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Mundane Astrology
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Course 13
Mundane Astrology
Student Manual
C.C. Zain
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The material contained in this book
was originally published as a set
of serial lessons. They are part of
the 210 lessons written by C. C.
Zain and published under the auspices of the Brotherhood of Light.
Together they represent the complete spiritual and occult teachings
which comprise the Religion of the
Stars. The 210 lessons are currently
published as 21 volumes or courses
of study covering all three
branches of occultism; Astrology,
Alchemy and Magic.
See the back of this book for
more information on the 21 Brotherhood of Light courses by C. C.
Zain.
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Emblem of
The Religion of the Stars
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he emblem on the facing page symbolizes the
philosophy and aspirations of all seekers of
Divine Inspiration. The two interlaced
trines signify the involution and evolution of the soul
through the Cycle of Necessity. The downward pointing trine, dark in color, indicates the descent of the
soul into material conditions for the purpose of gaining necessary experience. The upward pointing trine,
light in color, indicates the ascent, or evolution of
the soul, back to the realm of spirit after gaining experience in matter. Inside the interlaced trines is the
word of Deity, JodHeVauHe, written in square
formed Chaldean letters. Thus written, it signifies
the belief that there is a Super Intelligence Who interpenetrates and exercises a guiding power over the
whole universe. It sets forth the four universal principles through which this Super Intelligence always
operates. The joined sun and moon at the top of the
symbol indicate that spirituality may best be reached,
and still further evolution in spiritual realms accomplished, through the marriage of a male and a female soul. The seven stars and the astrological symbols around the outside of the interlaced trines indicate the belief that astrological energies powerfully
influence all life. Knowledge of these forces will enable the aspirant to avoid many misfortunes, as well
as guide the development of personal talents, thereby
successfully advancing spirituality while, at the same
time, enabling the individual to contribute his or her
utmost to universal welfare. See Course 12, Volume
2, Natural Alchemy: Evolution of Religion, by C. C. Zain,
for an explanation of the origin and historical development of this symbol.
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Instructions for
Using This Manual
This course, Mundane Astrology is the 5th of seven in The Brotherhood of
Light series on Astrology. In it you will find the serial lessons originally referred to as Serial Numbers 141-150.
Who Can Submit Final Exams:
All seekers may submit a final exam for this course. If you do not have the
final exam please request one from The Light of Egypt website.
Studying:
This course consists of 10 lessons. At the back of the book beginning on page
159, are Study Questions which may be used as a guide in preparing for the
open book final exam.
We suggest that you carefully read the study questions so you can identify the most important topic areas. Next read the lesson, concentrating on
the study questions. Recording the answer to each study question is optional,
depending on each persons study techniques. Please do not submit the study
question answers for grading.
Taking the Final Exam:
The Final Exam consists of 25 essay questions. Each answer is worth 4 points.
Please limit your answers to 25 words or less.
Be sure to neatly print all the information requested on the first page of
your answer sheet(s). Include your name, and email address. After the final
exam is graded by a Hermetician your graded exam will be returned to you
along with your Award Manuscript. This is an open book examination.
Time Limits:
There are no time limits. The Light of Egypt suggests that you pass no more
than one exam per month.
Suggestions:
Some of our students have brought to our attention that they like to 3 hole
punch their courses, along with the study questions and final exams, and
keep them in a notebook for easy reference.
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Contents
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Emblem of The Religion of the Stars
Instructions for Using This Manual
Foreword
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The Doctrine of Mundane Astrology
Cycles of Pluto and Neptune
Cycles of Uranus
Cycles of Saturn
Cycles of Jupiter
Cycles of Mars
Major Conjunctions of Planets
Cycles of the Sun
Cycles of the Moon
Precise Predicting: Eclipses
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Study Questions
History of The Brotherhood of Light
Declaration of Principles
Home Study Program
Other Brotherhood of Light Books
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Forword
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ELIGION should give instructions in optimum living. Optimum living embraces more than a few hilarious days, a few enjoyable weeks,
or a few years of health and material prosperity which are followed
by a long period of illness and misery. Optimum living gets the best out of life
relative to its entire span. Considering the tremendous accumulation of scientific evidence that life persists after the dissolution of the physical, religion
must embrace both life on earth and life beyond the tomb.
For living to best advantage after life on earth is done, man must know as
much as possible about the innerplane realm, about its energies and properties. And, it is becoming increasingly evident that for him to live to best advantage while still in the physical form, he must know as much as possible
about these innerplane energies.
University scientists have demonstrated extrasensory perception. Man’s
soul often acquires information, usually unknown to himself, upon which he
acts successfully to adapt himself to future conditions he could not have perceived through his reason and physical senses. This extrasensory perception,
through which all information must be acquired after he loses his physical
body, is equally valuable during and after physical life.
University scientists have also demonstrated psychokinesis. As man will
have no physical muscles, and as objects of the innerplane do not respond to
gravitation or physical pressure of any kind; after leaving the physical, to
move or build anything, or to go anywhere, man must exercise psychokinesis. While still on earth he often is able to bring psychokinesis into play to
heal the sick and amazingly demonstrate other desirable physical conditions.
Because of this, the use of psychokinesis on earth is equally as valuable as its
use after earthly life is done.
On the innerplane there is no air, no moisture and no molecular vibrations which constitute heat. Thus after he leaves the physical he is not influenced by physical weather. He is markedly influenced by astrological vibrations, which constitute the innerplane weather. Though he may not be aware
of it while on earth, the innerplane weather has as much or more influence
over his life as the outerplane weather. Therefore, knowledge of how to forecast these astrological conditions and what precautionary actions should be
taken relative to them, is equally important to man in the afterearth life as it is
while he still occupies a physical form.
It seems inevitable that the Religion of the Stars shall become the world
religion of the future because it includes all significant demonstrated facts of
both the outerplane and the innerplane, Not that these are as yet all known,
or that we expect a day to come when all of them will be known. But as fast as
they are discovered and properly verified, if they are sufficiently important
facts, they will be integrated into The Religion of the Stars.
Mankind is becoming too well educated to be guided either in religion or
in its political views by blind belief in propaganda. More and more it is demanding demonstrated facts from those who advocate some economic or
political system. And in due time it will demand demonstrated facts on which
to base its religion. In 210 Brotherhood of Light lessons the writer has striven
to set forth as many of such significant outerplane and innerplane facts, and
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the logical inferences to be derived from them, as possible.
The writer believes The Religion of the Stars will be the world religion of
the future not merely from the facts and logical inferences presented in these
210 lessons, but because these facts will be supplemented by additional facts
as fast as they are discovered and verified. The Religion of the Stars is not a
static religion. It will progress as fast as there is progress in demonstrable
knowledge.
This writer is not so foolish to believe that what has already been published in the 210 Brotherhood of Light lessons is the last word, or that no
errors have been made in them, or that new demonstrated facts may not make
necessary some revision of the ideas there presented. He all too well remembers that when he went to college, the atom of each of the many chemical
elements was indivisible, unchangeable and indestructible. Einstein had not
yet published his Theory of Relativity. And four things, which since his youth
have so greatly changed civilization, as yet had no existence: automobiles,
airplanes, the cinema and the radio.
While he is still on this earth he will do all in his power to acquire new
significant facts and revise The Brotherhood of Light lessons to include them.
When he has passed to the next plane, undoubtedly new significant facts will
be discovered that should be included in The Religion of the Stars. However,
as orthodoxy will certainly try to get sufficient control to slant them into conformity with orthodox opinion, he believes the Brotherhood of Light lessons
as he leaves them should remain unchanged.
It would be unethical for someone to insert opinions or discoveries in
these lessons and not take both the credit and the blame for them. The writer
does not want the credit for the ideas or the errors of some other person. He
asks that the printed pages of each lesson be left as he has last revised it.
However, in reprinting, it is easy to increase any lesson to 36 or 40 or any
multiple of four pages. He suggests, therefore, that any errors he has made,
or new discoveries, or logical opinions derived from these discoveries, be set
forth and elaborated in an appendix following the 32 pages of the lesson which
it is thought should be thus amended. Before this is done, the writer of the
appendix should submit what he has thus written to Light of Egypt and secure their approval. And his name should appear in the appendix as the author of such commentary.
The author of the 210 Brotherhood of Light lessons desires that they be
permanently retained as the Stellarian Beliefs as he has written them up to
the date of his physical demise, and that subsequent amendments should be
credited to the persons who make them.
C.C. Zain (Elbert Benjamine)
August, 1951
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LOS ANGELES
California, Sept. 4, 1781, 9:17 a.m.
Major Progressions in outer circle are for March 10, 1933, the date of the
earthquake. Sun in 4th (lands and buildings), sesqui-square (agitation) Uranus p (planet of disruption). Venus in 5th (schools), square (obstacle) Saturn
p, ruler of 4th (buildings): Damage was chiefly confined to schoolhouses, most
of which had to be torn down and replaced, presenting an obstacle to children (5th) going to school. M.C. (business) square (obstacle) Moon r in 6th
(tenants): Tourists (tenants) feared to come to the city, presenting an obstacle
to business.
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UNITED STATES of AMERICA
July 4, 1776, 2:14:43 a.m. LMT 39N57 74W08.
Major Progressions in outer circle are for March 5, 1933, the date when all
banks in the country were closed due to a financial crisis: M.C. in 2nd (banks)
inconjunct Moon r in 10th (credit). Asc. conjunction Saturn} in 5th (hazards),
ruler of 8th (debts and taxes) people unable to pay were permitted to defer
paying taxes and other debts. Sun semi-sextile Venus p, ruler of 2nd (wages)
and 6th (labor) and Mars-Neptune trine Pluto r (co-operation): administration set in motion New Deal (Pluto) for labor through enforcing shorter hours
and increased pay.
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Course 13
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Chapter 1
Doctrine of Mundane Astrology
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UNDANE ASTROLOGY is the science of the influence of the heavenly bodies as they affect the world, nations, cities, communities and
other groups of people Any organization of individuals functioning
under a common governing authority constitutes an entity. As such it attracts
to itself fortunate and unfortunate events in a manner quite similar to that in
which like events are attracted into the life of man. Both have birth-charts
which if known correctly map their characters; and both are influenced by
picking up, radio fashion, four-dimensional vibrations through changes in
their finer structures which are mapped by progressed aspects.
Progressed aspects indicate the release of energies within the astral body
of man that build across his four-dimensional form temporary stellar aerials. These temporary stellar aerials, so long as they function, pick up planetary energies of definite type, endow them with discordant static or pleasing harmony, and transmit them to the thought-cells within the astral body
at their terminals.
The astral body of man is composed of thought-cells, or stellar cells, as
they also commonly are called. These thought-cells, receiving a new supply
of energy from the temporary stellar aerials, acquire unusual activity. They
thus work from their four-dimensional plane to attract events into the life.
According to their original composition, and the discord or harmony of
the energy added to them as mapped by the progressed aspect, do they feel
beneficent or malignant. To the extent they feel beneficent they work to attract fortunate events. But to the extent they feel malignant do they work to
attract misfortune. The importance of the event attracted depends upon the
amount of energy they acquire.
These stellar cells, of which the astral body of man is composed, occupy
definite compartments within his finer form, as mapped by the houses of the
birth-chart. The department of life to which an event attracted by a progressed
aspect relates is determined by the compartment in the astral body the thoughtcells of which receive the additional energy. This is revealed by the house
occupied by each planet involved in the progressed aspect.
This whole matter is set forth in all its details in Course 10-2, Natal Astrology, Progressing the Horoscope. It is mentioned here, not to explain it, but because the individuals of a corporation, a city or a nation play very much the
same part in Mundane Astrology that the thought-cells within the astral body
of man play in natal astrology.
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These individuals are thinking units within the body of the community.
The community birth-chart indicates the character of the community as a functioning whole. As progressed aspects form to the birth-chart and progressed
planets in this community chart, thought trains are released. These link certain individuals of similar motives and ideas together in a manner that enables them, and the thought-forms they generate, to perform the same function performed by a temporary stellar aerial stretching across the astral body
of individual man.
Through this thought-chain, and those persons which thus act as receiving
terminals, because they have so completely tuned in on certain planetary vibrations, additional planetary energy finds its way to various members of the
community. These feel in a particular way in reference to community effort,
depending upon the type and harmony or discord of their respective characters and the type and harmony or discord of the new energy thus received.
According to the way they feel and think and act, in response to the new
four-dimensional energy received, is the event attracted through their activities harmonious or discordant. And according to the trend of their thinking and activities is one department of community life affected instead of
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Progressions Are
Calculated For
Nations, Cities
and Corporations
During the seven years since this Course on Mundane Astrology was first
published our research department has diligently investigated the birth-charts
and progressed aspects of all countries and towns for which it could obtain
accurate birth-data. However, the number of authentic birth-charts of these
larger groups which it has been able to obtain is disappointingly small.
But it has not been so difficult to get the correct birth information of corporations.
The result of this research work indicates that while countries and sections of countries respond more pronouncedly to Cycles and current astronomical phenomena than individuals do, that they, as well as cities and lesser
corporations, are influenced much as individuals are by Major Progressions,
Minor Progressions and Transits.
A nation, or a section of the country, responds so pronouncedly to Cycles
and current astronomical positions, that even when the birth-chart of the nation is known, these should receive special consideration. But I believe that if
reliance had to be placed upon only one type of influence that far greater
precision could be obtained through the use of Major Progressions, Minor
Progressions and Transits, than through the use of Cycles and current astronomical positions.
Our experience has been, although that experience has been limited by
necessity in the case of nations and cities, that in predicting events for a nation, city, town or corporation, nothing else gives the details and precision
that can be gained by the use of a correct birth-chart and progressed aspects.
The mathematical work is identical in working progressions for these larger
entities, with that used in working progressions for an individual, as set forth
in Course 10-2, Natal Astrology, Progressing the Horoscope. The interpretation of
the progressed aspects thus ascertained deviates from that given in Course
10-2, Natal Astrology, Progressing the Horoscope only to the extent made necessary in considering a group instead of an individual.
In the case of most countries and cities, however, the difficulty of obtaining a correct birth chart is so great as to prohibit their use. We are, therefore
compelled to use, not what we prefer, but that which we can get. Cycles and
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Major Conjunctions thus give us much information as to what will happen at
a specified time within a given area; but they do not clearly designate the city,
or other small locality chiefly affected by the event. They do not point out the
one specific enterprise, among many of a similar nature, which feels the full
weight of the influence. Such details can be had only from progressions calculated to a correctly timed birth-chart.
Such correct birth-charts are not so difficult to obtain for corporations. Particularly is this true in reference to the new corporations which are formed
from time to time. The data are so fresh in the minds of those forming them
that they are easily procured. And more frequently than the general public
recognizes, an astrologer is called in to determine the most propitious time
for launching such a corporate venture.
But whether to select the proper time to bring a new corporation into
existence, or to be able to determine the characteristics and general fortune of
one already in existence, and the event likely to be attracted by each progressed aspect that forms, it is essential that the true moment of birth be known,
for which the birth-chart should be erected. This raises the question as to just
what marks the true moment of birth.
It is customary, in the formation of a corporation, for an attorney to draw
up the Articles of Incorporation, have them signed by those forming the corporation, and forward them to the proper State authority. This State authority
signs the proper papers giving permission to the corporation to function according to its Articles of Incorporation.
Before the corporation can thus function, however, it must formulate and
adopt rules and regulations for the conduct of its affairs which are not specified in the Articles of Incorporation.
Commonly a set of By-Laws has been drafted by the attorney, and after he
receives the charter of the corporation, signed by the State, granting the corporation permission to function, he calls the first official meeting of the trustees or board of directors. The chief object of this first meeting is to enable the
trustees or board of directors to adopt the By-Laws which shall govern them
in their subsequent business and other transactions.
The formation of the corporation, receiving a charter signed by the State,
and the formulating of the By-Laws, all seem to me to belong to the period of
gestation. The attorney acts as midwife. He delivers the State charter, Articles
of Incorporation and By-Laws to the trustees or board of directors. Their signing acceptance of them is the first independent act of the corporation.
As the corporation does not function, but has merely been granted privilege by the State to function, until its directors or trustees have thus signed
the By-Laws, or such papers as shall govern its future activities, this act of
signing acceptance by those who are to handle its affairs, seems to me to mark
the true moment of birth.
The Moment of Birth
of a Corporation
Assuredly there is a definite correspondence between geographic positions
and celestial influences. Many years ago Albert Ross Parsons, in a book now
long out of print, published a map, which used the Great Pyramid of Gizeh as
a starting point from which to coordinate geographic longitude with zodiacal
longitude, and thus obtain the sign and degree ruling each degree of longitude on the earth’s surface.
Later, Sepharial published his Theory of Geodetic Equivalents, in which
he assumes that 0—degrees longitude on the earth’s surface corresponds to
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0— degrees Aries on the ecliptic, that 30 degrees longitude on the earth’s
surface corresponds to 0—degrees Taurus, that 60 degrees longitude on the
earth’s surface corresponds to 0—degrees Gemini, etc.
These correspondences are for the midheaven of the locality. Therefore,
to find the rising sign and degree, simply use the degree thus indicated on
the cusp of the 10th house, and from a table of houses for the latitude of the
place ascertain the sign and degree on the Ascendant when this degree is on
the M.C. The geodetic M.C. of Chicago, thus obtained, for instance, is Capricorn 2—0, and the Ascendant is Aries 3—53. The M.C. of San Francisco, following this procedure, is Scorpio 27—35, and its Ascendant is Aquarius 7 42.
L. Edward Johndro points out, with apparent justification, that the
rulership of areas on the earth’s surface according to the correspondence between geographic longitude and the signs and degrees of the zodiac, gradually shifts, due to the precession of the equinoxes. From pyramidal and other
data, he places the correspondence of 0— degrees Aries on the M.C. as west
longitude 29—10 on the earth’s surface.
Paul Counsil, following rather closely the methods of Mr. Johndro, but
using other data to establish the starting point, finds that 0—degrees Aries on
the M.C. corresponds in 1930 to west longitude 36—42. Using this as a basic
point of reference, he spreads the stars upon a map of the earth.
These efforts to establish the correct coordinates between each area of
the earth and its celestial correspondence are deserving of every encouragement. Even though there is still a difference of opinion as to how the
coordinates should be determined, still, such coordinates must exist, and
when enough research has been done, no doubt, the correct ones will get
proper recognition.
I feel quite sure that each area of the earth’s surface does thus have its
correspondence in the sky which has an influence over it. Yet in the Hermetic
System of Mundane Astrology, instead of dealing chiefly with land areas,
which are stationary, we devote our attention as largely as possible to actual
groups of people.
In every birth-chart the geographic position of the individual at the moment of his birth must be considered in erecting the chart. But after the individual has been born, the fact that he moves to some distant place is entirely
subordinate in its influence over his life to the Major Progression in hi birthchart which impelled him to make the move.
If, therefore, it is possible to secure the actual birth-chart of an individual,
a corporation, a city or a nation, I am convinced this chart, erected and progressed according to the accepted method, is the best of all indices as to when,
and what, events will be attracted.
Yet entirely aside from such a birth-chart, and aside from coordinates,
practical experience indicates that the important events which are to happen within a given area are all foreshown by other astronomical relations,
chiefly by the heavier aspects which have some influence over the world as
a whole, and by Cyclic Charts and the Charts of Major Conjunctions erected
for that area.
General
Astronomical
Phenomena
The sign occupied by each of the major planets, and the aspects that form
between these planets from time to time, have an influence over the trend of
world events. Where these events chiefly will take place must be determined
from the specific birth-charts and progressions, or lacking these, from the
Cyclic Charts, of the nations, cities and communities of the world.
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The whole world often is somewhat affected by a given astronomical relationship; but as a rule certain regions of the earth are much more affected
than others. For instance, the discovery of the new planet, Pluto, early in 1930
was coincident with a financial depression which affected the whole world.
For about seven years after its discovery Pluto was continuously afflicted by
the square of the disruptive planet, Uranus, and at times also by the square of
Jupiter and the opposition of Saturn.
No country in the world escaped serious difficulties. But some countries
were more influenced than others, and to determine where the influence would
thus most pronouncedly be felt, something more than these general astronomical positions had to be known.
In the birth-chart of the U. S., given on page xv at the front of this chapter,
Neptune, the planet of inflation, of promotion schemes, and of exaggerated
expectations, is in the house of speculation (5th). Mars is the planet of energy
and of over-expansion. In 1929, by Major Progression, Mars, co-ruler of the
people of the U. S. (1st), came conjunction Neptune r, stimulating a wild period of stock-market and other speculation, in which a large part of the population took part. Any astrologer, observing this affliction in the 5th house of
an individual, would have advised caution and conservatism. But typical of
Mars conjunction Neptune, caution was thrown to the wind in the hope of
some wonderful gain.
Venus in the U. S. chart is in the house of money (2nd). By December,
1929, the Moon, by Major Progression, was in the house of speculation (5th),
making the perfect square to Venus r. Early November, 1929, was the time the
stock-market broke. Mars had passed the perfect conjunction to Neptune r by
only 20 minutes, and by mid-November the Moon was within one degree of
the perfect square to Venus r, by Major Progression. This was the time when
a vast number of people suffered financial loss.
It marked the commencement of a financial depression affecting the whole
world, coincident with the influence of an afflicted Pluto. Pluto at that time,
by Transit, was in the 2nd house (money) of the U. S. chart, and did not permanently leave it until 1933. Thus was it shown, by the progressions in its
birth-chart, that the U. S. would be more affected by the general afflictions in
the sky than most other countries.
In the space at my disposal I can not give historical references covering
many events of wide significance which have been indicated by current astronomical positions. All I can hope to do is to point the method of research
to be followed by anyone desirous of tracing the pattern of history in its
various details.
Merely as an example, necessarily curtailed, of what I mean, it may be
noticed that before the disruptive planet Uranus moved permanently away
from the aspect, it made the perfect square to Pluto five distinct times. And
each time there was a shattering of precedent in America, in Europe, and in
the Orient.
The first square occurred April 21, 1932. In the Far East, Japan decided to
acquire Manchuria by military aggression. In Europe a financial crisis arose,
with open threats of bankruptcy on the part of Germany, and a possibility of
revolution. In the U. S., to avert the threatened condition in Europe, President
Hoover declared a moratorium on the June payments due this country, thus
setting a precedent and greatly deepening the depression in the U. S. (where
Pluto by Transit was still in the money house).
The second square of Uranus to Pluto occurred Sept. 3, 1932. In Europe
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the League of Nations told Japan to get out of Manchuria. In the Far East,
Japan told the League of Nations to mind its own affairs, and continued establishing herself in Manchuria. In the U. S., Bonus Marchers in Washington
were fired upon, one was killed, and their shelters were burned. They were
driven from Washington like starving cattle.
The third square of Uranus to Pluto occurred March 8, 1933. In the Far
East, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations and started an invasion of
China. In Europe, Hitler became dictator of Germany, compelled the religions
to make revisions to his order, and started a campaign of persecuting the
Jews. In the U. S., all banks in the country were closed for about two weeks.
The fourth square of Uranus to Pluto occurred Nov. 6, 1933. In the Far
East, Japan, in a dispute with Russia over the Chinese Eastern Railway, threatened war. In Europe, Hitler demanded for Germany equality of armament,
and thus started a war scare. In the U. S., a presidential executive order on
Nov. 8, established the Civil Works Administration, and allotted $400,000,000
to employ 4,000,000 men as a relief measure.
The fifth square of Uranus to Pluto occurred January 17, 1934. In the Far
East the failure of the U. S. to recognize the Japanese puppet state,
Manchoukuo, caused the Japanese Admiralty to state war with the U. S. is
inevitable, and to ask for huge war appropriations. In Europe, Hitler defied
all countries to invade German soil, and Mussolini warned that Japan is preparing for war, with Germany as a probable ally. In the U. S. strikes of major
proportions developed in various areas, and the warlike attitude of Japan
was answered by U. S. recognition of Russia.
Lest the impression should be given that only afflictions of the planets, as
they are shown for the time in the ephemeris, influence the trend of events
markedly, let us consider the trine of Jupiter, the financial planet, to Saturn,
the business planet, on Oct. 26, 1933.
October 22, after the aspect had come within the one degree of perfect,
Roosevelt in a radio address announced a managed currency program through
attempting to control prices by establishing a free gold market. Oct. 24,
Roosevelt ordered NRA Director Johnson to recommend prohibitive tariffs
on articles whose importation hampers recovery, and Secretary Ickes allotted
$6,000,000 PWA funds for All-American Canal in Imperial Valley, giving employment to 9,000 men. Oct. 25, Roosevelt ordered AAA to loan up to 4 cents
a bushel on warehoused corn to farmers pledged to reduction program; and
RFC set price of newly-mined domestic gold at $31.36 instead of the former
standard price of $20.67 per ounce.
The aspect also had a constructive influence in many other countries, depending upon the progressions operative in their charts at the time. But I believe sufficient has been said about aspects as they are shown in the ephemeris.
In many countries the date of whose births are unknown, observation has
caused astrologers to believe they are ruled by certain signs. When, through
the observed effect of planets transiting a certain sign, or from other astronomical phenomena occurring in the sign, it becomes fairly certain of the
sign ruling a country or city, the Transit of a slow-moving planet through the
sign, or a Major Conjunction or other phenomena taking place in the sign,
may be made the basis of determining some of the things which will happen
in that country or city.
The signs also rule certain departments of endeavor in the world’s affairs.
And such things in general as the signs thus rule are affected by the Transit of
a heavy planet through the sign.
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Again I have space to devote to this merely sufficient to enable me to point
out to such as are interested in tracing such matters, how to proceed. What
follows, therefore, is not an attempt at a full exposition, but is put forward
only to give hints which may advantageously be followed.
We know too little about Pluto’s influence in the past to use this most
slow-moving planet in our examples. But Neptune, next slowest in motion,
takes about 14 years to Transit each zodiacal sign. I shall give slight attention
to its beneficial influence, and confine my observations to its well recognized
proclivity when afflicted of creating a chaotic state of affairs. As a matter of
fact, such chaos frequently compels drastic steps to be taken in the direction
of true progress.
Neptune was in the sign Cancer from June, 1902 to May, 1916. Cancer
rules the home and it rules the ocean. It was during this period that the submarine was developed into an instrument of practical use in warfare. It became effective during the World War. Being hidden from view, and secretive
in its method of attack, it well exemplifies Neptune.
Before Neptune entered Cancer, women found ample opportunity to exercise their skill and industry in the home. But not long afterward, machinery
was doing nearly all of those things upon which they prided themselves.
Deprived of self expression, the home became chaotic, and they began to seek
employment elsewhere, entering industry in competition with men.
From May 1916 to July 1929, Neptune was in Leo, the sign ruling amusements and rulership. Chaos developed as to the ruling authority. Most kings
were kicked off their thrones, and in some countries, notably Russia, Turkey
and Italy, dictators took their place. Moving pictures developed into the dominant form of entertainment. Yet this industry was thrown into a chaotic state,
and was compelled to develop a different type of talent through the introduction of talking pictures.
From July 1929 to August 1943, Neptune is in Virgo, the sign ruling agricultural produce and labor. To decrease the over-abundance of agricultural
produce, the U. S. in 1934, paid farmers to reduce acreage and to plough under every third row of cotton. It bought up millions of sows about to far. row
and slaughtered them that their pigs might not be born. Yet in the same year
unprecedented droughts turned many of the agricultural states into almost
desert conditions. Throughout the world the greatest problem is that of unemployment. There were 14,000,000 unemployed in the U. S. in 1933.
Next let us briefly consider Uranus, the planet of invention, of radical
activities and of disruption. He takes about 7 years to pass through each zodiacal sign.
From December 1904 to November 1912 Uranus was in the sign Capricorn, which rules the country, Mexico, and in business and industry rules
system. During this time a revolution overthrew the government of Mexico,
and the development of mass production revolutionized industry.
From November 1912 to January 1920 Uranus was in the sign Aquarius,
ruling Russia, and ruling the rights of man. A revolution overthrew the Russian government. The slogan of the nations winning the World War was to
make the world safe for democracy. The treaties at the close of the war were
based upon the rights of people to self-determination as to allegiance and
form of government.
From January 1920 to January 1928 Uranus was in the sign Pisces, ruling
restrictions, relief measures, disappointment and crime. In January, 1920, the
prohibition law, which was repealed in 1934, because it was believed to be
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responsible for developing and financing organized crime, and creating the
modern racketeer and gangster, went into effect. Disappointment was expressed in nearly all countries at the failure of ideals which had been encouraged during the war. Each country also felt disappointed at what it received
in the final settlement.
In the U. S. relief measures were constantly before Congress, and those
high in public office sold out vast holdings to corporations, and later were
successfully prosecuted for bribery; the properties being recovered by the
government.
From January 1928 to March 1935 Uranus was in Aries, the sign ruling
Germany, ruling manufacturing, and ruling military leadership. A revolution
gave Germany a dictator. Japan, hitherto of minor importance, took her place
as the rival of both Britain and the U. S. in manufactured products and as a
naval power.
From March 1935 to May 1942, Uranus will be in Taurus, ruling Ireland,
and ruling the banks and money.
From May 1942 to June 1949, Uranus will be in Gemini, ruling the U. S. A.,
and ruling newspapers and transportation.
Cycles
A Cycle, as used in Mundane Astrology, is a chart erected at a given locality
for the moment a planet crosses the celestial equator from south declination
to north declination. The Cycle of the Moon is erected for the moment when
the Moon is in conjunction with the Sun.
Each planet thus has its own Cycle, which governs those matters the planet
rules. The planet for which the Cycle is erected, as it moves to aspects, by
Transit, with the places occupied by the various planets in the Cycle Chart,
indicates the time and nature of the events which takes place in the locality
for which the chart was erected. The lessons which follow take this matter up
in detail.
Major Conjunctions
The conjunction of two planets in the sky corresponds to the convergence of
corresponding factors on the earth. And a chart erected for a given locality at
the moment of such conjunction indicates the significance of the event thus
attracted in that particular region. This also will be given detailed attention in
the following lessons.
Birth-charts of
Nations and Cities
In chapter 2, a list of nations and cities ruled by each zodiacal sign is given.
The following is the birth data of some nations and some cities, according to
the research of those who have made a special study of them.
In no instance do we vouch for the authenticity. They are presented merely
as the birth-charts commonly used by those most conversant with Mundane
Astrology. Twelve of the more important are preceded by numbers. These
refer to the table on page xvi at the front of the chapter, from which the positions of the signs on the houses and the planets in the signs may readily be
copied, thus giving the student the birthchart of the nation or city preceded
by a number without the work of making the calculations.
319. Argentine Republic, July 9, 1816, 4:00 p.m. 66W. 26S.
320. Austria; Republic of, Nov. 12, 1918, 4:00 p.m. 16—23 E. 48—14N.
Barkingtown, England, Oct. 5, 1931, 12:15 p.m. L.M.T.
321. Boston, Mass., May 1, 1822, 12:01 a.m.
322. Chicago, Ill., March 4, 1837, 2:05 p.m.
323. Cleveland, Ohio, March 5, 1836, 12:01 a.m.
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Ft. Myers, Fla., May 19, 1905, 11:44 a.m. L.M.T.
German Republic, Nov. 9, 1918, 1:22 p.m. L.M.T. 13E. 52N.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 31, 1887, 11 :41 a.m. L.M.T.
324. Long Beach, Calif., Dec. 13, 1897, 10:00 a.m.
Los Angeles, Calif., Sept. 4, 1781, 9:17 a.m.
325. Miami, Fla., July 28, 1896, 11:39 a.m. L.M.T. (Chart incorrect, accurate
time is 2:39:16 p.m. LMT)
Miami Beach, Fla., May 25, 1917, 11:40 a.m. L.M.T.
Orlando, Fla., July 31, 1875, 12:00 noon. L.M.T.
Palm Beach, Fla., Apr. 17, 1911, 11 :39 a.m. L.M.T.
Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 5, 1825, 12:01 p.m.
326. Russia; Republic of, Nov. 9, 1917, 5:16 a.m. L.M.T.-59N56 30E18. (Table
chart in error)
327. Spanish Republic, Apr. 14, 1931, 4:45 p.m. L.M.T. 3 41W. 40—24N.
St. Augustine, Fla., Dec. 28, 1824, 12:01 p.m. Tampa, Fla., Dec. 15, 1855,
11:37 a.m.
328. Toronto, Ont., Canada, March 6, 1834, 5 :15 a.m.
329. U.S.A. Chart as used by C. E. James, July 4, 1776, 5:00 p.m., Philadelphia, Pa. Chart of U.S.A. used by us is given on page xv at front of
chapter, July 4, 1776, 2:13 a.m., Philadelphia.
330. Virgin Islands, U. S. A., March 31, 1917, 4:33 p.m. 65W. 18—20N.
West Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 5, 1894, 11:39 a.m. L.M.T.
Winnipeg, Man., Canada, Nov. 8, 1873, 4:00 p.m.
The following is not an attempt to prove that the birthcharts of nations and
cities as here given are correct. It merely gives the dates of a few outstanding
events, and the Major Progressions at the time in the charts here given. This is
to indicate to the student of Mundane Astrology the method to be followed in
his work, and what he may expect from progressed aspects.
Major Events are attracted to a nation or a city ONLY when there is a
Major Progressed Aspect within one degree of perfect which relates by house
position to the department of life affected. Furthermore, even as in natal astrology, Minor Progressed Aspects attract Minor Events, and Aspects by Transit
attract Inconsequential Events. These lesser progressions do not attract Important Events, but by adding accessory energy to Major Progressed aspects
may precisely time Important Events.
In the following examples, unless otherwise expressly stated, all aspects
mentioned are Major Progressed Aspects.
Chart 319 is that of the Argentine Republic. Sept. 6, 1930, the president
having been forced to resign a few days earlier, the vice-president also resigned, and the Military Assembly took possession of the government: Jupiter, ruler of 1st (people), ad been square Saturn p, ruler of 2nd (money) a
umber of years, and discontent had arisen over the handling of finances. Mars,
ruler of 12th (secret enemies), conjunction Jupiter r, ruler of 1st (people). Sun,
ruler of 7th (open enemies), semi-sextile Uranus r in 12th (secret enemies).
Mercury, ruler of 10th (administration), square Venus r in 7th (open enemies).
Chart 320 is that of the Republic of Austria. In the summer of 1934 revolution broke out; Asc. opposition Venus p, ruler of the 1st and 7th. Venus
inconjunct Pluto r, shows the split into strong conflicting factions; and Mars
in 9th (religion) sesqui-square Saturn r, is responsible for religion entering he
conflict. Foreign powers aided the revolutionary movement; Sun conjunction
Mercury in 7th (foreign nations). The sesqui-square of Mars to Saturn r, ruler
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of 10th (governing authority), brought an attempt to overthrow the government, and accomplished the assassination of its dictator, Englebert Dollfus,
on July 25, 1934.
Chart 321 is that of Boston, Mass. The Great Fire took place Nov. 9-10,
1872. Jupiter, ruler of the 4th (buildings), had progressed to the square of
Mars r (fire). Mars (fire) was sesqui-square Saturn r, ruler of 1st (people).
Venus, inconjunct Mars in the birth-chart, was in the 4th (houses), trine Mars
p (fire).
The Police Strike, the settlement of which by Calvin Coolidge, then governor, gave him national recognition for his manifesto that, “There is no right to
strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time,” was Sept. 9,
1919: Mercury, ruler of the 6th (labor and police), semi-sextile Mars r in 7th
(war); Sun sextile Mars p (strife), ruler of 10th (employers); Mars inconjunct
Jupiter r, ruler of 12th (crime); Saturn conjunction Sun r.
Chart 322 is that of Chicago, Ill. In the birthchart Mars is in the 1st, conjunction Jupiter and opposition Neptune. At the time of the Great Fire, Oct. 810, 1871, Mars, after being retrograde had again reached the conjunction Jupiter r; and Venus, ruler of 4th (houses), was trine Mars r and sextile Neptune
r, thus adding new energy to the heavy opposition in the birth-chart.
May 4, 1886, following a strike there were serious Anarchist Riots: Mars
(strife), ruler of 1st (people), square Saturn p, ruler of 6th (labor).
1893, World’s Columbian Exposition put Chicago on the map as a city of
unusual business enterprise: Sun in 10th (business and honor), square Jupiter
r in 1st (people).
1933, Century of Progress Exposition brought a record attendance; Jupiter in 1st (people) had been trine M.C. r (honor) for some years. Mercury,
ruler of 7th (other people), was sextile Jupiter p. Mercury was retrograde in
motion and still closely sextile Jupiter p in 1934. The fair was continued that
year, with vast throngs in attendance.
Chart 323 is that of Cleveland, Ohio. At the time of the serious labor difficulties and strikes of 1934, the Sun was sextile Venus r, ruler of 6th (labor),
and was sesqui-square Saturn r, ruler of 2nd (wages).
Chart 324 is that of Long Beach, Calif. In the birth-chart the Sun is heavily
afflicted by the conjunction of Mars and the opposition of Neptune. Pluto is
in the 4th (lands and buildings), and at the time of the earthquake, March 10,
1933, the Sun was exactly sesqui-square Pluto p. There was great damage to
buildings.
The Moon (many people) is in the 7th, but is ruler of the 6th (illness). Mars
(violence) was exactly inconjunct Moon r. Many persons were injured.
Mercury, ruler of 8th (death), was square Jupiter in 8th (death). There was
heavy loss of life.
Finally, the Moon by Major Progression, had moved into the 10th, in sextile
to Sun r. This gave the matter wide publicity, and the good aspect thus made
by the Moon brought prompt and efficient relief to the many people who
were in distress.
The Chart of Los Angeles is given on page xiv at the front of this chapter.
1805—Locust pests destroy crops: Sun conjunction Neptune r in 12th
(pests). Moon probably conjunction Pluto in 4th (crops on the ground).
1806—Indians taught to grow hemp: Sun, ruler of 10th
(employers),conjunction Venus r (people). Mars, ruler of 6th (servants), trine
Mercury in 10th (business).
1815—Floods: Mars on 4th (weather), opposition M.C. r (business).
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1817—First record of a school in Los Angeles: Jupiter, co-ruler of 5th
(schools), square Mercury r.
1825—Greater floods: Mars in 4th (weather), trine Venus, ruler of 1st
(people). Mars is square Venus in birth-chart. Elections were held, but
thrown out as illegal: Mercury, ruler of 9th (law), sextile Sun r, ruler of
10th (administration).
1830—Elections again thrown out: Sun square M.C. r (government); Mercury, ruler of 9th (law), sesqui-square Moon r in 6th (laborers).
1847—Stockton arrives and there occurs near Los Angeles the Battle of
San Gabriel River, resulting in the defeat of Mexican forces, Jan. 8. Los Angeles is again taken Jan. 10, signing articles of capitulation Jan. 13, 1847: Sun
ruler of 10th (government), sesqui-square (agitation), Uranus r (disruption).
Sun sextile Mars r, ruler of 7th (war). Venus, ruler of 1st (people), trine Mercury r in 10th (government).
1851—First newspaper in Los Angeles: Sun conjunction Jupiter r, ruler of
3rd (newspapers); Venus in 3rd (newspapers), opposition Uranus r in 9th
(publishing).
1868—First bank opened in Los Angeles: Sun in 2nd (banks), sextile Jupiter p, ruler of 1st (people).
1931 Nov. 25th; street car strike: Mercury, ruler of 10th (employers), semisquare (friction), Moon r in 6th (employees). Mercury sextile Mars p, ruler of
3rd (railways), in 7th (war). There was much violence.
@SUBHEAD Major Progressions in U. S. Chart
Mr. C. E. James, who has made extensive research, believes the time for the U.
S. chart should be 5:00 p.m. His chart is given in the table on page xvi as No.
329. Examples that follow are for July 4, 1776, 2:13 a.m., the chart I have used
since 1908, which is given on page xv at front of this chapter.
1807—Aaron Burr, intending settlement of Western lands or invasion of
Mexico, leads conspiracy and is tried for treason: Mars, ruler of 12th (conspiracy), conjunction Sun r, ruler of 4th (lands).
June 18, 1812—War of 1812, ostensibly over violation of rights of neutral
trade and impressment, but also with desire of repressing Indians through
acquisition of Canada: Jupiter ruler of 7th (war), conjunction Sun r, ruler of
4th (lands); Venus conjunctions Sun p in 4th (lands; Sun semi-square Venus r,
ruler of 6th (laborers); Mars (strife), square Saturn r, ruler of 9th (shipping).
Dec. 2, 1823—Monroe Doctrine declares America not subject to settlement
by European powers: Sun, ruler of 4th (lands), in 4th (lands), semi-square Sun r.
1832—Oregon trail for settlement of Oregon: Mercury in 4th (lands), semisquare Mercury r in 3rd (trail or road). Black Hawk War: Sun in 4th (lands of
Indians wanted by Whites), sextile Jupiter r in 7th (war).
May 13, 1846—War with Mexico, resulting in acquiring western territory;
Texas annexed previous year: Sun, ruler of 4th (territory), square Mars r (strife);
Sun, ruler of 4th (territory), sextile Jupiter p, ruler of 7th (war).
Jan. 24, 1848—Gold discovered in California: Jupiter in 2nd (cash), sextile
Mars r in 1st (people), square Saturn p (planet of mining). This starts a vast
throng traveling west: Mercury, ruler of 3rd (travel), sextile Mars p in 3rd (travel).
1849-50-51—Boom days in western gold fields: Sun conjunction Neptune
r (booms), in 5th (speculation).
Apr. 19, 1861—First blood of Civil War: Sun square Jupiter r, ruler of 7th
(war); Mercury, ruler of 1st (people), in 6th (slaves), sesqui-square Uranus p
in 1st (people), Mars in 4th (territory), opposition (separation), Pluto(?) r (cooperating factions), in 10th (government).
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Apr. 20, 1871—Ku-Klux Act is passed giving civil and political rights to
negroes: Sun conjunction Saturn r, ruler of 9th (laws); Venus, ruler of 6th (inferiors), trine Venus r, ruler of 12th (secret societies).
Sept. 18, 1873—Panic starts, causing several years’ depression: Sun in 2nd
(money), trine Pluto (?) r in 10th (business); Venus trine Venus r in and (money);
M.C. (business), square Moon r, in 10th (business).
June 27, 1893—Commercial panic is started: Sun trine Jupiter r in 2nd
(money); Mercury square Pluto (?) r in 10th (business); Sun sesqui-square
Venus r in 2nd (money), M.C. (business) , connection Uranus r (disruption).
Apr. 25, 1898—War with Spain: Sun inconjunct Uranus p in 1st (people);
Sun semi-square Neptune p; Mars (strife), square Asc. r (people); Jupiter, ruler
of 7th (war), conjunction Mercury r, ruler of 1st (people).
Apr. 6, 1917—U. S. enters World War: Mercury inconjunct Uranus p, ruler
of 1st (people); Mars (strife), inconjunct Moon r in 10th (government); Jupiter,
ruler of 7th (war) , conjunction Mercury r, ruler of 1st (people).
Because Major Progressions of the Moon, Minor Progressions and Transits operate in the chart of a city or nation just as they do in the chart of an
individual, it would be amiss not to give a few examples of Major Progressed
Aspects of the Moon, at least, and the Sub-major events attracted by hem. The
Major Progressions around the outside of the U. S. Chart given on page xv at
the front of this chapter are for March 5, 1933, when all banks in the country
were closed. As the Moon is progressing about L degree a month, even without an ephemeris the student easily can trace the progressed aspects it makes
during the balance of 1933, and it is these Major Progressed Aspects of the
Moon in 1933 hat now follow:
March 8—Currency inflation of 3 billion dollars promised by administration, scrip plan abandoned: Moon, ruler of 2nd (money), semi-square Neptune p (inflation), and Mars p in 5th (speculation).
Apr. 12—Two billion dollar farm mortgage relief and refinance bill passes
house; Roosevelt’s congressional message asks 2 billion dollars for home owners’ Mortgage relief: Moon, ruler of 2nd (money), trine Sun r, ruler of 4th
(homes and farms).
June 9—National Recovery Act passes senate, suspending anti-trust laws,
giving President power to alter tariffs: Moon semi-sextile Saturn r, ruler of
8th (tariffs), and 9th (laws).
Aug. 1—NRA blanket code, regulating hours of labor, wages, and prices
of goods proclaimed effective throughout nation: Moon, ruler of 2nd (prices
and wages), in 6th (labor), square Pluto r (NRA) in 10th (business).
Sept. 14—R.F.C. offers billion for bank stock investment in NRA industrial credit plan: Moon sextile Venus p in 8th (debts), Moon sesqui-square
Venus r in 2nd (banks), Moon semi-sextile Sun p in 7th (borrowers).
Oct. 9—Johnson recommends price-fixing in retail grocers’ and similar
codes: Moon, ruler of 2nd (price), square Moon r in 10th (business), from 6th
(groceries) .
Dec. 15—Roosevelt orders navy to check liquor smugglers: Moon, ruler
of 10th (administration),inconjunct Mars (liquor), ruler of 12th (smugglers).
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PLUTO CYCLE
February 20, 1864.
As the time of day is unascertained, no attention should be paid to house
positions or to progressed aspects to the Moon Pluto is ruler of Scorpio and
the higher octave of the Moon.
When, by its position in the current ephemeris, Pluto makes an aspect to
the position of a planet in the above chart, look for group activity, the development of rival factions, and co-operative effort for the benefit of the group
which becomes compulsory.
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NEPTUNE CYCLE
December 28, 1863, 2:46 a.m. L.M.T. Washington, D.C.
As the Nautical Almanac for 1863 was unavailable, we asked the U. S.
Naval Observatory for data as given above.
1919, Neptune trine Mars r, ruler of Asc. (people): League of Nations presented to senate; Neptune square Pluto r, expectations of rest of world (7th)
not realized.
1925, Jan. 24, Neptune (oil) sextile Uranus r, ruler of 4th (underground
products): Naval Oil Scandal followed by exposes (Uranus) of graft.
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HE thoughts of man, and his emotional reactions to events, enter into
combination with related thoughts and emotions to build up the
thought-cells, or stellar cells, of which his astral body is composed. And
according to the department of life to which they are related do they thus
build thought-cells within one of the twelve compartments of the astral body
rather than within the others.
These twelve compartments are accurately mapped by the twelve houses
of the birth-chart. Each house indicates the composition, harmony and activity of the thought-cells within the compartment of the astral body relating to
one department of life.
In the life of a nation or a city, the individuals composing it perform very
much the same function that thought-cells do within the astral body of individual man. People, by their interests, activities and occupations, relate more
pronouncedly to one department of the nation’s life than to other departments.
Thus it is that in a mundane chart the composition, harmony and activity of the
human and other factors relating to a given department of life, are mapped by
a house having a significance similar to that attached to it in natal astrology.
One, therefore, who is familiar with the department of life ruled by each
of the twelve houses in natal astrology will commonly have little difficulty in
selecting the house of the birth-chart of a nation, of a Cycle Chart, or of a
Major Conjunction Chart, which rules any given phase of activity.
All that is needed is to expand the function of the house, as recognized in
natal astrology, to embrace group activities of similar purport. Yet as the significance of the houses is so important in any branch of astrology, as it is to
them we always must look to determine the department of life affected, they
should here be designated specifically in their relation to mundane affairs.
FIRST HOUSE—The people of a country or city; their disposition, health
and personal affairs as distinct from their foreign interests.
SECOND HOUSE—The wealth and personal property of the people, the
national treasury, banks, non-speculative bonds and securities, financial transactions, and places where money and securities are handled.
THIRD HOUSE—Transportation, railroads, roads, motor busses, automobiles, local airplane traffic, local traffic in general; telegraph, telephone,
and mails; printing, newspapers, magazines, other periodicals; literary work,
intellectual activity, the thoughts of the people; neighboring countries.
FOURTH HOUSE—The land, the homes of the people, buildings, hotels
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and rooming houses; the weather, agriculture, crops on the ground, mining;
the political party that is out of power but opposed to the ruling party.
FIFTH HOUSE—Entertainment and the motion picture industry, theaters,
other places of amusement, the birth-rate, speculation, the stock market and
stock exchange, ambassadors from foreign countries, children and places
where children congregate, such as schools and colleges. The education acquired is ruled by the 3rd, the teachers by the 9th, and the place where education or entertainment is dispensed by the 5th.
SIXTH HOUSE—The illness of the people, their food; laboring people
and their labor; employees in general, including the personnel of the army,
navy and police force who are employees of the people, also all civil service
employees; stored grain or other stored products of the land or mines, the
garnered harvest, restaurants, cafeterias, drug stores and all places where
food and drink are dispensed; small animals.
SEVENTH HOUSE—Foreign nations and their attitude, war and international disputes, marriage and divorce.
EIGHTH HOUSE—The death-rate and the kind of deaths suffered by
the people; the debts due from foreign countries; tariffs, taxes, insurance, pensions; the cabinet of the president or prime minister and the chief appointees
of the mayor of a city or governor of a state.
NINTH HOUSE—Interstate and international commerce and traffic, the
navy, foreign shipping, the radio, cable messages, interstate airplane traffic;
the law, lawyers, the supreme court; churches, religion, preachers; teachers,
lecturers, publishing, advertising, books, lectures, and all places where opinions are publicly proclaimed.
TENTH HOUSE—The administration, president, dictator, monarch, governor or mayor; the credit and reputation of a nation; its business and its
influence in world affairs; also eminent and famous persons, and those possessing unusual power.
ELEVENTH HOUSE—The legislature or parliament, particularly the house
of commons; the aldermen of a city; and ambassadors sent to foreign countries.
TWELFTH HOUSE—Prisons, hospitals, asylums, workhouses, charitable
institutions, relief work, crime, criminals, detectives, secret societies, spies,
and the secret enemies of the people; large animals.
Sign Rulership of
Nations and Cities
Because in attempting to determine the rulership of a country or city by observing the effect of the Transits of the heavier planets through the signs, it is
easy to mistake the influence of a planet Transiting through the first house for
its influence when Transiting through the tenth house, and vice versa; and as
most of the sign rulerships which follow were determined by someone who
observed that planets Transiting a certain sign commonly influenced strongly
a certain city or country; it is probable that further research will make necessary a number of modifications in this list.
It is given, therefore, not because it is considered authentic, but merely
because it represents the rulership most commonly used by astrologers at
this time. In very few instances has our research department IS yet had the
time to test these rulerships. But as opportunity offers for such detailed investigation the findings will be published in THE CHURCH OF LIGHT QUARTERLY, and any changes will be included in future issues of this lesson.
ARIES—Countries: England, Palestine, Denmark, Japan, Syria, Lesser
Poland, Bergundy, and the older authors give Germany
Cities and Towns: Florence, Naples, Saragossa Verona, Marseilles,
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Brunswick, Capua, Leicester Oldham, Burmingham, Blackburn, Cracow,
Utrecht
TAURUS—Countries: Ireland, Asia Minor; Caucasus, Cyprus, Persia,
Poland, Grecian Archipelago, Georgia, Austria.
Cities and Towns: St. Louis, Dublin, Palermo Rhodes, Mantua, Parma,
Leipzic, Ashton-under-Lyne.
GEMINI—Countries: United States (7°),Lower Egypt, West of England,
Belgium, Armenia, Flanders, Lombardy, Wales, Tripoli, Sardinia, Brabant N.E.
Coast of Egypt
Cities and Towns: San Francisco, London (17°-54'), Cordova, Bruges,
Melbourne (10°-29'), Louvain, Metz, Nurenberg, Plymouth, Versailles,
Wolverhampton, Wednesbury.
CANCER—Countries: Scotland, Holland, N.W. Africa, Paraguay, East of
Mauritus, Zealand; Germany.
Cities and Towns: New York, Constantinople, Venice, Genoa, Tunis,
Stockholm, Milan, Manchester, Algiers, Amsterdam, Cadiz, Berne, Lubeck,
Magdeborg, Deptford, Rochdale.
LEO—Countries: France, Italy, Northern Roumania, Sicily, Chaldea,
Bohemia, Apulia, the Alps, Phonecia, round Tyre, and Sidon.
Cities and Towns: Chicago (1st decanate), Rome, Bristol, Philadelphia,
Damascus, Portsmouth, Ravenia, Prague, Bombay (3rd decanate), Bath,
Taunton, Blackpool.
VIRGO—Countries: Brazil, Assyria, Babylonia, Crete, Kurdestan, West
Indies, Part of Greece, Croatia, Turkey, Thessaly, the Morea, Silesia, Switzerland, Virginia.
Cities and Towns: Jerusalem, Brindisi, Norwich, Lyons, Heidelburg,
Corinth, Bury, Cheltenham, Maidstone, Reading, Todmorden, Paris (299),
Padua, Strasburg, Toulouse.
LIBRA—Countries: China, Indo-China, Tibet, Borders of Caspian, Upper
Egypt, Savoy, Argentina, Livonia, Burma.
Cities and Towns: Vienna, Antwerp (21°), Charleston, Frankfort, Lisbon,
Copenhagen (1°), Johannesburg (27°), Nottingham, Placenza, Leeds, Fribourg,
Gaeta, Spires, Middleton, Los Angeles.
SCORPIO—Countries: Norway, Queensland, Transvaal, Algeria, North
Syria, Morocco, Bavaria, Barbary, Jutland, Judea, Catalonia, Cappadocia.
Cities and Towns: Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dover, Fez, Halifax, Hull,
Liverpool, Messina (18°), Milwaukee (7°), St. Johns New Foundland (2°),
Newcastle, New Orleans, Valentia, Washington Worthing (7°), E. Grinstead,
Stockport, Glossop
SAGITTARIUS—Countries: Arabia, Australia Dalmatia, Cape Finistere,
Hungary, Madagascar Moravia, Province in France, Slavonia, Spain, Tuscany,
Felix, Istria.
Cities and Towns: Avignon, Toledo, Rottenburg W. Bromwich, Bradford,
Taranto, Sunderland Budapest, Cologne, Stuttgart, Narbonne, Sheffield
Nottingham.
CAPRICORN—Countries: India, Afghanistan Greece, Macedonia, Mexico,
S.W. Saxony, Styria, Circan, Maraccan, Punjab, Thrace, Illyria, Romandiola,
Orkney Islands, Mecklenburg, Albania, Bosia, Bulgaria, Khorassan, Hesse.
Cities and Towns: Boston, Brussels, Oxford, Keighley, Tortona, Port-Said
Prato in Tuscany, Fayence in Provence, Brandenburg, Constanz.
AQUARIUS—Countries: Sweden, Tartary, Lithuania, Piedmont, Arabia
the Stony, Abyssinia, Circassia, Prussia, Russia, Wallachia, Westphalia
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Cities and Towns: Hamburg, Salisbury, Trent, Satzburg, Ingolstadt, Bremen,
Brighton, Salzburg.
PISCES—Countries: Nubia, Normandy, Galicia, Calabria, Portugal, Sahara Desert.
Cities and Towns: Alexandria, Preston, Bournenouth, Cowes, Lancaster,
Ratisbon, King’s Lynn, Southport, Grimsby, Seville, Worms, Compostella,
Farnham, Yiverton, Regensburg, Christchurch.
Thought-trend,
Business, and
Political Group
Ruled by Each Planet
Each planet rules definite activities and definite environmental influences.
A list of these is given in Chapter 5, Course 10-1, Natal Astrology, Delineating
the Horoscope. But as the events shown by a Cycle Chart are chiefly brought
about through the influence of the activities ruled by the planet for which it
is erected; and as the events indicated by Major Conjunctions are chiefly
brought about through the things ruled by the planets which are in conjunction; close attention should be paid in all Mundane delineation also to
the trend of thought, the type of business, and the political group, governed
by each planet, as follows:
SUN—In thought, politics. In business, executive work and administration. In politics, bosses and the ruling class.
MOON—In thought, the family and home. In business, groceries and other
commodities. In politics, women and the common people.
MERCURY—In thought, science. In business, literary work. In politics,
the press.
VENUS—In thought, the beautiful. In business, art. In politics, the socalled society element.
MARS—In thought, mechanics. In business, manufacturing and the military profession. In politics, militarism.
JUPITER—In thought, religion and philosophy. In business, finances and
commerce. In politics, capitalism.
SATURN—In thought, orthodoxy. In business, land and basic utilities. In
politics, conservatism, the farmer and the miner.
URANUS—In thought, the occult and ultra progressive. In business, invention and unusual methods. In politics, the radical element.
NEPTUNE—In thought, the mystical and psychic. In business, promotion and stock companies. In politics, the ideal.
PLUTO—In thought, spirituality or inversion, and the influence of invisible intelligences. In business, group activity, either for the selfish advantage
of the group or for universal good. In politics, compulsory co-operation.
The Birth-chart
of a Cycle
When a planet moves from south declination to north declination there is a
definite change of polarity which marks itself in the astral substance which
environs the world. The moment thus indicated is the birth of a new cycle of
influence in so far as this particular planet and the things it rules are concerned. And a chart erected at any place on the earth’s surface for this moment indicates, by the house positions of the planets, particularly when they
aspect this particular planet, the influence of the things ruled by this planet
during the ensuing cycle.
A Cycle Chart, except those of Sun and Moon, DOES NOT indicate the
influence of a wide variety of things on the affairs of the locality for which
erected. Its influence is narrowly confined to that which it is there possible
for the things ruled by the planet for which the chart is erected to exert. A
Mars Cycle reveals the influence exerted by mechanics, by manufacturing
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and the military profession, and by aggressive action; but it does not reveal
the influence of orthodoxy, of land and basic utilities, of conservatism, or of
the farmer and miner.
A Cycle Chart is the birth-chart of the type of influence indicated by the
planet for which it is erected. This birth-chart continues effective until the
commencement of the next Cycle of the same planet. It is possible, for instance, to gain some information from a chart erected for the time the Sun
enters Cancer, for the time the Sun enters Libra, and for the time it enters
Capricorn. But these quarterly charts are entirely subsidiary to the Ingress
Chart for the year, erected for the time the Sun crosses from south declination
to north declination.
The Sun and Moon and the things they rule are so important in human
life that from the Sun Cycle for each year and the Moon Cycle for each month
it is possible to determine much of what is going to happen in a country or
city. But if dependence is placed exclusively upon the Ingress Map (as the Sun
Cycle commonly is called), and the Lunation Maps (as the Moon Cycles often
are termed), some of the most outstanding events will be overlooked; for these
relate chiefly to the influence of things ruled by some other planet.
A Cycle Chart, as the birth-chart of a definite influence over a stated period,
reveals the events that will transpire due to that particular influence, but not
those due to other types of influence.
And, as in the birth-chart of an individual, the time when the indicated
events will happen is revealed by Progressed Aspects. But unlike the progressions in the birth-chart of an individual, only one planet makes progressed
aspects.
Also, unlike the birth-chart of an individual, the progressions of this ONE
planet are by TRANSIT only, and ONLY to the birth-chart positions of the
planets. That is, throughout the duration of the Cycle, the positions of the
planets in the Cycle Chart, and not as they later appear, are the positions to
which progressed aspects are made. And the progressed aspects to them,
which indicate when the indicated events will happen, are those made by the
position of the planet for which the chart was erected, as it moves forward by
TRANSIT, as shown by the sign and degree it occupies on the same date in
the ephemeris.
Progressing a
Cycle Chart
The most common error of those who are unfamiliar with the use of these
Cycle Charts is the attempt to predict events unrelated to the planet for which
the chart is erected. The next most common error is to consider the progressed
aspects made by planets other than the one for which the chart was erected.
Both of these errors grow out of a misconception of the true nature of a Cycle;
and either of them will lead to unreliable forecasts.
The Two Most
Common Errors
A Cycle Chart is erected for the longitude and latitude of the place where its
influence is to be ascertained, for the exact moment the planet crosses from
South Declination to North Declination. The moment it reaches 0°N 0' declination is the correct time.
This time may very roughly be ascertained from the declinations given in
Raphael’s Ephemeris, using either proportional logarithms, or simple proportion, to find the time when the planet reaches 0°N 0' declination. Unfortunately, however, as the declinations are given only every second day for the
slower planets, the time thus ascertained is not precise enough to give accu-
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rate house positions when the chart is erected at some particular place. Therefore, until more precise data is incorporated in this ephemeris, it becomes
necessary to have recourse to The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.
This is published each year by the U. S. Government, and may not be had
through book dealers, but must be obtained directly from The Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
In this annual publication the declinations are given each day with the
variation in declination per hour. In the ephemeris for Greenwich time Uranus and Neptune are given only for every fourth day, but for Transit at Washington they are given for each day. As the variation per hour—amount of
movement—is given to 1/100 of a second, and as their places are given to the
nearest 1/10 of a second, the data is quite precise enough for the purpose of
ascertaining the time for which Cycle Charts should be erected.
All Cycle Charts in
These Lessons Have Been
Erected From the Precise
Data Afforded by the
Nautical Almanac
As it is intended to publish in THE CHURCH OF LIGHT QUARTERLY both
the time and the charts of more important Cycles in the future, the Nautical
Almanac is indispensable only to those who expect to do considerable original research in Mundane Astrology. Throughout this entire Course, the time
given for which charts are erected is LOCAL MEAN TIME.
Orb of Influence
of a Cycle Chart
When a new Cycle Chart comes in it is found that the events signified by it
may begin to happen somewhat before the Cycle actually starts. The changing of the planet, from south magnetic polarity to north magnetic polarity,
brings into considerable prominence the affairs under the rulership of the
planet. The time of the commencement of the Cycle, therefore is commonly
coincident with some of the matters foreshadowed in the Cycle Chart.
That which happens as the Cycle commences, and which comes under its
influence, is seldom all that transpires of similar import during the Cycle.
More often it foreshadows other events of similar nature which come to pass
at the time progressed aspects form in the Cycle Chart. And not infrequently
these later events are a further development of less outstanding events that
arrive with the Cycle.
Astrological influences tend to bring a response from the physical environment, not merely at the moment the phenomenon is perfect, but for a certain time before and a certain time afterwards. In its change of polarity, from
south to north, the change begins to exert an influence when the planet is
within one degree of crossing the celestial equator, and continues to exert
some influence during the time it is within one degree after crossing.
The influence is more pronounced while the planet is close to the exact
line between south and north declination. But because the physical environment, by its resistance or lack of it, may require accumulated planetary pressures to manifest as a given event, the condition indicated by the changing
polarity may develop somewhat before, or somewhat after, the exact moment
of change in declination. There is an orb, therefore, of one degree of movement by declination, within which events signified by the Cycle may take
place before the Cycle actually starts.
In a similar manner, the Progressed Aspects which form to the places of the
planets in the Cycle Chart, also have an orb of one degree from the perfect
aspect, within which the event signified happens. In the Moon Cycle, which is
set for the conjunction of the Moon with the Sun, and not for change in declination, because the Moon moves so rapidly, an orb of 24 hours is allowed within
which the event signified by the progressed aspect of the Moon happens. Any
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event which transpires outside of the orb of one degree from perfect, or in the
case of the Moon, more than 24 hours before or after the perfect aspect, should
not be attributed to the commencement of the Cycle or to the aspect.
The characteristic feature of most events attracted through the influence of
the planet Pluto is group activity in the accomplishment of some purpose.
Mob lynchings, for instance, are typical; although the purpose of the group
activity may be either beneficial to society or opposed to it.
Pluto is never milk and water. He always is either strongly for the right or
strongly for the wrong. Co-operative effort to alleviate suffering and to administer justice are under his rule, as also are the activities of gangsters and
racketeers. In this latter field his specialties are kidnapping and mass murder.
On the constructive side he accomplishes his work through commissions,
bureaus, committees, or other groups who accept the responsibility of obtaining the desired results. Unlike Neptune, he has little regard for the voice
of the common people. When he works for their welfare, as he does when his
better side expresses, he delegates to a group of specialists the responsibility
of deciding what is good for the people and how best to obtain it. Neptune
would let every man have a voice in deciding important matters; but Pluto,
through popular vote or force of arms, gives dictatorial powers to one person
or to a small group of persons, and holds them responsible for results.
Pluto, whether dealing with the common man or with those of much authority does not ask, by your leave; but dictates what shall be done. Those
under the leader, who has been elected by popular ballot or who has placed
himself in power through force, are expected to carry out his orders unquestioningly Subordinates who fail to co-operate are drastically and summarily
punished. And all those coming under the jurisdiction of the group are compelled to co-operate in carrying out such plans as have been decided upon.
Pluto, when afflicted, tends to split a group into two rival factions. And
even when unafflicted, the forming of one group to accomplish some purpose is usually the occasion for the formation of another group to prevent
that purpose being realized. The conflict of opposing interests, next to group
activity, is the most characteristic expression of his influence.
His worst attribute is Inversion. Thus the suppression of facts and the
distortion of information to create a public opinion favorable to some group,
or favorable to the purpose of some group, is the greatest menace he affords,
and is perhaps also the greatest menace to human progress.
331. Chart of Conjunction of Uranus and Pluto, June 20, 1850, 6:52 a.m.,
Washington. Uranus (liberty) conjunction Pluto (organized group) in 10th
(business interests), sextile Sun in 12th (slaves), semi-square Mercury in 11th
(congress); Mercury square Neptune, ruler of 9th (laws). The underground
railroad by which slaves escaped became the object of legislative controversy
resulting on Sept. 18, in a New and Drastic (Uranus) Anti-Slave Law, intended
to check Organized (Pluto) assistance to fugitives.
332. Chart of Conjunction of Neptune and Pluto, July 22, 1891, 10:24 p.m.,
Washington. March 14, eleven Italians were lynched (Pluto) in New Orleans.
This crime (Jupiter in 12th square Neptune and Pluto) resulted in the recall
by Italy (Uranus in 7th sesqui-square Neptune and Pluto) of her minister at
Washington, and a demand for reparations (Neptune and Pluto in 2nd). The
controversy continued throughout the summer, and not until Apr. 12, 1892
was the matter finally settled by the payment of cash (Neptune and Pluto in
2nd) to Italy by our State Department.
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The Cycle of Pluto
Mundane Astrology
The last Cycle of Pluto commenced Feb. 20, 1864. At the time this is written no
tables are available covering the declination of Pluto in 1864 with sufficient
precision to determine the time of day when it crossed from south declination to north declination.1 Therefore, until such tables are calculated, we must
be content with the Natural Chart of the Pluto Cycle, given on page 14, of
chapter 1, which is equally applicable to the whole world, and in which the
house positions of the planets are completely ignored.
This was during the Civil War, and the North had failed to accomplish
much, as its various military leaders each acted largely according to his own
plans. But with the commencement of the Pluto Cycle the leaders were compelled to act as a unified group; for on March 12, Grant was given complete
command of all the Federal forces.
The following dates are those of heavy Pluto aspects, by Transit, to the places
of the planets in :he Pluto Cycle Chart. As the degree occupied by :he Moon is
unknown, aspects to it are neglected, and as house positions likewise are unknown, they also will receive no consideration. As many aspects are given as
available space permits, and, except for those since 1920, which are not included
in it, the events will be confined to those given in the brief Reference History of
the U. S., in the back of Webster’s New International Dictionary.
June, 1869, Pluto trine Mars r: June 15, Massachusetts Act for State Railroad Commission (Pluto), first of its kind.
1875, Pluto trine Venus r: Thirty nations form the Universal Telegraph Union,
and twenty-three nations adopt the Metric system of weights and measures.
June, 1876, Pluto trine Venus-r: June 25, Massacre (Pluto method) of
Custer’s forces in Montana by the Sioux, under Chief Sitting Bull.
May, 1877, Pluto trine Venus r: Reduction of wages causes railroad riots.
Mob (Pluto) controls Pittsburgh July 19—23 and destroys much property.
1878, Pluto opposition Jupiter r: Sixty nations form the Universal Postal
Union.
1883, Pluto square Sun r: At Berne Convention, nineteen nations ratify
standardized international patent laws.
June, 1884, Pluto square Sun r: June 27, Congress authorizes the Federal
Bureau (Pluto) of Labor.
August, 1887, Pluto sextile Neptune r, trine Mercury r: Sept. 5, Labor Day
(labor acting as a group) first observed in New York as a legal holiday. Also,
same year, fifteen nations at Berne Convention adopt uniform copyright laws.
1889, Pluto sextile Neptune r, trine Mercury r: The International Parliamentary Union is formed.
May, 1902, Pluto trine Saturn r, inconjunct Mars r: May 12—Oct. 21, strike
(group activity) of anthracite coal miners (Saturn occupation); 145,000 miners
stop work, coal famine (Saturn) results. Militia (Mars) ordered to the mines.
July, 1904, Pluto conjunction Uranus r: July 12—Sept. 8, strike of meatpacking employees in Middle West. July 25, strike of textile workers at Fall
River, Mass. Radical activities are under Uranus. Collective bargaining is under Pluto.
June, 1915, Pluto trine Sun r: June 24, Secretary Daniels creates a general
staff (Pluto) of the navy.
June, 1918, Pluto square Neptune r: June 3, treaty with Great Britain for
reciprocal military service; citizens of either country resident in the other
liable to conscription (Pluto rules conscription and Neptune rules involuntary servitude).
July, 1928; June, 1929; March, 1930; Pluto opposition Mars r, (not quite
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perfect in 1930), square Saturn r: The liquor racket reached its peak of lawlessness, gang slayings occurred daily, racketeers became dictators in politics, and the Federal Government was called upon to curb them when State
authorities admitted themselves powerless.
June, 1934, Pluto opposition Venus r: In the U. S. a radical change in the
NRA effort to fix prices and to compel shorter hours and collective bargaining.
June 30, Dictator Hitler of Germany, without warning rounded up and had
shot, Ernst Roehm, cabinet minister and chief in command of Hitler’s troopers,
together with more than 60 other leaders who were alleged to be implicated in
a conspiracy. This mass (Pluto) execution was termed a “blood purge.”
The most pronounced influence of Neptune is to exaggerate the hopes and
expectations. He is thus the most active factor in promotion schemes, in vast
undertakings of world-wide scope, in inflation of all sorts, and in socialistic
and utopian enterprises.
Corporations of the type which draw together the capital of a large number of people in order to utilize it in business on a vast scale, and in which
there is profit-sharing by many, come under his jurisdiction, as do colonies
and enterprises in which many members share alike or on a pro rata basis.
He rules gas, aviation, moving pictures, and dramatic art through whatever medium it is expressed. On his adverse side, he is the particular patron
of frauds, swindles, confidence men, graft, the watering of stocks, and all the
more subtle methods by which, without violence, people are taken advantage of. On his better side he rules brotherly love and the ideal, mystical lines
of thought, spiritual aspirations, and psychical research.
Pisces is the ruler of the natural 12th house, which relates both to crime
and imprisonment. Neptune, as the ruler of Pisces, thus rules the more cunning non-violent types of crime, and the various subtle forms of bondage.
Kidnapping, as practiced by the violent methods of the racketeer, comes under Pluto; but involuntary servitude in general is ruled by Neptune. Slavery,
drug addiction, undesired control by invisible forces, blackmail and other
secret means by which people are kept in bondage are under his jurisdiction.
The table on page 13, of chapter 1, gives the charts of the eleven conjunctions of Jupiter and Neptune that have occurred since the year 1800, These
charts, erected for Washington, D.C., reveal the influence of the things ruled
by Jupiter (finances, commerce, religion, law) as they converge with the things
ruled by Neptune, as affecting the U. S. The space at my disposal causes me to
confine the events to those given in the brief outline in the back of Webster’s
New International Dictionary.
18. Jupiter Conjunction Neptune, Dec. 29, 1804, 11:35 a.m. The desire for
commercial (Jupiter) and territorial expansion (Neptune) is fulfilled by the
Lewis Clark expedition up the Missouri, down the Columbia to the Pacific,
and return; giving a further foundation of claim to the Oregon country and
the Northwest fur trade (conjunction in 8th).
19. Jupiter Conjunction Neptune, Dec. 24, 1817, 00:58 p.m. Dec. 10, Mississippi admitted as Slave (Neptune) State. Taken with Indiana the first clear
case of admission of slave states in pairs (conjunction in house of government
in a dual sign).
20. Jupiter Conjunction Neptune, Dec. 15, 1830, 4:52 a.m. Jan. 1, 1831, W. L.
Garrison establishes the Liberator at Boston, as the organ of those who demand immediate abolition of slavery (Neptune) Mars, ruler of 1st, is sextile
Uranus (freedom) in 3rd (periodicals).
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21. Jupiter Conjunction Neptune, April 9, 1843, 1:31 p.m. John C. Freemont’s
warlike (conjunction in 7th) expeditions in the Far West furthers the ends of
commercial (Jupiter) and territorial expansion (Neptune).
22. Jupiter Conjunction Neptune, March 17, 1856, 1:23 a.m. H. R. Helper, a
Southern poor white, writes (conjunction in 3rd), and early in 1857 publishes,
The Impending Crisis of the South, showing slavery (Neptune) to be a bad
thing for the white laborer (Saturn in 6th, square conjunction).
23. Jupiter Conjunction Neptune, Feb. 26, 1869, 00.19 a.m. Feb. 27, the Fifteenth Amendment is submitted to the States; it (Mars, ruler of the first —the
people—in the 9th—the law, trine the conjunction) declares that suffrage shall
not be denied or abridged because of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude (Neptune).
24. Jupiter Conjunction Neptune, June 18, 1881, 7:34 a.m. The conjunction
is in the 10th (office and the president) with Saturn, and is trine to the ruler of
the 8th (death). Mars is on the M.C. (president), sesqui-square Uranus, ruler
of 8th (death). July 2, president Garfield is shot by a disappointed (Neptune
rules exaggerated hopes) office seeker.
25. Jupiter Conjunction Neptune, June 1, 1894, 4:41 a.m. April 29, Coxey’s
Army of unemployed (conjunction in 1st, ruling the people) reaches Washington with a demand for the issue of $5,000,000 paper money (exaggerated hopes).
26. Jupiter Conjunction Neptune, May 22, 1907, 6:43 a.m. May 22, New
York legislature established a Public Utilities Commission (Pluto square Moon
in 4th—utilities) to exercise control over public service corporations (conjunction in 1st—people, opposition Uranus and Mars in 7th—their exploiters); a
policy also adopted by other states.
27. Jupiter Conjunction Neptune, Sept. 23, 1919, 8:46 p.m. Sept. 3, president Wilson starts on a nation-wide speaking tour in behalf of unconditional
acceptance of the League of Nations (conjunction on 4th—nations—exaggerated hopes of attaining an deal).
333. Jupiter Conjunction Neptune, Sept. 18, 1932, 11 :30 p.m. The election
(Moon ruling 1st—people, trine the conjunction) threw overboard (Uranus in
10th square Pluto in 1st) 250-year-old notions as to the relation of government (Neptune, ruler of 10th) to business (Jupiter) and to money (Moon, ruler
of 2nd—money, trine the conjunction).
The Cycle of Neptune
Neptune crossed from south declination to north declination March 14, 1863.
The most powerful aspect in the chart is Saturn opposition Neptune, Saturn
representing property rights and the proverbial pound of flesh, and Neptune
representing slavery, and on its better side the brotherhood of all men. The
Key-word of :he aspect is Separation, and the owners (Saturn) were separated from their slaves (Neptune).
Six weeks before the Cycle started, but well within the orb of its influence,
on Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln signed the Final Emancipation Proclamation as a war
measure. Mars (war) in the chart is almost exactly trine Saturn and sextile
Neptune. It is significant that the proclamation was signed by a man having
Saturn conjunction Neptune on his Ascendant (see Lincoln’s chart, Chapter 2,
Course 10-1, Natal Astrology, Delineating the Horoscope).
The Cycle of March 14 was a short one, as Neptune moved back south of
the equator, and then again crossed to north declination Dec. 28. 1863 2:46
a.m. Washington. This Neptune Cycle Chart, which is still in force, is given
on page 15, of chapter 1.
The emancipation of the slaves remained merely a war measure until
The Cycles of Pluto and Neptune
Neptune in the present Cycle came to the square of the Sun r, Feb. 1, 1865,
when the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment broadened its application
to a peace time basis. Uranus, the planet of freedom is in the 8th house of this
chart. Mars is ruler of the 6th (labor) and Dec. 18, 1865, the amendment was
accepted by the States, when Neptune came trine Mars r.
The commencement of this cycle gave a tremendous impetus to mystical
studies, to psychical research and to spiritualism. But as Pluto, ruler of Scorpio and thus of the natural 8th house, also governs information and influences from the dead, the Cycle of Pluto, commencing in 1864, was jointly
responsible in these movements. It was out of psychical research, for instance,
that, according to Col. Olcott, the Theosophical Society was founded in New
York, Nov. 17, 1875. Pluto was trine Venus r in the Pluto Cycle.
At this time human reincarnation was not a tenet of the society, but when
in the Neptune Cycle, Neptune came semi-square Neptune r, in October, 1882,
Mr. Sinnett published in the Theosophist, Vol. IV, No. 1, the basis of the doctrine of human reincarnation.
Quoting from The World Almanac: “June 12, 1926, at London the young
Indian Krishnamurti was accepted as the ‘world teacher’ by the Theosophical
Society at its annual convention in Queen’s Hall.” Neptune (world-wide
schemes) sextile Uranus r (independence), from the 10th (governing authority). The authority conferred upon him enabled Krishnamurti (who has Uranus prominent in his birth-chart) later to disband the secret (Neptune) section of the society.
The Brotherhood of Light, in its object to cooperate for universal welfare,
and as an organization which in no activity is secret, comes chiefly under the
spiritual side of Pluto. Its teachings were first given wide publicity in modern
times through the publication, in 1889, when in the Pluto Cycle, Pluto was
sextile Neptune r and trine Mercury r, of Light of Egypt, Vol. I., by T. H. Burgoyne
(his chart is in present edition of Chapter 1, Laws of Occultism, page xiii). Volume II, compiled after his death is less authentic. Both volumes are now out
of print.
May, 1915, B. of L. commenced its public work with headquarters at Los
Angeles: Pluto trine Sun r, in Pluto Cycle.
Nov. 11, 1918 B. of L. opened membership to general public, and thus
expanded (Neptune) its influence: Neptune trine Mars r from the 9th (religion), in Neptune Cycle, a few minutes more than one degree distant.
Nov. 2, 1932, united opposition of-orthodox churches (Pluto opposition
Venus r in Pluto Cycle) made it advisable to incorporate (Neptune trine Pluto r
in Neptune Cycle) as The Church of Light, that our Religion (Major Conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune on Sept. 18) might not be at a legal disadvantage.
This is all the space that can be devoted to spiritual trends, and I shall,
therefore, use such room as is left to more material events which have been
influenced by the Neptune Cycle.
Industrial combinations and the movement toward trusts (Neptune) date
from the Neptune Cycle of 1863. Certain pools (Neptune), as of the cordage
industry were formed in the ’60s; but immediately after the Cycle started the
Michigan Salt Association was organized, and in the year of the Cycle Commodore Vanderbilt engineered a Wall Street coup of typically Neptune character, by which he annexed the Harlem Railroad as a first step in consolidation (Neptune).
1864, stimulated by the new Cycle, two far reaching international organizations were conceived. In 1864 the International Red Cross (Neptune trine
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Mars in the Cycle Chart) was organized at Geneva, and the same year the
Marxian Socialists (Neptune) organized an “International” at London.
1867, Neptune semi-sextile Pluto r: Commodore Vanderbilt formed the
New York Central out of previous consolidations.
1868, Neptune (ruler of 5th-speculation) opposition Saturn r (coruler of
3rd-railroads). “Watering stocks” became so common that the railroads were
accused of increasing securities 150%, all water (inflation).
1870, Neptune (ruler of 5th-speculation) opposition Saturn r (ruler of 4thunderground products). Jan. 2, Standard Oil Company is chartered in Ohio.
Vanderbilt makes further combinations.
1879, Neptune inconjunct Mars r: Original Trust Agreement of Standard
Oil bears the date April 8, 1879.
1881, Neptune square M.C. r: The Kentucky Distillers form a gigantic trust
in May.
1882, Neptune in seventh (international) inconjunct Saturn in twelfth (hospitals and relief work): Largely through the energy of Clara Barton, U.S. ratifies the Geneva Convention and becomes member of International Red Cross.
1884, Neptune semi-sextile Uranus r: Latter part of year American Cotton
Oil Trust is formed.
1890, Neptune sesqui-square Mercury r, ruler of the 11th (Congress):
Sherman Anti-Trust Law adopted.
1902, Oct. 1, Neptune square Neptune r: International Mercantile Marine
Co., controlling 114 steamers, is formed with capital of 120 million dollars.
1903, Neptune square Neptune r: International Harvest Co. obtains control of smaller companies.
1917, Jan. 22, Neptune trine Neptune r: Supreme Court in Blue Sky Cases
upholds the rights of States to guard against questionable stock and bond
dealers and fraudulent securities.
Notes
1. In a letter dated April 27, 1959, U. S. Naval Observatory states:”...no exact
ephemerides of Pluto for years as early as 1864 have been computed...but
accurate basic tables are, now available...in Greenwich Time Pluto crossed
the equator from south to north within a few hours before or after the midnight between February 20 and 21, 1864.”
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The Cycles of Pluto and Neptune
URANUS CYCLE
March 11, 1844, 7:20 a.m. L.M.T. Washington.
This chart shows what departments of life in the U. S. are affected and
how by ultra-progressive thought, by invention and complicated mechanical
devices, and by radical politics, from March 11, 1844, to May 1, 1927.
At the time Uranus, by its movement as shown in the ephemeris, made an
aspect to the position of a planet in this chart, events came to pass influenced
by Uranian things, and affecting the things shown by the house position of
the aspected planet, and the things for which the planet has special ability.
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URANUS CYCLE
Feb. 21, 1928, 7:31 a.m. L.M.T. Washington.
This chart shows what departments of life in the U.S. are affected, and
how, by ultra-progressive thought, by invention and complicated mechanical
devices, and by radical politics, from Feb. 21, 1928, to 1969.
At the time Uranus by its movement as shown in the ephemeris, makes
an aspect to the position of a planet in this chart, events will come to pass
influenced by Uranian things, and affecting the things shown by the house
position of the aspected planet, and the things for which the planet has special affinity.
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Chapter 3
The Cycles of Uranus
W
HILE the paramount influence of a progressed aspect in any cycle
chart relates to those things which are ruled by the planet for which
the cycle chart is erected, the manner in which those things affect
the destiny of groups of people requires the consideration of other factors.
Thus in making a prediction as to the exact nature of the events which will
transpire when a given progressed aspect is formed in any cycle chart, there
are four distinct factors, although by no means of equal importance, which
require consideration.
In a cycle chart the only planet that progresses and forms aspects to the other
planets is the planet for which the cycle chart is erected. That is, in the Uranus
Cycle, all the other planets are considered only as they appear in the cycle
chart. But Uranus moves forward, at the rate shown by its positions in the
ephemeris, to make aspects with the positions occupied by the other planets
in the cycle chart. In the Saturn Cycle, in a like manner, only Saturn moves
forward to make aspects to the positions of the planets in the Saturn Cycle
chart.
When in any cycle chart an aspect from the planet for which the cycle
chart was erected forms to the position of a planet in that cycle chart, the
event indicated is determined from the following four factors, which are here
given in the order of their importance.
1. THE PLANETARY CYCLE—We do not expect the Uranus Cycle to reveal the influence of orthodox thought, land and basic utilities, or the miner
and farmer; because these things come under the rule of Saturn. But we do
expect it to show the strong influences of ultra-progressive thought, of invention and complicated mechanical devices, and of radical politics.
That is, the things ruled by the planet for which the cycle chart was erected
are always to be considered as in some manner the active agents which bring
the indicated event to pass.
For instance, in the current Uranus Cycle chart, given in chapter 2, page
32, there are three planets in the 12th house in Pisces. When Uranus moves
forward into Taurus it will form the sextile aspect to each of these three planets. The events which will then come to pass, coincident with these progressed
aspects, will all show the influence of those things which Uranus rules.
2. HOUSE OCCUPIED BY PLANET RECEIVING ASPECT—When an
event comes to pass it relates chiefly to some particular department of life.
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Commonly the department of life affected stands out with even greater clearness than does the agent which brought the event to pass. And the department of life thus affected is chiefly to be judged from the house occupied by
the planet receiving the aspect.
Thus in the present Uranus Cycle chart, as the Sun, Moon and Mercury
are all three in the 12th house, when Uranus moves forward into Taurus and
one after another forms the sextile aspect to each of these planets, the effect
will chiefly be felt in the 12th house. As the 12th house rules prisons, hospitals, asylums, relief work, crime, etc., the events of outstanding importance
attracted by these three progressed aspects will relate to these things.
Chapter 2 gives a rather complete list of the things which in mundane
astrology are ruled by each of the twelve houses. When, therefore, a progressed aspect forms in any cycle chart, the house occupied by the planet
receiving the aspect indicates, according to the things there listed as under
the rule of the house, those things which will most pronouncedly be affected
by the progressed aspect.
To a much less degree things will also be affected which are ruled by the
houses on the cusp of which is a sign ruled by the planet receiving the aspect.
For instance, in the current Uranus Cycle chart, the Sun is in the 12th, but
rules the cusp of the 6th. When Uranus makes the sextile aspect to the Sun,
therefore, 12th house affairs will chiefly be affected; but in a less pronounced
degree labor, and other things ruled by the 6th house, will also be influenced.
3. SPECIAL AFFINITY OF THE PLANET RECEIVING THE ASPECT—
Observation has shown that each of the planets has such a close affinity with
certain things that, no matter what house of the cycle chart it occupies, when it
receives a progressed aspect from the planet for which the cycle chart was
erected, there is a pronounced effect apparent where these things are concerned.
Next to the house occupied by a planet, as indicating the event which may most
confidently be expected, there should be considered this special affinity.
As a matter of actual practice, in our mundane astrology class where the
events for each day of the week ahead are forecast, and the more important
events for years ahead are predicted, with later newspaper headline verification; predictions are made first as to the events affected, as shown by the
house position, and then other predictions are made merely from the natural
affinity of the planet aspected. These classes which have been in existence for
a great many years fully warrant at least two predictions from each progressed
aspect; one based on house position, and the other, usually of less consequence,
based upon the special affinity of the aspected planet.
These special affinities, which are derived from observing the verifications of day by day predictions over a period of many years in actual class
work, rather than from what might logically be expected, are here listed in a
manner to facilitate reference as follows:
SUN—A progressed aspect to the Sun in a cycle chart, regardless of the
house it occupies, tends to events in which those in power, particularly those
high in politics, are affected.
MOON—A progressed aspect to the Moon in a cycle chart, no matter
what house it is in, tends to affect a large number of people.
MERCURY—A progressed aspect to Mercury in a cycle chart, irrespective of the house it occupies, tends to give rise to much talk, and usually to
controversy.
VENUS—A progressed aspect to Venus in a cycle chart, regardless of the
house it occupies, tends to events which affect women.
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MARS—A progressed aspect to Mars in a cycle chart, whatever the house
it holds, tends to strife, violence and accidents.
JUPITER—A progressed aspect to Jupiter in a cycle chart, irrespective of
the house it is in, tends to events affecting finances. Under such an aspect the
trend is toward expansion, expenditures and higher prices.
SATURN—A progressed aspect to Saturn in a cycle chart, no matter what
house it occupies, has an influence over labor and tends toward contraction,
economy, loss and lower prices.
URANUS—A progressed aspect to Uranus in a cycle chart, regardless of
the house it holds, tends to bring radical activities and to bring an expose.
NEPTUNE—A progressed aspect to Neptune, whatever house it may be
in, tends to events affecting aviation and the moving picture industry.
PLUTO—A progressed aspect to Pluto, regardless of the house it occupies, tends to bring events in which drastic action and co-operation of some
kind play a part.
4. HOUSE OCCUPIED BY PROGRESSING PLANET—At the time the
aspect is complete, the house occupied by the planet for which the cycle chart
was erected can not be ignored. In the cycles of the more slowly moving planets it is of much more consequence than in the cycles of the swifter planets.
Sun or Moon, for instance, move so rapidly through a house that commonly
the things denoted by that house are not strongly affected when the luminary
makes a progressed aspect.
Those without experience are apt to conclude from their observation of
progressed aspects in natal astrology that the house occupied by the progressing planet in a cycle chart should be as strongly affected as the house
occupied by the planet in the cycle chart receiving the aspect. Such is not the
case, however, and while predictions at times can accurately be made from
the house occupied by the planet for which the cycle chart was erected, at the
time it forms progressed aspects, predictions from this fourth, and least important factor, should be made with considerable reserve.
Thus in the seven years—1935 to 1942—during which in the current Uranus Cycle chart Uranus passes through the 2nd house, every aspect Uranus
makes to the position of a planet in the cycle chart will tend to have some
influence on money. But such influence on money at times will be greatly
subordinate to the influence on the things ruled by the house occupied by the
aspected planet, and even to the things which have a special affinity for the
aspected planet.
Uranus is the planet of extremes and of unexpected happenings. He loves
the new and the unusual, and hesitates not at all to discard the tried and
trusted methods in favor of more original plans. Or if some new plan has
been in operation, and has not proven entirely satisfactory, he influences
the pendulum of public opinion to swing far in the other direction, and a
demand arises that there should be a return to methods so old as to have
been considered obsolete.
Two sets of things Uranus dislikes. He dislikes the usual things, and he
dislikes things as they are. Whatever now exists, if it has been in existence
some time, he wants changed, and is ready with something new and original
to take its place.
He is the planet of rugged individualism, abhorring restraint of any kind.
He likes to be a law unto himself and to feel that he is the equal of any man He
is, therefore, the planet of liberty, and his influence in slavery as an issue was
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even more pronounced than that of Neptune, and as he favors direct action,
was marked by more violence. Against economic oppression he feels equally
rebellious, inciting to unrest, dissatisfaction and disruption.
Ruler of Aquarius, the sign of altruism, he is ever active to better the condition of the working man. Nor is he gentle in making his demands for different conditions. His influence is to be witnessed in most of the exposures of
graft and corruption and in practically every effort that has been made by
strikes, by forming unions, or by other means to shorten the hours, increase
the pay, and make better living conditions for those who toil.
His is the method of direct action, applying whatever pressure and resorting to whatever violence is necessary to attain his ends. He is thus the
planet of revolution. The chief reason why the strikes, boycotts and riots he
incites so often fail is because he is so great an individualist that there is not
the proper unity of action. Those undertaking to force a change by which
they hope to better their conditions become dissatisfied with their leaders.
New leaders spring up with still other plans, and the dissension within the
organization leads it to block its own purposes.
Labor unions in their objects and the methods employed, such as strikes,
are under the influence of Uranus. But to the extent there is actual co-operation of its members to accomplish a group purpose the influence of Pluto is
apparent.
Reform movements of all kinds are under the influence of this planet. In
thought he leans to the occult and ultra-progressive; in business to invention
and unusual methods; and in politics to that which is considered radical. When,
therefore, in a given city or country, a cycle chart brings a strong influence
from Uranus to bear upon events, radical activities are brought to the attention, efforts are made to expose existing corruption, and important changes
are advocated.
Nor does the matter merely stop with agitation if those advocating the
change are strong enough to enforce their desires; for he is a planet of quick
action as well as of flaming oratory. When, therefore, his influence is sufficiently strong, events which change the entire complexion of the things influenced come to pass with cataclysmic suddenness.
Calculating the
Uranus Cycles
For the purpose of illustrating the method of calculating the time for which a
Uranus Cycle chart should be erected, we will use the short cycle of Uranus
of May 1, 1927, and the present cycle of Uranus which started Feb. 21, 1928.
As we wish to know the influence of the Uranus Cycle on the affairs of the
United States, the problem is to ascertain the time at Washington, D. C., when
Uranus crossed from south declination to north declination.
The Nautical Almanac for 1927 gives the declination of Uranus at four
day intervals for Greenwich Civil Time (commencing at midnight). The position on May 3 is given as plus 0 degrees, 1 minute, 9.5 seconds. The variation
per day is given as 66.03 seconds. That is, Uranus moving 66.03 seconds per
day, on May 3 had already crossed into north declination 0 degrees, 1 minute,
9.5 seconds.
24 hours (one day) equal 1440 minutes. 0 degrees, 1 minute, 9.5 seconds
equal 69.5 seconds. Then 66.03:1440::69.5:? The answer is 1516 minutes, which
equal 1 day, 1 hour, 16 minutes.
From May 3 Civil Time subtract 1 day, 1 hour, 16 minutes, and it gives the
Greenwich Time as May 1, 10:44 p.m. As Washington is 77 degrees west, subtract a further 5 hours, 8 minutes, which gives the time for which the Uranus
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Cycle chart must be erected as May 1, 1927, 5:36 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38—56N. The
chart erected for the time so found is No. 31 in the table in chapter 2, page 30.
The Nautical Almanac for 1928 gives the declination of Uranus at four
day intervals for Greenwich Civil Time (commencing at midnight). The position on Feb. 23 is there given as plus 0 degrees, 1 minute, 50.8 seconds. The
variation per day is given as 75.24 seconds. That is, Uranus, moving 75.24
seconds per day on February 23 had already crossed into north declination 0
degrees, 1 minute, 50.8 seconds.
24 hours (one day) equal 1440 minutes. 0 degrees, 1 minute, 50.8 seconds
equal 110.8 seconds. Then 75.24:1440::110.8:? The answer is 2121 minutes,
which equals 1 day, 11 hours, 21 minutes.
From Feb. 23 Civil Time subtract 1 day, 11 hours, 21 minutes, and it gives
the Greenwich Time as Feb. 21, 12:39 p.m. Subtract the time difference of 5
hours, 8 minutes, that Washington is west, and it gives the time for which the
Uranus Cycle chart must be erected as Feb. 21, 1928, 7:31 a.m. L.M.T. 77W.
38—56N. This last Uranus Cycle chart, erected for this time, is illustrated in
chapter 2, page 32.
Chart No. 31 is that of the short cycle of Uranus, which commenced, as above
calculated, May 1, 1927, 5:36 p.m. Washington. During the time of this cycle
Uranus made only three progressed aspects to the positions of the planets in
this chart. Just before the cycle, but well within the orb of its influence, on
April 7, 1927, television (new invention) was demonstrated at New York City.
In the chart two angular houses hold planets, which indicates a volume of
energy flowing into these departments of life. Neptune, the planet of aviation, holds forth in the house of honor (10th), and the Sun and Moon are
conjunction in the house of foreign nations (7th).
In the chart Uranus is conjunction with the financial planet Jupiter in the
5th, house of speculation, and during the following eight months there were
more stocks sold on the New York Exchange, and more people of small means
reversed (Uranus) their previous policy and invested in such stocks,, than
during any previous period in history. Uranus is trine M.C., and the speculative wave increased in intensity as, turning retrograde, Uranus came exactly
trine M.C. r on Oct. 15, 1927.
Uranus also, in its retrograde movement, made the conjunction with Uranus r, September 20. Many inventions and new devices were brought to the
public attention about that time, and as the conjunction took place in the 5th
house, wild speculative activities occurred near that date.
The most important influence of the cycle was over aviation. There were
rapid developments in mechanical aids to aviation as the cycle came in, and
adding aviation honors (Neptune in 10th) to his country, on May 20, 1927,
Captain Charles Lindbergh (his birth-chart and progressions are illustrated
in Chapter 6, Course 10-1, Natal Astrology, Delineating the Horoscope, page 92)
made his historic and record breaking flight from New York to Paris.
Two planets in the 9th house turned energy into attempts at long journeys
by new (Uranus) methods. But as Mars in the 9th received the square of Uranus, most of the transatlantic flights attempted under this cycle of Uranus
ended in disaster. Nevertheless, there were two other outstanding successes:
the flight on June 28, from Oakland, California, to Hawaii by Maitland and
Hegenberger; and the flight of Chamberlin and Levine on June 4 from New
York to Germany.
As to the accidents of others in attempting long flights; May 23 the Italian
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Commander Pinedo was forced into the sea near the Azores. Commander
Byrd, on June 29, flying to France, was forced down off the coast and his
plane smashed. The entire crew of the English Fokker plane trying to make
Canada were lost Aug. 31. The entire crew of the monoplane leaving New
York to Rome on Sept. 6, were lost. Ruth Elder and her pilot, flying from New
York, bound for Paris, were forced into the sea on Oct. 11. Numerous other
accidents related to less outstanding long journeys also attested to the power
of the 9th house affliction.
In the chart, Uranus makes a trine to Saturn, planet of economy, in the
house of money (2nd). Paper currency had been of standard size for a very
long time, but it was now in for a radical change. May 26, 1927, Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon authorized the reduction of the size of paper money by
about one-third, thus saving millions annually.
September 26, 1927, Uranus progressed to semi-square Moon r, in 7th (foreign countries). Well within orb of this influence, on Sept. 9, the U. S. sent a
protest to France against the new tariff which brought the sale in France of
millions of dollars worth of manufactured goods to a practical standstill, due
to the quadrupling of duties. This was a matter of controversy until Nov. 21,
when a temporary agreement was reached.
Uranus rules astrology, and the first National Astrological Convention
was held at Hollywood July 21-23, 1927.
The Uranus Cycle
Now Effective
The influence of the current Uranus Cycle, chart for which is illustrated in
chapter 2, page 32, will be in effect from 1928 to 1969. According to the calculations previously given in detail, the chart is erected for Feb. 21, 1928, 7:31
a.m. 77W. 38—6N.
Two planets in the house of Congress (11th) indicate that during this cycle
Congress will be strongly influenced by radical ideas. Two planets in the house
of the people (1st) indicate that the people in general will be greatly influenced by the things which Uranus rules, and as Uranus, ruler of the cycle, is
conjunction Jupiter, ruler of business (10th) and coruler of transportation (9th),
the destiny of the people will undergo a radical change due to the mechanization (Uranus) of industry and transportation. As Jupiter is the planet of finances, matters relating to the financing of the people will also undergo a
radical change.
Three planets in the 12th indicate that crime and relief are matters which
will become of paramount importance due to the influence of mechanical
contrivances which aid crime and perform work previously done by men.
Instead, however, of presenting a detailed analysis of what may be expected from the chart, it will probably afford better practice to give a complete list of every aspect formed in the cycle up to the date (mid- 1935) of this
revision of the lesson, quoting (with comments in parentheses) from The World
Almanac one event influenced by each aspect.
Feb. 22, 1928, Uranus semi-sextile Sun r: Feb. 21, Harry F. Sinclair, oil operator, is found guilty (Sun in house of crime) of contempt by Justice Frederick
L. Siddons in the District of Columbia Supreme Court and sentenced to six
months’ imprisonment. This is in connection with the famous Teapot Dome
expose (Uranus) of corrupt officials (Sun).
March 22, 1928, Uranus semi-sextile Moon r: March 22, at Washington,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., appears before the Senate committee investigating
(expose) the bituminous coal industry, denying any direct knowledge of violating (Moon in house of crime) the Baltimore wage agreement.
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May 12, 1928, Uranus conjunction Jupiter r: May 11, the Hoover manager,
Ex-U. S. Congressman J. W. Good of Iowa, told the U. S. Senate campaign
probe (Uranus) committee that about $250,000 had so far been spent for the
Hoover cause, and the whole fight may cost $300,000 (Jupiter).
Sept. 15, 1928, Uranus conjunction Jupiter r: Sept. 15, Illinois coal miners
vote to accept the new wage (Jupiter) scale, effective Sept. 16, ending the soft
coal strike (Uranus).
March 3, 1929, Uranus conjunction Jupiter r: March 1, the most important
English and American firms operating in the British oil market—including
Sir Henry Deterding’s company (the Royal Dutch) —have agreed (a radical
change) to establishment of normal trade relations (Jupiter ruler of house of
business) with the Soviet Oil Corporation.
April 7, 1929, Uranus semi-sextile Mercury r: April 7, a post office employee (Mercury ruling house of post office) makes a “dud” bomb (Uranus),
and then discovers it at New York City (Mercury in house of crime).
Nov. 13, 1929, Uranus semi-sextile Mercury r: Nov. 13, at Rochester, N. Y.,
Robert M. Searle, who rose from office boy for Thomas A. Edison to an outstanding figure in public utility circles, commits suicide (Mercury in house of
self-undoing) after worrying over stock market losses.
April 26, 1930, Uranus sesqui-square Neptune r: April 26, after passing
over Paris, the only German airship (Neptune) to visit the British capital (a
radical change) since the armistice, receives welcome.
July 4, 1930, Uranus square Pluto r: July 9, police at New York City raid
Earl Carroll’s “Vanities” show (Pluto in 5th) on 42nd Street.
Aug. 6, 1930, Uranus square Pluto r: Aug. 9, dropping a bottle of nitroglycerin to the floor of the Stockyards National Bank at Ft. Worth, Texas,
Nathan M. Martin, 30, kills (Pluto ruler of 8th, and of drastic action) himself
and Vice-President F. L. Pelton.
Oct. 24, 1930, Uranus sesqui-square Neptune r: Oct. 24, Gilbert Lane,
youngest American volunteer in the French Army and an active member of
the Paris Post of the American Legion, is killed when a plane (Neptune) in
which he had started for Abyssinia to take motion pictures (Neptune) of the
Emperor Haile Selassie crashed (Uranus) at Le Bourget Field.
Feb. 14, 1931, Uranus sesqui-square Neptune r: Feb. 14, Senate and House
adopt the Interior Department bill, carrying an appropriation of $20,000,000
for loans for farm rehabilitation, inclusive of food supplies (Neptune in the
house of foods and farm products) for humans, and the President signed
the measure.
April 4, 1931, Uranus square Pluto r: April 9 Fred J. Blumer, a brewer, is
kidnapped (Pluto) at Monroe, Wis., and $150,000 ransom is demanded.
April 29, 1931, Uranus semi-square Sun r: April 26, Jack “Legs” Diamond
is shot at a roadhouse near Cairo, N. Y. Governor Roosevelt sends 20 state
troopers and a deputy attorney general to Cairo to clean out (Uranus) the
beer runners and racketeers (Sun in house of crime).
May 28, 1931, Uranus trine Saturn r: May 29, at New York City the first
train (Saturn in 9th) is run in Nassau Street, from B.M.T. station under the
Municipal Building at Chambers Street to Broad Street.
June 2, 1931, Uranus semi-square Moon r: June 1, Albert B. Fall, former
Secretary of the Interior, convicted of bribery (Moon in house of crime) in accepting $100,000 from Edward L. Doheny, prominent oil operator, is denied a
review of his case by the Supreme Court of the U. S. (Uranus exposes graft).
Sept. 18, 1931, Uranus semi-square Moon r: Sept. 18, at Albany, N. Y., the
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Legislature ends its special session after passing the Wicks unemployment
relief (Moon in 12th) bill, amended to suit Governor Roosevelt, and the anticrime (Moon in 12th) measures desired by the New York City authorities.
Sept. 24, 1931, Uranus trine Saturn r: Sept. 23, U. S. Government investigation (expose of graft) into alien smuggling at Ellis Island has resulted in 861
deportations (Saturn in house of ocean journeys) and 26 arrests.
Oct. 29, 1931, Uranus semi-square Sun r: Oct. 28, President Hoover’s Organization on unemployment relief (Sun in 12th) reports ten things essential.
Feb. 17, 1932, Uranus semi-square Sun r: Feb. 16, Sheriff Thomas M. Farley,
of New York City, is given a public hearing (expose) at Albany by Gov.
Roosevelt on charges (Sun in house of crime) made by Samuel Seabury, counsel of the legislative committee which is investigating the New York City
Government (Sun).
March 17, 1932, Uranus trine Saturn r: March 17, a passenger plane (Saturn in house of journeys) bound from Phoenix, Ariz., to Los Angeles, Calif.,
crashes in a fog in San Gorgonio Pass, near Calimesa. Six of the occupants are
killed at once and the seventh died soon afterwards.
March 21, 1932, Uranus semi-square Moon r: March 22, three residents of
Norfolk, Va.—John Hughes Curtis, Rear Admiral Guy Burrage and Rev. Dean
Dobson-Peacock—informed Colonel Lindbergh they had been in communication with the kidnapers (Moon in house of crime) and assured him they
had been told the baby was being held, “somewhere in Chesapeake Bay.”
June 24, 1932, Uranus semi-square Mercury r: June 22, at New York City, a
Supreme Court jury, at the judges’ direction, acquit Isidore J. Kresel of a charge
of perjury (Mercury in house of crime) growing out of the failure of the Bank
of the United States.
Sept. 2, 1932, Uranus semi-square Mercury r: Sept. 4, Raymond Robins,
prohibition advocate and reformer (Uranus), vanishes (Mercury in 12th) from
New York City on his way to keep an appointment with President Hoover at
Washington.
April 5, 1933, Uranus semi-square Mercury r: April 4, the U. S. dirigible
balloon Akron, biggest on earth, sank in the ocean at about 12:30 a.m. off
Barnegat, N. J., in the midst of a storm of wind (Mercury), rain and lightning
(Uranus).
April 16, 1933, Uranus trine M.C. r: April 19, President Roosevelt orders
an embargo on all exports of gold (Business ruled by M.C.) except that earmarked for foreign countries.
May 11, 1933, Uranus square Mars r: May 12, Wisconsin milk strike (Uranus) goes into effect.
Oct. 31, 1933, Uranus square Mars r: Nov. 1, at North Tiverton, R. I.,
1,500,000 gallons of gasoline explode (Mars and Uranus) killing 4 workmen.
Dec. 22, 1933, Uranus trine M.C. r: December 28, at Washington, Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., Acting Secretary of the Treasury, issues an order calling in all
the remaining gold coin, bullion and certificates still outside the Treasury of the
Federal Reserve banks and their members (M.C. affects business). The order
eliminates the $100 exemption heretofore allowed to individual hoarders of
gold and imposes (extreme of Uranus) a new penalty of double forfeiture.
Jan. 13, 1934, Uranus trine M. C. r: Jan. 15, President Roosevelt asks Congress for authority to impound all gold (affecting business ruled by M.C.) in
the Treasury and devaluate the dollar to a maximum of 60 cents and a minimum of 50 cents. Bill passes House Jan. 20.
March 2, 1934, Uranus square Mars r: March 3, John Dillinger, the outlaw,
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and a negro escape from jail at Crown Point, Indiana, and commence a series
of crimes of violence (Mars) unparalleled in the 20th Century.
April 23, 1934, Uranus trine Neptune r: April 21, the bill for the compulsory control of cotton (Neptune in 6th, house of farm produce) is signed by
the President.
May 9, 1934, Uranus square Venus r: May 4, the U. S. House (Venus in
House of Congress) passes the Stock Exchange Control bill (very severe).
Nov. 13, 1934, Uranus square Venus r: Nov. 12, the U. S. Treasury grants a
blanket License authorizing all transactions in foreign exchange, transfers of
credit and exports of currency (Venus rules house of money), other than gold
certificates but including silver coins.
Dec. 15, 1934, Uranus trine Neptune r: Dec. 15, Labor (Neptune in house
of labor) and Business propose recovery measures as Ickes Board recommends
lasting program of Public Works and use of resources.
Jan. 27, 1935, Uranus trine Neptune r: Feb. 2, House passes work-relief
(Neptune in house of work) bill of $4,880,000,000.
Feb. 26, 1935, Uranus square Venus r: Feb. 26, eighty girls (Venus) from
Vassar, descended upon Albany by bus and taxi, grabbed the fleeing coat tails
of surprised State Senators (Venus in house of senators) and launched a vigorous protest against the Numan-Devany student oath bill.
April 26, 1935, Uranus sextile Sun r: April 27, breach between Senator
Long (Sun rules politicians) and his “Share the Wealth Plan” (Uranus p in
house of money) and the Administration widens.
May 21, 1935, Uranus sesqui-square Saturn r: May 21, Representative
Dobbins, of Illinois, proposes a resolution in the House which would require
a two-thirds majority of the Supreme Court (ruled by 9th) in declaring any act
of Congress to be unconstitutional.
May 24, 1935, Uranus semi-square Asc. r: May 25, for the first time (Uranus p in house of money) since March, 1911, the Treasury Department has
offered bonds to be sold on a competitive basis. The money is needed to
start financing the $4,880,000,000 work-relief (affecting many people, ruled
by Asc.) program.
May 25, 1935, Uranus sextile Moon r: May 24, five thousand persons (Moon)
clamor for the 553 seats in the House galleries to see the spectacle no American has ever seen before—a president of the U. S. delivering a veto message
to Congress in person. The measure vetoed is a relief (Moon in 12th) measure
affecting World War veterans.
This Cycle of Uranus, which was in force from 1844 to 1927, started March 11,
1844, 7:30 a.m., Washington, D. C. The chart is illustrated in chapter 2, page 31.
The planet of drastic action, Pluto, and the planet of war, Mars, as well as
Venus, occupy the house of the people (1st) in this chart, foreshadowing the
Civil War. The cause of dissension is indicated by Uranus, the planet for which
the chart was erected, exerting its disruptive influence in the house of slaves
(12th). Three planets in this house give its affairs great importance. And as
there are three Planets also in the House of Congress (11th), what this legislative body does is also of unusual importance.
Mars, the planet of machinery in the 1st, semi-sextile Uranus, planet of
invention and new machines, heralds the mechanization of industry. The Moon
in the 9th indicates the changes in methods of transportation brought about
by new inventions.
Instead of listing every aspect Uranus makes by progression through the
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many years this cycle exerted its power, let us, commencing with the date the
cycle started, select every event mentioned in the Reference History of the
World of Webster’s New International Dictionary, which clearly bears the
nature of Uranus, in so far as there is space here yet available, and indicate
the aspect in the cycle which coincided with, and affected, the event.
The first outstanding event under this Uranus Cycle was on May 24, 1844,
with Uranus semi-sextile Mars r, when the magnetic telegraph (electricity is
ruled by Uranus), invented by S. F. B. Morse, is first brought into practical
use. The experimental work has been conducted under the influence of the
cycle, and when the planet of construction (Mars) is aspected, the Federal
Government having provided the funds for building a line between Baltimore and Washington, telegraphy comes into use.
Under the same aspect, Uranus semi-sextile Mars r, there is another invention which proves important, enabling us to ride comfortably in our autos
today. June 15, 1844, Charles Goodyear patents (Uranus) the process of vulcanizing (Mars) rubber.
The next event relates to that freedom for which Uranus always struggles.
August 8, 1846, under Uranus (still in house of slaves) semi-square Mercury r
(in house of Congress), the Wilmot proviso passes the House. It prohibits
slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.
Sept. 10, 1846, under Uranus semi-sextile Jupiter r in the 12th (slavery)
Elias Howe patents (Uranus) the sewing machine, freeing women from much
drudgery. Uranus strives for economic, domestic, and political freedom, as
well as from other types of restriction.
In 1847, under Uranus semi-square Mercury r, Richard M. Hoe invents
the rotary printing press, thus greatly facilitating the distribution of news
(Mercury ruler of 3rd).
Jan.-March, 1849, under Uranus trine Moon r, there is a struggle in Congress over the organization of the new territory (Moon ruler of 4th, house of
territory), the South claiming the extension of the 36—30 line to the Pacific,
thus dividing California.
Sept. 18, 1850, under Uranus semi-sextile Uranus r in house of slaves (12th)
and Uranus sextile Mercury r, in house of Congress (11th), a new and drastic
Fugitive Slave Law, intended to check organized assistance to fugitives, is
passed; and on Sept. 20, slave trade is forbidden in the District of Columbia.
May 26, 1854, under Uranus sextile Jupiter r, in house of slaves, during
the Burns fugitive slave incident in Boston the attempt is made by an antislavery mob to storm the courthouse. Also several new personal liberty (Uranus) laws are passed by Northern States in an attempt to hinder the operation
of the Federal laws of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of May 30 starts
another controversy over slavery that is not settled until-the Civil War.
May 5, 1857, about 6 weeks after Uranus makes the perfect square to Neptune r, co-ruler of the house of slavery, the Supreme Court, deliberating the
Dred Scott Case, delivers the decision of the majority of the court, declaring
the Missouri Compromise to have been always unconstitutional, as contrary
to the rights of any man to take “slave” property into a Territory. The decision
is contrary to the popular sovereignty theory of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and
opens all territory to slavery (Neptune rules slavery).
Nov. 7, 1857, under Uranus semi-square Jupiter r, in house of slaves, a
pro-slavery convention in Kansas frames the Lecompton Constitution, which
is so worded as to permit slavery either directly or indirectly, no matter how
the settlers vote.
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May 4, 1858, under Uranus square Mercury r, in house of Congress, the
English Act of Congress adjusts the Kansas difficulty and marks the highwater
in the pro-slavery Congress.
March 7, 1859, when Uranus again made the square to Mercury r (planet
of controversy), the Supreme Court declares that the fugitive slave law of
1850 is unconstitutional and that the jurisdiction over it is entirely in the Federal Courts, and that efforts of the States to obstruct it are illegal.
Oct. 16-18, 1859, under Uranus semi-square Pluto r (planet of mobs), occurs John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry, Va. Nineteen abolitionists seize the
government arsenal as an armed position to which slaves may rally.
June 19, 1862, under Uranus (planet of freedom) semi-square Uranus r (in
house of slaves) Congress abolishes slavery in the Territories.
Sept. 22, 1862, under Uranus (planet of freedom) opposition Moon r, ruler
of 4th (States), Lincoln in his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation states
as a war measure that he will on Jan. 1, declare free all slaves in the States
then in rebellion, excepting certain loyal or occupied sections.
Jan. 1, 1863, under Uranus sesqui-square Saturn r, there is the Final Emancipation Proclamation.
June 13, 1866, under Uranus inconjunct Saturn r, the Fourteenth Amendment is passed and sent to the States, providing that negroes and all others
born or naturalized in the U. S. are to possess equal civil (Saturn ruler of
10th) rights.
June 25, 1868, under Uranus trine Jupiter r (more pay for shorter hours)
an act is passed to establish an eight-hour day for laborers for the Federal
Government.
Dec 10, 1869, under Uranus trine Sun r (planet of politics), Wyoming, the
first territory to do so, adopts woman’s suffrage.
1871, under Uranus inconjunct Neptune r, and later square Venus r, the
Tweed Ring, which for years had controlled and systematically bled New
York, and had embezzled about $100,000,000, is overthrown.
1874, under Uranus inconjunct Jupiter r, ruler of the house of publishing,
that great boon to all who write, the typewriter, is placed on the market, the
Remington being the pioneer machine.
March 2, 1875, under Uranus inconjunct Jupiter r (in house of graft), scandals in the Grant administration cause the resignation of Secretary of War
Belknap. In addition, a whiskey ring to defraud the internal revenue (Jupiter)
is exposed (Uranus).
March 7, 1875, under Uranus inconjunct Jupiter r, ruler of 9th (long distance communication) Alexander Bell patents the telephone.
1877, under Uranus trine Pluto r, Edison invents the phonograph, although
it is not made practical until 1888.
1878, under Uranus trine Venus r, opposition Mercury r, planet of education, a great help to reading and writing, the Brush electric arc light, forerunner of electric lighting, is invented.
1879, under Uranus trine Mars r, ruler of incandescence, Edison invents
the incandescent electric light.
1884, under Uranus opposition Uranus r, ruler of electricity, electric trolley street cars are operated in Kansas City.
1886, under Uranus in the house of labor, inconjunct Mars r, planet of
strife, there are great labor disturbances, the Knights of Labor endeavoring to
force an eight hour day. In March under this aspect they promote the great
strike on the Gould system of railroads in Missouri and neighboring states,
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which fails after lasting until May. Then May 4, occurs the anarchist riots in
Chicago, following a strike there.
September, 1888, Uranus progresses from the house of labor into the house
of arbitration (7th) making the opposition to the Asc. r (people), and on Oct. 1,
Congress authorizes the appointment of a commission of voluntary arbitration between interstate railroads and their laborers.
July 2, 1890, under Uranus trine Neptune r (planet of restrictions), the
negro question having arisen, the House passes the Force Bill to protect the
negro voters of the South, but the Senate shelves it.
Nov. 1, 1890, under Uranus trine Mercury r, in the house of legislation,
Mississippi adopts a new constitution, the first to restrict suffrage through
the “Understanding clause.”
1892, during the summer while Uranus was opposition Mars r, planet of
strife, the country is affected by strikes accompanied by violence.
1893, under Uranus sesqui-square Sun r, ruler of 5th (entertainment),
Edison develops the kinetoscope, starting the revolution (Uranus) in entertainment with the first motion picture.
June 26—July 14, 1894, under Uranus trine Jupiter r, ruler of 9th (interstate commerce), the strike of the American Railway Union starts at Chicago
with the refusal to handle Pullman cars because of a strike of laborers in a
Pullman factory. Strike extends all over West, accompanied by much rioting
and completely stops transportation on 50,000 miles of railroads. Debs and
other strike leaders are arrested on Federal injunctions for interference with
interstate commerce and carriage of the mails. Local troops are called out in
many places, and President Cleveland, without waiting for requests from State
executives, employs Federal troops, especially at Chicago, to protect railroads.
Strike fails.
1895, under Uranus semi-sextile Moon r, in 9th, the automobile comes
into practical use, thus commencing a revolution (Uranus) in transportation
which threatens the railroads not merely in short hauls, but also in interstate
commerce (9th).
May 27, 1895, under Uranus semi-square Uranus r, the Supreme Court
declares that an injunction to prevent strikers from interfering with interstate
commerce or the movement of the mails is a legitimate means of exercising
the power vested in the United States.
1896, under Uranus semi-sextile Moon r in 9th (interstate transportation)
Rural Free Delivery is started in a small way and quickly develops into a
great system. (Uranus favors government ownership of public utilities as a
method of preventing exploitation and graft.)
Jan. 1, 1898, under Uranus trine Uranus r, the eight-hour day becomes
an issue.
Feb. 18, 1898, under Uranus trine Saturn r, the Supreme Court rules that a
State regulation for an eight-hour day for certain classes of mining (Saturn) employees, with emergency exceptions, is a proper police regulation for the protection and health of citizens and not contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment.
May 28, 1898, under Uranus trine Uranus r, the Supreme Court declares
that native citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment is without respect
to race or color; a child born in the U.S. of resident parents is therefore a
citizen and cannot be excluded under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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The Cycles of Uranus
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SATURN CYCLE
March 2, 1922, 3:54 a.m. L.M.T. Washington.
This chart shows what departments of life in the U.S. are affected and
how, by orthodox thought, by cautiousness, conservatism, economy and fear,
by movements for security and protection, and by lands, homes, crops and
the weather, from March 2, 1922, to March 5, 1938.
At the time Saturn makes an aspect to the position of a planet in this chart,
events will come to pass influenced by these things, and affecting the things
shown by the house position of the aspected planet and the things for which
the planet has special affinity.
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Chapter 4
The Cycles of Saturn
I
N A CYCLE CHART, the house occupied by the planet for which the
chart is erected becomes unusually important as indicating the starting
point from which the influence emanates which brings about the most
important events which transpire during the life of the cycle. Thus in the
Neptune Cycle, illustrated in chapter 1, page 15, Neptune is in the 11th house.
This indicates that Congress becomes an influence through which the most
important events signified by the cycle are brought to pass. That is, the things
which Neptune rules are shown to be so closely associated with Congress
that from December 28, 1863, until March 7, 1944, Congress will have a tendency to bring those things to pass which the chart as a whole indicates, and
which specifically are timed and denoted by the progressed aspects of Neptune to the planets.
In the Uranus Cycle of 1844, illustrated in chapter 2, page 31, Uranus is in
the 12th house. This indicates that, until the next cycle started in 1927, bondage and limitations would be the things which Uranus would operate through
to bring about the most important events. Slavery of the negro was the earlier
issue, and economic bondage was the later one. And Uranus being the planet
of disruption, the influence of slavery and of economic exploitation brought
sudden changes.
In the Uranus Cycle of 1928, illustrated in chapter 2, page 32, Uranus is in
the 1st house. This indicates that, from February 4, 1928, until April 1969, the
starting point from which Uranus will exert its most important influences
will be the condition of the common man. The common man is so closely
associated with Uranus things in this chart that he can not fail to be the instrument through which abrupt changes will be brought to pass. Wherever
Uranus progresses by Transit through this chart and makes an aspect to some
planet in it, he will continue to carry some of the first house influence, the
influence of the common people, and the more important radical changes
will be brought about by, and affect the interests of, the masses.
In the Saturn Cycle of 1922, illustrated in chapter 3, page 48, Saturn is in
the 8th house. Death, Taxes, Debts, Pensions and Insurance, therefore, are so
closely associated with Saturn that wherever he goes through the chart they
will continually be bobbing up in connection with the most important events
this planet brings to pass from March 2, 1922, until March 5, 1938.
Not all of the aspects he makes will bring things to pass related to the 8th
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tant events influenced by the things he rules will in some manner relate not
merely to the house in which the aspected planet is located, but also will
relate to those things which the 8th house rules.
Saturn in
Mundane
Astrology
Saturn is the planet of safety, economy and poverty; hence his most characteristic influence is to contract and depress. He is over cautious, and frequently
lets golden opportunities pass him by through lack of courage to attempt.
He, as well as Jupiter, is a business planet, and has an influence over the
business trend in a country; but where Jupiter tends to expansion, and when
afflicted causes extravagance, Saturn tends to contraction, to over cautiousness, and to measures of protection.
Diseases in general are under his influence, as are sanitary and other
measures taken to protect the public health. In fact, action of all kinds which
is prompted by fear, and has for object protection, comes under his dominion.
When afflicted he is responsible for various kinds of losses, including the loss
of public health which occurs during an epidemic.
His nature is in direct opposition to that of Uranus in that he is the planet
which is most conservative, and most persistently resists change of any kind.
The things which were good enough for his father and grandfather are good
enough for him. He fears the effect of anything which has not withstood the
trials of time. In financial matters, his influence following the boom periods
of Neptune or the extravagances of an afflicted Jupiter, leads to a time of depression. Jupiter and Saturn together are chiefly responsible for the rise and
fall of markets. and the periods of business advance and the periods of business recession.
Saturn rules the land, the buildings on the land, the crops which grow
from the soil, the mineral wealth under the ground, and basic utilities like
steel, lumber and coal. He also has chief influence over the weather. The destruction of crops and buildings, therefore, through flood, storms, and when
Mars plays a part even through fire, comes under his jurisdiction.
Hard work and those who perform it in general, and the miner and farmer
in particular, are influenced by him. Hence measures to protect them, such as
immigration laws which have for object the protection of those who work
from an over abundance of laborers; and tariffs that are placed upon goods,
not chiefly as a means of revenue, but to protect from the competition of cheap
foreign labor, come under his rule. Some caution is here required in passing
judgment on tariffs, however, as those which are designed chiefly as means
of raising revenue come under the rule of Jupiter.
Furniture, fixtures of all kinds, and the crude materials from which other
things are made, natural resources, and all movements toward conservation,
are under Saturn’s rule. And because he is so closely associated with the land,
all acquisition of territory, bargaining for it, or its loss, relates to his influence.
In his thought he is ultra-conservative, in his religion strictly orthodox, and in
politics is represented by the miner and the farmer.
Calculating the
Saturn Cycles
For the purpose of illustrating the method of calculating the time for which a
Saturn Cycle chart should be erected, we will use the last two cycles of Saturn, January 23, 1909, and March 2, 1922. As we wish to know the influence of
these Saturn Cycles on the affairs of the United States, the problem is to ascertain the times at Washington, D. C., when Saturn crossed from south declination to north declination.
The Cycles of Saturn
The Nautical Almanac for 1909 gives the declination of Saturn each day at
noon, Greenwich Mean Time, together with the variation per hour. The position on January 24 is given as plus 0 degrees, 1 minute, 0.8 seconds. The variation per hour is given as 5.21 seconds. That is, Saturn, moving 5.21 seconds
per hour, on January 24 had already crossed into north declination 0 degrees,
1 minute, 0.8 seconds.
One hour equals 60 minutes. 0 degrees, 1 minute, 0.8 seconds equal 60.8
seconds. Then 5.21.60: :60.8: ? The answer is 700 minutes, which equal 11 hours,
40 minutes.
From January 24, noon, subtract 11 hours, 40 minutes, and it gives the
Greenwich Time as January 24, 0:20 a.m. As Washington is 77 degrees west,
subtract a further 5 hours, 8 minutes, and it gives the time for which the Saturn Cycle must be erected as January 23, 1909, 7:12 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38—56N.
The chart erected for the time so found is No. 52 in the table in chapter 3,
pages 46 & 47.
The Nautical Almanac for 1922 gives the declination of Saturn each day at
noon, Greenwich Mean Time, together with the variation per hour. The position on March 2 is there given as plus 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 12.9 seconds. The
variation per hour is given as 4.35 seconds. That is, Saturn, moving 4.35 seconds per hour, on March 2 had already crossed into north declination 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 12.9 seconds.
One hour equals 60 minutes. 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 12.9 seconds equal 12.9
seconds. Then 4.35:60::12.9:? The answer is 178 minutes, which equals 2 hours,
58 minutes.
From March 2, noon, subtract 2 hours, 58 minutes, and it gives the Greenwich Time as 9:02 a.m. As Washington is 77 degrees west, subtract a further 5
hours, 8 minutes, and it gives the time for which the Saturn Cycle must be
erected as March 2, 1922, 3:54 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38—56N. The chart erected for
the time so found is illustrated in chapter 3, page 48.
As an index of what may be expected to happen under the influence of aspects in a Saturn Cycle, we will follow two plans: First: commencing with the
first Saturn Cycle since 1800, I will quote, with my own comments in parentheses, every event that is clearly Saturnine in nature that is of enough importance to be included in the Reference History of the World of Webster’s New
International Dictionary. Omitting none of these as far as available space warrants us following them, the progressed aspect in the Saturn Cycle then effective will be indicated. Second: I will list ALL the progressed aspects that have
formed in the current Saturn Cycle, going as far as available space will permit, and indicate the event attracted by each of these aspects.
As the Saturn Cycles earlier than 1884 were calculated, not from the Nautical Almanac, but from the positions of Raphael’s Ephemeris, these earlier cycles
are approximate only, and too much dependence can not be placed on their
house positions. The house positions of the Cycles since 1884 are precise.
The first Saturn Cycle of the Nineteenth Century commenced (Chart 45)
April 4, 1820, approximately 9:16 p.m., Washington. The ruler of the cycle is
in the 5th, house of speculation, and immediately there is an Act encouraging
land (Saturn) speculation.
April 24, 1820, there is passed the Public Land Act which permits the purchase of tracts of 80 acres or more at a minimum price of $1.25 per acre, and at
the same time abolishes the credit system.
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1821, under Saturn conjunction Sun r, co-ruler of the 9th (sea commerce),
and later square Mars r ruler of the house of sea commerce, Russia lays claims
to the North American Coast (Saturn) south to 51 degrees.
April 17, 1824, under Saturn sextile Mars r, Treaty with Russia; no Russian
Settlements (Saturn) south of 54 degrees, 40 minutes, which becomes the recognized northern boundary of the Oregon Country.
April 30, 1824, under Saturn sextile Mars r, General Survey (of land) Act
passed.
August 6, 1827, Saturn square Sun r, Treaty with Great Britain continues
the joint occupation of Oregon (land).
May 19, 1828, under Saturn square Sun r, Tariff Act (Saturn p in house of
tariff) of 1828, called the Tariff of Abominations. It is strongly protective (Saturn), and the South, especially South Carolina, declaring that the burden of it
falls (Sun rules politics) on the slave States, threaten resistance.
May 28, 1830, under Saturn sesqui-square Uranus r, Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, which embodies his policy for the general removal (Uranus ruling house of travel) of the Indians to reservations west of the Mississippi (so the whites can have their land).
July 14, 1832, under Saturn opposition Jupiter r, Tariff Act of 1832 continues the protective (Saturn) duties so obnoxious to the South.
March 2, 1833, under Saturn p in house of business, trine Venus r in house
of opposition, Clays’ Compromise Tariff Act, calling for a gradual reduction
(Saturn) to a revenue basis in 1842. A Force Act is also passed to furnish means
of controlling recalcitrant (7th house) States.
The next Saturn Cycle commenced (Chart 46) April 13, 1834, approximately
6:52 a.m., Washington. Saturn is in the 6th (harvest) trine to the Moon (common people), and trine to Neptune (schemes and promotions) on the cusp of
the 10th, and opposition Mercury, ruler of the 2nd (banks and money). As the
cycle came in the patenting of the horse reaper by C. H. McCormic made
considerable change in the labor (Saturn) of harvesting (Saturn in 6th).
April 20, 1836, under Saturn opposition Venus r, ruler of 1st (people), and
square Neptune r, Wisconsin Territory is set up out of Michigan Territory.
January 9, 1837, under Saturn sesqui-square Mercury r, Jackson’s special
message shows interest of United States in an Isthmian (Saturn p in house of
foreign countries) Canal.
May 10, 1837, under Saturn opposition Jupiter r (finances), Panic (Saturn)
of 1837 begins.
June 12, 1838, under Saturn inconjunct Sun r and opposition Asc. r (people),
Iowa Territory is created out of that part of Wisconsin Territory west of the
Mississippi.
September 4, 1841, under Saturn sextile Uranus r in house of business,
Act for preemption of public lands and distribution of the proceeds of public
land sales among the States. Settlers may once only preempt 160 acres at $1.25
per acre.
August 9, 1842, under Saturn sesqui-square Asc. r (people of U. S.),
Ashburton Treaty signed with Great Britain. It settles the northeastern boundary (Saturn) dispute, which threatens war, by a compromise line.
August 20, 1842, under Saturn in 8th (Tariffs) sesqui-square Asc. r, Tariff
Act of 1842, a protective measure (Saturn) without any distribution of proceeds of public lands.
March 1, 1845, under Saturn in 10th (business) square to Jupiter r, Joint
resolution of Congress for the annexation of Texas, less favorable to the United
States than the abandoned treaty.
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June 15, 1846, under Saturn semi-sextile Mercury r, Treaty is signed with
Great Britain adjusting Oregon; the United States confirmed in the portion
South of 49 degrees.
December 12, 1846, under Saturn conjunction Uranus r, in house of business, Treaty with New Granada (Colombia): freedom of transit on Isthmus of
Panama given to United States; in return neutrality of Isthmus and Colombia’s
sovereignty (Saturn) over it are guaranteed by the United States.
January 24, 1848, under Saturn (mines) conjunction Mars r, Gold is discovered near Sutter’s Mill in California. A great immigration (Saturn ruler of
house of long journeys) by land and sea follows (the gold rush of 1849 unequalled for roistering and crime, characteristic of Mars), with pressure for
quick organization of civil government.
February 2, 1848, under Saturn square Moon r, Treat of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
is signed with Mexico. Rio Grande recognized as boundary (Saturn) and New
Mexico and California ceded.
August 14, 1848, under Saturn semi-sextile Sun r, Oregon is organized as
a territory, slavery being forbidden.
March 3, 1849, under Saturn semi-sextile Uranus r in house of administration, Act for the Department of the Interior; its head becomes the seventh
member of the cabinet. Minnesota Territory (Saturn) is established.
Then follows a short Cycle of Saturn (Chart 47) commencing May 19, 1849,
approximately 6:52 a.m., Washington. Saturn is ruler of the 7th (foreign countries? and is with Mars (war planet) in the 10th (business). Under this influence eyes are turned toward Cuba as a possible acquisition in the future and
filibustering expeditions are sent against her.
The next Cycle of Saturn (Chart 48) commenced February 12, 1850, approximately 3:52 a.m., Washington.
April 19, 1850, under Saturn p in house of short journeys, sextile Mercury
r, co-ruler of house of long journeys, Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with Great Britain. Acquisition of California has made the transit across the Isthmus important to the United States; and the British show intention of fixing themselves
there. Treaty is recognition of equal interest in any canal (Saturn in 3rd) or
line of transit on the principle of guarantee of neutrality.
September 20, 1850, under Saturn sextile Venus r First act of Congress
making land (Saturn) grants in aid of construction of railroads (Saturn in house
of railroads).
March 3, 1851, under Saturn sextile Venus r Congress reduces (Saturn)
letter (Saturn in house of letters) postage to three cents per half ounce for
carriage up to 3,000 miles.
March 2, 1853, under Saturn in 4th (house of land) square Mercury r, Washington Territory set off from Oregon Territory.
March 4, 1853, under Saturn in 4th (house of land) square Mercury r,
Franklin Pierce becomes the fourteenth president. In his inaugural he declares for the annexation of Cuba.
December 30, 1853, under Saturn square Moon r, Gadsen Purchase Treaty
with Mexico; for $10,000,000 (Moon in house of money) a strip transferred
over which the southern route of the proposed Pacific Railroad would pass.
March 7, 1857, wider Saturn sesqui-square Sun r in house of money, Tariff
Act of 1857: follows the plan of 1846, but further reduces (Saturn) duties.
August 24, 1857, under Saturn square Uranus r, Panic of 1857 begins; increase of gold and the rapid extension of railroads are underlying causes. The
government surplus becomes a deficit (Saturn), and treasury notes and bonds
are issued.
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1859, under Saturn trine Saturn r, First oil well is sunk on Oil Creek, Pa.;
the beginning of the petroleum industry. Silver discovered in the Comstock
lode (Saturn), Nevada.
February 28, 1861, under Saturn inconjunct Saturn r, Colorado Territory
(Saturn) is created.
May 15, 1862, Saturn, after being retrograde from conjunction Jupiter r, in
the 9th in Virgo, turns direct again bringing to pass the things which were
started three months earlier while the aspect was perfect. As this conjunction
is in Virgo, the sign of farming, the events relate to this industry, and while
the conjunction is applying the second time these events transpire before the
aspect closes to the common orb of influence May 15, Congress authorizes
the Department of Agriculture (Saturn). May 20, Homestead (Saturn) Law is
enacted. July 2, Morrill Agricultural College Act grants public lands to States
for the support of colleges (Jupiter in the house of colleges) of agriculture
(Saturn) and mechanical arts; origin of most of the State agricultural schools.
The next Cycle of Saturn (Chart 49) commenced January 16, 1863, approximately 6:52 a.m., Washington. Here we have Saturn, ruler of the Asc. (people)
in the house of death in opposition to Neptune. Thus were the people in vast
numbers in the house of death through the Civil War and the ravages of disease which accompanied it. Thus also were they depressed by the death of
their President, Lincoln, who was assassinated when Saturn, April 14, 1865,
was conjunction Jupiter r, ruler of house of secret enemies, and square Sun r
(one high in political office).
March 3, 1863, under Saturn trine Venus r, ruler of the house of lands,
Idaho Territory is created.
May 26, 1864, under Saturn trine Mercury r Montana Territory (Saturn) is
created.
July 2, 1864, under Saturn trine Mercury r Northern Pacific Railway is
incorporated by Congress to run from Lake Superior to Puget Sound: it receives a land (Saturn) grant.
July 27, 1866, under Saturn semi-sextile Saturn r, Atlantic and Pacific Railway is incorporated and given a land (Saturn) grant in connection with the
Southern Pacific of California.
March 2, 1867, under Saturn sextile Sun r, Further internal revenue reduction (Saturn); and higher protection (Saturn) given to wool and woolens.
March 30, 1867, within a month after Saturn had turned retrograde from
its sextile Sun r, which marked the negotiations, Treaty signed with Russia
covering purchase of Alaska for $7,200,000.
July 25, 1868, under Saturn inconjunct Mars r, Wyoming Territory (Saturn) is established.
September 24, 1869, under Saturn conjunction Moon r, sextile Mercury
r, Black Friday in Wall Street, due to an attempt to corner (Mercury ruling
house of speculation) gold, broken by action of the Federal treasury (Saturn
ruling panics).
March 3, 1871, under Saturn trine Pluto r (in house of railroads), Texas
Pacific Railway is incorporated by Congress and given a land (Saturn) grant,
the last of the land grants.
October 8-10, 1871, under Saturn in the 12th square Saturn r, Great fire in
Chicago; loss $200,000,000. Shown in Mars Cycle also, indicating the nature
of the agent which brought the loss of property (Saturn).
November 9-10, 1872, under Saturn inconjunct Uranus r, Great fire in Boston; loss (Saturn) of $70,000,000.
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September 18, 1873, under Saturn conjunction Sun r, square Jupiter r (financial planet), failure of Jay Cooke and Co. starts a great panic (Pan is one of
the ancient names of Saturn); caused chiefly by over-building of railroads in
the West.
March 3, 1877, under Saturn square Moon r (common people), Desert Land
Act provides special conditions for patenting such land, subject to proper
development and irrigation.
June 3, 1878, under Saturn conjunction Neptune r, Timber and Stone Land
Act provides a further special means of securing public land. (Has been used
by large corporations—Neptune—to secure vast holdings at little expense—
Neptune in house of cash.)
Another Cycle of Saturn (Chart 50) commenced March 20, 1879, approximately 2:52 p.m., Washington. Again Saturn is in the 8th (house of death) this
time conjunction with the Sun (persons high in political office). The significance of this position was verified by the assassination of two presidents of
the United States. Garfield died September 19, 1881, as Saturn came close to
the conjunction of the M.C. r, and McKinley died September 14, 1901, as Saturn came close to the trine of Neptune r; but the actual assassinations belong
under the influence of, and are shown in, the Mars Cycles.
In addition to the 8th, the other important houses are the 9th, holding
three planets, and indicating outstanding developments in the domain of commerce; the 7th, holding two planets, and indicating relations with foreign
countries; and the 6th, because Mars, the planet of strife is there located and
in sextile to Saturn, both Mars and Saturn at the same time being inconjunct
Uranus, the planet of disruption, in the house of the people. As Mars also
rules the 4th, house of lands and homes, in addition to strife where labor and
farm products are concerned, the deadly influence of Saturn strikes hard in
the destruction of these possessions.
November 17, 1880, under Saturn semi-square Moon r in house of foreigners, Chinese Exclusion (Saturn) Treaty (affecting labor) is signed with
China, removing Hayes’ objections to an exclusion act.
January 24, 1881, under Saturn conjunction Venus r, in house of court, In
Springer v. United States the Supreme Court holds the Federal income tax
(Saturn in cycle in house of tax) of 1862 to be constitutional, not being a
direct tax.
March 1882, under Saturn conjunction Neptune r, Disastrous overflow of
the Mississippi River; some 85,000 people made destitute (Saturn).
May 6, 1882, under Saturn semi-square Sun r, First Chinese Exclusion (Saturn) Act suspends immigration of laborers for ten years.
August 3, 1882, under Saturn conjunction Pluto r, First Act to restrict general immigration excludes (Saturn) defectives and convicts and imposes a
head tax.
March 3, 1883, under Saturn semi-square Saturn r, Tariff and Internal Revenue Act to reduce (Saturn) the surplus.
October 1, 1883, under Saturn semi-square Venus r, ruler of the house of
letters, Letter postage is reduced (Saturn) to two cents a half ounce.
July 1, 1885, under Saturn square Sun r, Letter postage reduced (Saturn)
to two cents an ounce; second class postage to one cent a pound, causing a
continued deficit (Saturn) in the department.
August 2, 1886, under Saturn in Cancer (stomach) square Mercury r, Congress places a tax on oleomargarine; an early Pure food (protecting the public) law.
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October 12, 1886, under Saturn sesqui-square Moon r, Gales and floods in
Texas and Louisiana destroy property and 247 lives.
January 29, 1887, under Saturn semi-square Uranus r, Mexican War Pension Act becomes law, age, dependency, or disabilities are pensionable (Saturn in house of pensions in cycle chart).
February 8, 1887, under Saturn semi-square Uranus r, in house of citizens,
Indian Allotment Law is enacted; under stipulated conditions Indians may
be given land in severalty and become citizens. During this period the reservations are being rapidly reduced (Saturn) in size and number and the land
(Saturn) opened to white settlement.
February 11, 1887, under Saturn (in house of pensions in cycle chart) semisquare Uranus r, Cleveland vetoes (Saturn) the Disability and Dependent
Pension Bill for Civil War Veterans. He relentlessly uses the veto power against
private pension (Saturn) bills.
March 2, 1887, under Saturn square Mercury r, in house of colleges, Hatch
Act authorizes the establishment of agricultural (Saturn) experiment stations
in connection with Morrill Act colleges.
September 5, 1887, under Saturn, planet of labor, opposition Mars r, in
house of labor, Labor Day is first observed in New York as a legal holiday.
October 1, 1888, within three weeks after the aspect was perfect, Saturn
trine Mercury r, in house of foreign travel, Second Chinese Exclusion (Saturn) Act prohibits the return of laborers (thus protecting American labor)
who have left the country.
February 9, 1889, under Saturn trine Mercury r, Department of Agriculture (Saturn) becomes an executive department and its secretary a cabinet
officer.
1889, under Saturn trine Mercury r, in house of shipping, Bankruptcy
(Saturn) of the French Panama Canal Company; of importance to the United
States, where the concession is deemed contrary to the nation’s policy and
welfare, if not to the Monroe Doctrine. Interest in an American canal is stimulated; an American company organizes for work through the Nicaraguan
isthmus (Saturn).
April 22, 1889, under Saturn sesqui-square Sun r, ruler of the people, Part
of Indian Territory is opened, and a wild rush to settle ensues.
June 14, 1889, under Saturn sesqui-square Sun r, Tripartite agreement with
Great Britain and Germany for the independence and joint control of Samoa
(Saturn).
August 30, 1890, under Saturn opposition Moon r, in house of foreign
Nations, Congress passes an act for the inspection of pork products intended
for exportation (a protection); the outcome of controversies with foreign nations, especially Germany. President given power to retaliate on unjust discriminations (a protective measure) against American products. Federal encouragement of agricultural education is increased by an act for an annual
grant to the Morrill agricultural colleges.
September 29, 1890, under Saturn sesqui-square Venus r, ruler of house of
railroads, Act for the general forfeiture (Saturn) of unearned Federal land
grants to railroads.
October 1, 1890, under Saturn sesqui-square Venus r, Act for Weather (Saturn) Bureau. McKinley Tariff Act. Increases and systematizes protection (Saturn); revenue is reduced (Saturn) by prohibitive duties and the placing of
raw sugar (basic commodity) on the free list, a sugar bounty being given the
domestic producer as an offset.
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The next Cycle of Saturn (Chart 51) is a short one. It commenced April 29,
1908, 0:02 p.m., Washington.
Then follows the Cycle of Saturn (Chart 52) previously calculated in detail, commencing January 23, 1909, 7:12 p.m., Washington. This leads up to
the current Saturn Cycle.
The Cycle of Saturn effective at the time this is written, as per detailed calculations given earlier in these pages, commenced March 2, 1922, 3:54 a.m.,
Washington. The chart is used as an illustration in chapter 3, page 48. One
important influence of Saturn things during the period of this cycle—March
2, 1922, to March 5, 1938—as shown by three planets in the house of money,
will be to make a scarcity of cash. Mercury, ruler of the 6th (labor) and coruler of 8th (pensions) in the 1st, will make employment insurance and old
age pensions popular demands. Neptune in the 7th (foreign countries) will
give dreams of receiving pay from foreign nations that will never be realized.
Saturn in this chart makes only two close aspects. An aspect from the
planet for which the cycle is erected to another planet indicates a direct thought
current relating the things the cycle planet rules to the department of life
indicated by the house occupied by the aspected planet. Thus in this cycle.
Saturn is in the house relating to death, taxes, insurance, pensions, and debts
due; and it is in square to Pluto in the house of work. It has an influence,
therefore, to make a scarcity of work, which in turn brings a demand on the
part of labor for greater security (Saturn) in the future in the matter of employment. And as Saturn is also sextile Mars in the house of Congress; that
legislative body will become aggressive (Mars) in making laws having the
security of the aged (Saturn) and of those who toil (Mars inconjunct Pluto in
6th) as their object.
Commencing with the beginning of this Saturn Cycle I will now start to
list ALL the progressed aspects that have occurred in it, and go as far as available space will permit. In connection with each aspect I will quote an event of
importance enough to be included in the WORLD ALMANAC, with my own
comments in parentheses. These events, all showing clearly the influence of
Saturn, will afford opportunity to study, not merely how the heavy progressed
aspects in the cycle affect events, but just about what may be expected to
happen under each type of aspect which would receive any consideration in
practical work.
On the Cycle: March 1, 1922, U. S. Senate, 67 to 22 ratified U. S. Japan Yap
(territory) treaty.
March 5, 1922, Saturn sextile Mars r: March 4, N. Y. Court of Appeals rules
Housing (Saturn) Law is not retroactive.
May 3, 1922, Saturn sesqui-square Mercury r: May 4, tornado (Mercury
rules wind) killed (Saturn in 8th) ten or more and damaged property (Saturn)
in and near Austin, Texas.
July 3, 1922, Saturn sesqui-square Mercury r: July 2, Lightning burned
500,000 bushels of grain (Saturn) and 60 cars of tobacco at B. and O. Locust
Point terminal, Baltimore.
August 23, 1922, Saturn sextile Mars r: August 23, U. S. House, 219 to 55
passed President Harding’s Coal (Saturn) Inquiry Commission Bill.
August 25, 1922, Saturn conjunction Saturn r: August 25, N. Y. City skyscrapers (Saturn) begin to install oil burning equipment for light, heat and
power owing to coal (Saturn) shortage.
September 12, 1922, Saturn square Pluto r: September 13, U. S. House, 177
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to 130 reject dye embargo and potash duty (Saturn in 8th) in conference report on Tariff Bill.
September 26, 1922, Saturn inconjunct Uranus r: September 23, New Yorkers are limited (Saturn) to two weeks coal (Saturn) supply at a time.
October 1, 1922, Saturn semi-sextile M. C. r: October 2, Inquiry by The
World shows that America “invested” (M.C.) $960,000,000 since the world
war in German paper money (Saturn in cycle in house of foreign money) now
almost worthless (Saturn).
October 7, 1922, Saturn inconjunct Sun r: October 8, “Safety (Saturn) Week”
begins at New York.
October 31, 1922, Saturn sextile Neptune r: November 2, Mexico (Neptune in house of foreign countries) suspends (Saturn) all commercial relations with New York.
November 21, 1922, Saturn inconjunct Venus r: November 22, blast kills
84 miners (Saturn) in dolomite iron mine near Birmingham, Ala.
November 25, 1922, Saturn trine Mercury r: November 25, 7 dead in coal
mine (Saturn) explosion at Cerillos, New Mexico.
November 28, 1922, Saturn square Asc. r: November 27, States may impose tax (Saturn in 8th in cycle) upon products produced within the borders
before such products enter interstate commerce, U. S. Supreme Court holds,
in deciding the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal (Saturn) tax.
December 7, 1922, Saturn conjunction Jupiter r: December 7, the business
(Jupiter) district of Astoria, the oldest city in Oregon, was destroyed by fire
which swept over 30 blocks; hundreds of persons are homeless (Saturn) and
property loss is estimated at $15,000,000.
January 20, 1923, Saturn opposition Moon r: January 19, at Marion, III.,
the jury (Saturn p in house of court) in the first trial growing out of the Herrin
coal mine (Saturn) massacre return a verdict of not guilty after being out for
26 hours.
February 8, 1923, Saturn opposition Moon r: February 8, 120 die in an
explosion in a soft coal mine (Saturn) of the Phelps-Dodge Corp., at Dawson,
New Mexico.
March 25, 1923, Saturn conjunction Jupiter r: March 24, U. S. Government
begins inquiry (hoping to lower price—Saturn) into boost (Jupiter) in sugar
(basic commodity) prices.
April 5, 1923, Saturn square Asc. r: April 6, union miners (Saturn) charged
with Herrin murder riots are acquitted (Saturn p in house of court) at Marion;
on April 7, all the untried indictments are dismissed.
April 10, 1923, Saturn trine Mercury r: April 9, N. Y. Conference of M. E.
churches (Saturn p in house of church) 35 to 31 opposed women (Saturn the
conservative) as preachers.
April 15, 1923, Saturn inconjunct Venus r: April 16, U. S. Supreme Court
(Saturn p in house of court) upheld Grain (Saturn) Futures (Venus in 2nd,
Mercury, ruler of 5th still in orb) Act.
May 22, 1923, Saturn sextile Neptune r: May 24 at the request of the State
Department the Republican National Committee “withdrew” (Saturn) a statement which it issued in which the Allied Powers of Europe (Neptune in house
of foreign countries) were referred to as planning to “bilk” (Neptune) and
“job” (Neptune) the United States to join in partnership (Neptune in house of
partners).
July 11, 1923, Saturn sextile Neptune r: July 11, the French Senate (Nep-
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tune in house of foreign countries), 287 to 3, adopt all of the Washington Arms
Conference treaties with reservations (Saturn) as to aeronautics (Saturn p in
house of aeronautics).
August 15, 1923, Saturn inconjunct Venus r: August 15, U. S. and Mexico
representatives sign at Mexico City an agreement on oil rights (Saturn in house
of foreign commerce) in Mexico.
August 20, 1923, Saturn trine Mercury r: August 22, gasoline (basic commodity) sold at 6 cents (Saturn poverty) at Los Angeles.
August 24, 1923, Saturn square Asc. r: August 24, the U. S. Coal (Saturn)
Commission having failed to settle the anthracite dispute, President Calvin
Coolidge appointed Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania Mediator.
September l, 1923, Saturn conjunction Jupiter r: August 31, the Missouri
Supreme Court (Jupiter in house of court) outlaws St. Louis Lumber Trade
Exchange in “open price association” suit, and fines (Saturn) members $96,000.
September 21, 1923, Saturn opposition Moon r: September 21, New York
City Board of Estimates extends $5,000 tax exemption (economy) on new
homes (Saturn).
September 28, 1923, Saturn semi-square Mars r: September 27, Governor
Walton, Oklahoma, orders troops (Mars) into Sulphur County to stop flogging and house (Saturn) burning (Mars).
October 30, 1923, Saturn sesqui-square Uranus r: October 28, a slide (disruptive Uranus) develops on the west bank of Panama Canal.
November 11, 1923, Saturn sesqui-square Sun r: November 11, U. S. Supreme Court (Saturn in house of court) declares valid the laws of California
and Washington prohibiting alien—Including Japanese and Chinese—ownership of real estate (Saturn).
January 5, 1924, Saturn sesqui-square Venus r January 6, cold wave (Saturn)
in Mid-West and East kills 17 at Chicago, 6 at New Orleans, 2 at New York.
March 19, 1924, Saturn sesqui-square Venus r: March 19, the story of a
“tentative reduction” (Saturn) of taxes (Saturn in house of taxes in cycle) of
the Standard Oil Company from $23,000,000 to $5,000,000 was told to the U. S.
Senate committee investigating the Internal Revenue (Venus in house of
money) Bureau by E. E. Rossmore, a former employee of the bureau.
June 6, 1924, Saturn sesqui-square Sun r- June 6 Governor (Sun) William
S. Flynn issues a denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan and an Order that the
Klan be kept out of all State-owned buildings (Saturn).
July 21, 1924, Saturn sesqui-square Sun r: July 17, 13 negroes die in fire
and explosion in Kansas City tenement (Saturn).
September 24, 1924, Saturn sesqui-square Venus r: September 22, storms
(Saturn) kill 55 in Wisconsin and 5 in Minnesota.
November 2, 1924, Saturn semi-sextile Mars r: October 30, forest (Saturn) fires (Mars) in New York and Vermont cause hunting (Mars) season
suspension.
November 4, 1924, Saturn semi-sextile Saturn r: November 5, the U. S.
Department of Labor (Saturn) declines to deport (Saturn p in 9th) Firpo Argentine boxer, and canceled the arrest warrant.
November 21, 1924, Saturn trine Pluto r: November 20, N. Y. State Board
of Parole (Saturn in 9th) grants parole, as of December 26, 1924, to R. P. Brindell,
convicted on charge of extortion (Pluto the racketeer) from laborers in the
Building Trades Council and from contractors.
December 6, 1924, Saturn trine Uranus r: December 5, the charters of local
branches of the United Mine (Saturn) Workers of America, near Scranton, Pa.,
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have been revoked because of an outlaw strike (Uranus) of 12,000 employees
of the Pennsylvania Coal Co.
December 12, 1924, Saturn conjunction M. C. r: December 10, Probate Court
at Laconica, N. H., accepts the resignation of J. V. Dittmore of Boston, as a
trustee (M. C.) of estate (Saturn) of Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science leader.
December 20, 1924, Saturn trine Sun r: December 24, bursting dam at
Parmatown, Pa., drowns 23 and leaves 200 homeless (Saturn).
January 30, 1925, Saturn square Neptune r: January 31, while 600 men and
women look on, Edward S. Harkness, with a silver spade (Neptune dramatizes), turns loose earth in a 22-acre lot (Saturn) at 168th St. and Broadway,
which he had donated, marking the beginning of a great new medical center
in New York City.
March 16,1925, Saturn square Neptune r: March 18, a storm (Saturn) in
Missouri, Southern Illinois and Indiana kills over 830 persons, injures 3,800
and destroys property (Saturn) valued at $10,000,000.
May 1, 1925, Saturn trine Sun r: May 1, the largest check (Sun in house of
money) in recent times—for $146,000,000, for payment of Dodge Brothers auto
plants (Saturn)—is drawn at New York City and deposited in a local bank.
May 12, 1925, Saturn conjunction M. C. r: May 11, U. S. Supreme Court
upholds the provision of alien land law of California imposing upon aliens
ineligible to citizenship the burden of proving that their purchase of agricultural land (Saturn) was not for the purpose of defeating the statute.
May 19, 1925, Saturn trine Uranus r: May 18, the New York Baptist Ministers’ Association (Saturn in house of religion) declined to reaffirm (Uranus
tends to progressive views) belief in the necessity of baptism by immersion.
June 20, 1925, Saturn trine Pluto r: June 19, Gov. Ralph O. Brewster of
Maine authorizes Donald B. MacMillan, who sails (Saturn p in house of voyages) to claim any territory (Saturn) he may discover in the Polar regions for
the state of Maine.
August 1, 1925, Saturn trine Pluto r: August 3, a syndicate (Pluto rules cooperation) to control South African Diamond Mines (Saturn) is formed by
New York capitalists.
September 1,1925, Saturn trine Uranus r: August 31, 150,000 miners (Saturn) quit (Uranus rules strikes) the anthracite pits of Pennsylvania to enforce
their demands for a 10 per cent pay increase.
September 7, 1925, Saturn conjunction M. C. r: September 5, fire destroys
250 dwellings (Saturn) at Shreveport, La.
September 16, 1925, Saturn trine Sun r: September 14, U. S. Secretary
of Agriculture (Sun rules government officials) Jardine dismissed the complaint against the Armour-Morrison merger in the meat (farm product)
packing industry.
October 14, 1925, Saturn square Neptune r: October 14, ratifications of the
German (Neptune in house of foreign countries) commercial (Saturn in house
of business) treaty with the United States are exchanged at the State Department by Secretary Kellogg and Baron Maltzan, the German Ambassador.
November 2, 1925, Saturn trine Venus r: November 4, a 50-car train
from Omaha, Neb., containing poultry, butter, eggs and other dairy products (farm produce) valued at $50,000,000 (Venus in house of cash) arrives
at New York City.
November 6, 1925, Saturn square Mercury r: November 8, although submitting a brief in the U. S. Supreme Court, as law officer representative of the
Government arguing in support of the constitutionality of the Futures (Mer-
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cury rules house of speculation) Trading (in farm products) Act, Solicitor General Mitchell expresses the personal opinion the law is invalid.
November 9, 1925, Saturn sextile Asc. r: November 11, 1925, the body of
King Tutankhamen, who died 3,275 years ago at the age of 15 to 18, is taken
from the coffin (Saturn in house of death in cycle) in the royal subterranean
tomb at Luxor, Egypt, by Howard Carter (U.S.A.).
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JUPITER CYCLE
February 5, 1928, 9:23 p.m. L.M.T. Washington.
This chart shows what departments of life in the U.S. are affected and
how, by religion and philosophy, advertising, the courts, interstate commerce,
shipping, finances, lecturing and preaching, arbitration and treaties, from
February 5, 1928, to May 26, 1939.
At the time Jupiter by progression makes an aspect to a planet in this
chart, events will come to pass influenced by these things and affecting the
department of life denoted by the aspected planet and its house.
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Chapter 5
The Cycles of Jupiter
N
O DIFFICULTY will be experienced by anyone who becomes even
slightly conversant with the use of progressed aspects in Cycle Charts,
in foretelling with precision the times when widespread interest in
events of each planetary type will be exhibited, and, within a day or two,
when important events of each planetary type will come to pass. In fact, by
also considering the New Moon Cycle, or Lunation, such events can be predicted to within twenty-four hours of the exact time they actually transpire.
To predict the degree of importance which will attach to the event indicated by any one progressed aspect in a Cycle Chart is a more complex matter; for events are not isolated occurrences, but each an integral portion, great
or small, of that total pattern which goes to make up our national and international life. This pattern has not only breadth, into which the occurrences indicated by the progressed aspects of each of the cycles and major conjunctions
of the immediate period must fit; but it has length in time. The events which
have gone before, as indicated by earlier progressed aspects in the various
cycles, and by earlier major conjunctions, all have a bearing upon both the
importance and the precise nature of the event attracted by any single progressed aspect.
When, for instance, the preceding cycles have led up to a condition in
which the minds of the populace are filled with thoughts of war, any progressed aspect, either harmonious or discordant, in the Mars Cycle Chart,
tends to fan the destructive flames. If a state of war already exists, such an
aspect indicates the time of actual skirmishes or engagement, and if the aspect is a powerful one, it will mark the time of heavy actual fighting. But
taken by itself, no progressed aspect in the Mars Cycle Chart can cause a
country to go to war. A war is the result of a cumulative set of circumstances
that are indicated in various cycle charts and major conjunctions.
We can be absolutely certain when a progressed aspect forms in the Pluto
Cycle Chart that some important event will come to pass involving group
activity, and with possibilities of drastic action in case there is resistance to
the group decision. Thought currents within the world are then stimulated
by energies coming from the planet Pluto, and these, linking certain people
together in a chain of similar thought, lead to mass action.
The house position of the aspected planet, and the special affinity of the
aspected planet, are good guides to the nature of the event to be expected. Yet
at a time, due to preceding influences which have led up to it, when the atten65
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tion of the world is focused on the League of Nations it is safe to predict that
the most important event attracted by the Pluto aspect will relate to some
action of this body. If, how ever, the progressed aspect occurs during a period
in which some bureau, such as one of the various associations designated by
letters which at times exercise dictatorial authority—NRA, AAA, PWA, etc.—
holds the attention of the public, the most important event attracted will relate to this particular group.
A progressed aspect in the Saturn Cycle Chart, at a time when there is
great public agitation for conservation of natural resources, can be expected
to mark the date when some pronounced decision or action will be taken in
reference to conservation. But the same aspect in a time of business depression would indicate the date on which some action would be proposed or
taken having for its object economy or security, the more exact nature of which
could be determined from the house position and special affinity of the
aspected planet.
Or to take an actual example from the past, spiritous liquors are ruled by
Mars, and actions concerning them are shown by aspects in the Mars Cycle
Charts. But nation-wide prohibition, in addition to affecting the consumption
of alcoholic beverages, was a radical departure from precedent. And all the
important actions leading up to national prohibition were shown also by aspects in the Uranus Cycle Chart. Not only so, but after national prohibition
was established, all the important actions leading to the abolition of prohibition also were shown by progressed aspects in the Uranus Cycle Chart, until
the pendulum finally swung back and the freedom of the people to decide
their personal habits for themselves, as indicated by Uranus in the house of
the people in the Uranus Cycle of 1928, finally asserted itself.
I am here trying to point out that over one period of time the most important events attracted by nearly every progressed aspect in the Uranus Cycle
Chart had to do with prohibition, at another period of time with strikes, and
that during still another period of time with the exposure of graft among
public officials.
These broad public trends are not independent of the influence of Cycle
Charts and Major Conjunctions; but to determine them requires great skill in
combining all the factors, including the Major Progressions in the nation’s
birth-chart, the Transits of the planets through the signs, and the General
Astronomical Phenomena, examples of which are given in chapter 1.
Because so many factors are involved, to predict the precise nature of an
event years in advance, such as that one nation will declare war on another
on a certain date, or that the government will devalue its currency on another
specified date, is a difficult matter. But to make accurate short time predictions, after a certain trend has set in, giving exact dates and exact events weeks
and months in advance, is not difficult and requires only a moderate amount
of practice.
When the trend is seen to belong to the rulership of a certain planet, any
progressed aspect in that planet’s Cycle Chart will bring something of consequence to pass relating to the matter, and the nature of the event can be ascertained from the known trend combined with the house position and special
affinity of the aspected planet, etc., according to the rules given in chapter 3.
Also, progressed aspects in the Cycle Charts of the other planets, to the planet
ruling the trend under consideration, will have an effect upon the development of such events. That is, such aspects show the influence of the things
ruled by the planet in whose Cycle Chart the progressed aspect occurs, to
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bring events to pass which are of the trend of the aspected planet, and which,
therefore, are related to the special trend under consideration.
When Pluto is involved in the aspect, group action with drastic implications may be expected; when Neptune is one of the planets, schemes and an
involved condition may be expected; when Uranus is one of them, something
new, sudden and a marked change from old conditions; when Saturn is a
party to the aspect, a slowing down, economy, loss or restriction; when Jupiter is one of the planets, expansion, optimism, expenditure or higher prices,
and when Mars is one of them, look for strife and struggle.
By considering these typical influences, whether in their own Cycle Charts
or when aspected in the Cycle Chart of another planet, a very clear picture
can be formed of just what is going to happen, and just when, in reference to
any subject which already has come before the public attention. The Cycle
Chart ruling the matter will, by the progressed aspects that form in it, give
the larger turning points. The details are to be filled in from the progressed
aspects to this planet which rules the matter, which are made in the Cycle
Charts of the other planets, each affecting the situation, of course, according
to the type of influence which it commonly exerts.
The influence of Jupiter on everything he contacts is in the direction of expansion. He is the salesman, whose good will and joviality enable him to sell his
wares or his services at the highest price. Large and generous by nature he
spends no time in petty haggling over small differences in cost. His customers will buy from him, even if they must pay a little more than elsewhere,
because he is such a good fellow.
This disregard of small imperfections in others, tendency to forgive transgressions, and the spirit of give and take which is so essential in life if friction
and antagonisms are to be avoided, may well be symbolized by the belts of
Jupiter which may be seen through a small glass; ever shifting zones of various colors formed by changes in the planet’s atmosphere. Here there is no
suggestion of restriction, of self-interest, or of coldness; but rather an impression as of a benign and genial giant.
Look at Saturn through a telescope and there comes a very different feeling. Its cold white is slightly tinged with yellow, but it lacks that glowing
warmth with which the steadfast yellow light of Jupiter seems to pour forth
to cheer his neighbors in the sky. Instead of the somewhat careless disregard
of self which the larger planet seems to indicate, Saturn has built a ring completely around himself to protect his possessions. In his cautious and selfcentered desire to insure that nothing from himself is given to others, and
that in even the smallest way no one outdo him in bargaining, he has fenced
himself and his possessions in.
The fact which Saturn constantly overlooks, is that a wall which prevents
anything from getting out acts quite as effectively to keep anything from getting in. Jupiter gives and spends and makes pleasure for others; and this generous attitude awakens a like response in them. They in turn, feeling a sympathetic glow of generosity, give Jupiter more than he asks, and go out of
their way to see him prosper. But when they come in contact with the cold
ring into which Saturn has withdrawn, they recoil from the barrier and think
to themselves that such a one deserves no favors, and that the best thing is to
let him entirely alone.
Saturn, as one of the two business planets, therefore, to get trade must sell
at a bargain. But not so Jupiter. Whether in matters of wages, in the price to be
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paid for produce, or in the investment of capital, he ever tends to higher prices
and more lavish expenditures. This tendency, when he is afflicted, leads to
extravagance and to purchases at a price far above their real worth or what
may reasonably be expected from them in the way of financial returns.
Religion and philosophy in thought, finance and commerce in business,
and the influence of capitalism in politics, are the most outstanding things
through which Jupiter, when he makes progressed aspects in his cycle chart,
brings things to pass. More progressed aspects will be found to-attract events
relating to finances than to any other one thing.
Yet, as Jupiter is the ruler of the natural ninth house, it will be found that
various-ninth house matters are also at times brought into prominence through
progressed aspects of Jupiter in his cycle chart.
As the ninth house is the third house of foreign countries, so treaties, which
are contracts with such countries, come under Jupiterian rule. Commerce,
interstate commerce in particular, ships which travel the sea, and long journeys in general, relate to this planet’s cycle, as do cable messages, books, publishing and advertising. Here a careful distinction should be made between
printing and the circulation of the news—things which are ruled by Mercury— and the public expression of opinions, whatever the channel employed,
which is ruled by Jupiter.
Thus not only teaching, lecturing and preaching are Jupiterian functions,
but advertising or lecturing over the radio, although the radio is ruled by
Pluto. It is Jupiter placing opinions before the public. Mercury rules speech;
but when that speech is used as indicated, rather than in conversation, it partakes of Jupiter’s rule.
The courts also are under Jupiter’s influence, and arbitration between
countries, which is the placing of differences before some chosen judiciary
body to decide.
Calculating the
Jupiter Cycles
To illustrate the method of calculating the time for which a Jupiter Cycle should
be erected, we will use the short cycle of Jupiter of July 7, 1927, and the present
cycle of Jupiter which commenced February 5, 1928. As we wish to know the
influence of the Jupiter Cycle on the affairs of the United States, the problem
is to ascertain the time at Washington, D. C., when Jupiter crossed from south
declination to north declination.
The Nautical Almanac for 1927 gives the declination of Jupiter on each
day for Greenwich Civil Time (commencing at midnight). The position on
July 7 is given as minus 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 31.0 seconds. The variation per
hour is given as 2.65 seconds. That is, Jupiter, in south declination, is moving
north at the rate of 2.65 seconds per hour, and must travel 31.0 seconds to
cross into north declination.
One hour equals 60 minutes. Then 2.65 :60: :31.0:? The answer is 702 minutes, which equal 11 hours, 42 minutes.
To July 7, Civil Time, add 11 hours, 42 minutes, and it gives the Greenwich Time as July 7, 11-42 a.m. As Washington is 77 degrees west, subtract 5
hours, 8 minutes, which gives the time for which the Jupiter Cycle chart must
be erected as July 7, 1927, 6:34 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38—56N. The chart erected
for the time so found is No. 75 in table in chapter 4, pages 62-63.
The Nautical Almanac for 1928 gives the declination of Jupiter on each
day for Greenwich Civil Time (commencing at midnight). The position on
February 6 is given as-minus 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 31.2 seconds. The variation per hour is given as 12.39 seconds. That is, Jupiter, in south declination, is
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moving north at the rate of 12.39 seconds per hour, and must travel 31.2 seconds to cross into north declination.
One hour equals 60 minutes. Then 12.39:60::31.2:? The answer is 151 minutes, which equals 2 hours, 31 minutes.
To February 6, Civil Time, add 2 hours, 31 minutes, and it gives the Greenwich Time as February 6, 2:31 a.m. As Washington is 77 degrees west, subtract 5 hours, 8 minutes, which gives the time for which the Jupiter Cycle
chart must be erected as February 5, 1928, 9:23 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38—56N. The
chart erected for the time so found forms the illustration in chapter 4, page 64.
To give examples, not of what may be expected from the common run of
aspects in the Jupiter Cycle Chart, such as will be considered later; but to
indicate the aspects in the Jupiter Cycle charts which coincided with the most
important past events which are under Jupiter’s rule, over a certain period of
time, I will quote events and dates from an authoritative publication.
That the student may have all the Jupiter Cycle Charts since the year
1800, to facilitate his own researches, these are given in the table in chapter
4, pages 62-63. Yet as for dates earlier than 1884 the charts are erected for
approximate times, such as could be calculated from the positions in
Raphael’s Ephemeris, too much dependence should not be placed upon the
house positions of these earlier charts. The dates for which these earlier
charts have been erected now follow:
No. 60, Jupiter Cycle, March 27, 1809, approximately 10:24 p.m. 77W. 38-56N.
No. 61, Jupiter Cycle, April 8, 1815, approximately 9:52 a.m. 77W. 38-56N.
No. 62, Jupiter Cycle, March 11, 1821, approximately 11:52 a.m. 77W. 38-56N.
No. 63, Jupiter Cycle, February 22, 1833, approximately 2:22 a.m. 77W. 38-56N.
No. 64, Jupiter Cycle, June 28, 1844, approximately 9:16 p.m. 77W. 38-56N.
No. 65, Jupiter Cycle, February 3, 1845, approximately 2:04 a.m. 77W. 38-56N.
No. 66, Jupiter Cycle, May 22, 1856, approximately 7:57 p.m. 77W. 38-56N.
No. 67, Jupiter Cycle, January 10, 1857, approximately 6:52 a.m. 77W. 38-56N.
No. 68, Jupiter Cycle, May 1, 1868, approximately 4:28 p.m. 77W. 38—56N.
No. 69, Jupiter Cycle, April, 1880, approximately 6:52 a.m. 77W. 38-56N.
Commencing with the Jupiter Cycle which started March 1, 1886, 5:59
a.m., Washington, (chart 70) I will now quote, with my own comments in
parentheses, ALL the events that clearly show the influence of Jupiter’s rule,
omitting none in the sequence, and covering a period as long as my space will
permit, from the Reference History of the World of Webster’s New International Dictionary. The progressed aspect in the Jupiter Cycle which attracted
each event will be noted in connection with the quotation.
May 10, 1886, under Jupiter p in house of foreigners (7th) inconjunct Asc.
r (American people), In Yick Wo v. Hopkins the Supreme Court (Jupiter) decides that a municipal ordinance designed to make arbitrary and unjust discriminations (unfair business regulations) against Chinese laundries is contrary to the principles of the Fourteenth Amendment.
October 25, 1886, nine days after Jupiter (Court) made the perfect semisextile to Mars r, ruler of the house of commerce, in Wabash, St. Louis, and
Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois, the Supreme Court (after having it under consideration) construes a State long-and-short-haul act as being a regulation of
interstate (Jupiter) commerce. The court (Jupiter) reconsiders the Granger
Cases of 1877, arguing that the question of interstate commerce was there
only incidental. This decision shows the need of Federal regulation of the
railroads.
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February 4, 1887, under Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus r, ruler of reforms,
Interstate Commerce (Jupiter) Act passes after an agitation (Uranus) of years.
State regulation of railroads by legislation and commissions, though upheld
by the Supreme Court, was not powerful enough or uniform and gave place
to a demand for Federal regulation. Railroads become powerful and frequently
affect or control State governments.
March 2, 1887, under Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus r, in house of foreign
countries, the President is authorized to retaliate on Canadian trade (Jupiter)
for the obstruction of the fishing rights; no action taken.
May 27, 1887, under Jupiter p in house of taxes (8th) trine Asc. r, In Philadelphia and Southern Steamship Co. v. Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court (Jupiter) holds a State tax upon the gross receipts of a steamship company derived from interstate and foreign commerce (Jupiter) contrary to the exclusive power of Congress.
February 20, 1888, under Jupiter in the house of treaties (9th) sextile Jupiter r in house of foreign nations (7th), Treaty signed with Great Britain to
settle the fisheries dispute.
April 23, 1888, under Jupiter in the house of interstate commerce (9th)
sextile Jupiter r, The Supreme Court (Jupiter) begins in the Missouri Pacific
Railway Company v. Mackey its series of important interpretations of the
Fourteenth Amendment as applied to labor questions, holding that a State
statute abolishing the fellow-servant doctrine in workmen’s compensation
for injuries is not contrary to the amendment.
October 2, 1889, under Jupiter opposition Saturn r, ruler of house of Congress, and inconjunct Pluto r, in house of short journeys and co-ruler of house
of long journeys, First Pan-American Congress meets at Washington. Delegates tour the country and hold sessions lasting until April 19, 1890 (to stimulate business—Jupiter—relations). A bureau (Pluto), later called the PanAmerican Union, is organized with headquarters in Washington.
February 4, 1890, under Jupiter semi-sextile Asc. r, Centennial of the United
States Supreme Court is celebrated at New York.
July 14, 1890, under Jupiter sextile M.C. r (business), Congress enacts the
Silver Purchase (Jupiter rules finances) Act, which supersedes the BlandAllison Act of 1878. It is a further compromise with the demand for free silver
and requires the purchase each month of 4,500,000 ounces of silver and the
issue of legal tender (Jupiter) silver treasury notes equal to the purchase value.
February 29, 1892, under Jupiter (ruler of arbitration) semi-sextile Asc. r,
Conventions signed with Great Britain submitting to arbitration the right of
the United States to prohibit pelagic (in the ocean) hunting of the fur seals in
the Bering Sea.
The next Jupiter Cycle (chart 71) commenced March 27, 1892, 1:14 a.m.
Washington.
February 14, 1893, under Jupiter semi-square Neptune r, Treaty of annexation with Hawaii is signed. This follows a revolt led by Americans, assisted
by the American minister, and protected by American marines, by which the
queen is deposed. Not ratified (Neptune often fails to fulfill).
March 2, 1893, under Jupiter in house of trains (3rd) inconjunct Saturn r
(planet of safety) in house of commerce, Safety Appliance Act of Congress
regulates brakes and couplers on trains in interstate commerce (Jupiter).
June 18, 1893, under Jupiter conjunction Venus r, sextile Moon r, Great
Northern Railroad is opened; the first transcontinental (Jupiter) line to be
constructed without a land grant.
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January 17, 1894, under Jupiter conjunction Venus r, ruler of house of bonds
(5th), Issue of $50,000,000 in bonds is offered to replenish the gold reserve,
which by February 1 falls to $65,000,000 as $100,000 is considered the minimum safety point.
March 29, 1894, under Jupiter conjunction Pluto r in house of speculation,
Cleveland vetoes a bill to coin (Jupiter) the purchased silver bullion to the
amount of the seigniorage.
April 29, 1894, under Jupiter in house of speculation, inconjunct Uranus r,
in house of business, Remnant of “Coxey’s Army of the Commonwealth of
Christ,” a demonstration (Uranus) of the unemployed, reaches Washington
with a demand for the issue of $500,000,000 paper money (Jupiter), especially
the free coinage of silver, is presented as a panacea.
November 5, 1894, under Jupiter trine Uranus r, A second bond issue of
$50,000,000 (Jupiter) is made to replenish the gold reserve (Uranus in house
of credit).
February 11, 1895, under Jupiter square Saturn r, ruler of the public (Asc.),
Gold reserve is reduced to about $41,000,000. Cleveland, February 8, contracts
with a syndicate to buy bonds which they immediately resell (Jupiter) at a
large premium. Much public criticism (public feel cheated—Saturn).
December 17, 1895, under Jupiter in house of foreign countries (7th), trine
Sun r, Cleveland’s message on Venezuela and British Guiana boundary controversy holds that the right of the United States under the Monroe Doctrine
is involved in Great Britain’s refusal to arbitrate (Jupiter) with Venezuela. He
recommends a commission to decide (Jupiter) the rights of the controversy,
Congress authorizes the commission.
February 5, 1896, under Jupiter trine Jupiter r, A popular issue of
$100,000,000 in bonds (Jupiter) is quickly subscribed at a premium, and the
gold reserve rises to a point of safety.
November 12, 1896, under Jupiter sesqui-square Sun r, Great Britain and
United States reach an agreement for the settlement of the British Guiana
boundary by formal arbitration (Jupiter) treaty between Great Britain and
Venezuela.
January 11, 1897, under Jupiter trine Mars r, General arbitration treaty (Jupiter) is signed with Great Britain; Senate rejects (Mars the planet of strife) it.
March 10, 1898, under Jupiter in house of the navy, opposition Sun r, Congress empowers the president to spend $50,000,000 for national defense.
Then comes the Jupiter Cycle (chart 72) starting April 8, 1898, 8:47 a.m.
L.M.T., 77W. 38—56N.
June 1, 1898, under Jupiter (planet of business) inconjunct Venus r, Exposition of the arts (Venus) and industries of trans-Mississippi States is opened
at Omaha. Erdman Act authorizes governmental mediation (Jupiter) and voluntary arbitration (Jupiter) of disputes between carriers engaged in interstate
commerce (Jupiter) and their employees, and forbids such carriers to discriminate against union laborers (Uranus in the cycle in house of labor, sextile
Jupiter) or to blacklist them.
June 13, 1898, under Jupiter inconjunct Venus r, War Revenue Act provides for the raising of revenue by excise duties, tax on tea, and for a bond
(Jupiter) loan of $400,000,000, but only half the bonds are issued.
December 10, 1898, under Jupiter, ruler of house of foreign countries, semisextile Jupiter r and semi-sextile Uranus r, Treaty (Jupiter) of Peace is signed
at Paris; Spain abandons Cuba, cedes Puerto Rico, Guam, and Philippines to
United States, and is paid (Jupiter) $20,000,000.
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May 18, 1899, under Jupiter, ruler of house of foreign countries, semisextile Jupiter r, and semi-sextile Uranus r (something new), First Hague Conference. Convention for pacific settlement of international disputes, and to
ameliorate war. Delegates from the United States sign (Jupiter rules treaties)
with a reservation of the Monroe Doctrine.
September 6, under Jupiter, ruler of house of foreign nations, opposition
Mercury r, ruler of the people (Asc.), Secretary Hay’s open-door policy (business policy) for China receives recognition by other powers.
February 5, 1900, under Jupiter inconjunct Mercury r, First Hay-Pauncefote
treaty (Jupiter) on Canal.
March 14, 1900, under Jupiter semi-sextile Moon r, Gold Standard Act
makes gold dollar (Jupiter) standard unit of value.
May 14, 1900, under Jupiter inconjunct Mercury r, In Knowlton v. Moore
the Supreme Court (Jupiter) decides that the Federal inheritance tax of June
13, 1898, is a constitutional indirect tax (a revenue raising measure, and thus
under Jupiter).
May 27, 1901, under Jupiter sextile Moon r, In the Insular Case the Supreme Court (Jupiter) holds that Puerto Rico by the treaty (Jupiter) ceased to
be a foreign country within the meaning of the tariff laws.
November 18, 1901, under Jupiter sextile Moon r, Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
is signed; Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (Jupiter) abrogated and British consent given
to American sole control of the Isthmian Canal.
January 24, 1902, under Jupiter semi-square Saturn r (lands), Second treaty
(Jupiter) is signed with Denmark for the purchase of the Virgin Islands; the
Rigsdag rejects (Saturn) the treaty.
March 8, 1902, under Jupiter square Mercury r, ruler of house of the people
(Asc.), Act establishing tariff rates between the United States and the Philippines. Unrestricted trade (Jupiter) not granted.
June 28, 1902, under Jupiter semi-sextile M.C. r (business), Isthmian Canal Act authorizes the purchase of the rights of the French Canal Company
for $40,000,000 (Jupiter).
No. 73. Jupiter Cycle, March 11, 1904, 11:57 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38—56N.
No. 74. Jupiter Cycle, February 23, 1916, 4:26 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38—56N.
No. 75. Jupiter Cycle, the detailed calculation of which is given in the
table in chapter 4, pages 62-63, July 7, 1927; 6:34 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38—56N.
The Jupiter Cycle
Now Effective
The influence of the current Jupiter Cycle, chart for which is illustrated in
chapter 4, page 64, will be in effect from February 5, 1928, to May 26, 1939.
According to the calculations previously given in detail, the chart is erected
for February 5, 1928, 9:23 p.m. 77W. 38—56N.
The most outstanding feature of this chart is Jupiter, ruler of the cycle, in
the house of labor, conjunction the disruptive Uranus, square Venus in the
place of homes and farms, sesqui-square the Moon in the house of Congress,
square the place of credit (M.C.), opposition the people (Asc.) and in close
semi-square to the Sun in the house of speculation. In other words, every
significant position in the chart, with the exception of a semi-sextile to Mercury, and no aspects to Saturn, Mars and Pluto, forms a decided affliction to
the planet of finances and business in that planet’s cycle.
The Sun being in the house of speculation and in close opposition to the
Moon (common People), and both afflicting the financial planet, indicate that
unwise speculation of the common people works in the direction of financial
disaster. Pluto in the house of business in opposition to Venus and Mars, indi-
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cates that drastic measures will become necessary to preserve credit, and that
business will be sorely distressed, especially as the M.C. also is so heavily
afflicted. The two planets in the 4th, afflicted not only by Jupiter, but also by
Pluto in the house of business, show that farms and homes will suffer great
loss through dislocation of business and credit.
But more significant than any other position is Jupiter with Uranus in the
6th. Here we perceive that the real misadjustment, which is precipitated by a
wild period of universal speculation, has its seat with labor. Uranus rules
new inventions and intricate machines, and these have displaced more crude
methods which required greater man power. This has not decreased wealth
(Jupiter) but has brought about a dislocation in the distribution of wealth.
Uranus also rules new methods and changes, and thus points out not only
the basic cause of the business and financial dislocation so clearly shown in
this chart, but what must be accomplished before the financial difficulties
here shown will be past. There must be a radical (Uranus) change in the distribution of wealth (Jupiter) among those who labor. It is chiefly the restricted
buying power of the laborers, including agriculturists and clerical workers,
that causes the business disruption here shown; and it can only be remedied
by some new method which permits a vast number of people (Moon in aspect
to Jupiter) to share sufficiently in the wealth produced with the aid of laborsaving machines (Uranus in 6th) that they provide a mass (Moon) purchasing
(Jupiter) power.
So far as the finances of the people and general business conditions are
concerned, this chart indicates that the whole period, 1928 to 1939, is one of
adjustment to the mechanization not only of industry but also of the farm and
home, as indicated by Uranus conjunction the ruler of the cycle and in aspect
to nearly every planet in the chart.
To furnish examples, not of what is to be expected in the way of events
from heavy and exceptional aspects in a Jupiter Cycle, but to give a clear
picture of what should be expected also from the weak aspects, and those
that occur at rather short intervals, probably the best method to follow is
to take all the aspects that Jupiter forms within a given period in its cycle
chart, and note one event under Jupiter’s rule which was actually coincident with each such aspect. Commencing, therefore, with the Jupiter Cycle
of February 5, 1928, I will list, in their proper order of succession, ALL the
progressed aspects that have formed, in so far as space permits, and quote
the date, and event attracted, from the World Almanac, my own comments
being placed in parentheses. It will be apparent the events thus indicated
are not inconsequential, for only the more important events are given
mention in the World Almanac.
On the Cycle: February 6, 1928, at Washington, the new arbitration treaty
(Jupiter) with France was signed on the anniversary of the first Franco-American treaty of alliance, February 6, 1778.
February 11, 1928, Jupiter semi-sextile Mercury r: February 11, John D.
Rockefeller Jr., testifying to the U. S. Senate Public Lands Committee in the
Teapot Dome Oil inquiry, said he had tried in vain to persuade Col. R. W.
Stewart, Chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, to tell the committee all
he, Stewart, knew of the Continental Trading Company’s bonds (Mercury in
the house of bonds).
February 13, 1928, Jupiter sesqui-square Moon r, opposition Asc. r (people):
The New York City Transit Commission denied an Interborough plea for a 7cent subway fare (Jupiter keeps prices up).
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February 18, 1928, Jupiter square M.C. r: February 18, Mayor Walker (M.C.)
of New York City, on a trip south hopped off the train at Baltimore and talked
to the Advertising (Jupiter) Club about religious (Jupiter) prejudices.
March 9, 1928, Jupiter square Venus r: March 10, President Coolidge signed
the alien property (Venus in house of real estate) bill, which calls for an expenditure (Jupiter) of about $50,000,000 by the U. S. Treasury to cover the
value of alien property seized when war was declared on Germany.
March 23, 1928, Jupiter sesqui-square Neptune r: March 23, U. S. authorities at New York City seized 5 tons of manufactured imported (commerce)
quinine sulphate, alleging the Dutch owners are cornering the market (Jupiter) in violation of the antitrust (Neptune) provision of the Wilson Tariff Law.
March 24, 1928, Jupiter square Mars r: March 24, AIbert D. Lasker, of Chicago, told the Senate oil probers at Washington, that in October, 1920, he gave
$25,000 in cash (Jupiter) to the late Fred W. Upham, the Treasurer of the National Committee.
April 1, 1928, Jupiter square Pluto r: April 1, L. S. Peterson, Dem., retiring
postmaster at Douglas, Ga., shot and killed one of his clerks and himself. In a
letter he accused Republicans of driving (gang methods of Pluto) him into
debt by campaign money (Jupiter) levies.
April 4, 1928, Jupiter sextile Sun r: April 5, the $5,210,000 of gold (Sun)
which was received in New York from Soviet Russia on February 21, and
which has been the center of international financial (Jupiter) and legal (Jupiter) turmoil, was sent back to Europe on the steamship Dresden.
April 8, 1928, Jupiter trine Saturn r: April 9, Jeddu Krishnamurti, the young
Hindu who is accepted by Theosophist followers of Dr. Annie Besant as “a
vehicle for the world teacher” (Jupiter), or spiritual equal of Christ and Buddha, arrived at New York City on the Leviathan.
April 15, 1928, Jupiter semi-square Mercury r: April 16, Dr. Walter F.
Seymour, Superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of Missions (Jupiter)
Hospital at Tsining, Southeastern Shantung, was shot to death by a Chinese soldier.
April 17, 1928, Jupiter trine Moon r: April 17, the U. S. Supreme Court
declined to halt the action of the court below reversing the Interstate Commerce (Jupiter) Commission in the “Lake Cargo” coal case, prohibited the
carriers in the South from making voluntary cut (Jupiter keeps prices up) in
coal freight rates.
May 26, 1928, Jupiter trine Neptune r: May 25, the U. S. has collected to
date over $2,000,000 in back revenue (Jupiter) taxes revealed by Teapot Dome
and Continental Trading Co. (Neptune rules oil) testimony.
June 8, 1928, Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus r: June 7, President Coolidge killed
by a pocket veto, the Muscle Shoals bill calling for the U. S. Government operation (competing with private business) of the $150,000,000 power plant on
the Tennessee River in Alabama.
June 14, 1928, Jupiter sesqui-square Saturn r: June 14, Robert W. Stewart,
Chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, was acquitted by a jury (Jupiter)
in the District of Columbia Supreme Court of contempt charges arising from
his refusal to answer questions at the Senate Committee’s oil inquiry. The
question concerned profits (Jupiter) of the Continental Trading Co.
June 17, 1928, Jupiter semi-sextile Jupiter r: June 15, near Bellville, III., an
army dirigible balloon descended over a railway track as a train came in view.
The airship crew, regulating the speed to correspond with that of the train,
maneuvered into position over the mail coach. Then the dirigible was brought
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down over the train so low that the control car rested on top of the coach for
a moment while a member of the crew handed a sack of mail to a clerk standing in the doorway of the coach (commerce and interstate transportation).
June 23, 1928, Jupiter sextile Mercury r: June 23, when the steamer (Mercury ruler of the 9th) Leviathan arrived at London from New York City, several of her sacks of registered mail (Jupiter ruling house of mail) were found
to have been robbed; total loss not over $10,000.
June 29, 1928, Jupiter inconjunct Asc. r: June 29, John Henry Mears and
Captain B. B. Colyer, who are going to travel around the world (Jupiter ruling
long journeys) by steamship and airplane in 23 days, left the Battery at 5:00
a.m. in a seaplane for Ambrose Channel Lightship. They got back to the Battery at 8:21.48 p.m., July 22, having circled the globe in 23 days, 15 hours, 21
minutes, 3 seconds.
July 2, 1928, Jupiter sextile M.C. r: July 2, interest rates (M.C. rules credit)
on call money were raised (Jupiter raises prices) at New York City to 10% the
highest since November 10, 1920.
August 10, 1928, Jupiter trine Venus r: August 10, Herbert Hoover, in the
visible presence of 70,000 (Venus rules house of the people), and heard (Jupiter rules speeches given to the public) by radio by millions, delivered in the
stadium of Stanford University, Calif., his speech of acceptance of the Republican presidential nomination.
September 18, 1928, Jupiter trine Venus r: September 18, Gov. A. E. Smith
of New York, Democratic presidential candidate, reached Omaha, Nebr., in
his special train, and made his first campaign address (Jupiter rules public
speeches) there, mainly on farm (Venus in house of farm) problems.
October 29, 1928, Jupiter sextile M.C. r: October 29, dodging squalls and
rain, the German airship Graf Zeppelin covered more than a third of the distance (Jupiter rules long journeys) to Friedrichshafen on her homeward flight
after taking off from Lakehurst, N. J., at 1:55 a.m.
November 3, 1928, Jupiter inconjunct Asc. r: November 2, Gov. A. E. Smith
was welcomed at New York City with a parade which was cheered by 1,500,000
(Asc. rules the public); he spoke (Jupiter rules public speeches) at night to a
throng at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
November 9, 1928, Jupiter sextile Mercury r: November 9, mail (Jupiter
rules house of mail) robbers got $53,000 in a train hold-up near Ft. Worth,
Texas; all but $2,970 was found hidden nearby and the bandits (Mercury ruler
of house of crime) were captured.
November 18, 1928, Jupiter semi-sextile Jupiter r: November 17, The Board
of Bishops of the M. E. Church of the World, at Atlantic City, publicly announced that under the decision of the General Conference of the Church
(Jupiter) last May, ministers (Jupiter) may marry couples one or both of whom
have been legally divorced.
November 24, 1928, Jupiter sesqui-square Saturn r: November 23, conductors and trainmen of Western railways (Saturn in house of railways) accepted a 6½% wage increase (Jupiter raises wages), retroactive to May 1, 1929,
when their former agreement with the railways expired.
December 9, 1928, Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus r: December 9, “The St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,” in its fiftieth anniversary copyrighted edition, published (Jupiter) a 1,000-word article from President Coolidge, in which he tells of the
many demands (Uranus in house of labor) on the time of the President, and
suggests (a departure from tradition—Uranus) a country White House.
January 11, 1929, Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus r: January 11, testimony that
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the National Electric (Uranus) Light Association had contributed (expose—
Uranus) $80,000 between 1924 and 1928 to the General Federation of Women’s
Clubs, and that it also had paid $600 each for twenty-four magazine articles
(Jupiter), was presented to the Federal Trade (Jupiter) Commission.
January 25, 1929, Jupiter sesqui-square Saturn r: January 26, the Chicago
Auditorium, which opened (public education ruled by Jupiter, although entertainment belongs to the 5th house) on December 10, 1889, with Gounod’s Romeo
and Juliet, closed (Saturn closes or otherwise restricts) with the same opera.
February 1, 1929, Jupiter semi-sextile Jupiter r: Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
flew from Mineola, N. Y., to Jacksonville, Fla., refueled, flew to Miami; and on
February 4 he opened the U. S. Central American air mail (Jupiter ruler of
house of mail) from Miami to Havana, and thence to Belize, British Honduras
(Jupiter rules long journeys).
February 15, 1929, Jupiter inconjunct Asc. r: February 15, The Interstate
(Jupiter) Commerce Commission approved the plan submitted by a committee of railway executives under which the Railway Express Agency, which
has been incorporated, will on March 1 acquire and operate practically the
entire (Asc. rules the general public) express business of the country.
February 19, 1929, Jupiter sextile M.C. r: Herbert Hoover (M.C. rules
president) returned to Washington from Florida and Secretary of State
Kellogg, in an identical note delivered to diplomatic representatives of all
governments which have signed the World Court (Jupiter) protocol, invited
their governments to conduct an informal exchange of views among themselves with a view to admitting the United States into membership and participation in the court.
March 15, 1929, Jupiter trine Venus r: March 14, President Hoover issued an executive order that all future decisions of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue dealing with tax (Jupiter p in house of taxes) refunds in
excess of $20,000 (Jupiter) shall be open to public (Venus ruling house of
public) inspection.
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MARS CYCLE
March 16, 1934, 8:35 a.m. L.M.T. Washington.
This chart shows what departments of life in the U. S. are affected, and
how, by mechanics, manufacturing, war, soldiers, policemen, machines, fires,
firemen, athletics, strife, violence, explosions, intoxicants bandits, doctors,
surgery and healing, from March 16, 1934, to February 23, 1936
At the time Mars by progression makes an aspect to a planet in this chart,
events will come to pass influenced by these things and affecting the department of life denoted by the aspected planet and its house.
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Chapter 6
The Cycles of Mars
B
ECAUSE the planet for which a Cycle Chart is erected determines the
things which exert the influence, the effects of which are shown by the
positions of the various planets in the chart, the aspects made by this
ruler of the Cycle are unusually important.
They represent trains of thoughts leading directly from the influencing condition to groups of people in the departments of national life indicated by the
house positions of the aspected planets, and of the type indicated by these
aspected planets. That is, the aspects of the planet for which the Cycle Chart is
erected, indicate the types of people and the departments of national affairs
most readily influenced by the energies which come under the cycle’s rule.
Thus in the Mars Cycle Chart, illustrated in chapter 5, page 80, Mars in
the 11th is also the ruler of the 12th (relief and crime) and of the 7th (foreign
countries and war). It is sextile the M.C., therefore the strife and conflict it
indicates tend to stimulate business; but as it is also semi-square Venus in the
10th, in certain respects it creates a friction in relation to business procedure
that hampers prosperity. It is semi-square also to the Asc., so that the strife
and aggression affect the personal welfare of many people. Its most important aspects, however, are the conjunction with the Sun in the 11th, influencing those high in political life, and the conjunction with the Moon in the 12th,
bringing the populace an affliction through measures that must be taken for
relief of the needy.
Thus while the other positions in the chart, such as Jupiter in the house of
labor in opposition to Uranus in the house of relief, can not be overlooked in
reading the figure, the thoughts of conflict and war, such as Mars rules, are
shown to have direct access to the M.C., Venus, Asc., Sun and Moon, with
greater facilities for influencing the persons ruled by these planets and positions—women, for instance, under Venus; politicians under the Sun, and the
common mass of people under the Moon—and for stirring up unusual activities in the departments ruled by the houses in which these planets are found.
That is, they have ready access to the 10th (business and administration), 11th
(Congress and Governors) and to the 12th (charity, relief; crime and prisons).
And because the energy flows so readily to these persons and departments,
they will respond in a more pronounced manner than other types of persons
and other departments of national life. They, therefore, should receive special
consideration in reading the Cycle Chart.
In any Cycle Chart there will be times when the planet for which the
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Cycle was erected makes progressed aspects to very few positions in the Cycle
Chart. During such periods little activity will be shown regarding, and little
attention on the part of the public will be paid to, the things ruled by the
cycle. But when a period arrives during which the planet for which the Cycle
Chart was erected makes many progressed aspects to the places of the various planets in the Cycle Chart, then will the things ruled by the Cycle come to
the fore, exhibiting an activity which attracts much discussion and public
attention. It is the progressed aspects that indicate the time the events shown
come to pass.
The really important part of some events is not coincident with the final
action taken; and when this is the case the progressed aspect in the Cycle
Chart may occur somewhat before the final external act. That is, in negotiating a treaty or in a Supreme Court decision, the matter may be before the
public attention, and be the cause of great interest and discussion, for considerable time before the actual signing of the treaty, or the actual publication of
the decision reached by the Supreme Court. Under such circumstances, several of which have been noted in preceding lessons, the progressed aspect
denoting the event may have moved more than the one degree, which we
allow for an orb of influence for a progressed aspect, before the treaty is signed
or the Supreme Court decision is handed down.
These events, however, should not be taken as exceptions to the general
rule that events signified by a progressed aspect, either in the natal chart of
an individual or in a Cycle Chart for a nation or city, come to pass while the
aspect is within one degree of perfection.
A perusal of the newspapers at the time the aspect is perfect will show
that the matter had reached a high state of public interest then, that the treaty
was in the heat of discussion or the Supreme Court was engaged in deciding
the matter; perhaps did decide the matter. The actual signing of the treaty or
the handing down of the Court decision—the part alone which history
records—was the result of the cumulative influence during the time the progressed aspect was within one degree of perfect. But it may have been something that consumed so much effort that by the time the final act, which history records, was taken, the ruler of the Cycle Chart had moved somewhat
beyond the orb of its influence.
Minor Events Are
Shown by Progressions
in Other Cycle Charts
We must not expect all the events of national consequence influenced by Mars
to be coincident with progressed aspects in the Mars Cycle Chart; all the financial events to be shown in the Jupiter Cycle; all the abrupt changes and
radical activities in the Uranus Cycle. A progressed aspect in any Cycle Chart
to the planet Mars tends to bring strife and accidents. A progressed aspect in
any Cycle Chart to Jupiter brings financial matters to the fore. A progressed
aspect to Uranus in any Cycle Chart tends to give prominence to sudden alterations and radical activities. In a like manner, an aspect in any Cycle Chart
to Saturn attracts events having to do with safety, loss or poverty, any aspect
to Neptune brings something to do with inflation or aviation, and any aspect
to Pluto coincides with drastic action and co-operative effort.
Yet these events, shown by progressed aspects to planets in Cycle Charts
not ruling the type of happening, are of much less consequence than those
which are shown in the Cycle Chart which relates directly to the kind of event
which comes to pass. These minor occurrences are played up in the newspaper headlines on the day they occur; but are not of significance enough to
enter into historical records.
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Thus when we take a reference history, such as I have consulted in the
preparation of these lessons; because only the important events of a kind are
there recorded, we may be sure that each date will coincide with an adequate
progressed aspect in the Cycle Chart governing the type of event recorded.
Furthermore, by consulting a record in which one or more of the outstanding
events for each day of each year are recorded, we may be sure that we can
find on the proper day the appropriate event for each progressed aspect made
in the various Cycle Charts.
But, because a daily record, such as that in the World Almanac, covers
many minor events, in addition to the major ones, we can not expect to find
for each event there recorded a progressed aspect in the Cycle governing the
event. Many of these events are indicated, not in the Cycle governing the
event, but in the Cycle Charts of other planets, by a progressed aspect to Mars
showing fire, to Saturn showing loss by hardship, etc.
Mars is the most energetic of all the planets. It indicates the creative energy in
operation. When it is harmoniously directed, therefore, it relates to all constructive activity in which force, quick action, or even violence is involved
Manufacturing and industrial progress, therefore, are typical of Mars. Those
who guard the nation— soldiers and members of the navy—and those who
guard the more immediate security of the population —policemen, sheriffs
and other law-enforcement officers—are under his rule, and aspects to Mars
tend to bring to pass events in which they are active.
Surgeons and the operations they perform come under this influence. Fires
and firemen are also right in line, as are hunters, industrial workers, and those
who engage in sports such as baseball, football, wrestling and boxing, in which
muscular power and combat play an important part.
The energy of Mars moves so fast that, unless quite harmonious, it tends
to accidents. Traffic accidents, for instance, may be looked for on the days
Mars makes a progressed aspect in its Cycle Chart; more of them, of course, if
Mars or the aspected planet is in the 3rd house.
The energy of Mars is so powerful that when it meets resistance there
are destructive activities. Explosions, banditry, burglary and other violent
defiance of the law, as well as acts of violence and combat in general, come
under his jurisdiction. Intoxicants, being violent in their affect; drunkenness, gambling, houses of ill fame, assault, military activities and war are
typical expressions of Mars. Even when harmonious his energy tends to so
much force and speed that strife of some kind is always present in the events
he brings to pass.
In thought he rules mechanics, in business he rules manufacturing and
the military professions, and in politics he rules industrial workers (as apart
from farmers and miners and other laborers ruled by Saturn), the law enforcement agencies, such as policemen, and the army and navy.
Mars in
Mundane Astrology
Very recently the Nautical Almanac has discontinued giving the variation
per hour of declination of the planets, and gives only the variation for the
whole day of 24 hours instead. As this change might cause confusion in the
minds of some students unless examples are given showing how to calculate
the time when a planet crosses from south to north declination under both
types of notation for the variation, I will present four examples of calculating
the time for erecting a Mars Cycle. The first two, April 27, 1930, and April 5,
1932, are on dates when the Nautical Almanac still gives the variation in decli-
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nation per hour. The last two, March 17, 1934, and Feb. 24, 1936, are on dates
since the Nautical Almanac adopted the plan of giving the variation in declination per day only. As we wish to know the influence of these Mars Cycles on the
affairs of the United States, the problem is to ascertain the times at Washington,
D.C.) when Mars crossed from south declination to north declination.
The Nautical Almanac for 1930 gives the declination of Mars each day for
Greenwich Civil Time (commencing at midnight), together with the variation per hour. The position on April 28 is given as minus 0 degrees, 3 minutes,
15.0 seconds. The variation per hour is given as 46.40 seconds. That is, Mars,
moving 46.40 seconds per hour, on April 28, must move 3 minutes, 15.0 seconds to reach north declination.
One hour equals 60 minutes. 3 minutes, 15.0 seconds equal 195 seconds.
Then 46.40: 60:: 195: ? The answer is 252 minutes, which equal 4 hours, 12
minutes. Thus the Greenwich Time sought is April 28 1930, 4:12 a.m. As Washington is 77 degrees west, subtract from this 5 hours, 8 minutes, and it gives
the time for which the Mars Cycle must be erected as April 27, 1930, 11:04
p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38-56N The chart for the time so found is No. 351 in the table
in chapter 5, pages 78-79.
The Nautical Almanac for 1932 gives the declination of Mars each day for
Greenwich Civil Time (commencing at midnight), together with the variation per hour. The position on April 6 is given as minus 0 degrees, 0 minutes,
20.1 seconds. The variation per hour is given as 47.19 seconds. That is, Mars,
moving 47.19 seconds per hour, on April 6, must move 20.1 seconds to reach
north declination.
One hour equals 60 minutes. Then 47:19 :60::20.1:? The answer is 26 minutes. Thus the Greenwich Time sought is April 6, 1932, 0:26 a.m. As Washington is 77 degrees west, subtract from this 5 hours, 8 minutes, and it gives the
time for which the Mars Cycle must be erected as April 5, 1932, 7:18 p.m.
L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. The chart for the time so found is No. 352 in the table in
chapter 5, pages 78-79.
The Nautical Almanac for 1934 gives the declination of Mars each day for
Greenwich Civil Time (commencing at midnight), together with the variation per day. The position on March 17 is given as plus 0 degrees, 8 minutes,
8.1 seconds. The variation per day is given as 1140.1 seconds. 1140.1 seconds
divided by 24 (hours in a day) gives 47.50 seconds as the variation per hour.
That is, Mars, moving 47.50 seconds per hour, on March 17 has moved 8 minutes, 8.1 seconds into north declination.
One hour equals 60 minutes. 8 minutes, 8.1 seconds equal 488.1 seconds.
Then 47.50 :60:: 488.1: ? The answer is 617 minutes, which equal 10 hours, 17
minutes. From 00:00 Civil Time March 17, subtract 10 hours, 17 minutes and
it gives March 16, 1:43 p.m. Greenwich Time. As Washington is 77 degrees
west, subtract from this 5 hours, 8 minutes, and it gives the time for which the
Mars Cycle must be erected as March 16, 1934, 8:35 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
The chart for the time so found forms the illustration in chapter 5, page 80.
The Nautical Almanac for 1936 gives the declination of Mars each day for
Greenwich Civil Time (commencing at midnight), together with the variation per day. The position on February 24 is given as plus 0 degrees, 1 minute,
58.5 seconds. The variation per day is given as 1134.4 seconds. 1134.4 seconds
divided by 24 (hours in a day) gives 47.43 seconds as the variation per hour.
That is, Mars, moving 47.43 seconds per hour, on February 24 has moved 1
minute, 58.5 seconds into north declination.
One hour equals 60 minutes. 1 minute, 58.5 seconds equal 118.5 seconds.
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Then 47.43 :60: : 118.5: ? The answer is 150 minutes, which equal 2 hours, 30
minutes. From 00:00 Civil Time February 24, subtract 2 hours, 30 minutes,
and it gives February 23, 9:30 p.m. Greenwich Time. As Washington is 77
degrees west, subtract from this 5 hours, 8 minutes, and it gives the time for
which the Mars Cycle must be erected as February 23, 1936, 4:22 p.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N. The chart for the time so found is No. 353 in the table in chapter
5, pages 78-79.
As examples from which to study the influence of Mars, and what may be
expected from progressed aspects formed in its Cycle Chart, I will first commence with the Mars Cycle of 1889, and quote (with my own comments in
parentheses) every event that is clearly under the influence of Mars which is
of enough importance to be included in the Reference History of the World of
Webster’s New International Dictionary. Omitting none of these as far as available space warrants us considering them, the progressed aspect in the Mars
Cycle coincident with each will be pointed out.
Then, as the second phase of our Mars study, we will take the Mars Cycle
of March 16, 1934, which forms the illustration in chapter 5, page 80, and
starting with its commencement, I will list ALL the progressed aspects in that
Mars Cycle, and go as far as space permits, indicating the event attracted by
each of these progressed aspects.
Mars Cycle No. 78 in the table commenced February 18, 1889, 5:54 p.m.
L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
April 22, 1889, under Mars, ruler of the house of lands, sesqui-square Jupiter r in the house of lands (fourth): Part of Indian Territory is opened, and a
wild rush to settle ensues. (The opening of the land was under the Saturn
Cycle, but the wild rush and the extreme violence which accompanied it were
under Mars.)
Mars Cycle No. 79 in the table commenced January 27, 1891, 4:59 p.m.
L.M.T. 77W 38:65N.
March 14, 1891, under Mars trine Moon r, in the house of death (eighth),
and ruler of foreign countries (seventh): Lynching of eleven Italians in New
Orleans causes a protest and demand for reparations by Italy, her minister at
Washington being recalled. (The mob activity is indicated in the Pluto Cycle
by Pluto sextile Moon r.)
October 16, 1891, while Mars was still four degrees from square Asc. r and
opposition Mars r; Attack on American Sailors by a mob at Valparaiso, Chile.
War becomes imminent (as aspect completes) through Chile’s delay to make
amends. (The mob activity is indicated in the Pluto Cycle by Pluto sextile
Moon r and sesqui-square Venus r.)
January 21, 1892, as Mars approaches trine Mars r: Ultimatum presented
to Chile.
January 25, 1892, as Mars completes the trine to Mars r: Harrison sends a
war message to Congress; but Chile soon apologizes and pays an indemnity.
July 15, 1892, under Mars inconjunct Saturn r: Harrison issues proclamations against striking miners in the West (strikes are under the Uranus influence), and Federal troops (ruled by Mars) are used in restoring order and to
support injunctions of the Federal courts.
Mars Cycle No. 80 in the table commenced December 28, 1892, 2:35 p.m.
L.M.T. 77W 38:56N.
February 14, 1893, under Mars conjunction Moon r (populace). Treaty of
annexation with Hawaii is signed. This follows a revolt led by Americans,
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assisted by the American minister, and protected by American Marines (Mars),
by which the queen is deposed. Not ratified.
June 26—July, 1894, under strikes (Uranus) started June 26, when Mars
came to semi-sextile Moon r: Local troops (Mars) are called out in many places,
and President Cleveland, without waiting for requests from State executives,
employs Federal troops (Mars), especially at Chicago, to protect the railroads
(ruled in the Cycle Chart by the Moon).
Mars Cycle No. 81 in the table commenced July 14, 1894, 5:30 a.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
September, 1894, under Mars square Mercury r, and Mars semi-sextile
Venus r, ruler of homes (fourth): Forest fires destroy 19 towns in Minnesota,
Wisconsin, and Michigan, and 500 people are killed.
December 17, 1895, under Mars trine Mercury r, ruler of messages (third),
and Mars semi-square Saturn in the house of lands (fourth): Cleveland’s message on Venezuela and British Guiana boundary controversy holds that the
rights of the United States under the Monroe Doctrine is involved in Great
Britain’s refusal to arbitrate with Venezuela.
Mars Cycle No. 82 in the table commenced May 26, 1896, 3:26 p.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
July 30, 1896, under Mars semi-square Mars r, and opposition Uranus r
(revolt): President’s proclamation warning citizens against violating the neutrality laws by aiding the insurrection in Cuba.
February 15, 1898, under Mars opposition Jupiter r and sextile Mars r,
ruler of war (seventh): U.S.S. Maine blown up in Havana harbor; more than
250 lives lost (leads to war with Spain).
March 10, 1898, under Mars square Uranus r in the house of money
(second): Congress empowers the president to spend $50,000,000 for national defense.
March 28, 1898, under Mars square Moon r: President sends to Congress
report of Court of Inquiry into Maine disaster, attributing it to external cause.
April 11, 1898, under Mars square Neptune r: President suggests that he
be empowered to use the army and navy to end disorders in Cuba, and placed
with Congress the responsibility for dealing decisively with the intolerable
condition of affairs which is at our doors.”
April 20, 1898, under Mars sextile Venus r and square Mercury r: Resolutions are passed by Congress that the United States intervene in Cuba to enforce her independence. Spanish minister leaves Washington same day. American fleet sails April 21 from Key West to blockade Cuban ports. April 23, while
same aspects are within orb: President calls for 125,000 volunteers. April 25:
Congress declares that war with Spain has existed since April 21 (when aspects were perfect).
May 1, 1898, under Mars conjunction Mars r: Dewey with Pacific fleet
attacks and destroys Spanish fleet of ten ships in Manila Bay.
Mars Cycle No. 83 in the table commenced May 2, 1898, 6:50 a.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
May 25, 1898, under Mars sextile Neptune r in house of people (first):
President calls for 75,000 additional volunteers. 2,500 soldiers are sent from
San Francisco to support Dewey in his operations against Manila.
June 2, 1898, under Mars sesqui-square Saturn r, ruler of ships (ninth):
The fleet, under Sampson, blockades Santiago, Cuba, preventing the exit of
the Spanish fleet under Cervera. On June 3 (same progressed aspect), Lt. Rich-
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mond P. Hobson sinks the Merrimac in the channel as an obstacle to the escape of the Spanish fleet.
June 10, 1898, under Mars semi-sextile Mars r and inconjunct Uranus r:
Invasion of Cuba by the Americans begins with the landing of 600 marines at
Guantanamo Bay, near Santiago. June 12, under same progressed aspects: Fifth
Army Corps, 16,000 men under Shafter, sails from Tampa Bay for Santiago.
June 20, 1898, under Mars conjunction Mercury r: Guam seized by U.S.S.
Charleston.
June 30, 1898, under Mars semi-square Mars r: First U.S. troops reach
Manila. The outer defenses of Santiago de Cuba are carried by Shafter.
July 3, 1898, under Mars semi-sextile Neptune r: Cervera’s fleet of six war
vessels, escaping from Santiago harbor, completely destroyed by American
fleet under Sampson.
July 17, 1898, under Mars conjunction Venus r (2 degrees distant): Santiago
with all its forces is surrendered to Shafter.
July 23, 1898, under Mars opposition Uranus r: Spain inquires on what
terms the United States would cease hostilities. July 25, as aspects has separated 2 degrees: General Miles lands with an army at Guanica and begins the
conquest of Puerto Rico.
July 28, 1898, under Mars applying to opposition Saturn r (3 degrees distant): Ponce surrenders.
August 12, 1898, under Mars conjunction Asc. r and Pluto r (3 degrees
past): A protocol is signed at Washington suspending hostilities. August 13,
Manila surrenders to General Merritt and Admiral Dewey.
February 4, 1899, under Mars sextile Moon r: Filipinos attempt to capture
Manila, but are repulsed with heavy loss. This begins the Philippine Insurrection.
July 19, 1899, under Mars square Neptune r: Sec. of War Alger resigns
because of severe criticism of conduct of Spanish War.
December 16, 1899, under Mars square Mars r: Leonary Wood appointed
military (Mars) governor of Cuba.
Mars Cycle No. 84 in the table commenced April 10, 1900, 7:31 p.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
June 21, 1900, under Mars semi-sextile Neptune r: General MacArthur
issues amnesty proclamation to Fillpinos.
November 12, 1900, under Mars sextile Neptune r: Military department
of Porto Rico is discontinued and the forces there reduced.
February 2, 1901, under Mars square Jupiter r: Army Reorganization Act.
Provides for a minimum army of 58,000 men, with a maximum of 100,000.
September 6, 1901, under Mars sextile Saturn r conjunction Asc., and
inconjunct Venus in the house of death (eighth): McKinley shot by an anarchist. He dies September 14. (The death is shown in the Saturn Cycle.)
December 13, 1901, under Mars inconjunct Pluto r- Findings of Court of
inquiry as to Admiral Schley’s conduct in Cuba (war) indecisive.
February 18, 1902, under Mars opposition Moon r in house of honor (tenth):
Roosevelt adds a memorandum declaring that neither Sampson nor Schley
was responsible for the victory at Santiago; it was a “captain’s fight.”
Mars Cycle No. 85 in the table commenced March 21, 1902, 6:30 a.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
May 22, 1902, under Mars semi-square Mars r (2 degrees past): Military
occupation of Cuba ends.
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May 31, 1902, under Mars trine Saturn r (planet of economy): Army ordered reduced from 77,287 to 66,497.
July 4, 1902, under Mars trine Venus r (2 degrees applying): General amnesty in Philippines, and insurrection is declared at an end.
September 17, 1902, under Mars opposition Jupiter r: Secretary Hay protests against the outrages committed on Jews in Roumania.
January 21, 1903, under Mars semi-square Moon r in house of soldiers:
Dick Militia Law provides for the optional federalization of State troops.
February 14, 1903, under Mars trine Pluto r: General Staff of the army is
authorized.
Mars Cycle No. 86 in the table commenced March 29, 1903, 4:47 p.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
November 3,1903, under Mars opposition Neptune r, in the house of business (tenth): Panama revolts from Colombia. Independence is recognized by
the United States on November 6. United States troops land to protect the
canal and fend off Colombian forces.
February 7-8, 1904, under Mars square Pluto r (2 degrees distant): Great
fire in Baltimore with loss (more clearly shown in Saturn Cycle) of $80,000,000.
Mars Cycle No. 87 in the table commenced February 28, 1904, 5:40 a.m.
L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
April 15, 1904, under Mars, ruler of the house of gifts (eighth), square
Venus r in the house of chances (fifth): Andrew Carnegie establishes a Hero
(Mars) Fund of $5,000,000.
June 8, 1905, under Mars trine Sun r in house of war (seventh): Roosevelt
offers his good offices to end the Russo-Japanese War.
Mars Cycle No. 88 in the table commenced February 6, 1906, 3:07 a.m.
L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
September 22-24, 1906, under Mars trine Uranus r (planet of riots): there
are race riots in Atlanta; eighteen Negroes and three whites killed.
September 29, 1906, under Mars sextile Moon r in the house of war: Military control over Cuba is resumed because of disturbed conditions there.
November 6, 1906, under Mars inconjunct Saturn r: Roosevelt directs the
dismissal of three companies of Negro regulars for disturbances at Brownsville,
Texas, on August 13.
February 6, 1907, under Mars trine Mars r in the house of relief (twelfth):
Graduated pensions are granted to veterans of Mexican and Civil wars of 62
years of age or more; following an executive order making 62 years a pensionable disability.
December 16, 1907, under Mars trine Moon r in house of war (seventh):
Around-the-world voyage of the American fleet of 16 battleships with destroyers begins at Hampton Roads, intended as a peaceful display of force,
especially to influence Oriental conditions.
Mars Cycle No. 89 in the table commenced January 11, 1908, 9:35 p.m.
L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
January 28, 1909, under Mars inconjunct Neptune r in house of business
(tenth): Second military occupation of Cuba by United States troops terminates.
Mars Cycle No. 90 in the table commenced November 25, 1909, 3:45 p.m.
L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
October 17, 1910, under Mars in house of illness (sixth), opposition Saturn
7' in house of hospitals (twelfth): The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research is formally opened at New York City.
November 2, 1910, under Mars semi-sextile Mercury in the house of for-
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eign countries (seventh): A fleet of sixteen American battleships sails, in two
detachments, to pay visits at ports of England and France.
March 7, 1911, under Mars inconjunct Pluto r, ruler of the house of foreign countries (seventh): In consequence of revolution in Mexico, the president orders 20,000 troops to San Antonio and along the Mexican frontier, for
division maneuvers and to check filibustering and border fighting on the
American side.
That the student may have for reference all the Mars Cycles from 1889 to
1938, I will now list both their numbers in the table in chapter 5, pages 78-79,
and the data on which they were erected:
No. 91, Mars Cycle, June 9, 1911, 12:10 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 92, Mars Cycle, May 12, 1913, 12:24 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 93, Mars Cycle, April 19, 1915, 6:42 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 94, Mars Cycle, March 29, 1917, 12:36 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 95, Mars Cycle, March 8, 1919, 1:42 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 96, Mars Cycle, February 14, 1921, 1:09 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 97, Mars Cycle, January 22, 1923, 6:55 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 98, Mars Cycle, December 20, 1924, 7:15 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 99, Mars Cycle, June 23, 1926, 7:28 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 350, Mars Cycle, May 21, 1928, 9:21 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 351, Mars Cycle, April 27, 1930, 11:04 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 352, Mars Cycle, April 5, 1932, 7:18 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
Illustration Mars Cycle, March 16, 1934, 8:35 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
No. 353, Mars Cycle, February 23, 1936, 9:30 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
Another Mars Cycle, January 31, 1938, 1:55 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
Later Mars Cycles, previous to their commencement, will be Published in
THE CHURCH OF LIGHT QUARTERLY.
And now, to furnish examples, not of what is to be expected in the way of
events from heavy and exceptional aspects in a Mars Cycle, but to give a clear
picture of what should be expected also from the weak aspects, and those that
occur at rather short intervals, it seems that the best method to follow is to
take all the aspects that Mars forms within a given period in its cycle chart,
and note one Mars event which actually was coincident with each such aspect. Commencing, therefore, with the Mars Cycle of March 16, 1934, which
forms the illustration in chapter 5, page 80, I will list ALL the progressed
aspects in the chart following its date, going as far as space permits, and quote
the date, and the event attracted, from the World Almanac, my own comments
being placed in parentheses. As only the most important events of each day
are listed in the World Almanac, it will be apparent these events are not inconsequential. When the event falls on a day other than that on which the aspect
is perfect, this will be duly noted.
March 20, 1934, Mars semi-square Asc. r (people): Fire at Hakodate, Japan, killed over 1,500, hurt 2,000, and destroyed 23,000 homes. At N. Y. City, 7
were killed by fire in a tenement on 2nd Ave.
March 23, 1934, Mars semi-sextile Mercury r: March 24, at Lynchburgh,
Va., fire killed 14 at Federal Transient Relief (progressed Mars in house of
relief, twelfth) Bureau, and injured 75 others.
March 26, 1934, Mars conjunction Moon r in house of relief (twelfth): At
Washington, the Senate and the House passed the “billion dollar” Independent Office Bill granting $228,000,000 in larger allowances to War veterans
and government employees.
March 28, 1934, Mars inconjunct Neptune r (inflation): The United States
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Steel (Mars) Corporation and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation joined the
movement to raise the wages of all steel workers 10 per cent.
April 1, 1934, Mars semi-sextile Venus r (in the house of the President):
The President of the United States conducted divine service on the quarterdeck of the Nourmahal, Easter morning, attended by the officers and men of
the U.S. Destroyer (Mars) Ellis.
April 11, 1934, Mars opposition Jupiter r from the house of imprisonment
(twelfth): At Tokyo, Gen. Senjuro Hayashi, Minister of War (Mars) resigned
from the Cabinet after his younger brother was sentenced to ten month’s imprisonment for bribery.
April 12, 1934, Mars square Pluto r in house of short journeys (third): His
plane caught in a “sleeve target” towed by another airplane, First Lieutenant
David L. Cloud Jr., a Marine (Mars) Corps pilot whose squadron held the
Schiff award for safe flying, plunged 3,000 feet to his death.
April 14, 1934, Mars sextile Saturn r, in house of elections (tenth): At San
Juan, P.R., fire in the Capitol basement destroyed part of Puerto Rico’s basic
election records.
April 16, 1934, Mars conjunction Uranus r (unusual), semi-sextile Sun r in
house of governor (eleventh): In Oklahoma, the National Guard (Mars) carried out the Governor’s orders to stop delinquent tax sales of real estate.
April 23, 1934, Mars square M.C. r (honor): At Crocket, Texas, Ben Ellis
shot to death in a crowded courtroom a Negro accused of slaying his uncle
who had tried to collect a $3.00 debt.
April 24, 1934, Mars semi-sextile Mars r (war equipment): At Balboa, C.
Z., commercial vessels started late in the day to follow the last of the more
than a hundred ships of the U.S. fleet which have been pushing through the
Panama Canal toward the Atlantic in an unbroken line.
May 1, 1934, Mars sextile Mercury r: At Paris, May Day brought riots,
with Communists firing at police from behind barricades. At Havana 10 were
wounded when soldiers fired into a worker’s parade.
May 5, 1934, Mars semi-sextile Moon r: N. Y. City Controller W. Arthur
Cunningham, 39, was stricken with a heart attack while horseback riding at
Duck Island, L. I. He fell (Mars) to the ground and was dead when a physician arrived.
May 6, 1934, Mars trine Neptune r (aviation), semi-square Sun r: May 7,
the Army (Mars) Air Corps ended its task of flying the transcontinental mail
with a flying record.
May 11, 1934, Mars square Venus r in house of business (tenth): In Illinois,
the Legislature enacted that, on and after July 1, State and municipal employees of Illinois will become the policing (Mars) agency behind all national codes.
May 19, 1934, Mars conjunction Asc. r: Fire at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, burned its way over 8 square blocks destroying 40 per cent of the cattle
pens, and the livestock in them.
May 22, 1934, Mars inconjunct Jupiter r: Mexico proclaims an embargo on
shipment of arms (Mars) to Bolivia and Paraguay.
May 24, 1934, Mars square Saturn r in house of business (tenth): At Toledo, 2 men were killed and more than 25 persons were injured in two battles
between Ohio National Guardsmen and strikers.
May 25, 1934, Mars semi-square Moon r in house of crime (twelfth): At
East Chicago, Ind., two policemen were shot to death when they tried to halt
an auto supposed to contain John Dillinger.
May 27, 1934, Mars sextile Sun r (political authority): At Havana, Cuba,
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gunmen fired several shots at his home as U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery
was preparing to leave.
June 4, 1934, Mars sextile Mars r: Near Norman Oklahoma, members of a
seismograph oil exploration party were killed in an accidental explosion of a
roadside dynamite magazine.
June 11, 1934, Mars square Mercury r, sesqui-square Jupiter r: Prof. Rexford
G. Tugweli, ex-farmer, Presidential nominee for Undersecretary of Agriculture,
under examination as to his qualifications by the Senate (Mercury in house of
Senate) Committee on Agriculture, denies he is a Red or a Bolshevik Communist.
June 13, 1934, Mars semi-square Pluto r (gangsters): Bandits fatally shot
C. N. Nunn, 55, of Muskogee, Democratic candidate for presidency.
June 15, 1934, Mars sextile Moon r in house of secret enemies (twelfth): In
Cuba a bomb hidden under a stairway exploded in the naval station, killing a
sailor and seriously wounding 11 others.
June 17, 1934, Mars semi-square Uranus r (revolution), square Neptune r:
In Cuba, at Havana, 14 persons were killed and more than 60 wounded when
a parade of 80,000 members of the ABC revolutionary organization was attacked by machine gunmen.
June 22, 1934, Mars trine Venus r: The yawl Cumberbunce II was stolen at
New London, Conn., after the Harvard-Yale rowing race. On June 29, James
A. Newton, 43, a farmer of Marlow, N. H., was found shot to death on the
yawl in Cohasset harbor.
June 30, 1934, Mars semi-sextile Asc. r: In Germany (Mars rules the house
of other lands, seventh), a plot by prominent Nazi leaders to overthrow Adolph
Hitler was discovered; Ex-Chancellor Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, 51, was shot
to death, his wife killed, Capt. Ernst Roehm, 46, national commander of the
Nazi Storm Troopers was deposed and executed. In all 77 were killed.
July 3, 1934, Mars trine Jupiter r: In Germany (Mars rules the house of
foreign countries, seventh), Chancellor Hitler flew to Neudeck to consult President von Hindenburg; von Papen’s home was watched by Storm Troopers
(Mars).
July 4, 1934, Mars semi-sextile Pluto r (drastic): Over 2,200 were hurt by
fireworks during Independence Day celebrations at New York City.
July 6, 1934, Mars trine Saturn r in house of business (tenth): A bomb
planted in a war of rival labor unions destroyed the ventilation plant of the
Capital Coal Mining Company near Springfield, Ill., endangering 350 men
working below.
July 9, 1934, Mars square Sun r, sextile Uranus r: A Negro, Andrew McLeod,
26, at Bastrop, La., charged with having tried to attack a white girl, was lynched
by a mob.
July 14, 1934, Mars sesqui-square Venus r in house of business (tenth):
Over 7,000 National Guardsmen and 2,000 policemen were put on duty in the
bay district and Oakland (due to strike).
July 16, 1934, Mars inconjunct M.C. r (business): National Guard tanks
and machine guns were put at strategic points (S. F. strike).
July 18, 1934, Mars square Mars r: At San Francisco, the General Strike
Committee lifted the embargo on all foods? gasoline and fuel oil. At Oakland,
across the bay, citizen-vigilantes guarded food and milk trucks.
July 25, 1934, Mars trine Mercury r: At Vienna (Mars rules the house of
foreign countries, seventh) a group (Nazi) seized the building used by the
Cabinet, shot Chancellor Engelbert Dollfus, 41, to death, and tried to hold
other members as hostages.
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July 29, 1934, Mars square Moon r in house of crime (twelfth): At Vienna,
Otto Planetta, 36, dismissed from the Austrian Army as a Nazi, was put on
trial charged with the actual shooting of Chancellor Dollfus.
July 31, 1934, Mars sextile Neptune r: August 1, at Port Au Prince, the
United States relinquished control of Haiti in brief ceremonies marking the
taking over of the Haitian Army (Mars) by its own officers.
August 6, 1934, Mars inconjunct Venus r: August 7, at Vienna, the only
active member of the Austrian Army (Mars rules the house of foreign countries, seventh) who participated in the raid on the Chancellery was courtmartialed and hanged.
August 14, 1934, Mars trine Moon r: In Colombia, 17 were killed, 20 hurt,
at Tolime Farm, in a clash between peasants and Civil Guards.
August 17, 1934, Mars sesqui-square Mercury r, ruling house of games
(fifth), square Jupiter r: August 18, at Pontiac, Ill., a fight over a baseball game
at the State Reformatory, ,caused a riot and the shooting of 23 convicts.
August 19, 1934, Mars conjunction Pluto r (gangster): Alphonse Capone
(gangster) is one of 43 en route in barred railway cars from the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., to Alcatraz Island.
August 20,1934, Mars inconjunct Saturn r in house of government (tenth):
In Louisiana, Governor Allen signed the 27 Huey P. Long “dictator (Mars
conjunction Pluto, the dictator, yesterday) bills.” Meantime State troops and
500 special police under Mayor Wamsley are rival guards at the registration
office in New Orleans.
August 23, 1934, Mars trine Sun r, square Uranus r, semi-square Neptune
r: Homer Van Meter, 35, paroled convict from the Michigan City (Ind.) prison
(Uranus in house of prisons, twelfth) and one of the members and best gunner of the gang that was headed by John Dillinger, was shot and killed in a
street battle with St. Paul police.
August 31, 1934, Mars opposition M.C. r (business): Extension of the textile strike call to 150,000 wool and worsted workers in N. J. was announced.
September 1, 1934, Mars trine Mars r: Strike orders applying to the entire
textile weaving industry of the U.S. went into effect.
September 10, 1934, Mars inconjunct Mercury r ruler of fifth: At Tyler,
Texas, J. B. Willis, 41, exconvict, was sentenced to death for tying a young
husband nude to a tree and then stripping and assaulting the bride.
September 16, 1934, Mars sesqui-square Sun r, semi-sextile Neptune r:
September 17, the textile strike brought martial law and concentration camps
in Georgia.
September 22, 1934, Mars opposition Venus r: Pointing at the guards pistols made of soap, two cronies of the late John Dillinger tried to escape from
death cells, both were killed.
September 24, 1934, Mars sesqui-square Mars r: At Lyman, S. C., 400 former
strikers were driven away by the bayonets of National Guardsmen.
September 30, 1934, Mars square Asc. r (people): In a radio speech to the
nation, Roosevelt called a truce between capital and labor.
October 3, 1934, Mars sextile Jupiter r: Assignment of naval officers to
American merchant ships to inspect safety devices and lifeboat drills.
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MARS-JUPITER CONJUNCTION
October 29, 1937, 8:42 p.m. L.M.T. Washington.
At the time the U. S. was attending a Nine-Power Parley (Jupiter) in Europe (Mars-Jupiter in seventh), in the futile attempt to halt Japanese invasion
of China. Japan flaunted the parley, became aggressive (Mars) toward the U.
S., and within six weeks sunk the U. S. gunboat Panay. Germany demanded
return of her colonies. Italy withdrew from the League of Nations, and a military alliance (Mars Jupiter opposition Pluto) was formed by Japan, Italy and
Germany.
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Mundane
Astrology
Chapter 7
Major Conjunctions of the Planets
W
HEN two planets in the sky come together, forming the conjunction aspect, it signifies that the things on earth ruled by these two
planets also have come together in such a manner as to influence
world affairs, national affairs and the affairs of cities. The type of influence
exerted depends upon the type of energy radiated by the two planets involved
in the aspect; and its harmony or discord depends upon the friendliness or
enmity of the two planets forming the conjunction, and the way they are
aspected at the time by the other planets.
To be more specific: if Mars is one of the planets in the conjunction, events
are influenced by machines, manufacturing, industrial workers, soldiers and
such things as are ruled by Mars. And because that is the type of influence of
the Mars vibration, what comes to pass will involve accident or strife. If Jupiter is the other planet in conjunction, affairs are influenced by treaties, commerce, business, money, religion and the other things Jupiter rules. And because the vibrations of Jupiter are of that type, abundance of something and a
tendency toward expansion will be involved.
On the other hand, if Saturn is the other planet making the conjunction,
conditions will be influenced by the farmer the miner the common laborer
lands mines, basic utilities, conservatism, and such other matters as Saturn
rules. And because Saturn’s vibrations are of that type, selfishness, greed,
contraction and lack will be involved.
Not all the affairs of national life will be affected profoundly by the conjunction of two major planets. The house of the chart, erected for the time of
the conjunction, in which the conjunction falls indicates a department of life
strongly influenced by the coming together of the two groups of factors. And
how the converging affairs influence other departments of life is shown by
the aspects to other planets in the chart, their house positions and rulerships
revealing the departments of life affected. Powerful aspects from the conjunction to other planets show, by the house positions of those planets, the
departments of life chiefly affected. The nature of the aspect, and the planet
aspected, indicate in what manner the department of life is affected.
When the planets form aspects in the sky, the union of their energy streams
produce whirls and vortices which increase the power of these planetary energies to influence the unconscious minds of men.
Within the astral body of each individual are groups of thought-cells which
act as receiving sets for the energies broadcast by each of the ten astrological
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orbs. The position of a particular planet in the birthchart maps the place within
the unconscious mind where are located the thought-cells which act as a natural receiving set for the vibrations of that planet.
When, therefore, this planet is powerfully aspected in the sky, the unconscious minds of people in general are more noticeably influenced by its trend;
not because they are more receptive to this planet’s energies, but because this
planet’s energies reach them much more vigorously. More energy then is added
to the thought-cells mapped by the planet in their birth-charts, and because
these thought-cells thus acquire a more than normal activity, they take a more
prominent part in determining the thinking, the behavior and the type of
events which are attracted.
Furthermore, due to the birth-charts of nations and other groups, the receptivity to planetary energy reaching the earth during a given period, is not
the same in all areas on the globe. Nations and cities, as indicated by progressed aspects and by the Conjunction Charts and Cycle Charts, vary in the
degree of their receptivity to a given planetary stream. An aspect between
planets in the sky, such as a Conjunction, broadcasts the same energy to the
unconscious minds of all men; but the people in one country may be particularly receptive to it, while the people of another country may have so completely tuned in on another planetary vibration as to notice it hardly at all. It
is the function of the Birth-Charts, Progressed Aspects, Cycle Charts and Conjunction Charts used in mundane astrology to indicate the degree of receptivity of each important area of the earth to whatever energies are being broadcast from the sky.
All people within a group, however, are not equally receptive to what at
the time is being broadcast from the sky; no more so than are all nations.
Some individuals within a group may tune in scarcely at all on a given planetary vibration, while a few members may pick up its energies in tremendous
volume. And it is these members of the group who respond markedly to a
particular planet’s vibrations who largely determine the effect of the particular energy upon the group.
Those having the planet prominent in their charts of birth are more responsive to its vibrations than are those who do not thus have it prominent.
That is, they have thought-cells within their unconscious minds which act as
natural receiving sets for this energy.
But to pick up the planetary energy, radio fashion, in most volume, there
must be at the time, a progressed aspect to that planet in the birth-chart. Such
a progressed aspect forms an aerial which readily picks up the energies of the
two planets involved. This energy is thus conducted immediately to the
thought-cells mapped in the birth-chart by the planets. And these thoughtcells, acquiring so much new energy of their own type, powerfully influence
the individual’s thinking, his behavior and the events which at that time come
into his life.
In Brotherhood of Light Research work we have had ample opportunity to
work out the progressed aspects in the charts of those individuals whose activities were chiefly responsible for the effect produced upon a nation or a city
by the heavy aspects present at the time in the sky. And we have found that
such individuals had the aspecting planets prominent in their birth-charts, and
that at the time there was a major progressed aspect to one or both of them.
Heavy Aspects in
the Sky Other
than Conjunctions
Other aspects in the sky than conjunctions, particularly the heaviest aspects
of the more slowly moving planets, have a noticeable affect upon the affairs
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of cities, nations and the world. And a chart erected for the city or capitol of
the country, for the exact time the aspect is perfect, will give much information as to the department of life chiefly affected by the aspect there. Since
1900 the exact Greenwich Mean Time of such aspects is given in the back of
Raphael’s ephemeris.
In chapter 1, some five pages are given to these aspects in the sky other than
conjunctions, on page 4, under the heading: General Astronomical Phenomena. Perhaps these should here be supplemented by considering some other
heavy aspects in the sky which have taken place since that chapter was printed.
Quoting from the 1937 issues of THE CHURCH OF LIGHT QUARTERLY:
All the difficulties anticipated from the opposition of Saturn to Neptune
in the sky on January 17, 1937, came to pass. Neptune was in Virgo, the harvest sign; and the citrus growers in California were beset with the severest
cold in the history of the industry; while Saturn in Pisces, the sign of rivers,
brought floods in the Ohio Valley of unprecedented destructiveness.
The hopes for peace agreements in Europe broke completely down; the
Japanese cabinet was forced to resign by the military crowd for the first time
in history; and in Russia 13 prominent men were executed, allegedly for attempting the overthrow of the government.
The shipping strike at that time was still under way in the U.S., and to this
labor difficulty was added the General Motors strike, and the typically Pluto
technique of its sit-down strikers.
On 22, April 22, 1937, Jupiter came to the opposition of Pluto: Clark Gable,
popular moving picture star, who had been the subject of an extortion (Pluto)
plot, was called by the government as a witness. For a week the newspapers
of the nation gave the Extortion Trial, as they called it, tremendous publicity.
The verdict, convicting the woman on trial as guilty of mail fraud, thus attempting to get money (Jupiter), was brought in by the jury on April 23.
On April 22, 1937, there were no less than a dozen major strikes in progress,
some of the sit-down (Pluto) variety, and the C. I. O. came into unprecedented
prominence. April 20, 1937, the newspapers chronicled that 27 nations had
combined (Pluto) to place a sanitary cordon of warships (Pluto resorts to force)
around Spain. And April 23 bears the headlines that London and Paris had
formed an alliance for mutual defense.
Jupiter was again opposition Pluto on May 29, 1937, and on December 18,
1937. Each of these aspects, close to the dates indicated, brought outstanding
conflict (opposition aspect) between the Administration of the U. S. and Big
Business (Jupiter); the last one also a marked Business (Jupiter) Recession,
with the Government demanding; that Labor and Business co-operate (Pluto).
And each brought outstanding conflict between the two great labor organizations; the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L., and effort on the part of the Government
to get these contending factions to co-operate.
December 12 occurred the malicious and intentional sinking of the American warship, Panay, and three Standard Oil tankers, accompanied by loss of
life and machine gunning of survivors, by Japanese bombing planes. By December 18 there was grave danger of war between Japan and the U. S.; and
this international incident led to a close co-operation between the U. S. and
British navies. The strife was over the attempt of the U. S. to protect her commercial (Jupiter) interests in China.
Such aspects in the sky have some influence during the time they are forming and during the time they are separating over an orb of the same number
of degrees that is allowed for the same aspect in a birthchart. In this they are
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quite different in their influence than the aspects made by progression in a
Cycle Chart, which, with the exception of the so swift moving Moon, affects
the event only during the time the aspect is within one degree of perfect.
And, just as in birth-charts, aspects in the sky have an influence during
the time they are within several degrees of orb, even though the aspect is not
completed for a long time. For instance, in September, 1937, Uranus was Taurus 13, Neptune was Virgo 18 and Jupiter was Capricorn 17. They thus were
in a Grand Trine. But Uranus was retrograde and did not complete the trine
with Neptune that year; and Jupiter before reaching the trine of Neptune
turned retrograde, and did not complete it until the last of October. Yet this
Grand Trine was noticeable in all the fields these three planets rule.
Neptune is the planet of the movies, Uranus is the planet which has to do
with new things, and Jupiter IS the planet of patronage. In September, 1937, a
new type of movie was presented to the public. In the picture, One-Hundred
Men and a Girl, for the first time in screen history, undiluted classical music
was joined in dramatic unity with the comedy, pathos and suspense which go
to make a great picture. And it was a box office (Jupiter) success.
Under this aspect also, to determine to what extent a telepathic (Pluto)
sense exists capable of use by the general public, the radio facilities of the
National broadcasting Corporation were employed by the Zenith Foundation of Chicago, in comprehensive tests, and in giving to the public authentic
instances in which occult powers, not recognized by material science, have
been used.
Major
Conjunction
Charts
What has been said of the other aspects that form in the sky is equally true of
major conjunctions. They have an influence not merely over the limited period of time while the two planets are within one degree of the perfect conjunction, but all the while the planets making the conjunction are as close to
each other as the common orb allowed for their conjunction in a birth-chart.
The exact moment of the conjunction, which is the time for which the conjunction chart should be erected, is merely the peak of the influence. Yet the
influence of the conjunction upon events can be discerned in a pronounced
manner near this time of the exact conjunction.
Such a conjunction is a distinct astrological influence. But the more energy of a given planet present at a certain time, the more work it can do.
Therefore, if while the conjunction aspect is within orb of influence, some
pronounced aspect by progression forms in the Cycle Chart of one of the two
planets; or if in some Cycle Chart one of the planets involved in the conjunction is powerfully aspected by progression, there is enough planetary energy
of a particular kind present to attract an event of the nature of the conjunct
ion on that day.
Therefore, in determining the exact days on which the chief events indicated by the conjunction will occur, the various Cycle Charts should be inspected, to ascertain when there is an unusual supply of planetary energy
present of the kind indicated by the Conjunction. Whether the accessory energy shown by the progressed aspect in a Cycle Chart is harmonious or discordant is not so important. The general rule is that the chief events occur on
those days when there is the most planetary energy of the given kind reaching the earth.
The most effective method of becoming skilled in astrology is the case
method, by which the student, after gaining some knowledge of theory, studies actual cases in which astrological positions have resulted in recorded events
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or conditions. It is my advice that students of mundane astrology copy off on
blank charts all the various Cycle Charts and Conjunction Charts given in
this course of lessons, and study them in view of what has been recorded
relative to the events which they have influenced. Astrological forces often
do not work in just the manner those inexperienced expect.
In the study of Major Conjunctions, this course offers 76 charts already
erected, embracing examples in proper sequence of all 15 different types of
Major Conjunctions, with at least some comment on the event or events attracted by each. Progressed aspects to the positions in the Conjunction Charts
should be ignored; but the houses containing planets powerfully aspected by
the Conjunction should receive special consideration.
For finding the time of day an aspect is completed, including the conjunction, Rule XI of Chapter 2, Course 10-2, Natal Astrology, Progressing the Horoscope may be used; and the time of all conjunctions here given earlier than
1900 has been calculated by that rule. Since 1900 the precise time of all aspects
between the planets, including the conjunctions, are given in the back of
Raphael’s Ephemeris; and the time of all conjunctions here given since 1900
has been ascertained from this source.
As dates before 1920 are taken from the Reference History of the World of
Webster’s New International Dictionary, in which only a few events are given
for each year, the events cited are not so close to the dates of the conjunctions
as are those since 1920, which are taken from the World Almanac, in which one
event or several is given for nearly every day.
To accommodate so many conjunctions, it was found more convenient to
distribute their charts in tables to be found in several lessons of this course.
The prefix number here given refers to the number in the table, the chapter
number and page number(s) of this course in which the table may be found
comes next, and this is followed by the data for which the chart was erected,
and the event which coincided with the conjunction.
As Pluto rules groups, co-operation, the splitting into two opposing factions,
and the exercise of dictatorial powers; and Neptune rules visionary schemes,
involved affairs, involuntary servitude and dramatic art; the conjunction of
Neptune with Pluto attracts events in which factors related to both planets
are combined.
332, chapter 1, page 13, Neptune conjunction Pluto, July 22,1891, approximately 10:24 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
Neptune
Conjunction Pluto
As Pluto rules groups, co-operation, the splitting into two opposing actions,
an the exercise of dictatorial powers; and Uranus rules independence, reform,
exposure, invention and the new and untried; the conjunction of Uranus with
Pluto attracts events in which factors related to both planets are combined.
331, chapter 1, page 13, Uranus conjunction Pluto, June 20, 1850, approximately 6:52 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
Uranus
Conjunction Pluto
As Neptune rules visionary schemes, involved affairs, involuntary servitude
and dramatic art; and Uranus rules independence, reform, exposure, invention and the new and untried; the conjunction of Uranus with Neptune attracts events in which factors related to both planets are combined.
334, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Uranus conjunction Neptune, March
22, 1821, approximately 5:09 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. Russian ukase (abrupt
action leading to involvement) claiming coast south to 51 degrees and exclu-
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Conjunction Neptune
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sive rights in North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea (five planets in seventh,
square Uranus-Neptune in house of territory).
335, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Uranus conjunction Neptune, April
22,1821, approximately 6:52 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. Supreme Court reasserts appellate jurisdiction (involving the rights of states; Uranus ruling the
house of government).
336, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Uranus conjunction Neptune, December 4, 1821, approximately 4:52 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. Monroe sends message to Congress advising the recognition (independence) of the Spanish-American states (Mars in house of business and honor, trine Uranus-Neptune).
Saturn
Conjunction
Pluto
As Pluto rules groups, co-operation, the splitting into two opposing factions,
and the exercise of dictatorial powers; and Saturn rules safety, economy, poverty, lands, minerals, basic utilities, buildings, crops on the land, destruction
by storm, the miner, the farmer and the common laborer; the conjunction of
Saturn with Pluto attracts events in which the factors related to both planets
are combined.
337, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Pluto, June 5, 1851, approximately 11:46 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. March 3, 1851, Congress reduces
(Saturn) letter postage to three cents per half ounce (letters have mass circulation).
338, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Pluto, May 21, 1883, approximately 0:52 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56M. March 3, 1883, Tariff and Internal
Revenue Act to reduce (Saturn)surplus.
339, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Pluto, September 30, 1914,
approximately 3:17 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. September 2, 1914, Bureau of
War Risk Insurance (safety for shipping groups) is authorized as part of the
Treasury Department.
340, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Pluto, November 4, 1914,
approximately 2:41 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. November 2, 1914, Federal quarantine is proclaimed to prevent (safety) the spread of hoof-and-mouth disease among cattle in many (groups) States.
341, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Pluto, May 19, 1915, approximately 9:58 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. May 10, 1915, (after the Germans
had torpedoed the Lusitania on May 7) in a speech at Philadelphia Wilson
says: “There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.”
Saturn
Conjunction
Neptune
As Neptune rules visionary schemes, involved affairs, involuntary servitude
and dramatic art; and Saturn rules safety, economy, poverty, lands, minerals,
basic utilities, buildings, crops on the land, destruction by storm, the miner,
the farmer and the common laborer; the con]unction of Saturn with Neptune
attracts events in which factors related to both planets are combined.
100, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Neptune, December 1, 1809,
approximately 9:57 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. September, 1809, first experimental railroad in America (Neptune promotion), built by John Thomson in
Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
101, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Neptune, April 4, 1846,
approximately 1:20 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. March 28, 1846, Taylor’s force
occupies the strip between Nueces and Rio Grande (involved condition over
Texan boundary).
102, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Neptune, September 4,
1846, approximately 9:16 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. August 18, 1846, Kearny,
after an overland march, occupies Santa Fe (acquires territory of New Mexico).
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103, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Neptune, December 10,
1846, approximately 7:58 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. December 12,1846, Treaty
of Granada: freedom of transit on Isthmus of Panama given to United States
(safety).
104, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Neptune, May 12, 1882,
approximately 9:41 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. May 6, 1882, first Chinese Exclusion Act suspends immigration of laborers for ten years (protecting American laborers).
105, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Neptune, August 1, 1917,
0:04 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. August 10, 1917, Food Control Act gives the
president very wide powers in fixing prices and regulating the distribution
of foodstuffs and fuels (a safety measure).
As Uranus rules independence, reform, exposure, invention and the new and
untried; and Saturn rules safety, economy, poverty, lands, minerals, basic utilities, buildings, crops on the land, destruction by storm, the miner, the farmer
and the common laborer; the conjunction of Saturn with Uranus attracts events
in which factors related to both planets are combined.
106, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Uranus, November 16, 1805,
approximately 6:52 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. March 29, 1806, policy of internal improvement at Federal expense is inaugurated (development of natural
resources) by an act authorizing the National Road between the Potomac and
the Ohio.
107, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Uranus, March 15, 1852,
approximately 6:52 p.m. L.M.T 77W. 38:56N. May 27, 1852, the court discountenances a bridge across the Ohio River, under State law, as being an obstruction (Saturn) to undisturbed interstate or foreign commerce.
108, chapter 3, pages 46-47, Saturn conjunction Uranus, January 6, 1897,
approximately 2.52 p.m. L.M.T 77W. 38:56N. March 2, 1897, Cleveland vetoes a
bill for a literacy test of immigrants (designed to protect American laborers).
Saturn
Conjunction
Uranus
As Pluto rules groups, co-operation, the splitting into two opposing factions,
and the exercise of dictatorial powers; and Jupiter rules finance, commerce,
interstate commerce, treaties, arbitration, the courts, salesmanship, publishing, advertising, cable messages, ships which travel the sea, long journeys,
religion and public expressions of opinion; the conjunction of Jupiter with
Pluto attracts events in which factors related to both planets are combined.
342, chapter 4, pages 62-63, Jupiter conjunction Pluto, May 5, 1845, approximately 2:27 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. March 1, 1845, joint (Pluto) resolution of Congress for the annexation of Texas (Jupiter-Pluto sextile Saturn),
less favorable to the United States than the abandoned treaty (Jupiter).
343, chapter 4, pages 62-63, Jupiter conjunction Pluto, June 11, 1857, approximately 0:46 p.m. L.M.T. 77W 38:56N. August 24, 1857, panic (financial
and affecting the masses) of 1857 begins.
344, chapter 4, pages 62-63, Jupiter conjunction Pluto July 25, 1869, approximately 7:37 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. September 24, 1869, Black Friday
in Wall Street, due to an attempt to corner gold (financial) broken (Pluto acts
drastically) by action of the Federal treasury.
345, chapter 4, pages 62-63, Jupiter conjunction Pluto, April 11, 1882, approximately 2:11 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. April 3, 1882, Supreme Court holds
that a State tax on telegrams is void so far as it is laid on interstate (Jupiter)
messages or on those sent by Federal officials.
346, chapter 4, pages 62-63, Jupiter conjunction Pluto, May 18, 1894, approxi-
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Conjunction
Pluto
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mately 1:36 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.April 29, 1894, Coxey’s Army (group) reaches
Washington with a demand for the issue of $500,000,000 paper money (Jupiter).
347, chapter 4, pages 62-63, Jupiter conjunction Pluto, June 26, 1906, approximately 5:43 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. June 26, 1906, cable (Jupiter) between Japan and the United States is opened.
348, chapter 4, pages 62-63, Jupiter conjunction Pluto, August 10, 1918,
approximately 4:17 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. August 27, 1918, Wilson places
under the control of an Export Council (dictatorship) all articles of commerce
(Jupiter) destined for neutral countries.
349, chapter 4, pages 62-63, Jupiter conjunction Pluto, May 26, 1931, approximately 11:25 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. May 27, 1931, at Paris the 25 American Mayors touring France established a council (dictatorship) to govern their
tour (Jupiter) after a difference of opinion (Pluto splitting) had led to a dispute over the leadership of their tour.
Jupiter
Conjunction
Neptune
As Neptune rules visionary schemes, involved affairs, involuntary servitude
and dramatic art; and Jupiter rules finance, commerce, interstate commerce,
treaties, arbitration, the courts, salesmanship, publishing, advertising, cable
messages, ships which travel the sea, long journeys, religion and public expression of opinion; the conjunction of Jupiter with Neptune attracts events
in which factors related to both planets are combined.
18, chapter 1, page 13, Jupiter conjunction Neptune, December 29, 1804,
approximately 11 -35 a.m. L.M.T 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
19, chapter 1, page 13, Jupiter conjunction Neptune, December 24, 1817,
approximately 00.58 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
20, chapter 1, page 13, Jupiter conjunction Neptune; December 15, 1830,
approximately 4.52 a.m. L.M.T 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
21, chapter 1, page 13, Jupiter conjunction Neptune; April 9, 1843, approximately 1:31 p.m. L.M.T 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
22, chapter 1, page 13, Jupiter conjunction Neptune, March 17, 1856, approximately 1-23 a.m. L.M.T 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
23, chapter 1, page 13, Jupiter conjunction Neptune; February 26, 1869,
approximately 00.19 a m. L.M.T 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
24, chapter 1, page 13, Jupiter conjunction Neptune June 18, 1881, approximately 7:34 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
25, chapter 1, page 13, Jupiter conjunction Neptune June 1, 1894, approximately 4:41 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
26, chapter 1, page 13, Jupiter conjunction Neptune, May 22, 1907, 6:43
a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
27, chapter 1, page 13, Jupiter conjunction Neptune, September 23, 1919,
8:46 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
333, chapter 1, page 13, Jupiter conjunction Neptune, September
18,1932,11:30 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. The event is given in chapter 2.
Jupiter
Conjunction
Uranus
As Uranus rules independence, reform, exposure, invention and the new and
untried; and Jupiter rules finance, commerce, interstate commerce, treaties,
arbitration, the courts, salesmanship, publishing, advertising, cable messages,
ships which travel the sea, long journeys, religion and public expressions of
opinion; the conjunction of Jupiter with Uranus attracts events in which factors related to both planets are combined.
33, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus, September 15, 1803,
approximately 5:32 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. April 30, 1803, Louisiana Purchase Treaty (U. S. pays France $15,000,000).
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34, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus, November 9, 1817, approximately 11:40 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. December 10, 1817, Mississippi
admitted as slave state. Taken with Indiana, the first clear case of admission
of free (Uranus) and slave states in pairs (attempt to settle a vexatious problem through arbitration).
35, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus, March 20, 1831, approximately 11:52 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. March 18, 1831, in the Cherokee Nation
v. Georgia the Supreme Court (Jupiter) denies the right of an Indian tribe to sue
in the Federal courts, because it is not a foreign (independent) nation.
36, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus, February 8, 1845, approximately 9-16 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. March 1, 1845, joint resolution of
Congress for the annexation of Texas (giving independence from Mexico),
less favorable to the United States than the abandoned treaty (Jupiter).
37, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus, May 23, 1858, approximately 9:10 a m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. May 11, 1858, Minnesota free (without
slavery) State.
38, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus June 5, 1872, approximately 0:52 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. September 14, 1872, Geneva Tribunal,
sitting under the Treaty (Jupiter) of Washington, awards the United States
$15,500,000 damages against Great Britain.
39, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus, August 18, 1886, approximately 3.52 a m. L.M.T 77W. 38:56N. August 2, 1886, Congress places a tax
(financial levy) on oleomargarine; an early (Uranus innovation) pure-food law.
40, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus October 20, 1900, 3:08
a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. November 6, 1900, Twenty-ninth presidential election. Free Silver (financial innovation) and imperialism are the issue. (Uranus-Jupiter opposition Pluto in 10th; semi-square Sun in house of money.)
41, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus March 3, 1914, 10:13
p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. April 7, 1914, Treaty with Colombia is signed by
which Colombia recognizes Panama (Uranus-Jupiter in third, relating to
transportation).
42, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus, July 15, 1927, 3:37 p.m.
L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. July 15, 1927, Governor Small gave the State Treasurer of
Illinois a check for $650,000 (Jupiter) in settlement of the judgment against
him for an accounting (expose) of interest on State funds.
43, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus, August 11, 1927, 7:00
a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N August 11, 1927, thousands of Inca Indians (JupiterUranus in house of war) have rebelled (Uranus) in the Pocoala region of Bolivia, armed with clubs and slingshots they are killing whites and burning
farm houses.
44, chapter 2, page 30, Jupiter conjunction Uranus, January 25, 1928, 1:27
a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. January 24, 1928, at Washington, Mahlon T. Everhart
declared that in May, 1922, Harry F. Sinclair delivered to him Liberty Bonds
(Jupiter-Uranus in fifth) of a value of $233,000, all of which went to Fall
(expose).
As Saturn rules safety, economy, poverty, minerals, basic utilities, buildings,
crops on the land, destruction by storm, the miner, the farmer and the common laborer; and Jupiter rules finance, commerce, interstate commerce, treaties, arbitration, the courts, salesmanship, publishing, advertising, cable messages, ships which travel the sea, long journeys, religion and public expression of opinion; the conjunction of Jupiter with Saturn attracts events in which
factors related to both planets are combined.
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Conjunction
Saturn
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53, chapter 4, pages 62-63, Jupiter conjunction Saturn, July 16, 1802, approximately 6:52 a.m. L.M.T. 77W 38:56N. April 24, 1802, Georgia cedes claims
to all land (Saturn) west of present boundary.
54, chapter 4, pages 62-63, Jupiter conjunction Saturn, June 19, 1821, approximately 4:28 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. Russian ukase claiming North
American coast (land, Saturn) south to 51 degrees (this controversy over territory was the dominant topic most of 1821).
55, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Jupiter conjunction Saturn, January 25,
1842, approximately 10:52 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. June 29, 1842, Tyler vetoes new tariff bills that are tangled with the distribution of land (Saturn)
revenue (Jupiter). (The bills were discussed earlier in the year.)
56, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Jupiter conjunction Saturn, October 21,
1861, approximately 6:52 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. December 31, 1861, general suspension (Saturn) of species (Jupiter) payments by banks; not resumed
until 1879.
57, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Jupiter conjunction Saturn, April 18,
1881, approximately 10:18 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. January 24, 1881, in
Springer v. United States the Supreme Court (Jupiter) holds the Federal income tax of 1862 to be constitutional, not being a direct tax.
58, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Jupiter conjunction Saturn, November
28, 1901, 11:28 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. November 18, 1901, Hay-Pauncefote
Treaty (Jupiter) is signed; Clayton-Bulwer Treaty abrogated and British consent given to American sole control of the Isthmian Canal (Jupiter-Saturn
sextile Mercury in ninth).
59, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Jupiter conjunction Saturn, September
9, 1921, 11:07 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. September 8, 1921, jobless (Saturn lack)
men, stripped to the waist, were offered in vain on an auction block on the
Boston Common. They were offered for “sale” (Jupiter) to work for a week.
Mars
Conjunction
Pluto
As Pluto rules groups, co-operation, the splitting into two opposing factions,
and the exercise of dictatorial powers; and Mars rules war, army and navy,
law-enforcement officers, doctors, industrial workers, fires, vice, gambling,
intoxicants, banditry, accidents and strife; the conjunction of Mars with Pluto
attracts events in which factors related to both planets are combined.
354, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Pluto, July 1, 1921,
approximately 5:40 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. June 30, 1921, President Harding
signed Army (Mars) Appropriation Bill, reducing (Mars-Pluto in house of
restrictions) army to 150,000.
355, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Pluto, June 15, 1923,
approximately 8:08 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. June 15, 1923, the N. Y. Stock
Exchange and the N. Y. Curb Market accepted identical resolutions for suspension or expulsion (drastic Pluto) of any member refusing to testify or produce his books in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal (Mars-Pluto in twelfth).
356, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Pluto, May 28, 1925,
approximately 10:26 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. May 27, 1925, a special Grand
Jury at Washington, D.C., reindicted Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny (Pluto group) on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the
Government in the making of naval (Mars) reserve oil leases (Mars-Pluto
sextile Mercury in fourth, and trine Saturn in ninth).
357, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Pluto, May 10, 1927,
approximately 8:59 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. May 10, 1927, a group (Pluto) of
armed men overpowered guards and dynamited (Mars) the Los Angeles
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Aquaduct, tearing out a large section of pipe (Mars-Pluto in house of open
enemies of people).
As Neptune rules visionary schemes, involved affairs, involuntary servitude
and dramatic art; and Mars rules war, army and navy, law-enforcement officers, doctors, industrial workers, fires, vice, gambling, intoxicants, banditry,
accidents and strife; the conjunction of Mars with Neptune attracts events in
which factors related to both planets are combined.
109, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Neptune, August
25, 1921, 7:40 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. August 25, 1921, 5,000 armed coal miners (Neptune ruling house of labor) start from Mannet, W. Va. to unionize the
Mingo mine district. They desisted at U. S. warning (Mars).
113, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Neptune, August
12, 1923, 10:04 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. August 11, 1923, German Socialists
(Neptune) split from Chancellor Cuno. A score were killed (Mars) in strikes
and food riots throughout the country.
117, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Neptune, July
30, 1925, 2:30 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. July 30, 1925, C. H. Schwartz blew
up the company’s plant at Walnut Creek, Calif., killing an itinerant laborer
whose body he tried to have identified as his own in a plot (Neptune) to
get $200,000 insurance.
121, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Neptune, July 17,
1927, 9:41 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. July 17, 1927, fighting (Mars) between 500
Nicaraguans and 40 U. S. Marines and 5 bombing planes (Neptune) has resulted in the death of 300 rebels and 1 marine.
Mars
Conjunction
Neptune
As Uranus rules independence, reform, exposure, invention and the new and
untried; and Mars rules war, army and navy, law-enforcement officers, doctors, industrial workers, fires, vice, gambling, intoxicants, banditry, accidents
and strife; the conjunction of Mars with Uranus attracts events in which factors related to both planets are combined.
112, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Uranus) December
25, 1922, 5:39 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. December 26, 1922, Council of American Association for the Advancement of Science passed a resolution saying:
“The evidence in favor of the evolution of man is sufficient to convince every
scientist of note.” (Uranus-Mars in house of science.)
116, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Uranus, November 27, 1924, 3:12 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. November 27, 1924, the Republican Senate Caucus resolved that Senators La Follette, Ladd, Brookhart and
Frenzier be not invited (Uranus-Mars in house of Congress) to future Republican conferences.
120, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars con-unction Uranus, June 13, 1926,
5:47 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. June 13, 1926, 12 were killed by coke oven explosion at Illinois Steel Co.’s plant (Mars-Uranus in fourth) at Gary, Indiana.
Mars
Conjunction
Uranus
As Saturn rules safety, economy, poverty, minerals, basic utilities, buildings,
crops on the land, destruction by storm, the miner, the farmer and in the
common laborer; and Mars rules war, army and navy, law-enforcement officers, doctors, industrial workers, fires, vice, gambling, intoxicants, banditry,
accidents and strife; the conjunction of Mars with Saturn attracts events in
which factors related to both planets are combined.
110, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Saturn, November
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Conjunction
Saturn
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13, 1921, 4:13 a.m. L.M.T 77W. 38:56N. November 14, 1921, 11 died in fire on
W. 17th St., New York.
114, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars con-unction Saturn, December
1, 1923, 2:58 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. November 28, 1923, in the 1923 hunting
season 20 persons were accidentally killed in N. Y. State.
118, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Saturn, December
14, 1925, 5.24 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. December 15, 1925, “Battling;’ Siki
(Louis Phal) Senegal boxer (Mars-Saturn in fifth), was shot and killed in New
York City.
122, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Saturn, December
26, 1927, 7:44 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. December 26, 1927, the bruised and
strangled body of Amelia Appleby was found sewn in a sack just outside of
Los Angeles.
Mars
Conjunction
Jupiter
As Jupiter rules finance, commerce, interstate commerce, treaties, arbitration,
the courts, salesmanship, publishing, advertising, cable messages, ships which
travel the sea, long journeys, religion and public expression of opinion; and
Mars rules war, army and navy, law-enforcement officers, doctors, industrial
workers, fires, vice, gambling, intoxicants, banditry, accident and strife; the
conjunction of Mars with Jupiter attracts events in which factors related to
both planets are combined.
111, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Jupiter, November
26, 1921, 9:28 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. November 21, 1921, Premier Briand at
Arms (Mars) Conference (Jupiter) said France was not militaristic, but needed
protection against Germany.
115, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Jupiter, February
13, 1924, 9:28 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. February 12, 1924, agreement for a
$150,000,000 loan (Mars-Jupiter in house of debt) to Japan was signed at J. P.
Morgan’s home at N. Y. City.
119, table in chapter 6, pages 94-95, Mars conjunction Jupiter, April 23,
1926, 5:20 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. April 23, 1926, hazers in a theatre play
(Mars-Jupiter on cusp of fifth) broke the neck of Ralph MacKenzie, actor, when
they tossed him up in a blanket.
Illustration in chapter 6, page 96, Mars conjunction Jupiter, October 29,
1937, 8:42 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. October 29, 1937, the U.S. was participating at this time in a futile Nine-Power Parley (Jupiter) in Europe, in the hope
of halting Japanese aggression in China. Japan flaunted the parley and became aggressive toward the U. S. (Mars-Jupiter in seventh). Germany made
new demands for return of her colonies; Italy severed relations with the League
of Nations; and while the aspect was operative a military alliance (JupiterMars opposition Pluto) was formed by Japan, Italy and Germany.
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SUN CYCLE
March 20, 1933, 8:55 p.m. L.M.T. Washington
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt calls this the Year of Crisis Mars,
ruler of house of money (second), is in the house of the Administration in
conjunction with chaotic Neptune; and on March 4, banks throughout the U.
S. were closed, there was disruption in employment (afflicted Uranus in sixth),
and people feared they would lose their lands and homes (Saturn in fourth).
The President promised a New Deal (Pluto), and in the “Hundred Days” session of Congress, many drastic laws (Pluto in ninth) were passed (Venus ruler
of people, opposition Jupiter and trine Pluto; and Neptune with Jupiter, planet
of abundance, in house of Congress).
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SUN CYCLE
March 20,1937, 7:37 p.m. L.M.T. Washington
The Supreme Court had declared New Deal (Pluto) laws relating to economic reform and favoring labor were unconstitutional. The Administration
(Pluto in tenth) set itself the task of changing the member ship of the adverse
Supreme Court (Moon afflicted in ninth), passing wage-hour (Pluto trine Saturn Mercury in sixth) laws, and those regulating abuse by big business. Result was a war between big business (Jupiter) and Administration (Pluto opposition Jupiter), and toward end of year a Major Recession in business with
a security loss of 25 billion dollars and great unemployment (Neptune opposition Saturn-Mercury in sixth).
Course 13
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Astrology
Chapter 8
The Cycles of the Sun
T
HE ASTRONOMICAL year commences when the sun moves across the
celestial equator from south declination to north declination. Because in
ancient times it was discovered that the point in the sky occupied by the
Sun when it thus crosses from south declination to north declination
was the commencement of the zodiac, east and west measurements on the
celestial sphere are calculated from this point. If they are made along the
celestial equator, which is the projection in the sky of the earth’s equator, they
are expressed in degrees and minutes of Right Ascension. But if, as is required for astrological practice, they are made along the path of the Sun, or
ecliptic, they are expressed in signs, degrees and minutes of zodiacal longitude. But in either case, the measurement starts from 0 degrees Aries, where
the Sun is located about the 21st of March when it crosses from south declination to north declination.
Declination also is measured in a north and south direction from the position of the Sun at this time; a time commonly called the Vernal Equinox, because then is the commencement of spring (vernal) and the days and nights
(nox) are equal (equi). That is, declination is measured north and south from
the celestial equator, on which the Sun is stationed at the commencement of
Aries and the start of the zodiac. When the measurement north and south is
made from the path of the Sun, or elliptic, it is called latitude. All astrological
aspects are calculated by-zodiacal longitude, except one. Parallel of declination is calculated from the north and south distance of two planets from the
celestial equator.
As with all the other astrological orbs, with the exception of the Moon
which is a satellite of the earth, the Cycle of the Sun commences when that
body crosses from south declination to north declination. But it will be
seen from the fact that this Sun crossing establishes those electromagnetic
relations which determine where in the sky each sign in located in the
zodiac, that the commencement of the cycle of the Sun is an extremely
important astronomical and astrological event. It is often referred to as
the Vernal Ingress.
All organic activity and life upon the earth are dependent upon energy
received from the Sun. And the vital force of every creature is determined by
the thought-cells mapped in its unconscious mind by the position of the birthchart Sun. Furthermore, the activity of men and other creatures must depend
upon their vitality.
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Instead, therefore, of mapping events resulting from one special type of
influence, as does Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars; the Sun
Cycle, the commencement of which marks the beginning of the zodiac and
determines the positions of the signs in the sky for that year, is a chart of
events of all types and affecting every earthly relation for the year.
This does not mean that all the chief events of the year are signified in
their relative importance by the Vernal Ingress, or Sun Cycle chart. The most
important events of each type are indicated by appropriate progressed aspects in the Cycle Chart of the planet to which by type they belong. That is,
the most important accidents and combats are dated and indicated in the
Mars Cycle, the most important financial transactions in the Jupiter Cycle,
and the most important innovations and inventions in the Uranus Cycle But
aside from these events, and in addition to them, the Sun Cycle chart gives a
general picture of the events which will happen during the year affecting
each of the twelve departments of life.
The time the events indicated by each house of the Sun Cycle chart will
take place is when the Sun by progression, which in mundane astrology means
its position as shown on that day in the ephemeris, makes aspects to the position of the planet in the Sun Cycle chart, ruling the house affected. That is,
when the Sun reaches an aspect to the place of Mars in the Sun Cycle chart,
not only are events involving accident and strife then attracted, but the accident and strife affect the departments of life governed by the houses Mars
rules in the Sun Cycle chart.
While the planets aspected strongly by the Sun in a Sun Cycle chart have
more significance as to events to happen during the year, yet any planets that
are powerful by position or aspect in the chart, whether or not they aspect the
Sun, are also significant of events. In fact, what the year holds in general in
each of the twelve departments of life may be read from the twelve houses of
the Sun Cycle chart. It thus serves the purpose of a natal chart for the year, for
the place where erected, and should be read in all details almost precisely as
if it were a person’s birth-chart. The only difference in such reading is that,
because it relates to national or municipal affairs, some of the houses attain a
peculiar significance.
Thus the eleventh house is not merely the friends of the city, but the aldermen. Or in national affairs, it represents the members of Congress and the
governors of the various states. The tenth house, in addition to being the honor
of the nation and its business, signifies the mayor of a city or the president or
ruler of the country, and thus the Administration. And the ninth house in
addition to relating to travel, has an influence over treaties and interstate and
foreign commerce, over the District Attorney, and over the Supreme Court as
well as over court proceedings in general. These house meanings are given in
full detail in chapter 2.
In reading a Sun Cycle chart as a birth-chart of the year, one can begin
with the first house as representing the health and general welfare of the
people, and their temperament; the second house as their money and expenditures; the third house as newspapers, science, postal service and local
transportation; the fourth house as homes and farms, building and development of natural resources; and thus on around the chart, taking up in
detail what may be expected to happen during the year relative to each
department of life.
Such a reading, in the main, will be found correct. But it is subject to intensification in certain directions, due to the progressed aspects which from
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time to time form in the Cycle charts of the other planets. A progressed aspect
in the Sun Cycle may or may not coincide with some unusually important
event. If the event is unusually outstanding, it probably is attracted chiefly
through a commensurate aspect in the Cycle of the planet which rules the
type of influence most involved. But if near the date on which the aspect is
completed in this Planetary Cycle chart, there is also in the Sun Cycle chart a
progressed aspect to this planet, there is on the day when the Sun Cycle aspect IS completed an accumulation of planetary energy of a given type, and
due to this added energy of the same kind, the event is usually timed as to the
day it happens thus by the progressed aspect in the Sun Cycle.
Such also is common in the timing of the exact day on which the chief
events attracted by a Major Conjunction take place. If near the time of the
major conjunction there is a progressed aspect in the Sun Cycle to the place
occupied by one of the planets making the conjunction, this accumulation
of planetary energy of a particular type tends to cause the event then to
happen. And to take the final step in such precise predicting, not only must
the energy of a progressed aspect to one of the planets involved in the conjunction be considered in the Sun Cycle chart but also in the New Moon
chart. That is, important events more commonly occur at such times as there
is an accumulation of energy of a definite type; and progressed aspects to
the planet signifying the event, in the Sun Cycle or in the New Moon Cycle,
or both, usually give the additional energy which times the precise day of
the events signified.
The time each year when the Sun enters each zodiacal sign is given in a table
in the back of Raphael’s Ephemeris, a custom which quite recently has been
adopted by some other ephemerides. The day and time of day when the Sun
enters the sign Aries is the proper time to use for erecting the Sun Cycle chart.
The time there given is Greenwich Mean Time. Therefore, for erecting the
Sun Cycle chart for any place east or west of Greenwich, the Local Mean Time
at that place must be ascertained when the time at Greenwich is as stated for
the entrance of the Sun into Aries. This Equivalent Local Mean Time is ascertained by subtracting the difference in time, if the place is West Longitude,
and adding the difference in time if the place is East Longitude, from or to the
stated Greenwich time. Thus from the time given in the ephemeris, if it is
desired to erect the chart for Washington, which is 77 degrees west, 5 hours, 8
minutes must be subtracted; or if it is to be erected for Los Angeles, which is
118 degrees 15 minutes west, 7 hours, 53 minutes must be subtracted. But if it
were desired to erect the chart for Berlin, which is 13 degrees, 24 minutes
east, 54 minutes must be added.
Civil Time, as I have noted in connection with calculating the Cycle charts
of the more slowly moving planets, commences at midnight, and therefore is
12 hours earlier than Mean Time. The present tendency is toward standardizing the time used by astronomers. There was a time when it was more convenient for them to use a day which commenced at noon, such as the English
and American astrological students still use. But since 1925 the Naval Observatories who prepare the Ephemerides and Nautical Almanacs from which
the more common ephemerides are prepared, have-instead used Civil Time.
For astronomical and astrological purposes, it is convenient to reckon time
from 0 degrees Longitude on the earth’s surface, which is the Longitude of
Greenwich, and from 0 degrees Longitude in the sky, which is the commencement of Aries. And as a still further step in standardizing astronomical prac-
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tice, I note that the 1939 Nautical Almanac, just at hand, refers to Greenwich
Civil Time as UNIVERSAL TIME.
It is likely that the future will witness the adoption of this Universal Time
among astrological students and the makers of the ephemerides they use.
Already the makers of the German Ephemerides have adopted this time, and
commencing with the year 1931, the positions are given for midnight instead
of noon, that is, for what now is called Universal Time. These German Ephemerides now are available to and including the year 1950. This matter of
Universal Time is mentioned here so that students will take note in consulting ephemerides which time is used.
The only planet progressed in a Sun Cycle chart is the Sun. When by its
position, as shown in the ephemeris for that day, it makes an aspect to the
place of a planet in the Sun Cycle chart, new energy of the type of the planet
then aspected and of the harmony or discord of the aspect reaches the unconscious minds of-men, and according to its power tends to attract events. These
events are of the type of the planet aspected, and chiefly affect the departments of life ruled by the Sun and the aspected planet. The affairs ruled by
the house into which the Sun has progressed when the aspect is completed
also are influenced, but usually in a much less degree.
The event attracted by the energy of a progressed aspect of the Sun in the
Sun Cycle takes place within 24 hours of the time the aspect is perfect.
The Cycles of the Sun
The best way to learn what to expect in the future from astrological positions
is to study what has transpired in the past under similar positions, and to
observe current events as they transpire in their relation to astrological influences. In this lesson there are presented Sun Cycle charts for each of the past
fifteen years, commencing with 1923 and ending with 1937 (this is being written in February, 1938), for such study. As events attracted by the less powerful
aspects are apt to be much less important, in all but the last chart considered
(1937), I will not indicate these less significant aspects, but will pay attention
only to the events coincident with the progressed Sun coming to the conjunction, opposition, square and trine of the more prominent planets in the Sun
Cycle Chart. Because, during a year the Sun makes so many aspects, if all
were here considered, available space would be used on a single chart. But by
thus selecting the prominent planets in a chart, and giving attention to only
the 6 mentioned aspects (to the place of each planet the Sun makes each year
one conjunction, one opposition, two squares and two trines) we can cover
sufficient ground to give a good idea of what to expect, in different charts,
from the more significant aspects. Starting thus with the Sun Cycle of 1923 I
will go as far as space permits.
Allowing an orb of no more than 24 hours from the time the aspect is
perfect, I will state each such aspect and quote from the World Almanac (with
my own comments in parentheses) the event coincident with it. When the
event falls on a day other than that on which the aspect is perfect, this will be
duly noted.
Then as the second part of our study, we will consider the Sun Cycle chart
of 1937, which forms the illustration in chapter 7, page 112, and starting with
its commencement, I will list ALL the progressed aspects in that Sun Cycle,
and go as far as space permits, quoting from the World Almanac the event
attracted by each of these progressed aspects.
Sun Cycle No. 125 in the table in chapter 7, page 110, commenced March
21, 1923, 10:21 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
The Cycles of the Sun
Uranus in this chart is in the tenth conjunction the co-ruler of the people
(first), promising to reveal graft; and as it is co-ruler of the house of shipping
(ninth), and Neptune is in opposition to Venus in this ninth, sudden disasters
where transportation are concerned are indicated. This prominence of Uranus also encourages uprisings. Mars conjunction the Moon and in opposition
to Jupiter (courts) indicate severe accidents, and legal rulings concerning the
liquor (Mars) question; and as Jupiter is ruler of the seventh, business dealings with foreign governments. Neptune in the house of writing (third), opposition Venus and square Mars, Moon and Jupiter denotes large schemes for
social betterment, and other schemes of a fraudulent nature, especially in connection with writing. I shall consider only the progressed aspects of the Sun
to Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune.
April 6, 1923, Sun trine Neptune r (fraud) in third (writing): Martin E.
Kern of Allentown, Pa., who in December, 1918, purchased for $4,500,000 the
American Bosch Magneto Company’s property at Chicopee, Mass., seized and
sold by A. M. Palmer as Alien Property Custodian, pleaded guilty at N. Y. to
an indictment charging him with perjury in describing himself as an American instead of a Swiss citizen in a passport application made January 3, 1922.
He was fined $2,000 in Federal Court, which he paid.
May 4, 1923, Sun in eleventh (Legislature) conjunction Mars r (intoxicants):
N. Y. Legislature just before the end of the 1923 session, repealed the MullanGage “dry law.”
May 6, 1923, Sun conjunction Moon r, ruler of house of money (second):
Chinese bandits (Mars is conjunction Moon and opposition ruler of seventh)
killed a foreigner and carried off a score of passengers in a raid at Shantung
border on train on Tientsin-Pukow railway. Miss-Lucy T. Aldrich (sister of
wife of J. D. Rockefeller Jr.), Mrs. Robert Allen (wife of Major Allen, U.S.A.),
and Mrs. Robert R. W. Pinger (wife of Major Pinger, U.S.A.) and other women
(Moon) and children were released. Allen and Pinger were held with others
for ransom.
May 7, 1923, Sun square Neptune r (fraud) in third (writing). Forged checks
and forged buying orders from a score of cities caused commotion in N. Y.
stock market.
May 10, 1923, Sun opposition Jupiter r in sixth (sickness): U. S. Judge Knox
at N. Y. ruled that the Volstead Act cannot limit amount of liquor physicians
may prescribe.
June 6, 1923, Sun square Uranus r (new contrivances), co-ruler of ninth
(transportation): The army dirigible TC-1 was destroyed by thunderstorm at
Dayton, Ohio.
July 7, 1923, Sun trine Uranus r, co-ruler of house of transportation (ninth):
July 6, Lightning killed 5 at Pittsburgh. Balloon of U. S. Navy containing Lieuts.
L. J. Roth and T. B. NuII, fell into Lake Erie off Port Stanley. Roth’s body was
found July 9.
July 11, 1923, Sun trine Jupiter r (law) in sixth (inferiors): July 10, The U. S.
Department of Justice has established a watch at Tuskegee, Ala., to prevent
outbreaks between white residents and negroes over the new Veteran’s Bureau Hospital there.
August 6, 1923, Sun square Mars r (violence): Philippine constabulary
killed 50 Moros in battle near Lake Lanas, Mindanao Island.
August 8, 1923, Sun square Moon r, ruler of second (money): August 9,
N.Y. State transfer tax appraisers fix net value of estate of late Wm. Rockefeller
at $67,649,660.
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August 9, 1923, Sun conjunction Neptune r (gas) in third (auto-travel):
August 8, South Dakota State oil stations cut price of gasoline in war on private dealers.
August 12, 1923, Sun square Jupiter r in sixth (labor): August 13, The 8—
hour day plan was put into effect at Gary plant by U. S. Steel Corp.
September 6, 1923, Sun trine Mars r (violence): Five men were killed and
30 injured when tons of smokeless powder aboard a schooner and four freight
cars exploded and hurled blazing debris on persons in automobiles at South
Amboy, N.J.
September 8, 1923, Sun in fourth trine Moon r: Mexico-U.S. claims agreements were signed at Washington, D. C. (claims arising from oil and land,
ruled by fourth).
September 8, 1923, Sun opposition Uranus r, coruler of shipping (ninth):
U. S. Navy torpedo boats (destroyers) Delphy, S. P. Lee, Chauncy, Fuller,
Woodbury, Nicholas, and Young, went ashore off Arguello Light, 75 miles
north of Santa Barbara, California; 25 drowned.
November 5, 1923, Sun opposition Mars r: At Atlanta, Georgia, Phillip
Fox, Publicity Director for the Klan and editor of the Nighthawk, official Klan
Publication, shot and killed W. S. Corbin, former Kleagle of the Klan and attorney for W. J. Simmons, Emperor of the Invisible Empire.
November 7, 1923, Sun opposition Moon r, from cusp of sixth (supplies)
to cusp of twelfth (hospitals): Testifying before Senate sub-committee in
Veteran’s Bureau inquiry, Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, chief of the Board of
Hospitalization, stated that President Harding asked for the resignation of
Col. Charles R. Forbes, former Director of the Veterans’ Bureau, for insubordination in refusing to hold up shipments of supplies to the Thompson and
Kelly Co. Inc. of Boston, from the bureau’s depot in Perryville, Md.
November 8,1923, Sun square Neptune r (corporations): November 9, The
Sheffield steam plant, a unit of the Muscle Shoals project, has been leased for
another year to the Alabama Power Company which has been operating it
(part of a long fight for control).
November 11, 1923, Sun conjunction Jupiter r, ruler of seventh (aliens): U.
S. Supreme Court declared valid the laws of California and Washington prohibiting aliens (including Japanese and Chinese) ownership of real estate.
December 7, 1923, Sun square Uranus r (the exposer): Oklahoma Legislature passed a bill prohibiting Ku Klux Klan and others from masking in public.
December 8, 1923, Sun trine Neptune r in third (transportation): December 9, The Marine Corps aviators (Neptune rules aviation) Lieuts. F. O. Rogers
and H. D. Palmer, arrived at Santo Domingo City, thus completing their flight
to San Francisco and return. The flight is declared to be the longest ever made
by American aviators.
January 4, 1924, Sun trine Mars r from seventh (foreign powers): The U. S.
Government has sold to the Mexican Government 5,000 Enfield rifles, 5 million round of ammunition, and 8 airplanes (Mars rules armament) .
January 6, 1924, Sun trine Moon r from seventh (other nations): Edward W.
Bok announced that the $100,000 prize offered by him on July 2 for the best
practical plan by which the United States may cooperate with other nations
looking toward the prevention of war (seventh house) has been awarded by
the jury, headed by Elihu Root, for plan No. 1469 of 22,165 plans submitted.
February 2, 1924, Sun square Mars r from ninth (transportation): Twelve
were killed when 2 traction trains collided head-on near Ingalla, Indiana.
February 4, 1924, Sun square Moon r from ninth (religion): N. Y. Presbytery,
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111 to 28, cleared Rev. H. E. Fosdick, Baptist, of charge of preaching heresy.
February 5, 1924, Sun opposition Neptune r (schemes for social betterment): February 4, The American (Bok) Peace award has been won by Chas.
H. Levermore of N. Y. City, who, at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, was
given $50,000 of the $100,000 prize. He is secretary of the N. Y. Peace Society.
February 8, 1924, Sun square Jupiter r (law) from ninth (courts): Frederick
G. Bonfils, publisher of the Denver Post, testified before the Senate Public
Lands Committee that he, his partner H. H. Tammen, and John Leo Stack, got
a contract with Harry F. Sinclair whereby he paid $250,000 outright and prospectively $1,000,000 for their alleged rights in Teapot Dome oil fields.
March 5, 1924, Sun conjunction Uranus r (exposer) in house of Administration (tenth): Members of the Senate Committee investigating the oil scandal reported the finding of another telegram in the series sent to Edward B.
McLean at Palm Beach.
March 9, 1924, Sun in tenth (business) trine Jupiter r (religion and law):
30,000 blue law offenders were named by police for Grand Jury action in
Hudson County, N. J. They are mostly storekeepers (tenth).
Sun Cycle No. 126 in the table commenced March 20, 1924, 4:12 p.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
As the Ingress (Sun at commencement of Aries) and two other planets are
in the seventh, foreign affairs become the subject of much concern. Uranus in
the seventh opposition Moon in the house of the people (first) signifies acute
controversy with foreign powers, and as Jupiter is square to both, finances
will enter the controversy. Further, as Jupiter is in the fourth, territory will
play its part.
The Sun square Mars in the house of sport (fifth) and ruling the house of
death (eighth) denotes the death of important (Sun) persons, death through
violence and strife (Mars), and strife arising through sports. Venus in the ninth
and Saturn in the third both aspecting the Sun, indicate important developments in transportation; and as the aspects are not altogether favorable, traffic accidents. With Uranus occupying so important a position, the radical element will be active, but as it is severely afflicted they will suffer. I shall here
consider only the six stronger aspects to Uranus, Jupiter, Moon and Mars.
The first three are angular and making powerful aspects, and Mars aspects
the Sun.
March 28, 1924, Sun square Mars r (accidents) from eighth (death): Twentysix died in explosion in coal mine at Yukon, W. Va.
April 9, 1924, Sun trine Jupiter r (finances) from eighth (debts): The
American (Dawes) and British (McKenna) committees of experts handed to
the Allied Reparation Commission, at Paris, their reports on Germany’s capacity to pay.
April 29, 1924, Sun in ninth (travel) trine Mars r (accidents): April 30, Major
F. L. Martin, one of four round-the-world airplane flyers, left Chignik, Alaska,
for Unalaska, but hit a mountain top; he and his mechanician, Sgt. A. L. Harvey,
after many hardships, on May 9 (Sun sextile Uranus r) reached Port Moller,
200 miles west of Chignik.
May 17, 1924, Sun in ninth (journeys) trine Moon r (publicity): May 18, U.
S. round-the-world airplanes flew from Paramashiru Island to Yetorofu Island, reaching there May 19, and on May 22 landed at Minato, Japan.
June 9,1924, Sun in tenth (business) square Uranus r (strikes): June 10,
Sun opposition Jupiter r (interstate commerce). June 9, A strike of employees
against manufacturers when illegal picketing and intimidation are used to
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prevent production does not constitute restraint of international commerce,
was held by the U. S. Supreme Court (Jupiter).
June 18, 1924, Sun, ruler of foreign lands (seventh) in house of business
(tenth), square Moon r in house of people (first): China bade U. S., Japan and
France not to interfere in arrangements between Russia and China as to the
Chinese Eastern Railway.
June 30, 1924, Sun opposition Mars r (intoxicants and accidents): At Washington, Secretary of State Hughes and Ambassador Jusserand signed a treaty
to prevent the illegal importation of intoxicating liquors into the United
States. Eight were killed, 16 hurt, when mail train telescoped passenger train
at Buda, Illinois.
July 11, 1924, Sun trine Uranus r (revolt against authority): Bootleggers
bombed and partly destroyed Ottawa St. M. E. Church, Joliet, Illinois.
August 12, 1924, Sun in twelfth (prison) trine Jupiter r (law): At N. Y. City,
for his services in testifying against William J. Fallon, lawyer, who was acquitted of jury bribing, Charles W. Rendigs, convicted perjurer, was released
from the Tombs by Judge Talley of General Sessions, with a suspended sentence.
September 1, 1924, Sun trine Mars r in house of pleasure and speculation
(fifth): Dawes German reparation plan went into effect at noon (causing speculative activity). August 31, The Prince of Wales practiced at polo at Westbury,
L. I., and took a motor boat ride on Long Island Sound.
September 11, 1924, Sun opposition Uranus r, in seventh (war): September 12, 16,792,781 individuals took part in 6,535 Defense Day demonstrations
throughout the United States, according to telegraphic reports to the War
Department.
September 12, 1924, Sun square Jupiter r in fourth (hotels): Waldorf Astoria
Hotel, N. Y. City, has been sold by the Astors to the du Pont-Boomer syndicate.
September 19, 1924, Sun conjunction Moon r (women): Mrs. G. R. Hunn,
of Chicago, was beaten with a hammer and shot to death at her villa, Pasadena, California.
October 1, 1924, Sun in second (money) square Mars r in fifth (sports):
Jimmy O’Connell, outfielder of the New York Giants, who cost $75,000, and
Cozy Dolan, one of the Giants’ coaches, were found guilty by Commissioner
Landis of offering $500 to Heine Sand, shortstop of Philadelphia National
League Club, to throw the game (September 27) when the Giants clinched the
National League pennant.
November 11, 1924, Sun trine Uranus r in seventh (foreigners). November 12, Harry Katz, diamond broker, was killed in Los Angeles, Calif., in an
alleged international smuggling plot (Uranus reveals graft). Dion O’Banion
(gangster chief) was assassinated in his flower shop, at Chicago.
December 10, 1924, Sun square Uranus r (radicals); and conjunction Jupiter r (law) on December 11: December 10, The conviction of Charles E.
Rutenberg for the violation of the Michigan Syndicalism Act was affirmed by
the State Supreme Court. The arrest and conviction of Rutenburg was followed by a raid on a secret convention of the Communist Party of America in
Berrien County, in August 1922, by Federal agents and local officers. The Court
upheld the constitutionality of the Syndicalism Act.
December 18, 1924, Sun co-ruler of house of sorrow (twelfth) in the fourth
(grave) square Moon r (people): The body of Samuel Gompers, President of
the American Federation of Labor, was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery,
Tarrytown, N. Y. (He was. the common people’s champion).
The Cycles of the Sun
December 30, 1924, Sun conjunction Mars r, in fifth (sports) and ruler of
death (eighth): A jury at Los Angeles found Norman Selby (Kid McCoy),
expugilist, guilty of manslaughter for the shooting of Mrs. Theresa Mors. An
express messenger was shot and killed by one or more robbers who attempted
to hold up a Chicago Northwestern passenger train (Mars co-ruler of third)
as it neared Chicago.
January 17, 1925, Sun in fifth (social events) trine Moon r, co-ruler of eleventh (friends): Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovitch of Russia, wife and motherinlaw, arrived at New York.
March 9, 1925, Sun, co-ruler of foreign powers (seventh) conjunction Uranus r (radicals and strikes)in house of conflict (seventh): President Coolidge
handed down his arbitral award in the controversy between Chile and Peru
over the possession of Tacna and Arica, calling for a plebiscite by which these
provinces shall determine their own nationality, and holding that the town
and Province of Tarata shall revert to Peru. At Lima a general strike followed
the decision. U. S. Senate, 64 to 11, approved Republican committee assignments demoting La Follette and other radicals of the party
March 10, 1925, Sun square Jupiter r (finance) in fourth (farming): March
9, At Washington, Senator Howell of Nebraska filed a report in. the Senate
exonerating Senator Frank R. Gooding of Idaho, who, it had been charged,
obtained the Lion’s share of War Finance Corporation money lent to farmers
in his State.
March 17, 1925, Sun in seventh (war) opposition Moon r: Peruvian mobs,
angry over President Coolidge’s decision, attacked the U. S. Embassy at Lima.
Sun Cycle No. 127 in the table commenced March 20, 1925, 10:05 p.m.
L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
While the Sun is in the fifth, influencing speculation, entertainment and
children; as it is not powerfully aspected, this trend is less powerful than that
restricting and limiting freedom, as shown by Saturn in the house of restrictions (twelfth) in conjunction with the place of the people (Ascendant) and in
square with the Moon (populace) in the house of thought (third) and in square
with Neptune in the house of teaching (ninth). Neptune, the ruler of plots, is
in the house of law (ninth) afflicted. As there is space available for only three
events, I shall consider only aspects to Saturn, Neptune and the Moon.
April 10, 1925, Sun trine Neptune r, ruler of social welfare schemes in
house of treaties (ninth): April 9, President Coolidge refused to reopen for
Peru his arbitration of the Tacna-Arica boundary dispute.
May 4, 1925, Sun opposition Saturn r (conservatism) in house of imprisonment (twelfth): May 5, John T. Scopes, a teacher in the Dayton, Tenn., High School,
was arrested, charged with teaching evolution in violation of a State law.
May 6, 1925, Sun square Moon r in third (mails): At Great Falls, Mont.,
Gordon Campbell, finder of the Kevin-Sunburst oil field, was sentenced to 2
years hard labor at Leavenworth, when a jury in Federal Court found him
guilty of using the mails to defraud in the promotion of an oil (Neptune opposition Moon and square Saturn in house of prisons) syndicate 3 years ago.
A fine of $1000 was also imposed.
Sun Cycle No. 128 in the table commenced March 21, 1926, 3:53 a.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
Sun Cycle No. 129 in the table commenced March 21, 1927, 9:51 a.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
Sun Cycle No. 358 in the table commenced March 20, 1928, 3:36 p.m. I
.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
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Sun Cycle No. 359 in the table commenced March 20, 1929, 9:27 p.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
Sun Cycle No. 360 in the table commenced March 21, 1930, 3:22 a.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
Sun Cycle No. 361 in the table commenced March 21, 1931, 8:58 a.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
Sun Cycle No. 362 in the table commenced March 20, 1932, 2:46 p.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
Sun Cycle constituting the chart in chapter 7, page 111, commenced March
20, 1933, 8:55 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
Sun Cycle No. 363 in the table commenced March 21, 1934, 2:20 a.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
Sun Cycle No. 364 in the table commenced March 21, 1935, 8:10 a.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
Sun Cycle No. 365 in the table commenced March 20, 1936, 1:50 a.m. L.M.T.
77W. 38:56N.
Sun Cycle constituting the chart in chapter 7, page 112, commenced March
20, 1937, 7:37 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
Later Sun Cycles, previous to their commencement, will be published in
THE CHURCH OF LIGHT QUARTERLY.
Taking Each
Progressed Aspect of
the Sun as it Comes
And now to furnish examples, not of what is to be expected in the way of
events from heavy and exceptional aspects in a Sun Cycle, but to give a clear
picture of what should be expected also from the weak aspects, and those that
occur at rather short intervals, it seems that the best method to follow is to
take all the aspects that the Sun forms within a given period in its cycle chart,
and note one event which actually was coincident with each such aspect.
Commencing, therefore, with the Sun Cycle of March 20, 1937, in chapter 7,
page 112, I will list ALL the progressed aspects in the chart following its date,
going as far as space permits, and quote the date and the event attracted,
from the World Almanac, my own comments being placed in parentheses. As
only the most important events are listed in the World Almanac, it will be apparent these events are not inconsequential. When the event falls on a day
other than that on which the aspect is perfect, this will be duly noted.
March 23, 1937, Sun trine Mars r in house of wages (second) from house
of labor (sixth): March 22, Wage increases of 5 to 10 per cent and recognition
of a C.I.O. union as a bargaining agency for its members ended a strike which
had closed about ninety retail stores in Providence, R. I.
March 26, 1937, Sun semi-sextile Venus r in house of foreign lands (seventh): Mourning services in the Sistine Chapel, without the accustomed presence of Pope Pius XI, climaxed Good Friday (ruled by Venus) at Rome.
March 28, 1937, Sun semi-sextile Uranus r in house of foreign lands (seventh): March 27, The Soviet Academy of Science announced that insects and
a small variety of lobsters born thousands of years ago (Uranus rules the
extremely old and the very new) have been received and are pursuing a
normal existence.
April 7, 1937, Sun sesqui-square Mars r in house of money (second),
inconjunct Neptune r, co-ruler of the house of labor (sixth), and opposition
the Ascendant (people): An angry mob of 3,000 farmers, who had lost pay for
800,000 gallons of milk because of a sit-down strike at the Hershey Chocolate
factory near Harrisburg, Pa., marched into the plant and threw out the strikers. Many were injured (Mars).
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April 9, 1937, Sun square Moon r in house of long journeys (ninth): Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh arrived at their home in England after a ten-week air
flight to India.
April 10, 1937, Sun square M.C. r (honor) from house of foreign countries (seventh): The monoplane, Kamikaze, owned by the newspaper Ashi
and bearing Tokyo’s coronation greetings, swooped into Croydon airfield,
near London.
April 13, 1937, Sun square Jupiter r (treaty), ruler of railroads (third): At
Washington, Secretary Hull and Francisco Castillo Najera, the Mexican Ambassador, signed a treaty providing for the termination of Article VIII of the
Gadsden Treaty, 1853, which authorized the construction of a plank and railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
April 15, 1937, Sun semi-sextile Mercury r and Saturn r in house of labor
(sixth): The United Automobile Workers of America agreed in Detroit to settle
the General Motors strike at Oshawa on a “Canadian” basis, without recognition of the C.I.O.
April 16, 1937, Sun square Pluto r (mobs) in the house of authority (tenth):
April 15, The U. S. House, 277 to- 118, passed the anti-lynching bill which
provides for Federal fines or prison sentences for peace officers who permit a
prisoner to be taken from them and injured or killed, and it also permits an
injured person or his kin to institute suit against the guilty peace officers for
personal damages.
April 23, 1937, Sun in house of war (seventh) inconjunct Mars r: Fifty persons were injured, some seriously, in a riot of cannery workers at Stockton,
California. Police used shotguns and gas shells before a truce was arranged.
April 25, 1937, Sun conjunction Venus r (women) in house of foreign affairs (seventh): At Baltimore, the girlhood home of Mrs. Wallis Warfield
Simpson (for whom King Edward gave up his throne), on E. Biddle St., was
opened as a museum.
April 28, 1937, Sun conjunction Uranus r in house of foreign affairs (seventh): At Berlin, the People’s Tribunal sentenced Rev. Joseph Rossaint, chief
defendant in the Catholic treason trial, to 11 years in the penitentiary. He was
found guilty of “preparation for high treason” (Uranus rules rebellion).
May 1, 1937, Sun semi-square Saturn r and Mercury r in house of labor
(sixth): At Warsaw (progressed Sun in seventh), Fascists threw bombs and
fired shots at a May Day (labor) parade of the Jewish Socialist Party.
May 6, 1937, Sun in house of foreign nations (seventh) semi-square Sun r:
Women and children with aged and helpless are being taken from Bilbao,
Spain, by British and other vessels, guarded by warships.
May 8, 1937, Sun trine Neptune r, ruler of aviation: May 9, The first attempt
at a transatlantic airplane flight this year started at 4:36 p.m. when Henry T.
Merrill and John S. Lambie, co-pilot, took off from Brooklyn on a projected
non-stop flight to London. They made the trip in 20 hours, 59 minutes.
May 9, 1937, Sun in house of death (eighth) inconjunct Ascendant (people):
Six high-school boys from Greensborough, Florida, were killed in a bus-truck
collision near Chattahoochee, Florida.
May 10, 1937, Sun sextile Moon r (populace) in house of religion (ninth):
May 11, At Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, church bells rang out as worshipers
crowded into the cathedral closed for three years but reopened on orders
from Governor Roman Yocupicio. Hundreds of women, many weeping and
others screaming (Moon conjunction Pluto, ruler of mobs), crowded around
the public plaza.
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May 11, 1937, Sun sextile M.C. r, (place of honor): At London, King George
VI gave a personal pledge “to carry on my father’s work for the welfare of our
great empire” in a ceremony in which the Prime Ministers of five dominions
presented “Loyal Addresses” to him at Buckingham palace.
May 14, 1937, Sun in house of death (eighth) trine Jupiter r: The Soviet
Russian government has shot 41 Soviet citizens on charges of espionage and
sabotage on behalf of the Japanese (capitalism) at one of the strategic sections
of the Transiberian Railway (Jupiter in third).
May 16, 1937, Sun in house of death (eighth) sextile Saturn r and Mercury
r in house of subordinates (sixth): At Moscow, B. V. Pavloff-Silvansky, Soviet
army commander and one of the country’s experimenters with parachutes,
was shot and killed by a civilian sentry whom he scolded for leaving a hangar
door open.
May 18, 1937, Sun sextile drastic Pluto r in house of president (tenth): An
electric alarm system whereby any one of the President’s secretaries can call
an armed guard at a moment’s notice has been placed in the Executive offices.
May 21, 1937, Sun sextile Sun r in house of labor (sixth): May 20, At Pittsburgh, the 27,000 employees of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, chose
the Steel Workers Organizing Committee as their collective bargaining agent
with the company.
May 24, 1937, Sun in house of insurance (eighth) opposition Mars r in
house of money (second) and sesqui-square Ascendant r (people): The U. S.
Supreme Court upheld in three opinions the constitutionality of the Social
Security Act affecting 26,000,000 workers and 2,700,000 employers. The unemployment insurance and old-age pensions sections of the Federal law were
approved respectively, by 5-to-4 and 7-2, while the auxiliary State laws were
backed by a 5-to-4 vote.
May 26, 1937, Sun semi-sextile Venus r in house of foreign countries
(seventh): The Special Assembly of the league of Nations admitted Egypt to
membership.
May 26, 1937, Sun semi-square Moon r in house of religion (ninth): The
Pope received Alfred E. Smith, ex-Governor of New York, at Castle Gandolfo,
near Rome.
May 27, 1937, Sun semi-square M.C. r (business): At New York City, an
agreement providing for a 10 per cent wage increase, a basic 48-hour week, a
minimum wage of $25, vacation with pay and the closed shop was signed
between Thomas E. Murray Jr., receiver for the Interborough Rapid Transit
Co., and the Transport Workers’ Union.
May 29, 1937, Sun in house of death (eighth) sesqui-square Jupiter r (which is
in opposition to drastic Pluto): Major H. H. Witt of the German Air Corps, a
passenger who escaped from the airship Hindenburg when it was destroyed by
fire at Lakehurst, N. J. on May 6, told the Department of Commerce (ruled by
Jupiter) investigating board that the Zeppelin company had received sabotage
warnings before sending the dirigible on her final voyage to the United States.
June 2, 1937, Sun in house of taxes (eighth) semi-square drastic Pluto r in
house of president (tenth): June 1, President Roosevelt asked Congress to get
after income tax dodgers—”a minority of very rich individuals.
June 8, 1937, Sun square Neptune r, co-ruler of house of labor (sixth): At
Waukegan, 39 C.I.O. sitdowners in the Fansteel factory were fined and jailed.
A La Follette agent was declared in contempt. Lansing was tied up a second
day when A. F. of L. building workers followed the C.I.O. automobile employees and declared a work holiday (Neptune).
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June 9, 1937, Sun trine Ascendant r (people): Industrial disputes held in
idleness more than 123,000 wage earners in 18 states, a survey on the strike
front showed.
June 11, 1937, Sun semi-sextile Venus r (women) in house of foreign countries (seventh) and semi-square Moon r in house of courts (ninth): In King’s
Court, London, Mrs. Joan Sutherland, wife of a British army officer, apologized for having said (Moon rules gossip) at a luncheon party, that Ernest A.
Simpson had been paid for not opposing the divorce action of his wife, Wallis
Warfield, now wife of the Duke of Windsor. Simpson had denied in court,
under oath, that he had been paid in cash or otherwise.
June 12, 1937, Sun semi-sextile M.C. r (business): The Pan-American Exposition opened, at Dallas, Texas.
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The Cycles of the Sun
NEW MOON
November 2, 1937, 11:08 p.m. L.M.T. Washington
Opposition of Sun Moon Mercury to Uranus in house of Government
(tenth) brought abrupt changes in Administration policies and in governing
positions. It marked recognition of a Major Business Recession, with consequent increasing unemployment (Mars conjunction Jupiter in sixth), and effort to release money (Neptune in second trine Uranus and Mars Jupiter)
with which to stimulate business (Uranus in tenth) and employment (MarsJupiter in sixth). Events in foreign lands (Uranus ruling seventh) took a sudden turn which caused both people (Sun ruler of first) and Government (Uranus in tenth) much anxiety, and affected business adversely (opposition).
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NEW MOON
March 2, 1938, 0:33 a.m. L.M.T. Washington
Schemes (Neptune) for reorganizing government (tenth) were a source of
conflict (Venus opposition Neptune). Ex-President of stock exchange (Uranus and Mars in fifth) plead guilty of grand larceny; stocks tumbled. Floods
and tornadoes (Venus and Saturn in fourth) damaged much property, and
made roads and railroads (afflicted planets in third) impassable. Vice expose
(Uranus in fifth) and gang (Pluto square Mars in fifth) bombing as result of
vice investigation gained much attention. Railroads were given a 10 per cent
raise (Jupiter in third). A move to halt aviation (Neptune) bombing of civilians in war was launched.
Course 13
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Astrology
Chapter 9
The Cycles of the Moon
B
ECAUSE the Moon is not a planet, but a satellite of the earth whose
luminosity, tidal influence, and electromagnetic power upon life is
markedly altered by its swiftly changing relations to the lines of force
flowing from Sun to earth, and from earth to Sun, the commencement of its
Cycle is not determined in the same way that those of the Sun and planets
are. The ebb and flood of magnetic and mental forces affecting all life upon
the earth are as intimately bound up with the relation of the Moon to the line
of energy exchange between earth and Sun, as the vital forces are dependent
upon the relation of the positions of the Sun to the equator of the earth; positions which, one following another, bring the heat of summer, the declining
days of fall, the winter’s nights of icy chill, and then spring’s glad renewal of
dormant life.
Compared to Sun and Moon, the influence of the other planets upon the
tides of earth, and upon the light which the earth receives, is small. Nor do
these other planets in their cycles influence the affairs of cities and nations
through more than a limited number of channels. But both Sun and Moon, by
the positions of the planets in their cycles, and the progressed aspects made
to these positions, utilize the channels of influence of all these planets, and
through them affect every department of human life.
Due to the peculiar relationship mentioned between the Moon and the
lines of exchange between Sun and earth, the Cycle of the Moon commences
at the exact moment the Moon is conjunction with the Sun. This position often is called the LUNATION; but I find no occasion to depart from the popular custom of referring to it as NEW MOON.
A chart erected for the exact moment the New Moon (Lunation) occurs at
a given place is a chart of the conditions and events relative to all twelve
departments of human life, as they will develop at that place during the following lunar month. Such a chart is subordinate not merely to progressed
aspects which during its existence may form in the Cycles of the planets, but
also to the Sun Cycle chart for the year. That is, if the Sun Cycle chart for the
year indicates passive conditions relative to a given department of life, violent conditions relative to this same department of life as shown in the New
Moon Cycle, would be violent only in comparison with other months of the
same astronomical year. Or if the Sun Cycle chart indicated drastic occurrences affecting a certain department of life, and the New Moon Cycle indicated little action relative to this department of human affairs, it would only
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mean that, compared to the other months of the year, this one would be comparatively quiet and mild.
Subject to the general conditions affecting the world or a nation during a
much longer period of time, a New Moon chart may be read as a natal chart of
the month to follow. While planets strongly aspecting the New Moon (the
Sun-Moon conjunction) have more significance as to the events which will
happen during the month, yet any planets which are powerful by position,
even if not aspecting the New Moon, also are quite significant of events.
This does not mean that all the important events of the month are signified in their relative importance by the New Moon chart. The most important
events of each type are indicated by appropriate progressed aspects in the
Cycle Chart of the planet to which by type they belong. In other words, the
most important gangster and dictator activities are dated and indicated by
progressed aspects in the Pluto Cycle, the most important dramatic events
and promotion schemes by progressed aspects in the Neptune Cycle the most
important radical activities and inventions by progressed aspects in the Uranus Cycle, the most important events relative to economy, lands and security
by progressed aspects in the Saturn Cycle, the most important treaties andreligious movements by progressed aspects in the Jupiter Cycle, the most
important violence, accidents and strife by progressed aspects in the Mars
Cycle, and still other important events by progressed aspects in the Sun Cycle.
But aside from these events, which usually are more precisely timed by a
progressed aspect to the same planet in the New Moon Cycle, and in addition
to them, the New Moon chart gives a general picture of the events which will
happen during the month affecting each of the twelve departments of life.
As the New Moon is a cycle dependent upon the position at the time of
both the Sun and Moon, the time events indicated by each house of the New
Moon chart will take place is when either the Sun or Moon by progression,
which in mundane astrology means its position as shown on that day in the
ephemeris, makes aspects to the position of the planet in the New Moon chart,
ruling the house affected. That is, when either Moon or Sun reaches an aspect
to the place of Pluto in the New Moon chart, not only are events involving cooperation or dictatorship then attracted, but the co-operation or dictatorship
affects the department of life governed by the houses Pluto rules in the New
Moon chart.
In reading a New Moon chart as a birth-chart of the month, one can
begin with the first house as representing the health and general welfare of
the people, and their temperament; the second house as their money and
expenditures; the third house as newspapers, science, postal service, and
local transportation; the fourth house as homes and farms, etc. But in so
doing it should be remembered that in mundane astrology the houses also
attain a certain broader significance. Thus the second house also relates to
bankers, the third house to railroads, the fourth house to crops on the soil,
the fifth house to the stock market, the sixth house to the personnel of army
and navy, the seventh house to foreign countries, the eighth house to taxes,
the ninth house to courts and the navy, the tenth house to the Administration, the eleventh house to Congress, and the twelfth house to crime, relief,
hospitals and places of detention. More complete details of these house
meanings are given in chapter 2.
Studying and Teaching
Mundane Astrology
In the hope that both students and teachers may get suggestions thus that
will assist beginners in their study of Mundane Astrology, I will explain the
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method we use in our Los Angeles classes. With the exception of some two
months during the World War, during which I taught astrological classes elsewhere, and a month’s vacation each summer during which another teacher
taught the class, I have taught a weekly class in Mundane Astrology here in
Los Angeles for 23 years.
In all our various astrological classes, the students are not permitted to
know the answers in advance. When a natal chart is thrown on the screen (we
use lantern slides in such work as well as blackboard) and read by the students, they are never permitted to know the identity of the person owning
the chart until after the delineation is made. When in connection with a birthchart, progressions are stated for various events in some person’s life, the
students are required to give their opinion of the event attracted by each progression; and are told what actually took place only after they have thus expressed their opinions. And in Mundane Astrology, from the Cycle Charts
thrown on the screen, and a statement of the dates when given progressed
aspects will form in them, the students are required to state in advance what
events will transpire, and the exact dates when they will happen.
The method followed, and one which can be used with equal success by
students who do not attend classes, is first to observe the general trend of
national and world affairs as revealed by Major Conjunctions and General
Astronomical Phenomena. Then such cycle charts of the Major Planets are
scrutinized as, during the future period under discussion, have progressed
aspects forming in them. Every such progressed aspect indicates an event
while the aspect is within one degree of perfect, characteristic of the manner
in which the aspected planet works, and affecting the departments of life
which the aspecting planets rule in the Cycle Chart. The heavier the aspect,
the more outstanding the event.
We always employ Cycle Charts erected for Washington to indicate events
of national importance, Cycle Charts erected for Los Angeles to indicate events
of importance chiefly to Los Angeles, and charts for the capitals of foreign
nations to indicate events most pronouncedly affecting those nations. As the
newspapers feature events of national importance, in preference to those of a
single city or a foreign nation, it is easier to get a newspaper check on events
predicted for the charts erected for Washington. Nothing can be expected to
happen from a progressed aspect in a Cycle Chart that is not plainly indicated in the chart itself.
After these future events are tabulated, without attempt at greater precision than the time the progressed aspect is within one degree of perfect, the
progressed aspects in the Sun Cycle chart during the period covered are indicated. Each of these represents energy which will attract a Sub-Major Event
during the 48 hours the aspect is within one degree of perfect. The event
coincident with each aspect will partake of the nature of the planet the Sun
aspects, and relate to the department of national or municipal life which that
planet rules by house. These events are written down by the secretary, and by
such members of the class as desire to- do so.
Only then do we consider the New Moon chart. The trend of this chart is
taken into consideration. Each day the Moon by its movement, as shown in
the ephemeris at the time, makes one, and usually several aspects to planets
in the New Moon chart. Each such aspect it makes represents planetary energy of sufficient power in affecting the unconscious minds, and thus the
behavior of people, and what their thought-cells working from the inner plane
attract to them, that it coincides with some Minor Event in the nation or mu-
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nicipality. By scanning the various daily papers at the time, allowing 24 hours
each way from the perfection of the progressed aspect, it is possible to find a
published event coincident with each such progressed aspect that forms in
the New Moon chart. Also for each progressed aspect of the Sun that forms in
the New Moon chart.
However, significant events are attracted only by the heavier progressed
aspects in the New Moon chart; that is, by the conjunctions, oppositions, trines
and squares.
In connection with the progressed aspects which form in this New Moon
chart, the class makes a day by day prediction for the week ahead. The truly
important events indicated by progressed aspects in the Cycles of the Major
Planets are listed weeks and months ahead. But as the class meets each week,
the day by day forecast is commonly made only for the week ahead until the
class again meets. But in this forecast, not only are several events, as shown by
the progressed aspects made by the Sun and Moon in the New Moon Cycle, for
each day stated, but using the progressed aspects in the Sun Cycle chart and
those in the New Moon chart as adding energy of the same planetary type, or
to the same house, to progressed aspects in the heavier Cycles, an attempt is
made to gauge from such accumulations of energy on given days, the exact day
when the Major Events indicated in the heavier cycles will transpire
In predicting events from progressed aspects in the New Moon chart, as a
rule the house into which the Moon has progressed is not of outstanding
importance. But if outstanding headlines of the daily papers are used later to
check accuracy, it is safe to predict from each heavy progressed aspect thus
made in the New Moon chart, an event of the nature of the planet the progressed Moon aspects, in addition to an event relative to the most active house
in the chart which this planet rules. That is, it can be counted, allowing 24
hours from the time the aspect is complete, that prominent newspaper headlines will verify two predictions relative to each powerful progressed aspect
the Moon makes in its Cycle chart. And in addition, with practice in gauging
the effects of accumulating planetary energy of the same planetary type, or as
affecting the same department of life, the exact day when Major Events will
take place, as well as their nature, can be forecast with accuracy.
But in predicting what the NEWS will be, and such predicting can be as
long range as desired, it must be remembered that newspapers seldom find
fortunate and constructive events dramatic enough for publication. The favorable events indicated by progressions in the New Moon chart really take
place, as often can be determined by enough personal effort. But only occasionally are they startling enough to make the newspaper headlines. Therefore, if the accuracy of the forecasts is to be determined, the predictions must
be of the nature which commonly are featured in the newssheets.
Our Los Angeles class thus makes several predictions for each day of the
week in advance. These predictions are written down by the secretary, and
usually by others. When the class again meets, these predictions are read,
and clippings of prominent newspaper headlines, or copies of these prominent headlines, published for the day indicated, are read to indicate the degree in which the class has been able to state these headlines days before the
events featured happened.
Gauging Elections
In twenty-three years, with but one single exception, this class has picked the
successful candidate in advance, not merely in national, but also in local elections. And this one error has taught us something quite important. I may say
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also that the class has picked the winner of every notable prizefight since
1915. Some of the students also have had much success predicting the outcome of ball games and horse races; but we do not permit charts relating to
these, or to other things that might encourage gambling, to be discussed in
our classes. In the important elections the predictions have been published
months in advance.
The method followed has been to obtain the birthcharts of the contending
candidates and carefully weigh one chart against the other, special attention
being given to the progressions in the chart of each at the time, and immediately following the election. Where, as sometimes happens, there is difficulty
in deciding which chart wit its progressions is most favorable toward acquiring the office, a horary chart is erected, and the question asked if John Doe
(naming one of the candidates) will be elected. The chart is then judged according to the rules given in Chapter 6, Course 8, Horary Astrology for determining the winner of a contest.
In reference to elections, we have quite thoroughly demonstrated that
Jupiter rules the Republican party, Saturn the Democratic party (at least as it
existed before the New Deal), Neptune rules the Socialists, Uranus the Communists, and Pluto the New Deal policies inaugurated by President Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
If on election day there is a good aspect in the Jupiter Cycle, as happened
November 6, 1928 (Jupiter sextile Mercury r) it indicates that the Republican
party will poll a heavier vote than expected. If on election day there is a good
aspect in the Saturn Cycle, as there was November 3, 1936 (Saturn conjunction Venus r and semi-sextile Mercury r) it indicates the Democratic party
will poll a heavier vote than expected, many changing at the last minute to
vote Democratic. But a discordant aspect in the Cycle Chart tends to influence things adversely on the last days, or during the time the aspect is operative, for the party ruled by the Cycle planet.
The New Moon preceding an election also has considerable significance;
although its trend should be considered in connection with the charts of the
candidates. If the Tenth house and its ruler are powerful and harmonious, it
indicates the party already in office is well entrenched. If the Fourth house
and its ruler are powerful and harmonious, it indicates that the opposition to
the party in office has much power. If the Tenth house is more powerful and
harmonious than the Fourth, the party in power will tend to remain in power.
But if the Fourth house is stronger and more harmonious than the Tenth, it
indicates that the party which is in opposition to the one in power has the
advantage, and tends to gain the election.
The comparison of the strength of the birth-charts, with the progressions
then operative in both, as our Los Angeles class learned in the election of a
governor for California in 1936, is not an infallible guide when taken apart
from general political trends. Upton Sinclair (Chart is given on page 109, Chapter 7, Course 10-1, Natal Astrology, Delineating the Horoscope) has a stronger
birth-chart, and at the time his progressions were more powerfully favorable,
than those of the opposing candidate for Governor. And his name (according
to literary critics) will live long after most on earth today are forgotten.
But Upton Sinclair had formulated an EPIC plan which was decidedly
Socialistic in nature, and which he proposed should be placed in operation if
he became governor of California. It was so radical a departure from the past,
that it became a national issue, with tremendous forces in opposition to it.
These forces, which represented all factions desirous of preserving the eco-
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nomic structure of the past, were not interested in electing his opponent governor of California; but they were determined at all cost to see that Upton Sinclair
did not become governor and start radical, far reaching economic changes.
Upton Sinclair was not elected governor. Probably no one could have been
elected governor who proposed such radical changes. He did, however, increase his following in an amazing manner, forced liberal changes in the national political platform, and gained tremendously in publicity and in prestige. Even though not enabling him to be governor, is progressed aspects
brought him what he considered great advantages.
He could not become governor, in spite of having a stronger birth-chart
and better progressed aspects than his adversary; because he had adopted a
platform which was too far out of step with the trend of the times.
@SUBHEAD Calculating the New Moon Cycles
In Raphael’s Ephemeris, and in some others, the exact time when the Moon
makes the conjunction with the Sun each month is given in the aspectarian at
the back of the ephemeris for that year. This conjunction of Moon with Sun is
the New Moon. The time given in the ephemeris is Greenwich Mean Time.
Therefore, if the chart for the New Moon is to be erected for some other locality, four minutes must be subtracted from this time for each degree West, or
four minutes must be added to this time for each degree East, that this locality is from Greenwich. The time so obtained is the Local Mean Time of the
New Moon at that place. And for this Local Mean Time at the place, the New
Moon chart should be erected, just as if it were a birth-chart.
To find the Local Mean Time of the New Moon at Tokyo, for instance,
which is 139 degrees, 46 minutes East; 9 hours, 19 minutes must be added. To
find the Local Mean Time of the New Moon at Madrid, which is 3 degrees, 45
minutes West; 15 minutes must be subtracted. To find the Local Mean Time of
the New Moon at Washington, which is 77 degrees West; 5 hours, 8 minutes
must be subtracted from the time of the New Moon as given from Greenwich.
Predicting the Date of
a Few Outstanding
Events During the
Month Solely from the
New Moon Cycle
To be able to determine, within 24 hours of the time they will happen, important events during the month solely from the New Moon Cycle, it is necessary to select the most prominent planets in the chart, and the dates on which
the heaviest progressed aspects of the Moon are made to them. Starting with
the New Moon of June 10, 1926, and taking the New Moon charts in chronological succession, I will give as many illustrations as space will permit, in
each case quoting, with my own observations in parentheses, the event which
actually happened from the World Almanac. When the event falls on a day
other than that on which the aspect is perfect, this will be duly noted.
New Moon No. 131, illustrated in chapter 8, page 126, took place June 10,
1926, 5-01 a.m. L.M.T 77W. 38:56N. Mars is especially prominent through being in an angle conjunction Uranus and square Mercury, these two planets
also being in angles. Each aspect the Moon makes to the position occupied by
Mars in this chart during the subsequent lunar month, therefore, will coincide with events which partake of the strifeful nature of Mars, and events
which relate to the houses Mars rules. Every such event, however, will not
relate to the houses ruled by Mars, as some will merely be acts of violence
such as Mars energy stimulates. Here we will consider only the progressed
squares, opposition and conjunction of the Moon to the position of Mars.
June 18, 1926, Moon opposition Mars r: Admission that the Pepper-Fisher
campaign organization in Western Pennsylvania paid for the insertion of an
advertisement (Mars in tenth indicates criticism of Administration and conflict
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in which it is involved) in which there was a forged letter bearing the signature
of William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor (Mars trine
Saturn in house of labor), were made to the Senate (Mars is co-ruler of house of
Senate) Campaign Fund Investigating Committee at Washington.
June 25, 1926, Moon square Mars r: June 24, at Mineola, N. Y., the four
volunteer firemen of Rockville Center who admitted setting fire (Mars with
Uranus in the tenth tends to public expose) for a thrill got prison and reformatory sentences.
July 1, 1926, Moon conjunction Mars r: Mrs. Alice M. Miller, art dealer,
(because of business reverses, Mars in tenth) jumped to death from a hospital
window at Baltimore.
July 8, 1926, Moon square Mars r: The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Moon
trine Jupiter r in ninth) ruled at New York City that foreign “booze” ships
(Moon trine Jupiter r in ninth) and cargoes may be searched and seized within
12-mile limit, but American liquor carriers can be seized anywhere inside or
outside that limit.
New Moon No. 132 illustrated in chapter 8, page 126, took place July 9,
1926, 5:59 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. With the New Moon conjunction Pluto in
the house of foreign countries (seventh), affairs abroad would attain prominence; but as these planets are closely square to Mars in the house of newspapers and transportation, the progressed conjunction, opposition, squares and
trines of the Moon could be depended upon to attract events of a strifeful
nature, and events relative to the houses Mars rules. Not all the Mars events,
however, would relate to the houses ruled by Mars.
July 12, 1926, Moon trine Mars r from house of debts (eighth): An AngloFrench war debt agreement (Moon a so conjunction Neptune r and Mercury r
in house of debts? was signed at London (debts have continued to stir up
strife). Sale of the Kansas City Star (Mars in third house) and its morning
edition the Kansas City Times, to the present management for years associated with Col. W. R. Nelson, founder, was announced by the trustees of the
newspaper estate.
July 17, 1926, Moon opposition Mars r from house of preachers (ninth):
Claiming self-defense, the Rev. J. F. Norris, pastor of the First Baptist Church
Ft. Worth, Texas, shot and killed D. E. Chipps, lumberman.
July 22, 1926, Moon trine Mars r in house of transportation: The strike of
the I. R. T. Subway men was ended by union leaders.
July 23, 1926, Moon square Mars r: Lightning exploded forgotten dynamite in stone quarry (Mars ruler of fourth) at Strasburg Junction, Va., killing
5. The heat (Mars rules house of weather) killed 9 in and near N. Y. City.
July 30, 1926, Moon conjunction Mars r: The Baroness Royce-Garnett leaped
to death from a hotel (Mars rules house of hotels) at Miami, Florida.
New Moon No. 133, illustrated in chapter 8, page 126, took place August
8, 1926, 8:41 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. Uranus in the seventh square Venus in
tenth indicates important foreign developments, and also sudden and unusual events. Saturn in the house of money (second) square Neptune with the
New Moon, indicate schemes relating to money which are unfavorable to the
banks and the people. And as Jupiter is part of a T-square with Neptune and
Saturn, and in the house of entertainment, loss or difficulty to entertainers is
shown. Also, as Saturn rules the house of buildings, and is the planet of
storms, loss may be expected through weather conditions. We will consider
only the progressed conjunctions and oppositions to Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune.
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August 8, 1926, Moon conjunction Neptune r (planet of intrigue) and opposition Jupiter r (finances): Ex-Premier Clemenceau of France, in an open letter,
appeals to President Coolidge to consider France’s empty treasury and her sacrifices in blood and treasure (Moon is also square Saturn in house of money).
August 12, 1926, Moon opposition Uranus r: N. Y. City traffic was held up
by a thunder storm, with 3.24 inches of rain, windows were smashed and
cornices tumbled; lightning started 15 fires.
August 16, 1926, Moon conjunction Saturn r, ruler of destructive weather:
Cyclones hit Ridgefield, N. J. and Glen Cove, N. Y., raising a dozen houses
(Saturn co-ruler of fourth) at latter.
August 23, 1926. Moon conjunction Jupiter r in house of actors: Rudolph
Valentino, 31, moving picture actor, died (Moon also square Saturn and opposition Neptune, ruler of movies) at N. Y. City after an operation for gastric
ulcer and appendicitis.
August 25, 1926, Moon conjunction Uranus r: Miss Peggy Scott, 27, actress, killed herself at London (Uranus in house of other countries) because of
Rudolph Valentino’s death. August 24, at Pittsburgh, enraged at refusal to
discount his note for $2,000 (Moon trine Saturn in house of money), a man
exploded a bomb (Moon trine Pluto the drastic planet) in the Farmer’s Deposit Savings Bank. The blast decapitated him, fatally injured 20 persons (Pluto
rules groups) seriously and partly wrecked the bank. 100 persons (Moon trine
Pluto) were injured in a crowd of 30,000 that tried to get into the funeral church
at N. Y. City to view the body of Rudolph Valentino.
August 29, 1926, Moon opposition Saturn r, coruler of the land (fourth):
An earthquake, the third in 1926, jarred New England from Western Maine
to Canada.
September 5, 1926, Moon conjunction Neptune r (planet of vacations) and
opposition Jupiter r in house of pleasures (fifth): 30 were killed when the
Scenic Limited (pleasure train) on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Ry.
fell into the Arkansas River at Waco, Texas.
Predicting the Date of
All Outstanding Events
During the Month
Solely from the
New Moon Cycle
The progressed aspects in the New Moon Cycle alone do not signify the importance of all the events for the month, for the most important events are
attracted by progressed aspects in the cycles of the Major Planets. But when
these more important events take place commonly is when the progressed
Moon in its cycle adds energy of the same type, or to the same department of
life, as that which in the heavier cycle is responsible for the event. That is, the
progressed aspects in the New Moon chart not only attract Minor Events, but
tend to TIME the Major Events during the month.
To indicate just what is meant, I will take the last month for which at this
time (1938) events are given in the World Almanac, and quote, with my own
comments in parentheses, ALL the events there given in so far as available
space permits, and indicate the progressed aspect responsible for each event
there listed. When the event falls on a day other than that on which the aspect
is perfect, this will be duly noted.
New Moon No. 366, illustrated in chapter 8, page 127, took place November 2, 1937, 11:08 p.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. As Pluto moved into Leo for the
first time this cycle on October 9, and abides there temporarily until November 21, this accentuation of the dominance of the Dictator influence abroad,
and New Deal policies in the U. S., must be given due allowance.
November 2, 1937, Moon opposition Uranus r in house of government:
Fiorello H. La Guardia was reelected Mayor of New York City. As the Fusion,
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Republican, Progressive and American Labor candidate (rebelling against
political bosses) he defeated Jeremiah T. Mahoney, the Democratic, Anti-Communist, Trades Union candidate by a plurality (quite unexpected) of more
than 454,000 votes. Thomas E. Dewey (see chart with comments on page 63,
Chapter 4, Course 4, Ancient Masonry), Fusion, was elected District Attorney
in Manhattan (he also had broken with the political machine)Joseph D.
McGoldrick, was chosen City Controller, Detroit elected, as Mayor, R. W. Reading over a C. I. O. candidate.
In Spain (Uranus ruler of foreign countries), the Rebels (Uranus) bombed
the City of Lerida, killing 225, including school children.
The Duke of Windsor (Uranus ruler of foreign countries) toured Paris slums
to inspect a model (Uranus, reform) housing project for French workmen.
In Brazil (foreign country), a passenger-freight train smash-up (Moon
opposition Uranus) on the Central Railway, near Sao Paulo, killed 9 persons;
70 were injured.
In Paraguay, the famous Corrales regiment revolted (Uranus) at
Concepcion in an effort to restore the Chaco war hero, Col. Rafael Franco to
the Presidency (Uranus in tenth). The government insists that the trouble is
isolated in Concepcion and that reinforcements are being concentrated there
from Asuncion and also from the Chaco. Martial law (Uranus in tenth changing status of authority) was put into effect in Asuncion.
November 3, 1937, Sun opposition Uranus r in house of Government and
ruler of house of other nations (seventh): The Conference called under the
Nine-Power Treaty (Mars conjunction Jupiter in the sky October 29) to consider the Japan-China warfare, opened at Brussels. Ambassador Davis said
means should be sought to end the conflict by peaceful methods. The British
and the French seconded his words. The Italians warned (opposing our government) of any attempt to interfere in the conflict.
A resolution condemning (Sun, or royalty) opposed by radical Uranus)
the impending visit of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to this country with
the announced purpose of studying labor conditions was adopted unanimously by the Baltimore Federation of Labor, a unit of the A. F. of L. The
stated objection to the proposed tour was based on labor hostility (progressed
Moon sextile Jupiter and Mars in sixth) to Charles E. Bedaux, a labor efficiency expert, who sponsors the tour and is author of a production speed-up
(Mars in house of work) system.
Brazil (Uranus ruling seventh) closed its coffee markets, the government
saying that it intended to abandon (Uranian sudden change) its price control
program for coffee and adopt a policy of open competition, also reducing the
present export tax (progressed Moon sextile Neptune in foreign nation’s house
of taxes, second) on coffee by about 75 per cent.
Near Seattle, 5 navy flyers (progressed Moon sextile Neptune, planet of
aviation) were killed and two others rode to safety in parachutes when a
bomber and a pursuit plane collided during gunnery maneuvers high above
Boeing Field.
Pope Pius (progressed Moon sextile Jupiter) left the Vatican and went to
the Church of St. John Lateran, where he inaugurated the pontificial Roman
Atheneum, built out of his private purse at a cost (Jupiter) of about $500,000.
November 4, 1937, Sun opposition Uranus r; Mars in orb of opposition of
drastic Pluto r in Mars Cycle; Moon trine Pluto r and Saturn r in New Moon
Cycle: Germany (foreign nation) has offered her services for mediation (Moon
trine Saturn r in house of treaties) of the Sino-Japanese conflict.
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In Mexico (seventh house ruled by radical Uranus) President Lazaro
Cardenas decreed the nationalization (Uranus) of 350,000 acres of oil lands
under lease to the Standard Oil Co. of California, as part of the nationalization of 2,000,000 acres of oil territory in the three Southern States of Tabasco,
Campeche and Chiapas.
A surrogate (Moon trine Saturn r in ninth) in N. Y. City admitted to probate the will (Moon sextile Neptune r, ruler of eighth) of the late Col. E. H. R
Green which left most of his estate to his sister, Mrs. Matthew A. Wilks. The
latter had agreed to pay $500,000 in cash to Green’s widow, who had signed
away her dower right to one-third of the estate and thereby was given $18,000
a year from a trust fund.
In Berlin (Uranus ruler of seventh), Adolph Rembte 35, and Robert Stamm,
37, Communist Labor leaders, were executed (Mars opposition Pluto r in Mars
Cycle) on charges of attempting to recreate (rebelling at authority) an illegal
political organization. William Green, president of the A. F. of L., cabled Chancellor Hitler, protesting (Sun opposition Uranus) the sentences and asking a
pardon for the men.
November 5, 1937, Sun (royalty) opposition Uranus r still within orb; Moon
inconjunct Uranus r, semi-sextile Sun r: The Duke of Windsor announced, in
Paris, that he has decided to postpone his visit to America, and that he “arrived at this decision with great reluctance and after much deliberation, but
he reels that owing to grave misconceptions which have arisen and misstatements which have appeared regarding the motives and purposes of his industrial tour there is no alternative but to defer it for the present” (sudden
radical change of plans).
November 6, 1937, Mars on November 5 opposition Pluto r in twelfth of
Mars Cycle; Moon square Neptune r and square Saturn r in New Moon Cycle;
The Nine-Power Treaty Conference sent a conciliatory (Saturn in house of
treaties, ninth) message to Japan inviting her to exchange views regarding
the Chinese conflict (Mars) with “a small number- of Powers (Pluto rules
groups) to be chosen for that purpose.” Norman H. Davis, U. S. delegate, was
defeated in an effort to include a phrase declaring force (Mars) had never
solved a dispute (Japan flaunted the Conference).
The American Med. Assoc. reported the 70th death (Mars rules the house
of death in the Mars Cycle) is attributed to use of an elixir of sulfanilamide
containing (Neptune rules poisons) diethlene glycol. The latest case (Neptune rules house of death) is in Porterdale, Ga.
In Cincinnati, a jury, (Saturn in house of jury) of 11 women and a man
decreed that Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn, 31, should die in the electric chair for
the poison murder of Jacob Wagner, 78, one of four men {Pluto rules groups)
she is alleged to have killed (Mars opposition Pluto in house of crime in the
Mars Cycle) for their money.
The U. S. State Department has been told that many Haitians, maybe 1,000
or more, who crossed the border into the Dominican Republic seeking work
(Mars in house of work opposition Pluto in Mars Cycle), mostly in October,
were killed (mass executions) by Dominican soldiers in expelling them (Moon
square Saturn r in their house of travel).
Italy joined Germany and Japan (Pluto group of Dictators) in their pact
(Moon square Saturn r in house of pacts) against communism, signing it in a
ceremony at Rome. The Communist International, defying (Mars) the pact
signatories, issued-an appeal to the workers of the world to join forces against
fascism in Spain and China.
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The event which gets the largest headline on the front page of the newssheets
is the one indicated by the most powerful accumulation of planetary energy
on that day. Usually the front page of a newspaper will carry from three to
five fairly prominent headlines, relating to that many different events, the
relative importance of each being indicated by the boldness of the type. Therefore, using the progressed Sun and Moon in the New Moon Cycle both to
time more significant events and to indicate less important ones, it is usually
safe, considering progressed aspects in all the Major Cycles as well as those
in Cycles of Sun and Moon, to predict from three to five definite events for
each day. However, close to the time of a Major Conjunction, or to the time
when some heavy progressed aspect forms in a Major Cycle, a single event,
or train of events indicated thus, may so interest the public that the newspapers permit it to push other matters from the front pages, and all but the most
important of other events are given no notice even on the back pages.
As an example of this run of the mine day by day predicting, such as we
have done each week for the last 23 years in the Los Angeles class, I will use
for example the last New Moon previous to the time this is being written,
indicate the actual aspects we used in class work from which to make predictions, and quote the newspaper headline which coincided with each. In no
case will such a headline be quoted unless dated within 24 hours of the perfection of the progressed aspect. Quoting thus from the Los Angeles Examiner,
with my own comments in parentheses, I will continue as far as available
space permits.
New Moon No. 367, illustrated in chapter 8, page 128, took place March 2,
1938, 0:33 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N. In estimating the trend of this New Moon
it must be taken into consideration that when a new planetary Cycle starts,
the things ruled by that planet tend to come into prominence; and that a new
SATURN CYCLE commences March 5, 1938, 9:04 a.m. L.M.T. 77W. 38:56N.
Saturn rules the weather in its destructiveness, and in this new Saturn Cycle
drastic Pluto is in the house of the weather (fourth) square Mars and Moon
and trine Saturn.
Looking ahead in the heavy Cycle charts we find Neptune, the promotion
planet, progressed to sextile Jupiter r, the financial and religious planet, in
the house of the people of the Neptune Cycle (chart in chapter 1, page 15).
The aspect is complete on March 12, but is within orb of influence all month.
In the Jupiter Cycle (chart in chapter 4, page 64), this planet of finances and
religion comes to the sextile of Saturn r, in the house of roads and railroads
(third) and co-ruler of weather and buildings (fourth), March 3, and is within
orb of influence during the first week of March. In the Mars Cycle (data in
chapter 5, page 80) Mars reaches the square of the drastic planet and the planet
of dictators, Pluto r, March 10. In the Sun Cycle (chart in chapter 7, page 111),
the Sun progresses to sesqui-square Pluto r on March 2, to opposition Neptune r in house of Congress on March 8; and to trine Moon r in house of court
on March 10. Bearing these heavy influences in mind, let us now look at the
New Moon of March 2 (chart in chapter 8, page 128).
There we find a concentration of four planets in the house of roads and
railroads, with heavy afflictions, indicating disasters affecting such travel.
Venus in the house of weather opposite Neptune, and Saturn also in that house,
are not favorable to property; Pluto in house of death square Mars shows
death of groups; Mars and Uranus in fifth, show prominence of vice, gambling, and misfortune to children.
March 2, 1938, Moon opposition Neptune r in house of business and the
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Administration (tenth): Baruch attacks U. S. in business. Baruch hits Government farm (Moon conjunction Venus r in house of farms) program.
Moon sextile Uranus r in house of actors and love (fifth): Stokowski, Garbo
(both prominent in entertainment world) secret rites hinted.
Moon conjunction Venus r in house of weather: Heavy storm, landslides
maroon scores in canyon.
March 3, 1938, Moon conjunction Saturn r in house of weather, and trine
Pluto r in house of death (eighth): 28 die in storm; property (fourth) losses
mount in millions. Return of kidnap (Pluto) victim Predicted. Two leaders
blame slump on New Deal (Pluto). Two killed (Pluto in eighth) when avalanche crushes house (Saturn in fourth).
March 4, 1938, Sun sesqui-square Pluto r in house of death (eighth); Moon
sextile Jupiter r in house of roads (third:) 55 known dead (Pluto in eighth), 60
missing, 1500 homeless after flood. Railroads, highways (Jupiter in third)
blocked and wires down. Logan asks churches (Jupiter Cycle aspect accentuated by Moon aspecting Jupiter r) to back U. S. defense.
March 5, 1938, Moon conjunction Mars r in house of entertainment, children and gambling (fifth), and square Pluto in house of death (eighth): 19
horses await call in big race. Kidnap (Pluto) boy (Mars in fifth) ransom ready.
A father finds his dead (Pluto) child (fifth). 94 known dead. Chamberlain tries
to calm Hitler (Pluto). Coast cities periled (in case of war, Mars) says Representative Maverick.
March 6, 1938, Moon conjunction Uranus r in fifth- Railroads (Uranus
ruling cusp of third) reopen services with train-bus system. Says everybody
is hypnotized (Uranus); maintains men and women capable of surprising feats.
Child (fifth house) killed, five injured when train hits auto. New ramifications may be bared (alleged political expose) in Neblett suit. Russian (Uranus
rules Russia) woman may doom 21 to escape death. Stagehand (race horse
which won Santa Anita derby) expected to win Kentucky derby (fifth).
March 7, 1938, Moon trine Neptune r, sextile Venus r. square Jupiter r
sextile Pluto r: Rebel war ship wrecked by Spanish flyers (Neptune). U. S.
sacrifice of Philippine (Venus in house of territory) defense line urged as protection for West Coast. L. A. notables to attend lecture by First Lady (Venus
and aspect to ruler of tenth). $2,070,000 (Jupiter) request authorized by vote
of City Council (of Government, Neptune in tenth). More bodies of victims
(Pluto in eighth) found in L. A. County work.
March 8, 1938, Sun semi-sextile Jupiter r, conjunction Venus r in fourth;
Moon square Mercury r, square Sun-Moon r: U. S., State and City speed
cleanup of damage in storm (fourth). House (Sun opposition Neptune r in
Sun Cycle) limits publicity on pay (Jupiter) checks. Landowners (Venus in
fourth) aided by court (Sun rules ninth) ruling. U. S. to colonize (Venus in
fourth) two islands. 10 per cent raise (Jupiter) granted rails (third house).
March 9, 1938, Moon square Neptune r, square Venus r, trine Jupiter r, sextile
Mars r: Proposed appropriation (Jupiter) by Legislature (Sun opposition Neptune r in house of Legislature in Sun Cycle) would save L. A. County $3,000,000.
Wheeler sees dictatorship in reorganization (Neptune in tenth) bill. Mystery
(Neptune) surrounds Anglo-Italian peace discussions. Flyers (Neptune) ram
bombs (Mars) in Chinese city. Terrifying power in arms (Mars) voted by British
House. Youth (Mars in fifth) near death as mimicry of movie fails.
March 10, 1938, Mars square Pluto r in Mars Cycle; Sun trine Moon r in
Sun Cycle; Moon sextile Uranus r, square Saturn r, trine Mercury r, Sun-Moon
r: Hitler (Pluto) moves on Austria (Mercury ruler of foreign lands). Japan
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seeks to force (Mars-Pluto) China (to gain territory, Saturn) into peace pact.
Convicted dynamiter (Mars square Pluto in house of crime) raps State Supreme Court (Moon in ninth of Sun Cycle). Spencer Tracy and Luise Rainer
win motion picture (Uranus in fifth) academy awards. Neblett denies McAdoo
aided postoffice deal (Mercury in third). Whitney, stock exchange (Uranus in
fifth) ex-president, arrested on $800,000 larceny charges. German (Pluto)
envoy’s arrival for London parleys draws threatening (Mars square Pluto)
crowds.
March 11, 1938, Sun opposition Neptune r; Moon sextile Neptune r, trine
Venus r, square Mars r: Card game (Mars in fifth) killing scene told to jury by
neighbor. Hitler troops (Mars) seize Austria (Neptune in house of territory of
other countries, tenth). Neblett, Hahn row over quiz on libel (has national
repercussions). Blum (Popular Front premier, Neptune) fights odds to form
cabinet. Roosevelt urges flood control (Venus in fourth) plan.
March 12, Neptune sextile Jupiter r in Neptune Cycle (a million Jews must
leave Austria now because of race and religion); Moon conjunction Pluto r
(Mars still within orb of square Pluto r in Mars Cycle early in the day), trine
Saturn r: Hitler (Pluto) crushes Vienna government, takes personal control,
purge (of opposition) under way. New Deal (Pluto) clauses rejected as House
passes tax (Pluto in house of taxes) bill. Uncertainty grips Jews in Vienna. 18
(Pluto in house of death) condemned in Soviet treason trial. Home (Saturn in
fourth) financing in steady upturn over U. S. Says Hitler (Pluto) in speech,
“Today All Germany is ours, tomorrow the whole world” (Saturn).
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NEW MOON which was also an eclipse of the Sun partially visible both
in Japan and Western U. S. as well as in north Pacific.
December 2, 1937, 3:19 p.m., Los Angeles, California.
Early December, $8,000,000 liner, President Hoover, went aground in Pacific and broke up.
December 12, Japan sank U. S. gunboat Panay and three tankers (Jupiter
in ninth opposition drastic Pluto) leading to talk of war (New Moon in seventh).
January 5, Giant Navy Patrol Bomber plunged into Pacific with death of 7.
January 11, Samoan Clipper burned in air with 7 dead.
March 1, 1938, flood in Los Angeles region destroyed 50 million dollars in
property (afflicted Pluto in fourth) and about 200 lives.
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Astrology
Chapter 10
Precise Predicting: Eclipses
P
RECISE PREDICTING of the time and nature of events affecting cities,
nations and the world follows the same general procedure as that employed in the precise predicting of the time and nature of events affecting
an individual. In natal astrology the truly important events in an individual’s
life are all indicated by major progressions, which at the time the events take
place, are within one degree of the perfect aspect. And in mundane astrology,
other than those events indicated by major conjunctions, other aspects in the
sky, comets, new stars and eclipses, the truly important events are all indicated by progressed aspects in the Cycle charts of the heavier planets, which
at the time the event takes place are within one degree of the perfect aspect.
In other words, new stars, comets, major conjunctions and other aspects
in the sky, eclipses, and the progressed aspects which form in the Cycle charts
of Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, perform the same function in mundane astrology performed by major progressions of the M. C.,
Ascendant and planets other than the Moon in natal astrology. And when the
influence is from the planets, the nature of the event will partake of the characteristics of the planets making the aspect; and the departments of municipal or national life chiefly affected are indicated by the houses ruled by the
aspecting Planets.
But in addition to those events in an individual’s life which he long afterwards remembers as important, and in addition to the relatively important
events recorded in the history of a city or a nation, there are other events that
have considerable significance at the time even though they are short lived in
their memory. These happenings, far from trivial at the time, in natal astrology we call Sub-Major Events. In the individual’s life they are attracted through
the major progressed aspects of the Moon. In mundane astrology, events of
comparable significance in the life of a city or a nation are attracted by the
progressed aspects made by the Sun in the Sun Cycle chart.
Still other events have a significance over a period of a day or two, or at
most over a period of a few weeks. These Minor Events are attracted to the
individual by Minor progressed aspects and by the heavier transits, and occur during the time the aspect is within one degree of perfect. And in a similar manner the Minor Events which are attracted to a municipality or a nation
are indicated by the progressed aspects made by the Moon to the place of the
planets in the New Moon chart, and they occur within 24 hours of the time
the aspect is complete.
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Major trends in world and national affairs are indicated by the signs occupied by the planets, the aspects the planets make in the sky, new stars, and
comets. The Major Events within these trends are indicated and timed by the
progressed aspects formed in the cycles of the six Major planets. And even as
events indicated in natal astrology by Major progressed aspects, need no assistance from Minor progressions and Transits, these events will come to pass
regardless of whether or not within the designated time limit there is assistance from progressed aspects in the Cycles of the Sun and Moon.
Nevertheless, either to the individual or to a nation, the bringing of an
event to pass requires the expenditure of energy by thought-cells or groups
of minds, working from the inner plane, of sufficient volume and intensity to
overcome the environmental resistance that may be present. When a Major
trend favors a given event, it requires much less additional planetary energy,
in either case, to bring it to pass.
Furthermore, the more planetary energy of a given type is brought to
bear upon thought-cells or groups of minds, the more power these have then
to work. Consequently, when there is a progressed aspect in the Sun Cycle or
in the New Moon Cycle, to the same planet which by progressed aspect in its
Cycle Chart indicates a Major Event, while this progressed aspect is within
one degree of perfect, the accumulation of energy of a given type on that day
usually gives the unconscious minds of people sufficient impetus that the
event happens on that particular day.
In addition to accumulations of energy of a given planetary type, which
attract events characteristic of that planet’s influence, either progressed aspects in the Sun Cycle or in the New Moon Cycle may add planetary energy
to the same department of life, that is, to the same house of the chart, as that
relating to a Major Event indicated by a progressed aspect within one degree
of perfect in one of the heavier cycles. The event is far more likely to occur on
the day when there is such an accumulation of planetary energy relative to
the department of life affected.
Thus in addition to indicating and timing Sub-Major Events, the progressed
aspects in the Sun Cycle often also time to the day the Major Events indicated
by progressed aspects in the heavier cycles. And in addition to indicating and
timing Minor Events, the progressed aspects in the New Moon Cycle often
also lend force to certain of the Sub-Major Events indicated by progressed
aspects in the Sun Cycle, and time to the day the Major Events indicated by
progressed aspects in the heavier cycles.
This method of employing Cycles and the progressed aspects which form
in them is used by Will P. Benjamine in, AROUND THE WORLD,
TOMORROW’S NEWS—TODAY! which commencing with the March, 1937,
issue, has appeared in each issue of American Astrology Magazine. It was employed by Maria Major in, COMING EVENTS FOR THE MONTH, A DAY BY
DAY FORECAST, which appeared in each of the nine issues of International
Astrology Magazine (1937) which were published, and it is now being employed
by her (1938) in, COMING EVENTS FOR THE MONTH, in each issue of The
Rising Star Magazine. It is the method employed by Elbert Benjamine in, MUNDANE EVENTS FOR THE MONTH, in which the exact day on which a number of important events will take place each month is stated, which commencing with the February, 1936, issue, has appeared in each issue of Student Astrologer Magazine.
These magazine articles are mentioned not merely because they have attracted wide and favorable comment, but because as such articles must be in
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the hands of magazine publishers at least two months before the date of publication, they afford anyone desiring to check the accuracy of the method an
easy way of determining what is actually being done with it.
As the findings of THE BROTHERHOOD OF LIGHT ASTROLOGICAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT in reference to New Stars was published in the September, 1935 issue of THE CHURCH OF LIGHT QUARTERLY, I shall here
reproduce that article without change:
Although scientific records are lacking, it is believed that the star
which led the wise men from the east to a manger in Bethlehem,
nineteen hundred and thirty-five years ago, was of the same type
as the New Star which flashed into brilliancy last December in
the constellation Hercules, and which still chains the interest of
astronomers because of its erratic behavior.
That earlier star marked the beginning of the Christian era. And
if Nova Herculis 1934—as astronomers call this latest startling
stellar appearance— has a significance which can be revealed by
the same rules that the wise men of the east employed in determining the meaning of the Star of Bethtehem and allied celestial
phenomena, it portends the commencement of the New Dispensation of Labor.
The wise men of the east looked to the heavens to apprise them
of important events to come. Unusual phenomena in the sky, to
them, portended unusual events which would happen on the
earth. According to the rules they left, the appearance of a new
star signified the commencement of a new condition in the world,
which would have far reaching effects upon the affairs of men.
The phase of human activity thus affected, in which a turning
point had been reached, and henceforth a new condition would
manifest, was indicated by the constellation in which the new
star appeared. As both the pictures of the constellations which
they used, and the stories about them which preserved their
meaning, are still accessible, they can yet be employed precisely
as these ancients used them in their work.
Some centuries before the Star of Bethlehem appeared, the Greeks
had contacted the wise men of the east and had adopted the 48
pictured constellations which they used in their predictions. They
also attached to each of the constellated figures its precise significance as handed down through the Chaldeans, and wove
mythological stories about them which should serve as commentaries on their meaning.
The purport of any influence found in the region of the sky pictured by one of the various heroic figures was always interpreted,
according to still older precedent, by considering the pictured
constellation as a universal symbol, more details about which
could be learned from its mythological story.
Applying these same rules, which remain unchanged since long
before the Christian era, any unusual occurrence in the constellation Hercules signifies some extraordinary occurrences affecting labor; for the outstanding story that has come down to us
regarding Hercules is that of his twelve great works. And as the
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present phenomenon is a New Star, according to these same olden
rules, it signifies that Labor is entering upon a New Dispensation.
This latest celestial token of events to come, as pointed out in the
March QUARTERLY, shows on photographic plates of November 14 as a star of the fourteenth magnitude; so small as to be
invisible except to the most powerful telescopes. Yet by December 13 it had grown to third magnitude, and on December 22
when it reached its maximum as a star of the first magnitude, it
had increased more than 150,000 times in brightness.
Since that time, instead of steadily fading to invisibility within a
few weeks or months, as well behaved novae are supposed to do,
to the amazement of astronomers it has been performing strange
antics fluctuating in brightness, dimming somewhat and then
flaming up again. And we can be confident, applying the ancient
rules, that the nation’s work situation will parallel the strange
performance of this remarkable star.
Hercules, as pictured in the sky, is represented on one knee, while
with his other foot he crushes the head of a dragon which winds
its slimy coils of graft and corruption around the northern axis of
the world. He holds aloft the fruits of his toil. Other objects no
less significant also are in his hands; but according to the ancient
rules, because the New Star is in the vicinity of the dragon-crushing foot, the stamping out of unfair dealing is the most striking
feature of that which is thus foreshown.
But before applying these rules, which have come down to us
from the wise men of the east, to the latest celestial manifestation, it would seem the part of wisdom first to investigate how
perfectly these same rules have been borne out by world occurrences which immediately followed similar phenomena which
have been recorded in the past.
These novae are not really new stars, but probably old stars which
have exploded. Nor are they rare if all those at distances which
enable them to be seen by the giant present-day telescopes are
included. But the ancients considered only such as were of noticeable brilliance to have significance in world events.
Under favorable circumstances it is possible to see stars of the
sixth magnitude with the unaided eye. But a star of less brilliance
than the third magnitude, of which there are about 180, would
attract attention only of a careful observer.
Astronomers estimate that during the past 2,000 years there have
been about 30 new stars of sufficient brightness to be seen without a telescope. Only 12 of them, however, in addition to the Star
of Bethlehem, the location of which is unrecorded, have been of
third magnitude or brighter. It is not a difficult task, therefore, to
apply the ancient rules to all the conspicuous novae that have
been recorded since before the birth of Christ.
The mythology woven about the constellation Scorpio gives it
two distinct meanings. Pictured as a scorpion it is related to treachery and to death. Pictured as an eagle, as it sometimes is, it signifies the soaring aloft of spirit and the conquest of limitations. The
first new star of which we now possess records was observed in
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this constellation, and important events immediately followed
which express both sides of the constellation’s nature.
Rome, in that day, was supreme in the world. There were certain
laws which related to the distribution of the land, called agrarian
laws; but for some 200 years the wealthier families had continued to extend their possessions greatly beyond the limits thus
prescribed, and as a result, although the empire had vastly extended its territory through conquest and confiscation, small proprietors had practically disappeared.
In 134 B.C. a new star of brilliancy appeared in the constellation
Scorpio. Simultaneous with its appearance Tiberius Gracchus, one
of the landed proprietors, proposed and carried a modification
of the existing agrarian laws; which had for its object the restoration of land to the poorer people, whose poverty and number
were rapidly increasing. The following year, however, before his
policy could be carried into effect, death laid its hand upon him
Later, his brother Caius endeavored to put the same relief measure through; but he was slain. Thus did death, the eighth house
significance of the constellation, defeat a reform measure that
might have at least delayed the dissolution of an empire.
On the eagle side of the constellation’s significance, the appearance of the new star so impressed Hipparchus that he set about
making a precise catalogue of 1080 of the brighter stars, so that
later observers might be able to recognize new stars or other alterations in the appearance of the sky at future dates. This is recognized as the commencement of scientific astronomy.
1572 was the year in which the Huguenots in France were having
a terrible time. August 24 of that year, with the sanction of the
king, there occurred the Massacre of Bartholomew. Then, on
November 11, a new star suddenly appeared which for several
days rivaled Venus in luster.
It was in the constellation Cassiopeia, which according to its
modern key-word, was anciently considered to signify Vicissitudes, and to picture the last ten degrees of the zodiac before the
Vernal Equinox, over which the sun each year passed from the
bondage of winter darkness into summer freedom.
To the Huguenots, who had taken up arms, this new star seemed
a messenger of hope from heaven. True to this belief, the following year they made a successful defense of La Rochelle and were
granted new toleration. It proved to be the commencement of a
new dispensation to them; for two years later Henry of Navarre
escaped from Paris and became their leader.
Each year the ancients saw the geese and swans, after the sun
turned back from its southern sojourn, wing their way northward
at the approach of spring. In their flight to a new land of promise
there was no helter-skelter movement, as with smaller birds, but
each group had its recognized leader, which it followed in the
well-known V-formation. Thus, when they pictured a swan in
the sky, they had in mind not only travel to new parts, but, as the
modern keyword indicates, Organization.
Four of the new stars have appeared in Cygnus, the constellation
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pictured by the Swan, and thus relate to some new undertaking
of importance in the world’s affairs in which movement to a new
field and organization both play an important part.
The year 1600 saw the appearance of a new star of third magnitude in Cygnus; and the same year the English East India Company was formed, an organization whose trading activities and
political influence later led to the addition of India to the British Empire.
Another new star of the third magnitude appeared in the same
constellation in 1670; and in that year Hudson’s Bay Company
was chartered by the British Crown. This organization was largely
responsible for the development of the Dominion of Canada.
Still another new star of third magnitude appeared in Cygnus in
the year 1876, coincident with the invention of the telephone by
Graham Bell and the founding of the electric industry. The vast
holdings of the telephone and power organizations attest to the
importance of the field of activity then entered.
The latest new star in this constellation of the Swan was brighter
than any of the others, being of second magnitude. It made its
appearance in 1920, along with the first meeting of the Council of
the League of Nations, to be followed before the year was out by
the plan for a World Court, and the next year by Disarmament
Conferences at Washington. The extent of the influence of the
League of Nations in world affairs is yet for the future to reveal.
Ophiuchus is pictured in the sky as a man engaging in a titanic
struggle with a monster serpent. In 1604 a magnificent new star,
often called Kepler’s star because that famous astronomer studied it, suddenly blazed in this constellation. Strangely enough, at
the time, England was the scene of a violent struggle between
the government and certain religions. A convocation of clergy
met, the acts of which were so oppressive to Puritans that 300 of
them left their livings rather than conform to their dictates.
Furthermore, James ordered the judges to enforce the statutes
against Catholics. This resulted the following year in the famous
Gunpowder Plot to destroy the King, Lords, and Commons in
revenge for the penal laws against Catholics. Guy Fawkes, the
agent of the conspirators, was seized as he was about to fire
barrels of gunpowder which had been placed under the House
of Lords.
Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, is a constellation depicting tribulations by means of twelve iron spikes. A new star of
second magnitude was to be seen in this constellation in 1866.
That year there were seven weeks of war in Europe, which the
following year enabled Prussia to become the dominant power
in Europe, and gave Bismarck the idea that a war with France
was necessary to the firm unification of Germany. The difficulties then started have not yet subsided.
The chief significance of the stories relating to Perseus may be
summed up in the key-word, Propaganda. In 1901 a very brilliant new star was seen in the constellation picturing this ancient
hero. The two outstanding events of the year were dependent
upon propaganda. The Pan-American Exposition was held at
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Buffalo; and there was a panic in Wall Street over control of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, the stock of which reached 1,000.
June, 1918, witnessed an exceptionally brilliant new star in the
constellation Aquila. This eagle among the stars is attached by
legend to victory, and by its key-word to Exploration. Its appearance, therefore, was heralded by many as forecasting the end of
the World War; and in fulfillment of this hope American troops,
fighting on foreign soil, soon were able to turn the tide of battle
and bring peace.
Way to the south is a big constellation picturing a ship which
mythology and its key-word relate to Research. In 1925 a new
star of first magnitude appeared just ahead of the bow of this
stellar ship in a group unrecognized by the ancients but by
moderns called Pictor. In various lands the freedom to express
convictions based on research were sternly curtailed. In Italy and
in Russia matters of belief came in for strict regulation by the
government; and during that year, at Dayton, Tennessee, John
Thomas Scopes was arrested, tried, and found guilty of teaching
evolution in the public schools.
Of the twelve outstanding new stars which have been recorded
during 2,000 years, history thus indicates that in eleven instances
they were coincident with a turn in world affairs in which there
was the commencement of a new condition, the nature of which
was quite correctly indicated by the rules laid down by the ancients in reference to the significance of the constellation in which
the phenomenon appeared.
If the twelfth outstanding new star be judged by the same system
which fits so well when applied to the other eleven, the commencement of a new condition of far-reaching import in world
affairs already is at hand. Nothing, I believe, in the stories relating to Hercules can be construed as relating to communism. But
they do relate to the power and rewards of labor.
The club which as pictured he holds in one hand may signify
collective bargaining. In the other hand he holds not merely the
fruit which signifies his reward for labor, but also the guardian
Cerberus. Law makers, this seems to indicate, will more willingly
listen to his demands; for with the foot of better understanding,
above which the latest new star appears he crushes the head of
graft and special privilege.
Nova Herculis 1934, according to the rules left by the wise men
of the east, signifies that already in 1935, we have entered,
where its power and importance are concerned, upon Labor’s
New Dispensation.
In reference to the significance of Nova Herculis as implied in the article above
reproduced in full, it may now (1938) be pointed out that since that article
was published, Spain became dominated by a Popular Front government, resulting in a civil war; the laboring class in Mexico has seized not only the
natural resources belonging to Mexico, but also the vast oil holdings of British and American oil companies; France is dominated by a Popular Front government in which labor’s demands are supreme; and within the United States
the Committee for Industrial Organization has come into existence, and now
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disputes power with the American Federation of Labor, and these two labor
organizations are exerting a tremendous influence over the political and business life of the nation.
It seems to be quite well established that comets, when they enter the zodiac,
bring with them new conditions affecting the affairs of men. The appearance
of the more important ones in the past have always coincided with unusual
events upon the earth. The old rule was that the influence would be felt chiefly
in the country ruled by the sign in which the comet was first visible. Thus just
preceding the great debacle of the Russian armies in the World War, and the
revolution that followed, a comet, which later developed to important size,
was discovered by means of a telescope in the sign Aquarius, ruling Russia.
Astrologers the world over began to predict that startling things would happen in that country; predictions that were fully verified.
As comets actually belong to our solar system, which New Stars do not, I
believe comets should be referred not to their place among the constellations,
but to their place in relation to the zodiac. Perhaps, also, now that they may
be discovered by telescopes long before they enter the zodiac, the signs in
which they appear after thus entering the zodiac indicate more precisely the
regions of earth affected. Thus Peltier’s Comet, on August 3, 1936, entered the
zodiac at about 28 degrees Aquarius, to leave again August 6, 1936, at about
141/2 degrees Aquarius. The following year and a half witnessed blood purges
in Russia, which Aquarius rules, in which most of the important men who
assisted in establishing the Soviet Union were executed on charges of trying
to overthrow the government.
Comets vary in size, in shape, in brilliancy, and even in color. Some of
them, it is true, are periodic. But even these do not have the same appearance
on successive returns; and may go so far away as to be beyond visibility in
even the strongest telescope. Others come into our solar system from the spaces
without, bringing their own astrological vibrations, and after making an arc
about our Sun, pass on into space, never again to return. Having no previous
acquaintance with such celestial visitors, their influence can not be known
from earlier observation.
Some comets in the past have coincided with pestilence, some with great
wars, some with disasters, some with revolutions, some with great constructive enterprises, and some with the birth of illustrious persons. The general
rule has been that the shape and appearance of the comet signified the nature
of its influence. If it looked red and angry, it signified disaster. If it looked like
a sword it meant war. If it had a pleasing appearance, it heralded some great
constructive enterprise.
As the matter stands there is need for much research as to just what may
be expected from a given comet. And the only reason THE BROTHERHOOD
OF LIGHT ASTROLOGICAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT has not already
contributed markedly to this knowledge is that the literature in which descriptions of the old comets are given seldom specifies WHERE they appeared
in the zodiac or on the celestial sphere.
It seems likely that a great amount of nonsense has been written about eclipses.
The Brotherhood of Light Astrological Research Department, for instance,
has collected a large number of instances in which either a Solar Eclipse or a
Lunar Eclipse took place in the same zodiacal degree occupied by the Sun or
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other planets in people’s birthcharts. In none of these, so far as we have been
able to discern, has the eclipse coincided with events not clearly and fully
accounted for by the progressed aspects at the time.
Nor have we been able to verify the doctrine that the power of an eclipse
persists, even if a long eclipse, over a period of years. We have, however,
checked the influence of every Solar Eclipse since commencing with 1884 (back
of which the Nautical Almanacs to which we have access do not go) that was
visible in a part of the world fairly well populated. The result of this survey
led to quite positive results, which over many years we have successfully
used in predicting. The definite rule is that, if a Solar Eclipse occurs in a region where there is considerable population, within a few months before, or
much more likely within a few months after the eclipse, there is a disaster in
the region where the eclipse is visible.
While the disaster tends to be near the central path of the eclipse, it may
be anywhere in which it is even partially visible. It seems likely that the exact
place of the disaster attracted is determined by the progressed aspects in the
birth-charts of cities and regions, and the progressed aspects in the Cycle
Charts affecting those places. But while, because the birthcharts of so few
cities are known, it is difficult to determine where within the area of visibility
of a Solar Eclipse the disaster will take place; the New Moon chart often reveals the nature of the disaster.
In the Nautical Almanac each year, published by the Government, is given
the essential data regarding each eclipse of the year. In addition, for each
eclipse of the Sun which occurs in such a region that it may be observed from
an accessible land area, there is a map showing the exact region of the earth’s
surface where it is visible, as well as the central path of the eclipse, together
with other information. It should be noted that, as an eclipse of the Sun is the
relation of the Moon’s shadow to the surface of the earth, the moment of eclipse
is not exactly the moment of the conjunction of Sun and Moon, although the
New Moon and the eclipse are never more than a few minutes apart. Some
research in the future should be done, not merely in reference to charts erected
for the exact moment of central eclipse as visible at a given place, but also in
reference to New Moon charts in which parallax is given consideration. In
other words, using charts in which instead of the conjunction of Sun and Moon
being regarded from the center of the earth, they are considered from the
point on the surface of the earth where at the moment the chart is erected.
However, as New Moon charts erected in the customary way give good results, it is wise to use them until it has been proven by actual test that the time
ascertained by including the parallax is superior.
For the purpose of study there follow all the New Moons which were also
eclipses of the Sun, which were visible (as shown by the maps in the Nautical
Almanac) in the United States since 1884. The Solar Eclipses earlier than 1900
I shall merely mention the date, and with each a coincident event. But for
each such Solar Eclipse since commencing with 1900, the New Moon chart is
given in the table given in chapter 9, pages 142-143. Due to limitations of
space the comments on each such chart must be brief. But they are well worth
copying off and giving serious study, relative to the house positions of the
planets. The quotations giving the dates and events listed earlier than 1924,
are from the REFERENCE HISTORY OF THE WORLD of Webster’s New International Dictionary. Those since 1924 are quoted from the World Almanac. My
own comments are in parentheses.
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March 16, 1885, Annular eclipse of the Sun visible in the United States
and Canada: June 30, Fisheries reciprocity with Canada under Treaty of Washington is terminated by the United States; because of Canadian obstruction of
what the United States claims as rights under the Treaty of 1818 (controversy
becomes acute).
March 5, 1886, Annular eclipse of the Sun visible in the U. S.: May 4, Anarchist riot in Chicago, following a strike there.
August 28, 1886, Total eclipse of the Sun visible throughout the S.E. United
States: August 31, Severe earthquake on the Atlantic seaboard, especially at
Charleston. October 12, Gales and floods in Texas and Louisiana destroy property and 247 lives.
January 1, 1889, Total eclipse of the Sun visible throughout North America:
May 31, Breaking of the Conemaugh Dam floods Johnstown, Pa., and destroys 2,295 lives.
June 6, 1891, Annular eclipse of the Sun visible in Western North America:
November 30, 1891, Partial eclipse of the Sun visible at the southernmost extremity of South America: October 16, Attack on American sailor by a mob at
Valparaiso, Chile; war becomes imminent through Chile’s delay to make amends.
October 20, 1892, Partial eclipse of the Sun visible throughout North
America: June-August, Country is affected by many strikes accompanied by
much violence. Harrison issues proclamation (July 15-30) against the striking
miners in the West, and Federal troops are used in restoring order and to
support injunctions of the Federal courts.
October 9, 1893, Annular eclipse of the Sun visible in Western North
America and Western South America: 1893, Commercial panic is started. Hard
times continue for several years.
February 1, 1897, Annular eclipse of the Sun visible in S.E. United States
and Cuba: May 20, Senate passes a resolution recognizing Cuban belligerency (Cuba is thus recognized to be at war).
New Moon No. 151 in table, May 28, 1900, 8:30 a.m. L.M.T. Galveston,
Texas. Total eclipse of the Sun visible in the United States, at Washington as a
partial eclipse. In Gemini, conjunction Mercury (winds), opposition Uranus
(extremes) and Jupiter: September 8, Galveston and many Gulf towns are
ravaged by a terrible hurricane and flood- 6,000 lives lost, $30,000,000 of property destroyed. (The opposition is from the eleventh to fifth, and the loss of
life among children was disproportionately heavy.)
New Moon No. 152 in table, August 19, 1906, 5:18 p.m. L.M.T. San Francisco. Partial eclipse of the Sun visible in the Western U. S.: April 18-20 Earthquake followed by a great fire destroyed large portion of San Francisco, including the business section. Loss about $350,000,000. (Eclipse is in conjunction with Mars, fires and violence, and in the house of foreign countries.)
October 25, Japanese Ambassador Aoki protests against exclusion of Japanese from the public schools of San Francisco. (Controversy becomes acute,
giving rise to talk of war.)
New Moon No. 153 in table, January 3, 1908, 2:43 p.m. L.M.T. Denver.
Total eclipse of the Sun visible throughout the S.W. United States. It is conjunction Uranus, the planet of strikes, in the house of death, eighth, and opposition socialistic Neptune. The death influence will be mentioned in connection with the June eclipse: March 31, Strike of some 250,000 coal miners;
lasts about two weeks.
New Moon No. 154 in table, June 28, 1908, 10:31 a.m. L.M.T. New Orleans.
Annular eclipse of the Sun visible throughout North America. Eclipse is con-
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junction Mercury (wind) and Neptune, and in opposition to unusual Uranus
in the house of property (fourth) and square Saturn, planet of storms: April
24, Tornadoes on the Gulf Coast destroy much property and some 1,500 lives.
New Moon No. 155 in table, June 17, 1909, 6:20 p.m. L.M.T. Washington.
Central eclipse of the Sun visible throughout North America. Eclipse is in
house of foreign countries (seventh) square Mars in house of traffic (third).
Neptune, planet of fraud, is on the cusp of the house of duties and taxes
(eighth), opposition the planet of exposure, Uranus, in the house of money
(second) and square Saturn in house of basic utilities (fourth): September 25,
During the year great frauds in customs, especially on sugar imported by the
sugar trusts, are discovered and published, and fines and unpaid duties
amounting to millions of dollars collected.
New Moon No. 156 in table, April 17, 1912, 5:40 a.m. L.M.T. St. Louis.
Central eclipse of the Sun visible in Eastern United States. Neptune in Cancer
is in the house of property (fourth) square the eclipse; and Saturn, planet of
storms and hardship, is in the house of the people (first): April, Floods in the
Mississippi Valley devastate 200 square miles and render 30,000 people homeless (fourth house); loss $50,000,000.
New Moon No. 157 in table, October 12, 1912, 8:01 a.m. L.M.T. Nicaragua.
Partial eclipse of the Sun visible in Florida and throughout Nicaragua and
Central America. Eclipse is conjunction Mars, the planet of war, square Neptune, planet of schemes in ninth; Saturn is in house of other countries (seventh): September, American Marines are landed in Nicaragua, at request of
government for the time being, and aid in suppressing a revolution. Chief
revolutionists surrender to American admiral on September 26, and marines
are withdrawn after Nicaraguan presidential election on November 2.
New Moon No. 158 in table, April 6, 1913, 9:42 a.m. L.M.T. Sacramento.
Partial eclipse of the Sun visible at extreme western edge of America. Chief
affliction is Jupiter (finances) in house of other countries (seventh), square
eclipse and opposition Neptune in house of money (second). The war planet,
Mars, is on the M. C., square Saturn: May 19, California antialien landownership act; passed in spite of Japanese protest and Federal disapproval.
New Moon No. 159 in table, February 3, 1916, 8:56 a.m. L.M.T. Columbus,
New Mexico. Total eclipse of the Sun visible throughout North America.
Eclipse is conjunction Uranus, planet of insurrection, and opposition Mars,
planet of army and navy: March 9, Mexican brigands under Villa attack the
town of Columbus, N. M., and the camp of the Thirteenth United States Cavalry, killing nine civilians and eight troopers; the raiders are pursued into
Mexico and more than 100 are killed. March 15, Military expedition to punish
Villa enters Mexico, under Pershing.
New Moon No. 160 in table, June 8, 1918, 4:55 p.m. L.M.T. Washington.
Total eclipse of the Sun visible throughout North America. Eclipse is on cusp
of house of death (eighth) square Mars in tenth, ruler of the first (people). The
only casualties of consequence that the American troops suffered during the
World War were during the fall following this eclipse: September, Epidemic
(Mars ruler of house of sickness, sixth, and health, first) of so-called “Spanish” influenza spreads throughout our country. On October 4 it is reported
that only five States remain immune and that there are 127,000 cases in army
(sixth house) camps (death rate was tremendous).
New Moon No. 161 in table, November 22, 1919, 10:12 a.m. L.M.T. Washington. Annular eclipse of the Sun visible throughout North America. Eclipse
is in house of Administration and business (tenth): September 26, President
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(tenth) Wilson’s tour is ended abruptly at Wichita, Kansas, by a stroke of paralysis. November 1, Strike (Uranus) of 600,000 soft-coal miners, demanding
a 6-hour day, a 5-day week, and 60% increase in wages.
New Moon No. 162 in table, November 10, 1920, 10:58 a.m. L.M.T. Washington. Partial eclipse of Sun visible throughout eastern North America. Eclipse
is in house of Administration (President remained stricken) and business
(tenth), square Neptune in house of other countries (seventh), ruler of house
of money (second): December 6, Twenty-three banks, including one national
bank, in North Dakota have closed their doors as the result of the fall of the
price of wheat (due chiefly to lack in foreign market).
New Moon No. 163 in table, September 10, 1923 12:52 p.m. L.M.T. Santa
Barbara, California. Total eclipse of the Sun visible throughout North America.
Eclipse is conjunction Mars and Venus in the house of ships (ninth) and opposition Uranus: September 8, Ten destroyers are wrecked on the California
coast 75 miles north of Santa Barbara (a few lives lost).
New Moon No. 164 in table, January 24, 1925, 9:01 a.m. L.M.T. Indianapolis, Ind. Total eclipse of the Sun visible throughout eastern and southern North
America. Eclipse square Saturn, planet of storms: March 18, A storm in Missouri, Southern Illinois and Indiana killed over 830 persons, injured 3,800,
and destroyed property valued at $10,000,000. The main path of the blow
covered 165 miles from Annapolis, Mo., to Princeton, Ind., but as was the case
at Lorain, O., last June, it “hopped off” in several directions. In places it cut a
path only 300 feet wide. It was at its worst only about 5 minutes and struck
West Frankfort and Murphysboro, Ill., with its greatest fury.
New Moon No. 165 in table, July 9, 1926, 5:47 p.m. L.M.T. Miami, Florida.
Annular eclipse of the Sun visible in the western and southern sections of the
United States, including Florida and the islands to the south. The eclipse is
square Mars in the house of weather and houses (fourth). July 26-27, Gulf
storms have done $8,000,000 damage at Nassau in the Bahamas; $3,000,000 in
Santo Domingo; and $2,000,000 at Miami and other Florida coast places. At
Nassau, 146 were drowned with 400 missing, 75 boats sunk and 500 homes
destroyed; near Santo Domingo, 54 bodies have been washed ashore; 5 were
killed in Georgia and Florida.
New Moon No. 368 in tables, April 28, 1930, 1:16 p.m. L.M.T. Chicago.
Central eclipse of Sun visible throughout North America. Mars, ruler of homes
and weather (fourth) in house of death, conjunction Uranus and square Saturn (storms): May 1, 24 were killed in cyclones in the prairie states. May 6, 75
were killed, 100 hurt, by tornadoes in Texas.
New Moon No. 369 in tables, August 31, 1932, 2:58 p.m. L.M.T. New York.
Five planets in house of death, including eclipse; and Uranus (sudden and
unexpected) in house of short journeys (third) square Saturn (workmen) in house
of people (first), and square Mars, Venus and Pluto: September 9, The 92-foot
steamboat Observation, 44 years old, crowded with workmen bound for their
jobs, had scarcely left the wharf at 8:00 a.m. (New York) when the Captain,
George A. Forsyth and 70 others were killed and 70 injured (by explosion).
New Moon No. 370 in tables, February 13, 1934, 5:16 p.m. L.M.T., Pocatello,
Idaho. Total eclipse of Sun visible on West Coast of America and eastern Asia:
March 12, The 527-ton Japanese torpedo boat, Tomozuru, turned upside down
off Goto Islands, west of Nagasaki; over 100 were drowned (eclipse in house
of foreign countries, seventh). Earth shocks lasting three hours shook cities in
northern Utah and southern Idaho, caused large buildings to sway, cracked
the walls of some structures, and also jolted communities in western Wyo-
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ming, Nevada and California. Schools (Jupiter, ruler of 5th part of T-square)
at Salt Lake and at Logan, and Pocatello, Idaho, were closed pending an examination of all buildings. Shocks were resumed March 15.
New Moon No. 371 in tables, February 3, 1935, 8:35 a.m. L.M.T. Los Angeles. Partial eclipse of the Sun visible throughout North America: The $4,000,000
U. S. navy dirigible balloon, Macon, sank in the Pacific several miles off Point
Sur, California (Mars, ruler of ninth part of T-square). January 26, The number of dead from the Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi flood was placed at 27,
homeless 25,000, property damage $5,000,000.
New Moon No. 372 in tables, June 8, 1937, 0:51 p.m. L.M.T. Los Angeles.
Total eclipse of Sun visible in Pacific, West Coast America and Mexico: May
27, In Mexico 168 persons were killed and 300 homes crushed to bits by gold
mine tailings. July 2, Amelia Earhart Putnam on an equitorial air trip around
the world radioed that she was in the Pacific with a half hour’s fuel and not
in sight of land. That was the last message (eclipse in house of long journeys, ninth).
New Moon No. 373, illustrated in chapter 9, page 144, December 2, 1937,
3:19 p.m. L.M.T. Los Angeles. Annular eclipse of the Sun visible west coast
America, over northern Pacific, and Japan: Eclipse in house of foreign countries (seventh); Jupiter in house of ships (ninth) opposition drastic Pluto.
(Events listed from newspapers as at this writing, April, 1938, World Almanac not issued covering these dates): Early December, $8,000,000 liner, President Hoover, went aground in Pacific and broke up. December 12, Japan sank
U. S. gunboat Panay and three tankers leading to talk of war (New Moon in
seventh) and bringing an immense increase in appropriations for navy building (Jupiter abundance). January 5, Giant Navy Patrol Bomber plunged into
the Pacific with death of 7. January 11, Samoan Clipper burned in air with 7
dead. March 1, 1938, flood in Los Angeles region destroyed 50 million dollars
in property (afflicted Pluto in fourth) and about 200 lives.
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Study Questions
Doctrine Of Mundane Astrology (Serial No. 141)
1. What does mundane astrology embrace?
2. In mundane astrology what corresponds to the thought-cells which are
given additional activity by progressed aspects in natal astrology?
3. How important are the birth-charts of nations, cities and corporations?
4. Are cycles more significant in mundane astrology than in natal astrology?
5. In mundane astrology which are more reliable: progressed aspects or
cycles?
6. What event usually determines the moment of birth of a corporation?
7. In the Hermetic System of Mundane Astrology do we deal chiefly with
stationary land areas or with groups of people who at different times
may occupy these land areas?
8. Did any country escape difficulty coincident with the discovery of the
planet Pluto in 1930?
9. When there are heavy afflictions between the planets in the sky what
does that signify on earth?
10. To know what part of the world heavy aspects in the sky most
pronouncedly will affect, what else must be known?
11. What progressed aspect in the chart of the U.S. was coincident with the
stock market boom which collapsed during the last two months of 1929?
12. What aspect in the sky in 1932 was coincident with Japan’s decision to
acquire Manchuria by military aggression?
13. What aspect in the sky in 1933 was coincident with Hitler becoming
dictator of Germany?
14. What happened to kings while Neptune transited through the royal
sign of Leo?
15. With the exception of the New Moon Chart, what makes the moment of
time for the erection of each mundane Cycle Chart?
16. In any mundane Cycle Chart other than the New Moon Chart, what
alone is progressed to indicate when the indicated events will take place?
17. To what on earth does the conjunction of two planets in the sky correspond?
18. Only when what occurs in the chart of a nation or city relating by house
position to the department of life affected does a major event affecting
the nation or city take place?
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19. During the time the aspect is within what space of closeness will the
event indicated by it take place?
20. What kind of events are attracted by Minor Progressed Aspects and
Transits in the birth-charts of cities and nations?
21. Under what progressed aspects in the chart of Boston did the police
strike take place in 1919?
22. Under what progressed aspects in the chart of Chicago did the great
fire take place in 1871?
23. Under what progressed aspects in the chart of the U.S. was the Monroe
Doctrine first declared in 1823?
24. Under what progressed aspects in the chart of the U.S. was the first
blood of the Civil War shed in 1861?
25. Under what progressed aspects in the chart of the U.S. did the U.S.
enter the World War in 1917?
Cycles Of Pluto And Neptune (Serial No. 142)
What house of a planetary cycle chart rules:
1. The people of a country?
2. The administration, president or dictator of a country?
3. Why is it so easy in determining the ruling sign of a country from the
transits to mistake the sign on the cusp of the 10th house for the ruling
sign?
4. What thought-trend, business and political group are ruled by Pluto?
5. Except those for Sun and Moon, do the Cycle charts indicate the influence of a wide variety of things on the affairs of the locality for which
erected?
6. A cycle chart is the birth chart of what?
7. How long does the influence of a cycle chart continue?
8. Other than in the New Moon Chart, how many planets are progressed
in a cycle chart to indicate when indicated events will take place?
9. What is the rate of progression used in a cycle chart?
10. What are the two most common errors made in attempting predictions
from cycle charts?
11. With what is the commencement of a cycle chart usually coincident?
12. Do events indicated by the cycle chart-sometimes occur a little before
the cycle starts?
13. That which occurs at the commencement of a cycle often is later developed in what manner?
14. What is the orb of influence at the commencement of a cycle during
which the event indicated by its commencement may take place?
15. Except in the Moon cycle, how wide an orb of influence is allowed during which the event indicated by a progressed aspect may take place?
16. What is the orb of influence which is allowed in the Moon cycle during
which the event indicated by a progressed aspect from the Moon may
take place?
17. What is the most characteristic feature of mundane events attracted
through the influence of Pluto?
18. What co-operative means does Pluto take for selfish ends; and what cooperative means to accomplish constructive work?
19. Does Pluto have much regard for the voice of the common people?
20. What is the planet of dictator?
21. What planet tends to split groups into rival factions?
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22. What is the most profound influence of Neptune?
What planet rules the following:
23. Corporations? 25. Aviation and the movies?
24. Promotion of all kinds? 26. Involuntary servitude?
Cycles Of Uranus (Serial No. 143)
1. In forecasting the event which will coincide with a given progressed
aspect in a cycle chart what are the four factors which require consideration?
2. The influence of what things upon mundane affairs are indicated by a
given cycle chart?
3. What, in a cycle chart, usually indicates the department of life affected
by the progressed aspect?
4. What is signified by the special affinity of the planet receiving a progressed aspect in a cycle chart?
What are the special affinities of the following planets when receiving a
progressed aspect in a cycle chart?
5. Mars.
6. Saturn.
7. Jupiter.
8. Is the house in which the progressing planet is located when an aspect
is complete in a cycle chart as significant as the house occupied by a
progressing planet in a natal chart when a progressed aspect is complete?
9. What two sets of things does Uranus dislike?
10. What is the planet of liberty and rugged individualism?
11. Is Uranus gentle in his demands for different conditions?
12. What is the chief reason why the strikes and boycotts Uranus instigates
so often fail?
13. What planet governs flaming oratory?
14. What important invention was demonstrated as the short cycle of Uranus came in early in 1927?
15. What was the most important influence upon human progress of the
short cycle of Uranus in 1927.
Under what aspect in the Uranus Cycle did the following occur?
16. Invention of the magnetic telegraph.
17. Invention of vulcanizing rubber.
18. The sewing machine patented.
19. Invention of the rotary printing press.
20. John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry, Va.
21. The statement of Lincoln as a war measure that he would free all slaves
in the States on January 1, excepting certain loyal or occupied sections.
22. An act passed to establish an eight-hour day for laborers for the Federal
Government.
23. The typewriter placed on the market.
24. Electric trolley street cars operated in Kansas City.
25. The House passed a work-relief bill of $4,880,000
Cycles Of Saturn (Serial No. 144)
1. In a Cycle Chart what special significances has the house occupied by
the planet for which the chart is erected?
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2. What three conditions in particular come under the rule of the Saturn
Cycle?
3. What planet tends to contract and depress?
4. What planet often lets golden opportunities pass through lack of courage to attempt?
5. What are the two business planets?
6. In business, contrast the tendency of Saturn with the tendency of Jupiter.
7. Under what cycle in particular should we look for tendencies to disease?
8. Contrast the tendency of Saturn with the tendency of Uranus.
9. What two planets are chiefly responsible for the rise and fall of markets, and periods of business advance and business recession?
10. What planet rules crops which are growing on the soil?
11. In what cycle should we look to determine matters relating to mining?
12. What kind of tariffs are ruled by Saturn?
13. What does Saturn rule in religion; and what in politics?
Under what astrological influences did the following occur?
14. The Public Land Act of April, 1820 passed.
15. Passage of the Tariff of Abominations, in 1828.
16. Signing of the Indian Removal Act by President Jackson in 1830.
17. The horse reaper patented by C. H. McCormic, thus making a change in
harvesting labor.
18. A joint resolution passed in Congress for the annexation of Texas.
19. The discovery of gold near Sutter’s Mill in California in 1848.
20. Enactment of the Agricultural College Act which gave rise to most of
the agricultural schools.
21. The first oil well sunk at Oil Creek, Pa., and the petroleum industry
started.
22. The great fire in Chicago in 1871, which destroyed 200 million dollars in
property.
23. A storm on March, 1925, in Missouri and Southern Illinois, which killed
over 830 persons, injured 3,800 and destroyed property valued at $
10,000,000.
24. The removal of the body of King Tutankamen on November 11,1925,
from the coffin in the royal subterranean tomb at Luxor, Egypt, by
Howard Carter. King Tutankamen died 3,275 years ago pre-1936.
Cycles Of Jupiter (Serial No. 145)
1. Why is it more difficult to predict the degree of importance of an event
than when there will be widespread interest in events of a particular
kind?
2. What significance have events which have gone before in indicating
what will happen under a given progressed aspect in a planetary cycle
chart?
3. Taken by itself, does any one aspect in the Mars Cycle Chart signify that
the country will go to war?
4. Of what can we be absolutely certain when a progressed aspect forms
in the Pluto Cycle Chart?
5. What environmental condition may influence the particular avenue
through which an aspect in the Pluto Cycle will express?
6. Will a progressed aspect in the Saturn Cycle bring the same event at a
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time when there is great agitation for conservation that it does in a
period of drastic business depression?
7. Why were all important actions leading up to national prohibition shown
by aspects in the Uranus Cycle?
8. Why at one time do progressed aspects in the Uranus Cycle coincide
with strikes and at another time with exposure of graft among public
officials?
9. Why is it comparatively easy to make accurate short time predictions?
Aspects to what planet in a cycle chart tend to indicate the following?
10. Drastic action and group activity.
11. Schemes and involved conditions.
12. Something new, sudden, and a marked change from old conditions.
13. A slowing down, loss, economy or restriction.
14. Expansion, optimism, expenditures and high prices.
15. Strife and struggle.
16. In what cycle chart do we look for the larger turning points relative to
some matter?
17. For greater details relative to the same matter, where do we look?
18. What does Jupiter rule where thought, business and politics are each
concerned?
19. To what one thing are more progressed aspects in the Jupiter Cycle
related than to any other thing?
20. What planet rules arbitration between countries?
Under what astrological influences did the following occur?
21. Treaty signed with Great Britain in 1888 to settle the fisheries dispute.
22. An issue of $50,000,000 in bonds offered in 1894 to replenish the gold
reserve.
23. The War Revenue Act in 1898 provided for raising revenue by excise
duties, tax on tea, and a big bond loan.
24. In 1928, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to halt action of the court
below reversing the Interstate Commerce Commission in the “Lake Cargo”
coal case.
25. In 1928, the Board of Bishops of the M. E. Church of the World announced that ministers may marry couples one or both of whom have
been legally divorced.
Cycles Of Mars (Serial No. 146)
1. What planet in a cycle chart indicates the type of people and the department of national affairs most readily influenced by the energies which
come under the cycle’s rule?
2. Aspects of what planet in a cycle chart commonly are of most significance?
3. During those periods when almost no aspects form in a given planetary
cycle chart what is indicated?
4. When during a given period the planet for which a cycle chart is erected
makes many progressed aspects to the places of the various planets in
the chart, what may be expected?
5. Why is the really important part of some events not coincident with the
final action taken?
6. What, at times, causes the progressed aspect to become perfect in the
cycle chart somewhat before the external act indicated?
7. Are such events exceptions to the general rule that events, signified by
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a progressed aspect, usually come to pass while the aspect is within
one degree of perfection?
8. Why will not all events of national consequence influenced by Mars be
shown in the Mars Cycle Chart?
What is indicated by the following?
9. A progressed aspect to Mars in any cycle chart.
10. A progressed aspect to Uranus in any cycle chart.
11. A progressed aspect to Saturn in any cycle chart.
12. How do events shown by a progressed aspect to a planet in a cycle chart
other than its own differ from those indicated by its progressed aspect
in its own cycle chart?
13. What is the most energetic of all the planets?
What planet rules the following?
14. Creative activities.
15. Manufacturing
16. Army and Navy.
17. Sheriffs and policemen.
18. Athletics and sports.
19. Industrial workers.
20. Intoxicants.
21. The common laborer.
Under what astrological influence did the following occur?
22. In 1892 U.S. presented an ultimatum to Chile.
23. In 1901, President McKinley was fatally shot by an anarchist.
24. In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt offered his good offices to end
the Russo-Japanese war.
25. In 1934 naval officers were assigned to American merchant ships to
inspect safety devices and lifeboat drills.
Major Conjunctions Of The Planets (Serial No. 147)
1. When two planets form a conjunction in the sky, what is indicated on
earth relative to the things ruled by these two planets?
2. What indicates whether the conditions thus indicated will be harmonious or discordant?
3. What things chiefly would be affected by Mars conjunction Saturn in
the sky?
4. Does a conjunction profoundly affect all the affairs of national life?
5. What is indicated by powerful aspects from the conjunction to other
planets?
6. What significance has the house of the chart, erected for the time of a
conjunction, where the conjunction is found?
7. How are people’s unconscious minds affected by a planet powerfully
aspected in the sky?
8. What influences has the birth-chart of a city or nation on where the
events signified by a conjunction or other heavy aspect in the sky will
take place?
9. What four factors in mundane astrology indicate the degree of receptivity of each important area of the earth to whatever energies are being broadcast from the sky?
10. What persons within a group largely determine the effect of the particular energy upon the group?
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11. What aspects in the sky other than conjunctions have a noticeable effect
upon the affairs of cities, nations and the world?
12. What came to pass under Saturn opposition Neptune in Virgo in the
sky?
13. What came to pass under Jupiter opposition Pluto, in May and December, 1937?
14. How wide an orb of influence should be allowed for the influence of
aspects between planets in the sky?
15. What event of significance in the advancement of occult science occurred under the Grand Trine of Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter, in 1937?
16. From what must the exact days on which the chief events indicated by
a conjunction chart be determined?
Events affecting what things are indicated by the following conjunctions?
17. Neptune and Pluto. 21. Saturn with Neptune.
18. Uranus with Pluto. 22. Saturn with Uranus.
19. Uranus and Neptune. 23. Jupiter with Uranus.
20. Saturn with Pluto. 24. Jupiter with Saturn.
25. Mars with Neptune.
Cycles Of The Sun (Serial No. 148)
1. When does the astronomical year commence, and why?
2 From what place of reference is declination measured?
3. When does the Sun Cycle commence?
4. How many types of events are affected by the Sun Cycle?
5. Are all the chief events of the year shown in their relative importance
by the Sun Cycle?
6. How is it determined when the events indicated by each house of the
Sun Cycle chart will take place?
7. How in general can it be determined for any department of life what
the year following the Sun Cycle holds in store?
In national affairs, what houses rule the following?
8. Congress.
9. The Administration.
10. The Supreme Court.
11. Health and General Welfare of the people.
12. If near the date an important aspect is completed in a heavier planetary
Cycle Chart, there is a progressed aspect formed in the Sun Cycle Chart
to one of the planets involved, what is signified?
13. When there is a progressed aspect in the Sun Cycle Chart and another
in the New Moon Chart to one of the planets involved in a major conjunction, near the date of the major conjunction, what is signified?
14. What is Universal Time?
15. What is the only planet progressed in a Sun Cycle Chart?
16. Has the house into which the Sun has progressed when it makes an
aspect as much significance as the house occupied by the planet aspected
by the Sun?
In a Sun Cycle Chart what is signified by the following:
17. Uranus in the tenth conjunction to co-ruler of the first.
18. Neptune in opposition to Venus in the ninth house.
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19. Mars conjunction the Moon and both opposition Jupiter.
20. Uranus in the seventh in opposition to Moon in the first and both square
Jupiter in the fourth.
21. Sun square Mars in the fifth, the Sun being ruler of the eighth.
22. Venus in the ninth and Saturn in the third, and both aspecting the Sun.
23. The Sun by progression arrives at the trine of Mars in the sixth house.
24. The Sun by progression arrives at the square of Pluto in the tenth house.
25. The Sun by progression arrives at the trine of Neptune, ruler of the
ninth house.
Cycles Of The Moon (Serial No. 149)
1. In what way does the commencement of the cycle of the Moon differ
from the commencement of the cycles of the planets?
2. What type of affairs are influenced by the cycles of the Moon?
3. What is meant by a Lunation?
4. Subject to general conditions affecting the world or a nation, what chart
may be read as a natal chart for the month to follow?
5. For the time of what event is a new Moon Chart erected?
6. What planets are especially significant in a new Moon Chart?
7. Are all the important events of the month signified in their relative
importance by the New Moon Chart?
8. Aside from aspects in the heavier Cycle Charts, what gives a general
picture of the events which will happen to a country during a given
month relative to a given department of life?
9. What indicates the time an event will occur foreshown by a planet in a
given house of the New Moon Chart?
In a New Moon Chart what house rules the following:
10. Bankers.
11. The Stock Market.
12. Crime.
13. For events of what scope is the New Moon Chart erected for Washington, D.C.?
14. Will a progressed aspect in a Cycle Chart bring an event which is not
shown plainly in the chart itself?
15. How wide an orb of time should be allowed for the event to take place
indicated by a progressed aspect in a New Moon Chart?
16. What progressed aspects made in a New Moon Chart should receive
most of the attention?
17. In what way are progressed aspects in the New Moon Charts useful to
determine the exact days on which the events will transpire shown by
progressed aspects in the heavy Cycle Charts?
18. In predicting events from progressed aspects in the New Moon Chart
should much attention be given to the house occupied by the Moon
when it makes the aspect?
19. What may be predicted from each heavy progressed aspect made in a
New Moon Chart?
20. How many predictions almost always can be verified by newspaper
headlines relative to each powerful progressed aspect the Moon makes
in its Cycle Chart?
21. Why can predictions of disaster more often be verified by newspaper
accounts than predictions of more fortunate events?
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22. Which planet rules the Democratic Party, and which rules the Republican Party?
23. In what way do aspects in the Cycle Charts on the day of election help
to determine which party will win?
24. What significance in reference to the outcome of an election has the
New Moon Chart just preceding the election?
25. Why are the progressed aspects in the charts of contending candidates,
and their birth-charts, not an infallible guide to which of the two will
win in an election?
Precise Predicting: Eclipses (Serial No. 150)
1. In mundane astrology what usually indicates the truly important events
and the time in general when they will take place?
2. What function in mundane astrology is performed by new stars, comets major conjunctions, eclipses and other aspects of the sky?
3. What indicates the general characteristics of an event indicated by a
progressed aspect in a cycle chart?
4. What indicates the department of life affected by the event indicated by
a progressed aspect in a cycle chart?
5. What indicates the Sub-Major Events in mundane astrology?
6. What indicates the Minor Events in mundane astrology?
7. In mundane astrology, what indicates major trends in world and national affairs?
8. What indicates the Major Events in mundane astrology?
9. Do the events shown by progressed aspects in the heavier cycles necessarily require assistance from aspects in the cycles of the Sun and Moon
to bring them to pass?
10. What part have progressed aspects in the cycles of the Sun and Moon in
indicating the time a major event shown by progressed aspects in a
heavier cycle comes to pass?
11. How much of an orb of influence should be allowed for a progressed
aspect in the cycle of a major planet?
12. What is believed to be the nature of the star which led the wise men of
the east to the manger in Bethlehem?
13. What was signified by Nova Herculis 1934?
14. How many constellations were in the celestial sphere adopted by the
Greeks?
15. In what way does the pictured constellation reveal the significance of
any celestial phenomena closely associated with it?
16. What are novae?
What was signified by the following:
17. Appearance of a new star in the constellation Scorpio, in 134 B.C.
18. Sudden appearance of a new star in the constellation, Cassiopeia, on
November 11, 1572.
19. Appearance of a new star in the constellation Cygnus, in 1600.
20. Appearance of Kepler’s star in the constellation Ophiuchus, in 1604.
21. What in general is the significance of a comet?
22. What indicates the place on earth affected by a comet?
23. What indicates the general nature of the event presignified by a comet?
24. What is the definite rule as to when and where the influences of a Solar
Eclipse will be felt?
25. What is the nature of the event foreshown by a Solar Eclipse?
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Appendix
History of
The Brotherhood of Light
T
o trace the origin of The Religion of the Stars, recourse must be made
to tradition. Pseudo occultists and charlatans are only too ready to
appropriate a name and use it to deceive the unwary. Hence a name
and boasted lineage mean nothing in such matters. When genuine they rest
upon secret tradition. And such documentary evidence as can be submitted
for the genuine may easily be imitated by the spurious.
The only safe criterion of the genuineness of any esoteric teaching is the
amount and accuracy of the information contained therein. The Brotherhood of Light lessons are now accessible to all. We welcome investigation
with a view to proving their value. The lineage here given is not to claim
infallibility or to prove authority, but to disclaim any originality in the ideas
set forth beyond their method of presentation. Upon the prima facie evidence these lessons contain as expositors of THE RELIGION OF THE STARS,
The Church of Light is well content to rest all its claims.
According to tradition, in the year 2,440 B.C., a group separated from
the theocracy of Egypt, and through subsequent times, as a secret order,
the name of which translated into English means The Brotherhood of Light,
has been perpetuated, and has exerted a beneficial influence upon western
civilization.
During only one period of Egyptian history did the teachings of The Religion of the Stars have a great influence on Egyptian civilization. This was
during the reign of Akhenaten. This king was influenced by The Brotherhood of Light and broke completely with the corrupt priesthood of Amen.
He moved to his City of the Horizon and spread stellar art and wisdom
throughout Egypt. He died before the establishing of a new civilization could
be completed; so the priests of Amen did the best they could to destroy his
city and philosophy.
With the ascension of the Greek civilization, the influence of The Brotherhood of Light is seen in the astrology and mythology of Greece. Many of
the Greek Mysteries take their basic rites from the ancient Egyptians.
The Greek philosophers, Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Euxodus, and a score
of others famed for learning that might be mentioned, received initiation
directly at the hands of the Egyptian members of the fraternity.
At a later date this venerable order gave the impetus to learning in Alexandria, which made the city so justly famous. One of The Brotherhood of
Light, the noble Hypatia, who, after the decline of the colleges in that city,
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was the last to withstand the onslaughts of superstitious ignorance, and died
endeavoring to spread the light of ancient wisdom.
It was The Brotherhood of Light that preserved the taper of learning from
complete extinction during the dark ages, and that was responsible for kindling with it the fires of science and philosophy in Europe, even in the face of
ruthless persecution.
The Brotherhood of Light not only has persisted as such on the innerplanes,
but the line of succession has been kept alive, although at times it became
exceedingly thin, also on the physical plane.
Much of our written history is lost in the mist of time. The thread of
modern day existence on the physical plane picks up with the following.
M. Theon, for years, was the head of The Brotherhood of Light in Europe. The teachings came to America and were published in two books translated and edited by Emma Harding Britten, Art Magic and Ghost Land. The
original edition of Art Magic bears this legend at the bottom of the title page,
“Published by the author, at New York, America, 1876.”
T.H. Burgoyne was the son of a physician in Scotland. He roamed the
moors during his boyhood and became conversant with the birds and flowers. He was an amateur naturalist. He was also a natural seer. Through his
seership he contacted The Brotherhood of Light on the innerplane, and later
contacted M. Theon in person. Still later he came to America, where he taught
and wrote on occult subjects. We find articles on the tarot, written by him,
for instance, during 1887 and 1888, in The Platonist, published by Thomas
M. Johnson at Osceola, Missouri. This was more than a dozen years before
Genevieve Stebbins translated the work of P. Christian.
Captain Norman Astley, an officer in the British Army, had traveled extensively. In the performance of his duties he had lived in India and there
had pursued occult studies. He also resided a short time in Australia. Later
he returned to England to meet M. Theon, having previously contacted The
Brotherhood of Light in his travels.
Astley was also a surveyor. Retired from the British Army he surveyed,
among other places, what is now Carmel, California. It was such a beautiful
region that when he married Genevieve Stebbins, a member of The Brotherhood of Light and a Delsarte teacher in New York, they decided to build
their home in Carmel. That was in the 1860’s.
As T.H. Burgoyne was a member of the same organization, it was natural
he should pay them a visit. Captain and Mrs. Astley, who had contacted a
number of earnest students suggested to Burgoyne that he write the basic
Brotherhood of Light teachings as a series of lessons. This he agreed to do
provided the students would enable him to live while he did this work. The
Astleys made contact with students he knew and 12 were found who were
willing to donate $5 per month to this purpose.
Burgoyne lived in the home of the Astleys while he wrote Light of Egypt,
Volume I. He wrote and issued as a manuscript lesson, which the 12 students were permitted to copy, one chapter each month. He had a white pony
which would come at his whistle and follow him as if it were a dog. Each
morning the weather was clement, he and his pony would leave the Astley
domicile and go to a certain wild spot on Point Lobos to commune with the
Monterey pines, to listen to the birds, to caress the flowers, and to hear the
noisy surf boil into a little rocky cove above which in spring wild asters grew
in profusion. Overlooking the charging and retreating waters, always sitting
at the same spot, he wrote the whole of Light of Egypt, Volume I.
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For reasons set forth in the preface to Light of Egypt, Volume I, it was later
decided to publish these private lessons in book form. That this might be
done it became necessary to finance the venture, and to have some kind of
an organization which would resist the attacks it was anticipated would be
made by those opposed to the purpose of the book.
Dr. Henry Wagner and Mrs. Belle M. Wagner (both with Jupiter in the
tenth house of their birthcharts) agreed to finance the venture, and did so
to the extent of $100,000. And a branch of The Brotherhood of Light called
the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, was formed for the express purpose
of seeing to it that the Light of Egypt and its teachings should receive wide
distribution.
The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor was governed in all its affairs by a
council of three members consisting of a scribe, or secretary, an astrologer
and a seer. Burgoyne was the original secretary. He passed to the next plane
in March 1894, while residing in Humboldt County, California. Belle Wagner,
Sun in Pisces, Aquarius rising and the Moon in the first house in Aquarius,
was elected to take his place on the council. Minnie Higgins, Sun in Gemini,
was the astrologer. Mrs. Anderson, Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Cancer, Libra rising, was the seer. Meetings to decide issues were held on the second
floor of Mrs. Anderson’s large home in Denver, Colorado.
The bylaws of The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor made it impossible
for any person under 21 years of age to join; made it impossible for a married
person to join unless the spouse also joined, and made membership possible
only after the individual’s record had been thoroughly investigated.
Early in 1909 Minnie Higgins passed to the next plane, and in the spring
of that year Elbert Benjamine was called to Denver and elected to take her
place on the Council as the astrologer. At this meeting on the second floor of
Mrs. Anderson’s home, the other two members of the Council did their utmost, as the official minutes of the meeting show, to convince Elbert
Benjamine that he should undertake the job of preparing a complete system
of education that would enable a wide public to become conversant with
The Religion of the Stars. But it was not until April of the following year that
he consented to do this work.
Meanwhile he had contacted personally and through correspondence
not only members of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, but members of
The Brotherhood of Light who had remained aloof from the organization
with headquarters at Denver. But it was chiefly by his becoming more closely
associated with The Brotherhood of Light on the innerplane that he overcame his reluctance to take over so imposing a task.
In 1913 the three members of the Council of The Hermetic Brotherhood
of Luxor, after due deliberation, voted unanimously to close The Hermetic
Brotherhood of Luxor, and since then no members have been accepted.
During the period, 1914 to 1934 that The Brotherhood of Light lessons
were being written, there was never any spirit other than that of helpfulness
shown toward this work by any member of The Brotherhood of Light or by
any person who had been a member of The Brotherhood of Luxor. And, in
particular, Captain and Mrs. Astley were helpful. Elbert Benjamine visited
them in their home on various occasions, and some of the extensive and
encouraging correspondence he received from them helped him in this work.
In 1918 classes were first opened to the public. In order to carry out its
objective of reestablishing The Religion of the Stars on earth, The Brotherhood of Light was incorporated as The Church of Light, on November 2,
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1932, 9:55 a.m. PST at Los Angeles. The three founders of The Church of
Light were Elbert Benjamine (C.C. Zain), who served as President until his
demise November 18, 1951; Elizabeth Benjamine, who served as Secretary
Treasurer until her passing in 1942; and Fred Skinner, who served as Vice
President until his demise in 1940. From the 1920’s through the 1940’s much
astrological research was carried on which has become standard reference
for many astrologers.
Much of the history of The Church of Light in years between 1915 and
1951 involve the history of Mr. Benjamine’s efforts. His mission on earth
being completed through the writing, rewriting and printing of The Brotherhood of Light lessons, he felt that his physical form was worn beyond
repair and that he could better serve the cause of Universal Welfare by leaving that body behind and moving to the next phase of his work in God’s
Great Plan.
In accordance with Mr. Benjamine’s instructions, there was no public
funeral, and his body was cremated. Because of his desire to be free from
thoughts and emotions of grief so he might make a speedy adjustment in his
new life, the announcement of his passing was withheld until the Response
Day dinner in Los Angeles on December 18, 1951.
He left a priceless heritage in The Brotherhood of Light lessons, which
must be preserved and passed on unchanged to succeeding generations.
The Light of Egypt is a consortium of advanced students and Hermiticians
who seek to carry on the high traditions of the Brotherhood of Light by
contributing our utmost to Universal Welfare without thought of personal
gain or recompense.
It continues to work toward fulfilling these purpose by meeting the needs
of a new world order with its progressive philosophy of soul development.
As always there is a determination that each individual should have the opportunity to Contribute his or her Utmost to Universal Welfare to the end
that all people may live with freedom from fear; freedom from want; freedom of speech; freedom of religion, and to be enlightened to the extent they
wish by the soul uplifting teachings of The Religion of the Stars.
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Appendix
Declaration of Principles
W
e are a Religious altruistic association. We consider all humanity as
equal in the higher sense, and utilize our resources for the purpose of assisting each individual to fulfill their part in the Divine
Plan. Our Hermetic Philosophy indicates that each soul is responsible for its
spiritual progress; and our lessons provide the best information possible for
the attainment of true spirituality and happiness on the physical plane and
on each higher plane of progress.
There cannot be Two Orders of Truth in the Universe. Therefore, we
deny that there is any antagonism between true Science and true Religion.
We accept but one book as infallible in interpreting the Will of Deity. That is
the Book of Nature. We worship but one Religion, which is also a Science:
Nature’s laws.
Students are under no obligation to accept our teachings. We encourage
them to investigate all existing religious and occult organizations, and our
course on Evolution of Religion gives details on how our philosophy relates to
many of the religions of the world today.
We teach that the family and the marriage relationship are the most powerful aid in building the spiritual body. It is through the sacrifices of the
parents for the children that they give up selfishness and then transfer that
love to higher planes of work. Our course, Ancient Masonry, gives more detail about this process, as well as the course on Spiritual Alchemy and the
one on Occultism Applied to Daily Life.
Our view of the reason for existence upon the earth is discussed in the
book, Astrological Signatures, and the book Organic Alchemy. We know from
tradition and scientific experiments that the soul and personality survive the
transition called death and live on higher planes of existence. This is outlined
in the book The Next Life. We also have lessons on healing and alchemy (psychology) both from the spiritual and physical plane.
Our philosophy is grounded in two basic studies: The Golden Key of
Astrology and the Silver Key of the Sacred Tarot. Only with a thorough knowledge of these two keys may the sanctuary of Nature’s Temple be opened.
Astrology is the science of finding and utilizing the natural potentialities as
indicated by the planetary chart of birth. It becomes a religion when it shows
the individual how these natural tendencies can be utilized for the benefit of
all humanity and furtherance of the purposes of Deity. This is why we are
called The Religion of the Stars.
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The Sacred Tarot is the pictorial form of the spiritual ideas of our world as
viewed by the spiritual giants of the past and checked by subsequent illuminated ones as to accuracy. Initiates of all ages have added their contributions.
It is the esoteric presentation of the Hermetic Philosophy, and provides each
Neophyte with many sources of meditations and inspiration. Our courses on
The Sacred Tarot and Spiritual Astrology give much insight on these two foundations of Knowledge.
The Religion of the Stars is dedicated to the unfoldment of the Universal
Plan for this Aquarian Age. A Nine Point Plan provides the framework for
this work. The Nine Point Plan is:
That everyone should have:
Freedom from Want
Freedom of Expression
Freedom from Fear
Freedom of Religion
That to obtain these in proper measure, people must have the freedom to
become familiar with:
Facts of Astrology
Facts of Induced Emotion
Facts of Extrasensory Perception
Facts of Directed Thinking
And, that instead of working to take all that he can for himself, each must
learn to find pleasure in
Contributing His or Her Utmost to Universal Welfare
The Brotherhood of Light teachings are presented in 21 courses covering
21 Branches of Occult Science. The courses have study questions in the
back of each book for every lesson. If you you request them, you will receive a final exam for each course. Upon passing the final exam, the Award
Manuscript will be sent to you. These give information on the safest method
of developing higher states of consciousness and other information of value
to the neophyte.
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Appendix
Home Study Program
About The Home Study Program...
The Brotherhood of Light lessons offer the safest and most reliable information concerning occult studies found anywhere! Many are interested in
investigating the occult sciences but cannot find a suitable teacher or are unable to find a practical approach to such matters. To meet this challenge the
Home Study Program was designed.
Much information about the outerplane environment can be had in public schools and universities. Of equal importance is knowledge of the
innerplane. Since this information is not yet available in our public institutions, The Brotherhood of Light lessons are published.
With the dawning Aquarian Age, our planet is undergoing a new dispensation of knowledge. Manifestations of this knowledge are evident in the scientific and technological growth experienced since 1881. So that development
may be along the most constructive channels, it is important that we work to
align personal and community intention to the Will of Deity. It is the role of
religion to facilitate this alignment.
The Religion of the Stars teaches that the most reliable evidence of God’s
intention is obtained by observing Nature. To do this requires not only effort,
but the process of trial and error. Sometimes standing on the shoulders of
those who precede us can be helpful. May we suggest that you will find The
Brotherhood of Light lessons to be a reliable guide, as well as some of the
most uplifting material you will ever encounter.
Who can enroll in the Home Study Program...
Anyone can study the 21 Courses by reading the material contained
therein, and may submit examinations for correction. Upon receiving a passing grade, members will receive the “NotSold Manuscripts.” They contain
information which we believe to be safest and most reliable methods for psychic unfoldment.
While the reason for each person’s study is highly personal, there can also
be an organization goal. That is, to become a Hermetician. A Hermetician is a
person who has passed final exams on all 21 Courses and thereby demonstrated physical knowledge of all branches of the Hermetic Sciences (Astrology, Alchemy and Magic). As a Hermetician one is eligible to participate more
fully in the religious and educational aspects of the organization.
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How does the program work...
Recognizing that each person begins his/her course of study with a particular area of interest we have structured the program so you may pass courses
in any order you wish. We strongly encourage you to undertake the passing
of examinations in sequence from Course 1 to 21.
You can request that we send you an a Course 1 (Laws of Occultism) examination.
After receiving a passing score (exams are open book) we will send you
the “Not Sold Manuscript.” This process is repeated until you reach the
Hermetician level by passing exams for all 21 courses.
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Appendix
Other Brotherhood of Light
Courses
Other Brotherhood of Light Courses in the Astrology Branch
Course 2, Astrological Signatures
For those only vaguely acquainted with Astrology, this course provides a
genuinely complete starting point. For those thoroughly conversant in the
effects of the stars and planets, this course explains the connection Astrology
has always had throughout the millennia with the Religion of the Stars. The
religion’s Hermetic Traditions concerning where the soul had its origin,
through what processes it reached the earth and why human incarnation
was necessary are related. Of special interest is the explanation of the purpose of joy and sorrow. Also included is a description of the aspect of the
Religion of the Stars evident in the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt-from a translation by Genevieve Stebbins of Iamblichus’s description of the ancient initiation ceremony.
Course 7, Spiritual Astrology
The ancient Wise Ones, when they had discovered some great and vital spiritual truth, looked about to find some material object which would explain,
in terms of universal symbolism, this truth to generations to come, of whatever land and of whatever subsequent time. Doctrines of the Religion of the
Stars thus formulated were pictured in the sky as the 48 ancient constellations. Each of these constellations is a spiritual text and by their means every
story in the Bible or any other Sacred Book may correctly be interpreted.
Course 8, Horary Astrology
This course is most often chosen by beginning students of Astrology for its
technical Lesson, “How to Erect a Horoscope,” as well as for its clearly organized, easy-to-understand system for judging any given horoscope. More
advanced students quite frequently refer to this volume for details concerning the delineation of a horary chart. For students of the Religion of the Stars
and/or Hermetic Astrology, the Lesson, “Doctrine of Horary Astrology,” is of
special importance, with its explanation of just how and why this branch of
occult science can solve a problem relating to events past, present and future. Also included for beginning students are C.C. Zain’s chart erection shortcuts, for which he designed the Church of Light #2 chart pad to further
facilitate this process.
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Course 10-1, Delineating the Horoscope
As the Lessons on Astrology emphasize: much is to be gained by diligent
application of the rules when delineating—and much is lost by not doing so.
Here, then, is the Hermetic System of Natal Astrology, step by step, along
with the unsurpassed “Outline of a Complete Astrological Reading.” When
this process is followed, one can hardly avoid providing an effective and
helpful delineation. Of interest to the beginning student or the advanced are
the explanations of the 36 decanates, illustrated with examples of renowned
persons having Sun, Moon or Ascendant in that decanate.
Course 10-2, Progressing the Horoscope
A technical manual on the Hermetic System of Progressions, major and minor. Some of the best proof of Astrology’s validity and effectiveness (especially for those extremely skeptical of the science) can be found in this area
due to the ease of observing the influences of properly timed major progressions. Hermetic rules regarding the delineation of progressed aspects assist
the student in avoiding erroneous assumptions concerning the progressed
chart. To round out this study of Natal Astrology, a Lesson on the Hermetic
System of rectifying the horoscope is included for use in erecting a birthchart
when the exact birth-time is undetermined.
Course 15, Weather Predicting
A complete treatment of the subject and the only text available entirely devoted to astrological influences on the weather. The inner-plane weather
mapped by astrological positions has an influence on all earthly things and
enterprises and physical weather is no exception. Weather predicting according to the Hermetic System here set forth is exclusively astrological. The
attention is directed to the manner in which the inner-plane weather tends
to change the physical weather from its normal trend during the season at
any place selected. This is particularly useful information for those involved
in agriculture, aviation, travel or planning a social event. It is an aspect of the
science that should surely not be neglected by anyone seeking a complete,
working knowledge of Astrology.
Course 16, Stellar Healing
This course entails what is probably the most effective method of spiritual
healing: treatment according to birthchart indications. Natal and progressed
constants have been determined through years of extensive research for 160
of the more prevalent diseases; these are included along with the appropriate
stellar treatment for each. For ease of reference, the latter six Lessons are
devoted to an alphabetical arrangement of the diseases, from abdominal
troubles through yellow fever. A most important inclusion is the method in
Lesson 197 for calculating astrodynes, harmodynes and discordynes, the
unsurpassed mathematical formula for the measurement of astrological power
developed by Elbert Benjamine and W.M.A. Drake in 1946.
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The 21 volume Brotherhood of Light series
on the occult sciences by C.C. Zain includes:
3 Branches of Study
Title
Serial Number
Astrology
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
2
7
8
10
13
15
16
Astrological Signatures
Spiritual Astrology
Horary Astrology
Natal Astrology
Mundane Astrology
Weather Predicting
Stellar Healing
1–5, 20, 21, 46 & 47
71–83
36, 86–92
19, 103–117
141–150
190–196
197–208
Alchemy
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
3
9
12
14
17
19
21
Spiritual Alchemy
Mental Alchemy
Natural Alchemy
Occultism Applied
Cosmic Alchemy
Organic Alchemy
Personal Alchemy
49–54
95–101
125–140
151–162
164–172
209–215
216–225
Magic
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
Cs.
1
4
5
6
11
Cs. 18
Cs. 20
Laws of Occultism
Ancient Masonry
Esoteric Psychology
The Sacred Tarot
Divination &
Character Reading
Imponderable Forces
The Next Life
39–45
6–18
56–67
22–33, & 48
118–124
183–189
173–182
Award Manuscripts
1
2
3
4
5
6
The Safest and Most Effective Method
of Psychic Development
How to Become Conscious
on the Inner Plane
How to Contact Desired Information
on the Inner Plane
How to Hold the Consciousness on
the Selected Level of the Inner Plane
Breathing to Acquire Proper Electrification
How to Become Objectively Aware
of Information Acquired from the Inner Plane
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Title
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
Serial Number
How to Use the Transition Technique of ESP
231
How to Control Inner Plane Activities
232
How to Develop Soul Activity
34
How to Direct Soul Activity
35
How to Travel in the Astral
94
Soul Mates
69
How to Use Personal Cycles For Soul Unfoldment 93
How to Use Talismans For Special Purposes
84
Customs and Habits of Elementals
68
Value of Totems
85
Contacting the Masters
163
Great Pyramid Interpreted
55
Symbol Reading Made Easy
70
Initiation
38
Practice of White Magic
37