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h ty. Discriminative, discreet, and cautious: suffers through psychic conditions, and by bashfulness or excess of reserve; fond of science or occult studies. Difficulties in the first portion of life; disinclination to marry, troubles and misfortunes through marriage. Occult friends and secret alliances; gain through religion, philosophy, or employers who are religious, also from foreigners. Death of friends and acquaintances, unfortunate partnerships, liability to headaches or to mental diseases. An occult mind, fond of all deep and scientific studies ; more intuitive than intellectual. Romantic courtships, and gain by investment or enterprise.

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h =. Refined tastes, intellectual tendencies, and ability to compare, arbitrate, and unify; if much afflicted at birth a fatality to cause separations and destroy unions, especially if Venus is afflicted or weak in the nativity. Sorrow or grief through the death of a secret friend, or of a female to whom there was a deep attachment; female enmity at some period of the life, particularly at the ages of 21, 35, and 42. Religious or philosophical friends: strange experiences through friendships made abroad: fickle fortune through marriage, and opposition in profession or employment. Liability to a tragic death, producing notoriety or fame according to environment. Career considerably affected by marriage and the marriage partner’s influence: gain by labour or through employment rather than by luck or ability : speculative and imaginative intellect. Serious damestic troubles and misfortunes at the close of life; occult pleasures, and gains and losses thereby. Emotions should be easily balanced by the mind.

.h Mm. Acquisitive, passionate, self-willed, the selfish instincts being well developed; jealous, independent and resourceful, shrewd and cautious. Great tenacity and love of life. Disregard for religion except in form: fond of secret and hidden things: generally bound by religious heredity or custom. Friends amongst elders, or ambitious persons who have power: secret alliances and intrigues. Honour through friendships, and the realisation of hopes and wishes through cleverness and subtlety. Voyages or foreign residences: success after difficulties. Liability to sudden death; gain through partnerships or through opponents, also losses through determined opposition. Psychic intellect: shrewd, rather than intellectual, mentality. Gain or loss through speculation in public companies and popular enterprises, or through life policies and the death of others; carefulininvestments. Sad love affairs and secret domestic ties ; inferior kindred, poor and jealous. A solitary end, full of mystery.

h f. Philosophical, religious, honest, fearless, and plain spoken. Dual life of popularity and seclusion, according to environment. Troubles through public affairs, honour and reputation. Occult tendencies, humanitarian views, and many public friends and supporters. Promotion and advancement in life from unassuming conditions, ability to create own dignity, and prophetic insight with regard to future welfare. Death amid good surroundings, with religious thoughts at the close of life. Opponents in mental pursuits; capacity to overcome

mental conditions by intuition, or by a philosophic attitude. An inclination towards public service and the welfare of others, or towards labour for domestic welfare. An independent worker, free from influences of inferiorsin thought. Gain by judicious investment: fortunate children: liable to nervous breakdown or failure at close of life. A religious mind, free from mercenary taint or sordid motives.

h ¥. Ambitious, careful of self-interest; melancholic, cautious and apprehensive. Fated to be treacherous or unfaithful to friends, and destined to sorrows through acquaintances: easily influenced through inferior friendships. Anxious to rise in life, and through tact or diplomacy gencrally succeeding, if Saturn is not heavily afflicted at birth ; but will gain more financial success abroad than in native land. Liable to death through some chronic ailment affecting the mind. Opposed to marriage, or unfortunate in choice of partner through lack of correct judgment in love affairs: liable to attachments to inferiors ot the opposite sex and to become seriously entangled. Losses through speculation or investment, and sufferings through selfish children. An unfortunate end to existence, in which many painful realisations are borne home: the mind is liable to taint from hereditary tendencies, and there is danger of tragic mental states at the close of life.

h «. Refined, reserved, intellectual, humane, serious, thoughtful and well disposed. Suffers at the hands of others passively without much resistance: makes friends without effort, and is faithful to those selected. Gains through profession or employment by quiet and persistent determination, and generally secures good financial prospects. Refines the mind by study and appreciative observation, and is thoroughly practical in all mental states of consciousness: is inclined to join societies for mutual benefit. Faithful in love affairs; generally marries well. Avoids sickness through a study of the laws of hygiene, or by temperance and food reform. Generally forms some pure romantic attachment or lasting tie. The end of life is generally better than the beginning, and takes place amid refined surroundings, the intellect having been improved by experience and study.

h ». Sorrows and disappointments in life: forms en batenatente ties and is seriously handicapped by attachments generally beginning romantically and ending tragically, or with misfortune and disaster: the native is usually himself the cause of his bad luck and trouble through lack of hope or true courage, and proves to be his own enemy through-

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out. He acquires a disregard for money or suffers losses through friends and acquaintances. He rarely creates his own dignity; and cannot maintain it when gained, unless the horoscope is very favourable. He has occult leanings, and rebels against orthodox religion. His death is often tragic, and sometimes occurs through suicide or grief. He is unfortunate in marriage or has an ailing partner; servants cause trouble after marriage. He is separated from his children, or they suffer in health. His end is spent in retirement or seclusion, his mind being engrossed with psychic matters.

h and U%. This combination of influences is most difficult to elucidate clearly. In good aspect, it is good for the occupations, pursuits, and general affairs of the four signs ruled by the planets, and for the houses in which they are placed, as well as those on the cusps of which the four signs are situated. It is fortunate for money and possessions derived from any of these sources, and gives some desire for respectability and for the good opinion of the world. The native wishes to stand well with superiors, elders, and those around him, and will generally succeed in this. He will have independence and originality, and yet defer a good deal to custom and formality. He is likely to rise in religious or political spheres, and he has considerable ambition, but unless Jupiter is very strong there is some likelihood of his religion being tinged with unorthodoxy, which may have its origin from a variety of sources—doubt, indifference, self-seeking, ambition, worldliness, deep thought, or pessimism. It gives much strength of character, and ability to overcome obstacles. There is likelihood of long journeys or voyages, and of acquaintances or friends abroad; his occupation will take the native abroad, or he will have to do with a foreign country; he may also travel with or for friends, or on account of matters rising out of the twelfth house. It upholds the native’s credit and reputation, helps to uplift him in the world, and to give honour, esteem, and general prosperity: there is a good deal of ‘self’ in the aspect, although it is modified by the justice, benevolence and devotion of Jupiter. He gains through the father, or sometimes the father through him, and it tends