.

We cannot always explain this by an incorrectly given time of birth.

Butler says in his work "Solar Biology" something regarding the transition of one sign in another and states that this does not take place with all signs in the same way.

This may be of importance when the first or the last degrees of the signs are rising or when a planet is placed in the mat birth.

!) The ruler of the sign that is rising ought first of all to be considered, next the sign itself, the house and the aspects, and then the sub-ruler of the decanate.

Both require profound study when a horoscope is being judged.

Also the houses with which the ruler and the sub-ruler run parallel; e.g.

if the first decanate of ♈ is rising, study carefully also the 5th house (house of ♌).

If the 2nd decanate of ♈ is rising, the 9th house (house of ♐) as well etc.

About the houses see p.

38 At the transition of s zin D C strong deviation of the ordinary rule occurs, viz.

the influence of D C is already felt in the last 5 of :s.

These last 5 therefore show the blended qualities of two signs.

We see the same at the transition of D C in V, viz.

the last 4 1/2 ~~ 5 of D C show the blended qualities of these two signs.

Between V and V this blending of qualities totals only 1 and further no imperceptible change of the signs takes place till np A, where it is 2.

The transition between =0= and ni is uncertain, that between >?

and *T sharp, but that between ~Z and s goes imperceptibly over the last 4 of % so that there already the qualities of s begin to show.

With the other signs the transition is fairly sudden, here no "chemic polarisation", as he calls it, takes place.

In many cases the M.C.

will often give us the solution.

Isabella Pagan, too, says in her astrological work entitled: "From Pioneer to Poet" that too little notice is given to the influence of the M.C.

The last section, at the end of each sign in M.C.

(nadir) I have taken and abbreviated from above-mentioned work.

(V) Aries (ruler d1) Fiery Sign.

Type: the Englishman.

Aries as ascendant: King George V, Carmen Sylva, Annie Besant, Oliver Cromwell.

The pure Aries-type has a wiry, slender, muscular body.

The neck is thin and long, so is the head, and broadened at the skull especially over the temples.

It is a so-called wedge-shaped head.

Hair and beard are usual ly black whereas the moustache is often of a lighter colour.

Flaxen and red hair occurs very often under influence of Aries especially if its ruler, Mars, is rising in the ascendant.

Then there is often also a scar in the face.

The character is violent, hasty, impulsive, choleric, courageous.

The Aries-type shrinks from nothing, dare stoutly undertake anything, goes through thick and thin, and his robust health enables him to do so.

He cannot very well be in an inferior position but wishes to be at the head, whether he has the ability for it or no.

Under this sign therefore are found the pioneers, the leaders, but also many muddle-headed people.

He acts quickly, and performs his task with great enthusiasm, but with the lower type this often degenerates into fanaticism.

In judging, one must carefully seek out the aspects of other planets this sign and its ruler (cf) receives, because the aspects may modify the character strongly.

This is of course, also the case with the other signs!

The afore-said facts are especially applicable to the first 10 of T, the first decanate, of which Mars is the sole ruler.

The second decanate has for sub-ruler the Sun, the third Jupiter, so that the qualities of these 39 last decanates are mingled with those of the signs of which respectively the Sun and Jupiter are ruler.

The Aries-type is fond of argument and likes to devote his time to study and research.

The Sun is exalted 1) in this sign.

(The Egyptian name for Aries is Ram ani.

a heightened region in Egypt).

The skin of a ram covered the holiest in the Egyptian temples.

The danger for the V type lies in overstrain, the exacting of too much from body and spirit; want of rest.

He must learn to conquer his rudeness, impatience, irritability, and cultivate kindness and patience.

By doing so he will also gain bodily health.

Much movement in free nature is a necessity with him.

This sign governs head and face.

2) gives a strong desire after perfect expression.

He wishes to be in the van, to be a pioneer, a leader.

The standpoint is hopeful and progressive, but sometimes very changeable.

V in descendant 2) gives a tendency to progressive thinking and ever being inclined to other points of view, so lack of perseverance.

The foundation of the character is courage, born from hope, sometimes, however, only expressing itself in foolhardiness and impatience.

(V) Taurus (ruler $) Earthy Sign.

V as ascendant, George Washington, General Ulyssus S.

Gives a short, well-set body, thick neck, short straight nose, at the base usually deep-planted.

The limbs are short and firm, the hands broad and heavy, w with short fingers.

The shoulders are broad, the hair abundant and often curling.

The forehead is broad and usually low, the lips thick, the eyes kind, dark and overshadowed by heavy eyebrows.

The character is practical and diplomatic, phlegmatic, dogmatic, little temper but when his passion is once roused, he becomes dangerous (the raging bull).

Taurus often gives musical talent and a fine voice.

Taurus governs the neck, throat and larynx.

Further characteristics are: self-assertion, constancy, which qualities change into conceit, and obstinacy if we find the sign or its ruler also, afflicted.

In Taurus the moon is exalted.

Especially the Taurus-type of the first decanate evinces strong likes and dislikes, is very reserved and lazy.

The ruler of the 1st decanate is Venus, the 2nd decanate of X has for sub-ruler Mercury (up).

= General character and build of the body, the outward man.

Characteristics that are already developed.

= Emotions and aspirations, his view on things, the point of view.

= Way of thinking, it denotes the qualities he has still to develop and which are present to an insufficient degree of far.

= Hereditary tendency, the foundation of the character.

40nate is more critical and egoistical but at the same time more intellectual.

The 3rd decanate has for sub-ruler Saturn (♄) through which the laziness to which Taurus is inclined makes room for greater activity.

The last decanate is distinguished by less trustworthiness and more egoism than the first.

This type must strive to conquer the inclinations which show too much attachment to earthy things and must cultivate his sense of religion.

Furthermore the lazy tendency has to be overcome.

gives a strong longing for peace, and great enjoyment in the pleasure of a well-earned rest, reaping the fruit of work done which often becomes too material.

He often takes a fixed standpoint and does not easily change.

The spirit is constant, firm, probably even obstinate and stubborn.

The foundation of the character is persevering and constant, stubborn.

(n) Gemini (ruler) Airy Sign.

Type: the Belgian (Walloon) as ascendant, Richard Wagner, Lord Tennyson, Dante, Bernard Shaw.

Gives a tall, straight, thin stature, narrow face, bent, (often an aquiline) nose, a sharp and penetrating glance, strong intellect, brown eyes and dark hair.

The gait is quick and when walking the Gemini-type often moves his arms violently.

The lower Gemini is very restless, talkative, cunning, mendacious and diffusive, is silent only when you stick him fast.

Arms long, the hands often short and ever moving, even w hen he sits quietly on his chair.

Indeed they are as restless mentally as physically.

This sign produces professional men, and excellent orators.

Gemini gives a healthy body usually.

The sign governs the lungs, arms and shoulders.

In order to rise higher the Gemini-type must silence his cold positivism and by being passive allow his intuition to work.

His restlessness will then disappear.

The 1st decanate is purely intellectual and is ruled by Mercury; the 2nd decanate has for sub-ruler Venus (♀) and joins feeling to cold intellect; the 3rd decanate has for sub-ruler Saturn and Uranus (♅).

The higher idealism and love of mankind makes this decanate the best of the three.

With all judgments much of course depends on the nature of the aspects which the ascendant and the ruler receive.

The Twins have sprouted according to mythology from one of the eggs which were the fruit of the union of Jupiter changed into a swan, and Leda, wife to the King of Sparta.

They took part in the voyage of the Argonauts and freed the sea of pirates.

That is why they are honoured as sea-gods.

The Gemini-type must overcome his egoism and superficiality and cultivate 41 his sense of duty and self-control.

In this way he will become the master of his nervous disorders, neurasthenia and hysteria.

gives a strong longing for a complete expression and inclines to original, or healthy artistic or intellectual work.

The point of view is free and unlimited and highly intellectual.

Fruitfulness in thoughts, but often lack of responsibility to put them to practice, fugitiveness.

indicates a certain joyful impulsiveness which can make the native attain much in many directions.

(25) Cancer (ruler ☽) Watery Sign.

Type: the native of Holland (not the Dutchman).

25 as ascendant, Leo Tolstoy, Tschaikowsky, H.P.

Blavatsky, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Emile Zola.

The last two examples show how many planets in one sign (and in M.C.

as well) can influence the appearance and the character.

Kaiser Wilhelm has ☉ and ♃ in M.C.

(in JC) and Zola has ☽ ♃ ♂ &c.

all of them in V - Both are Mars-types; show, however also the Cancer-qualities.

Gives often an over-sensitive and therefore not strong body, of which the upper half is stronger developed than the lower.

The head is round, the features and the eyes usually small, the chin little developed and often receding, the nose flat and usually turned-up.

The face is round and pale, the mouth large and full of expression.

Upon the whole the body gives a somewhat effeminate impression.

Cancer governs the breasts and the gastric regi on.

The character is shy, timid, want of courage and also oversensitive to impressions from outside, and the environment in which it is placed.

The Cancer-type needs domesticity and sympathy, but it is difficult for him to be in sympathy with the same people for a long time; he is changeable in this line as well as in many others and this makes life particularly hard to him at times.

In one point, however, the Crab is extremely retentive and that is where his ideals are concerned.

If he once has chosen an ideal, in which direction soever, he will follow it with great perseverance; the Crab holds fast to what he has.

He is very subject to changing moods.

He is to develop further through continual change of conditions of life; perhaps because in former incarnations he gained too little experience.

This sign enables to experience any degree of emotion, the highest as well as the lowest.

In many works on astrology one finds mentioned that Cancer gives a strong memory.

This may be true for the Sun placed in Cancer, but Cancer as ascendant, on the contrary, often gives a weak memory.

♋ is the sign of sensitive people and mediums.

The higher vibrations of ♋ give the endowment of clairvoyance and a keen feeling for art.

Cancer typifies that which is motherly, cherishing, sympathetic, which always, in all its changeability, forms the keynote of the Cancer-character.

42 Many lead a wandering, restless life, thrown this way and that way by their emotions and imaginations by which they are completely ruled.

Their temper is usually subject to many fluctuations.

They like to follow others, imitate others through want of firmness, and this is why they have so little power to resist influences of illness; evil does not miss making its impression as well as good.

is ruled by the changeable Moon only; the 2nd dec.

has for sub-ruler (ni) which gives more constancy to this decanate; the 3rd dec.

has for sub-ruler Q|.(DC) so that love of mankind and aliking to serve others becomes the keynote.

By the side of 9\., also W as sub-ruler comes to the fore.

Hope and faith should be cultivated and the inclination towards hypochondria overcome.

Regular bodily exercises are of much use.

Gives a longing to completely understand things and a proneness to affect the feeling and the imagination of his fellow men, usually from the standpoint of prepossession.

The spirit is full of fantasy, retentive, and at times musing and fantastic.

The foundation of the character is patience, which in its highest expression brings with it an admirable power of adaptation to the environment and a persevering aspiration.

(Q.) Leo (ruler Q) - Fiery Sign.

Q as ascendant, Von Bismarck, King George of Greece, Pierpont Morgan, Adeline Patti, Alan Leo.

Body usual ly big and broad-shouldered, well-built, but the upper body is stronger developed.

Hair usually fair, sometimes ruddy, eyes large, the face oval, a pink complexion and often a strong chin that is knobbed.

The voice is strong and somewhat authoritative which quality is to be observed in the glance as well.

If one anticipates the wishes of the Leo-type and shows him that one appreciates him, he is a good, generous and courteous friend, but the afflicted Leo suffers from conceit and inaccessibility.

Courage is one of Leo's good qualities.

This sign governs the heart and the back, it gives as a rule a strong body like the Ram does, but more corpulent.

His love of ruling and his impulsiveness cause his life to be rather subjected to changes, to ups and downs.

Much depends on a good position of the Sun, Leo's ruler.

Some modern astrologers who have the sign strongly in their horoscope, call it "the kingly or lordly sign" and really, the Leo people like to adopt a majestic manner.

We can even observe this in the majestic gesture with which a beggar that comes under this sign, takes our alms.

43 The 1st decanate gives the purest Leo-type; the Sun is sole ruler here; the 2nd dec.

adds the Jupiter influence having an expansive effect on the body and at the same time rousing the inclination for religion and philosophy.

has for sub-ruler Mars by which the intellectual side of the character is favourably influenced, together with much vitality.

The ancients kept during the month when the Sun went through ♌, great worships and festivals, the so-called Leonitic feasts, which were conducted by the priests, the Leones.

After the Sun-god of the Persians, Mithras, these feasts are also called Mithriaca.

The symbolic stories of Samson and Hercules have as foundation the passing of the sun through this sign, they are the symbolic representation of it.

The Leo-type must try and learn to conquer his vanity and endeavour to live in harmony with his environment.

inclines the native to let his light shine for others, and so lighten the life of others, thus serving God.

It gives moreover a desire after glory and honour, sometimes the antipode of it viz.

a longing to be flattered and praised.

The point of view goes from the inner side of the things to all directions.

gives breadth and intelligence to the spirit, but little clearness and detailed-ness.

The character is loving and faithful, sometimes expressing itself as a kind of easy and weak tolerance.

Virgo (ruler ☿) Earthy S ign.

tip as ascendant, Czar Nicholas II, Melanchton, Guy de Maupassant.

Perception and chastity are the characteristics of this sign.

The Virgo-type is usually of medium height, rather stout, the forehead well developed with a beautiful rounding and full in the middle above the nose.

it governs the intestinal canal and the digestion in general absorption and assimilation, also the peritoneum, the sympathetic system and the solar-plexus.

The intellect is not second to that of Gemini, but it is without the restlessness of Gemini.

The Virgo-type is quiet, reserved, intelligent, inventive, persevering, often self-contained and systematic.

This sign produces good business people who both through their working faculty and their intellectual powers get on in the world.

The weak side of Virgo is its strongly pronounced inclination to criticism and in the lower Virgo-type a high degree of egoism and coldness, which comes so much to the fore in no other sign.

He is hopeful under all circumstances, which is also a quality of the other earthy signs.

comes wholly under Mercury; the 2nd dec.

has for 44 sub-ruler Saturn (♄) through which the practical, hard working side of the character comes to the fore.

has for sub-ruler Venus (♀) which add to the other qualities of Virgo amiability and love for art.

Virgo, Ceres (Demeter) is the goddess of agriculture and of legislation and social order.

She roves about the earth in search of her daughter Persephone, who has been carried away by Pluto and brought to the nether world.

This sign is represented by a Virgin, holding some ears of corn in her right hand.

It is the symbol of the unsullied soul.

It is called in Arabic: Sun-bula, i.e.

In eastern Palestine and adjoining countries the constellation the Virgin is just above the horizon on Dec.

25 that midnight and out of her according to the doctrine of the ancient Persians the sun-god Mithras is born.

We find the same legend in most religions, only under other names.

The Virgo-type must strive after a broader conception and must try and conquer his egoism.

He must see to a good digestion and refrain from spice.

striving after purity and attempts to raise the public morality and health by teaching obedience to the universal laws which govern both.

His point of view is that of the critic distinguishing good from bad, pure from impure.

denotes a clear and practical character with little fantasy and therefore not in sympathy with the conceptions of others.

The foundation no of the character is purity, which causes an aversion to all that is sickly or impure.

(==) Libra (ruler ♎) Airy Sign.

= 0 = as ascendant, the Emperor Francis Joseph, Colonel Olcott, Pasteur, Erasmus.

As type Pasteur comes under ♎, through the many planets he has in this sign, and Olcott under ♎.

Olcott has the ♎ in M-C.

The body is tall, slim and shapely, the hair usually dark, eyes brown, but also many people with fair hair and blue eyes are found under this sign.

Nose straight, forehead near the eyebrows more pronounced.

The expression of the eyes is honest, frank.

The character is courteous, kind, helpful; often somewhat indolent, but usually sympathetic.

The will is weak, so that the Libra-type is strongly ruled by circumstances and outward influences.

He is often the slave of his feelings and impulses.

He tries to evade unpleasantnesses at any cost.

His greatest virtues are honesty and a strong feeling of justice.

= s = governs the loins, principally the kidneys, excepting the pelvis of the kidney ("I).

So here it is secretion, in opposition to the preceding sign absorption.

is ruled by Venus, the 2nd has for sub-rulers Uranus 45 and Saturn (♄) through which diplomacy is joined to the former qualities.

has for sub-ruler Mercury (☿).

This combination is very good and gives a strong inclination to science.

produces bodies most beautifully proportioned.

The Libra-type has often a certain apathy to overcome which sometimes degenerates into indolence.

Rest and seclusion, and good music as well, are the best remedies for him.

The symbol of the equinox.

The Sun has its fall (see p.

The mystic symbolism of this sign is that in Libra, the sign of the balance, the soul is weighed.

It descends and is subjected to the lower nature, until the latter is overcome.

Here does the soul find its equilibrium by subjecting the lower nature (♀ the ruler).

Saturn is exalted in this sign, i.e.

through the effect and the influence of Saturn the lower Venus is brought under discipline.

As soon as this is achieved, enlightenment follows, the intuition awakes i.e.

the knowledge gathered in former lives manifests.

gives a craving for beauty, for harmony in life, to be obtained by natural, many-sided development.

He seeks after popularity and public recognition.

His point of view is that of an arbiter though he is prone to waver.

The spirit is broad and impartial, but sometimes vague and undecisive.

The foundation of the character is an ice feeling of honour and love, of proportion and rhythm.

Type: the North-German.

trias ascendant, Goethe, Dr.

Rudolph Steiner, Edison, Maurice Maeterlinck, Jeanne d'Arc.

Under this sign we clearly distinguish two types, the higher and the lower Scorpion-type.

Under the former come the high idealists, mystics whose influence is often felt in large circles.

They have overcome the lower qualities which characterise the Scorpion-type so strongly and by the victory gained on themselves, they have become in a sense masters of the Universe.

The lower Scorpion is combative though not irritable, has a strong will, is jealous, unreconcilable and rude.

Because they soon feel insulted, they are difficult in intercourse, proud and often indefatigable seekers after sensuous pleasure.

Scorpio exercises special dominion over the generative organs, the bladder, ureters, the sinus or pelvis, the urethra.

The body is often unproportioned, but firmly built and nervous.

The expression of the eyes (brown or black) is very peculair and fascinating.

If one has once observed this glance, it will be easy to recognise many Scorpion-types by that only.

I know somebody who, by having the ♃ in ♌, in M.C.

in aspect with the ascendant, shows the Leo-type strongly, only the fascinating glance of the eyes betrays his having ♏ as ascendant.

Hair and beard are black or chestnut, often curled and dense.

is ruled by ♂, the 2nd by ♃ and ☽ (DC), the 3rd dec.

gives a slimmer and better proportioned body than the 1st and the 3rd.

Under this sign come many spiritualist mediums and sensitive people.

It is especially their task to purify their sexual inclinations and to control them.

This task is represented in the myth of Scorpio who slays Orion.

Along this way only can the lower Scorpio-type evolve to higher things.

That is why the earlier parts of his life are, as a rule, much more difficult by far than the latter part.

The Scorpio-type must strive after purity and after more leniency for others.

gives a longing for power over the lives of others by exercising his will.

The point of view is that of a ruler, watchful and careful, possibly inclined to pessimism.

The spirit draws its conclusions in an evidently illogical way, based on instinct or intuition; yet they are true, except when feeling plays too great a part.

signifies that the foundation of the character is power, which however, at times proves to be somewhat merciless in its expression.

(,) Sagittarius (ruler ♃.) Fiery Sign.

(,) as ascendant, Pres.

Roosevelt, King Edward VII, Sven Hedin, Stanley.

Gives a well-proportioned, healthy body, high forehead, blue or bluish-grey eyes and chestnut hair or fairer, usually with a golden sheen.

The glance is kind, full of expression and open.

The nose is straight or very little bent, the complexion is fresh and fair.

The character is independent, open and frank, sometimes irritable and troublesome, very impulsive and combative (when afflicted); they are usually fond of travelling.

The higher type is philosophical, very religious, peacable, good and merciful.

Their originally good temper is subject to many fluctuations and passes from gentleness to rudeness.

They love all branches of sport and are real lovers of animals (especially horses).

(>) governs the hips and thighs, the locomotor muscles.

Mercury has its detriment (see p.

52) in this sign i.e.

that the intellect should be silent there so that the higher self may awake to rule the lower self; viz.

when the brain-thinking sleeps, intuition and inspiration awaken.

comes under Jupiter, the second has Mars (♂) for sub-ruler, through which the strong feeling of independence may rise to excitement and stubbornness.

has for sub-ruler the Sun (☉), a fairly favourable influence which weakens the impulsiveness a little and gives more devotion.

47 Sagittarius is represented as a centaur, shooting an arrow.

The Sagittarius-type is sometimes wrongly judged in his free, easy intercourse with the opposite sex, on the whole, however, his character is rather clear.

By their habit of expressing themselves impulsively and by their exaggeration with regard to bodily exercise and sport they often expose themselves to disagreeable things and accidents; they should learn to force themselves to calmness.

Desire for higher knowledge and for teaching it and applying it practically in life.

The point of view is that of the practical philosopher who is always ready to learn.

The spirit is continually searching after science, is restless and unsatisfied in this strife.

The character shows a high degree of independence, related to pride, sometimes even uncourtesy.

Capricorn (ruler b) Earthy Sign.

^ as ascendant: Robert Schumann, Bhagavan Das, Gladstone, Michael Angelo.

Gives medium stature, and an intelligent, philosophical spirit.

Handsome features seldom occur under Capricorn.

This sign gives much power to persevere, so that he who comes strongly under its influence, usually reaches the end he aims at, though he has to fight all kinds of difficulties.

The intellect is good, and although he does not think quickly, he usually gathers a hoard of knowledge by persevering.

He is seldom superf icial, usually earnest and cautious.

They are not quick in their likes and dislikes, but their friendship as well as their hatred is of a lasting nature.

This sign produces many great men, especially in the political line.

Their inborn inclination makes them long for a high position and by their perseverance, tact, and diplomatic talent they usually reach the purpose of their wishes, though slowly, for they have to work hard for it.

They possess the power to fight effectually their inherent melancholic, worrying nature.

Their glance is usually fixed to the ground, a Capricorn will seldom look straight in the eyes of the person he is talking to; the glance is sluggish, the eyebrows are planted low and sometimes grown together on the bridge of the nose.

Hair and eyes black, the beard thin.

The forehead is broad.

They like to speak in public, but seldom speak easily and fluently.

^ governs the knees and bones.

The moon has its fall in !$ and c?

is exalted in ^; the sun stands lowest in ^ for the northern hemisphere, but begins to rise higher from this sign.

At Jesus' birth the Sun had just entered the sign *%, it is the symbol of resurrection and in a deeper sense, of the beginning 48 again of the spiritualising of the earth and all it contains after it had reached its lowest point in physical matter.

Hence the fall of the Moon in 1%.

The reflected light of the Moon wanes, that the true spiritual light of the Sun can shine again with more force.

Together with that, the old conception of matter is thrown off and the real significance of matter in relation to spirit becomes clear.

has for ruler Saturn, the 2nd has for sub-ruler Venus (tt), the 3rd Mercury (n?).

The mythological significance of this constellation has not been quite explained.

Some are inclined to believe it to be the pastoral god Pan; others suppose that it is the emblem of the goat Amalthea, which nursed Zeus (Jupiter) on the island of Cyprus.

Rhea the mother of Jupiter, daughter of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth) had Zeus (Jupiter) nursed in a cave.

Zeus when grown up, forced his Father (Saturn) to vomit (A/a/warctara-exhalation) his swallowed children (Pralaya-inhalation) after which Heaven and Earth (2J.) were separated, and also Water (t) and Hades (rf).

Jupiter has his fall in Capricorn.

The causes of illness are often dejection and discontent, which can be overcome by mixing with pleasant company and by cultivating hope.

He must evade solitude if he wishes to feel happier.

gives a strong longing to rise above the conditions of his environment, which sometimes degenerates into the "upstart".

The point o view is affable and approving towards superiors and often supercilious and disdainful towards inferiors.

The spirit is profound and penetrating, possibly somewhat hypocritical or narrow.

The foundation of the character is the passionate longing for growth.

(s:) Aquarius (ruler#, f?) Airy Sign.

2s as ascendant, Alfred de Musset, Jules Sandeau, Lord Salisbury.

Aquarius gives like Capricorn, a calm, patient and honest nature and a sharp, penetrating, philosophical spirit, which, however with: s, goes in a more idealistic direction and is often accompanied by eloquence and a nice feeling for plastic arts.

This sign inclines to seclusion and solitude and serious studies, especially in the occult line.

The investigation into all things that deviate from the every-day things, especially the study of the human character and of the great questions of life are their favourite theme.

They usually are too strongly influenced by others.

There are two different types under this sign a fair and a dark, the face is lank-cheeked, the chin long, the eyes are handsome.

As a rule the Aquarius type has many friends.

49 Under this sign are found many occultists, mystics, ascetics, assiduous investigators and students of nature, in general, enlightened people.

The weak side of the undeveloped types is, that they indulge too much in their strange fantasies and inclinations, which in that way easily degenerate into something sickly and abnormal.

With them intellect must be joined to intuition and by patient and loving work they obtain a wonderful understanding of the powers that work in nature.

Along this road they arrive at a rhythmic harmony with the Universe, xz has influence over the blood circulation and governs the lower leg and ankles.

The first decanate has for ruler Uranus and Saturn, the 2nd dec.

has for sub-ruler Mercury (☿); the 3rd dec.

has for sub-ruler Venus (♀), through which more harmony and clearer vision is added to this part of xz.

The water-bearer who pours out the water of life onto the earth is the symbol of the highly developed man who, as co-operator with the Logos, helps the evolution of the Cosmos.

The weak point in this sign is the circulation, showing e.g.

in cold hands and feet.

Much bodily exercise and fresh air is advisable.

Longing to work for the evolution of humanity which their breadth of vision enables them to do.

The point of view is that of the seeker after truth without prejudice and with an open eye.

The spirit is frank, unprejudiced, but sometimes uncertain in its conclus ions.

The foundation of the character is a strong feeling of love of mankind, arising from the knowledge that the source of all manifestation is the same.

(3C) Pisces (Ruler and 2|.).

Type: the Portuguese.

As ascendant, Queen Wilhelmina (2J.

and ft in V, D in 23), Queen Victoria of Spain, Cleode Merode, Pius IX, the Empress Friedrich.

Gives a fleshy body, a weak constitution, sensitive to influences.

Their inner nature is honest, good and gentle, they wish to serve and to help, wherever they find an opportunity, but they are often the sport of outward influences and of their emotions by being so extremely susceptible.

The eyes are pale grey and watery, so-called fish-eyes, easy to recognise.

They usually get a double chin when they grow elderly.

Often a wan complexion, shoulders round, attitude often bent, arms and legs short and shapeless, hair fine and silky.

The "Fishes" are not among the happy people; they live as it were under a fatal anathema which compels them to remain in the background in everything.

They have continually to fight all kinds of adversities and disappointments.

It is as a road to crucifixion along which the perfect man has to go, before he is nailed to the cross in 50 the sign of the Ram (Vis the next sign).

Neptune, the ruler, is the uttermost, the highest three-dimensional planet of our solar-system; a planet of which little is known as yet.

Likewise a Fish-type is seldom understood and appreciated.

They are often mistrusted, though they may be completely relied upon, they ask little for themselves, however.

comes quite under $\ast$ and 2|.

> and gives a broad and heavy-built body, the 2nd has for sub-ruler the Moon (25$^\circ$) and the 3rd 1(ni).

Hence the last decanate receives more power and constancy and that which is too sensitive and feminine though gifted and true of the 2nd dec.

becomes much more positive.

The tender part of the body is the feet.

It will be difficult, for a lady that has this sign afflicted in her horoscope, to wear the heel of her shoe under the middle of her foot, and so she will have to live "on a large footing" if mother nature has not endowed her with graceful, little feet.

Though the body of the Pisces-type is weak, the harmonious nature of the individual is a help here and thus ascertains fairly good health.

With the old Syrians the fish enjoyed religious adoration.

gives a clear view on things, not confused by illusion, aspiring to teach mankind and bring it closer to the innermost being of the Universe.

The point of view is that of a poet, a seer, a mystic.

makes the spirit very susceptible, for psychic influences as well, i.e.

The foundation of the character is sacrificing and devout, sometimes it expresses itself in complete want of initiative and action.

Influence of the Decanates on Body and Character.

According to Hindu-astrology the first half of each decanate is positive (+), the second half negative (-).

In the case of the sign Aries therefore (see the table of the decanates p.

36) the first 5 have for rulers cf, cf+, and the following 5 d, cf From 10 up to 15 we have for rulers d1, O+ and from 15 up to 20 d1, O From 20 up to 25, d, 2|.- and from 25 up to 30 d, 2|.

and likewise for each sign.

It must always be borne in mind that a planet in or near the ascendant causes a change according to the nature of the planet and further that a planet in M.C.

has also a great influence on temperament and appearance.

!) The 2nd (25) decanate has the strongest Neptune (^) influence, as a rule, having less of Jupiter and more of the Moon.

After the nature of their influence the planets are distinguished into good and bad, or if we use the universally accepted astrological terms, in benefics and malefics.

1) To the benefics belong: ♃, ♀ and some times ♅; to the malefics: ♂, ♄, ♇, whereas ☉ and ☽ may be called neutral.

The latter accept the qualities of the planets by which they are aspected.

All planets however are in their effect coloured by the sign in which they are placed.

Neptune has a harmonious influence only when well aspected and even then, only when the consciousness of the native is sufficiently developed to respond to the very high vibrations of this planet.

In all other cases it works as a malefic.

Just like the signs, we can classify the planets according to their manner of action, into: fiery, airy, earthy and watery planets.

The fiery planets are Mars, the Sun and Jupiter; the airy planets Uranus and Mercury; the earthy planets Saturn and Venus: the watery planets the Moon and Neptune.

Usually a planet works strongest in a sign of the same nature, so e.g.

Mars in a fiery sign, Saturn in an earthy sign, but the table below shows us, that there are exceptions; e.g.

Mars is strong in the watery sign ♏, Saturn is strong in Libra, an airy sign etc.

I take "strong" in the widest sense here; for in astrology is meant by strong or exalted action, that in a certain sign the action of the planet in its highest and purest meaning is expressed.

In the sign of which it is the ruler, its action is expressed to its full force.

The cause of this is that the part of the heavens of which this planet is the so-called ruler, has on man an effect in agreement with that of the ruler.

Exaltation therefore really means, ennobled action e.g.

the planet Mars is exalted in Capricorn which means that the fiery, energetic nature of Mars is here combined with the logical, tactful nature of Capricorn.

That which is too impulsive, produced e.g.

by Mars in Sagittarius has made a room for a quiet, indefatigable power of work, that overcomes all obstacles.

Likewise, the Moon is exalted in Taurus and the sensitive, changeable, little-constant character of the Moon becomes enriched by the self-reliance, the constancy and the slowness of Taurus, which causes a very good combination of qualities to be called into being.

The Sun is exalted in Aries, so that as it were a harmonious cooperation of head and heart arises and in the same way we may regard the exaltation of Saturn in Libra, of Jupiter in Cancer, of Venus in Pisces, of Mercury in Virgo.

The Sun and the Moon rule only one sign, so do !) It has been observed before, that these terms are really wrong and that there cannot be any question of good and bad, benefic and malefic; but in order to evade needless long windedness we shall keep using these universal terms.

This also applies to the expressions affliction, afflicted, favourable and unfavourable which are continually used.

52 the planets Uranus and Neptune, the remaining five planets Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury rule each of them two signs, as is generally accepted, though in our opinion this division is incomplete and was made in the time when Uranus and Neptune had not yet been discovered and no other means was found to classify the planets.

For those who may be inclined to name this "classification" astro-logical or occult fantasy, we must observe that their judgment is rash, seeing that the planets in ~ and t pin DC show a very exalted action.

So it would really be calling it another name.

Here follows the division of the planets as it is found in most astrological works.

Sign 53 The slower the course, the weaker, the quicker the course the stronger the action and the quicker do the events follow each other.

We shall try and give for every planet a striking type.

It is not always easy to find these types among personalities universally-known, because we have often not seen them, but must rely on busts in museums, portraits and descriptions of their person.

Among our acquaintances, however, we can point out the various "types" without difficulty.

Type: Colonel Olcott.

She sign = ☉ = was rising together with the Sun in ♈ M.C.

The Sun was worshipped as the God of day, and its symbol, fire, was during ages adored by fire-worshippers.

In mythology the Sun is represented by Phoebus, Apollo, Sol, Helios, etc.

In eastern literature it is called San or Sansi = Sun-god.

The Sun sends forth its vital power, Prana, through the Universe and thus the Sun is in the horoscope the symbol of vital power and the higher intellect.

It represents in the horoscope the spiritual principle, the real man, the individuality.

Those who come strongly under the Sun-influence, seek after greatness, a high position and power.

The influence of the Sun, together with that of the Moon is by far the principal in a horoscope, and in judging a nativity these two centres must first be considered.

If the Sun is strong and well placed in a nativity this indicates a good moral basis of the character, whereas with a bad position and bad aspects it usually points out immorality, self-conceit, egoism and hardness towards inferiors.

The Sun gives life and germination by its fostering rays, it gives warmth, but also all artificial heat with which we make our life pleasanter in various manners, comes from the Sun; for the heat and light that our combustibles provide us with, is in reality nothing but stored up warmth of the Sun.

And what else is electricity but Sun-energy?

1) If we compare the 7 planets of our Cosmos with the seven colours of the spectrum and with the seven notes of the scale, we find that the ☉ corresponds to the colour orange and the note C.

The ☉ has no North- or South latitude, it follows the ecliptic in its seeming course.

When the Sun occupies a strong place in the horoscope, it makes the body strong and robust with strong bones, a red face with a high and broad forehead and fair curly hair.

The bearing is self-conscious and authoritative, the glance penetrating.

The native is soon irritated but merciful.

When the Sun is afflicted and in a strong position, it causes pride and arrogance, stubbornness and superficiality, restlessness and sometimes cruelty if Mars or Saturn influence it badly.

2)!) See "Cosmos and Microcosmos" by C.

The Influence of the Aspects p.

54 The harmonious influence of the Sun makes one punctual and serious, honest and noble.

It governs the heart and its illnesses are complaints of this organ.

As the Sun is the life-giver of the Universe, so is the heart the life-giver of the body.

That is why its position and the aspects it receives are of the greatest importance in the horoscope.

The Sun is ruler of all life, the Moon is the giver of form.

All life is expressed in form and therefore the relationship of the Sun and the Moon by aspect must be studied first of all.

When these are in good aspect life can express harmoniously through form or in other words, the individual (Q) and personal (Q)) sides of our being cooperate harmoniously.

It is man's task to make the Moon- or form- side subjected to the higher, Sun- or life- side of his existence, and to the degree in which he succeeds, so much is he master of his fate, and will he "rule his stars".

The Sun has the greatest influence during the second half of our life.

During the first half, and especially in childhood, the form- or Moon- side of our being takes the lead.

The nature of the Sun-influence is dry and hot, just like Mars', but more temperate.

Apollo, the Sun god, is in the oldest legends, still represented as a kind of demon who sends disasters and pestilence to the cattle, but also averts the evil.

The seventh day of the month was kept as Apollo's birthday and hence celebrated.

He is also the God of truth, light and purity, bu to f war as well.

(Sun-influence corresponding to Mars-influence).

He is represented a.o.

as a youth of majestic and serious bearing and armed with arrow, bow, lute or trivet.

The sign 55 was rising, the "]) well aspected and strongly placed in the 4th house, the house of 25.

The Moon was worshipped under all kinds of names and symbols.

Some of these are: Cynthia, /sis, Lana, Selene, Artemis, Persephone or Proserpine, Soma.

The Ancients knew that the Moon influences the moment of birth considerably and so in mythology she is represented helping her mother who is giving birth to Apollo.

She governs the fluids in the body, such as the saliva, lymph and glands, breasts, the intestines (the entrails), bladder, and causes illnesses of these parts, such as stomach-ache, colic; further, asthma, measles, convulsions, etc.

In man it represents the soul with its various emotions and expressions, such as passions, desires, feelings.

It represents the lower man just as the sun represents the higher man.

By its short distance from the earth the Moon is the principal channel through which the energy, the vital power of the sun expresses itself, influencing the earth and all that is on it.

The planets should be regarded as 55 such like channels.

Their influence is energy of the Sun, modified by the individual character of each planet.

The Moon does not follow, as the Sun does, the ecliptic, but deviates from it northward and southward, and so has just like the planets, a latitude.

When the Moon occupies a very strong position in the horoscope, it produces a stout body with short arms and legs and plump hands and feet (small).

The face is round and pale, the eyes grey.

The character is sympathetic but changeable and when the Moon is badly aspected, it makes lazy, over-sensitive, cowardly, melancholic, mistrustful, according to the planets that send the bad aspects.

Those who come strongly under the Moon's influence, often lead a complete gipsy's life; they long for change, though deep in their hearts, they hanker after a cosy, family-life.

They are extremely sensitive to outward impressions and as a rule have a hard life.

They usually suffer from fits of despondency.

The nature of the Moon is phlegmatic, cold, humid, and changeable.

The Ancients had a special division of the Zodiac after the 4 principal phases of the Moon (each of about 7 days) in 28 mansions of the moon, and they ascribed to each of these mansions a definite influence.

Nowadays this division has become obsolete and its significance is lost.

It will certainly be worth the trouble to investigate in this direction.

Sepharial gives a full account of this division of the Zodi ac, which starts with Aries, the first degree.

The 3) is the great collector of that which is harmonic and that which is unharmonic which comes to it through the aspects of the other planets.

The Moon, well aspected and in an angular house is a warrant for a successful life.

Especially a good aspect of Jupiter and Venus is a great help for obtaining and enjoying the good things in the material world.

One of the worst aspects in a horoscope (especially in a feminine one) is a square or an opposition to Saturn.

Attention must be paid to the fact that the Moon accepts the character of the sign in which it is placed, e.g.

if it is in V, Mars will assert its influence in impulsiveness etc., in a good or a bad sense according to the aspects; if it is in the Saturnine sign J T, then earnestness and caution, but also the bad qualities of Saturn will communicate themselves to the character.

A badly aspected Moon is one of the surest tokens of weak health, especially in the first seven years of life.

Other factors, however, should also be considered in this case, which will be treated later on.

The Moon has a great influence on all that is connected with mediumship, spiritism, psychometry etc.

If its position is in one of the occult houses (4, 8, 9, 12) and if there are aspects of # or pw e may conclude with certainty that these inclinations are present, unless Mars plays a principal part in life by aspect and strong position.

In this case much that ah horoscope indicates, will not come to expression, because the senses and sensuousness play first fiddle 56 For intellectual thinking an 3)-aspect with is very favourable, seeing that to the cold logical thinking of the imaginative-ness of the Moon is added.

That the Moon has such an extremely great influence on the earth and all that is on it, is easy to understand.

The Moon represents the negative, feminine, the mother-side of all existence, i.e.

the material- or form-side of it, whereas the Sun is the positive, masculine, the father-side, i.e.

the spiritual side of all being.

For this reason the Moon's influence is the strongest in youth, when the form-side is being developed, and when the form-side, in the midst of all that surrounds us, draws most of our attention.

It becomes otherwise in the second half of life, when one is no longer content with knowing the consequences (the form side, the 3))> but begins to ask after the causes (the spiritual side, the Q)- Then does the Sun assert its influence more and more and in the same degree does the Moon-influence come to the rear.

So we have to regard the Moon as the principle of all that is material, and the proof of it we may daily observe in nature.

There we see her influence everywhere, both in a constructing and in a disintegrating sense, in the four kingdoms of nature.

When the Sun and the Moon are in opposition regarding the earth, Le.

when the moon is "full", the material earth will receive its full flow of life and that is why this time and the time of the "waxing" Moon works so fa vourably on vegetation and all that has to do with matter.

For us it is the time of working, of material transposition of our power, and to begin new enterprises, to gain experience; whereas during the time of the new Moon the material current is weakest, the spiritual flow of the Sun, on the other hand, can work in its full force and that is why that time and the time of the waning Moon are more fit for spiritual work, for working out material experiences and for transcending them.

It is the time for meditation and self-communication, so in a sense, for that which is negative, receptive.

Many a simple farmer and field labourer will be able to tell you how some plants, when sown while the Moon is waxing, shoot forth into leaves, whereas their roots develop much stronger and which give more seed, when sown while the Moon is waning.

He will tell you how the Moon regulates his various activities on the fields.

The Javanese will tell you that bamboo must be cut when the Moon is new, if one wants it to be durable.

But the conclusion should not be made that every farmer and every Javanese knows of these things!

Helmont says that a killed frog even in winter, when exposed to the rays of the full Moon for one night, will change into a slimy mass.

Kiesewetter mentions in Die Geheimwissenschaften, II p.

246, "when the Wallaba-tree (South-Africa, very resinous) is felled a few days before the new Moon, it produces durable timber that is not easily spl it.

If it is, however, felled towards full Moon, it will easily be cut up into fine smooth boards, and also split into staves, but the wood is not at all durable in that case.

As the Moon is the principal influence of all that is physical, we can understand that especially those who have a very sensitive physical body (those who are sensitive) respond extremely to Moon-influences.

Their moods fluctuating with the Moon, the beams of the full Moon work cheeringly on them to a high degree; they cannot go asleep when a Moon-beam pene- 57 trate their bed-room; in a pitch dark room they will with certainty point out to you the direction where the Moon is in the skies, etc.

On this see the interesting proofs with sensitives made by Von Reichenbach.

According to Reichenbach the Moon radiates principally positive od, the Sun negative od; the earth's surface is od-negative, but its core is od-positive and this is also the case with the other planets and their moons.

We should not mix up this od of Reichenbach with electric or magnetic emanations, though it is a constant accompanier of it.

Brandler Pracht speaks about the Moon's influence on iron as follows: "If one leaves a sharp knife during one night in the window-sill and allows the full Moon to shine on it, this knife becomes useless and cannot be made really sharp again even by repeated whetting." It is further known that certain medical herbs, gathered at certain aspects of Moon and planets have a stronger effect than under other influences.

Some medical men and pharmacists may deny this with authority, but we suppose that their authority is founded on ignorance concerning this.

The great influence which lunatics, hysterical and epileptical people experience with the Moon's changes is known; the word moon-struck is even used.

It is not doubtful that the critical days with acute illnesses may be calculated beforehand, according to the positions of the Moon.

The critical days are t hose when the Moon is in tf, 8 and D with the place it occupied at the beginning of the illness; so that after that beginning the 8th, the 15th, the 22nd day we may expect a temporary change for the worse.

(See chapter on Astrology and Medicine).

Through cosmic influences temporarily working in a opposite sense, these periodical changes for the worse, may, of course, not take place; but the weekly rhythm is present.

So if we regard the Moon as the life-giver of all that is physical, we must always bear in mind that the Moon receives its power and the life that it gives from the Sun, just as this is the case with the planets.

There, also the Sun is the original source.

Without Sun no spiritual life, but no physical manifestation in form as well.

As the goddess of the Moon, Artemis bears the name of "Hekate" i.e.

The Hekate is triple, triangular, for the 3 phases of the Moon, full waning, waxing.

Offerings are brought to her on three-forked ways and cross-ways by preference.

She is symbolized in different ways e.g.

as the goddess of hunting.

She is represented, sitting on a chariot drawn by deer.

Type: Joe Chamberlain.

Though he had the 1st degree of 25 rising, the position of $ in 25 13' gives him quite the appearance and character of Mercury.

Mercury is the expression of all planets taken together and that is why he is called the winged messenger of the Gods.

With Gods is mean there, the planetary Logoi or Dev a's.

J)!) More about this in the esoteric treatise, and in "Cosmos and Microcosmos" by C.

58 His Chaldean name is Nebo i.e.

knowledge, and the Hebrew, Egyptian, and Greek names also have the same significance.

We find the word Nebo back in a number of historical names such as: Nebucadnezar, Nabo-Polasser etc.

"power" as well and so many Baby-lonian kings were called after it.

Mercury is the God of thieves and of merchants, it is not flattering for the latter to be arranged under the same heading!

Its colour is yellow, its stone is E.

Formerly it bore the name of Hermes.

Its symbol is the Caduceus (two serpents curled round a staff and looking in a mirror), the God Mercury is always represented with this symbol.

It governs the thought-centre of the brain, and memory, speech, nostrils, lungs, nerves, hands and feet.

Its illnesses are complaints of the see.g.

impediments of speech (stammering, lisping), further hoarseness, nervous cough etc.