For instance, if he wanted to multiply a row of figures by any particular number, and every time he attempted to multiply a figure by another figure, he had to commence with the multiplication table-twice 1 is 2, twice 2 is 4, until he arrived at the multiplication of those two particular figures, he would be a long time getting through, and the chances are that it would not be correct, even after he thought he had completed the example.

I once heard of a woman who received a love-letter when a girl, and she preserved it until she was over 70 years old, and it became yellow with age, and soiled with handling, still she would put on her spectacles and read it, and commence, " M-y, my; d-e-a-r, dear, My dear, l-o-v-e, love, My dear love," and so she kept on until she got through the whole letter, and never learned to read it right along. Had this woman learned to spell, read and write properly when she was young, she would have then commenced reading and gone right on without any hesitation until she got to the end; and would have read it with more satisfaction, than having to spell each word and repeat each word and sentence. So any person who learns the elements of Astrology properly, that is, the nature of the houses, the signs, the planets, and the aspects, will commence reading a horoscope with the same facility that a person reads a page in a book in a known language; not only that, but if he knows absolutely that the time of birth is correct, or that the time he has set a horoscope for, on special business, is the correct time, he knows then that what he is reading will be all true and correct, as the planets do not lie-whereas the page in the book might be all fiction or untruths from beginning to end.

As the student progresses, he will be astonished at the exact truth and correctness of Astrology, and wonder how the ancients could have collected so many facts and rules, especially when he comes across horoscopes that are not what is termed complicated. For instance, a horoscope of a person born under Jupiter in Saggittary, with Jupiter and the Moon both in the same sign in the ascendant, and not in aspect to any other planet, or any other planet aspecting the ascendant. When the student meets with a horoscope of that kind, he not only can describe that person accurately, either verbally or in writing; but if the student is anything of an artist, he can draw almost an exact picture of that person; describe how he will look when a young man at the age of 24; give the color of the hair and eyes, or any particular striking features, and the height and build, even before the native is a month old; not only that, but he can give a correct description of the lady that he will marry, or whether they will live happy or unhappy, also the kind of business that he would succeed in, and the various talents and inclinations; his disposition and temper, the special diseases that he will be liable to; length of life, and manner of death, etc.

But in those horoscopes where what is termed the lord of the ascendant is in a tall, light sign. and the sign ascending is a stout, dark sign; and the Moon in a tall, light sign, it is much more difficult to become familiar with all these variations.

But by constant study, he will be

able to describe a person under such conflicting testimonies; but it cannot be done without a great deal of practical experience in the science.

But the first thing to be done, and which is very important, is that the student should always find the correct positions of the signs of the Zodiac, and calculate the longitude of the planets correctly, and never make a mistake; because if he should have the position of the planets wrong in a horoscope, it is impossible for him to proceed without committing errors. The student must know already that it takes considerable knowledge to even calculate a map of the heavens correctly. Mr. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, advises all his readers never to pay an Astrologer more than 25 cents, for reading or writing a nativity. The reader must see that it is worth 25 cents to calculate the horoscope, without reading or writing the same; and the question is, would Charles A. Dana like to give up his position as editor of the New York Sun to calculate horoscopes and write them at 25 cents each.

It is evident that Charles A. Dana looks on Astrology in the same light as the editor of the New York Times. It is strange that such men who are generally well informed in many respects (indeed if they were not, they could not hold their positions), look on every kind of learning which they do not understand, or was not taught them in college, as "debasing superstition," and all those persons who do not think and believe as they do, they regard as "ignorant and superstitious," and they bewail the "mournful incompleteness of modern civilization and education," and think those persons' knowledge and learning to be entirely harmful in their influence on the rising generation, and that any person practicing or teaching those sciences should be subject to all kinds of persecution, and the public should be taught to rob and injure them all they possibly can. Even ministers of the

gospel, judges and legislators, entertain similar ideas.

As the student advances in the noble science of Astrology, he will gradually begin to find that those persons who stood so high as learned and scientific men in his estimation, will be gradually lowered from their high pinnacle of scientific attainments, and the public will no longer send strange problems" to be "confidentially propounded" by those "journalists," especially when the readers find that the editors themselves do not know half as much on the subject as the reader himself. See p. 47c.

The next horoscope is that of the Chinese Consul's Son, referred to on page 35. I insert this on account of it being especially good for first marriage, but it is also good for several marriages in succession, if he is so disposed. Some of my readers may think that I picked this out of several thousand Chinese times of birth, but this is the only one I had; so I had “Hobson's Choice." I insert it to show the effect that Astrology has produced in the nativities of successive generations by comparing horoscopes before marriage.

The one following is Queen Victoria's. She has no patience with a divorced woman, and it is said she will not receive one at Court. No doubt she thinks it is every married woman's own fault if they do not have the Sun apply to a good aspect of the planet Jupiter, in its own sign and lord of the 7th house (the house of marriage) as she has. I shall endeavor, as I proceed, to make every horoscope either "point a moral or adorn a tale."

HOROSCOPE OF THE CHINESE CONSUL'S SON.

He was born July 25, 1895, at 1 A. M., No. 26 West 9th Street, New York City. See pages 35 and 36 of this volume.

To calculate this child's horoscope, the student will require Raphael's Ephemeris for 1895, and he will see in the Ephemeris for July of that year, in the 3d column the heading "Sidereal Time," and on a line with the 25th day, 8 hours 11 minutes and 47 seconds. If he adds 12 hours from noon of the previous day up to 12 o'clock night, and then 1 hour for 1 o'clock in the morning, he will find that it amounts to 21 hours and nearly 12 minutes. If he looks in the Table of Houses for New York City, he will find under the heading "Sidereal Time," the nearest figures to that amount is, 21 hours 13 minutes and 52 seconds, and on a line with that number in the Table of Houses, he will find the various signs to be written on the 10th, 11th, 12th, and the ascendant or ist house, the 2d and 3d houses, which he will copy in the blank chart, with their degrees and minutes along side, and then copy the opposite signs which are shown on page 143. He will also copy the degrees and minutes which are along side the northern signs in the chart.

Then the student will commence to insert what are called the planets' places; and he will find that 1 o'clock in the morning is just 6 hours before 7 o'clock; therefore, he will deduct one-fourth of the degrees or minutes from what are marked in the Ephemeris on the 25th, which the planets have traveled from the 24th to the 25th at 7 o'clock in the morning, and the remainder is the positions of the planets in the signs and houses. In the horoscope he will also insert the's (North) Node (88), which he will find on the 2d page of the Ephemeris near the top on the right hand, and the 's (South) Node (88) he will place in the opposite sign, giving it the same degrees and minutes.

After the student has calculated the longitude of all the planets, and written them in the blank chart, then he will proceed to calculate the "Part of Fortune" (→). (See 292-293.) This is done by adding the longitude of the ascendant to the longitude of the Moon, and then from that subtract the longitude of the Sun, and the remainder is the longitude of the "Part of Fortune" (→).

In making these calculation, we always count from the beginning of the sign Y, and when we insert in its proper place in the horoscope, we also count from the beginning of the sign P. In this horoscope Y is on the cusp of the 12th house, and 8 is intercepted in the 12th house, this makes the ascendant 2 signs, 9 degrees and 23 minutes we count again from P to the sign next to the one that the Moon is in, we shall find it to be 5 signs, and the Moon is 14 degrees and 25 minutes in the 6th sign:

If

Again, if the student counts from P next to the sign that the Sun is in, he will find it is 4 signs; and the Sun is 2 degrees and o minutes in the 5th sign; if he subtracts 4 signs 2 degrees and o minutes from 7 signs 23 degrees and 48 minutes, he will find the following result:

He will find that is 3 signs 21 minutes and 48 seconds, and if he counts from the beginning of P to the end of the sign II, he will find that it is 3 whole signs, therefore, the is 21 degrees and 48 minutes in the 4th sign, which is, and near the cusp of the 3d house."

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The following chart is a map of the heavens for the time of birth of the Chinese Consul's Son, born July 25, 1895, 1 A. M., New York City.

* In this volume I shall avoid, if possible, entering into any discussions or arguments with other Astrologers, or taking sides with those who differ among themselves, and will only train my guns on the public enemies of Astrology. I shall be the last one to discharge any ammunition on the professors of this science. But there is one part of Astrology which is technically called the Part of Fortune," and which has been a bone of contention among Astrologers for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, that I cannot pass without giving to it a few words of explanation, and seeing if I can reconcile those differences of opinion on that point.

Mr. James Wilson in his "Astrological Dictionary." calls the "Part of Fortune a "bunch of nothing hatched in the brain of Claudius Ptolemy," and he goes on to ridicule the idea with much sarcasm. But other Astrologers, such as Sibiey, and several others whose names I have forgotten, attach much importance to the "Part of Fortune," and regard it and its influence very n uch in a similar light to what we regard the influence of what are termed the seven planets They not only attribute to its good or evil influence (according to its aspects) of the native's financial affairs, or what is termed money matters, but they also give it the power to determine the length of life of the native, the same as the Sun or Moon, when either of them are "Hvleg," or when these len iraries are not posited in the "Hvlegical Places," and the Part of Fortune happens to be so posited that is from 5 degrees above the cusp of the ascendant to 25 degrees below; or from 5 degrees below the cusp of the 7th house to 25 degrees above, and from 5 degrees below the cusp of the 9th house to 25 degrees below the cusp of the 11th house.

[I wish to inform the student that I have written this horoscope without once referring to the text books giving the rules and principles of Astrology. Similar to writing a letter without referring to the dictionary to see whether I have spelled each and every word correctly, or whether I have expressed the exact meaning of each and every word which I have made use of in writing the letter. It is advisable that the student become equally familiar with the principles and rules of this fascinating science, so that he can adopt the same method in reading a horoscope, and scarcely ever make a mistake, unless he happens to come across a nativity where the position of the planets and signs of the Zodiac are such that he has never seen anything like them before. In that case, he will then have to refer to the rules and principles of Astrology that have been laid down in the numerous text books that have been published on this science; as he might refer to an English dictionary to find the exact spelling or meaning of a word that he had never met with.]

This child was born under the planet Mercury (☀), in the sign (131), just commencing to rise, in sextile to the Moon (247) and the planet (244), both in the sign T (121-145) in the 5th house, and also in trine to H (209) in the sign M, in the 6th house, with II (15) and on the ascendant. All the planets are under the earth, which causes it to be a weak horoscope, both for health, life, and arriving at prominence.

If the Part of Fortune should happen to be in any of these positions above-named, and neither the Sun or the Moon are in these places, they say that in these cases the Part of Fortune is Hyleg or the "Giver of Life," and these Astrologers have given a number of illustrations of horoscopes to prove their assertion. I must say that I disagree with these Astrologers, and believe, from my own experience, that the Part of Fortune has only reference to the native's money matters or his financial standing. In all horoscopes which I have carefully examined whenever the Part of Fortune has been much afflicted by the conjunctions or evil aspects of the unfortunate planets, although the native may be wealthy in the common sense of the term, yet he is generally very hard up for ready cash, and often meets with serious disaster or misfortune on account of not being able to command money on short notice. But when the Part of Fortune is in good aspect to fortunate planets and in what are termed good houses in the native's horoscope, I have found that he generally keeps in easy circumstances, and has a comfortable income, and is enabled to pay his debts. If the Part of Fortune is very much afflicted by evil planets, or on the contrary it is in good aspects with the fortunate planets, and also in fortunate houses, these conditions of the native's money matters may have much influence on the native's life, and in some cases when very much afflicted, may have a tendency to shorten it. It should always be borne in mind, that when the native is young or in infancy, these evil aspects to his money matters generally fall on the parents or guardians, and so afflict the native indirectly.

When the Part of Fortune is in cadent houses and has no aspects to any particular planet, either good or bad, I find that it is not worth while taking any notice of it, as in these instances it has very little influence in the condition of the native's life, or even in his money matters or worldly

circumstances.

It is only these persons who have had but little experience or practice in Astrology who wish to discard entirely the Part of Fortune. Although in some horoscopes it has but little influence, yet the student will find in others that it has a very great influence on the native's money affairs. I sincerely hope that the student will find in his own horoscope that the Part of Fortune is either. in the ascendant, 2d, 11th, midheaven, 7th or 5th houses, and that it is in good aspect to Jupiter, Vus, the Sun and Moon. If such is the case, he will certainly find his path through life very much smoother and happier than the majority.

In the horoscope of the daughter of Mrs. Maud S., her Part of Fortune is very much afflicted by an opposition of Mercury, and a square of Uranus, and she will certainly feel the effect of these afflictions all through life. In the horoscope of the Chinese Consul's Son, the Part of Fortune is in conjunction with the planet Jupiter, in the sign Cancer, and Jupiter is in its exaltation; also the Moon disposes of the Part of Fortune; and the Moon is in conjunction with Venus, and both are in good aspect to Mercury, Jupiter and the Part of Fortune. We say in this case that the Part of Fortune is very strong, and well dignified by having so many good aspects, even if cadent.

The Part of Fortune is a point which is the same distance from the ascendant that the Moon is from the Sun, and it is called the luminary to the ascendant. It is always under the earth, frcm New Moon to Full Moon, and above the earth from Full Moon to New Moon again.