CHAPTER XI

NO. 1--A LESSON IN DIRECTING

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 [                             BIRTH CHART NO.1:                          ]

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 [ MIDHEAVEN: Aries 29     SUN: Aquarius 8:08        SATURN: Scorpio 0:10 ]

 [ 11TH HOUSE: Gemini 5    MOON: Aquarius 16:27      URANUS: Gemini 26:0  ]

 [ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 10   MERCURY: Capricorn 13:44  NEPTUNE: Aries 6:05  ]

 [ ASCENDANT: Leo 10:31    VENUS: Pisces 22:34       DRAGON'S HEAD:       ]    

 [ 2ND HOUSE: Virgo 2      MARS: Gemini 4:28                 Scorpio 4:40 ]

 [ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 27     JUPITER: Sagittarius 20:52  DRAGON'S TAIL:     ]

 [                                                         Taurus 4:40    ]

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Female, born January 27, 1865, 5:15 P.M.

   Instead of using this horoscope for the diagnosis of disease, we will use it to illustrate the art of directing, and judging the crisis and the  duration of the disease.

   We find the fixed sign of Leo on the Ascendant,  with the cardinal  signs of Aries and Libra on the 10th and 4th cusps respectively;  the fixed  signs of  Taurus and Scorpio intercepted.   In this horoscope we have two  rulers; the  ruler of the Ascendant,  the sun,  which is in the sign of its fall  in Aquarius and near the cusp of the 7th house; and the dynamic Mars,  which is the  ruler  of the 10th house,  placed on the cusp of the 11th  house  in  a critical  degree of the sign of Gemini.  Mars is sextile to Neptune  in  the 9th house and trine to the sun in the 6th house.   Therefore we may look  to the sun and Mars as having the greatest influence on the life of this woman.

   Now  let us find the afflictions which were responsible for the  sickness which  overtook  her.   We find Jupiter, which has rule  over  the  arterial blood,  in  its own sign of Sagittarius in the 5th house,  square  to  Venus which rules the venous circulation,  and which is exalted in the watery sign of Pisces in the 8th house.   Jupiter is in opposition to Uranus in the sign of Gemini and the 11th house.  Venus is also square to Uranus.   Now what do these afflictions from the common signs indicate?  We have had similar indications  in the horoscopes of those who were afflicted with tuberculosis  of the  lungs.   Venus  and Jupiter both so strong by  sign  and  afflicted  by Uranus,  this  last named planet being in Gemini,  which has rule  over  the lungs, would naturally interfere with oxygenation, also giving a tendency to coughs and colds.

   On January 21,  1909, this woman contracted a heavy cold which culminated in double pneumonia.  The adjusted calculation date (calculated as taught on page 470, THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS) is August 16, 1864.

   We will now progress the planets from August 16, 1908,  which corresponds to their places in the ephemeris on March 12, 1865.   By adding the distance which the principal planets move in 5 months,  we find that in January  1909 the progressed sun was in 22-22 of Pisces;  the moon was in 27-28 of  Virgo; Mars was in 21 degrees of Gemini; Jupiter in 27-19 of Sagittarius;  Venus in 7-50 of Taurus; Mercury in 17-16 of Pisces.

   Now to judge the kind of sickness we must see what aspects were made  between the progressed and radical planets bearing on the organic weakness  of the lungs and poor circulation of the blood as shown in the radix.  We first look for the afflictions of the planets in common signs,  and find that  the sun had progressed to the conjunction of the radical Venus in Pisces,  which made a square to the radical Jupiter.  Mars had progressed to the opposition of the radical Jupiter, and was square to the progressed sun.   We also find that  the  progressed moon was square to the radical Uranus in the  sign  of Gemini, indicating the lungs.

   The  above aspects of the progressed planets to the radical were  a  very severe affliction and especially since they were from the common signs.

   There are three points to be taken into consideration in reading a  horoscope; the radical chart is as the fact of the clock; the progressed planets are the hour hand; and the daily transits and the daily transits and the new and  full  moons may be compared to the minute hand which  tells  the  exact time.   The progressed aspects alone will not act; there must be an exciting factor.   The transits act as the match that lights the fuse,  and the transiting moon with its aspects and its lunations is the time marker.

   On January 21,  1909,  we find that the moon was in conjunction with  the sun, and this was a new moon in the sign of Aquarius in square aspect to the radical  Saturn,  which is in the fourth house in  Scorpio.   This  lunation marked the day when the woman first contracted the cold which culminated  in pneumonia.   Saturn at birth is square to the radical sun,  and the lunation naturally strengthened this affliction.   This of itself would not have  affected  the lungs,  but we find the progressed sun in conjunction  with  the radical Venus in the 8th house and in the watery sign of Pisces.   Venus  is the most adversely situated planet in the horoscope; it is in its exaltation in Pisces, but is afflicted by a square of Jupiter and Uranus at birth.  The radical  Jupiter is receiving assistance from the sextile of the  moon,  and Uranus has a trine from Saturn,  which will ameliorate the evil of these two planets,  but Venus is afflicted from both sides and without a  single  good aspect to offset the evil.   We also find that Venus had progressed to  7-50

of  Taurus in the tenth house and had reached a square of the  radical  sun. The  double affliction of the sun,  the effect of which is of a hot and  inflammatory  nature,  was in this case responsible for the inflammation which took place in the capillaries of the lungs.

   But the question may be asked, Why should this inflammation take place in the lungs?   Why not in the throat or the feet where the afflicting  planets are  found?   Mars,  which is another hot and inflammatory planet  had  progressed  to 21-00 degrees of Gemini and was then squaring the radical  Venus and progressed sun.  Mars, therefore, was the focusing point of the disease.

   We  have previously stated that the moon is the time marker of a  disease and also marks the crisis.   We therefore go to the beginning when the  cold was contracted and watch when the moon came to a square to the place of  the lunation, which was at midnight of Jan. 27, 1909, seven days later.  Medical science counts its critical days by 7, 14, and 21.   The moon has particular influence over man, and marks the time when recovery is apt to take place.

   Let  us follow the transiting moon on her journey and see her  influence. On the 25th she reached the conjunction of the radical Venus and  progressed sun,  also  the opposition to the progressed moon,  which was  in  27-28  of Virgo.   This did not bring any great change,  but on the night of the  27th and  the  early  morning of the 28th when the transiting  moon  reached  the square  of  the preceding lunation,  a conjunction with the  Midheaven,  the Dragon's Tail,  and the progressed Venus, also an opposition to the  radical Saturn, death was very close.  At 1 A.M. of the 28th the woman passed out of the body.   She was able to see herself lying on the bed, and was fully conscious that death was near when the cries of the nurse who shook her brought her back to life.

   The  length of an illness may be known by the signs in which the  planets which  caused the illness are found.   If in fixed signs,  the  recovery  is slow;  in cardinal signs,  the illness is very severe but quickly over.   In all cases it is well to look to the radical aspects of Mars and the sun.  If these  planets are well situated and aspected as in the case of this  woman, (Mars trine to the sun) and if fixed signs are on the angles it is an  indication that the patient will win out,  where many under similar  afflictions would go to the grave.