Chapter VIII. HEALTH AND THE Hytec. Lencty or LIFE AND THE APHETA（续 1）

This only happens under bad aspects; for, in general, any sign will give good health when the cusp of the ascendant is well fortified, and Capricorn and Scorpio, if receiving good aspects, may give great tenacity of life in old age. It sometimes happens that hereditary influence may be seen in the rising sign, and that not only in matters of health but alsoin events. Thus, when Scorpio rises, an important death may occur among the relatives or close associates of the parents a few months before or shortly after the child’s birth; when Libra rises, a marriage; when Sagittarius rises, a journey, or religious matters may come prominently forward ; and so on with affairs signified by the other signs.

In matters of health, positive signs act similarly to the Sun when hyleg, and negative signs to the Moon; but when afflicted each sign may cause its own particular type of disease according to the planet ruling it and the part of the body it governs.

- The head is lable to suffer and the native will be affected with toothache, neuralgia, gumboils, measles, small-pox, ringworms, and vertigo. When the ascendant is much afflicted by either Mars or Jupiter, danger of epilepsy, apoplexy, and insanity.

% The throat is liable to be affected, and the native suffers from quinsy,

diphtheria, sore throat, abscesses, etc. If the descendant is much afflicted there is danger of heart disease, fits, and sudden death.

tl The chest and lungs are the most sensitive parts of the body, hence the native is liable to suffer from asthma, bronchitis, consumption and nervous disorders. If the ascendant is much afflicted there is danger of brain fever, hypochondria, and diseases arising from impure blood.

95 The stomach and digestive organs are easily disordered, giving the native a tendency to suffer from indigestion, asthma, coughs, and wasting or chronic diseases. If the ascendant is much afflicted there is danger of pleurisy, gastric troubles, and dropsy, or even cancer.

QR, The loins and back are the weakest parts of the body, giving a liability to lumbago, syncope, palpitation, fevers, and eye affections. If the ascendant is much afflicted there is danger of jaundice, small-pox, rheumatic fever, and heart disease.

my ‘The bowels are liable to give trouble, causing the native to suffer from spasms, colic, dysentery, or chronic constipation. If the ascendant is much afficted there is danger of consumption of the bowels, cholera, and strangulation of the urine.

<= The kidneys or bladder will give trouble, causing the native to suffer from debility, weakness in the back, and ulcers. If the ascendant is much afflicted there is danger of diabetes, Bright’s disease and spinal trouble.

The secret parts are liable to weakness, causing the native to suffer from piles, gravel, ruptures, and venereal diseases. If the ascendant is much afflicted there is a liability to fistulas, gravel, stone, strange blood poisonings, and peculiar diseases generally.

ft The thighs and buttocks are liable to become affected. ‘The native is liable to suffer from blood disorders, tumours, gout, and fevers. If the ascendant is much afflicted there is danger of accidents, rheumatism, and violent hurts.

v8 The knees are the parts of the body that first show signs of weakness. The native is liable to suffer from rheumatism, cutaneous complaints, eczema, and colds. If the ascendant is much afflicted there is danger of chronic disorders affecting the chest and giving rise to hysteria and general debility.

<< There is a liability to nervous disorders and affections of the blood.

}% The native is liable to suffer from gout, impure blood, and boils; also from ailments arising from cold or damp feet and from bunions, etc,

tf Neptune rising predisposes to melancholia, weird fancies, mental complaints and, when much afflicted, obsession.

Hi Uranus rising gives a tendency to incurable and uncommon disorders, chiefly affecting the nerves and psychic aura.

h Saturn rising gives a liability to suffer from chill, cold, poor circulation, obstructions, constipation, and chronic disorders such as rheumatism and wasting diseases.

Y¥ Jupiter rising aftects the blood and liver.

3 Mars rising affects the muscular system and increases the liability to feverish and inflammatory complaints.

@ The Sun rising (i.e., in the ascendant) if free from affliction, will give

great vitality and strengthen the constitution, the Sun being more or less hyleg wherever it may be placed ; but if afflicted, then the recuperative power is not good.

Venus rising affects the generative and nutritive system.

® Mercury rising gives nervous and mental troubles, the health depending a great deal upon the general surroundings.

) The Moon rising gives liability to dropsical complaints, and to chronic irregularities of the system.

Fiery signs rising predispose the native to inflammatory conditions of the system, to fevers, and to sudden illnesses generally—acute, but of short duration.

Airy signs rising denote a tendency to nervous troubles, debility, and illnesses arising from over-exertion, exhaustion, etc.

Watery signs rising give a liability to tumours, cancerous growths, mucous discharges, colds, and moist humours.

Earthy signs rising denote rheumatic, gouty, and windy complaints, with a tendency toward chronic disorders.

CARDINAL SIGNS rising incline to ailments affecting the head, stomach, kidneys, and all movable or functional disorders.

Fixep Siens rising incline to ailments affecting the heart, throat, generative system, and all chronic or organic troubles.

MuTABLE SiGns rising incline to affections of the lungs, limbs, breathing apparatus, and all kinds of mervous disorders.

The decanate rising will sometimes show the root of the disease, or the weakest part of the system: for instance, the third decanate of Libra rising denotes a tendency to nervous diseases, brain fever, ete.

The second decanate of Libra, poor circulation, flatulency, rheumatism, etc.

If the rulers of the rising sign and of the decanate are in mutual affliction then the nature of the decanate should be carefully studied, as also the house governed by its ruler.

The rules for ascertaining which point is hyleg are much in dispute among astrologers, though nearly all are agreed that the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant are the three points from which choice must be made ; but while serious affliction of any one of these three may result in disease sooner or later, yet the idea is that the length of life (apart from the liability to disease) is more dependent upon one of these points than upon the other two, and that this one (which is spoken of as ‘the hyleg’) varies in different horoscopes.

The oldest rules for ascertaining which point is hyleg are those of Ptolemy. According to this system, the hylegiacal places are houses I, VII, LX, X, XI. If the Sun is in one of these places it is always hyleg; if it is not there and the Moon is, the latter is hyleg; and if neither is there the cusp of the ascendant is hyleg. There has, however, scarcely been an astrologer who has not suggested some more or less important alteration of these rules. Ptolemy himself would sometimes allow the strongest planet in the horoscope to be hyleg. In our own day ‘ Raphael’ has suggested that the Sun is always hyleg with a man and the Moon with a woman. ‘Others have doubted whether one body ever can be hyleg to the entire exclusion of the other two, pointing out that it is not uncommon for all three to be afflicted by direction at death; and they have drawn from this the conclusion that the hylegiacal office may be shared among the three. Others would allow the lower half of the twelfth house to be a hylegiacal place, especially for the Sun.

The student may be safely left to put all theories to the test of practical experience and draw his own conclusions; but in the meantime the following summary would probably obtain the assent of a large number of astrologers.

1. The Sun, Moon and Ascendant are three centres upon which life

depends. 2. The Moon governs child-birth and the feminine functions, and _ its