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The Ascendant is that which moves most quickly ; it corresponds to translatory motion and the guna called Rajas. The Sun moves most slowly, and corresponds to rotary motion and Tamas. The Moon is intermediate, and corresponds to vibratory motion and Sattva.In the first volume of this series, entitled Astrology for All, full particulars were given of the 144 polarities of the Sun and Moon. In order to complete the subject, those of the Ascendant should, strictly speaking, be included. This, however, would multiply the above number by 12, and although much greater detail would be possible, the extent of the work obviously precludes its being undertaken here.Any one of the three centres—the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant—may be in either a cardinal, a mutable, or a fixed sign; and this gives 9 as the smallest number of combinations possible. If these same positions are considered in relation to each other, the number is increased to 27. If the three centres are taken not with regard to the qualities but to the elements, fire, earth, air, and water, we have 12 as the result, which would correspond to the zodiacal signs. Again, if these are considered in relation to each other, there are 84 possible combinations. All these are included within the 1728 which represent the total permutations. All should be tabulated and studied, although space will not permit of it here. The Sunand Moonin each sign, however, are severally discribed and later on the ascendant also, while the character and appearance duep each planet rising in any sign forms part of our next chapter.THe INFLUENCE OF THE SUN IN THE TWELVE SIGNS

A healer having Leo on the Ascendant and whose Saturn is not in Virgo would probably be the best one to help this patient.No. 28. ACCIDENTS TO HEAD, POOR OXYGENATIONGood Aspects: Saturn sextile Jupiter, trine Mars and Uranus.Bad Aspects: Jupiter opposition Mars and Uranus; Moon opposition Venus; Sun and Mercury square Uranus, Mars and Jupiter.This is the horoscope of a man born on March 16, 1865, at 3 P. M., in England, and it affords a good example of how accidents and also crises are shown in the horoscope. The main affliction comes from the fact that the Sun and Mercury are in close conjunction in the Eighth House, occupied by Pisces. This itself is unfortunate for the reasoning faculty. They are both square to Jupiter in Sagittarius, which also has a strong influence upon the mind. But worst of all, they are square to Mars, the planet of dynamic

^ Lord of the Ascendant ab A 1/ a(l bi-quintile of <^. A hc □ If. $ • — Sesquiquadrate of T?As the horoscope of the new London bridge exhibits a most remarkable proof of the certain principles on which the science of Judicial Astrology is founded, (a science which is built on a foundation as certain as " the firm pillars of the earth/’) we must first beg the reader’s attention to the following extract from that clever old Astrologer, the celebrated William Lilly. In his almanack for 1666, he says, “ The nineteenth degree of n is London’s horoscope, and at the foundation of the city the O was in twenty-five degrees of the same sign. This is certainly true, that when any notable event happens to concern that city, the planets are in those degrees, or those signs and degrees are affected,” & c. &c.Now, although, the engineers and architects of the present day do not order their buildings “ by the courses of the stars,” as they did of old, yet it is worthy of observation, that had they employed the most skilful Astrologer to erect an horoscope for the occasion, they could not have chosen a point of time for their great national undertaking, more strictly agreeing with the rules of the sidereal art, than the foregoing horoscope evinces ! Incredulists and sophists may ridicule this assertion, but such is nevertheless the case : for observe, as if to verify the rules given by every author who has written on the science ; that Gemini is the ascendant of London, we find, that not only that very sign arose at the commencement of the work , hut when the first pile was driven, the identical degree, assigned as the horoscope of the metropolis, also ascended in the eastern horizon. — Next, to the above singular fact, the student will be led to notice the excellent position of % hi $ his exaltation, and in the sign of the second house. — The lord of the ascendant is posited in a watery sign, separating from the A of 1/ and applying to a bi-quintile aspect of ; ? in the mid-heaven — and more singular still ; the work was commenced upon a full Moon, which (as the D at that period is increasing in light and thus rendered fortunate) in Astrology is generally chosen as an excellent testimony where circumstances will permit it.Independent of the singular fact, which the foregoing proves, that every important undertaking, connected with the welfare of the British metropolis, has the sign n ascendant, at the timeit begins ; the student will perceive the astonishing- number of eminent fixed stars, of the first mag-nituderising within the limits of London’s Ascendant ; which also proves that the old Astrologers had justifiable grounds for attributing that sign, and those degrees thereof, to such a purpose : and as England is justly stiled the greatest and bravest nation in the world, and also the most renowned for her maritime power, so London being the capital, the head of Albion, is the fountain and grand repository of her almost boundless wealth — and justly did the expert and renowned sages of former times behold these particulars, when they presaged her future grandeur by the discovery of that celestial influence, and that peculiar constellation to which she (next under Divine Providence) owes all her greatness !

Moon, also, should not be so situated, then that planet is to be elected which may have most: claims to dominion, in reference to the Sun, the antecedent new Moon, and the . ascendant; that is to say, when such planet may be found to have dominion over any one of the places where these are situated, by at least three prerogatives, if not more; the whole number being five. If, however, no Planet should be found so eucumateores) the Ascendant is then to be taken.By night, the Moon is to be elected as prorogator, provided, in like manner, she should be in some prorogatory place; and if she be not, the Sun: if he also be not in any prorogatory place, then that planet which may have most rights of dominion in reference to the Moon*, and the antecedent full Moon and the.part of Fortune. But, if there be no planet claiming dominion in the mode prescribed, the Ascendant must be taken, in case a new Moon had last preceded the birth ; but, if a full Moon, the part of Fortune, -If the two luminaries, and also some ruling planet of appropriate condition, should be each posited in a prorogatory<< must observe what rays the Moch has to the Sun, for the latter “‘ ought to have the same, and with the same excess or deficiency, ‘‘ as the part of Fortune to the horoscope. As the Moon is to the “ Sun, so is the part of Fortune to the boroscope; and as the Sun is “ to the horescope, so is the Moon to the part of Fortane. So, in “ the nativity of Charles V, the Moon applies to the ultimate sextile to he Soe; ut vee a deficiency of 7° 45’: I subtract the 7° 45/