[PAGE 226]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

                          NO. 8F.--VENEREAL DISEASE

   Male, born April 5, 1896, 4:00 A.M.

   Pisces,  a watery and negative sign, is on the Ascendant,  and the ruler,
Jupiter,  is in another watery sign, Cancer, 29-18.  Planets that are in the
last three degrees of a sign are not as helpful and active as when they  are
less  advanced in the sign.   They act in the same manner as a  ball  thrown
with  force;  by the time it reaches its destination it has to  some  extent
lost its speed,  and the greater the distance it travels the less its force.
So we find that planets situated in the last three degrees of a sign partake
partly  of the sign in which they are placed and also of the one  following,
giving  a mixed vibration;  therefore they express the nature of two  signs.
In this horoscope Jupiter is in the 5th house, pleasures,  and trine to Mer-
cury,  the planet of reason,  which is in the impulsive and martial sign  of
Aries.   The moon,  the ruler of the 5th house is in the 11th house,  ruling
friends in the sign of its fall, Capricorn,  and in sextile to the planet of
love and pleasure,  Venus.   When this last named planet is on the Ascendant
the native is very apt to drift into the pleasure-loving path,  the path  of
the senses.   He is easily influenced by attention and flattery from the op-
posite  sex.   In this case,  the moon, a feminine planet,  in the house  of
friends,  indicates  that  this  young  man's  women  friends  will have the


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strongest influence in his life.  Venus, another feminine planet, on the As-
cendant, afflicted by a square of Neptune, the co-ruler of the Ascendant and
the  higher octave of Mercury,  situated in the mercurial sign of Gemini  in
the 4th house, indicates that his women friends will lead him  into paths of

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 [                           BIRTH CHART NO. 8F                           ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Sagitt. 14    SUN: Aries 16:05       SATURN: Scorpio 17:56R ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Capricorn 6  MOON: Capricorn 20:15  URANUS: Scorpio 23:55R ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Aquarius 1   MERCURY: Aries 3:09    NEPTUNE: Gemini 15:44  ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Pisces 3:27   VENUS: Pisces 21:03    DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Aries 17      MARS: Aquarius 24:54            Pisces 1:30   ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Taurus 19     JUPITER: Cancer 29:18  DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
 [                                                        Virgo 1:30      ]
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

the senses and may destroy his love for the home, for Venus is also trine to
the restless and romantic Uranus and the materialistic Saturn.   These  last
named  planets are retrograde and in the martial sign of Scorpio,  governing
sex.  Mars, the planet of passion, is in the fixed  sign of Aquarius, in the


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12th house, that of self-undoing, and in square aspect to Uranus and Saturn.
Saturn  and Mars are in mutual reception strengthening the good or  evil  of
these planets.

   What do we find?  It happens that this poor young man's weakness and love
for women have attracted licentious and free-love companions, and the result
is venereal disease which has poisoned the blood.  An with Venus, the planet
ruling the venous circulation,  on the Ascendant and afflicted by the watery
planet Neptune in the sign of the lungs,  Gemini,  quick consumption is  the
result.

   In  February,  1919,  the progressed moon reached the conjunction of  the
radical Saturn,  which brought on the lung disease.   In July,  five  months
later,  when the man called upon Headquarters for healing, he was already in
an  advanced stage of galloping consumption.   The following month,  August,
the  moon made a square to the inflammatory Mars,  which brought  on  hemor-
rhages.

   Here we an see the influences of the planets,  their causes and  effects.
The  relatives of this young man did not understand why he should have  con-
tracted  this  disease of the lungs which worked so rapidly and was  so  de-
structive.   With the affliction from watery signs,  the soil was well  pre-
pared for the seeds which were sown through dissipation and thoughtlessness.

   A case of this kind is very difficult to heal,  for with the negative Pi-
sces  on  the  Ascendant,  and  Saturn  and  Uranus,  the planets indicating


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impulse,  yes,  even stubbornness,  in conjunction in Scorpio and square  to
Mars,  all in fixed signs,  it is very hard to guide such a person into safe
channels.   And we find both the lights afflicted, the moon in the saturnine
sign of Capricorn, showing determination and stubbornness, square to the sun
in  the impulsive sign of Mars.   Hence this young man would not  listen  to
reason.  He would do as he pleased regardless of caution and advice.  A life
in  the open air with careful diet and pure surroundings would be  the  only
cure; if he would listen to reason and adopt it he might get well.


[PAGE 230]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

                          NO. 8G--VENEREAL DISEASE

   Male, born October 6, 1895.

   Leo is on the Ascendant,  and Jupiter is just above the cusp of the first
house,  making a square aspect to Saturn and Mercury in the sign of Scorpio.
The moon in Taurus, its exaltation sign, is in the 10th house and in opposi-
tion to Uranus, which is also posited in its exaltation sign, Scorpio,  rul-
ing  the  generative organs.   The moon so strongly situated will  have  the
greatest influence over the young man's life and health.   Being in  opposi-
tion to the licentious Uranus, it will make him very free and unconventional
in his love affairs, and he will be attracted to women of a low type.   With
the afflicted Jupiter ruling the arterial blood,  and with Neptune in Gemini
in the 11th house,  the house of friends,  in square aspect to Venus,  which
has rule over the venous blood,  this young man is apt to be led into  asso-
ciation  with undesirable women friends.   As a matter of fact they are  re-
sponsible  for his contracting a severe case of syphilis which poisoned  the
blood.

   In  1914 we find the progressed sun in the first degree of  Scorpio,  and
the progressed moon in the sign Aquarius forming an opposition to the Ascen-
dant  and the radical Jupiter in Leo.   It is also coming up to a square  of
the radical Saturn,  Mercury,  and Uranus in Scorpio.  In this same year two
new moons afflicted the three latter planets.  The one  on January 26th fell


[PAGE 231]                                                               SEX

in  five degrees of Aquarius in opposition to Jupiter and square  to  Saturn
and  Mercury.   On April 25th the new moon fell in four degrees  of  Taurus,
square to Jupiter and opposition Saturn and Mercury.  This was the time when

   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  [                         BIRTH CHART NO. 8G                           ]
  [                                                                      ]
  [ MIDHEAVEN: Aries 16    SUN: Libra 13:28       SATURN: Scorpio 6:53   ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Taurus 28  MOON: Taurus 17:56     URANUS: Scorpio 18:02  ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 10  MERCURY: Scorpio 8:21  NEPTUNE: Gemini 18:01R ]
  [ ASCENDANT: Leo 10:25   VENUS: Virgo 18:12R    DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Leo 26      MARS: Libra 14:54               Pisces 11:06  ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 16    JUPITER: Leo 5:26      DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
  [                                                      Virgo 11:06     ]
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
the venereal disease was contracted.

   In 1918 the sun by progression formed a square to the radical Jupiter  in
Leo,  and in 1919 a conjunction with Saturn in Scorpio.  In the latter year,
however, the progressed moon trined the Ascendant,  and  on May 29, 1919, an


[PAGE 232]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

eclipse of the sun in seven degrees of Gemini sextiled the Ascendant.  These
vibrations no doubt saved the young man's life during the adverse aspects of
the progressed sun.

   In  1921 the progressed sun came into conjunction with the  radical  Mer-
cury.   On April 22nd the full moon eclipse fell in two degrees  of  Scorpio
opposing the transiting sun and Venus.  At the same time the transiting Mars
was  within orb of a conjunction with the radical moon and in opposition  to
Uranus.   In the spring of that year the young man submitted to an operation
for an abscess under th diaphragm,  which after being opened was a very long
time in discharging,  necessitating a drain tube.   The doctors claimed that
the pus was from the lungs,  but the patient denied ever having had  trouble
with these organs.  The horoscope shows, however, that the doctors'  diagno-
sis was correct,  for Neptune in Gemini,  ruling the lungs,  afflicted by  a
square of Venus from the common and earthy sign of Virgo, would obstruct the
delivery of the venous blood to the lungs,  causing poor oxygenation.   With
the blood stream polluted by the dread disease of syphilis and with both the
arterial blood (ruled by Jupiter) and the venous blood (ruled by Venus)  ob-
structed,  the weakest organ,  the lungs, would naturally receive the poison
generated in the blood.

   After  the patient had somewhat recovered from the operation he  returned
home.  On April 25th, he was taken back to the hospital (that was three days


[PAGE 233]                                                               SEX

after  the  total  eclipse of the moon in Scorpio) with what  at  first  was
termed a case of mumps.   The throat, jaw, and larynx were very much swollen
and inflamed.   This condition was later diagnosed by some of the doctors as
actinomycosis,  an infectious,  chronic disease of cattle,  sometimes trans-
ferred  to man.   But there was a difference of opinion among  the  doctors.
Some held that the disease was cancer.

   As  the  moon is the most heavily afflicted planet in  the  natal  chart,
naturally  when  by  progression in 1922 it reached the  opposition  of  the
radical Saturn and Mercury and the square to Jupiter from the 10th house and
the  sign  of Taurus,  the disease reached a stage where the body  could  no
longer  rid  itself  of the poisons which had been stored  up  during  eight
years.   There  were two new moons in 1922 which helped to bring  about  the
crisis.   On January 27th the new moon fell in Aquarius,  seven degrees  and
eighteen  minutes,  opposing the radical Jupiter and square to  the  radical
Saturn and Mercury.  On April 27th the new moon fell in six degrees and nine
minutes  of Taurus,  square to Jupiter and in opposition to Saturn and  Mer-
cury.   All these afflictions were from or reacted upon the signs of  Taurus
and Scorpio.   The tonsils,  the larynx,  and the throat therefore  received
much of the pus generated in the body.  The result was death.

   Had this young man,  after he contracted the disease, lived a life of ab-
stinence  from  rich  foods,  tobacco,  meat,  liquor,  etc.,  he might have


[PAGE 234]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

overcome it and perhaps have lived for a number of years.   But the  poisons
which were lodged principally in the lungs were increased by more impurities
generated through ignorance of diet.

                          NO. 8H.--UTERINE TROUBLE

   Female, born July 29, 1881, 6:00 P.M.

   Capricorn,  the Saturnian sign of the cardinal quadruplicity,  is on  the
Ascendant, and the ruler, Saturn, is in the 4th house, that of the home,  in
the determined,  stubborn, persistent sign of Taurus, making a square to the
life-giving sun, in the fixed sign of Leo ruling the heart.  This has a ten-
dency to obstruct the life forces.   The vitality is low,  the heart  action
sluggish, especially as we find Jupiter, the planet ruling the arterial cir-
culation,  afflicted by the conjunction of the fiery Mars.  This is a latent
condition  which  will give the native much greater trouble  after  she  has
reached the period of menopause.   Her restricted heart action will then  be
more troublesome than before.

   When she called upon Headquarters for healing in the early part of  1914,
the progressed moon had reached the opposition to the afflicted  planets  in


[PAGE 235]                                                               SEX

the 4th house in Taurus.   The doctor who had been treating her for  catarrh
of the stomach and nervousness failed to benefit her.   She was very skepti-
cal and did not believe in spiritual healing, but  friends  who  had been by

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[                             BIRTH CHART NO. 8H                            ]
[                                                                           ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Scorpio 10       SUN: Leo 6:55          SATURN: Taurus 11:53   ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 4       MOON: Virgo 18:33      URANUS: Virgo 11:53    ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 27      MERCURY: Cancer 20:49  NEPTUNE: Taurus 16:29  ]
[ ASCENDANT: Capricorn 20:10  VENUS: Gemini 22:12    DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Pisces 0         MARS: Taurus 26:48              Sagitt. 15:28 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Aries 9          JUPITER: Taurus 22:51  DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
[                                                           Gemini 15:28    ]
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

the Invisible helpers persuaded her to write to Headquarters for  diagnosis.
She  did not ask for healing,  but only wanted to know what was  the  matter
with her physically,  stating that the doctor could not understand the cause
of her general poor health.


[PAGE 236]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

   In  our diagnosis we told her that she had not developed normally.   With
the  obstructing  Saturn  conjunction Neptune in the  sign  of  the  throat,
trouble was indicated at puberty, also restricted menses, adenoids,  and in-
flamed tonsils.   This had a reflex action in the opposite sign of  Scorpio,
which rules the generative organs,  showing that these organs had never  be-
come fully developed.  Neptune has this tendency when afflicted,  especially
in  the sign of Taurus or Scorpio and in conjunction with or  opposition  to
Saturn.   Then the generative organs are underdeveloped,  and childbirth be-
comes very severe and painful.   This woman had four children,  and at  each
birth her life was despaired of.  The result was uterine trouble.

   A  tendency to catarrh of the small intestine is also indicated,  for  we
have the moon, the ruler of the sign Cancer, the stomach, placed in the sign
Virgo,  the small intestines,  conjunct the spasmodic Uranus,  showing  that
there was spasmodic action of the intestines and that the food was not prop-
erly assimilated.  This aspect also interfered with the digestion of food in
the stomach,  as the moon is the ruler of that organ; this was aggravated by
a square of the moon to Venus.

   Uranus  in conjunction with the ruler of the 7th house,  the moon,  shows
inharmony in marriage.  The husband as indicated by this aspect is of a very
nervous,  irritable nature, fond of drink (Venus square moon).  A separation
is  shown.   This woman acknowledged that she had had trouble with her  hus-
band, that he had left her suddenly, and stated  that  she  was compelled to


[PAGE 237]                                                               SEX

support her four children.  One with Saturn, Neptune,  Jupiter,  and Mars in
Taurus  afflicting one another has a tendency to be critical and  severe  in
the  home,  but at the same time of a very frugal,  hardworking nature,  not
saving oneself but always working beyond one's physical strength.

   Due to the conditions noted this woman had become a broken-down,  nervous
wreck,  with  severe uterine trouble and catarrh of the stomach  and  intes-
tines.   She was not able to do a full day's work.   Inside of  two  months,
however, through the aid of the Invisible Helpers she was able to take a po-
sition, and she became a healthy, happy woman.  We advised a rational, care-
ful  diet,  eliminating all liquids with meals,  for one with the  planetary
conditions  noted likes to drink a great deal during meals.   This is  often
dangerous to one with poor assimilation, and where there is a lack of diges-
tive fluids in the stomach and intestines.


[PAGE 238]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

                             NO. 8I.--CHILDBIRTH

   Female, born June 3rd, 1884, 9:00 P.M.

   It is evident from the figure that the native is of a very nervous, rest-
less  temperament,  for Mercury,  the planet which rules the  mind  and  the
nerves,  is in conjunction with its higher octave,  Neptune;  this makes her
very high-strung.  Then we find Saturn, the planet of obstruction, conjoined
with the life-giving sun in the mercurial sign Gemini.   This diminishes the
vital  solar  life currents which feed the nerves,  so that instead  of  as-
similating  a  great  among such as is necessary to feed  the  nerves  of  a
high-strung  person,  she gets less than the normal amount and therefore  is
"on edge"  and run down.  Add to this that Mars,  the planet of passion,  is
square Mercury,  the planet of mind, which makes her temper very short,  and
that the moon, ruler of the imaginative mind, is square Venus, the planet of
love,  and you will understand that this person is very unhappy  and  always
out of patience with her condition and environment.

   Her trouble is due to the after effects of childbirth.   The astrological
figure  gives  a  very good description of the case.   Mercury  is  conjunct
Neptune in the fifth house,  which governs children,  indicating an abnormal
condition.  The planet of parturition, the moon, is in mutual reception with
and square to Venus.  Mars in the eighth house, which  indicates  the manner


[PAGE 239]                                                               SEX

of death,  is square to Mercury in the fifth house,  ruling children,  which
shows the use of instruments,  loss of blood,  and a great shock to the ner-
vous  system in childbirth.   She must have been near the door of  death  at
that time.  But while Saturn conjunct the sun saps the life forces,  he also

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 [                            BIRTH CHART NO. 8I                          ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Libra 10       SUN: Gemini 13:51      SATURN: Gemini 13:41  ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Scorpio 9     MOON: Libra 22:24      URANUS: Virgo 24:00   ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 3     MERCURY: Taurus 23:29  NEPTUNE: Taurus 21:40 ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Sagitt. 25:11  VENUS: Cancer 23:39                          ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Capricorn 29   MARS: Leo 29:39                              ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Pisces 5       JUPITER: Leo 2:18                            ]
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

imparts a tenacity of life.  Such people, unfortunately for them, do not die
quickly;  they linger in their agony, an almost unbearable burden  to  them-
selves  and other who must perforce live with them.   No one is more  to  be
pitied.  But the long years of invalidism shown by Saturn conjoined with the


[PAGE 240]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

sun in the sixth house, must be necessary to impart to the soul some quality
it  lacks and has refused to cultivate in other and easier  ways,  otherwise
our  Father in Heaven would never have taken such strenuous means  to  teach
her the lesson.

   From the healer's standpoint a case with Saturn and the sun conjoined  in
the sixth house is almost, if not quite, hopeless,  especially if there is a
fixed sign on the cusp, for the patient will be antagonistic, skeptical, and
recalcitrant to such an extent that he may more than neutralize all  efforts
to  aid nature in restoring harmony.  The principal work should be  directed
to cultivate in this patient a right understanding of the spiritual cause of
her  condition.   If she can be brought to pray for light to see the  lesson
and  for  a chance to correct her mistake,  whether in a past  life  or  the
present one,  the changed attitude of mind will cause a change in her condi-
tion  so that either a cure will be effected or a speedier release found  in
death.

   In the meantime such a person should be given food that will supply ether
to feed the nerves.   Milk,  warm and fresh from the cow,  has this in abun-
dance,  and  so have uncooked vegetables.  Under th Law of  Compatibility  a
healer with Aries or Leo rising whose Saturn is not in Gemini, would be best
for this person.


[PAGE 241]                                                               SEX

                              NO. 8J.--ABORTION

   Female, born February 7, 1866, 3:30 A.M.

   Sagittarius is on the Ascendant in this chart.   On page 133 of THE  MES-
SAGE  OF THE STARS it states that this sign produces two  distinct  classes,
the  high  and lofty type which aims its arrow at the stars,  and  the  type
which responds to the animal instincts and indulges the animal desires.  The
latter type will not think of the future.  Like a child it will enjoy itself
to the fullest, living only from day to day, never laying aside anything for
a rainy day.  Give such a person a million dollars and he will become a pau-
per in spite of it.  His greatest enemies are his own appetites.

   In the horoscope which we have under consideration we find the ruler, Ju-
piter,  in the sign of his fall, Capricorn, in the first house.   Jupiter is
also  conjunct  the fiery Mars in its exaltation sign  of  Capricorn.   This
gives Mars greater power for evil than otherwise.  Planets have a reflex ac-
tion  and often affect the signs opposite them,  as in this case  where  the
sign  Cancer receives the effects of Mars conjunct Jupiter.   These  planets
denote bulk, and when affecting the sign of Cancer the person is apt to make
a god of his stomach.   His food must be of the very best,  rich and  highly
seasoned.

   The  ruler of Cancer,  the moon,  is afflicted in the fixed sign  Scorpio
(which has rule over the generative organs) by a conjunction of Saturn and a


[PAGE 242]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

square  of Venus and the sun.   The moon is the planet of fertilization,  of
impregnation,  and when found in the sign of Scorpio in a woman's  horoscope
it is an indication that she will be apt to have several children.  But when

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[                            BIRTH CHART NO. 8J                           ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Libra 11      SUN: Aquarius 18:28      SATURN: Scorpio 12:12 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Scorpio 9    MOON: Scorpio 14:02      URANUS: Cancer 0:16R  ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 0    MERCURY: Aquarius 2:52   NEPTUNE: Aries 8:30   ]
[ ASCENDANT: Sagitt. 20:42 VENUS: Aquarius 13:54    DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Capricorn 26  MARS: Capricorn 23:44             Libra 14:45  ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Pisces        JUPITER: Capricorn 18:59 DRAGON'S TAIL:        ]
[                                                            Aries 14:45  ]
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

the planet of obstruction,  Saturn, is also in this sign and afflicted,  the
organs of generation are sometimes undersized, as in the case of this woman.
During  the birth of her first and only child she was three days  in  labor,
suffering greatly.  This left her with a great fear  of  childbirth, led her


[PAGE 243]                                                               SEX

to resort to abortion, the most dangerous and vicious of practices.   Due to
the  moon in Scorpio conception was frequent,  and the native's  great  fear
caused  her to employ means which destroyed the foetus.   In th eyes of  God
she  became a murderess.   The continued abuse later enveloped into  a  most
dangerous case of blood poisoning,  which left her broken in health,  a con-
firmed invalid.

   Because of the rich food in which she had for years indulged,  her system
was  overcharged  with poisons,  and since Venus,  which has rule  over  the
venous blood,  and Jupiter, the arterial, were both afflicted, all the impu-
rities were attracted to that part of the body where these planets were  lo-
cated,  Capricorn and Aquarius.  Sluggishness of the body is always found in
the  parts  corresponding to the signs in which Venus and  Jupiter  are  af-
flicted.  There the ash is usually deposited.  This woman was unable to walk
for five years before her death, which occurred in February, 1920.   We have
not  been able to ascertain the exact day of her death.   We find  the  pro-
gressed  moon  in February making a square to the radical Venus.   The  pro-
gressed aspects alone, however, would not cause death.  We must look for the
exciting planets,  the transits.   The full moon on February 4th fell in  14
degrees and 16 minutes of Leo in opposition to the radical Venus and sun and
square to the radical Saturn and moon.   These aspects,  we think,  were re-
sponsible for the native's demise.


[PAGE 244]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

   How  wonderfully accurate is diagnosis by the planets!   Each  time  this
woman  passed  through a severe illness,  which was  quite  frequently,  her
relatives would report that it was a case of peritonitis.  We find, however,
no  affliction to the small intestines, but very severe afflictions  to  the
generative organs.


[PAGE 245]                                                         THE SPINE

                                 CHAPTER XX

                                  THE SPINE

                           NO. 9A.--SPINAL TROUBLE

   Female, born June 21, 1899, 5:30 A.M.

   This  horoscope  is the figure of a young woman who is  the  daughter  of
wealthy  parents,  as shown by the sun, which is ruler of the second  house,
trine to Jupiter.  We will first consider the mental caliber, as that is the
prime consideration in dealing with anyone.  The sun is in the twelfth house
showing  that the spirit in a certain sense is imprisoned.   The sun  is  in
conjunction  with  the Dragon's Tail,  which has a saturnine  influence  and
tends  to further obstruct.   These conditions rob life of its joy and  fill
the soul with melancholy and fear, gloomy forebodings,  and thoughts of  im-
pending evil.   Mars square to the moon, which is the life ruler,  shows re-
bellion against this condition.  The square of Mars to Venus, however,  adds
to the tendencies which rob life of its satisfaction.   The trine of the sun
to  Jupiter and the sextile of Mars to the sun,  Mercury,  and  Jupiter  are
mitigating influences which give some light and  life  to  this  poor soul's


[PAGE 246]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

existence.  The comforts procured through the wealth of parents as indicated
by  these aspects help to make life more tolerable than it  would  otherwise
be.

   With regard to the health denoted in this figure,  we  find  in the first

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[                           BIRTH CHART NO. 9A                            ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Pisces 21     SUN: Gemini 29:49       SATURN: Sagitt. 19:40R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Aries 27     MOON: Sagitt. 1:16      URANUS: Sagitt. 5:03R  ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Gemini 7     MERCURY: Cancer 7:48    NEPTUNE: Gemini 24:42  ]
[ ASCENDANT: Cancer 12:12  VENUS: Gemini 6:33      DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Leo 1         MARS: Virgo 2:59                 Sagitt. 29:24 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Leo 24        JUPITER: Scorpio 0:22R  DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
[                                                           Gemini 29:24  ]
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

place Cancer,  a weak sign,  on the Ascendant.   Four planets are posited in
the twelfth house,  which in this case denotes confinement upon a sick  bed.
Saturn, in the sixth house, which has to do with health, is a sufficient in-
dication  that  this  will  be  a  life of suffering.  Saturn, the principal


[PAGE 247]                                                         THE SPINE

significator  in this respect,  shows that the ailments will be  deep-seated
and chronic.   The moon,  which is the peculiar significator of health in  a
woman's horoscope, is within six degrees of the sixth house cusp, adding its
testimony  in the same direction.   Mars square to the moon near  the  sixth
house renders the native liable to operations.  The sun conjunction the sat-
urnine Dragon's Tail in the twelfth house makes such operations  exceedingly
dangerous  for she has not the vitality wherewith to withstand and  recuper-
ate.   Moreover,  the sun in 1914 had progressed within orb of a parallel to
Saturn  at birth.   Thus the native had at that time less vitality than  she
had had in earlier years.  As the moon came into opposition to Saturn in the
sixth  house in October,  1913,  we may well conceive that the condition  at
that time became critical.

   Mars governs the muscles and the motor segment of the spinal cord.  He is
square to the moon, which governs the sympathetic nerves, and also square to
Uranus,  which  causes spasmodic movements.   Thus it is  evident  that  the
nerves  are affected and that the young lady has no dependable control  over
her limbs.  Neptune governs the spinal canal, and it is opposite Saturn, the
planet of obstruction.  This configuration occurs in the signs of Gemini and
Sagittarius,  and  in  the sixth and the twelfth houses.   It  is  therefore
evident that there is trouble in the spine--obstruction,  as denoted by Sat-
urn.

   The obstruction will be found in  the region indicated by the conjunction


[PAGE 248]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS


of Neptune, Sun, and Dragon's Tail in 24 to 29 of Gemini, namely, the dorsal
region.  The doctors have been unable to diagnose this case, and sad to say,
it  is incurable by any physical means.   There is only one method,  namely,
the  dilation of the spinal canal by repeated manipulations FROM  WITHIN  of
the materialized fingers of the Invisible Helpers.   As the young woman  has
not applied to us for healing,  we are sorry to say that we cannot touch her
case;  but were it submitted to us, we should advise a healer having Scorpio
rising  and  with Saturn neither in Cancer nor in Sagittarius,  letting  the
healer put himself under the direction of the Elder Brothers, who would then
do the work.


[PAGE 249]                                                         THE SPINE

                           NO. 9B.--SPINAL TROUBLE

   Male, born February 1, 1918, at 12:30 A.M.

   We  have  here  the horoscope of a boy who has fixed signs  on  all  four
angles and the martial sign of Scorpio on the Ascendant.   Our first thought
when looking at a horoscope for the diagnosis of disease is to find if there
is strength of will so that the patient will be able to give the needed  as-
sistance to the healer, for if he has persistence to fight for his life,  if
he  will follow the instructions given by the healer,  then the  healer  has
some  cooperation and the task is not so heavy.   The task is  doubly  hard,
however, in the case of a patient who has Saturn elevated in the 10th house,
conjunction with Midheaven, square the Ascendant, and with the stubborn sign
of Scorpio on the Ascendant.   To effect a cure against the stubborn will of
such a patient might truly be classed under the head of miracles.

   As  a rule we look to the strongest malefic planet when  diagnosing  from
the horoscope.   Here we find the obstructing and restricting Saturn in con-
junction  with the Midheaven,  also conjunction and parallel Neptune and  in
opposition to the life-giving sun.   Saturn is in the sign of the sun,  Leo,
and the sun is in Saturn's sign, Aquarius.   When planets are in mutual  re-
ception,  i.e.,  have exchanged signs, as we find Saturn and the sun in this
horoscope, and especially when they are also in angles and fixed signs, then


[PAGE 250]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

we may expect a most stubborn and deep-seated cause of disease.

   We  are told on page 619 of THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS that Leo  rules  the
spinal  cord, and on page 566 of the same book that Neptune rules the spinal

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[                            BIRTH CHART NO. 9B                            ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Leo 10        SUN: Aquarius 11:34      SATURN: Leo 11:02R     ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Virgo 13     MOON: Libra 7:26         URANUS: Aquarius 23:02 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Libra 11     MERCURY: Capricorn 17:41 NEPTUNE: Leo 5:33R     ]
[ ASCENDANT: Scorpio 3:25  VENUS: Aquarius 25:25R                          ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Sagitt. 2     MARS: Libra 3:02                                ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Capricorn 5   JUPITER: Gemini 1:32                            ]
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canal.   In this horoscope we find 10 degrees of Leo occupying the  cusp  of
the 10th house and the life-giving sun in opposition to Neptune, Saturn, and
the  Midheaven.  Can  we  find  a  more  pronounced  affliction  than  this,


[PAGE 251]                                                         THE SPINE

especially  with Leo ruling the spinal column and Neptune the spinal  canal,
the latter of which is filled with the spinal spirit fire,  the life of  the
Father?

   When  we find this spirit fire obstructed by Saturn and the sun,  we  may
conclude  that this affliction is the result of serious wrongs committed  in
previous  lives.   The wasting of the vital fluids,  the abuse of  the  gen-
erative faculty,  is a sin against the Holy Ghost and brings to the Ego  the
most severe punishment,  as in the case of this boy who was drawn to parents
who were fit instruments to give him a body which would cause the spirit  to
suffer for past sins.   And what a pitiful future faces him!   He has  never
walked nor talked.  He must be fed, and he has positively no use of his body
whatever.

   The question may be asked,  Is there any hope for this boy?   Yes,  to  a
certain degree.  The planet of reason, however, is weakly aspected by only a
semi-sextile  to  the sun and Uranus:  therefore we may expect  little  help
from this quarter of the horoscope.  But Mars, which is the ruler of the As-
cendant and the sixth house,  both ruling the health,  is the strongest  and
best aspected planet in the horoscope.   Mars is in the 11th house in Libra,
in  conjunction with the moon,  trine to Jupiter;  and we may also say  that
Mars is sextile to Saturn although seemingly out of orb,  for Saturn is ret-
rograding  and therefore throwing his influence towards Mars.   Also we  may
expect that Mars will receive some help from the life giving sun,  the sun's
orb being larger than that of other planets.

   When  a  patient  has  fixed signs on the four angles and a well aspected


[PAGE 252]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

Mars,  he will make a greater effort to overcome than one who has not  these
influences.   This boy should be placed in the home of a nurse who has Scor-
pio or Aries on the Ascendant, and away from the parents, for the home,  un-
der  the  rule of the Father,  is no place for him.   With this  change  and
proper  care he might be able to gain at least partial control of  his  body
and be able to walk and feed himself; but he will never be very bright  men-
tally, and will always to some extent be a charge to his parents.


[PAGE 253]                                                         THE SPINE

                     NO. 9C.--TUBERCULOSIS OF THE SPINE

   Female, born March 17, 1889, 7:04 A.M.

   The fiery and martial sign of Aries is on the Ascendant,  with Mars,  the
ruler of the horoscope,  in its own sign in the 1st house,  giving great en-
ergy and impulse.   Mars also in opposition to the erratic Uranus will  make
this young woman unable to use moderation in anything.  But she will be like
a skyrocket which is sent with great force into the air;  as soon as it  has
spent  its  energy  it  falls back to earth dull  and  lifeless.   With  the
life-giving sun,  the ruler of the 6th house, sickness,  in the negative and
watery  sign of Pisces,  and posited in the 12th house in opposition to  the
watery  moon which is in the house of sickness and in the earthy and  common
sign  of Virgo,  this woman has not sufficient vitality to keep up with  the
impulse of the double fiery influence on the Ascendant and is soon  depleted
in strength.

   Mercury  is sextile to Mars from the mental and fixed sign  of  Aquarius.
This makes the native very quick and active mentally,  but whatever she  be-
comes  interested  in she takes up with such force that the  nervous  system
suffers.  This is increased by Mercury square to its higher octave, Neptune,
in Taurus.

   The sun afflicted and intercepted in the 12th house in Pisces,  would in-
dicate  a very unhappy and restricted life in early childhood.   And as  the
moon, ruler of the 4th house,  the  home  and  the  mother, is afflicted, it


[PAGE 254]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

would indicate that much of the restriction will come from this direction.

   We are told in the Rosicrucian teachings that we are building the  arche-
type  in  this  life  of  the  body  we  shall inhabit in a future life, and

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[                            BIRTH CHART NO. 9C                            ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn 5    SUN: Pisces 27:06        SATURN: Leo 14:07R    ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Capricorn 26  MOON: Virgo 27:23        URANUS: Libra 20:55R  ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Aquarius 24   MERCURY: Aquarius 29:52  NEPTUNE: Taurus 29:54 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Aries 10:11    VENUS: Taurus 10:10      DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus 20      MARS: Aries 21:18              Cancer 17:52    ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini 15      JUPITER: Capricorn 6:03  DRAGON'S TAIL:        ]
[                                                          Capricorn 17:52 ]
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

that we are attracted to the parents who are physically, mentally,  and mor-
ally able to supply us with such a body.   In this case this young girl  was
attracted to a mother who was selfish and neurasthenic,  for  the  afflicted


[PAGE 255]                                                         THE SPINE

moon  in Virgo in the 6th house would represent the mother.   The moon  also
afflicts the small intestines, giving poor assimilation of food,  which low-
ers the vitality.  We find Saturn, the ruler of the 10th house, representing
the Father, square to Venus in her own sign of Taurus, ruling the throat and
palate, which indicates that the Father was fond of the winecup; he was,  in
fact,  a drunkard.  This would corroborate the indications, shown by the af-
flicted  sun  above the Ascendant,  of a hard life with many  privations  in
childhood.

   Now let us see how the afflictions between Saturn and Venus would  affect
the health.   As Leo is the sign ruling the heart and the spinal cord,  Sat-
urn,  the restricter,  when placed in this sign, square to Venus which rules
the venous blood, causes a restricted circulation.  It is stated in THE MES-
SAGE OF THE STARS,  page 555,  that Saturn in Leo gives a tendency to curva-
ture and disease of the spine.   The physical body is the crystallized coun-
terpart  of  the finer vehicles.   The vital body holds the  physical  atoms
together.   This vital body, which is ruled by the sun, surrounds and inter-
penetrates the physical.   If the sun in a person's horoscope is  afflicted,
the vital fluid is obstructed and the vital body becomes diseased,  as  this
invisible force gains its entrance through the spleen which is also ruled by
the  sun.   Therefore,  we can readily see that the vital  fluids  were  ob-
structed from childhood.

   This  young woman's case was diagnosed by the doctors as tubercular  dis-
ease of the spine, Potts' disease.  In December of 1918 and January 1919 she


[PAGE 256]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

had  severe attacks of inflammation of the spine and has had several  spinal
operations.

   It  will be very difficult to heal this patient on account of  her  great
impulsiveness  and the wasting of vitality.  With sun and moon afflicted  in
the 6th and 12th houses,  she will dissipate her strength and will rebel  at
restraint.

   She has Venus in the 1st house in Taurus, trine to Jupiter on the cusp of
the Midheaven.   This with Neptune in Taurus sextile to the sun should  give
wonderful musical ability and the faculty of writing and improvising  music.
The  impaired physical body and consequent suffering will soften the  nature
and bring out the spiritual side.   Neptune is making a trine to the moon as
a  result of which this girl could develop talent for the inspirational  and
spiritual side of music which would bring wonderful soul growth.   This soul
will make greater spiritual progress in this one life of suffering that  she
could in three ordinary lives with perfect health.


[PAGE 257]                                                         THE SPINE

                        NO. 9D--E:  INABILITY TO WALK

   Male, born January 18, 1919, 12 Noon.

   In  this lesson we will try to show how a doctor,  who can  only  observe
from outward and physical signs and who depends for his diagnosis upon symp-
toms only,  can err in his diagnosis, and how the science of astro-diagnosis
proves  that  functional weakness is shown even at birth.   "A chain  is  as
strong as its weakest link,"  is a proverbial expression,  and so it is with
the physical body.   We may go along smoothly for many years,  seemingly  in
good health,  when suddenly something goes wrong,  a link begins to  weaken;
the strain which we have been putting on our physical body causes this  weak
place to give way.

   This horoscope is that of a boy with the fixed sign of Taurus on the  As-
cendant,  and with the sun in Capricorn on the cusp of the  Midheaven.   The
life-giving sun, however, makes only a semi-sextile to Mars and Uranus,  be-
sides its conjunction with the Midheaven, therefore the boy cannot expect  a
great  amount of help from this planet.   We find Uranus in its own sign  of
Aquarius,  elevated in the 11th house, in conjunction with and  parallel  to
the dynamic Mars,  and in opposition and parallel to the obstructive Saturn,
which  is in the fixed sign of Leo and in the 5th house.   We also find  the
moon in the same sign,  in conjunction with Saturn and in opposition to Mars
and Uranus.


[PAGE 258]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

   We are told in the THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS,  page 555,  that Saturn  af-
flicted in Leo gives a tendency to spinal diseases and sclerosis of the spi-
nal cord.   The moon has rule over the synovial fluid,  and with its afflic-
tion   by  Saturn,   which  has  rule  over  the  bony  structures  and  the

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[                           BIRTH CHART NO. 9D                             ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn 25  SUN: Capricorn 27:37     SATURN: Leo 26:52R     ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius 20  MOON: Leo 26:57          URANUS: Aquarius 26:01 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces 26    MERCURY: Capricorn 6:30  NEPTUNE: Leo 8:14R     ]
[ ASCENDANT: Taurus 13:07  VENUS: Aquarius 10:56                           ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Gemini 12     MARS: Aquarius 23:05                            ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Cancer 4      JUPITER: Cancer 8:38R                           ]
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

ligaments,  and with the moon and Saturn both in the sign of Leo,  which has
rule over the spinal column we may expect that the seat of the trouble  will
be found in this latter region.  Saturn dries up and causes atrophy.  There-
fore we may diagnose this case as a lack of synovial  fluid to lubricate the


[PAGE 259]                                                         THE SPINE

vertebrae of the spine,  also a loss of strength in the ligaments which con-
nect the spinal bones.

   The result is that this child while healthy and well formed, seemingly in
moderate health, still was unable to bear his weight on his legs.   He would
draw them up Each time that the nurse attempted to teach him to stand.  This
affliction,  which comes from fixed signs,  will be a most difficult one  to
overcome  unless a miracle is performed through spiritual healing,  although
by patient manipulation with olive oil over the spinal region and a  careful
vegetarian diet the child may be helped to a very great extent.


[PAGE 260]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

                                   NO. 9E.

   Male, born December 13, 1868.

   This  horoscope leads to a very different diagnosis.   Having no hour  of
birth  we  use  a  flat  figure.  We  find  in  this  case  also the moon in

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  [                    BIRTH CHART NO. 9E  [FLAT CHART]                 ]
  [                                                                     ]
  [ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn  SUN: Sagitt. 21:49      SATURN: Sagitt. 9:47  ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius  MOON: Sagitt. 15:06     URANUS: Cancer 16:19R ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces    MERCURY: Sagitt. 10:20  NEPTUNE: Aries 14:34R ]
  [ ASCENDANT: Aries      VENUS: Scorpio 16:43                          ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus     MARS: Virgo 1:59                              ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini     JUPITER: Aries 4:39                           ]
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------

conjunction with the obstructive Saturn, but in the sign of Sagittarius rul-
ing  the hops.   Saturn is in conjunction with and parallel to Mercury,  and
square to Mars.  In 1914,  after  a  spell  of  typhoid  fever, this man was


[PAGE 261]                                                         THE SPINE

unable to walk without crutches.   He could not stand without swaying.   The
doctors  believed this weakness to have its seat in the spinal  cord,  while
astrology  diagnoses  it  as a drying up of the synovial fluid  of  the  hip
joints.  When the weight is put on the pelvic region by standing,  stooping,
or  by any strained position,  the pelvic bones slip out of position and  in
turn  press on the sciatic nerve,  which controls the sacral plexus and  the
limbs.   A pressure on this nerve may cause what is termed paralysis of  the
lower limbs.

   A case of this kind,  however, is curable.  A slight adjustment by an os-
teopathic  physician or a chiropractor will eliminate the pressure upon  the
sciatic  nerve.   Here we may see what a vast difference  there  is  between
astro-diagnosis  and medical diagnosis.   The healer who has a knowledge  of
the planets and their effect upon the physical body may find a great differ-
ence in cases which may have the same outward or physical symptoms.   Also a
knowledge of body adjustment is often very helpful.


[PAGE 262]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

                                 CHAPTER XXI

                         THE LIVER AND GALL BLADDER

                             NO. 10A.--THE LIVER

   Male, born March 6th, 1831, 4 P.M.

   This  is the horoscope of a man with the fixed and fiery sign of  Leo  on
the Ascendant, and the obstructing Saturn in Leo in the 1st house.

   Whenever Saturn is placed in an angle, a fixed sign,  or near the  Ascen-
dant, his influence is much more destructive than elsewhere, especially when
in the sign of Leo, which rules the heart.  Then we may expect that the per-
son will be lacking in vitality.   Especially so in the case of this man  as
we  find Saturn in square aspect to the dynamic Mars,  and Mars in its  fall
and near the cusp of the 10th house, where its destructive influence may re-
sult in the greatest amount of damage, particularly as we find these two af-
flicting  and powerful planets in Leo and Taurus,  two of the most  powerful
signs in the horoscope.   These planets are of opposite natures;  Saturn  is
cold and moist,  while Mars is fiery,  and dry.   Consequently we may expect
that the body will suffer as a result.


[PAGE 263]                                        THE LIVER AND GALL BLADDER

   The sun, the ruler of the Ascendant, is posited in the 8th house,  in the
negative sign of Pisces,  square to the moon.  Here again we find an indica-
tion of depleted energy and lack of vitality.

   Now let us see how these afflictions work.  The 10th  house indicates the

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[                          BIRTH CHART NO. 10A                             ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Taurus 16   SUN: Pisces 15:14        SATURN: Leo 27:05R       ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Gemini 16  MOON: Sagitt. 13:09      URANUS: Aquarius 12:25   ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 14  MERCURY: Aquarius 21:50  NEPTUNE: Capricorn 24:17 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Leo 13:12   VENUS: Aries 3:15                                 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Virgo 13    MARS: Taurus 24:04                                ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Libra 14    JUPITER: Aquarius 10:05                           ]
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

the  Father,  and Mars afflicted by a square to Mercury and Saturn,  and  in
Taurus near the cusp of the Midheaven would indicate the death of the Father
by accident.   At the age of twelve years when the moon passed the Midheaven
and the conjunction of Mars, the Father was killed by the falling of a tree,


[PAGE 264]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

leaving the mother and three small children penniless.   This forced the el-
dest boy,  whose horoscope we are delineating,  to help earn the wherewithal
to live.  He was placed as an assistant to a blacksmith in the neighborhood,
and  was  compelled at the growing age of twelve years to do a  man's  work,
wielding the heavy sledge hammer.   As a result the valves of the heart were
not  fully developed.   For years he suffered,  and Each time he  reached  a
state of financial success,  his health would break,  forcing him to give up
and  change  to  another climate for relief.   Some  doctors  diagnosed  his
trouble  as tuberculosis,  others as asthma.  He had all the indications  of
asthma,  but these spells would come and go.  Each winter while in the cold,
eastern  climate he spent some time in bed with pneumonia or  congestion  of
the lungs.

   Here we see the effect of the affliction of sun square moon from the  two
common signs of Pisces and Sagittarius.   We find Mercury in the fixed  sign
of  Aquarius,  in  opposition to Saturn and square to Mars  in  Taurus,  the
throat,  which would give some tendency toward a nervous contraction of  the
trachea.

   Now  we  have  found the afflicting  planets  indicating  valvular  heart
trouble  and  weak lungs,  but the man died from an abscess  of  the  liver.
Where do we find the indication of liver trouble?   Mars in Taurus is in his
detriment.   This planet is the strongest in the horoscope; in fact Mars may
be called the life ruler.   When in the sign ruling the throat,  it gives  a
desire to tickle the palate and a thirst which  often leads to strong drink.


[PAGE 265]                                        THE LIVER AND GALL BLADDER

In this case we find Mars sextile to the sun and trine to Neptune.   Neptune
governs and sometimes predisposes to the use of drugs.   This had its result
in  an abnormal desire for strong, black coffee.   Instead of quenching  his
thirst with water, this man would drink cold coffee and in large quantities.
Mars in Taurus also gives an abnormal appetite, indicating one who is apt to
gourmandize.   With the lowered vitality on account of the affliction to the
heart and poor oxygenation in the lungs, the native was unable to do  manual
labor,  thereby being unable to work off the excess of  food.   Consequently
the poor liver was worked over time and became a receptacle for the  poisons
created by the excess of food which could not be absorbed by the blood.  Ju-
piter rules the liver;  we find Jupiter in conjunction with and parallel  to
Uranus in the 6th house, sickness, also parallel to the moon.  Naturally the
liver would be sluggish and easily overtaxed.

   If this man had lived normally,  he could have reached a ripe old age  in
spite  of the planetary afflictions,  for with Mars elevated and sextile  to
the  sun,  with the moon sextile to Jupiter,  and with fixed  signs  on  the
angles there is no reason why he should have passed out at the comparatively
early period of middle life.


[PAGE 266]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

                            NO. 10B.--GALLSTONES

   Male, born November 13, 1885, 8:52 P.M.

   We  will judge first the mental caliber so that we may be better able  to
deal  with our patient,  for the basic quality and trend of the mind have  a
great  determining influence as to the way a person views sickness,  and  we
must  be prepared to meet his ideas in such a manner that we inspire  confi-
dence.  Mercury rules the 3rd house, which governs the lower mind.  Its par-
allel to Saturn,  the planet of obstruction,  curbs this flighty constituent
of the personality and gives it depth, but this aspect also gives a tendency
to look at the dark side of things;  pessimism and melancholy are among  its
results.   Mars in the mercurial sign of Virgo, square to Mercury, makes the
native cynical and quick to anger.

   Saturn in Cancer, the sign of the stomach, shows us that digestion is ob-
structed.  His opposition to Venus and the square of both to Uranus in Libra
show  that the venous circulation is also obstructed,  particularly that  of
the  renal veins which carry the blood from the kidneys (Uranus  in  Libra),
and that part of the portal system which carries the blood from the  stomach
(Saturn in Cancer),  through the liver.  Saturn rules the gall bladder,  and
his  position in Cancer,  square Uranus in the sign of the kidneys  (Libra),
shows the concretion of sediment in both of these organs.  As brick is baked


[PAGE 267]                                        THE LIVER AND GALL BLADDER

clay,  hardened by heat pent up in the kiln, so this sediment is burned into
gallstones  and renal stones by the restraining action of Saturn when  anger
is kindled by Mars.   Inward impotent rage and vindictiveness which wait for
an opportunity to get even, the nursing of a  grievance  instead  of letting

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [                           BIRTH CHART NO. 10B                          ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Aries 9       SUN: Scorpio 21:56     SATURN: Cancer 7:50R   ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Taurus 16    MOON: Aquarius 13:18   URANUS: Libra 6:12     ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Gemini 24    MERCURY: Sagitt. 8:06  NEPTUNE: Taurus 24:14R ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Cancer 26:21  VENUS: Capricorn 7:33                         ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Leo 17        MARS: Virgo 2:49                              ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 10      JUPITER: Virgo 29:41                          ]
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

anger have vent and then forgetting it, harmful though that may be,  are the
true cause of one of the most painful maladies to which flesh is heir.

   The trine of Jupiter  and  Neptune  show  the  way  of liberation through


[PAGE 268]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

appeal  to the higher nature,  for there is a basic benevolence that may  be
invoked.   Physical treatments can and must of course be given,  but however
effective they may prove for the time being, they are merely palliative, for
until  the  patient changes his mental attitude there can be no  real  cure.
Continued  inward  rage  will form new stones to take  the  place  of  those
eliminated or dissolved by the treatment.   To thoroughly impress this  fact
upon the patient is the first duty of the astro-therapeutic health adjuster.
The harm has been done in the present case,  and cultivation of serenity can
only act to correct.  But if a configuration like this is noted in the horo-
scope of a child, we ought to warn the parents so that this trait of nursing
wrath  may  be  eradicated ere it gets a hold on the growing  girl  or  boy.
Prevention is always better than cure.  It is not enough just to help people
to  regain health;  our aim should be to teach them how to live  in  harmony
with the laws of love and life that they may never be sick.   Until we thor-
oughly realize this and practice it we are missing the greatest part of  our
privilege.

   A  person with Scorpio rising would be our first choice when selecting  a
healer for this case; one with Taurus would come next.  But neither may have
Saturn  in  the degrees of the signs included in the patient's  1st  or  6th
houses.   The treatments,  both mental and physical,  should be given in the
hour of the sun.   Large doses of olive oil or copious draughts of hot water
would be of great assistance.


[PAGE 269]                                        THE LIVER AND GALL BLADDER

                           NO. 10C--D:  GALLSTONES

   Male, born April 23rd, 1850.

   No.  10C is the horoscope of a judge of the Supreme Court,  whose hour of
birth we could not ascertain, but from events in his life we judge that Cap-
ricorn would be on the cusp of the Ascendant.  Although the writer never met
this man in person,  yet from indications in the home he was born some  time
near 9:30 or 10 P.M.   This would place Jupiter and the moon in or near  the
Midheaven  or the 9th house which would correspond with his  character,  for
from reports of friends he was a very efficient and just judge.  He had much
inharmony in his home,  which would be indicated by Saturn and Uranus in Ar-
ies in the 4th house, describing the wife as nagging and erratic.  Saturn is
square to Mars in Cancer in the 7th house, again showing inharmony and quar-
reling with the marriage partner.

   The Judge was also greatly troubled through the weakness of an only  son,
who squandered his time in drink and immorality,  spending his money on  the
opposite sex.  This is shown by the position of Venus in the 5th house, gov-
erning children,  also pleasures.   Venus is very strong in the sign of Tau-
rus, which rules the palate and it is also sextile to Mars in Cancer, ruling
the stomach.

   People with Capricorn rising and with the ruler, Saturn, afflicted have a


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tendency always to see the dark side of life and to brood over it,  and when
Saturn is square to Mars there is much temper but not of the explosive kind.
Capricorn   people   cannot  as  a  rule  forgive  and  forget.   Suppressed

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   [                   BIRTH CHART NO. 10C  [FLAT CHART]               ]
   [                                                                   ]
   [ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn  SUN: Taurus 2:57       SATURN: Aries 13:40  ]
   [ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius  MOON: Virgo 25:51      URANUS: Aries 26:41  ]
   [ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces    MERCURY: Taurus 9:17   NEPTUNE: Pisces 6:25 ]
   [ ASCENDANT: Aries      VENUS: Taurus 15:58                         ]
   [ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus     MARS: Cancer 18:20                          ]
   [ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini     JUPITER: Virgo 13:32R                       ]
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anger  when continued for years will crystallize the bile in the gall  blad-
der,  which will have a tendency to form into small stones,  causing intense
pain while they are being eliminated.  The Judge suffered from these  stones
for nearly twenty years.  About  1894  the progressed Saturn neared an exact


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square to the radical Mars, which may have set the time for the beginning of
the  forming of these stones.   This patient passed into the higher life  on
January 1,  1916,  when the transiting Saturn had reached the square to  its
own place at birth.

                                  NO. 10D.

   Female, born December 14, 1855, at 10 A.M.

   This is the horoscope of a woman who has Capricorn on the Ascendant,  and
the ruler, Saturn, is in the 5th house, square to the inflammatory Mars.  We
have  noted  from a number of horoscopes in our files of patients  who  have
suffered  from gallstones that they have had Saturn and Mars conjunction  or
square.   Saturn in this horoscope is in the house ruling children, the 5th,
and square to Mars in the 8th.  This woman's troubles were caused by  aggra-
vations by the children of her husband's first marriage,  the  stepchildren.
Note  how  clearly this is shown by Mercury and the sun in the  11th  house,
which rules stepchildren, square to Neptune, ruler of the 2nd house.   Anger
and inharmony arose in her home on account of her husband's finances, and as
usual the Capricorn nature would not forget and forgive,  holding resentment
within until she paid the penalty in  1903  when she had the first attack of


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gallstones,  followed  by another attack fourteen years later,  about  1917.
The  progressed moon was in Sagittarius in 1903 and in Gemini in 1917.   The
exact time of the illness is not given,  but the opposition and the conjunc-
tion of the progressed moon with Saturn will  no  doubt  register  the exact

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[                            BIRTH CHART NO. 10D                           ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Scorpio 25      SUN: Sagitt. 21:52      SATURN: Gemini 26:55R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 13     MOON: Aquarius 26:48    URANUS: Taurus 17:37R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 28     MERCURY: Sagitt. 12:08  NEPTUNE: Pisces 15:29 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Capricorn 16:39 VENUS: Scorpio 5:04                           ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Pisces 17       MARS: Libra 0:07                              ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Taurus 0        JUPITER: Aquarius 27:38                       ]
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time.

   This disease is one of the most painful of afflictions.   When the stones
pass from the gall bladder,  pressing through the tiny gall duct which leads
into the duodenum, they often get partly through this duct but remain wedged


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in, causing intense suffering.  A very safe and often most beneficial remedy
is to have ready one-half cup of olive oil and the juice of one lemon.   Set
the alarm clock to go off at 3 A.M.; at that time drink all of the oil  fol-
lowed  by the juice of the lemon.   Refrain from eating breakfast,  and  eat
very little during the day.  Repeat this for three nights in succession, and
the  third morning take a cathartic.   A tablespoon of Epsom salts has  been
used by some with excellent results.   If this does not eliminate the  gall-
stones, try the remedy again about two or three weeks later.

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