Chapter XXVI. Faces, Chariots, and other similar Attributes of the Planets

THE familiarities existing between the planets and the signs are such as have been already particularized.

There are also, however, further peculiarities ascribed to the planets. Each is said to be in its proper face, when the aspect it holds to the Sun, or Moon, is similar to that which its own house bears to their houses: for example, Venus is in her proper face when making a sextile aspect to either luminary, provided she be occidental to the Sun, but oriental to the Moon, aereeany to the primary arrangement of her houses f. :

Each planet is also said to be in its proper chariot, or throne, or otherwise triumphantly situated, when it holds

* Vide Chapters xii and xiv of this Book. ;

+ Vide Chapter xx. It of course follows that Saturn is in bis pro-' per face when he is five signs, or in quintile, after the Sun er befvre - the Moon; that Jupiter is so when in trine; Mars when in quartile ; Venus when in sextile; and Mercury when only one sign, (or, in modern phrase, in semi-sextile,) afte? the Sun or before the Moon.

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eee with the place which it actually occupies by two, or more, of the prescribed modes of connection: for when it is so circumstanced, its influence and energy .are specially augmented by the familiarity it thus holds with the sign which encompasses it, and which 1s similar in influence and co-operates with it.

Lastly, each planet, (although it may possess no familia=

rity with the sign encompassing it) is said to rejoice, when .

any connection subsists between itself and other stars of the same condition; as, notwithstanding the distance between them, a certain sympathy and communication of influence is derived from their mutual resemblance. In the same manner, again, when a planet occupies a place adverse and dissimilar in condition to itself, much of its influence 1s dissipated and lost; in consequence of the interposition and admixture of the other different influence, arising out of the dissimilar temperament. of the sign by which it is encompassed.