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some considered good, but this is doubtful; it is better to regard it as ‘resolvent’ in its action, modifying and translating or transmuting the influence of one planet towards that of the other.

With regard to all aspects, particular attention should be paid to the application of the swifter moving planet, aspects in process of formation by application being far more important than aspects from which the swifter planet is separating, especially if the latter is the significator. The following explanation will illustrate this idea.

If Venus is the ruling planet, and first applies to the conjunction of Mercury while separating from the square aspect of Saturn, the application will be of primary importance, and the separation secondary, even if the separating aspect is closer than the application ; for the separation indicates a lesson that has been learned and the application a lesson that is to be learned, either in this life or the next.* Ifthe ruler has just left one aspect, and applies to another, give the principal value to the influence forming. The separating from any aspect to Saturn and applying to Jupiter is favourable for health, wealth and happiness ; but if the Moon separate from any aspect of Jupiter and apply to Mars or Saturn it is unfavourable.

Several astrologers have noticed the effects of the luminaries and the planets separating from certain planets and their application to others, but the AZoon’s influence is the principal one to note in these cases, and the following separations and applications of the Moon denote the general effects of the applications.

4 to Hi Exceptional experiences, a remarkable life. 44... fy Unfavourable environment, repression and serious obstacles.

yt ,, ¥% Rising fortune, social aid, powerful friends.

yt 4, S$ Chequered career, misfortunes, failing fortune.

4t 5, © Success and fame, honours and growing fortune.

tt | 9 Helpful friends, prosperity and a happy life.

ts 4, & A changeful life, fluctuating fortune, many struggles.

* This consideration explains the old rule that a planet is more ‘powerful’ when separating than when applying ; for we can see that its effect, as shown :n the character and actions, will of course be more pronounced.

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Many enemies, deprivations, sorrowful experiences.

Loss of liberty, danger of poverty, many disappointments

Success in foreign lands, sudden good fortune.

A disturbed life, misfortunes through misconduct or fateful tendencies Separations, estrangements, romantic attachments.

Strange pleasures, unexpected success, good abilities.

Diplomatic, adventurous, liable to pass through a remarkable career.

Danger of imprisonment, deserved or otherwise, uncertain character. Sudden reversals, intrigues, liaisons and many dangers.

Declining fame and fortune, many reversals.

Gain through literature, travel, the law, church, and the young.

An uneven career, suffering through impulsive acts.

Violent temper, grave dangers through rash and thoughtless conduct, Misfortune, disease and misery.

Gain through favours and powerful friends.

Dangers from the opposite sex and passion.

Loss through fraud, deceit and bad temper.

Forlorn hopes, sorrow through superiors, peculiar experiences. Peculiar episodes, sudden adventures, flashes of intuition. Falls, collapses, chronic complaints.

Successful love affairs, gain through art or music.

Gain through intellect, science and invention.

Loss of friendships, disappointments, dual experiences. Extremes of fortune, remarkable experiences. Disappointments, disgrace, scandal.

Noble and lofty aspirations, a peaceful life. Dangerous attachments, misfortunes.

Tue Moon’s Appiications—Continued. Mental disabilities, degenerating tendencies, sadness, Latent genius, a clever mind, some original talent.

Cynical tendencies, pessimistic views, hard nature. Intuitive, gain through application and honest endeavours. Self-important, conceited, selfish, and too assertive. Expanding mind, high aspirations, full nature.

Musical, artistic, cheerful, good nature, successful,

If the Moon separates from no planets but applies first to any

aspect, the following is the general influence.

Sudden gain and loss through adventure. Misfortune, sorrow and depression.

Prosperity, wealth and happiness, kind and good. Indiscretion, loss through impulse and rash acts. Gain from superiors, noble disposition.

Good fortune, social gain, nice disposition.

i Clever, intellectual, but not over fortunate.

The above can be considerably expanded by a knowledge of the sign, house, and nature of the aspect.

Those who have realised how essential it is that any hints as to the nature of planetary influences, aspects, etc., should not be accepted too matter-of-fact and literal a sense, will, it is hoped, forgive a further insistence on this point for the sake of their fellows who have not.

It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the student that the planetary influences, aspects, etc., are primarily of a super-materia! nature ; so that a description of their true influence cou/d not be accurately expressed in words, which are material things. And although in the progress of his study the difference between the influence of one planet and another, one aspect and another, and so on, will gradually take definite shape in the student’s mind, yet he will never be able adequately to portray his idea in words,—however much he may try to do so.— any more than the effect a beautiful sunset has upon a sensitive mind can be fully expressed even in the most poetic language: for thought and feeling are always in advance of, and transcend, language. This difficulty of description, then, is more or less inevitable, but the intuitive mind will be able to grasp much of what is meant by the aid of the hints that have been given, and they will therefore serve their purpose well enough, no doubt. -It is only because the author has found by experience that beginners are too apt to take what is said as a hard and fast

rule, invariable in all cases, that he has felt this caution to be necessary. £

It should be remembered in studying the foregoing lists that the conjunctions or aspects which appear first in each list are those formed petween the slowest planets ; they are therefore slow in formation and in dissolution and remain in operation for a lengthy period. Thus the conjunction of *# and HI will continue within “orbs” for a period of several years. At the last conjunction, for instance, i approached within an orb of 8° of *# as early as April, 1817, but it did not reach completion till March 2ist, 1821, and did not pass out of orbs until the end of December, 1825—a period of practically nine years, during the whole of which time these planets may be said to have been ‘within orbs of a conjunction.’

From this consideration we learn two things. First, that the orbs we allow for an aspect would seem to require a certain amount of restriction in the case of the more distant planets. Second, that since during a period of four or five years (halving the above soas to be on the safe side) every person born would have these two planets within orbs ofa conjunction, it must follow that the influence of such conjunction must be exceedingly general in its effect and must affect the community more than the individual: and we should therefore expect to find it indicating merely general tendencies rather than specific qualities: nor should we look for strong effect in the personal life of the native, unless (a) the aspect were very near completion, in which case it might be expected to have a marked effect on the character, and hence on the career, or (0) the planets forming such aspect occupied one of the angles, and would thus show out in the environment and personal fate. As an instance of the former, we may mention Sir Richard Burton and Mr Joseph Wallace, both born on March aist, 1821, and both having *? 6 HI in the second house of the

nativity. The horoscopes, and incidents in the lives, of these two very

remarkable people will be found in the issues of Mopern Astro.ocy for August, 1907, and October, 1905, respectively.