Aspects between two progressed planets have little or
no potency, but when a planet by progression comes into aspect with a
radical planet it operates for good or ill, according to its nature and the
power of the radical planet in the horoscope.
In the following paragraphs we have set down these tendencies, and it
matters not whether Venus progresses to a good aspect with radical Saturn,
or Saturn progresses to a good aspect with radical Venus, the effects are as
noted in the first paragraph, and similarly with the other aspects
following.
Venus and Saturn in good aspect by progression indicate a period of
financial success, gain in social prestige and emotional exaltation. The
religious and devotional nature is likely to receive an awakening.
Venus and Saturn in evil aspect by progression indicate a period of sorrow
and trouble. Both the health and reputation suffer; delays, disappointment
and losses are frequent and annoying. Others will seek to impose upon the
person; death or separation from loved ones, and other disagreeable
experiences are met. The mind is gloomy and inclined to worry.
Mercury and Saturn in good aspect by progression mark a good time to
undertake new responsibilities, make investments in houses, mines, lands, or
similar property, undertake study or research work of a deeper nature, and
make important contracts which will prove of lasting benefit to the person.
It is a good time to deal with agents and elderly persons, or to undertake
journeys for a serious purpose.
Mercury and Saturn afflicted by progression indicate a time of delays and
disappointments with a tendency to look upon the dark side of things. It is a
bad time to undertake new responsibilities, deal with elderly people or sign
legal papers. The person is liable to slander and loss of reputation.
Mars and Saturn in good aspect by progression mark a period when the person
will be very enterprising yet tactful and diplomatic, courageous but not
foolhardy, strong and dignified, better able to shoulder the
responsibilities of life than at any other time. If he makes proper use of
these qualities he will gain financially, also in honor and respect among his
associates.
Mars and Saturn in bad aspect by progression make the person very
foolhardy and impulsive, hence there is a liability to accident under these
directions. Occasionally when the horoscope shows violence there is a
tendency to crime and bloodshed which may result in imprisonment. All the
vices of the character seem to come to the fore at this time, and loss of
temper is the least among them. The greatest care should be taken to keep
the animal nature down and hold a firm check upon all the undesirable traits
in the character.
Venus and Jupiter in good aspect by progression bring financial benefits,
and a rise in social position and esteem. They make the person more kindly,
sympathetic and considerate, hence increase his popularity. It is a good
time to travel and enjoy life. Investments made under this influence are
generally successful, and the health is excellent, or if the person has been
ill this marks the period of convalescence and recuperation, when life takes
on a rosier hue.
Venus and Jupiter afflicting each other by progression indicate a period
of mild domestic trouble, small financial losses and a tendency to
extravagance and wastefulness, pecuniary difficulties on that account, and
possibly lawsuits. There is also some loss of prestige in the social circle
or the person's environment.
Mercury and Jupiter in good aspect by progression indicate a very
successful period in the life. The person will probably travel with both
pleasure and profit to himself. He will have good health and be in the best
of spirits, so that life in general will take on a very rosy hue. There
are indications of gain by investments and in the general course of his
business, and it is a good time to enter into contracts and agreements,
especially for literary work.
Mercury and Jupiter afflicted by progression mark a troublesome time,
when the person is liable to become involved in lawsuits and lose thereby.
He should be very careful not to sign papers or enter into agreements, for
there will be trouble and misunderstanding, involving financial loss; also
if he lends money to other people they will endeavor to impose upon him and
defraud him, and dealings with agents and commission men should be
particularly avoided.
Mars and Jupiter in good aspect by progression mark a period in life when
the usual conservatism of Jupiter is blended with the Martian enthusiasm,
hence the person will become more enthusiastic and enterprising so that he
is likely to extend his business and be successful in gaining an added
income thereby. He should be careful, however, not to overreach himself at
this time. These aspects also work upon the devotional nature and may
sometimes express themselves as religious enthusiasm when the person turns
over a new leaf and becomes a better man or woman than before.
Mars and Jupiter in evil aspect by progression mark a danger point in the
life when the person is liable to wreck his whole career by acts which are
definitely criminal, or by losses due to ostentatious display and
extravagance, or he may become interested in some wildcat mining scheme or
speculate upon the stock exchange in such a reckless manner that he loses
all he has and becomes a pauper. The health is also likely to suffer under
this direction; impurities of the blood may cause growths, tumors, boils,
and kindred afflictions. Altogether it is a very evil time and the person
should guard himself very carefully against yielding to any of these
influences.
Venus and Mars in good aspect by progression mark a period of pleasure
and enjoyment when an attachment of a lasting nature may be formed with
someone through an enthusiastic courtship. There are also indications of
financial gain and an increase of popularity.
Venus and Mars in evil aspect by progression mark a period of impulse and
recklessness when the person is likely to act in a most indiscreet manner
that may cause great trouble in life. If married there will be some domestic
unhappiness. Financial losses and discredit are also shown, therefore the
person should endeavor to hold himself in check and avoid any temptations
that may come in his path.
Mercury and Mars in good aspect by progression mark a time when the person
is generally successful in all affairs of life, especially where the mental
qualities are called into action, for this will make him keen, shrewd and
sharp, quick to see a point and grasp an advantage, hence financial gain is
also indicated. This is a good time for advertising and extending the
person's business, entering contracts and agreements, and dealing with
agents and middlemen. It is good for literary work of a lighter nature, and
an excellent time to travel. The health is good and there is a feeling of
cheerfulness, joy and optimism.
Mercury and Mars in evil aspect by progression. This is a critical time
when the person is liable to act on impulse, to speak and act impulsively
without due deliberation and forethought, hence he is likely to get into
trouble or suffer loss through the sharp practices of other people. He
should therefore be very careful not so sign papers or enter into
agreements, and there is danger of accident and trouble if the person
travels. It is a bad time for changes or extensions of business.
Mars and Uranus in good aspect by progression indicate a good period for
perfecting inventions or starting new and original enterprises. Friendships
of a beneficial nature are often made under these directions, and not
infrequently a psychic awakening takes place through associations with people,
or groups of people, or a Uranian nature.
Mars and Uranus in evil aspect by progression mark a very dangerous time
in the person's life. There is a liability to accidents of an unusual
nature, a breaking up of conditions, estrangement from friends, and the person
is liable to find himself suddenly alone in the world. Sometimes there is a
psychic awakening but always of an undesirable nature.
Mars and Neptune in good aspect by progression mark a time of good health
and high spirits for advanced people, but the majority do not feel its
influence.
Mars and Neptune in evil aspect by progression produce a neurotic
condition in those who can respond to its influence. There is also a
liability to be defrauded or victimized in some unaccountable manner.
Venus and Uranus in good aspect by progression give a probability of some
financial gain and it is likely that the person will have what he considers a
good time, involving probably a romantic love affair, but it is likely to
leave a sting behind. This direction insures the aid of friends and
increases the popularity of the person for the time being.
Venus and Uranus in evil aspect by progression are a fruitful cause of
domestic unhappiness and divorce. This direction is likely to bring about a
scandal on account of immoral conduct. Lawsuits and financial loss are also
threatened, and the person is likely to act in a most erratic manner.
Venus and Neptune in good aspect by progression indicate a period of
success in social matters, happiness and enjoyment of life for those who
can respond to this direction. The person is particularly apt to indulge in
the building of air castles and the concoction of roseate daydreams which are
of no particular avail but serve to make the period thoroughly enjoyable.
Venus and Neptune in evil aspect by progression are likely to bring some
psychic experience of a disagreeable nature connected with mediumship or
hypnotism. There is a tendency to sensuality and immorality, occasionally
the indulgence in drinks or drugs which will cause sorrow and trouble to
come to the person.
Mercury and Uranus in good aspect by progression make the native active
mentally, bring unexpected pleasures, give impulse to mental work, make the
mind keen and give a desire for esoteric investigation. Many are attracted to
and become interested in altruistic and humanitarian work under this aspect.
Mercury and Uranus afflicting each other by progression make the native
unconventional, erratic and restless, create a nervous, wayward state of
mind, and may bring unexpected lawsuits.
Mercury and Neptune in good aspect by progression. The mind is active
and inclined to the study of Astrology and Mysticism. The native is apt to
travel by water and make changes. Only those who are advanced along
spiritual lines feel the effect of Neptune.
Mercury and Neptune in bad aspect by progression. Persons under this
influence should guard against investments in corporations. The mind is
disturbed by evil thoughts and the morals may be lax if such a tendency
is shown in the natal horoscope.
Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune seldom form aspects by progression
on account of their slow motion.
The progressed positions of
planets are the principal significators of events, but the transitory
positions of the planets in space at the actual time of events strengthen
or weaken effects of aspects in the progressed horoscope, according to
whether they are akin in nature or not. The New Moons are particularly
potent. These so-called transits are seen in the ephemeris for the
actual year of events.
Among the points in Astrology which bother the beginner, is when the Moon
is increasing in light or decreasing. Astrological works frequently use
these expressions when tabulating the effects of various configurations.
But so far as we know, no explanation has been given elsewhere, and we trust
the following may make the subject clear to students.
Each month the Moon comes into conjunction with the Sun, and this
conjunction of the luminaries is called a Lunation or New Moon. After the
conjunction or New Moon, she may be seen in the western sky close to the
horizon as a tiny crescent; day by day the lighted surface grows larger; at
the time of the opposition to the Sun she has increased her light to the
fullest capacity, and at that time we speak of her as a full Moon; she then
rises in the eastern sky at the same time as the Sun sets in the west.
From that time for another fortnight it will be observed that she rises
later and later in the night; at the same time the illuminated part of her
disc decreases until just before the next conjunction or new Moon, early
risers may observe her in the eastern sky just before sunrise as a tiny
crescent upon the vault of heaven. Thus the Moon is increasing in light
from the time of its conjunction or new Moon to the opposition, or full Moon,
and from the full Moon to the net New Moon it is decreasing in light. The
times of the New Moon, Full Moon and eclipses are given each month in our
Simplified Scientific Ephemeris, which see.
Transits of Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter are important, and when
the student has become familiar with the mysteries of the progressed
horoscope but not before, he may profitably write the ephemeral position
of these planets outside the progressed horoscope and watch their effect,
also the aspects of the New Moons. But be sure, at first, to keep the
progressed horoscope down to first principles, for fancy aspects are "the
stuff dreams are made of," the warp and woof of astrological romances which
fade away into moonshine and leave the astrologer discomfited. It is
comparatively easy to wield the shuttle of imagination with natal, progressed
and transiting planets, each set with its corresponding houses, and a
multitude of aspects to choose from, but simple judgment based upon the prime
essentials of a horoscope is almost invariably justified by events.
Saturn transiting the radical Sun, Moon, Venus or Jupiter. These
transits lower the vitality and act as a damper on the spirits of the person;
there is a tendency to colds, gloom and melancholy, delays and
disappointments, and if Saturn should turn retrograde passing and
re-passing these points, quite a long time of trouble and anxiety results.
Saturn transiting square or opposition radical Sun, Moon, Venus or
Jupiter. These aspects will produce similar effect to the conjunction but
more intense, and falls, bruises, or broken bones are often additional
results.
Saturn transiting sextile or trine the radical Sun, Moon, Venus or
Jupiter. These aspects do not produce any benefit so far as has been observed.
Saturn transiting sextile or trine the radical Mercury. These aspects steady the mind and make it more capable of concentration when Saturn is
direct, or when he is retrograde, but aspecting Mercury by square or opposition, fear, worry, melancholy, gloom and trouble result; then it is
also dangerous to travel.
Saturn transiting radical Mars, Uranus or Neptune. These transits always mark a time of trouble, no matter what the aspect, but the nature of the trouble is best determined by the house and sign where the afflicted
planet is located.
Saturn transiting the radical Midheaven. This aspect always
produces slander, discredit and loss of prestige.
Saturn transiting the Sixth or Twelfth House or the Ascendant. These
positions have an inimical effect on the health, according to the signs
which are on the cusps of these houses.
Jupiter transiting sextile or trine the radical Sun, Venus, Mercury or
Moon. These aspects bring health, happiness and financial benefit in
accordance with the radical indications. If Jupiter retrogrades he is not
so active but the period of good is protracted by his repeated direct passage
over the good aspects.
Jupiter transiting square or opposition radical Sun, Venus, Mercury or
Moon. These aspects are not very evil because evil is out of harmony with the
basic nature of Jupiter.
Jupiter transiting or aspecting radical Saturn, Mars, Uranus or Neptune.
These aspects produce no appreciable results because the basic natures of
these planets are entirely different. This is on the same principle that
tuning forks of different pitch do not respond to one another.
Uranus transiting radical Sun or Venus. These transits
produce romantic attachments, Bohemian pleasures, unconventional
experiences; when Uranus is retrograde this may last for a long time, but when
he is in evil aspect immorality, scandal and divorce may result.
Uranus transiting radical Mars, Moon or Mercury. These aspects
of Uranus to the radical Mars. Moon or Mercury have a tendency to make the
person rash, reckless, foolhardy and erratic, sometimes to the point of
insanity if other testimonies in the horoscope concur, the phase of the
mental disturbance varying from violence when induced by Mars, to mild idiocy
when produced by the Moon.
Uranus transiting or in evil aspect to radical Saturn, Mars or Neptune.
These transits cause trouble according to the house and sign where Uranus is
located. Good aspects produce no benefit as far as we have observed.
Neptune transiting radical Mercury or Moon. These aspects
bring a spiritual awakening accompanied by dreams and visions of an elevating
nature. These aspects are also good for travel, but the bad aspects make the
mind unclean, polluted and criminal if the radical horoscope allows, so that
the person may commit a crime and suffer imprisonment. Mediumship is also
often the result of these transits.
Part II
Medical Astrology
After An Extensive Practice
of Many Years, The Following
Treatise Is Submitted As
Embodying The Authors' Experience,
Gained by Successful Diagnosis
of Many Thousands of Horoscopes.
(But we want to make it clearly understood that we do not cast horoscopes
for money, or tell fortunes. Our work is a strictly humanitarian
undertaking. To us, Astrology is a phase of religion.)
Parents have an exceptional
opportunity and may lay up much treasure in heaven by judicious care of
growing children based upon knowledge of tendencies to disease revealed by
the horoscope. The writers rely implicitly upon the horoscope's testimony
and though in a few cases doubts have been expressed as to the correctness
of our diagnosis, because it varied from that of practitioners in personal
touch with the patient, subsequent developments have invariable vindicated
our judgment and proved the far-reaching penetration of Astrology which is
as much in advance of the X-Ray as that is superior to a candle, for even
though the X-Ray were capable of illuminating the entire body to such an
extent that we could see each individual cell in activity, it could only
show the conditions of the body at a given moment. But the horoscope shows
incipient disease from the cradle to the grave, thus it gives us ample time
to apply the ounce of prevention, and maybe escape an illness, or at least,
ameliorate its severity when disease has overtaken us. It indicates to the
day when crises are due. Thus forewarned, we may take extra precautionary
measures to tide over the critical point. It indicates when the inimical
influences will wane and fortifies us to bear present suffering with
strength born of the knowledge that recovery at a specific time is certain.
Thus Astrology offers help and hope in a manner obtainable by no other
method; for its scope is wider than all other systems, and it penetrates to
the very soul of Being.
If letters of fire that would burn themselves into the consciousness of
the reader were obtainable, we would spare no effort to procure them for the
purpose of warning students on some particular points in connection with the
practice of medical Astrology; these are:
Never tell a patient a discouraging fact.
Never tell him when impending crises are due.
Never predict sickness at a certain time.
Never, never predict death.
It is a grave mistake, almost a crime, to tell sick persons anything
discouraging, for it robs them of strength that should be husbanded with
the utmost care to facilitate recovery. It is also wrong to suggest sickness
to a well person, for it focuses the mind on a specific disease at a
certain time, and such a suggestion is liable to cause sickness. it is a well
known fact that many students in medical colleges feel the symptoms of every
disease they study, and suffer greatly in consequence of auto-suggestion,
but the idea of impending disease implanted by one in whom the victim has
faith is much more dangerous; therefore it behooves the medical astrologer to
be very cautious. If you cannot say anything encouraging, be silent.
This warning applies with particular force when treating patients having
Taurus or Virgo rising or the Sun or Moon in those signs. These positions
predispose the mind to center on disease, often in a most unwarranted
manner. The Taurean fears sickness to an almost insane degree, and
prediction of disease is fatal to this nature. The Virgos court disease, in
order to gain sympathy, and though professing to long for recovery, they
actually delight in nursing disease. They beg to know their symptoms, the
crises, and delight in probing the matter to the depths; they will plead
ability to stand full knowledge and profess that it will help them; but if
the practitioner allows himself to be enticed by their protestations, and
does tell them, they wilt like a flower. They are the most difficult
people to help in any case, and extra care should be taken not to aggravate
their chances by admissions of the nature indicated.
Besides, thought the writers have used medical Astrology for many years
and with astonishing success, and though Astrology, as a science, is
absolutely exact and infallible, it must not be forgotten that there
remains nevertheless the chance of mistaken judgment on the part of the
practitioner and the chance that the person whose horoscope he is judging may
assert his will to such an extent that it overrules the indication in the
horoscope. He may change his mode of life without knowing what would have
happened if he had gone on as before, and thus he may be in no danger at the
time when the tendency to sickness shown by the horoscope arrives; it is
cruel to unsettle his mind in any case. Naturally, the young student would be
most liable to make a mistake in judgment, but no one is immune. We
remember a case that came to our notice recently. One of the most prominent
European astrologers predicted for a client in South Africa that on a certain
date he would have a severe hemorrhage of the lungs. The poor man wrote to
us for help, but though liability to colds in the lungs was shown, we saw no
serious trouble at the time predicted, nor has hemorrhage been experienced
in the year elapsed between that time and the present writing.
Some students have a morbid desire to know the time of their own death,
and probe into this matter in a most unwarranted manner; but not matter how
they may seek to deceive themselves there are very few who have the mental
and moral stamina to live life in the same manner, if they knew with
absolute certainty that on a certain date their earthly existence would be
terminated. That is one of the points most wisely hidden until we are to
see on both sides of the veil, and we do wrong, no matter what our ground,
to seek to wrest that knowledge from the horoscope.
Moreover, it has been well said that "the doctor who prescribes for
himself has a fool for a patient," and this applies to diagnosis of one's
own horoscope with tenfold force, for there we are all biased; either we
make too light of conditions, or we take them too seriously, particularly if
we investigate the time and mode of death. We remember a case where an
intellectual women, principal of a private school in New York, wrote asking
for admission to our correspondence class, "if we thought it worth while, as
she was going to die the first week in March." She gave us all the aspects
upon which she based her judgment, and as one of the writers had just
emerged hale and hearty from similar configurations, she gave the lade in
question a good talking to that straightened her out; she told the lady
she (the writer) expected to live to a ripe age. Now that lady is thinking
of a useful life, she has learned to forget death. Astrology is too sacred
to be thus misused. Let the student forget about his own horoscope and
devote his knowledge to helping others; then it will aid him in accumulating
treasure in heaven as no other line of spiritual endeavor will.
When we study magnetism we are dealing with an invisible force; and
ordinarily we can at best state the way it manifests in the physical world,
as is the case whenever we deal with any force. The physical world is
the world of effects; the causes are hidden from our sight, though they
are nearer than hands or feet. Force is all about us, invisible and only
seen by the effects it produces.
If we take a dish of water, for illustration, and allow it to freeze, we
shall see a myriad of ice crystals, beautiful geometrical figures. These
show the lines along which the water congealed and these lines are lines of
force which were present before the water congealed; but they were invisible
until the proper conditions were furnished them and they became manifest.
In the same way there are lines of force going between the two poles of a
magnet; they are neither seen nor felt until we bring iron or iron filings
into the place where they are, when they will manifest by arranging the
filings in an orderly pattern. By making the proper conditions we may
cause any of the nature forces to show their effects — moving our street cars,
carrying messages with lightning speed over thousands of miles, etc., etc.;
but the force itself is ever invisible. We know that magnetism travels
always at right angles to the electric current with which it manifests; we
know the difference between the manifestations of the electric and the
magnetic current, so dependent upon one another, but we have never seen
either; though they are about the most valuable servants we have today.
Magnetism may be divided into "mineral" and "animal" magnetism, though in
reality they are one, but the former has very little influence upon animal
tissue, while the latter is generally impotent in working with minerals.
The mineral magnetism is derived directly from lodestones which are used
to magnetize iron, and this process gives to the metal thus treated the
property of attracting iron. This kind of magnet is very little used,
however, as its magnetism becomes depleted, is too weak in proportion to
its bulk, and principally because the magnetic force cannot be controlled
in such a so-called "permanent" magnet.
The "electro-magnet" is also a "mineral" magnet. It is simply a piece of
iron wound around with many turns of electric wire; the strength of the magnet
varies as the number of turns of wire, and the strength of the electric
current that is passed through it.
Electricity is all about us in a diffused state, of no use for industrial
purposes until it is compressed and forced through the electric wires by the
powerful electro-magnets. We must have magnetism in the first place before we can get any electricity. Before a new electric generator is started the
"fields," which are nothing but electro-magnets, must be magnetized. If
that is not done they may turn it till the crack of doom, at any rate of
speed they please, and it will never light a single lamp nor move a grain of
weight; all depends upon the magnetism being there first. After this
magnetism is once started it will leave a little behind when the generator
is shut down, and this so-called "residual magnetism" will be the nucleus
of force to be built up each time the generator is started afresh.
All bodies of plants, animals and men are but transformed mineral. They
have all come from the mineral kingdom in the first place, and chemical
analysis of the plant, animal and human bodies brings out the fact beyond
cavil. Moreover, we know that the plants get their sustenance from the
mineral soil, and both animal and man are eating mineral when they consume
the plants as food; even when man eats the animals he is nevertheless
eating mineral compounds, and therefore he gets with his food both the mineral
substances and the magnetic force which they contain.
This force we see manifesting in "Hemoglobin," or the red coloring matter
in the blood, which attracts the life-giving oxygen when it comes into
contact with it in the millions of minute capillaries of the lungs, parting
with it as readily when it passes through the capillaries which all over the
body connect the arteries with the veins. Why is this?
To understand this, we must acquaint ourselves a little closer with the
way magnetism manifests as seen in industrial uses.
There are always two fields or a multiple of two fields in a generator or
motor, every alternate "field" or magnet being "north-pole" and every other
one, "south-pole." If we wish to run two or more generators "in multiple"
and force their electricity into the same wire, the first requisite is that
the magnetic current in the field-magnets should run in the same direction.
If that were not the case, they would not run together; they would generate
currents going in opposite directions, blowing their fuses. That would be
because the poles in one generator, which should have attracted, repelled,
and vice-versa. The remedy is to change the ends of the wire which magnetizes
the fields; then the magnetic current in one generator will become like the
current of the other, and both will run smoothly together.
Similar conditions prevail in magnetic healing; a certain vibratory pitch
and magnetic polarity were infused into each of us when the stellar forces
surged through our bodies and gave us our planetary baptism at the moment
when we drew our first complete breath. These are modified during our
pilgrimage of life, but in the main their initial impulse remains
undisturbed and therefore the horoscope at birth retains the most vital power
in life to determine our sympathies and antipathies as well as all other
matters. Nay more, its pronouncements are more reliable than our conscious
likes and dislikes.
Sometimes we may meet and learn to like a person, although we have a
feeling that he has an inimical influence on us for which we cannot account,
and therefore strive to put aside; but a comparison of his horoscope with
our own will reveal the reason and if we are wise we heed its warning, or as
surely as the circling stars move in their orbits around the Sun we will
live to regret our disregard of this handwriting on the wall.
But there are also many cases when we do not sense the antipathy between
ourselves and a certain person, though the horoscope reveals it, and if we
see the signs when comparing the two horoscopes we may feel inclined to
trust our feelings rather than the stellar script of the horoscopes. That
also will in time lead to trouble, for the planetary polarity is certain to
manifest in time unless both parties are sufficiently evolved to rule their
stars in a large measure. Such people are few and far between at our
present stage of evolution. Therefore we shall do well if we use our
knowledge of the stellar script to compare our horoscopes with those at least
who come intimately into our lives. This may save both them and us much
misery and heartache. We would advise this course particularly with regard
to a healer and his patients, and with reference to a prospective marriage
partner.
When anyone is ill, resistance is at the lowest ebb, and on that account
he is then least able to withstand outside influences. So the vibrations of
the healer have practically unrestrained effect, and even though he may be
ensouled by the noblest of altruistic motives, desiring to pour out his very
life for the benefit of the patient, if their stars were adverse at birth,
his vibratory pitch and magnetism are bound to have an inimical effect upon
the patient. Therefore it is of prime necessity that any healer should
have a knowledge of Astrology and the law of compatibility, whether he
belongs to those who admittedly heal by magnetism and the laying on of hands
or to the regular schools of physicians, for the latter also infuse their
vibrations into the patient's aura and help or hinder according to the
agreement of their planetary polarity with that of the patient.
What has been said with regard to the healer applies with tenfold force
to the nurse, for he or she is with the patient practically all the time and
the contact is so much more intimate.
For healer, nurse and patient, compatibility is determined by the rising
sign, Saturn, and the Sixth House. If their rising signs agree in nature so
that all have fiery signs rising, or all have earthy, airy, or watery signs
rising, they are harmonious, but if the patient has a water sign rising, a
nurse or a doctor with fiery signs will have a very detrimental effect.
It is also necessary to see that Saturn in the horoscope of the nurse of
healer is not placed in any of the degrees of the zodiac within the
patient's Sixth House.
With respect to marriage the planetary polarity is shown principally by a
consideration of the feminine Moon and Venus in a man's horoscope, for they
describe his attractions towards the opposite sex, and in a woman's
horoscope the masculine Sun and Mars have a similar significance. If
these planets are harmoniously configurated and the signs on the cusps of
the Seventh Houses of the prospective partners agree, harmony will prevail,
especially if the Sun, Venus or Jupiter of one person is placed in the Seventh
House of the other. But if the planets mentioned afflict one another, or
the Seventh Houses of the parties are out of harmony, or if Saturn, Mars,
Uranus or Neptune of one is in a degree included in the Seventh House of the
other, it is the handwriting on the wall which indicates that the planetary
polarities are inharmonious and that sorrow is in store for them if they allow
their evanescent emotions to draw them together in a bond of unhappiness;
for it is easy to change the field wires on two electric generators so that
their polarities will agree, but it is extremely difficult to reverse the
planetary polarity of one person to make it agree with that received by
another at his planetary baptism.
It is said in the Bible that God
made man in His likeness, and from hoary antiquity seers and sages have
noted a correspondence between the macrocosm, the great world, and the
microcosm, the little world, or man. This is again expressed in the
hermetic axiom which is the master-key to all mysteries: "As above, so
below." Therefore we may note that the various parts of the human body
are correlated to different divisions of the vaulted arch of heaven and
the marching orbs that move through it. As the creative forces within
the womb act upon the ovum and gradually build the fetus, so also the
stellar rays from the macrocosmic body of mother nature are active upon
man. It is their activity which we note in the process of evolution whereby
that which is now man has come up through the lower kingdoms to his present
stage of completion, and it is by the same rays that he will gradually
evolve to the divine stature where he will indeed be like the Father in
Heaven, consequently we may note the correspondences between the signs and
planets and the different divisions of the human body as follows:
Aries rules the head, the cerebral hemispheres, the various organs
within the head, and the eyes, but the nose is under the rulership of Scorpio.
Thus any affliction in Aries will react upon the head, producing
headaches, neuralgia, coma and trance conditions, diseases of the brain and
cerebral hemorrhages.
Taurus rules the neck, throat, palate, larynx and tonsils, lower jaw,
ears, and occipital region. The cerebellum is also under the rule of Taurus,
so are the atlas and cervical vertebrae, the carotid arteries, jugular
veins, and certain minor blood vessels.
The diseases to which these regions are subject are goitre, diphtheria,
croup and apoplexy. As each sign always reacts upon the opposite,
afflictions in Taurus may also produce venereal diseases, constipation, or
irregular menses.
Gemini rules the arms and hands, shoulders, lungs, and the thymus
gland, also the upper ribs, therefore afflictions in Gemini cause pulmonary
diseases, pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchitis, asthma and inflammation of
the pericardium.
Cancer rules the esophagus, stomach, diaphragm, pancreas, the
mammae, lacteals, upper lobes of liver, and thoracic duct, hence
afflictions in Cancer produce indigestion, gas in the stomach, cough,
hiccup, dropsy, gloom, hypochondria, hysteria, gall stones, and jaundice.
Leo rules the heart, the dorsal region of the spine, the spinal cord,
and the aorta, therefore the afflictions in Leo cause regurgitation,
palpitation, faintings, aneurism, spinal meningitis, and curvature of the
spine, also arteriosclerosis and angina pectoris, hyperemia, anemia
and hydraemia.
Virgo rules the abdominal region, the large and small intestines, the
lower lobes of the liver, and the spleen, therefore afflictions in Virgo
produce peritonitis, tapeworm, malnutrition, interference with the absorption
of the chyle, typhoid fever, cholera, and appendicitis.
Libra rules the kidneys, the suprarenals, the lumbar region of the
spine, the vasomotor system and the skin, hence afflictions in Libra
produce polyuria, or suppression of the urine, inflammation of the ureters
which connect the kidneys with the bladder, Bright's disease, lumbago, eczema
and other skin diseases.
Scorpio rules the bladder, urethra, and genital organs in general, also
the rectum and the descending colon, the sigmoid flexure, the prostate
gland, and the nasal bones; hence afflictions in Scorpio produce nasal
catarrh, adenoids, and polypi, diseases of the womb and ovaries, various
venereal diseases, stricture, and enlargement of the prostate gland,
irregularities of the menses, leucorrhea, rupture, renal stones and gravel.
Sagittarius rules the hips and thighs, the femur, ilium, the coccygeal
and sacral regions of the spine, the iliac arteries and veins, sciatic
nerves, hence afflictions to Sagittarius produce locomotor ataxia, sciatica,
rheumatism, and hip diseases. Furthermore, as each sign has an influence upon
its opposite, afflictions in Sagittarius may also cause pulmonary troubles.
It is also noteworthy that broken bones are caused by this sign.
Capricorn governs the skin and the knees, but it has also a reflex action
on the stomach, which is governed by the opposite sign Cancer. Hence
afflictions in Capricorn produce eczema and other skin diseases, erysipelas,
leprosy, and digestive disturbances.
Aquarius rules the ankles, the limbs from the knees to the ankles, and
has also a reflex action on its opposite sign Leo, hence afflictions in
Aquarius produce varicose veins, sprained ankles, irregularities of the heart
action and dropsy.
Pisces rules the feet and toes. It also has a reflex effect on the
abdominal region governed by the opposite sign, Virgo, hence afflictions in
this sign indicate trouble and deformities of the feet, intestinal diseases
and dropsy. It also produces a desire for drink and drugs which may bring
about delirium tremens. Consumption is sometimes found to be a secondary
result of cold in the feet contracted by an afflicted Pisces.
The Sun rules in the very first place the vital fluid which is
specialized through the spleen, transferred to the solar plexus, and thence
distributed over the whole body. This vital fluid is invisible to ordinary
humanity, but to those gifted with the spiritual sight it appears as a
rose-colored fluid which is like the electricity in the wires of a telephone
or telegraph system. When the wires designed to carry electricity are minus
the electric fluid they are dead and the telephone or telegraph instruments
do not respond. Similarly, when for some reason the invisible vitial fluid
ceases to flow through any part of the human organism in sufficient
guantity, that part of the body will not perform its proper function, and
therefore disease results, continuing until some obstruction has been removed
and the path cleared for the vital fluid. On that account an afflicted Sun
always causes disease, particularly in a man's horoscope, and in a woman's
nativity the Moon, which is the collector of solar forces, takes the same
office or function. The heart and the pons varolli, or vital knot, situated
in the brain, are the principal parts of the body ruled by the Sun. When
the Sun is well aspected in Leo or Aries radiant health may be looked for.
But on the other hand, when he is afflicted he produces the various ailments
according to the sign wherein he is placed at the time. These disabilities
may be set down as follows:
The Sun afflicted in Aries, the sign which rules the head, gives a
tendency to aphasia, loss of identity, brain fever, cerebral hemorrhage, and
meningitis, cerebral anemia or congestion of the blood, faintings and
headaches.
The Sun afflicted in Taurus gives a tendency to quinsy, diphtheria,
and polypus of the nose. In the Pleiades (Taurus 29), eye trouble.
The Sun afflicted in Gemini gives a tendency to pleurisy, bronchitis,
and hyperemia of the lungs.
The Sun afflicted in Cancer gives a tendency to anemia, dropsy,
dyspepsia, and gastric fever.
The Sun afflicted in Leo gives a tendency to palpitation of the heart,
backache, and spinal affections. In the Ascelli (Leo 6), eye trouble.
The Sun afflicted in Virgo gives a tendency to interference with the
assimilation, peritonitis, typhoid fever, and dysentery.
The Sun afflicted in Libra gives a tendency to Bright's disease and
eruptions of the skin through overheated blood, for Saturn rules the skin
and Libra is his exaltation sign.
The Sun afflicted in Scorpio gives a tendency to renal
calculus, genito-urinary and menstrual disturbances, uterine and ovarian
affections.
The Sun afflicted in Sagittarius gives a tendency to sciatica, paralysis
of the limbs and pulmonary diseases. If the Sun is in Antares (Sagittarius
8) and afflicted by one or more of the malefics there is danger of disease
of the eyes.
The Sun afflicted in Capricorn gives a tendency to rheumatism, skin
diseases, and digestive troubles.
The Sun afflicted in Aquarius gives a tendency to varicose veins,
dropsy, palpitation of the heart, and poor circulation.
The Sun afflicted in Pisces gives a tendency to perspiration of the
feet, also intestinal troubles, typhoid fever, et cetera.
On account of her rulership of Taurus and Libra, Venus is responsible for a
number of affections of the throat and kidneys, also maladies due to
gastronomical indiscretions, lack of exercise, sedentary habits, poor
circulation of the venous blood, excess of amorous indulgence and dissolute
living, hence she brings obesity, tumors, cysts, poor circulation, venereal
diseases, tonsillitis, and various other disorders. Her general effect
when placed in the twelve signs may be classed as follows:
Venus afflicted in Aries gives a tendency to catarrh in the head,
mucus, and, by reflex action in Libra congestion of the kidneys.
Venus afflicted in Taurus gives a tendency to mumps, headaches affecting
the occipital region, goitre, tonsillitis, and glandular swellings of the
throat. By reflect action in Scorpio this also brings venereal diseases or
other troubles peculiar to the genitals.
Venus afflicted in Gemini gives a tendency to corrupt blood, pulmonary
inefficiency, whitlows, warts, and dropsy.
Venus afflicted in Cancer gives a tendency to distended stomach, gastric
tumor, and nausea.
Venus afflicted in Leo gives a tendency to spinal affections, backache
and enlarged heart.
Venus afflicted in Virgo gives a tendency to weakened peristaltic action of
the intestines, tumors, tapeworm, and worms in children.
Venus afflicted in Libra gives a tendency to uremia and polyuria; by
reflex action in Aries, headaches.
Venus afflicted in Scorpio gives a tendency to varicocele,
venereal diseases, uterine prolapsis or tumors, painful menstruation and other
female complaints, and by reflex action in Taurus, throat affections.
Venus afflicted in Sagittarius gives a tendency to tumors and kindred
diseases in the hips, and by reflex action in Gemini, bronchial and
pulmonary affections.
Venus afflicted in Capricorn gives a tendency to gout in the limbs, and,
by reflex action in Cancer, digestive troubles, nausea and vomiting.
Venus afflicted in Aquarius gives a tendency to varicose veins, and, by
reflex action in Leo, heart trouble.
Venus afflicted in Pisces gives a tendency to tender feet, bunions,
chilblains, gout, and, by reflex action in Virgo, abdominal tumors and
intestinal disorders.
Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo, therefore his afflictions manifest in
diseases related to these signs, as bronchitis, pulmonary and respiratory
troubles. He also rules the right cerebral hemisphere, the motor segment of
the spinal cord, and the vocal cords, hence locomotor ataxia and nervous and
vocal disorders are among his manifestations; so is deafness. The following
effects may be noted when he is afflicted in the twelve signs:
Mercury afflicted in Aries gives a tendency to brain fever, nervous
headache, vertigo, neuralgia, and, by reflex action in Libra, nervous
disorders of the kidneys, and lumbago.
Mercury afflicted in Taurus gives a tendency to stuttering, hoarseness
and deafness, and by reflex action in Scorpio, nervous affections of
the genito-urinary system.
Mercury afflicted in Gemini gives a tendency to gout in head, arms,
and shoulders, bronchitis, asthma, asphyxiation, pleurisy, and, by reflex
action in Sagittarius, nervous pains in the hips.
Mercury afflicted in Cancer gives a tendency to nervous indigestion,
phlegm, flatulence, and drunkenness.
Mercury afflicted in Leo gives a tendency to pain in the back, fainting, and
palpitation of the heart.
Mercury afflicted in Virgo gives a tendency to flatulence, wind colic, short
breath, and nervous debility.
Mercury afflicted in Libra gives a tendency to suppression of urine,
renal paroxysms, lumbago, and, by reflex action in Aries, vertigo, nervous
headaches and eye trouble.
Mercury afflicted in Scorpio gives a tendency to pains in bladder
and genitals, menstrual trouble, and, by reflex action in Taurus, stuttering
or hoarseness and deafness.
Mercury afflicted in Sagittarius gives a tendency to pain in the hips
and thighs. By reflex action in Gemini, cough, asthma and pleurisy.
Mercury afflicted in Capricorn gives a tendency to rheumatism, especially
in the knees; pains in the back, skin diseases, melancholy; by reflex action
in Cancer, nervous indigestion, flatulence.
Mercury afflicted in Aquarius gives a tendency to shooting or gnawing
pains in the whole body, varicose veins, corrupt blood and, by reflex
action in Leo, palpitation, and neuralgia of the heart.
Mercury afflicted in Pisces gives a tendency to gout in the feet, or
they are tender and subject to cramp, or, by reflex action in Virgo, a
general weakness, lassitude, worry, and sometimes tuberculosis, deafness.
The Moon rules the esophagus and stomach, the uterus and ovaries, the
lymphatics and the sympathetic nervous system, the synovial fluid. When
afflicted she produces dropsical and menstrual troubles, uterine and ovarian
afflictions, dyspepsia, eye trouble, and lunacy, according to the sign,
house and nature of the afflicting planet. She has particular rule over the
mother during pregnancy.
The Moon afflicted in Aries gives a tendency to insomnia, headache,
lethargy, and weak eyes.
The Moon afflicted in Taurus gives a tendency to sore throat, and if in
Taurus 29 with the Pleiades and afflicted by Saturn, Mars, Uranus, or
Neptune, eye trouble results; by reflex action in Scorpio, menstrual or other
trouble with the genitals.
The Moon afflicted in Gemini gives a tendency to catarrh of the
lungs, asthma, bronchitis and pneumonia, rheumatism in the arms and shoulders.
The Moon afflicted in Cancer gives a tendency to cancer of the stomach,
dropsy, obesity, bloating, digestive troubles, and epilepsy.
The Moon afflicted in Leo gives a tendency to backache, disturbed
circulation, convulsions, and heart trouble; if in Leo 6, eye trouble.
The Moon afflicted in Virgo gives a tendency to disorders in the bowels,
abdominal tumors, dysentery, and peritonitis.
The Moon afflicted in Libra gives a tendency to Bright's disease, abscess
of the kidneys, uremia; by reflex action in Aries, headache or insomnia.
The Moon afflicted in Scorpio gives a tendency to disturbed menses,
bladder troubles, hydrocele, and other genito-urinary disturbances; by reflex
action in Taurus, throat troubles.
The Moon afflicted in Sagittarius gives a tendency to blood affections,
hip disease, and, sometimes, a broken femur; by reflex action in
Gemini, asthma.
The Moon afflicted in Capricorn gives a tendency to articular
rheumatism, lack of synovial fluid, eruptions of the skin, and by reflex
action in Cancer, digestive troubles.
The Moon afflicted in Aquarius gives a tendency to varicose veins, ulcers
of the leg, dropsy, and, by reflex action in Leo, hysteria, fainting, and
heart trouble.
The Moon afflicted in Pisces gives a tendency to drink, drug habits,
tender feet, and, by reflex action in Virgo, abdominal disorders of various
kinds.
Saturn is the planet of obstruction, crystallization and atrophy. By his
action the circulation or passage of bodily fluids, such as the blood,
lymph, or urine, is impeded, and by this stagnation waste materials are
retained instead of being eliminated. Thus they form various deposits in the
body, building the skeleton, which is constructive, hardening the arteries
and articulations, which is destructive. Saturn rules the gall bladder,
where he forms the painful gallstones, and by virtue of his exaltation power
in Libra he crystallizes the renal stones and gravel which cause such
suffering to those who have these concretions. By retention of the urea
he causes the painful rheumatism and gout which often manifest in deformity
of the joints that so often disfigures and disables the sufferers
therefrom. He rules the pneumogastric nerve, and by his restrictive action
through that medium he may at any moment slow down the heart action, stop
digestion, suppress the urine and stool under the emotions of fear and worry
generated by him. Thus he has the power to bring every bodily function to a
standstill.
Saturn also rules the teeth and the skin. By his action the teeth decay,
leading to malnutrition, the synovial membranes are hardened, making the
spine and limbs rigid; he makes the skin tough as the years go by. Saturn
is at home in Capricorn, and by his reflex action in Cancer he interferes
with the peristaltic action which is necessary in the digestion of food; he
then causes anti-peristalsis, or vomiting. His general activities in the
body are destructive and tend to end the life of the organism.
Saturn generally hurts by falls, bruises, and colds. He predisposes to
chronic and deep-seated ailments, and his victims are difficult to reach
because he imbues them with fear, worry, and pessimism, so that they refuse to
believe in the possibility of a cure and cannot be induced to take a cheerful
look on life.
The presence of Saturn in any part of the horoscope constitutes an
affliction in itself, therefore we may note the following effects in the
twelve signs, whether he is aspected by squares, oppositions, trines or
sextiles, but naturally his effects are somewhat more inimical when in evil
aspect.
Saturn in Aries gives a tendency to headache, colds, catarrh, deafness,
and chills, cerebral anemia, dental decay, tartar, faintings, and, by
reflex action in Libra, renal disorders.
Saturn in Taurus gives a tendency to phlegm, diphtheria, quinsy,
mumps, croup, decay of the lower teeth, choking, and by reflex action in
Scorpio, stricture, constipation and similar disorders.
Saturn in Gemini gives a tendency to rheumatic pains in shoulders and
arms, bronchitis, pulmonary consumption, asthma, and, by reflex action in
Sagittarius, sciatica and hip diseases.
Saturn in Cancer gives a tendency to pyorrhoea, dyspepsia, gastric ulcer
and cancer, nausea and belching, scurvy, jaundice, gallstones, anemia,
and stricture of the esophagus.
Saturn in Leo gives a tendency to curvature of the spine, muscular
inefficiency of the heart, weak back, arteriosclerosis, and sclerosis of the
spinal cord.
Saturn in Virgo gives a tendency to weakened peristalsis of the
intestines, abated absorption of chyle, obstruction of the ileum cecum and
transverse colon, appendicitis.
Saturn in Libra gives a tendency to locomotor ataxia, renal stones,
gravel and sand, Bright's disease, suppression of urine, malnutrition, and,
by reflex action in Aries, headache, toothache, and other disorders of the
head.
Saturn in Scorpio gives a tendency to sterility, suppression of the
menses, stricture, constipation, hemorrhoids, and, by reflex action in
Taurus, nasal catarrh, hoarseness, phlegm, and other throat affections.
Saturn in Sagittarius gives a tendency to contusions of the hips and thighs,
sciatica, gout, and hip disease; by reflex action in Gemini, bronchitis,
tuberculosis, and other Gemini affections.
Saturn in Capricorn gives a tendency to articular rheumatism,
eczema, erysipelas, and other diseases of the skin; by reflex action in
Cancer, jaundice, gallstones, and dyspepsia.
Saturn in Aquarius gives a tendency to weak ankles, easily sprained, and,
by reflex action in Leo, curvature of the spine, sclerosis and other
affections of the heart, back and arteries.
Saturn in Pisces gives a tendency to cold feet, rheumatism and bunions,
also tuberculosis due to cold and wet feet, and, by reflex action in
Virgo, dropsy.
The liver is the great center of the Jupiterian activity; there he forms
glycogen from the waste products of the portal blood-stream. The great
central vortex of the desire body is also in the liver, and when an extra
effort is to be made, Mars draws upon the glycogen storehouse of Jupiter for
fuel. Saturn too is active in the liver, forming the gall, urea, and uric
acid.
It is somewhat difficult for the average student to segregate and combine
the varied functions of this organ, but if we bear in mind that Cancer is
the exaltation sign of Jupiter and the opposite sign Capricorn is the home
of Saturn and the exaltation sign of Mars, we shall more readily understand
that the great benefic, Jupiter, endeavors to store in the liver the
glycogen so necessary to the bodily activity. This, Mars, the opposing
exaltation ruler, recklessly scatters by expenditure of muscular energy, and
he is aided and abetted in his destructive activities by Saturn, who
produces gall and urea which he deposits during the muscular work as uric
acid in the various parts of the body where it manifests as gout and
rheumatism. Saturn also makes the liver torpid and causes constipation.
Jupiter rules the adrenals and arterial circulation, hence his
afflictions cause formation of adipose tissue, fatty degeneration of muscles,
tumors, and morbid growths, enlargement of organs, waste of sugar and albumen
as in diabetes and kindred diseases. Blood-poisoning, hyperemia and
apoplexy are due to afflictions of Jupiter.
The following effects may be noted when Jupiter is afflicted in the
twelve signs.
Jupiter afflicted in Aries gives a tendency to dizziness, cerebral
congestion, sleepiness, thrombosis, fainting, ulcerated gums of upper jaw,
and, by reflex action in Libra, diabetes and depression due to lack of
adrenal secretion.
Jupiter afflicted in Taurus gives a tendency to gourmandize, hence
plethora and apoplexy, ringworm and carbuncles follow; also ulcerated gums
of mandible; by reflex action in Scorpio, catarrh of the nose and nosebleed.
Jupiter afflicted in Gemini gives a tendency to pleurisy, blood
affections, congestion of the lungs, pulmonary apoplexy; by reflex action
in Sagittarius, broken bones, gout and rheumatism in hips and thighs.
Jupiter afflicted in Cancer gives a tendency to gourmandize, causing
dilation of the stomach, dyspepsia, liver complaints, jaundice, and dropsy;
by reflex action in Capricorn, which rules the skin, pimples and similar
eruptions.
Jupiter afflicted in Leo gives a tendency to apoplexy and fatty
degeneration of the heart, the valve action is weakened, the circulation
sluggish at times and at other times there are palpitation and feverish
conditions; by reflex action in Aquarius, swollen ankles.
Jupiter afflicted in Virgo gives a tendency to enlarged liver, often
ulcerated, jaundice.
Jupiter afflicted in Libra gives a tendency to melancholy due to
diminished adrenal secretion, renal abscess, diabetes, skin eruptions due to
sluggish action of kidneys; by reflex action in Aries, congestion of brain,
coma and vertigo.
Jupiter afflicted in Scorpio gives a tendency to enlarged prostate
gland, uterine tumors, urethral abscess, dropsy, hydraemia, excess of
urates and strangury; by reflex action in Taurus, apoplexy and nosebleed.
Jupiter afflicted in Sagittarius gives a tendency to rheumatism and gout; by
reflex action in Gemini, pulmonary apoplexy and corrupt blood.
Jupiter afflicted in Capricorn gives a tendency to various skin
diseases, and, by reflex action in Cancer, digestive ailments, dropsy,
jaundice, and fatty degeneration of the liver.
Jupiter afflicted in Aquarius gives a tendency to milk-leg, swollen
ankles, and, by reflex action in Leo, apoplexy and palpitation.
Jupiter afflicted in Pisces gives a tendency to swollen, perspiring
feet, and, by reflex action in Virgo, enlarged liver, abdominal tumors,
jaundice, and diseased intestines.
The ancient Egyptian sages called Cancer the sphere of the soul, and when
the mystic Sun of life goes through this moist, fruitful lunar sign the
seed-atom of the ego's physical body is planted. While the embryonic body
grows unconsciously as a plant grows, the mystic Sun of life passes through
Leo, Virgo, and Libra. In the fourth month of gestation it passes through
the second of the water signs, Scorpio. Then the spirit dies to its
heavenly home and is immured in its earthly prison house by Mars, who chains
it with the silver cord and thus brings about the quickening. Then the Sun
of life proceeds through Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and when after
the nine months have been completed it has passed through the last of the
watery signs, Pisces, the flood-gates of the womb are opened and the
ego is launched upon the sea of life under the auspices of the martial sign
Aries, where the giver of life, the Sun, is exalted.
During the gestatory period Mars has given to the body iron, especially
in the form of hemoglobin, and with the first breath oxidation of this
substance commences to produce the heat so necessary to life and
consciousness. This operation is continued all through life, and thus to the
Martian ray falls the important task of supplementing the Sun in the
maintenance of the vital spark until the mystic Sun of life has completed
its circle and reached the sign where the quickening took place. Then
Scorpio gives the body its death-sting, Mars and his friend Saturn cut the
silver cord, and the free soul soars as an eagle into the empyrean seeking
the celestial spheres which are its true home. Therefore Scorpio is
symbolized both by a scorpion and an eagle.
On account of his mission as aide to the Sun in the maintenance of life,
Mars every aims to cleanse the body of filth and waste accumulation so that
the fires of life may burn brightly, hence, when the gourmandizing habits of
Jupiter and Venus have clogged the system, or the obstructive tendencies of
Saturn have poisoned the body by stoppage of elimination, Mars lights the
fire of fever and inflammation to burn out the refuse and give the system a
new lease on life and energy. Thus many of the pathogenic effects of Mars
aim at a constructive end.
But Mars not only aids the vital process of the life-giving Sun, who is
exaltation ruler of Aries; he is himself exaltation ruler of Capricorn,
where Saturn, the planet of death, holds sway, and between those two thieves
the Sun, the Lord of Life, is crucified, suffers and dies, while they part
his physical garment. The role of Saturn in this process has been described
in the appropriate section, and of Mars it may be said that by his
recklessness he predisposes to accidents by burning, scalding, wounds, or
gunshot. He rules the genitals through Scorpio, and depletes the vitality and
causes genital disorders by passional excesses, hemorrhage, rupture of blood
vessels. Excessive menses and hemorrhoids show his activities in the
blood; hernia and contagious diseases are also manifestations of the martian
ray. As mars is a malefic, his presence in any sign or house constitutes an
affliction in itself, regardless of his aspects, but naturally his pathogenic
effects are worse when he is aspected by square or opposition than when he
is fortified by sextile or trine.
His effects in the twelve signs may be more specifically stated as
follows:
Mars in Aries gives a tendency to sunstroke, cerebral hemorrhages or
congestion, inflammation of the brain, brain fever and delirium, shooting
pains in the head, insomnia, and wounds in the head; by reflex action in
Libra, inflammation of the kidneys, renal hemorrhage and renal calculi.
Mars in Taurus gives a tendency to mumps, enlarged or inflamed tonsils,
suffocation, adenoids, diphtheria, polypus and nosebleed, goitre,
inflammation of the larynx; by reflex action in Scorpio, excessive menstrual
flow, scalding urine, venereal ulcers, enlargement of the prostate gland and
strangury.
Mars in Gemini gives a tendency to hemorrhage of the lungs,
pneumonia, bronchitis, cough, wounds or fractures of hands, arms, and
collarbone; by reflex action in Sagittarius, fractured femur, and sciatica.
Mars in Cancer gives a tendency to milk-fever, inflammation, ulceration
and hemorrhage of the stomach, dyspepsia.
Mars in Leo gives a tendency to muscular rheumatism in the back,
overheating of the blood, enlargement of the heart and palpitation, pain in
the heart, suffocation and fainting (angina pectoris), inflammation of the
pericardium.
Mars in Virgo gives a tendency to typhoid, inflammation of the bowels,
peritonitis, worms, diarrhea, cholera, and ventral hernia, appendicitis.
Mars in Libra gives a tendency to inflammation of the kidneys, excess of
urine, haemorrhage of the kidneys, and renal stones; by reflex action in
Aries, brain-fever, sunstroke, pains in the head.
Mars in Scorpio gives a tendency to excessive menses, scalding
urine, gravel, sand, and renal stones, inflammation and ulceration of the
ovaries and uterus, also of the vagina and urethra, varicocele, enlargement
of the prostate gland, stricture and strangury, venereal ulcers and
hemorrhoids; by reflex action in Taurus, inflamed tonsils or larynx and
nosebleed.
Mars in Sagittarius gives a tendency to fracture or dislocation of the
femur, sciatica, and ulcers of the thighs; by reflex action in Gemini,
pneumonia, bronchitis and coughs.
Mars in Capricorn gives a tendency to carbuncles, erysipelas,
smallpox, chicken pox, measles, pimples, itch and other eruptive or
inflammatory skin diseases; by reflex action in Cancer, dyspepsia and
ulcerated stomach.
Mars in Aquarius gives a tendency to varicose veins, fracture of the leg
and blood-poisoning; by reflex action in Leo, heart failure, overheated
blood, fainting and palpitation.
Mars in Pisces gives a tendency to deformities of the feet, or accidents to
them, corns, bunions and perspiring feet; by reflex action in Virgo, ventral
hernia, inflammation of the bowels and diarrhea.
Uranus rules the ether which is the medium by which the light rays are
transmitted, hence he has considerable influence over the eyes and is
responsible, when afflicting the Sun or Moon, for various diseases of the
eyes, or even blindness. This is especially the case when the Sun or Moon
is placed in the Pleiades (Taurus 29), or the Ascelli (Leo 6) or Antares
(Sagittarius 8).
Modern astrologers have not yet had time to tabulate the full effects of
Uranus in all the signs, and as for the pathogenic effects still less is
known, but he is said to be exalted in Scorpio and our own experience seems
to indicate that Uranus has a very marked evil influence on the sex which is
ruled by this sign, producing most deep-seated venereal diseases. By reflex
action or affliction to planets in Taurus (ruled by Venus) where the organ
of coordinated action is located, he produces erratic movements, as seen in
St. Vitus dance, contortions, spasms, tetanus, cramps, hiccup and
hysteria.
As ruler of the ether and gases he is responsible for injury and shock by
electricity which travels through the ether. Nitrogen, a gas, is the base
of a number of compounds whose characteristic Uranian instability makes them
highly explosive, and Uranus is thus responsible for such deaths and
injuries as occur on that account, especially if placed in the Eighth House.
Uranus in Taurus gives a tendency to diminished pituitary secretion and
consequent abnormal growth.
Uranus in Gemini gives a tendency to spasmodic asthma, colds, and a
dry, hard cough.
Uranus in Cancer gives a tendency to hiccup, produced by the erratic
action of the diaphragm, also to a hard, dry stomach cough and cramp of the
stomach, gas and flatulence.
Uranus in Leo gives a tendency to palpitation, spasmodic heart action,
spinal meningitis and infantile paralysis; by reflex action from
Aquarius similar effects are now observable.
Uranus in Virgo gives a tendency to flatulence, and abdominal cramps.
Uranus in Libra gives a tendency to intermittent action of the kidneys and
venereal eruptions of the skin; by reflex action in Aries, sudden and
violent headaches, shooting pains in the head, and hallucinations.
Uranus in Scorpio gives a tendency to miscarriages, abortions, and venereal
diseases, and in the Fifth House he causes painful and difficult
parturition, generally involving the use of instruments and often the infant
is severely or fatally injured or stillborn.
Uranus in Capricorn usually works by reflex action in Cancer, but as
the children with this position are still young (this is written in 1918)
the full effects are as yet unknown.
Neptune, the octave of Mercury, works principally upon the nervous system
(ruled by Mercury) and at times produces frenzy where the person is beside
himself on account of religious or other excitement. At other times he
produces lethargy, coma, catalepsy, trance or mediumship, where the bodily
energies are in abeyance while the psychic powers are in a state of
hyperactivity. He rules the spinal canal, which is filled with ether during
life. (It is true that surgeons tap it and draw out a fluid, but they may
also draw water from a steam boiler because the steam condenses to water.)
This luminous gas is called the spinal spirit fire by esotericists, and by
vibrating the pineal gland, also ruled by Neptune, spiritual sight is
produced, but it depends upon the rate and pitch of these vibrations what the
person sees. By prayer, concentration and meditation, a state of ecstasy
may be produced where he sees the celestial hosts, or if a lower
rate of super-normal vibration is produced by drink or drugs he sees demoniac
shapes as related by sufferers of delirium, which is due to Neptune,
especially in the watery sign Pisces. The pathogenic influence of Neptune is
most evil in the Sixth House (or the sixth sign, Virgo) indicating disease,
or in the Twelfth House (or the twelfth sign, Pisces) which governs sorrow,
trouble and self-undoing. If these two houses are occupied by Taurus and
Scorpio, the signs ruling the throat and genitals, there is an abnormal and
perverted passional desire which gives a tendency to self-abuse, and
perversion of a still worse nature. The mind, ruled by Mercury, the
lower octave of Neptune, is morbid in its brooding upon unsavory subjects,
and parents with children having Neptune in the Sixth or Twelfth Houses will
do well to watch them carefully, especially if Neptune is in opposition to
Uranus; that covers a number of those who are now, in 1918, reaching
puberty, for Neptune has been going through the psychic sign Cancer while
Uranus was in the opposite sign Capricorn.
We have found that Neptune square Saturn and Jupiter brought mental
disturbances; Neptune conjunction Mars in Aries, square Uranus and the Moon
in Cancer caused temporary instability of a periodic nature; Neptune
conjunction Moon square Uranus caused spirit control. We have also seen many
other indications, but the full effects of Neptune have not yet been
systematically observed. We are working to that end, however, and hope in
future years to be able to present a fairly full tabulation.
It is well known to the esoteric astrologer that the human body has an
immense period of evolution behind it and that this splendid organism is the
result of a slow process of gradual upbuilding which is still continuing and
will make each generation better than the previous until in some far distant
future it shall have reached a stage of completion of which we cannot even
dream. It is also understood by the deeper students that in addition to the
physical body man has finer vehicles which are not yet seen by the great
majority of human beings, though all have within them latent a sixth sense
whereby they will in time cognize these finer sheaths of the soul. The
esotericist speaks of these finer vehicles as the vital body, made of ether, and
the desire body, made of desire stuff, the material whence we draw our
feelings and emotions, and with the addition of the sheath of mind and
the physical body these complete what may be termed the personality which is
the evanescent part distinct from the immortal spirit that uses these
vehicles for its expression. These finer vehicles interpenetrate the dense
physical body as air permeates water and have particular dominion over
certain parts thereof, because the physical body itself is a
crystallization of these finer vehicles in the same manner and upon the same
principle that the soft fluids of a snail's body gradually crystallize into
the hard and flinty shell which it carries upon its back. For the purpose
of this dissertation we may say broadly that the softer parts of our bodies
which we commonly call flesh may be divided into two kinds, glands and
muscles. The vital body was started in the Sun Period. Crystallization
from that time on in that vehicle has developed what we now call glands and
to this day they and the blood are the special manifestations of the
vital body within the physical vehicle, and therefore the glands as a
whole may be said to be under the rule of the life-giving Sun and the great
benefic, Jupiter. For it is the function of the vital body to build and
restore the tone of the muscles when tense and tired by the work imposed
upon them by the restless desire body which was started in the Moon Period.
The muscles are therefore ruled by the wandering Moon, which is the present
vantage point of the angels, the humanity of the Moon Period, and by the
impulsive and turbulent Mars, where the so-called "Fallen Angels," the
Lucifer spirits, dwell; that is to say as a whole, for the student must
carefully note that individual glands and particular groups of muscles are
under the rulership of other planets as well. It is as when we say that
all who live within the United States of America are citizens of that
country, but some are subject to the laws of California, others to those of
Maine.
We know the Hermetic axiom, "As above, so below," which is the master key
to all mysteries, and as there are upon the earth, the macrocosm, a great
many undiscovered places, so also in the microcosm of the body do we find
unknown countries that are a closed book to the scientific explorers. Chief
among them has been a small group of the so-called "ductless glands," seven
in number, namely:
The pituitary body, ruled by Uranus.
The pineal gland, ruled by Neptune.
The thyroid gland, ruled by Mercury.
The thymus gland, ruled by Venus.
The spleen, ruled by the Sun.
The two adrenals, ruled by Jupiter.
They have a great and particular interest for esotericists, and they may be
termed in a certain sense "the seven roses" upon the Cross of the body, for
they are intimately connected with the esoteric development of humanity. Four
of them, the Thymus Gland, the Spleen and the two Adrenals, are connected
with the personality. The Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland are
particularly correlated with the spiritual side of our nature and the
Thyroid Gland forms the link between. The astrological rule over these seven
glands is as follows:
The Spleen is the entrance gate of the solar forces specialized by each
human being and circulated through the body as the vital fluid, without
which no being can live. This organ is therefore governed by the Sun. The
two Adrenals are under the rulership of Jupiter, the great benefic, and exert
a calming, quieting and soothing effect when the emotional activities of the
Moon and Mars or Saturn have destroyed the poise. When the obstructive hand
of Saturn has awakened the melancholy emotions and laid its restraint upon
the heart, the Adrenals' secretions are carried by the blood to the heart
and act as a powerful stimulant in its effort to keep up the circulation,
while the Jovial optimism struggles against the Saturnine worries or against
the impulse of Mars, which stirs the desire body into turbulent emotions of
anger, rendering the muscles tense and trembling, dissipating the energy of
the system; then the secretion of the Adrenals comes to the rescue,
releasing the glycogen of the liver in a more abundant measure than usual
to cope with the emergency until the equipoise has been again attained,
and similarly during whatever other stress or strain. It was the knowledge
of this esoteric fact that prompted the ancient astrologers to place the kidneys
under the rulership of Libra, the Balance, and in order to avoid confusion of
ideas we may say the kidneys themselves play an important part in the
nutrition of the body, being under the rulership of Venus, the Lady of
Libra, but Jupiter governs the Adrenals, with which we are now
particularly engaged.
Both Venus and her higher octave, Uranus, govern the functions of
nutrition and growth, but in different ways and for different purposes.
Therefore Venus rules the Thymus Gland, which is the link between the parents
and the child until the latter has reached puberty. This gland is located
immediately behind the sternum or breast bone; it is largest in ante-natal
life and through childhood while growth is excessive and rapid. During that
time the vital body of the child does its most effective work, for the child
is not then subject to the passions and emotions generated by the desire
body after that comes to birth at or about the fourteenth year. But during
the years of growth the child cannot manufacture the red blood corpuscles as
does the adult, for the unborn, unorganized desire body does not then act as
an avenue for the Martian forces which assimilate the iron from the food and
transmute it into hemoglobin. To compensate for this lack there is stored
in the Thymus Gland a spiritual essence drawn from the parents, who are
symbolized by Venus, the ruler, and with this essence provided by the love
of the parents the child is able to accomplish the alchemistry of blood
temporarily until its desire body becomes dynamically active. Then the
Thymus Gland atrophies and the child draws from its own desire body the
necessary Martian force. From that time, under normal conditions, Uranus,
the octave of Venus, and ruler of the Pituitary Body, takes charge of the
function of growth and assimilation in the following manner:
It is well known that all things, our food included, radiate from
themselves continuously small particles which given an index of the thing
whence they emanate, its quality included. Thus when we lift the food to our
mouth a number of these invisible particles enter the nose and by excitation
of the olfactory tract convey to us a knowledge of whether the food we
are about to take is suitable for this purpose or not, the sense of smell
warning us to discard such foods as have a noxious odor, etc. But besides
those particles which attract or repel us from food by their action upon the
olfactory tract through the sense of smell, there are others which penetrate
the sphenoid bone, impinge upon the Pituitary Body and start the Uranian
alchemistry by which a secretion is formed and injected into the blood.
This furthers assimilation through the chemical ether, thus affecting the
normal growth and well-being of the body through life. Sometimes this
Uranian influence of the Pituitary Body is eccentric and therefore
responsible for strange and abnormal growths which produce the unfortunate
freaks of nature we occasionally meet.
But besides being responsible for the spiritual impulses which generate
the before-mentioned physical manifestations of growth, Uranus, working
through the Pituitary Body, is also responsible for the spiritual phases of
growth which aid awakened man in his efforts to penetrate the veil into the
Invisible Worlds. In this work it is, however, associated with Neptune, the
ruler of the Pineal Gland, and it will therefore be necessary, in order to
properly elucidate, that we study the functions of the Thyroid Gland, ruled
by Mercury, and of the Pineal Gland, which is under the domination of his
higher octave, Neptune, simultaneously.
That the Thyroid Gland is under the rule of Mercury, the planet of
reason, is readily realized when we understand the effect which the
degeneration of this gland has upon the mind, as shown in the diseases of
Cretinism and Myxedema. The secretions of this gland are as necessary to
the proper functioning of the mind as ether is to the transmission of
electricity, that is to say, upon the physical plane of existence where the
brain transmutes thought into action. Contact with and expression in the
invisible worlds depends upon the functional ability of the Pineal Gland,
which is altogether spiritual in function, and is therefore ruled by the
octave of Mercury, Neptune, the planet of spirituality. But Neptune operates
in conjunction with the Pituitary Body ruled by Uranus, the planet of wisdom,
as has already been stated.
Scientists have wasted much time in speculation upon the nature and
function of these two little bodies, the Pituitary Body and the Pineal
Gland, but without avail, and principally because, as Mephistopheles says so
sarcastically to the young man who wants to study science under Faust:
"Who e'er would know and treat of aught alive
Seeks first the living spirit thence to drive;
Then are the lifeless fragments in his hand;
He lacks, alas! the vital spirit band."
No one can really and truly observe the physiological functions of any
organ under such conditions as exist in the laboratory, on the operating
table, or in the dissection or vivisection chamber. To arrive at an
adequate understanding one must necessarily see these organs exercising their
physiological functions in the living body, and that can only be done by
means of the spiritual sight. There are a number of organs which are either
atrophying or developing; the former show the path we have already traveled
during our past evolution, the latter are finger-posts, indicating our
future development. But there is still another class of organs which are
neither degenerating nor evolving; they are simply dormant at the present
time. Physiologists believe that the Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland are
atrophying because they find these organs more developed in some of the
lowest classes of life, such as worms, but as a matter of fact they are
wrong in their ideas; these organs are only dormant. Some have also
suspected that the Pineal Gland is in some way connected with the mind,
because it contains certain crystals after death, and the quantity was much
less in those who were mentally defective than in people of normal mentality.
This conclusion is right, but the Seer knows that the spinal canal of the
living is not fluid with fluid; that the blood is not liquid, and that
these organs have no crystals in them when the body is alive; these
assertions are made with full knowledge of the fact that the blood and the
spinal essence are liquid when drawn out of the physical body, living or
dead, and the contents of the Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland appear
crystalline when the brain is dissected; but the reason is similar to that
which causes steam drawn from a steam boiler to condense immediately upon
contact with the atmosphere, and molten metal drawn from a smelter's furnace
to crystallize immediately upon withdrawal therefrom.
All these substances are purely spiritual essences when inside the body;
they are then ethereal and the substance in the Pineal Gland, when seen by
the spiritual sight, appears as light. Furthermore, when one Seer looks
upon the Pineal Gland of another who is then also exercising his spiritual
faculties, this light is of a most intense brilliancy and of an iridescence
similar to but transcending in beauty the most wonderful play of the Northern
Lights, the Aurora Borealis, ever witnessed by the writer, and he has seen
them many times. It may also be said that the function of this organ seems
to have changed in the course of human evolution. During the earlier epochs
of our present stay upon the earth, when man's body was a large, baggy
thing into which the spirit had not yet entered, but was there only as an
overshadowing presence, there was an opening in the top and the Pineal
Gland was within it; it was then an organ of orientation, giving a sense of
direction. As the human body condensed, it became less and less able to
endure the intense heat which prevailed during that time and the Pineal Gland
gave warning when the body was brought too near one of the many craters and
active volcanoes which were then erupting the thin earth crust, thus
enabling the spirit to guide it away from these dangerous places. It was an
organ of direction which operated by feeling, but feeling has since been
distributed over the skin of the whole body, and this is an indication to
the esotericist that some day the senses of hearing and sight will also be
similarly distributed so that we shall both see and hear with our whole body
and thus become still more sensitive in those respects than we are now.
Since then the Pineal Gland and the Pituitary Body have become
temporarily dormant to make man oblivious to the invisible world while he
learns the lessons afforded by the material world; but the Pituitary Body
has manifested the Uranian influence sporadically in abnormal physical
growth, producing freaks and monstrosities of various kinds, while Neptune,
working also abnormally through the Pineal Gland, has been responsible for
the abnormal spiritual growth of medicine men, witches and mediums of spirit
controls. When they are awakened to normal activities these two
ductless glands will open the door to the inner worlds in a sane and safe
manner, but in the meantime the Thyroid Gland, ruled by Mercury, the planet
of reason, holds the secretion necessary to give the brain balance.
In the future the ductless glands are destined to play a prominent role;
their development will accelerate evolution greatly, for their effects are
mainly mental and spiritual. We are now nearing the Aquarian Age; the Sun
as therefore beginning to transmit the highly intellectual vibrations of
this sign which accounts for the intuitions, premonitions and telepathic
transmission now so prevalent. In the final analysis these phenomena are
due to the awakening of the Pituitary Body, ruled by Uranus, the lord of
Aquarius, and every passing year will make them more manifest.
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