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Source: "Astro-Diagnosis--A Guide to Healing" by Max & Augusta Foss Heindel

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                                 THE THROAT:

                       NO. 3A-B--TONSILS--ADENOIDS:

   Male, born March 20, 1911, 3:10 P.M.

   Figure No.  3A has Leo rising,  with the ruler,  the sun,  in conjunction
with and parallel to Mercury in the 8th house, and in the 12th house sign of
Pisces.   This position and aspect of the ruler would deplete  the  vitality
and create nervousness.   The boy would be easily disturbed and of a fretful
nature.  This would interfere with the assimilation of food in the small in-
testines,  for the conjunction of Mercury an the sun would have an effect in
the opposite sign of Virgo, the intestines.   But we find another affliction
which will have a much more evil effect upon the health.   Mars,  the planet
of dynamic energy,  also hot and fiery by nature, is posited in the airy and
nervous sign of Aquarius and in the 6th house,  ruling sickness.   Mars  af-
flicted  in this saturnine sign shows an evil side.   We find him square  to
the  obstructive  Saturn  in the 9th house and in the sign of Taurus, ruling

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the throat and the tonsils.   Wherever we find Saturn,  especially when  af-
flicted, we may expect restriction, crystallization, and lack of fluids, and
with  a square aspect to Mars, the planet causing fevers  and  inflammation,
what   can   we   expect   but   a   disturbed   condition  of  the  throat,

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[                           BIRTH CHART NO. 3A                             ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Taurus 17   SUN: Pisces 29:08        SATURN: Taurus 4:37      ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Gemini 23  MOON: Sagitt. 5:18       URANUS: Capricorn 28:31  ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 26  MERCURY: Pisces 29:30    NEPTUNE: Cancer 18:48R   ]
[ ASCENDANT: Leo 24:14   VENUS: Aries 26:14       DRAGONS' HEAD:           ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Virgo 17    MARS: Aquarius 5:06            Taurus 12:17       ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Libra 13    JUPITER: Scorpio 13:59R  DRAGON'S TAIL:           ]
[                                                     Scorpio 12:17        ]
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a  swelling  of  the  tonsils?  The  affliction  coming  from  fixed  signs,
and Mars being in the 6th house, sickness, the trouble will be somewhat dif-
ficult  to  overcome,  for this physical weakness was brought  over  from  a
former life in which the soul had broken the laws of nature.  A case of this

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kind is often the result of abuses of the most sacred function of the  body,
that of the generative organs.  The results of abortions,  or abuses of like
nature,  are often brought back into the next embodiment producing  weakened
organs.

   This boy could be helped greatly by manipulation and massage to keep  the
circulation normal.   The Piscean sun, conjunction Mercury, requires a quiet
and harmonious environment which we fear he will not have.  Jupiter in Scor-
pio supplies good food and plenty of it which,  however,  he should not  in-
dulge  in to excess.   A simple vegetarian diet will be most  necessary  for
him.  Saturn in Taurus would indicate that one of the parents will be apt to
interfere with his freedom too much.  A Leo can be ruined by the "don'ts" of
a saturnine parent,  and the boy would suffer in health as a result of  this
restriction by one parent and overindulgence of the other.

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                                   NO. 3B:

   Female, born May 22, 1915, 3:22 A.M.

   Horoscope No. 3B is that of a little girl who suffered from the same ill-
ness as in the case of 3A, vis.,  the swelling of tonsils,  adenoids,  etc.,
but with very different astrological afflictions.  This shows how invaluable
the  study of astrology would be to the physician in his diagnosis and  that
it  is absolutely dangerous to treat each case alike.   What will  heal  one
might be dangerous to another.

   Here  we  have another fixed sign on the Ascendant,  Taurus,  ruling  the
throat, with its ruler, Venus, near the cusp of the 1st house and sextile to
Saturn,  but square to Neptune and in conjunction with Mars.   The  symptoms
would  be very similar to those of 3A,  but the trouble is from a  different
source.

   We  find Saturn,  the planet of obstruction,  in the sign of Cancer,  the
stomach.   Although this planet is not afflicted, yet wherever he is placed,
or whatever organ he rules over, there we may find a lack of fluids.  Saturn
"dries up"  and when he is in Cancer the appetite is abnormal and  digestive
fluid  is lacking.   He craves the things that are detrimental  and  refuses
those which the body needs,  and is very apt to gourmandize when the  palate
is tickled with pie,  cake, candy, etc.  The result is that the body becomes
clogged  like a stream dammed up:   the material must find an  outlet  some-
where.  In this case Mars, the planet of  energy,  is  in  conjunction  with

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Venus,  the planet ruling the venous blood.   This indicates the section  of
the body that will be affected.  The blood becomes impure,  causing swelling
and inflammation in the throat.  To manipulate  this  afflicted region would

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[                          BIRTH CHART NO. 3B                             ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn 18  SUN: Gemini 00:12      SATURN: Cancer 1:13     ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius 12  MOON: Virgo 2:30       URANUS: Aquarius 15:40R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces 15    MERCURY: Gemini 20:39  NEPTUNE: Cancer 28:09   ]
[ ASCENDANT: Taurus 2:10   VENUS: Taurus 0:19     DRAGON'S HEAD:          ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Gemini 3      MARS: Aries 27:11              Aquarius 21:35  ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini 27     JUPITER: Pisces 23:32  DRAGON'S TAIL:          ]
[                                                       Leo 21:35         ]
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cause more inflammation.   The remedy here would be to discontinue all  food
for a day or two and give the girl only pineapple juice, putting the feet in
hot water with cold cloths on head and throat,  in order to draw the surplus
blood to the lower extremities.  This would give instant relief.

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   Can  we  wonder,  after comparing two horoscopes of this  kind,  why  the
medical man often fails in his treatment and feels that the only cure is the
removal  of  the inflamed parts?   If he could read the stellar  script,  he
would make few failures and would then not be so apt to ruin the life of the
child by an operation.   He little realizes that a removal of the tonsils or
an operation upon the throat interferes with the function of the  generative
organs.   A child who has been operated upon will suffer as a result when it
reaches puberty.   Painful menstruation and trouble in childbirth are likely
to  affect  the  life  of  the woman who has  been  thus  operated  upon  in
childhood.  Inflammation of the prostate gland in the man, and various other
physical weaknesses are often the result of an operation upon the throat.

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                         NO. 3C.--THROAT AND TONSILS:

   Male, born July 11th, 1882, 11:15 A.M.

   Here  is given the horoscope of a man with the cardinal sign of Libra  on
the Ascendant,  and the ruler,  Venus,  in the fixed sign of Leo in the 11th
house,  square and parallel to both the malefics,  Saturn and Neptune.   The
last  two planets we find in the fixed sign of Taurus and in the 8th  house.
This  at the start is a very serious affliction,  indicating that  this  man
came into life facing a heavy debt of destiny.

   Now  let  us see if we can find the cause of the condition and  why  this
soul  has been restricted even from birth.   Leo and Taurus are  both  fixed
signs, stubborn and immovable, therefore they are also the signs which bring
chronic and incurable illnesses;  and where the afflictions come from two of
the most subtle planets,  both slow in their motion, one may expect that the
disease  is of a nature which the soul has attracted to itself as a debt  of
destiny by the breaking of nature's laws in past lives,  and not so much  on
account of misdeeds in this embodiment.

   Planets often work in opposite signs.   Afflictions as in this horoscope,
in  the  fixed sign of Taurus governing the throat,  may have  been  brought
about by the abuse of the generative function (Scorpio) in one life, causing
a weakness of the throat or larynx in the next life, or vice versa.  The un-
necessary  removal  of  the female organs in one life may cause the Ego, who

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changes sex in each life, to be born in a male body with the afflicted plan-
ets in the opposite sign,  Taurus,  as in the case of this man who was  born
with underdeveloped organs of voice and throat.

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  [                         BIRTH CHART NO. 3C                           ]
  [                                                                      ]
  [ MIDHEAVEN: Cancer 8    SUN: Cancer 19:13      SATURN: Taurus 23:20   ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Leo 12     MOON: Gemini 7:05      URANUS: Virgo 15:30    ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Virgo 12   MERCURY: Cancer 2:23   NEPTUNE: Taurus 18:22  ] 
  [ ASCENDANT: Libra 6:37  VENUS: Leo 24:27       DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Scorpio 2   MARS: Virgo 6:34                Scorpio 27:08 ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 3   JUPITER: Gemini 18:22  DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
  [                                                      Taurus 27:08    ]
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   The  above statement does not mean that all women who have been  operated
on  will have these afflictions.   Often through childbirth,  or neglect  of
nurse or doctors,  the poor woman is forced to undergo an operation.   These
are conditions for which she is not held  accountable;  but  should  she  on

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account  of  excesses or abortions have weakened the organs  of  sex,  which
would make it necessary for their removal,  such sins will bring their reac-
tion in restrictions of some kind,  usually of the throat which is under the
rule of Taurus, the opposite sign to Scorpio, which rules the generative or-
gans.   In fact the larynx and brain were developed in primitive man by  the
sacrifice of one half of the creative faculty.   Afflictions may not be  ac-
tive  in the body in childhood,  and with a knowledge of the planets  and  a
strict  adherence to the rules of right living,  man may pass  through  life
with but little inconvenience; but whenever the laws are broken, when abuses
are  allowed,  then it is that the afflicted parts give way,  for as  it  is
said, the chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

   We find the sun in Cancer,  which is the sign of the stomach,  sextile to
Neptune in Taurus,  the throat and palate,  also sextile to Uranus which  is
the ruler of the 5th house, the house of pleasures.  Venus is sextile to Ju-
piter.   All these facts show that this man has been very popular  with  his
women friends,  who have entertained him lavishly,  and the pleasures of the
table have helped in his undoing.

   The planet which helps to bring about physical ailments, the inflammatory
Mars, is in the sign of the intestines, Virgo, square to the moon in Gemini,
showing that the intestines suffered first from an excess of food and drink.
When the small intestines are inflamed, as they would be in this case,  they
are   unable   to   assimilate   food  properly.  This  inflammation  throws

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considerable  poison into the blood,  which seeks an outlet in  the  weakest
spot.   Saturn conjunct Neptune in Taurus indicates that the throat received
the poison.   This man has had his throat lanced twice for what the  doctors
termed quinsy, an inflammation of the tonsils.  He has had pieces taken from
the tonsils, showing that the blood was contaminated, causing suppuration in
the tonsils.



                          NO. 3D.--GOITRE--TONSILS:

   Female, born August 12, 1911, 7:27 A.M.

   We  will consider here the horoscope of a girl with Virgo on  the  Ascen-
dant.   Virgo people have somewhat less resistance to disease than the aver-
age, especially when common signs occupy the four angles and Mercury and the
moon,  which rule the mentality,  are also in common signs and in opposition
to each other.   The three strongest planets, namely, the sun,  Saturn,  and
Mars, are in fixed signs.  We may expect that these planets will indicate in
what part of the body the disease will show itself.

   The sign of Taurus, we are told, in  "The  Message  of  the  Stars,"  has  
rule  over  the  neck,  throat, tonsils,  the carotid arteries,  etc.   From
this  we  may infer that Taurus also has rule over the  veins  and  arteries
which serve the organs located in the throat;  likewise it has rule over the
lower  part of the occipital region of the jaw.   The arteries of the  human
body have their beginning in a common center.   The aorta is to the circula-
tory system what the trunk is to the tree.  All main arteries and veins have
a connection with the great human engine, the heart.   The aorta is the main
trunk  line,  from which many branches carry the blood to all parts  of  the
body, after which the veins carry it back to the heart.  These branches feed
the various parts of the body.  The  branch  in which we are most interested

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in this lesson is the carotid artery, from which branch off the thyroid  ar-
teries, two in number, the superior and the inferior.

   In this horoscope we have the inflammatory Mars in Taurus.   Mars focuses
heat,  and  wherever this planet is placed we find an  abundance  of  blood.
Mars here is in the sign ruling the neck and afflicted by the conjunction of

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[                          BIRTH CHART NO. 3D                             ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Gemini 13    SUN: Leo 18:22         SATURN: Taurus 19:50     ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Cancer 17   MOON: Pisces 12:48     URANUS: Capricorn 26:31R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Leo 19      MERCURY: Virgo 15:04   NEPTUNE: Cancer 22:20    ]
[ ASCENDANT: Virgo 15:34  VENUS: Virgo 26:28                              ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Libra 10     MARS: Taurus 17:15                              ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Scorpio 9    JUPITER: Scorpio 7:01                           ]
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Saturn,  the planet of obstruction.   Saturn has a drying-up effect upon the
parts which he influences.   The effect of these two malefic planets may  be
pictured  by  filling  a  rubber tube with water and closing both ends, then

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pinching  one end of the tube and forcing the water into the other end.   We
may  expect this to be the condition of the blood in the arteries and  veins
of this girl's neck.  Mars fills them full of blood, and Saturn with his re-
stricting  influence holds the blood in one part,  obstructing its flow  and
resulting in enlarged veins of the neck, goitre, swollen tonsils, etc.  Sat-
urn and Mars are afflicted by a square from the life-giving sun.  The sun is
strong in its own home, Leo, which rules the vena cava,  the aorta,  and the
heart.

   At the age of eleven years this young girl suffered with goitre and swol-
len  tonsils,  having  constant trouble with the throat and  a  tendency  to
coughs  and  colds.   One important fact will be found in the case  of  most
children  with a tendency to throat trouble,  namely,  that they formed  the
habit when tiny babies of breathing through the mouth.  In nine cases out of
ten  of children who are suffering with diseased tonsils and throat  afflic-
tions they have not been taught to breathe through the nose.  Parents should
at  all  times watch small children,  and if they show a tendency  to  mouth
breathing  while asleep,  they should be given a solid rubber nipple,  minus
the  opening.   This will force the breath through the nostrils and  thereby
save the child much suffering in later years.

   With the sun in Leo,  square to Saturn and Mars,  this girl has a  latent
tendency  to valvular heart trouble.   This may not develop until  later  in
life when the Mars-conjunction-Saturn-in-Taurus temper has been permitted to

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do its damage,  and Mercury in Virgo in opposition to the moon,  in the 12th
and 6th houses, the latter ruling the health, have made themselves felt.

   There is great hope in this horoscope,  however,  due to Saturn being  in
trine aspect to Mercury and sextile to the moon.  This will give balance and
also persistence to the mind,  which will help to stave off any illness  and
save the girl much suffering in later life.

                               No. 3D.--GOITRE:

Female, born June 14, 1853

   As  we  have no birth hour,  the signs are entered on the houses  in  nu-
merical  order so that Aries occupies the first house,  Taurus  the  second,
Gemini the third,  etc.  and the noon positions of the planets are used just
as they are given in the ephemeris.

   We will first note that the progressed position of the sun in 1916 is Leo
23:27, and that of Mercury is Leo 26:27, retrograde.

   The  aspects which particularly concern us are:   Moon parallel  Neptune,
square Jupiter, the sun and Mercury; Jupiter opposition the sun and Mercury;
Saturn parallel and conjunction Mars, squared by the progressed sun and Mer-
cury.

   We  will first acquaint ourselves with the condition of the mind of  this
woman.   Gemini and Sagittarius are the signs ruling mind.   Mercury is  es-
sentially dignified in Gemini, and Jupiter in Sagittarius.   The sun also is
favorably situated in the Mercurial sign Gemini.   So far so good,  but Mer-
cury, our significator of the mind, follows the sun and is too close to this
luminary; furthermore, Jupiter is in opposition to the sun and Mercury.  Add
to this that the moon, the other significator of the mind,  is square to Ju-
piter, the sun, and Mercury,  and  it will be apparent that the mental state

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of the native is not a very happy or auspicious one.

   Saturn  is in Taurus,  the sign of the throat.   He is the planet of  ob-
struction and has always an inimical influence on whatever part of the  body
he  occupies  by  sign.  We  may  therefore  judge  that  the throat will be

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[                     BIRTH CHART NO. 3E  [FLAT CHART]                    ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn 0  SUN: Gemini 23:16        SATURN: Taurus 25:27   ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius    MOON: Virgo 21:28        URANUS: Taurus 11:00   ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces 0    MERCURY: Gemini 24:23    NEPTUNE: Pisces 13:44R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Aries 0      VENUS: Cancer 1:48                              ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus 0     MARS: Taurus 23:25                              ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini 0     JUPITER: Sagitt. 19:06R                         ]
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obstructed,  causing hoarseness of speech; and we may also be sure that Sat-
urn has an effect in the opposite sign Scorpio, which governs the generative
and eliminative organs.  Saturn is cold, clammy, and moist.  Mars is hot and

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and dry.   He is posited in the sign Taurus,  closely conjoined and parallel
with Saturn,  giving a tendency to inflammation and swelling.  In the region
governed  by  the opposite sign he would produce scaling urine  and  copious
menses.

   Thus  to inimical forces of opposite natures have been at war in the  re-
gion of the throat from birth on,  but the case did not become really  acute
until  1914.   Then the moon by progression reached the  opposition  of  the
radical  sun and Mercury,  and at the same time the sun by progression  came
within orb of a square to Saturn and Mars from the sign Leo,  which  governs
the  heart.   The  keynote of Saturn is obstruction,  and in  Taurus  he  is
particularly  powerful with respect to the heart action for he  governs  the
pneumogastric nerve which produces cardiac inhibition.   On the other  hand,
when  the dynamic energy of Mars is directed by a square to  the  progressed
sun in Leo violent palpitation is bound to be the effect.  Thus the enormous
range of heart action attendant upon exophthalmic goitre is produced in this
case.   We also find that Saturn is near a conjunction with the Peliades lo-
cated in Taurus 29,  and his square to the progressed sun has an effect upon
the eyes, which protrude in people affected with exophthalmic goitre.

   The  configurations  of the significators of  mind  previously  mentioned
couples  with the absence of radical squares and oppositions to  Saturn  and
Mars  indicate  that the basic cause of the patient's condition  is  mental.
The diagnosis is further confirmed by the fact that the  acute condition was

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brought  about by the above noted progressed positions of the sun  and  Mer-
cury.  As this affliction is from a fixed sign there is danger that the con-
dition may become chronic.   If the person,  however,  is placed in a quiet,
cheerful environment and if she can be taught to wean herself from her  mor-
bid  imagination,  there is a good chance of a permanent cure  being  accom-
plished when the sun gets out of orb of its square to Saturn and Mars,  par-
ticularly if the proper diet is adopted.

                          NO. 3F.--THE VOCAL ORGANS:

                     Male, born May 30, 1919, 11:55 P.M.

                      "The tissue of the life to be
                      We weave with colors all our own,
                      And in the field of destiny
                      We reap as we have sown."
                                                         --WHITTIER

   This is truly so in the life of the soul whose horoscope we are to  study
here.

   With the fixed,  Saturnine sign of Aquarius on the Ascendant and the sec-
ond ruler of Aquarius, the inspirational and advanced Uranus, in Pisces, in-
tercepted in the first house, we may say that there are really two rulers of
this horoscope:   Saturn,  which is in its fall in the seventh house in Leo,
and Uranus, which is strong in the occult sign of Pisces in the first house.

   Planets in angles have a greater influence on the life of the native than
when  they are in cadent or succedent houses.   Planets which are  in  fixed
signs and afflicted also bring with them a debt of destiny, which is usually
most difficult to overcome.

   In this horoscope we find Mercury in the fixed sign of Taurus,  square to
the obstinate and obstructive planet, Saturn, which is in Leo, a fixed sign,
and in the seventh house angle.

   Saturn being one of the life rulers, though in the sign of its fall, will

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have the post powerful rule over the life,  and when Mercury and Saturn  are
afflicting  each other from bestial signs, namely,  Taurus and Leo,  we  may
look for an impediment in the speech.

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[                             BIRTH CHART NO. 3F                          ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Sagitt. 6       SUN: Gemini 8:48       SATURN: Leo 22:34     ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 25     MOON: Cancer 3:32      URANUS: Pisces 1:40   ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Capricorn 14   MERCURY: Taurus 25:44  NEPTUNE: Leo 7:01     ]
[ ASCENDANT: Aquarius 11:17  VENUS: Cancer 21:04    DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Aries 7         MARS: Gemini 3:30               Sagitt. 3:46 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Taurus 13       JUPITER: Cancer 16:23  DRAGON'S TAIL:        ]
[                                                          Gemini 3:46    ]
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   This boy at the age of five years refused to talk.   He is able to speak,
but will do so only when the greatest persuasion is used.

   Doctors have operated on him twice for water on the brain but have failed
to  find anything wrong,  and what the effect of these operations  may  have
upon the organism in the future remains to be seen.  Up to the present time,

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however, the health of the boy has been normal.

   He will repeat only the sentences which are suggested to him,  but if the
parents are persistent they may in time help him to overcome his weakness.

   In the "Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception" we are told: "What we are,  what we
have,  all our good qualities are the result of our own actions in the past.
What we lack in physical, moral, or mental excellence may yet be ours in the
future."

   This boy has truly taken up his life where he laid it down in a  previous
one.   The planets are the clock of destiny, which shows when each soul must
needs learn certain lessons,  when it must reap from the seeds which it  has
sown in its past lives.

   We  learn in the Rosicrucian teachings that we are in this life  here  on
earth  preparing to build the archetype of the body which we are to  use  in
our next life.  In the case of this poor soul as we look back into his past,
we  see where in his keen desire for spiritual development he  neglected  to
build his physical body by mortifying the flesh and neglected to use the or-
gans of speech,  being a member of a silent Brotherhood.   In which the life
was spent in silence and prayer.  In this extremely one-sided life he devel-
oped the spiritual faculties at the expense of the physical senses.

   We  see here the mystical Uranus is in the sign of Pisces,  in the  first
house, trine to the moon, which is in its own sign of Cancer.  Neptune,  an-
other spiritual planet, is parallel to Mercury and  sextile  to Mars and the

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sun,  indicating a soul who is highly developed along spiritual  lines,  but
one who is lacking in the ability to use his development in this life on ac-
count of the lack of desire to use the organs of speech.

   This child may,  however,  be assisted by the parents in developing  this
desire,  but it will require great patience, as the mentality, on account of
Mercury  square Saturn,  will be slow to respond,  and the boy will be  very
stubborn,  because  of this aspect being from fixed signs.   Mars,  however,
which is in the Mercurial sign of Gemini,  will lend its assistance in over-
coming the influence of Saturn to some extent.

                         NO. 3G.--THE LOSS OF SPEECH:
                Male, born December 19th, 1896, at 12:30 A.M.

   The  young man whose horoscope we will analyze here has the cardinal  and
airy  sign of Libra on the Ascendant.   Physically he expresses the sign  of
Libra,  being six feet in height,  splendidly developed and  with  beautiful
blue  eyes.   People with cardinal or fixed signs on the  angles  have  more
power of resistance than others.   The will is stronger than that of  common
signs.  In the case of this young man, however, we find an affliction active
before he reached the age where he could be of assistance to the healers.

   In  the "Cosmo-Conception" we are told that in the  latter  part  of  the
Lemurian  Epoch man's body became upright,  this being necessary  before  he
would become an indwelling,  self-conscious being,  and certain changes then
had  to take place in the bodily structure in order that the Ego  might  ex-
press  itself  through its vehicles.   When the Ego entered within  its  ve-
hicles,  it  was necessary that part of the sex force be used to  build  the
brain and larynx, for it was destined that man should henceforth learn to do
his own thinking, and the voice was necessary that he might make himself un-
derstood and thereby communicate with others.  To accomplish this a part  of
his sex force had to be used.  So a part of the creative organ remained with
the  upper  portion  of  the  body,  and  was  gradually converted into what

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now  constitutes the brain and larynx.   Thus we may see that there must  of
necessity be a close connection between these organs, namely, the generative
organs, larynx, and brain.

   It is interesting to note through astrology  how this works out.  We find

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 [                         BIRTH CHART NO. 3G                            ]
 [                                                                       ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Cancer 5    SUN: Sagitt. 27:54       SATURN: Scorpio 25:54 ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Leo 9      MOON: Gemini 17:27       URANUS: Scorpio 26:48 ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Virgo 9    MERCURY: Capricorn 9:20  NEPTUNE: Gemini 18:40 ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Libra 4:09  VENUS: Aquarius 7:49                           ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Libra 29    MARS: Gemini 16:16R                            ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 0   JUPITER: Virgo 10:10                           ]
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Scorpio,  the sign ruling sex, in opposition to Taurus,  which has rule over
the  throat  and larynx.   Proof of the above close connection may  also  be
found  in  the boy whose voice changes at puberty; also in the woman who has

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had her ovaries removed and whose voice becomes deep and harsh.

   In the horoscope under consideration we find Saturn,  the planet of atro-
phy,  in the sign of Scorpio.  Saturn is in conjunction with Uranus.   These
two  planets  are unaspected save by the conjunction with each other  and  a
semi-sextile to the sun.  And this we must consider as a condition which had
its beginning in a past life.  When we find Uranus and Saturn in conjunction
in Scorpio and afflicted by other planets,  we look for perversion or abnor-
mal  sex expression.   But in reading these two planets we go into the  past
life for the abuses which have weakened the organs, causing the poor soul to
come  into this life with the larynx and brain each unable to function  nor-
mally.

   With  Saturn conjunction Uranus in Scorpio we may look for its effect  in
the opposite sign of Taurus,  the throat.  Saturn then has a tendency to re-
tard or restrict the secretion of the fluids of the glands or organs  within
the region of the neck,  for instance, the thyroid,  which is placed astride
the  windpipe at the front of the neck,  and which may truly be  called  the
balance necessary for the proper functioning of the mind.   The thyroid also
regulates all the other ductless glands, and every drop of blood in the cir-
culation  in  the upper part of the body passes back and forth  through  it.
Excesses  or  perversions of sex deplete the fluids of  the  thyroid  gland.
What  a telltale the human voice is!   How the misuse of sex will  make  the
male voice effeminate and the female voice masculine!

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   In  this horoscope we have the story of a man who at birth had  a  voice,
but after the age of four years he would not make a sound, nor has he spoken
a word since.   The organs ruling the voice in this case have been  weakened
by the dissipation of the sex fluids in a former life.  We find Neptune, the
higher octave of Mercury, the planet ruling the pineal gland,  in the mercu-
rial sign of Gemini,  in conjunction with the moon and Mars,  and in opposi-
tion  to  the sun.   Neptune has rule over the pineal gland and  the  spinal
spirit fire.   The brain in this case has remained childlike.  The young man
dresses himself but he will not speak, and he spends his entire  time  turn-
ing the leaves of books.

   Truly,  the spirit encased in this limited vehicle is learning  some  re-
markable lessons--lessons which are likely to bring it back in its next  em-
bodiment as a childlike, virtuous woman.

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                                  THE LUNGS:

                            NO. 4A.--TUBERCULOSIS:

   The horoscope here shown is that of a well-to-do man who spoiled his life
by excesses of all kinds.  He was born on August 28, 1881, at 11 P.M.

   In the first place we find Jupiter, the planet of opulence,  in the  12th
house,  that of sorrow,  trouble,  and self-undoing,  sextile to Venus,  the
planet of attraction, in Cancer, the sign ruling the stomach, and in the 2nd
house, that of finance.  This accounts for the native's business instinct in
money matters as well as his desire for rich and unhealthful foods; in part,
too,  for his fatal weakness for the opposite sex.  The moon square to Venus
from the fifth house,  the house of pleasures, also Mars,  the planet of dy-
namic  energy,  conjunct the saturnine Dragon's Tail,  and  both  square  to
Uranus,  the  planet of unconventionality and clandestine  attachments,  are
other strong testimonies in the latter direction.  Furthermore, Saturn,  the
planet  of  obstruction,  in  the 12th house, that of sorrow, in conjunction


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with Neptune,  the planet of underhandedness, in Taurus,  which is the oppo-
site of Scorpio,  the sign governing the sex organs,  shows trouble in  that
region and also in the throat.

   As  a  whole  this  horoscope  shows  all  manner  of  excesses,   and  a

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 [                            BIRTH CHART NO. 4A                          ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Aquarius 16   SUN: Virgo 5:57        SATURN: Taurus 12.25R  ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Pisces 15    MOON: Libra 21:28      URANUS: Virgo 13:39    ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Aries 26     MERCURY: Virgo 3:50    NEPTUNE: Taurus 16:34R ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Gemini 11:32  VENUS: Cancer 25:28    DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Cancer 4      MARS: Gemini 15:49              Sagitt. 13:52 ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Cancer 24     JUPITER: Taurus 25:45  DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
 [                                                        Gemini 13:32    ]
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consequent  clogging up of the system.  Venus in Cancer,  the latter  ruling
the stomach,  gives a love of good things to eat,  and especially to  drink.
Its  square to the moon in the sign Libra,  ruling the kidneys,  shows  that
there   was   a   very   bad   condition   there   preventing   proper elim-

[PAGE 962]

ination.   The  conjunction  of  Saturn,  the  planet  of  obstruction, with
Neptune in the sign Taurus, this sign having  a  reflex  action  in Scorpio,
resulted  in painful hemorrhoids.   Mars,  the  planet  of  dynamic  energy,
conjoined with the saturnine Dragon's  Tail  in  Gemini, the sign ruling the
lungs, square to Uranus, the planet of spasmodic  action,  shows  a tendency
to coughs and weakness of the lungs, which finally destroyed the life.

   This horoscope is a lesson on the ravages of excess and indulgence of the
lower  nature,  and  astrologers may use it for the  purpose  of  convincing
people  who  are on the downward path that the way of  the  transgressor  is
hard, and that our sins will surely find us out.

   By  the  exercise of will power,  at least a great deal  of  the  trouble
indicated might have been avoided.  Toward the last the man realized that he
was going down and wanted help, but he was too weak to cease from his indul-
gences.   Consequently he yielded to the tendencies shown in his  horoscope,
and became the victim of tuberculosis and a number of complications.


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                            NO. 4B.--TUBERCULOSIS:

   Female, born June 16, 1884, 8:30 A.M.

   Suffering from tuberculosis is shown very plainly by this horoscope,  for
Saturn,  the planet of obstruction and crystallization,  is in  Gemini,  the
sign  which  rules the lungs.   Although he is unaspected he  always  has  a
malefic  bodily influence in whatever part of the chart he is  placed.   His
obstructive  and  hardening tendencies clog and crystallize  the  lungs  and
would  be inimical even if he were not supported by evil aspects.   We  find
that the sun,  which is the giver of life, is also in Gemini,  square to the
moon, which is the particular significator of health in a woman's horoscope.
The  moon is placed in the 8th house,  the house of death,  in  pisces,  the
twelfth sign, ruling confinement in hospitals and kindred institutions.  The
sun is also square to the spasmodic Uranus,  and Uranus is in opposition  to
the moon.   This will produce the cough and the hemorrhage which are part of
the symptoms of tuberculosis.

   Leo,  the strong solar sign, is rising, and Jupiter,  the planet of opti-
mism and joviality,  is therein sextile to Mercury, the planet of reason and
mind.   We  may also note that all the angles are occupied by  fixed  signs.
These  conditions show that in the first place the constitution was  a  good
one,  that  the  native  had  to  begin with a strong, vigorous nature and a

[PAGE 964]

jovial  sunny and friendly disposition.   Had this horoscope been set up  in
childhood's  days so that one could have worked with the native ad  counter-
acted  the tendencies to tuberculosis,  the chances are that she would  have
entirely  outgrown  this  tendency.  As  it  is,  however,  the  squares and

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  [                        BIRTH CHART NO. 4B                           ]
  [                                                                     ]
  [ MIDHEAVEN: Taurus 5    SUN: Gemini 25:54      SATURN: Gemini 15:16  ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Gemini 11  MOON: Pisces 27:42     URANUS: Virgo 24:07   ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 15  MERCURY: Gemini 3:16   NEPTUNE: Taurus 22:05 ]
  [ ASCENDANT: Leo 14:36   VENUS: Cancer 27:59                          ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Virgo 6     MARS: Virgo 6:16                             ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Libra 3     JUPITER: Leo 4:35                            ]
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oppositions  of the sun, moon, and Uranus taken  together  with  the  moon's
placement in the 8th house and the 12th house sign  show  that  this case is
likely   to  terminate  fatally.    The  best  that  can  be  done  for  the

[PAGE 965]

patient   now   is   to   make   her   suffering   as   ittle  as  possible.
The magnetic force of an Aries person whose Saturn is not in any of the  de-
grees  encompassed by the 6th house of the patient's horoscope would  be  of
great help to her, and milk just fresh from the cow would do a great deal to
keep up her vitality as it is filled with the healthy animal ether.

                            NO. 4.C--TUBERCULOSIS:

   Male, born December 1, 1883, 3:51 A.M.

   BY mistake this chart was first set up so that Leo occupied the Ascendant
end the sun was in the fifth house.  The planets show the affliction no mat-
ter what sign rises,  but a glance showed the figure to be erroneous because
the sun cannot be in the fifth house at four o'clock in the morning.   So we
had it calculated again,  with the result that we find Saturn in the  eighth
house instead of in the eleventh and the sun in the second house instead  of
the  fifth.   This makes a great deal of difference in the strength  of  the
symptoms.   We would advise students that whenever they are given  a  figure
for  judgment it is wise precaution always to look at the place of  the  sun
and  notice  if its location in the horoscope corresponds  with  its  actual
place in the sky at the time of day when the birth took place.   If it  does
not,  that is evidence that the horoscope has been incorrectly set up and is
therefore  unfit to be used as a basis of judgment.   We are all  liable  to
make  mistakes in our calculations but this hint will undoubtedly help  stu-
dents to avoid this particular mistake.

   The subject of this horoscope is suffering from tuberculosis,  a  disease
neither necessarily serious nor fatal.  The student of  Astro-Diagnosis  has

[PAGE 966]

special facilities for judging how deeply the disease is rooted by the posi-
tions and aspects of the afflicting planets.  Saturn, the planet of obstruc-
tion,  in Gemini, the sign which rules the lungs, shows the tendency to cold
in  the lungs and also hardening such as occurs in tuberculosis.   But  this
testimony   would   not   have  been  so  dangerous  if  it  had  come  from

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[                            BIRTH CHART NO. 4C                           ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Leo 7        SUN: Sagitt. 8:37        SATURN: Gemini 6:27R   ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Virgo 11    MOON: Sagitt. 23:40      URANUS: Virgo 27:40    ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Libra 8     MERCURY: Sagitt. 11:22   NEPTUNE: Taurus 19:09R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Libra 28:33  VENUS: Sagitt. 26:35                            ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Scorpio 26   MARS: Leo 19:05                                 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 29   JUPITER: Leo 4:23R                              ]
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the position shown in the  erroneously  cast  figure where Saturn was placed
in  the  eleventh  house,  instead  of its  position  in  the true horoscope
where he is in the eighth house,  denoting  the  manner of death.

[PAGE 967]

   Mercury,  the ruler of Gemini, is in opposition to Saturn,  and so is the
life-giving sun.   We may also note that the moon,  which governs the  tidal
air  in  the lungs,  is in conjunction with Venus,  which rules  the  venous
blood,  and is square to Uranus.   All these are signs which show that there
is comparatively little hope of escape for this patient from the dread  dis-
ease until death looses the silver cord and frees him from the body.

   You will notice that the last degrees of Libra are rising so that the na-
tive has really more of the impulsive Scorpio characteristics than those  of
Libra.  Mars, ruler of Scorpio, in Leo adds to his energy and makes him fond
of swaggering and showing off, prodigal of his vitality.  Mars trine Mercury
in  Sagittarius  shows an inclination for sport and  probably  overexertion,
which  may  have  been  responsible  for  the  first  breakdown  about   the
twenty-eighth  year  when  the progressed moon was over  the  place  of  the
radical moon and Venus,  or the year preceding when it was in opposition  to
Saturn.

   It  would  be extreme cruelty to tell the patient that  there  is  little
hope,  of  course,  and  no aspirant to invisible  helpership  would  be  so
thoughtless, but would strive to make his lot as easy as possible during the
remaining  time,  though realizing that whatever measures were  taken  would
only palliate but not cure.   Meanwhile, it should be made clear to the per-
son that there is a spiritual reason for disease and that occult  investiga-
tions have established the fact that a materialistic conception of life in a

[PAGE 968]

previous  embodiment is a fruitful source of just such a condition  as  this
one,  for by the thought that death ends all, the materialist gradually puts
himself out of tune with all activities in the spiritual world.  When he en-
ters the Second Heaven where the archetypes of new bodies are built, he puts
all his crystallizing thoughts into the new vehicle,  which is then born un-
der the hardening rays of Saturn,  who in some way obstructs the life-giving
sun.   If such a patient can be taught to believe this and become a  devoted
Christian, he will be saved a similar fate in a future life.

                                  THE HEART:

                             NO. 5A.--THE HEART:

   Female, born October 16, 1907, 2:00 P.M.

   Aquarius,  a fixed and airy sign, is on the Ascendant.   The fiery planet
Mars  is just above the cusp in the 12th house,  and the plastic and  watery
moon is in the same sign in the first house.   This gave this young woman  a
very  strange  nature,  for there is a great  difference  between  the  tem-
peraments given by the moon and Mars.  Mars on the Ascendant afflicted by  a
parallel to the ruler,  the impulsive Uranus,  gave the native a very impul-
sive nature.  It indicates one who would fly into a fit of rage at the least
provacation.  The two natures given by Mars and the moon were continually at
war with each other,  the one impulsive, energetic,  dynamic,  and the other
restless,  plastic, and changeable.  The moon, however, is trine to the sun,
which gave a soft, peaceable, kindly nature, directly opposed to the martial
temperament.  The restless, critical Mercury is placed near the Midheaven in

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the martial sign of Scorpio; this added to the temper.

   Planets  when situated in angles and in fixed signs,  as are  several  in
this horoscope,  have a larger orb than otherwise, and we give eight degrees
or  a  little  more  to  the major planets in such cases.  We would consider

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[                           BIRTH CHART 5A                                 ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Scorpio 26     SUN: Libra 22:23        SATURN: Pisces 21:59R  ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 19    MOON: Aquarius 25:07    URANUS: Capricorn 9:03 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Capricorn 11  MERCURY: Scorpio 15:46  NEPTUNE: Cancer 14:53  ]
[ ASCENDANT: Aquarius 7:14  VENUS: Scorpio 0:48                            ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Pisces 21      MARS: Aquarius 1:57                            ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Aries 28       JUPITER: Leo 10:28                             ]
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Jupiter  here  to be in opposition to Mars.   Venus is in square  aspect  to
Mars,  and Mercury is parallel to Venus and square to Jupiter.   With  Venus
ruling the venous blood and Jupiter the arterial blood, both being afflicted
by  Mars  and  Jupiter  by  Mercury  also,  this  young  woman suffered from

[PAGE 970]

restricted circulation,  especially due to the fact that the afflictions are
all  from fixed signs and angles,  which affected the action of  the  heart.
With  her high-strung,  nervous temperament and uncontrolled fits of  temper
she precipitated an attack of heart trouble each time she permitted  herself
to be ruled by this emotion.

   There  are also indications of in harmony in the home,  for we  find  the
rulers of the 10th and 4th houses, Venus and Mars,  in square aspect.   Mars
is also the ruler of the 3rd house,  which stands for sisters and  brothers.
The above aspect would indicate that this young girl was greatly  domineered
by those in the home, and being of a very impulsive and dominant nature her-
self,  this provoked much display of temper, which was very injurious to the
health of one with the above planetary configurations.

   In 1917 the progressed sun reached the square to the radical Mars,  while
the progressed Mars was in conjunction with the Ascendant.   The result  was
that a chronic condition of heart trouble set in which slowly led to dropsy,
for restricted heart action frequently bring about other complications.  The
doctors,  unfortunately, were unable to diagnose the disease correctly,  and
she  was treated for Bright's disease.  In 1921 the progressed moon  reached
the opposition to its radical place at birth.  This opposition usually marks
the  beginning  of puberty,  and is sometimes a critical  period  for  young
girls, especially when Venus and Jupiter are both afflicted.  When  the moon

[PAGE 971]

passed through Leo,  the sign of the heart,  while making the opposition  to
its radical place, it aggravated the dropsy, for the moon in Leo or Aquarius
has a tendency to cause dropsy in a patient suffering with heart trouble.

   Uranus,  the planet of impulse and the higher octave of Venus, which also
has an influence over the circulatory system, is in opposition to Neptune in
Cancer,  th sign ruling the stomach.   Neptune is in the 6th house,  health;
this would indicate that there was trouble with the digestive organs and  an
abnormal desire for indigestible food.

   The young woman's parents called upon Headquarters for healing after  the
doctors  had given her up.   They were told that the case was hopeless;  she
passed out three weeks after she was put on our healing list.   The case was
an incurable one when it reached our hands.  She died in February, 1921.  We
may  here  see how powerful afflictions are and how difficult to  over  some
when they are from fixed signs and in the angles.   This was truly a debt of
destiny which this soul was called upon to pay,  and it was beyond the power
of the Invisible Helpers.

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                           NO. 5B.--HEART; KIDNEYS:

   Male, born October 25, 1862, at 5:20 A.M.

   WE  will use here the horoscope of a man with Libra on the Ascendant  and
cardinal signs on all the angles.  The planet of obstruction, Saturn, is ex-
alted in Libra, and is placed in the twelfth house.  Saturn is in opposition
to Mars and Neptune.   Mars and Neptune are in conjunction and parallel with
each other.  We have here three malefic planets, one in the 12th house, rul-
ing hospitals, and two in the 6th house, the house of sickness.  The twelfth
and  the  sixth houses are very dangerous positions for  planets  afflicting
each other by opposition.

   Saturn in Libra,  when afflicted,  causes obstruction of the renal secre-
tions,  and lack of these secretions disturbs the chemical laboratory of the
kidneys.   Poisons are thrown off by the blood after it passes  through  the
renal arteries to the kidneys, where it is purified and undergoes a thorough
filtering  process,  leaving  its poisons such  as  urea,  phosphoric  acid,
sulphuric acid,  potash,  lime,  and other refuse matter which it has  taken
from the food.

   If  the kidneys are healthy,  these organs receive enough water from  the
flood to dissolve these poisonous secretions, which are then washed out from
the  kidneys  as  urine.  But  in  a case such as we have for our diagnosis,

[PAGE 973]

where  Saturn is afflicted in Libra,  this washing out is not  fully  accom-
plished.   The kidneys retain some of these poisonous secretions,  which be-
come hardened mineral matter.   In course of time a hardening process devel-
ops  and  the  kidneys  refuse to function properly.  The result is that the

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 [                            BIRTH CHART 5B                              ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Cancer 22    SUN: Scorpio 1:47       SATURN: Libra 0:18     ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Leo 23      MOON: Sagitt. 1:04      URANUS: Gemini 20:24R  ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Virgo 24    MERCURY: Scorpio 6:24R  NEPTUNE: Aries 1:42R   ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Libra 21:57  VENUS: Libra 20:17      DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Scorpio 21   MARS: Aries 7:41R                Sagitt. 18:20 ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 21   JUPITER: Libra 13:02    DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
 [                                                        Gemini 18:20    ]
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blood is not purified,  and this mineral matter is lodged in the blood  ves-
sels, which become clogged, and the circulation becomes impaired.

   The eyes are closely  allied with the kidneys, and when the latter organs

[PAGE 974]

are sluggish and filled with mineral matter, the eyesight becomes impaired.

   People with Mars in Aries have a desire to drink much liquid,  as in  the
case  of this man,  who was afflicted with an unquenchable thirst.   As  the
kidneys were not able to extract the excess water from the blood,  this liq-
uid,  which was not eliminated through the skin, remained in the blood,  and
in time the man suffered from palpitation of the heart and dropsy.  his case
was diagnosed by the doctors as heart disease.   People suffering with  this
affliction have very scanty and very highly colored urine.

   If a case of this kind is taken in time,  the kidneys can be flushed  and
the poisons eliminated by a proper diet.  String beans, carrots,  asparagus,
and  tomatoes are most helpful in stimulating the kidneys and  assisting  in
the elimination of water.  Onions are astringents, and where there is an ex-
cess of urine,  the onion will regulate it.   Therefore it is very necessary
that the vegetables be properly chosen to work against and not with the dis-
ease.

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                             NO. 5C.--THE HEART:

   Male, born October 6th, 1855, 1:00 A.M.

   "We shape, ourselves, the joy or fear
   Of which the coming life is made,
   And fill our Futures' atmosphere
   With sunshine or with shade.
   We weave with colors all our own
   The tissues of the Life to be,
   And in the field of Destiny
   We reap as we have sown.

   "Still shall the soul around it call
   The shadows which it gathered here,
   And, painted on the eternal wall,
   The past shall reappear.
   Think ye the notes of holy song
   On Milton's tuneful ear have died?

   Think ye that Raphael's angel throng
   Has vanished from his side?
   On, no! we live our life again;
   Or warmly touched, or coldly dim,
   The pictures of the past remain--
   Man's work shall follow him!"    --Whittier.

   Well  may  we say of the soul whose destiny we read through  this  mystic
scroll that his work in the past followed him.  He hewed a path for himself,
and chose one that was rough and rocky.  His  was  the  path  of a leader of

[PAGE 976]

men,  for he had the sign of Leo on the Ascendant, with the moon in conjunc-
tion with Mars and the Ascendant and sextile to the ruler, the sun.  He also

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[                           BIRTH CHART NO. 5C                            ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Taurus 1    SUN: Libra 12:26          SATURN: Cancer 0:01    ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Gemini 7   MOON: Leo 18:49           URANUS: Taurus 20:14R  ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 12  MERCURY: Scorpio 6:51     NEPTUNE: Pisces 16:06R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Leo 11:34   VENUS: Libra 4:22R        DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Virgo 3     MARS: Leo 21:46                    Taurus 4:42   ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 29    JUPITER: Aquarius 23:01R  DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
[                                                         Taurus 4:42     ]
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had  fixed signs on the four angles and five planets therein.   This is  the
sign of a strong soul, a man who will never lean on anyone,  but who will be
a doer, a lifter; as such he spent his life.  This was a man who carried his
cross  willingly  and  who bore the stripes of the cruelties  of  the  world
uncomplainingly.  One with such signs on the angles  and with the planets as

[PAGE 977]

strongly placed as in this horoscope and afflicting one another surely finds
his life full of lessons, and many responsibilities are placed upon him.

   In  his home he was most unhappy, as we see from Mercury  in  conjunction
with the Dragon's Tail in Scorpio in the 4th house.  This indicates that the
wife was a nagger and a scold.  Mercury in Scorpio shows that the wife would
never permit the husband to have a moment's peace.   Then we find Saturn  in
Cancer.   Cancer is the natural fourth house sign.   Saturn is square to Ve-
nus, again indicating a masterful and discordant marriage partner.  With Ju-
piter in the seventh house, in opposition to the moon and mars and square to
Uranus,  marriage and partnership are shown to be accompanied by many trials
and much opposition.

   In spite of all this we find that this man achieved quite a fortune,  did
a big work, and made many friends.  He was a leader in Masonry, where he did
many kind acts, helping the widow and orphan generously with his money.   He
was deeply interested in prison work and also in occult studies.  Neptune in
Pisces,  sextile to Uranus, shows his interest in occultism,  but both these
planets are retrograde, which brought him all kinds of restrictions.  He was
never free to follow his higher ideals.

   With his many crosses,  hard work, and disappointments he developed heart
trouble of a very serious nature,  and for years he used heart stimulants so
as  to  keep  at  his  work.  He  never  allowed  his physical sufferings to

[PAGE 978]

interfere with his business,  however,  which was of a very responsible  na-
ture,  with many branches scattered over a large pat of America; also he had
many men under him.  With leakage of the valves of the heart and in spite of
the  resulting suffering he lived to the ripe old age of seventy years.   We
may  see  from this that the will can be used to overcome and  that  man  is
truly  the master of his fate.   Had this man had Virgo on the Ascendant  or
some  other sign less strong than Leo,  together with the  afflictions  from
fixed signs,  he would have become a confirmed invalid or have passed out as
a young man.  Hence we may see that "the wise man rules his stars;  the fool
is ruled by them."

                           NO. 5D.--HEART DISEASE:

   Male, born September 12, 1858, 8:15 A.M.


   Our first concern when diagnosing this horoscope is to ascertain the men-
tal caliber of the patient.   Jupiter placed in the house of the higher mind
and  Mars  near the cusp of the house of the lower mind are  in  opposition,
also square to the sun and Mercury, a fact which stamps the native as a pes-
simist  of an irritable nature.   This is accentuated by the  opposition  of
mercury to Neptune, the lower mind being out of tune with all spiritual con-
cepts.   Saturn square Venus prevents the native from seeing the  beauty  of
life.   As  these adverse testimonies are only counterbalanced by  the  moon
sextile Mercury and the sun,  and trine Neptune,  we may conclude that  this
person is in a sad state and needs all the help and cheer it is possible  to
bring  him.   We  are afraid that even the best efforts  will  avail  little
against such a barrier of pessimism as he has built around himself.

   Regarding the disease to which he is subject,  the cold hand of Saturn in
leo shows us the obstructed heart action, and the consequent sluggish circu-
lation is designated by the square of Saturn to Venus and the square of  the
sun  and Mercury to Jupiter,  for Jupiter and Venus govern the arterial  and
venous  circulations respectively.   Uranus sextile Saturn produces a  spas-
modic action felt as a fluttering of the heart;  and being posited in Gemini

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he also imparts a spasmodic motion to the lungs,  making it at times  diffi-
cult for the patient to breathe, though the condition is not so well defined
as  in  asthma.  The  affliction  of  the  sun  and  Mercury  in  Virgo  op-

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 [                           BIRTH CHART NO. 5D                          ]
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 [ MIDHEAVEN: Cancer 23    SUN: Virgo 19:34       SATURN: Leo 7:59       ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Leo 26      MOON: Scorpio 20:18    URANUS: Gemini 3:31    ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Virgo 26    MERCURY: Virgo 24:05R  NEPTUNE: Pisces 23:55R ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Libra 19:37  VENUS: Scorpio 4:50                           ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Scorpio 17   MARS: Sagitt. 17:07                           ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 19   JUPITER: Gemini 20:22                         ]
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position  Neptune  indicates intestinal trouble.  The affliction of the  sun
and Mercury by Jupiter and Mars from the houses of travel,  also the opposi-
tion  of the last named planets, show a predisposition to  accidents,  espe-
cially when on a journey.  With this phase of the  indications  we  are not,

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however, concerned at the present time.

   We may bend our efforts to accelerate the action of the heart and promote
impaired digestion in order to give the person relief and a brighter outlook
upon life.   As Saturn controls the pneumogastric nerve, his presence in Leo
shows us that this is the principal set of the trouble, for his nerve inhib-
its the heart action and acts also upon other vital organs.  It is difficult
to reach this nerve in an efficient manner when we are clothed in our  dense
bodies.   But the conscientious Rosicrucian health adjuster has other  means
at his disposal, for his Obligation to himself taken before the Elder Broth-
ers enables him to work upon his patients during the hours when his body  is
sleeping.   And he is taught how he may materialize fingers inside the  body
of the ailing and thus give the needed help to remove obstructions, growths,
etc.; yes, even to adjust displaced bones.  We receive many letters at Head-
quarters  from patients who sense the presence of the Invisible Helpers  and
the withdrawal of hands from their bodies at the moment when they awake.

   The  best method to treat such a case as this would be for the healer  to
thoroughly  impress upon his or her mind where the seat of the malady is  to
be found,  physiologically and astrologically.   Then after retrospection in
the evening say,  "Now,  I will go to help my patient under the direction of
the Elder Brothers," letting that be the last waking thought.

   The healer best fitted to take charge  of  this  case  would be one whose

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rising  sign is in harmony with Libra.   Aquarius would be the first  choice
and  Gemini the second.   It is further required that he or she  should  not
have Saturn in Libra or Pisces.

                             NO. 5E.--THE HEART:

   Female, born September 18, 1854, 10:00 A.M.

   Here we have a horoscope with the energetic, active,  and aggressive sign
of Scorpio on the Ascendant,  with the life ruler,  Mars,  in the 1st  house
within  orb  of the Ascendant and in its own sign,  where a planet  has  the
greatest power either for good or evil.  In the case of this woman this mar-
tial energy is dissipated and not kept under control, for the planet Mars is
in  opposition to the erratic and impulsive Uranus which is posited  in  the
7th house in the fixed sign of Taurus where it is in its fall and  therefore
apt to show its evil side.  The combined influence of Mars and Uranus,  both
being planets of impulse,  acts like a fire fanned by the wind which has got
beyond control.

   We find the water moon near the Midheaven in the hot,  fiery,  and  fixed
sign of Leo, and this planet is in square aspect to both  the  above planets

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of impulse.  Fire in contact with water generates steam.  This affliction of
the  planets of fire to the watery and emotional moon has a  similar  effect
upon the mind of this woman.  Mars in Scorpio afflicted and on the Ascendant

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[                         BIRTHCHART NO. 5E                               ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Leo 23        SUN: Virgo 25:06        SATURN: Gemini 15:48   ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Virgo 26     MOON: Leo 10:03         URANUS: Taurus 16:26R  ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Libra 20     MERCURY: Libra 0:04     NEPTUNE: Pisces 14:18R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Scorpio 6:30  VENUS: Virgo 3:34                              ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Sagitt. 5     MARS: Scorpio 14:20                            ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Capricorn 11  JUPITER: Capricorn 17:43                       ]
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gives an uncontrolled temper,  showing a woman who would fly into a rage  at
the  least provocation and this anger is apt to be directed toward the  mar-
riage partner.  If we place a kettle of water on a fire which is kept fanned
into a red heat, in time the  water  boils  down,  the  bottom of the kettle

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becomes dry and burns out.  In this state we find this woman.  For years she
has  created such a nervous and emotional environment about her in her  home
that the poor heart has been burned and scorched,  for the moon afflicted in
Leo indicates that the heart has been under a great strain.   The result  is
that  in the year 1916 when the progressed moon reached the  conjunction  of
the radical Mars in the 1st house and later the opposition of Uranus in  the
7th  house (indicating the husband), domestic relations reached  a  critical
point.  With the progressed Venus, Mercury, sun, and moon all transiting the
1st house and in the martial sign of Scorpio,  the resulting fiery  emotions
were too much for the body,  and the poor woman lost all control of herself.
She wanted to cry all the time, she could not digest her food, and would of-
ten swoon away with heart trouble.

   There is, however, another cause for this physical break.  We find a won-
derfully  strong  and well fortified Neptune in its own sign  of  Pisces  in
theoccult  4th house,  in sextile to Jupiter and Uranus and trine  to  Mars.
These  aspects,  especially  the sextile between  the  two  occult  planets,
Neptune  and Uranus,  ordinarily give a strong desire for development  along
mystical lines and would cause one to develop rapidly.   But Neptune is mak-
ing a square to Saturn, and Uranus is square to the moon.   Evil aspects be-
tween planets as well as good will bring development but the development  is
of a different nature.

   As we have often stated in our lessons,  anger and evil emotions are much
more  injurious to a person who is endeavoring to live the higher life  than
if he were content to drift and be of the earth earthy.  Each time that this
woman gave way to her anger she set in motion a counter-clockwise vibration,
a  fire  that burned up the spiritual life that had been awakened,  and  the
poor body could not stand the strain.  She cannot long continue placing this
strain  upon the heart,  for with the squares and opposition of Mars,  moon,
and Uranus from angles and fixed signs,  the heart will not be able to stand
the strain and death may be very sudden.

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