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CHAPTER XXIX
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
NO. 18A.--DEFICIENCY IN LYMPH
Male, born May 11, 1913, 6:59 A.M.
A CHILD is the subject of this reading, who was about fifteen months old at the time the reading was originally made. Ordinarily it might seem superfluous to judge the character and mentality of one so young. Nevertheless, when we consider the body from a spiritual standpoint as the temple of an indwelling divine spirit, it will be seen that the builder and architect of that temple must be taken into consideration from the very first breath until the time when the silver cord snaps.
The mercurial sign Gemini is rising, but there is not the ordinary Gemini nature, for Saturn in Gemini puts his obstructive hand upon this child and will give a tendency to melancholy and a retiring disposition, a desire to get away from society.
Mercury and Venus in Aries, square to the moon and Neptune, give a
tendency to secretiveness, but the sextile of Saturn to Mars and Saturn's trine to Uranus make the mind idealistic and energetic. Thus on the whole there is good material for the parents to work upon. They should by all means discourage the tendency to secretiveness, encourage idealism, and make the
youngster play with his companions. It looks very much as though
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 18A ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Aquarius 26 SUN: Taurus 20:10 SATURN: Gemini 5:13 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Pisces 28 MOON: Cancer 24:14 URANUS: Aquarius 7:33 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Taurus 8 MERCURY: Aries 28:46 NEPTUNE: Cancer 23:36 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Gemini 19:19 VENUS: Aries 26:33R DRAGON'S HEAD: ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Cancer 11 MARS: Aries 2:35 Aries 0:49 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Leo 2 JUPITER: Capricorn 17:47R DRAGON'S TAIL: ]
[ Libra 0:49 ]
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he might be too much taken with himself, and from the very earliest
childhood he should be taught to go among people. He should never be allowed to go out by himself more than can possibly be helped.
Usually children of this age sleep largely from morning till night and from night till morning; as soon as they have received food they go out into dreamland that assimilation may be carried on better. But this is not the case with our little subject; sleeplessness, restlessness, and nervousness are the results of the opposition of the moon and Neptune to Jupiter and the square of these three planets to Mercury and Venus posited in Aries, the sign governing the head. Thus the whole nature is aquiver, the child cannot get the needed rest, hence it is sick.
The main trouble comes from the fact that the moon is conjunct Neptune. This interferes with the distribution of the fluid indispensable to
assimilation, the lymph. Jupiter is afflicted by these two planets, and he governs assimilation. On account of these two facts the child will not grow as fast as he might other wise. He has peculiar notions about his food, and these ideas will grow as he grows. This tendency is one of the things that must be dealt with firmly, for the square of the moon to Venus gives abnormal cravings, the moon and Neptune in Cancer will cause the child to long for something that he never finds, and this might lead to the formation of habits that would be extremely dangerous. No matter how he may protest and though it may seem that ordinary foods do not agree with him, he should be taught to eat everything of a good and healthful nature that comes on the table, for the formation of a healthy appetite will counteract the strange tendency that is dormant in his nature. Sweets in moderation will help.
The circulation is interfered with by the affliction of Neptune and the moon to Venus and Jupiter. Saturn and Uranus are strongly configurated by trine and parallel from airy signs; this further reacts upon the circulation and makes it spasmodic. The heart has a tendency to flutter on account of the presence of Uranus in Aquarius. Thus the poor little child is
considerably afflicted to start with. Nevertheless there is no need of worry, for the sun is trine to Jupiter and sextile to the moon and Neptune. The fact also that it is in the marvelously vital sign of Taurus will operate to
preserve life, and even Saturn on the Ascendant gives persistence, resistance to disease, and tenacity of life.
There will be crises in the life, however, which knowledge of the
foregoing will make it more easy for the parents to prepare for. The most severe one will come at the time of puberty. Then the progressed moon will be working in the 8th house, the house of death, and in opposition to its own place, configurated with Neptune and square to Mercury and Venus. This is a serious position but not all to be feared on account of the fact that the sun is so strong in the horoscope. Moreover the trine of Saturn and Uranus and the sextile of Saturn and Mars give a wonderful elasticity and energy to the nature so that no matter though the boy be brought near the grave, he will have the resilience to recuperate with astonishing rapidity.
At the present time it should be investigated as to whether the mother isnursing the child, and whether she has felt nervous and run down. If so,the child should at once be put upon a diet of goat's milk, which will givethe needed ether to compensate for the lack of lymph, and though the childmay not like the diet, he will grow accustomed to it.
NO. 18.B--POLYPI AND KIDNEY TROUBLE
Male, born June 3, 1865, at 3:00 A.M.
WE have here the horoscope of a man with the fixed sign of Taurus on the Ascendant, and the ruler, Venus, posited just above the Ascendant in Taurus and in the 12th house. Venus is making but two major aspects, a conjunction with the Ascendant, and a square to the inflammatory Mars, which is in the fixed sign of Leo and in the 4th house.
The sign of Taurus rules the neck, throat, lower jaw, larynx, and
tonsils, and its opposite signs, Scorpio, rules the rectum, descending colon, urethra, and also the nose. These signs of Scorpio and Taurus are the most vital signs of the twelve. Mark the strange coincidence which lies in the fact that Taurus rules the greater part of the lower head and neck, and the organs adjacent to the upper end of the spinal column, while Scorpio slips in with its influence by ruling the nose in addition to the organs
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 18B ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn 25 SUN: Gemini 12:41 SATURN: Libra 24:05R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius 20 MOON: Libra 4:19 URANUS: Gemini 28:39 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces 26 MERCURY: Taurus 18:58 NEPTUNE: Aries 10:10 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Taurus 12:27 VENUS: Taurus 9:42 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Gemini 11 MERCURY: Taurus 18:58 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Cancer 4 JUPITER: Sagitt. 25:37R ]
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near the lower end of the spinal column. Leo, the sign which squares Taurus and Scorpio, rules THE RIVER OF LIFE, the spinal fluid, which connects the organs ruled by Taurus and Scorpio.
Now in the horoscope under consideration we find the inflammatory Mars in Leo, square to Venus in Taurus. Venus, being at home in this sign, naturally attracts to herself the inflammatory influence of Mars whenever Mars is found either in Taurus or afflicting her in that sign. Then we may look for inflammatory troubles in the nose, generative organs, or rectum. We may also look for the polypus which is a small growth peduncular in shape that grows from the mucous membrane of the nose, and which often closes the nasal passages, causing difficulty in breathing. It sometimes also grows within the vagina or rectum. The habit of mouth breathing in children often lays the foundation for these growths in the nose when planetary afflictionsare present in the horoscope. The mucous membrane of the nose is then abnormally sensitive and subject to irritation, which may result in these
polypi, frequently causing hay fever or asthma.
The patient whose horoscope we are considering suffered with these growths in both nasal passages, making it necessary that he breathe entirely through the mouth. The moon is in 4 degrees and 19 minutes of Libra in the 6th house, which is the house of health. The moon is the natural ruler of Cancer, the sign ruling the stomach. At the age of twenty-eight, when the moon by progression had reached its place at birth, this man became seriously ill with painter's colic, which later resulted in permanent injury to the kidneys. The latter is due to the moon and Saturn in Libra, which sign has rule over the kidneys. This general break in the health increased the small growths in the nose, which resulted in an operation when the moon
progressed into Scorpio and was in opposition to Venus.
By eliminating meat, tobacco, liquor, and all condiments and living as near as possible to nature's laws, this man is again enjoying good health.
NO. 18C.--PYORRHEA
Female, born July 13, 1871, 5:30 A.M.
LEO, a fiery sign, here in on the Ascendant with the life ruler, the sun, in the 21th house in Cancer in conjunction with Mercury and Uranus and square to Neptune. We know from our reading of THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS that Cancer rules the stomach, in which the greater amount of food must be digested. This organ is the central supply station through which the body receives its sustenance. Cancer also rules the esophagus, the tube between the pharynx and the stomach, and the thoracic duct, the principal duct which carries the lymph of the body.
We note in this horoscope Uranus afflicted by a square of Neptune from the Midheaven and the sign Aries. With Mercury and the sun also in conjunction with Uranus and square to Neptune, we may expect an abnormal or a radical mind. When an idea is formed it is carried to an extreme. This woman could find no limit in anything, and we find this tendency indicated regarding food. With the sign of Cancer on the cusp of the 12th house, the
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 18C ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Aries 14 SUN: Cancer 20:35 SATURN: Capricorn 5:32R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Taurus 22 MOON: Gemini 4:10 URANUS: Cancer 26:31 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 1 MERCURY: Cancer 22:58 NEPTUNE: Aries 24:02 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Leo 1:43 VENUS: Virgo 6:05 DRAGON'S HEAD: ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Leo 21 MARS: Libra 12:48 Gemini 29:48 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 14 JUPITER: Cancer 11:16 DRAGON'S TAIL: ]
[ Sagitt. 29:48 ]
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house of self-undoing and limitations, and with the above afflictions of Uranus, Mercury, and the sun we may expect great impulse and a decided
tendency to overeat.
The plants in the 12th and 6th houses when afflicted are the most detrimental to health, and in this horoscope we may look to th stomach as being the seat of the trouble. Let us find the reason for this assertion: The moon which is the ruler of the 12th house is in the house of friends, the 11th, and square to Venus in the 2nd in the 6th house sign, Virgo, ruling labor and sickness. This plainly shows us that this woman was most hospitable, loved to entertain her friends, was happy when she could regale them, and as indicated went to extremes in this direction. Venus square moon indicates an abnormal desire for pastry and sugar; it indicates one who having eaten a heavy meal, richly prepared, would indulge in chocolate creams and various other ash producing dainties. This is one of the types of women whom we often meet, whose greatest pride is in cooking and who are never so happy as when they are entertaining at a sumptuously prepared table. Cancer people are good cooks and usually take great pride in
catering to the needs of the stomach.
In this horoscope we find Saturn, the planet of obstruction, in its own sign Capricorn and in the 6th house, health. Saturn is in opposition to jupiter in the sign of the stomach and in the 12th house. Planets and their afflictions often show their effect in opposite signs, and when Saturn is in Capricorn we usually expect some derangement of the stomach, for his effects there are very similar to those of Saturn in Cancer. With Jupiter ruling the arterial circulation, afflicted by Saturn, we may expect trouble with the circulatory system of the stomach. And with the spasmodic Uranus in conjunction with mercury, the nerves are also sensitive and nervous indigestion is indicated.
Now, when Saturn afflicts the stomach, there is a lack of pepsin and stomach fluids wherewith to digest the food. Saturn in Cancer or Capricorn gives abnormal appetite and makes one very fond of pastry, especially of sugar, as does Venus square moon mentioned before. As vegetarians, such people find it very hard to keep their bodies in good order for they will usually refuse raw vegetables, preferring the starches and sugars. As a
result the body does not receive the proper amount of mineral elements, and the blood soon fills with ash. When an overabundance of refuse is stored up in the blood, the body must seek a means of eliminating the waste matter. If it is unable to find an outlet through which to throw off the impurities, and if the bowels also refuse to do their part as is often the case when an overabundance of food is consumed, then an illness is the result. We fre
quently find cases of catarrh, skin disease, ulcers, etc., which are merely an avenue the body uses to dispose of an excess of ash.
In the case of this woman we find the gums eliminating pus and receding toward the roots of the teeth. This disease is commonly called pyorrhea or Riggs' disease and is increasing to an alarming degree in America. It was rarely heart of fifty years ago, but since there has developed such a craze for sugar and candy humanity is paying the price.
To overcome this disease a well balanced, simple, vegetarian diet, free from sugars and starches is advisable, and the careful cleansing of the gums with lemon water each day.
NO. 18D.--AUTO-INTOXICATION
Male, born November 4th 1882, 11:49 P.M.
THIS horoscope is that of a man with the watery sign of Cancer on the
Ascendant. In diagnosing it is customary to look to the sixth house, which has rule over disease, and its ruler for the key to the trouble. In this horoscope we have the sign of Capricorn on the cusp of the sixth house, withits ruler, Saturn, in the 10th house in conjunction with the Dragon's Tail, which is Saturnian in its influence. Saturn is also conjunction Neptune in Taurus. These are all in opposition to the inflammatory Mars, which is strong in its home sign Scorpio, having rule over the rectum and generative organs. This is a most dangerous and subtle affliction, increased by Neptune parallel the sun in Scorpio, and indicates an unrestrained passional nature which in childhood found its outlet through the secret habit of masturbation. This in time depletes the vitality, stunting the mentality, and also the physical growth, and later in life causes much physical trouble.
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 18D ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Taurus 13 SUN: Scorpio 12:38 SATURN: Taurus 23:28R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Gemini 8 MOON: Virgo 8:43 URANUS: Virgo 22:05 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 0 MERCURY: Libra 24:13 NEPTUNE: Taurus 17:33R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Cancer 24:35 VENUS: Sagitt. 19:55 DRAGON'S HEAD: ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Virgo 4 MARS: Scorpio 22:57 Scorpio 20:56 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Libra 13 JUPITER: Cancer 0:57R DRAGON'S TAIL: ]
[ Taurus 20:56 ]
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Scorpio rules both the rectum and the vital organs, and when excesses occur they often cause inflammation in the rectum resulting in intestinal
hemorrhoids, interfering with elimination and causing a general sluggishness of the excretory duet.
We find the spasmodic Uranus in Virgo, the sign ruling the intestines; it is also the natural sixth house sign and the sign which rules sickness. Uranus is square to Venus, which rules the venous blood. Here we have indication of restricted circulation in the small intestine. Jupiter, the planet of opulence, the planet which wants things in large quantities, is in Cancer, the sign ruling the stomach, and in the twelfth house, the house of self-undoing, sextile to the ruler of the Ascendant, the moon, indicating that this young man has been a very hearty eater, carrying eating to excess.
He dissipated the life forces during the period of life when he was in greatest need of them, and has also consumed more food than the organs could digest and distribute. Naturally, when the organs of elimination refused to work, as might be expected, the blood stream became charged with ash, causing granulation of the joints through the excessive clogging generated in the body from too much protein. This also burned up the natural body oils, causing a granulation of the eyelids, rheumatism, and a generally weakened condition of the entire system.
Our advice to this patient would be to eliminate meats and starches, taking very little of the proteins, and to eat mostly fruits and vegetables; also to live a chaste, clean life. Care should be taken to have his surroundings clean and to sleep in a room with plenty of fresh air, for when we find Saturn afflicted by the Dragon's Tail and Neptune in Taurus, it indicates a tendency to neglect the sanitation of the body and surroundings.
NO. 18E.--PERITONITIS
Male, born August 4, 1862, 11:30 P.M.
TAURUS, a fixed and stubborn sign, is on the Ascendant, with the ruler, Venus, in the watery sign of Cancer, square to the fiery and impulsive Mars, and parallel to the ruler of Cancer, and watery moon. Venus is also ruler of the house of sickness, the 6th house. Mars is in the 12th house in its own sign of Aries.
We may look for the key to the trouble in the configuration and the positions of the above three planets, Venus, Mars, and the moon.
The planets that are in a location corresponding to that part of the body in which the disease is found are not alone the cause of the disease. If a burglar has entered our home and carried away our jewels, the first step to be taken to find the culprit is to ascertain the place of his entrance. Soalso must we find the gateway or the cause of the disease.
Venus, we know, is the planet ruling sweets, sugars, etc. Taurus is the sign ruling the throat, the palate; therefore Taurus has great influence over the appetites. Venus is in Cancer, the sign ruling the stomach and the thoracic duct, and is afflicted by a square to Mars. Mars when afflicted by Venus and when in its own sign of Aries causes dissipation and desire for excesses in eating, especially when Venus is in the sign of the stomach. Taurians are usually very fond of food things to eat and drink; they are hearty eaters and are apt to gourmandize. Therefore with the above
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 18E ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Aquarius 4 SUN: Leo 12:25 SATURN: Virgo 20:34 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Pisces 7 MOON: Sagitt. 8:10 URANUS: Gemini 19:40 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Aries 6 MERCURY: Cancer 27:50 NEPTUNE: Aries 3:39R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Taurus 0:27 VENUS: Cancer 10:34 DRAGON'S HEAD: ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus 29 MARS: Aries 14:00 Sagitt. 22:36 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Cancer 1 JUPITER: Virgo 26:07 DRAGON'S TAIL: ]
[ Gemini 22:36 ]
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afflictions this native would eat and drink to excess.
Uranus in Gemini is in a very nervous position. This excitable,
restless, and nervous planet, especially as it is squared by Saturn and Jupiter from another mercurial sign, Virgo, will have a strong effect upon the nervous system.
Now, with Venus, which has rule over the venous blood, afflicted by Mars, and with Jupiter, ruling the arterial blood, afflicted by the conjunction of Saturn and the square of Uranus, this man has a very sluggish circulation, especially of the stomach and small intestines. With both Jupiter and
Saturn posited in Virgo, what could be expected but that when an affliction touches any of these planets sickness would result?
At the age of thirty-nine th native's progressed sun reached the square to Uranus which brought on nervous trouble. At the same time the sun was within one degree of a conjunction of Saturn radical. The sun takes three years to pass a conjunction; one year applying, one year in conjunction, and another year separating. Therefore, this man passed through a double affliction at that time, and a severe spell of peritonitis was the result. He was unable to recover readily from this sickness, since through his ignorance of the causes he did not stop his heavy indulgence in food and drink. In 1918, when the progressed moon came to the square of Saturn and Jupiter and the opposition of Uranus, another illness occurred, which left him with a severe case of catarrh of the intestines.
If a patient of this type should call upon a probationer for advice and help, what should he advise? He should first find the cause, and it is so evident there that excess of food and drink were responsible that he should advise abstinence from food for a short time, especially that ruled by Mars, such as highly seasoned articles and condiments. Liquor and tobacco should be entirely avoided. A strict vegetarian diet should be advised with plenty of fresh air and sunshine to assist in relaxing the nerves. Where the Venus and Jupiter circulations are sluggish, a friction bath would be advisable.
NO. 18F.--ARTERIO-SCLEROSIS
Male, born July 27th, 1856, 5:00 A.M.
As has been often stated in our astrological books and lessons, man is master of this fate. He has his whole life before him, either to make or to mar. Here we have a horoscope for diagnosis that speaks for itself, that of a man who has had everything in his favor, with but two evil aspects in the entire horoscope; everything else is good. We find the sun and Venus
conjunction in the sign of the heart, Leo, one of the strongest signs of the entire twelve. Both these planets are sextile to the moon and trine to Jupiter, Jupiter being near the Midheaven. The mentality is decidedly strong and keen, especially along metaphysical lines. Neptune is in its own home (Pisces), sextile to Uranus and trine to Mercury. The moon is also well aspected and in a mental sign, Gemini. This man ha a wonderful start in life, and brought over with him from a previous life many fine qualities.
As is often stated in astrological books by old and reliable writers, Jupiter in the Midheaven brings much good to the native. And surely this man had many opportunities to succeed. Now why did he fail?
First, we find Saturn in Cancer. As stated in THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS, page 257, this "indicates that the stomach is weak and the gums subject to pyorrhea. There is inability to properly digest the food." The stomach is lacking in the fluids necessary to aid digestion. The native is also very peculiar in his likes and dislikes as to food. This is the key to his bodily afflictions. We find Saturn making a square to Jupiter, which rules the arterial blood, and as stated on page 299 of THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS,
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 18F ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Aries 22 SUN: Leo 4:28 SATURN: Cancer 7:49 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Taurus 29 MOON: Gemini 10:07 URANUS: Taurus 24:36 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 5 MERCURY: Cancer 20:35 NEPTUNE: Pisces 20:10R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Leo 5:50 VENUS: Leo 6:19 DRAGON'S HEAD: ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Leo 26 MARS: Libra 27:53 Aries 19:07 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 21 JUPITER: Aries 9:10 DRAGON'S TAIL: ]
[ Libra 19:07 ]
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under this aspect the native is "indolent and inclined to drift with the tide; often a ward of society either in the poorhouse or prison. This
aspect also gives a tendency to arterio-sclerosis."
We find the coarse, combative, discordant, passionate, and hottempered Mars in Libra, a Venus sign. When afflicted it brings out its own lower nature and that of Venus, creating undue attraction to the opposite sex. As Mars is co-ruler of the 5th house and is making a square to the impulsive and egotistical Mercury, the native's in harmony and hot temper have led him to excesses. Instead of expressing the beautiful, artistic, and musical nature of the sun and Venus conjunction on the Ascendant in Leo trine to Jupiter, this man has directed an excess of love and vitality in the wrong direction. He has indulged too freely in rich food, and has expended much of his energy through the 5th house, pleasures. He has had much in harmony in the home, caused by himself and his temper. As a result the blood has become vitiated, and he now is in a very advanced stage of arteriosclerosis.
In order to find out the time of the affliction we will go to his forty-fourth year when the progressed moon had reached the 6th house in the first degrees of Capricorn. It there made an opposition to Saturn in the 12th house in Cancer, the stomach, and a square to Jupiter in the Midheaven. At the same time we find Mars progressed has reached 24-51 of Scorpio, making an opposition to Uranus in Taurus. Impulse and excesses in fast living at that time broke down his system, and since then the man has been an
invalid, perfectly helpless, wheeled in a chair and confined in hospitals, due to Saturn and Mercury in the 12th house, self-undoing. But he has always found some kind hearted woman friend to look after his wants. He has been a very difficult patient; his temper has been dreadful. Through his suffering he has allowed himself to drift into this state of irascibility. Instead of responding to the beautiful Venus influence he has given way to Mars square Mercury.
In order to improve he should have a nurse with Saturn well aspected, one of an Aquarian nature, cool, calm, and collected, who could soothe him, quiet his temper, and with great diplomacy lead him into right living. At present he demands certain food and unless the nurse gives it to him he has a dreadful spell of temper. This man would have to be loved into doing things. To make a demand upon him or to tell him he dare not do a certain thing would only awaken the spirit of opposition in him. Brisk massage with a pair of rough bath gloves to open the pores of the skin and start the
circulation would be beneficial. Proper food and assistance to control his temper would in time help him to overcome his condition.
NO. 18G.--TYPHOID AND SPINAL TROUBLE
Male, born December 29, 2900, 12:45 A.M.
FOUR cardinal signs are on the angles, with Mars trine to the sun and Saturn. These testimonies show the person to be endowed with good vitality and with an active and ambitious nature. But the counteracting aspects are also strong. The moon is square to the sun and Saturn, Mars is square to the ruler, Venus, and the majority of the planets are under the earth. This takes away from the general resistance of the person. The opposition of Neptune to Jupiter and Mercury in mental signs, Gemini and Sagittarius shows that the native is of a very nervous temperament.
Neptune in the 9th house usually gives a tendency to be a dreamer of dreams, a visionary who grasps at the illusory things in life rather than those that are near by the tangible. Neptune's opposition to Mercury, the planet of reason, shows that this would be particularly accentuated in the present case. The moon in Aries square to the sun and Saturn would further make the mind flighty and unstable.
Mars in Virgo configurated with uranus, whether by good or evil aspects, makes a person liable to intestinal disorders. Mars is the planet of
inflammation and fevers. He causes operations and other violence. Configurations of Mars with Uranus have been observed to result not only in typhoid and gastric fevers, but also very often Mars ruptures the peritoneum and causes the person to have a prominent abdomen. The young man whose horoscope we are considering had typhoid fever as an initial disease when the moon passed the conjunction of Mars by progression through the eleventh
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 18G ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Cancer 21 SUN: Capricorn 7:05 SATURN: Capricorn 7:24 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Leo 25 MOON: Aries 9:15 URANUS: Sagitt. 14:10 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Virgo 24 MERCURY: Sagitt. 23:30 NEPTUNE: Gemini 27:35R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Libra 17:46 VENUS: Sagitt. 7:20 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Scorpio 15 MARS: Virgo 11:12 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 16 JUPITER: Sagitt. 25:20 ]
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house. Later she came to the square of Neptune, Jupiter, and Mercury. Then the native's spine began to weaken. You will notice that the opposition of Neptune to Jupiter and Mercury is from Gemini to Sagittarius, covering the region of the spine. The moon later progressed to the opposition of her own place at birth, and as the radical moon in Aries has particular dominion over the cerebellum, which is the organ of coordination of movement, you will readily understand that this makes it difficult for the patient to walk.
This is a curious case of interlocking afflictions and good aspects, for you will observe that whenever the two principal afflicters Mars and the moon, are struck by an adverse aspect there is always a good set of aspects to minimize the evil effects. Were this not so the severe afflictions would certainly have done away with this young man long ago. The square between the moon and Saturn is particularly inimical.
The moon progresses around the horoscope in twenty-eight years as we
measure a day for a year. Saturn in the heavens by transit actually moves around the circle of the zodiac in about thirty years. Thus the progressed moon and the transiting Saturn are always bound to follow each other pretty closely. When they are square at the birth of a person, they keep that same relationship for a considerable number of years. Thus good aspects in the horoscope are offset by the fact that the progressed moon is square to the transiting Saturn, and evil aspects are similarly accentuated by this unfortunate square. Therefore anybody who has this unfortunate configuration is certainly under the whiplash of Saturn all his life. Even the good aspects which we note in this horoscope and which are certainly very strong are to some degree nullified by the square of Saturn and the moon at birth.
Saturn always indicates that part of our destiny which has been brought over from previous lives, and is almost unalterable. Therefore in this case there is unfortunately not much to do. Baths and massage applied by a healer who has Aquarius rising and whose Saturn is not in Libra or Pisces would be most helpful.
NO. 18H: NARCOTICS--CIGARETTES
Female, born April 7, 1880, at 7:00 A.M.
WE have here a most interesting case, that of a woman with the fixed sign of Taurus on the Ascendant, and with the ruler in the watery sign of Pisces, intercepted in the 11th house, in conjunction with the watery moon, and square to the fiery and destructive Mars. Mars is the ruler of the 12th house, the house of confinement, and Venus is the ruler of the 6th house governing sickness.
About 1904 the patient was operated on and had one kidney removed. She could not give the exact year, but from planetary aspects we feel certain it was in 1904, when the progressed sun ha just passed a conjunction with the radical Neptune near the Ascendant, and the progressed moon was making a square both to the radical Neptune and the progressed sun. At the present writing this poor woman, who is forty-four years of age, expects to become a mother in three months, and is struggling to overcome the dread narcotic habit, which she has had about six years, also the cigarette habit.
A most interesting principle is brought out in this horoscope. Neptune in Taurus near the Ascendant is trine to Uranus in Virgo in the 5th house. These planets are in signs of mutual reception; that is, Neptune being the higher octave of Mercury is in a Venus sign, Taurus, and Uranus the higher octave of Venus is in the mercurial sign of Virgo. The trine of these two mystical planets would indicate the development of the two ductless glands represented by them, namely the pineal gland by Neptune and the pituitary body by Uranus. When these two glands are for any reason awakened and the
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 18H ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn 29 SUN: Aries 18:02 SATURN: Aries 18:39 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius 25 MOON: Pisces 23:07 URANUS: Virgo 5:22R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Aries 2 MERCURY: Aries 2:14R NEPTUNE: Taurus 10:52 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Taurus 19:40 VENUS: Pisces 22:25 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Gemini 17 MARS: Gemini 27:43 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Cancer 8 JUPITER: Aries 1:06R ]
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soul does not respond to the higher life but is inclined to drift into sensual and worldly channels, their awakening then frequently leads to the grossest indulgence of the lower nature--sometimes to drink or narcotics as in the case of this poor woman.
Venus and the moon in conjunction in Pisces, Venus being the ruler of the 6th house, governing sickness, and Mars the ruler of the 12th house,
governing hospitals, indicate that some one in a hospital was responsible for her forming the habit of taking narcotics from which she is suffering and this person we believe to be a doctor friend who attended her. At the time when she claimed she acquired the habit of using narcotics we find the progressed Mercury trine to Uranus and the progressed Venus in conjunction with Neptune. This would have a tendency to awaken the above mentioned glands and cause a soul hunger, which in this case the woman mistook for a desire to indulge in soul flights through the use of narcotics instead of through living the Christ life.
But the struggle now comes to get relief when she is in a most weakened, despondent, and generally rundown condition from a spell of influenza
complicated by pregnancy, nerves, and insomnia; also the elimination through the one remaining kidney is now being interfered with by Saturn conjunction sun in Aries, which is producing an effect in the opposite sign of Libra.
The one gleam of hope held out through the planets is the progressed sun within orb of a sextile to the radical Jupiter and the progressed Mars trine to the radical moon. These aspects are most favorable for the aid of the Invisible Helpers, who can accomplish much more under favorable planetary aspects than at other times. Especially is she likely to receive help
because her spirit is most desirous of overcoming, although she is lacking in faith regarding our method of healing. She was persuaded to call upon us for help by her own doctor, who had been healed through our Invisible
helpers.
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