The main reason I have inserted this horoscope, is to refer to the marked evil aspects for marriage. In a nativity where there are evil planets in the 7th house, the house of marriage, it is always unfavorable for happiness in married life, and having the planet Neptune in that house is particularly evil, but more especially when Mars is there also in close opposition of Saturn rising. Had the Sun first made the square of

Saturn or Mars it would have been much worse for her marriages than it really has been, but the Sun so close to a square of these evil planets has made it bad enough.

In a lady's horoscope she marries the person denoted by the planet that the Sun first applies to by aspect for her first husband. See par. 298 and 299, page 164, also par. 305, page 165. The first aspect the Sun makes in this horoscope is a trine to Jupiter in Leo in the 12th house, (an evil house,) and Jupiter is within 2° of a square of her ruling planet, Mercury. (See picture of first husband.)

The above picture is almost a typical Jupiter in Leo person,* but these two ruling planets being in square to each other, and Mercury retrograde, caused her to leave him. The second aspect the Sun makes is

*If the student compares the above picture with Hon. William J. Bryan's, he will see a resemblance, as they are both Jupiter men.

a sextile of Venus, and Mr. Solomon was a real Venus person; Venus being so close to a sextile of the Moon caused her to have considerable affection for him, and the picture of the second husband is almost a typical person described by Venus in Scorpio, both in personal appearance and stature, and it also indicates great reputation for musical talent. For his description the student should turn to par. 123, page 116, and pars. 245, 246, page 135. No doubt there was more harmony between this lady and Mr. Solomon than with her other husbands, but his bad reputation for women finally undermined their happiness.

The third aspect the Sun makes is a sextile of Mars, just setting, near the cusp of the 7th house, and afflicting the house of marriage. The

For his

picture of the third husband indicates a real Mars person. personal description the student should turn to par. 103, page 113, par. 259, page 138, and par. 235, page 134. The union with this gentleman was of very short duration as the planet Mars is in the 7th house and so close to an opposition of Saturn within orbs of the ascendant.

The fourth picture shows a person indicated by the planet Uranus in the sign Gemini; for his description turn to par. 58, page 105; but she will not marry him. (See par. 302, page 165.) Should she marry again, the next husband is indicated by the planet Saturn in the sign Virgo, and his personal description would not be anything like the last picture referred to; for his personal description, the student should turn to par. 73, page 107, and to par. 258, page 137, also par. 217, page 133. He will

have a peculiar sullen or down look, and not be agreeable in his manners. It is more than probable that this lady will marry a fourth time, and will also separate from that husband, possibly within a year after the marriage. This horoscope is not fortunate for children and certainly she will have only a small family, and these will not be of much comfort or benefit to her, as Saturn lord of the 5th house, (the house of children,) is afflicting the ascendant, but the Moon making a conjunction of Saturn, and at the same time being in sextile to Venus, indicates that she would be very fond of her children, and they would be good-looking.

In early life this lady would be very willful and head-strong, but on the whole good-natured and kind-hearted, except when out of temper; she must have had a number of very severe attacks of illness which seriously threatened her life. One was during her first year, and another at 3 years of She had a marked evil time at 6 1-2 years, also at 7 years, 14 years and 21 years. Probably she married the first time when near 18 years of age. Commencing September 1890, and continuing up to the fore part of 1896, she had a number of very evil planetary influences which have caused her serious trouble and unhappiness.

age.

The present year, 1898, will not be a fortunate year, especially May, June, July, August, September and November. The year 1899 will also be unfortunate for her as she will have Uranus afflicting her Moon's place, also Saturn's and Mars' places and in opposition to its own place and a conjunction of the Sun's place in her horoscope. All these are very evil aspects and will afflict her financially and in her health. will afflict her in a similar manner all through 1899.

Uranus

If Queen Victoria had a horoscope similar to that of Lillian Russell, she would have much more sympathy and feeling for women who are unfortunate in marriage or compelled to be divorced from their husbands.

I have inserted the foregoing pictures and horoscope of this talented lady to show that when a female has a nativity which is unfortunate for marriage, no matter how attractive she may be in personal appearance, figure or complexion, and no matter how talented a musician she may be, conversationalist or entertainer, yet when it is so evil for marriage, it is an impossibility for that person to retain or live happily with their life's partner. Yet when the horoscope is fortunate for marriage, they live happily even if the lady is old and anything but good-looking.

The same principles apply to those horoscopes of parties who are unfortunate in burying their companions after marriage, whether men or women. In such horoscopes as show the affliction of the life's partner, especially if afflicted in the 6th, 8th or 2d house, no matter how indulgent or careful they are of their partners, those partners are only of short life.

I wish the student to bear in mind that I do not blame Lillian Russell for not living happily with her husbands, because her horoscope shows distinctly that it would be more her husband's fault than her's that she did not continue to live happily with them, and that she is also of an affectionate nature, and ought to live happily with almost any man, if it was not for the evil aspects for marriage in her horoscope.

From Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader, for Dec. 1869.

THE HOROSCOPE OF LORD GEORGE GORDON BYRON.

Lord Byron's Nativity, January 22d, 1788, at 1.18 a. m., London.

“Little did Lord Byron think when writing these beautiful lines that years after his death and burial the skill of the prophet's eye,' in 'reading the rays of the Stars,' should be the only authentic record left to justify his fair name and character; to remove the most ignominious charge of incest, and fix the fabrication of it on the right person, that is Lady Byron.

"The time of birth of this truly noble and most illustrious poet was obtained some years ago, from an authentic source, so that there can be no doubt of its correctness. From what source I received it is of no account to the reader, only I can assure him that I did not receive it from either Harriet Beecher Stowe or Lady Byron. And its perfect agreement with the principally known events of his life exhibits a most remarkable proof of Astrology, by far too strong for the enemies of the science to invalidate.

"Lord Byron was born when 6 degrees of Scorpio were rising, which caused him to be born under the planet Mars, in Cancer, near a conjunction of the Moon, and applying to an opposition of Mercury, which will describe a person near the middle height, well built, light hair and light complexioned, high forehead and oval face.

"The Moon is the giver of life, and being in conjunction with an evil planet, and in opposition to another, and otherwise materially afflicted,

indicated a short life, and also the kind of death, But I shall refer to this part of the horoscope afterwards.

"The extraordinary mental qualifications which Lord Byron possessed are most amply demonstrated by the positions and configurations of the Moon and Mercury. The latter planet is the principal ruler of the intellectual faculties, and being free from the affliction of the Solar rays, in the moveable and tropical sign Capricorn, oriental, and approaching a sextile of the ascendant, by which means he may be said to be in a glorious position, contributes, according to the Quadripartile of Ptolemy, to render the mind clever, sensible, capable of great learning, inventive, expert, logical, studious of nature, speculative, of good genius, emulous, benevolent, skillful in argument, accurate in conjecture, and adapted to science and mystery.' *

The

page also adds, 'tractable; but Mercury being in opposition to the Moon and Mars, instead of tractibility, gives hatred of control; inspires the native with the most lofty ideas and aspiring sentiments; gives him originality and eccentricity, with a firmness of inind almost inclining to obstinacy, and which made this illustrious native such an enemy to the track of custom, for which he was so remarkable, and which contributed to form that lofty genius which alike rode in the whirlwind, or sparkled in the sunbeam.

See Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, page 167, translated from the Greek by J. M. Ashmond, (Edition of 1822.) A work which has stood the test of criticisms of its opponents, for nearly two thousand years, and it is likely to be a text book on Astrology for two thousand years to come.