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CHAPTER XIV
THE THROAT
NO. 3A.--B: TONSILS--ADENOIDS
Male, born March 20, 1911, 3:10 P.M.
Figure No. 3A has Leo rising, with the ruler, the sun, in conjunction with and parallel to Mercury in the 8th house, and in the 12th house sign of Pisces. This position and aspect of the ruler would deplete the vitality and create nervousness. The boy would be easily disturbed and of a fretful nature. This would interfere with the assimilation of food in the small
intestines, for the conjunction of Mercury an the sun would have an effect in the opposite sign of Virgo, the intestines. But we find
another affliction
which will have a much more evil effect upon the health. Mars, the planet of dynamic energy, also hot and fiery by nature, is posited in the airy and nervous sign of Aquarius and in the 6th house, ruling sickness. Mars afflicted in this saturnine sign shows an evil side. We find him square to the obstructive Saturn in the 9th house and in the sign of Taurus, ruling the throat and the tonsils. Wherever we find Saturn, especially when afflicted, we may expect restriction, crystallization, and lack of fluids, and with a square aspect to Mars, the planet causing fevers and inflammation, what can we expect but a disturbed condition of the throat,
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 3A ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Taurus 17 SUN: Pisces 29:08 SATURN: Taurus 4:37 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Gemini 23 MOON: Sagitt. 5:18 URANUS: Capricorn 28:31 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 26 MERCURY: Pisces 29:30 NEPTUNE: Cancer 18:48R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Leo 24:14 VENUS: Aries 26:14 DRAGONS' HEAD: ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Virgo 17 MARS: Aquarius 5:06 Taurus 12:17 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Libra 13 JUPITER: Scorpio 13:59R DRAGON'S TAIL: ]
[ Scorpio 12:17 ]
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a swelling of the tonsils? The affliction coming from fixed signs, and Mars being in the 6th house, sickness, the trouble will be somewhat
difficult to overcome, for this physical weakness was brought over from a former life in which the soul had broken the laws of nature. A case of this kind is often the result of abuses of the most sacred function of the body, that of the generative organs. The results of abortions, or abuses of like nature, are often brought back into the next embodiment producing weakened organs.
This boy could be helped greatly by manipulation and massage to keep the circulation normal. The Piscean sun, conjunction Mercury, requires a quiet and harmonious environment which we fear he will not have. Jupiter in Scorpio supplies good food and plenty of it which, however, he should not
indulge in to excess. A simple vegetarian diet will be most necessary for him. Saturn in Taurus would indicate that one of the parents will be apt to interfere with his freedom too much. A Leo can be ruined by the "don'ts" of a saturnine parent, and the boy would suffer in health as a result of this restriction by one parent and overindulgence of the other.
NO. 3B
Female, born May 22, 1915, 3:22 A.M.
Horoscope No. 3B is that of a little girl who suffered from the same
illness as in the case of 3A, vis., the swelling of tonsils, adenoids, etc., but with very different astrological afflictions. This shows how invaluable the study of astrology would be to the physician in his diagnosis and that it is absolutely dangerous to treat each case alike. What will heal one might be dangerous to another.
Here we have another fixed sign on the Ascendant, Taurus, ruling the throat, with its ruler, Venus, near the cusp of the 1st house and sextile to Saturn, but square to Neptune and in conjunction with Mars. The symptoms would be very similar to those of 3A, but the trouble is from a different source.
We find Saturn, the planet of obstruction, in the sign of Cancer, the stomach. Although this planet is not afflicted, yet wherever he is placed, or whatever organ he rules over, there we may find a lack of fluids. Saturn "dries up" and when he is in Cancer the appetite is abnormal and digestive fluid is lacking. He craves the things that are detrimental and refuses those which the body needs, and is very apt to gourmandize when the palate is tickled with pie, cake, candy, etc. The result is that the body becomes clogged like a stream dammed up: the material must find an outlet
somewhere. In this case Mars, the planet of energy, is in conjunction with Venus, the planet ruling the venous blood. This indicates the section of the body that will be affected. The blood becomes impure, causing swelling and inflammation in the throat. To manipulate this afflicted region would
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 3B ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn 18 SUN: Gemini 00:12 SATURN: Cancer 1:13 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius 12 MOON: Virgo 2:30 URANUS: Aquarius 15:40R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces 15 MERCURY: Gemini 20:39 NEPTUNE: Cancer 28:09 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Taurus 2:10 VENUS: Taurus 0:19 DRAGON'S HEAD: ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Gemini 3 MARS: Aries 27:11 Aquarius 21:35 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini 27 JUPITER: Pisces 23:32 DRAGON'S TAIL: ]
[ Leo 21:35 ]
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cause more inflammation. The remedy here would be to discontinue all food for a day or two and give the girl only pineapple juice, putting the feet in hot water with cold cloths on head and throat, in order to draw the surplus blood to the lower extremities. This would give instant relief.
Can we wonder, after comparing two horoscopes of this kind, why the medical man often fails in his treatment and feels that the only cure is the removal of the inflamed parts? If he could read the stellar script, he would make few failures and would then not be so apt to ruin the life of the child by an operation. He little realizes that a removal of the tonsils or an operation upon the throat interferes with the function of the generative organs. A child who has been operated upon will suffer as a result when it
reaches puberty. Painful menstruation and trouble in childbirth are likely to affect the life of the woman who has been thus operated upon in childhood. Inflammation of the prostate gland in the man, and various other physical weaknesses are often the result of an operation upon the throat.
NO. 3C.--THROAT AND TONSILS
Male, born July 11th, 1882, 11:15 A.M.
Here is given the horoscope of a man with the cardinal sign of Libra on the Ascendant, and the ruler, Venus, in the fixed sign of Leo in the 11th house, square and parallel to both the malefics, Saturn and Neptune. The last two planets we find in the fixed sign of Taurus and in the 8th house. This at the start is a very serious affliction, indicating that this man came into life facing a heavy debt of destiny.
Now let us see if we can find the cause of the condition and why this soul has been restricted even from birth. Leo and Taurus are both fixed signs, stubborn and immovable, therefore they are also the signs which bring chronic and incurable illnesses; and where the afflictions come from two of the most subtle planets, both slow in their motion, one may expect that the
disease is of a nature which the soul has attracted to itself as a debt of destiny by the breaking of nature's laws in past lives, and not so much on account of misdeeds in this embodiment.
Planets often work in opposite signs. Afflictions as in this horoscope, in the fixed sign of Taurus governing the throat, may have been brought about by the abuse of the generative function (Scorpio) in one life, causing a weakness of the throat or larynx in the next life, or vice versa. The
unnecessary removal of the female organs in one life may cause the Ego, who changes sex in each life, to be born in a male body with the afflicted
planets in the opposite sign, Taurus, as in the case of this man who was born with underdeveloped organs of voice and throat.
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 3C ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Cancer 8 SUN: Cancer 19:13 SATURN: Taurus 23:20 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Leo 12 MOON: Gemini 7:05 URANUS: Virgo 15:30 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Virgo 12 MERCURY: Cancer 2:23 NEPTUNE: Taurus 18:22 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Libra 6:37 VENUS: Leo 24:27 DRAGON'S HEAD: ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Scorpio 2 MARS: Virgo 6:34 Scorpio 27:08 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 3 JUPITER: Gemini 18:22 DRAGON'S TAIL: ]
[ Taurus 27:08 ]
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The above statement does not mean that all women who have been operated on will have these afflictions. Often through childbirth, or neglect of nurse or doctors, the poor woman is forced to undergo an operation. These are conditions for which she is not held accountable; but should she on account of excesses or abortions have weakened the organs of sex, which would make it necessary for their removal, such sins will bring their reaction in restrictions of some kind, usually of the throat which is under the rule of Taurus, the opposite sign to Scorpio, which rules the generative
organs. In fact the larynx and brain were developed in primitive man by the sacrifice of one half of the creative faculty. Afflictions may not be
active in the body in childhood, and with a knowledge of the planets and a strict adherence to the rules of right living, man may pass through life with but little inconvenience; but whenever the laws are broken, when abuses are allowed, then it is that the afflicted parts give way, for as it is said, the chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
We find the sun in Cancer, which is the sign of the stomach, sextile to Neptune in Taurus, the throat and palate, also sextile to Uranus which is the ruler of the 5th house, the house of pleasures. Venus is sextile to Jupiter. All these facts show that this man has been very popular with his women friends, who have entertained him lavishly, and the pleasures of the table have helped in his undoing.
The planet which helps to bring about physical ailments, the inflammatory Mars, is in the sign of the intestines, Virgo, square to the moon in Gemini, showing that the intestines suffered first from an excess of food and drink. When the small intestines are inflamed, as they would be in this case, they are unable to assimilate food properly. This inflammation throws considerable poison into the blood, which seeks an outlet in the weakest spot. Saturn conjunct Neptune in Taurus indicates that the throat received the poison. This man has had his throat lanced twice for what the doctors termed quinsy, an inflammation of the tonsils. He has had pieces taken from the tonsils, showing that the blood was contaminated, causing suppuration in the tonsils.
NO. 3D.--GOITRE--TONSILS
Female, born August 12, 1911, 7:27 A.M.
We will consider here the horoscope of a girl with Virgo on the Ascendant. Virgo people have somewhat less resistance to disease than the
average, especially when common signs occupy the four angles and Mercury and the moon, which rule the mentality, are also in common signs and in opposition to each other. The three strongest planets, namely, the sun, Saturn, and Mars, are in fixed signs. We may expect that these planets will indicate in what part of the body the disease will show itself.
The sign of Taurus, we are told, in "THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS," page 541, has rule over the neck, throat, tonsils, the carotid arteries, etc. From this we may infer that Taurus also has rule over the veins and arteries which serve the organs located in the throat; likewise it has rule over the lower part of the occipital region of the jaw. The arteries of the human body have their beginning in a common center. The aorta is to the circulatory system what the trunk is to the tree. All main arteries and veins have a connection with the great human engine, the heart. The aorta is the main trunk line, from which many branches carry the blood to all parts of the body, after which the veins carry it back to the heart. These branches feed the various parts of the body. The branch in which we are most interested in this lesson is the carotid artery, from which branch off the thyroid arteries, two in number, the superior and the inferior.
In this horoscope we have the inflammatory Mars in Taurus. Mars focuses heat, and wherever this planet is placed we find an abundance of blood. Mars here is in the sign ruling the neck and afflicted by the conjunction of
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 3D ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Gemini 13 SUN: Leo 18:22 SATURN: Taurus 19:50 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Cancer 17 MOON: Pisces 12:48 URANUS: Capricorn 26:31R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Leo 19 MERCURY: Virgo 15:04 NEPTUNE: Cancer 22:20 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Virgo 15:34 VENUS: Virgo 26:28 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Libra 10 MARS: Taurus 17:15 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Scorpio 9 JUPITER: Scorpio 7:01 ]
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Saturn, the planet of obstruction. Saturn has a drying-up effect upon the parts which he influences. The effect of these two malefic planets may be pictured by filling a rubber tube with water and closing both ends, then pinching one end of the tube and forcing the water into the other end. We may expect this to be the condition of the blood in the arteries and veins of this girl's neck. Mars fills them full of blood, and Saturn with his
restricting influence holds the blood in one part, obstructing its flow and resulting in enlarged veins of the neck, goitre, swollen tonsils, etc.
Saturn and Mars are afflicted by a square from the life-giving sun. The sun is strong in its own home, Leo, which rules the vena cava, the aorta, and the heart.
At the age of eleven years this young girl suffered with goitre and swollen tonsils, having constant trouble with the throat and a tendency to coughs and colds. One important fact will be found in the case of most children with a tendency to throat trouble, namely, that they formed the habit when tiny babies of breathing through the mouth. In nine cases out of ten of children who are suffering with diseased tonsils and throat afflictions they have not been taught to breathe through the nose. Parents should at all times watch small children, and if they show a tendency to mouth breathing while asleep, they should be given a solid rubber nipple, minus the opening. This will force the breath through the nostrils and thereby save the child much suffering in later years.
With the sun in Leo, square to Saturn and Mars, this girl has a latent tendency to valvular heart trouble. This may not develop until later in life when the Mars-conjunction-Saturn-in-Taurus temper has been permitted to do its damage, and Mercury in Virgo in opposition to the moon, in the 12th and 6th houses, the latter ruling the health, have made themselves felt.
There is great hope in this horoscope, however, due to Saturn being in trine aspect to Mercury and sextile to the moon. This will give balance and also persistence to the mind, which will help to stave off any illness and save the girl much suffering in later life.
No. 3D.--GOITRE
Female, born June 14, 1853
As we have no birth hour, the signs are entered on the houses in numerical order so that Aries occupies the first house, Taurus the second, Gemini the third, etc. and the noon positions of the planets are used just as they are given in the ephemeris.
We will first note that the progressed position of the sun in 1916 is Leo 23-27, and that of Mercury is Leo 26-27, retrograde.
The aspects which particularly concern us are: Moon parallel Neptune, square Jupiter, the sun and Mercury; Jupiter opposition the sun and Mercury; Saturn parallel and conjunction Mars, squared by the progressed sun and Mercury.
We will first acquaint ourselves with the condition of the mind of this woman. Gemini and Sagittarius are the signs ruling mind. Mercury is essentially dignified in Gemini, and Jupiter in Sagittarius. The sun also is favorably situated in the Mercurial sign Gemini. So far so good, but Mercury, our significator of the mind, follows the sun and is too close to this luminary; furthermore, Jupiter is in opposition to the sun and Mercury. Add to this that the moon, the other significator of the mind, is square to Jupiter, the sun, and Mercury, and it will be apparent that the mental state of the native is not a very happy or auspicious one.
Saturn is in Taurus, the sign of the throat. He is the planet of
obstruction and has always an inimical influence on whatever part of the body he occupies by sign. We may therefore judge that the throat will be
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 3E [FLAT CHART] ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn 0 SUN: Gemini 23:16 SATURN: Taurus 25:27 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius MOON: Virgo 21:28 URANUS: Taurus 11:00 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces 0 MERCURY: Gemini 24:23 NEPTUNE: Pisces 13:44R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Aries 0 VENUS: Cancer 1:48 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus 0 MARS: Taurus 23:25 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini 0 JUPITER: Sagitt. 19:06R ]
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obstructed, causing hoarseness of speech; and we may also be sure that
Saturn has an effect in the opposite sign Scorpio, which governs the generative and eliminative organs. Saturn is cold, clammy, and moist. Mars is hot and and dry. He is posited in the sign Taurus, closely conjoined and parallel with Saturn, giving a tendency to inflammation and swelling. In the region governed by the opposite sign he would produce scaling urine and copious menses.
Thus to inimical forces of opposite natures have been at war in the
region of the throat from birth on, but the case did not become really acute until 1914. Then the moon by progression reached the opposition of the radical sun and Mercury, and at the same time the sun by progression came within orb of a square to Saturn and Mars from the sign Leo, which governs the heart. The keynote of Saturn is obstruction, and in Taurus he is particularly powerful with respect to the heart action for he governs the pneumogastric nerve which produces cardiac inhibition. On the other hand, when the dynamic energy of Mars is directed by a square to the progressed sun in Leo violent palpitation is bound to be the effect. Thus the enormous range of heart action attendant upon exophthalmic goitre is produced in this case. We also find that Saturn is near a conjunction with the Peliades
located in Taurus 29, and his square to the progressed sun has an effect upon the eyes, which protrude in people affected with exophthalmic goitre.
The configurations of the significators of mind previously mentioned couples with the absence of radical squares and oppositions to Saturn and Mars indicate that the basic cause of the patient's condition is mental. The diagnosis is further confirmed by the fact that the acute condition was brought about by the above noted progressed positions of the sun and Mercury. As this affliction is from a fixed sign there is danger that the
condition may become chronic. If the person, however, is placed in a quiet, cheerful environment and if she can be taught to wean herself from her morbid imagination, there is a good chance of a permanent cure being accomplished when the sun gets out of orb of its square to Saturn and Mars,
particularly if the proper diet is adopted.
NO. 3F.--THE VOCAL ORGANS
Male, born May 30, 1919, 11:55 P.M.
"The tissue of the life to be
We weave with colors all our own,
And in the field of destiny
We reap as we have sown."
--WHITTIER
This is truly so in the life of the soul whose horoscope we are to study here.
With the fixed, Saturnine sign of Aquarius on the Ascendant and the
second ruler of Aquarius, the inspirational and advanced Uranus, in Pisces,
intercepted in the first house, we may say that there are really two rulers of this horoscope: Saturn, which is in its fall in the seventh house in Leo, and Uranus, which is strong in the occult sign of Pisces in the first house.
Planets in angles have a greater influence on the life of the native than when they are in cadent or succedent houses. Planets which are in fixed signs and afflicted also bring with them a debt of destiny, which is usually most difficult to overcome.
In this horoscope we find Mercury in the fixed sign of Taurus, square to the obstinate and obstructive planet, Saturn, which is in Leo, a fixed sign, and in the seventh house angle.
Saturn being one of the life rulers, though in the sign of its fall, will have the post powerful rule over the life, and when Mercury and Saturn are afflicting each other from bestial signs, namely, Taurus and Leo, we may look for an impediment in the speech.
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 3F ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Sagitt. 6 SUN: Gemini 8:48 SATURN: Leo 22:34 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 25 MOON: Cancer 3:32 URANUS: Pisces 1:40 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Capricorn 14 MERCURY: Taurus 25:44 NEPTUNE: Leo 7:01 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Aquarius 11:17 VENUS: Cancer 21:04 DRAGON'S HEAD: ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Aries 7 MARS: Gemini 3:30 Sagitt. 3:46 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Taurus 13 JUPITER: Cancer 16:23 DRAGON'S TAIL: ]
[ Gemini 3:46 ]
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This boy at the age of five years refused to talk. He is able to speak, but will do so only when the greatest persuasion is used.
Doctors have operated on him twice for water on the brain but have failed to find anything wrong, and what the effect of these operations may have upon the organism in the future remains to be seen. Up to the present time, however, the health of the boy has been normal.
He will repeat only the sentences which are suggested to him, but if the parents are persistent they may in time help him to overcome his weakness.
On page 154, in the COSMO-CONCEPTION we are told: "What we are, what we have, all our good qualities are the result of our own actions in the past. What we lack in physical, moral, or mental excellence may yet be ours in the future."
This boy has truly taken up his life where he laid it down in a previous one. The planets are the clock of destiny, which shows when each soul must needs learn certain lessons, when it must reap from the seeds which it has sown in its past lives.
We learn in the Rosicrucian teachings that we are in this life here on earth preparing to build the archetype of the body which we are to use in our next life. In the case of this poor soul as we look back into his past, we see where in his keen desire for spiritual development he neglected to build his physical body by mortifying the flesh and neglected to use the
organs of speech, being a member of a silent Brotherhood. In which the life was spent in silence and prayer. In this extremely one-sided life he developed the spiritual faculties at the expense of the physical senses.
We see here the mystical Uranus is in the sign of Pisces, in the first house, trine to the moon, which is in its own sign of Cancer. Neptune,
another spiritual planet, is parallel to Mercury and sextile to Mars and the sun, indicating a soul who is highly developed along spiritual lines, but one who is lacking in the ability to use his development in this life on
account of the lack of desire to use the organs of speech.
This child may, however, be assisted by the parents in developing this desire, but it will require great patience, as the mentality, on account of Mercury square Saturn, will be slow to respond, and the boy will be very stubborn, because of this aspect being from fixed signs. Mars, however, which is in the Mercurial sign of Gemini, will lend its assistance in
overcoming the influence of Saturn to some extent.
NO. 3G.--THE LOSS OF SPEECH
Male, born December 19th, 1896, at 12:30 A.M.
The young man whose horoscope we will analyze here has the cardinal and airy sign of Libra on the Ascendant. Physically he expresses the sign of Libra, being six feet in height, splendidly developed and with beautiful blue eyes. People with cardinal or fixed signs on the angles have more power of resistance than others. The will is stronger than that of common signs. In the case of this young man, however, we find an affliction active before he reached the age where he could be of assistance to the healers.
In the COSMO-CONCEPTION we are told that in the latter part of the Lemurian Epoch man's body became upright, this being necessary before he would become an indwelling, self-conscious being, and certain changes then had to take place in the bodily structure in order that the Ego might
express itself through its vehicles. When the Ego entered within its vehicles, it was necessary that part of the sex force be used to build the brain and larynx, for it was destined that man should henceforth learn to do his own thinking, and the voice was necessary that he might make himself
understood and thereby communicate with others. To accomplish this a part of his sex force had to be used. So a part of the creative organ remained with the upper portion of the body, and was gradually converted into what now constitutes the brain and larynx. Thus we may see that there must of necessity be a close connection between these organs, namely, the generative organs, larynx, and brain.
It is interesting to note through astrology how this works out. We find
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 3G ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Cancer 5 SUN: Sagitt. 27:54 SATURN: Scorpio 25:54 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Leo 9 MOON: Gemini 17:27 URANUS: Scorpio 26:48 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Virgo 9 MERCURY: Capricorn 9:20 NEPTUNE: Gemini 18:40 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Libra 4:09 VENUS: Aquarius 7:49 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Libra 29 MARS: Gemini 16:16R ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 0 JUPITER: Virgo 10:10 ]
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Scorpio, the sign ruling sex, in opposition to Taurus, which has rule over the throat and larynx. Proof of the above close connection may also be found in the boy whose voice changes at puberty; also in the woman who has had her ovaries removed and whose voice becomes deep and harsh.
In the horoscope under consideration we find Saturn, the planet of atrophy, in the sign of Scorpio. Saturn is in conjunction with Uranus. These two planets are unaspected save by the conjunction with each other and a semi-sextile to the sun. And this we must consider as a condition which had its beginning in a past life. When we find Uranus and Saturn in conjunction in Scorpio and afflicted by other planets, we look for perversion or abnormal sex expression. But in reading these two planets we go into the past life for the abuses which have weakened the organs, causing the poor soul to come into this life with the larynx and brain each unable to function
normally.
With Saturn conjunction Uranus in Scorpio we may look for its effect in the opposite sign of Taurus, the throat. Saturn then has a tendency to
retard or restrict the secretion of the fluids of the glands or organs within the region of the neck, for instance, the thyroid, which is placed astride the windpipe at the front of the neck, and which may truly be called the balance necessary for the proper functioning of the mind. The thyroid also regulates all the other ductless glands, and every drop of blood in the
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culation in the upper part of the body passes back and forth through it. Excesses or perversions of sex deplete the fluids of the thyroid gland. What a telltale the human voice is! How the misuse of sex will make the male voice effeminate and the female voice masculine!
In this horoscope we have the story of a man who at birth had a voice, but after the age of four years he would not make a sound, nor has he spoken a word since. The organs ruling the voice in this case have been weakened by the dissipation of the sex fluids in a former life. We find Neptune, the higher octave of Mercury, the planet ruling the pineal gland, in the mercurial sign of Gemini, in conjunction with the moon and Mars, and in opposition to the sun. Neptune has rule over the pineal gland and the spinal spirit fire. The brain in this case has remained childlike. The young man dresses himself but he will not speak, and he spends his entire time
turning the leaves of books.
Truly, the spirit encased in this limited vehicle is learning some
remarkable lessons--lessons which are likely to bring it back in its next embodiment as a childlike, virtuous woman.
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