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                                CHAPTER XXII

                               THE CIRCULATION

                      NO. 11.--PALPITATION OF THE HEART

   Female, born April 24, 1862, midnight.

   The  Ascendant in this chart is occupied by the Saturnine sign of  Capri-
corn,  with Saturn,  the ruler, intercepted in the 8th house.   When we find
the  life ruler so weakly situated and afflicted,  we may look for a  person
who  is very likely to become a victim of circumstances,  instead  of  being
victor; one who will allow the planets to rule her instead of her ruling the
planets.   Where Saturn is afflicted in the house of limitations, the native
is very gloomy and always looks at the dark side of life,  and if he suffers
physically,  he is very apt,  like the Virgoans,  to give in to the disease.
Wherever Saturn, the plant of obstruction, is posited in the horoscopes,  we
may look for trouble.  In this case we find him in the sign of Virgo, ruling
the  small  intestines,  and in conjunction with the planet  Jupiter,  which
rules  the  arterial  circulation.  Jupiter also has rule over the adrenals.


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The  secretion of these glands is necessary to give tone to the  blood,  and
when restricted by Saturn we may expect that the arterial blood will be dis-
turbed.

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 [                            BIRTH CHART NO. 11A                         ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Scorpio 5       SUN: Taurus 4:45       SATURN: Virgo 16:18R ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Scorpio 28     MOON: Pisces 22:58     URANUS: Gemini 14:07 ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 18     MERCURY: Aries 22:25   NEPTUNE: Aries 2:33  ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Capricorn 7:33  VENUS: Pisces 19:17                         ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Aquarius 21     MARS: Aquarius 14:23                        ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Aries 3         JUPITER: Virgo 18:01R                       ]
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   But  we  do  not judge by Saturn and his influence alone.   We  find  the
planet Venus,  ruling the venous blood, in conjunction with the moon,  which
has rule over the synovial fluids,  the lubricants of the body.   Venus  and
the moon are in opposition to Jupiter and Saturn.  What  would be the effect


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upon the body of the afflictions of the above four plants?   Due to the  re-
stricting influence of Saturn we may expect trouble with the arterial circu-
lation.   With the venous blood also restricted there is no freedom  to  the
blood flow, and the effect is the same as that of a stagnant stream of water
which becomes muddy and full of poisonous weeds.  We may expect the blood to
become polluted and stagnant.

   We extract a certain amount of minerals from our food, which while we are
children  can all be utilized to build bone;  but after we have reached  our
full  stature  and the body can use little of this mineral  matter  for  its
growth,  if taken in excess it then deposits in the joints and blood stream,
clinging to the surface of the little blood vessels in the same manner  that
it  does on the inside of a teakettle.   If the circulation is good and  the
blood  has freedom to flow through the arteries and veins in a natural  man-
ner,  this deposit is very slight; but in old age or when circulation is im-
paired,  this mineral is deposited in the blood and causes what is  commonly
known as sclerosis or hardening of the arteries.   In this case the walls of
the blood vessels are covered with a deposit of hard mineral substance, con-
sequently the blood flow is impeded; the muscles and joints become stiff and
sore,  and gradually as this condition becomes chronic the person loses  the
use of arms and limbs and chronic invalidism is the result.

   In  this  horoscope  we  find  both  Jupiter and Saturn posited in Virgo,


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ruling the small intestine.   This small tube, although it is between 20 and
25 feet in length,  is coiled in a small space in the abdominal region.   It
is  lined with mucous membrane and small tongue-like vessels that assist  in
digesting and absorbing the food elements,  afterwards distributing  various
minerals extracted from the food into the white and red fluids of the  body.
If  the mucous membrane and these villi of the intestines are obstructed  by
Saturn,  as  in the case of this woman whose moon is also  opposed  by  this
afflicter,  then the secretion of lymph and chyle,  the white fluids of  the
body, is obstructed, and in addition, the blood receives little nourishment.

   The woman suffers greatly from palpitation of the heart, headaches,  high
blood pressure,  and a constant pain in back and limbs.   When the blood has
become sluggish and filled with ash it stands to reason that the heart  must
suffer,  for  when through undue excitement or anger an excess of  blood  is
drawn  to the heart and the clogged condition of the blood vessels  prevents
it from freely leaving this central station,  palpitation,  high blood pres-
sure, rush of blood to the head, and various other afflictions naturally re-
sult.

   Now,  what can we give as a remedy for such a condition?  First of all we
would  advise  a simple and very light diet with very  little  starch,  less
sugar, but more of raw onion, lettuce, spinach, etc.  Always keep the bowels
free,  and  give the body a dry rub with a pair of bath mitts  each  morning
onarising and at night before going to bed.  Unfortunately, a woman with the


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sun aspected, as in this case, except by a semi-sextile to Neptune, and with
afflicting planets in Virgo and Pisces will not make the effort to get well.
It is so much less trouble to drift into invalidism.

                NO. 11B.--SLUGGISH CIRCULATION AND CATARACTS

   Female, born April 9, 1851, 1:58 A.M.

   We first judge as usual the mentality of our patient.  Aries, the sign of
the head,  has more planets than any other,  and two of these are  malefics.
Even if this were all it would be unfortunate and an indication of  unfavor-
able  characteristics,  but the affliction of Saturn in Aries  to  the  sun,
moon,   Mercury,   Uranus,  and  Jupiter  tell  us  this  is  a  subtle  and
untrustworthy person, who is sadly indifferent to moral obligations of truth
and justice.   Nor is it to be wondered at that such pronounced mental char-
acteristics should produce a marked effect upon the bodily functions,  espe-
cially as the afflictions are all from cardinal signs.

   Saturn, the planet of obstruction, makes  the  native subtle and cautious


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mentally  by his conjunction with Mercury and square to the moon,  and  also
protects her from being "found out."   This same configuration obstructs the
flow  of nerve force,  and thus causes a clogging of both the voluntary  and
sympathetic  nervous  systems,  which  are  ruled  by  Mercury  and the moon

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[                             BIRTH CHART NO. 11B                         ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Scorpio 19       SUN: Aries 18:50       SATURN: Aries 23:21  ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 11      MOON: Cancer 18:56     URANUS: Aries 29:41  ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Capricorn 1     MERCURY: Aries 26:53   NEPTUNE: Pisces 8:13 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Capricorn 24:06  VENUS: Pisces 6:18                          ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Pisces 11        MARS: Pisces 17:07                          ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Aries 21         JUPITER: Libra 18:00R                       ]
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respectively.   Saturn's  principal field of activity will be found  in  the
pneumogastric nerve,  which is normally saturnine and suppressive in its ac-
tion upon the heart, stomach, and other vital  organs.  The  conjunction  of


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Saturn  with  the sun is aggravated by the fact that they are  in  parallel,
situated in the first cardinal sign, Aries,  ruling the head,  square to the
moon in the second cardinal sign,  Cancer,  which rules the stomach,  and in
opposition  to Jupiter in the third cardinal sign,  Libra,  which rules  the
kidneys.  Were it not for the trine of Mars to the moon and the placement of
the sun in its exaltation sign,  Aries, it would be difficult for life to be
sustained in this severely afflicted nativity.

   This person is afflicted with sluggish circulation, indigestion, and ner-
vous  constipation on account of the planetary afflictions mentioned,  still
this  is far from the worst trouble.  The conjunction of the planets in  Ar-
ies,  the head,  and their opposition to Jupiter,  which rules the  arterial
circulation,  show plainly how the nerves and blood vessels are  clogged  in
that most important part of the body, the head.  As a consequence there is a
dearth of material with which to build up the various organs, and an accumu-
lation  of waste.   We all know that a bad stomach reacts on the  eyes,  and
when  we  consider the effect of the sun and Saturn in Aries square  to  the
moon in Cancer,  we see that it is small wonder that both eyes are afflicted
with the saturnine obstruction known as cataract.

   A Taurus healer would be best fitted to handle this case,  and it  should
be made very,  very plain to the patient that frankness and strict adherence
to truth are an absolute necessity for recovery.  Even if resented at first,


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a  kindly statement of the fact of the opposite fault and its  effects  will
probably bring a change.   A religious attitude of mind will loosen the ten-
sion  of nerves,  allowing the bodily functions greater  freedom.   Uncooked
food  should be given in as large a measure as the patient will  allow,  for
its ether is necessary to build up the nerves.   Onions are prime  builders,
and  pineapple  is unrivaled as a digestive stimulant.   But  in  this  case
physical factors,  though of vital importance,  pale into insignificance  in
comparison with the benefit that will be derived from a proper  appreciation
of the moral factors that have caused the disease,  and a realization of the
imperative necessity of altering the trend of mind before any permanent  re-
lief can be experienced.   Nor should the healer despair and feel that  this
is a case analogous to that of the leopard changing its spots,  for the  af-
flictions  are  from  cardinal signs and  therefore  movable.   It  requires
thought and energy to plan how to deceive successfully,  and this energy  if
turned  to good,  will be a factor of equal power in bringing the  light  of
truth into the patient's life and letting it shine for others.

   (The above was the diagnosis of this case in 1915.   The outcome in  1919
is given in 2BX, page 94--EDITOR.)


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                          NO. 11D.--VARICOSE VEINS

   Female, born January 17, 1875, 7:00 A.M.

   This woman has the Saturnian sign of Capricorn on the Ascendant, with the
life ruler, Saturn, in Aquarius where this planet is at home and most power-
ful.  Being in the first house, in an angle, and in a fixed sign we may look
to  Saturn as having the most powerful influence on the life as well as  the
health of the native.

   We find that the obstructing Saturn is in square aspect to the  inflamma-
tory Mars.   This last named plant is on the cusp of the Midheaven and  also
in an angle; it is in its own sign of Scorpio where it is powerful.  Mars is
square to the spasmodic Uranus, which is in the sign of its fall,  the fixed
sign  of Leo,  and also angular in the seventh house.   Consequently,  these
three malefics so powerfully situated in fixed signs and in the angles  will
be very difficult to overcome.

   Mars in the Midheaven will dominate the actions of this woman, and it be-
ing  square to the restless Uranus will incline toward excessive social  ac-
tivity.   With the Capricorn egotism enhanced by the sun and Mercury in  the
first house in Capricorn,  square to Jupiter and Neptune,  the native  would
aspire to shine in society.  Especially would this be true with Venus in the
active sign of Sagittarius and in the eleventh house, ruling friends.   With
Venus sextile to saturn she would aim to lead  in  games and social affairs,


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into which she would enter with all the impulse of the Mars-Uranus nature.

   Capricorn people are not very robust, and with the sun and Mercury on the
Ascendant in Capricorn afflicted by the square of  Jupiter and Neptune, both

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[                            BIRTH CHART NO. 11D                           ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Scorpio 14     SUN: Capricorn 26:54     SATURN: Aquarius 14:26]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 4     MOON: Taurus 29:35       URANUS: Leo 13:56R    ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 20    MERCURY: Capricorn 28:07 NEPTUNE: Aries 28:04R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Capricorn 7:32 VENUS: Sagitt. 15:34     DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Pisces 0       MARS: Scorpio 15:25               Aries 21:48  ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Aries 16       JUPITER: Scorpio 0:22    DRAGON'S TAIL:        ]
[                                                             Libra 21:48  ]
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of these last named planets being in martial signs, giving impulse,  the na-
tive  would  be  very  apt to dissipate her strength,  the  result  being  a
physical break in the weakest part.  The greatest afflictions in this  horo-
scope are found in the region of the knees, Capricorn,  and the lower limbs,


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Aquarius, causing enlargement of the veins.  Varices are caused by interfer-
ences  in  the Venus circulation resulting from overtaxing  the  muscles  or
nerves of certain parts of the body.

   Venus  being  the best aspected planet and free from afflictions  in  the
sign of sports, Sagittarius, in the eleventh house, friends, trine to Uranus
and sextile to Saturn, and Mars, being prominent in the Midheaven,  indicate
that  the patient was an enthusiast in games;  also in the entertainment  of
friends,  for the moon is well aspected by the sun and Mercury and is in the
Venus sign of Taurus in the 4th house, indicating the home, where the native
would be lavish in her entertainments.  The consequent exertion would put  a
heavy strain upon the heart.  Uranus in Leo, square to Mars,  and opposition
Saturn  indicates organic heart trouble,  and causes a spasmodic gushing  of
blood  through  the  aorta.   Interference with the natural  flow  of  blood
through  the heart will cause a disturbance in the veins in other  afflicted
parts of the body, as in this case where we find enlarged veins in the lower
limbs.

   This  woman  called upon our Healing Department for  help  in  September,
1920,  while under the care of the doctors in a hospital, after having had a
second operation for varicose veins.   At that time the progressed Venus had
reached a conjunction with the radical sun, and the progressed moon was also
in that part of the horoscope.  The transiting sun, Mercury, and Saturn were


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in  conjunction in Virgo,  the sign of health.   The transiting  Saturn  was
square  to the radical Venus,  which brought on the last attack and was  re-
sponsible for her submitting to the operation.

   Ordinary  cases of varicose veins may be relieved and even cured by  ban-
dages,  and by a removal of strain so that the circulation of the blood  may
become more normal.  When the knife is used, however, as in this case, heal-
ing is interfered with.


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                      NO. 11E.--RESTRICTED CIRCULATION

   Female, born April 13th, 1862.

   This horoscope is minus the hour of birth, but as the given time of birth
is  frequently unreliable on account of the difference in time  and  clocks,
unless  we  have  some data by which we can correct the  horoscope,  we  are
nearly as safe in using a flat figure--diagnosing from the planets and signs
only.  A very safe diagnosis may be arrived at by this method.  Only when it
is  necessary  to  watch for the crisis in order to help  the  patient  pass
through  a critical period is it necessary that we have the hour  of  birth.
This  is then required in order to observe the progressed moon and  the  as-
pects of the transiting planets.

   We  here  find Saturn,  the malefic, conjunction Jupiter in the  sign  of
Virgo.  Virgo is the natural sixth house sign and therefore rules health and
sickness to a very great extent.   We find that people who are ruled largely
by Virgo are prone to think much of their health and often become  hypochon-
driacs.  When several planets are found in this sign, we may trace the cause
of disease to this part of the horoscope.   The small intestine is the organ
of distribution of the nutriment,  where much of the food must go to be dis-
tributed to the various parts of the body through the blood.  The intestines
are to the body what the commissary  department  is  to  the army. Therefore


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Virgo necessarily is a most vital part of the horoscope.

   Jupiter is the planet ruling the arterial circulation and the glycogen of
the liver, and Saturn has rule over the gall bladder  and  the pneumogastric

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   [                   BIRTH CHART NO. 11E  [FLAT CHART]               ]
   [                                                                   ]
   [ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn  SUN: Aries 23:17       SATURN: Virgo 16:52R ]
   [ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius  MOON: Libra 7:43       URANUS: Gemini 13:33 ]
   [ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces    MERCURY: Aries 1:44    NEPTUNE: Aries 2:08  ]
   [ ASCENDANT: Aries      VENUS: Pisces 9:53                          ]
   [ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus     MARS: Aquarius 6:21                         ]
   [ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini     JUPITER: Virgo 18:55R                       ]
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nerve,  the most important of all nerves,  which sends its branches  to  the
three  most  important parts of the body,  namely the  heart,  stomach,  and
lungs.   Here they affect the distribution and digestion of the food in  the
small intestine due to the sluggishness of the  gall  bladder  in furnishing


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the  needed amount of bile and through impaired peristalsis.   As  a  conse-
quence the tiny blood vessels which are distributed over the inner  intesti-
nal surface are robbed of their nutriment,  and the blood stream becomes de-
ficient and sluggish causing anemia.

   Especially is this true since we also find Venus,  which rules the venous
blood,  afflicted by a square of Uranus,  these planets being in the  common
signs  of Pisces and Gemini.   Uranus is also squaring Saturn  and  Jupiter.
This  will interfere with the oxygenation of the blood as it passes  through
the capillaries of the lungs.

   Before  middle  life  these afflictions may  express  themselves  through
colds,  pneumonia, and painful menstruation.  But after middle life when the
body begins to feel the strain of years,  these afflictions will cause  ane-
mia,  arterio-sclerosis, and high blood pressure.  The patient suffered from
the latter three diseases,  and at the age of sixty was threatened with  pa-
ralysis  of the right side.   She also had a dizzy,  reeling feeling in  the
head.

   A healer should advise such a patient against stimulants such as  coffee,
tea,  etc.   Stimulation by friction of the skin would be of great  benefit,
using a pair of bath gloves night and morning and rubbing the body until  it
glows.   Keep  the mind free from excitement and worry,  adopt a  light  and
carefully selected vegetarian diet,  and drink plenty of pure water  between
meals.


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                         NO. 11F.--PERNICIOUS ANEMIA

   Female, born Aug. 12, 1886, 5:00 A.M.

   We are using this chart to impress upon the mind of the student the great
necessity  of advising patients as to the proper diet.   Ninety per cent  of
those who are suffering and broken down in health are ill, not on account of
the lack of food but because of wrong combinations or too much food.

   This young woman has the fixed sign of Leo on the Ascendant, and the sun,
the ruler,  on the cusp of the first house.   We find the obstructive Saturn
in his detriment in the sign of Cancer, which rules the stomach.  Venus, the
planet ruling the venous circulation,  is in conjunction with Saturn and  in
opposition to the negative moon,  which is in its detriment in the Saturnian
sign  of Capricorn.   Since Saturn and the moon are both in their  detriment
and in mutual reception,  the power for evil of these two planets is greatly
increased.  The opposition occurs from the sixth house, that of sickness, to
the twelfth house, that of hospitals, confinement, and self-undoing.  We can
well see how this poor soul has been responsible for her complete breakdown.
She  has for years been an invalid in bed,  not able to use her limbs.   The
doctors have stated her disease to be arteriosclerosis.

   We find that Jupiter,  ruling the arterial circulation,  is afflicted  by
the conjunction of  Uranus  in  Libra,  and  that  Venus,  ruling the venous


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circulation is square to Mars,  these two latter planets being  respectively
in the sign of the kidneys and the stomach.  Mars is also square to the moon
in the house of sickness, the sixth.  With this planetary afflictions to the

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  [                          BIRTH CHART NO. 11F                        ]
  [                                                                     ]
  [ MIDHEAVEN: Taurus 8    SUN: Leo 19:36         SATURN: Cancer 16:56  ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Gemini 15  MOON: Capricorn 24:23  URANUS: Libra 5:13    ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 20  MERCURY: Leo 26:36R    NEPTUNE: Taurus 27:45 ]
  [ ASCENDANT: Leo 18:55   VENUS: Cancer 21:07    DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Virgo 10    MARS: Libra 23:53               Virgo 8:05   ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Libra 6     JUPITER: Libra 4:26    DRAGON'S TAIL:        ]
  [                                                        Pisces 8:05  ]
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stomach  there is a tendency to overeat.   The opposition of Venus  and  the
moon gives a great desire for liquids and sweets, and Saturn gives an abnor-
mal  desire  for unnatural foods and an excess of pastries,  starches,  etc.
This patient's body was like a stove  that  is  filled  with paper: when the


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paper is burned it makes a terrific heat,  but the heat is not lasting,  and
the stove is quickly filled with ashes.

   With Saturn in Cancer,  there is a lack of gastric juice in the  stomach.
Leo  is  rising and the sun and Mercury are on the Ascendant in  sextile  to
Mars.   These positions give an unusual amount of energy but also  the  ten-
dency  to dissipate it.   When the body has become worn out and  tired,  the
stomach cannot digest the food; then if too much food is partaken of, decom-
position takes place, especially if the meal is made up of inharmonious food
elements.   In  the present case the poor weak stomach has been  stuffed  to
overflowing  with food,  and then cold water or hot tea with sugar has  been
poured in after it.   What was the result?   Fermentation took place and the
food turned to poison instead of nourishing the body.  This poor young woman
at the age of twenty-four was an invalid.  Her body was filled with ash, and
with  both the venous and arterial circulation impaired the blood could  not
remain pure.  She dissipated her energy, could not use moderation.  She went
to excess in food,  play,  and mental work, and the result was that the body
could not throw out the ash accumulated from the excessive and  ill-balanced
food.

   If  she had come in contact with a doctor who would have placed her on  a
rational and carefully chosen diet and who would not have given her  poison-
ous narcotics,  she could have been saved much suffering.  Man often starves
in the midst of plenty, overloading  his  stomach  while  the body is really


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starving from non-assimilation, as was the case with this young woman.   She
lived to satisfy her appetite,  but did not give her body blood-making food.
Her  joints became stiff,  her body ached,  and in a few years she became  a
confirmed invalid and is now confined in a hospital.  If she were taken to a
hospital where scientific dietary treatment is given, she could yet become a
useful woman.

   When we meet such poor unfortunate ones, it behooves us who aspire to be-
come helpers and healers of humanity to use our efforts to guide them in the
right direction.


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                    NO. 11G.--RHEUMATISM AND IMPURE BLOOD

   Male, born August 14, 1912, 1:30 P.M.

   We  are using here the horoscope of a young man with the martial sign  of
Scorpio on the Ascendant, and with the life ruler, Mars,  in the 10th house,
sextile to the Ascendant and in conjunction with the watery moon.   Where we
find the close conjunction of a hot and inflammatory planet with a cold  and
watery one as in this case,  and especially in the sign of Virgo,  which  is
the natural sixth house sign governing sickness, we may expect that it is  a
starting point of illness, for fire and water create steam.

   Virgo is the sign which has rule over the small intestine, the intestines
being among the principal organs for the digestion,  assimilation,  and dis-
tribution of the food.   The inflammatory Mars in this sign causes inflamma-
tion of the intestines.  As Mars is in conjunction with the moon, the latter
having  rule over the lymphatics,  we may expect that the lymphatic  vessels
and glands will be disturbed in their functions.   They are carriers between
the cells of the body and the blood.  Not only do they carry some of the nu-
triment of the food to the blood, but they also act as cleansers,  taking up
a  part of the waste matter and carrying it where it may be eliminated  from
the  body through the excretory organs.   When the moon is afflicted by  the
inflammatory Mars in Virgo, we may expect the lymphatics  to be inflamed and


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not able to function so as to help the blood in its work.  The moon has rule
over  the  chyle,  or white fluid which has been  extracted  from  the  food
through the villi of the small intestine.   This intermingles with the lymph
and passes on into the circulation.  These white fluids,

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[                            BIRTH CHART NO. 11G                           ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Virgo 7        SUN: Leo 21:33         SATURN: Gemini 3:09     ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Libra 9       MOON: Virgo 18:50      URANUS: Aquarius 00:40R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Scorpio 4     MERCURY: Virgo 4:40R   NEPTUNE: Cancer 24:34   ]
[ ASCENDANT: Scorpio 23:55  VENUS: Virgo 2:31                              ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Sagitt. 25     MARS: Virgo 17:54                              ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Aquarius 0     JUPITER: Sagitt. 5:46                          ]
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which are so necessary in the work of feeding the blood,  are obstructed  in
the case of this boy.

   We  have still another affliction which interferes with the  purification
of  the  blood  stream.  Saturn  the  obstructor  is  in the sign of Gemini.


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Gemini has rule over the lungs.  Saturn is in opposition to the planet Jupi-
ter,  ruling the arterial circulation,  and square to Venus,  which has rule
over  the venous blood.   The lungs are the bellows of the body.   Into  the
tiny  capillaries of these organs the pure air passes and the blood is  thus
oxygenated and aerated.   The pure oxygen is drawn into the air cells of the
lungs,  the poisonous carbon-dioxide is exhaled, and thus the body is  freed
from a large portion of its poisons.  Whenever we find Saturn in the sign of
Gemini, especially if this planet is afflicted by both Jupiter and Venus, we
may expect the blood to be unhealthy and impure for Saturn,  the obstructor,
is stationed at the door of the respiratory system,  partially shutting  out
the  air from without and also partially keeping the  carbon-dioxide  within
the body.

   With these planetary afflictions we may look from a health point of  view
for  impure  and anemic blood;  also a tendency to  intestinal  inflammation
which  will interfere with the proper assimilation and distribution  of  the
food.   This boy at the age of eight years suffered from blotches and  erup-
tions of the skin.  As the moon has rule over the synovial fluid, we may see
how  the  conjunction  of Mars with the moon caused  rheumatism  and  fallen
arches,  an indication that Mars burned up the oils which were necessary  to
keep the joints of his legs and feet in order.

   What  a pity that the parents were not familiar with the science  of  as-
trology!  If  they  had  been,  they  would  have  known  of these planetary



[PAGE 296]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

afflictions and by a careful diet, plenty of fresh air, and training in deep
breathing this boy could have been saved from much suffering.   From all in-
dications tuberculosis of the lungs may set in should he neglect his  health
by  exposure to cold,  for with Saturn afflicted by both Venus  and  Jupiter
from common signs,  he has naturally developed a habit of shallow breathing,
which will tend to induce lung trouble.


[PAGE 297]                                                   THE CIRCULATION

                           NO. 11H--I:  RHEUMATISM

   We will use two horoscopes in order to show how planets placed in differ-
ent signs will bring about the same symptoms, the real causes of the disease
being different.

                                  NO. 11H.

   The native, a woman, was born on March 16, 1865, no hour given.   We find
the  fiery,  discordant Mars conjunction the restless Uranus in the  nervous
sign of Gemini (the arms and shoulders),  and square to the life-giving  sun
and  Mercury,  which are in conjunction in the watery sign of Pisces.   Mars
and  Uranus  are also in opposition to Jupiter,  which  rules  the  arterial
blood, and Jupiter is square to the sun and Mercury.

   This patient has always had some trouble with obstructed circulation, es-
pecially  in the arms and legs.   Afflictions often work in squares and  op-
positions.   Illustrating this we find the assimilation in the small  intes-
tine much impaired.  Venus, the planet ruling the venous circulation,  is in
opposition to the moon, which we find in the martial sign of Scorpio, ruling
elimination,  the anus,  urethra,  and the generative organs.   Saturn,  the
planet of obstruction,  is found in Libra, the kidneys,  and being placed in
the last degree of this sign he obstructs elimination  through  the ureters,


[PAGE 298]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

the small ducts carrying the urine from the kidneys to the bladder.

   With all the many obstructions in the elimination of waste matter and the
impaired assimilation of food do we wonder that when this woman  reached the

    --------------------------------------------------------------------
   [                    BIRTH CHART NO. 11H  [FLAT CHART]               ]
   [                                                                    ]
   [ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn  SUN: Pisces 25:56       SATURN: Libra 29:14R ]
   [ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius  MOON: Scorpio 9:56      URANUS: Gemini 25:34 ]
   [ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces    MERCURY: Pisces 24:07   NEPTUNE: Aries 7:34  ]
   [ ASCENDANT: Aries      VENUS: Taurus 10:51     DRAGON'S HEAD:       ]
   [ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus     MARS: Gemini 22:41            Scorpio 9:56   ]
   [ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini     JUPITER: Sagitt. 27:39  DRAGON'S TAIL:       ]
   [                                                     Taurus 2:07    ]
    --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
age of menopause the body suffered and the blood became so sluggish and  im-
pure that rheumatism was the result?   Her body was stiff,  she found it al-
most impossible to move about, and she suffered especially with the arms and
shoulders.


[PAGE 299]                                                   THE CIRCULATION


                                  NO. 11 I.

   The native, a man, was born December 6, 1870, about 7:30 P.M.   There are
four planets in the sign Sagittarius in the 5th house, ruling pleasures  and

   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  [                            BIRTH CHART NO. 11I                       ]
  [                                                                      ]
  [ MIDHEAVEN: Aries 8     SUN: Sagitt. 14:30      SATURN: Sagitt. 29:02 ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Taurus 19  MOON: Taurus 29:59      URANUS: Cancer 26:08R ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 4   MERCURY: Sagitt. 22:14  NEPTUNE: Aries 19:13R ]
  [ ASCENDANT: Leo 5:30    VENUS: Sagitt. 14:07    DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Leo 21      MARS: Virgo 20:03             Cancer 11:23    ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 10    JUPITER: Gemini 22:19R  DRAGON'S TAIL:        ]
  [                                                      Capricorn 11:23 ]
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------

appetites.   The sun,  ruler of the Ascendant,  and Venus the ruler  of  the
house of friends, are in conjunction and square to the impulsive and discor-
dant Mars, showing that this man is fond of a good  time.  His love for wine


[PAGE 300]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

and women has been his undoing.   He has indulged the appetites,  and he  is
surely paying the price of such living.

   Jupiter in the nervous sign of Gemini afflicted by the opposition of  the
obstructing Saturn and nervous Mercury, also square to the inflammatory Mars
in the sign of Virgo, the small intestine,  are indications similar to those
in  horoscope 11H.   This man suffered from numbness in the arms and  hands.
The  great  strain  put upon his system and the abuse of  the  poor  stomach
caused neuritis,  as both the venous and arterial circulations are afflicted
from the signs ruling the nervous system.

   The  instruction  given  to both these patients would  be  very  similar,
namely a simple vegetarian diet, elimination of meat, alcoholic drinks,  and
highly seasoned foods, using plentifully green,  raw vegetables,  especially
lettuce and onions.   The onion is a wonderful nerve tonic and body  scaven-
ger.   If taken at night in the form of a sandwich when the stomach is empty
it  will  purify the kidneys and liver and build up the nervous  system.   A
good brisk massage with a pair of bath gloves night and morning to keep  the
pores  of  the skin open and stimulate the circulation is  recommended.   In
case 11H the bowels and kidneys should be kept free from clogging,  and food
should be taken that works directly upon the liver and kidneys.


[PAGE 301]                                                           LEPROSY

                                CHAPTER XXIII

                                   LEPROSY

                            NO. 12A--B:  LEPROSY

   Male, born September 11, 1885, at 1:00 A.M.

   The writer feels that horoscopes 12A and 12B, those of two brothers, will
give students a most helpful lesson in the diagnosing of disease,  and  show
that though the underlying causes and the outward appearances of both  cases
are of a similar nature,  still these cases are entirely different when sci-
entifically diagnosed.

   In  both cases the relatives called upon Headquarters for healing of  the
dread disease with which these brothers were afflicted.

   In horoscope 12A we find the watery sign of Cancer on the Ascendant, with
the obstructive Saturn near the cusp and square to Uranus in Libra.  Here we
have  two planets which both by position and aspect indicate eruptive  blood
disease,  and show the two stations where the poison is  generated,  namely,
Cancer, the stomach, and Libra, the kidneys.


[PAGE 302]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

   Saturn in Cancer interferes with the peristaltic action which is so  nec-
essary  in the churning and the breaking up of food in the stomach.   Saturn
has  a tendency also to dry up the body fluids, and when in Cancer, which is

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 [                          BIRTH CHART NO. 12A                          ]
 [                                                                       ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Aries 6      SUN: Virgo 18:38       SATURN: Cancer 7:01    ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Taurus 9    MOON: Libra 19:28      URANUS: Libra 2:23     ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Gemini 10   MERCURY: Virgo 4:54R   NEPTUNE: Taurus 25:33R ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Cancer 9:26  VENUS: Libra 22:33     DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Leo 6        MARS: Cancer 26:31            Virgo 25:50 (?) ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 4      JUPITER: Virgo 16:52   DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
 [                                                       Aries 25:49 (?) ]
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------

the sign of its fall,  this planet is weak and therefore most evil.   Uranus
is  the higher octave of Venus,  and as Venus rules the moral nature on  the
lower  planes,  so  does Uranus rule or balance the  morals  on  the  higher
planes.   Uranus in the Venus sign of Libra afflicted by a square of  Saturn
would indicate that a lack of moral balance was  largely responsible for the


[PAGE 303]                                                           LEPROSY

physical ailment of the patient.

   Uranus has rule over the pituitary body or hypophysis.   This little  or-
gan,  which  is so wonderfully protected in a cradle-like  bone  within  the
brain,  consists of two small lobes, the anterior and posterior.   The ante-
rior  lobe  has rule over the sex or creative force and  over  nerve  fibre,
while the posterior lobe contributes to and controls the circulation of  the
fluids of the body, especially the renal circulation.

   With Uranus is Libra, which has rule over the kidneys,  square to the ob-
structive   Saturn   and   both   in   cardinal   signs,   also   with   the
impulsive-cardinal  signs on all the angles,  we may expect excesses.   With
Mars,  the planet of dynamic energy and impulse,  in the first house in Can-
cer,  square to the planets of pleasure and self-indulgence,  Venus and  the
Moon,  (Venus being strongly situated in its own sign of Libra and the  moon
being the ruler of the Ascendant,  square to its own house,) we may conclude
that this man through his excessive desires indulged in sensual pleasure  to
such an extent that the functions of the pituitary body became impaired.  As
the  pituitary body regulates the assimilation of food,  and as  Saturn  and
Mars are afflicted in the sign of the stomach,  (Saturn in Cancer gives  ab-
normal tastes and appetites, and Mars in Cancer indicates a gourmand) we may
expect that this man would be apt to make a cesspool of his body.

   With  Venus and the moon in conjunction and square to Mars in  Cancer  on
the Ascendant, and with Saturn on the cusp of the  Ascendant,  we may expect


[PAGE 304]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

this  person to be very untidy and careless.   He is one who  would  neglect
cleanliness  of the body and of his surroundings,  also the  elimination  of
toxic poisons through the colon, kidneys, and skin.  This would in time fill
the body with poisons which would ultimately cause eruption.

   The  skin would become dry and dead, for the pituitary body with the  as-
sistance of the thyroid gland feeds the skin.   When these glands are  tired
and depleted by sensual excesses,  the conditions of the skin as well as the
general  circulation  of the body are impaired,  dulling the  mentality  and
causing the slowing up of energies of mind and body.   In this case the  re-
sult was leprosy.

   This dread disease first made its appearance after the Flood,  when  veg-
etation was scarce and Noah and his family were forced to revert to the  use
of  meat for food.   This together with excesses and degeneracy relating  to
the generative function was responsible for this disease being of such  com-
mon occurrence among the ancient Israelites and Egyptians.  This ailment was
classed as unclean, and those afflicted with it were ostracized and excluded
from the church.

   Truly it is a disease caused by unsanitary and unclean habits of  living,
and only those who, as in the case of this man,  are gluttonous and careless
in their personal habits are afflicted with it.   We will use horoscope  12B
to illustrate another phase of this disease.


[PAGE 305]                                                           LEPROSY

                                  NO. 12B.

   Male, born March 19, 1896, at 7:50 P.M.

   During the ancient Israelitic times the Jews looked upon leprosy as a pe-
culiar disease sent to man by God.   It was recognized as a mark of the dis-
pleasure of God for some great sin committed, and it was considered a dread-
ful  moral disease.   The afflicted ones were separated from others  by  the
priests,  who used ceremonies of purification for the healing of  those  who
had this unclean disorder.

   We  see in this horoscope indications of moral depravity  and  uncleanli-
ness:  We find Saturn retrograde in Scorpio, the sign which rules the secret
parts,  the  generative  organs.   Saturn is square to  Mars,  which  is  in
Aquarius,  the home of Saturn.  Uranus is also retrograde and in the sign of
Scorpio.   These three planets, Saturn, Uranus, and Mars,  are in mutual re-
ception,  that is,  Mars is in a Saturn sign and Saturn and Uranus are in  a
Martian  sign.   Uranus is parallel to Mars and opposition  the  moon,  both
Uranus and the moon being in their exaltation signs and in angles and  fixed
signs.   These planets are thus strong both by position and sign;  therefore
they are also most powerful in their afflictions.  When Saturn afflicts Mars
from Scorpio and Uranus afflicts Mars and the moon from this sign of sex, we
may at once diagnose the case as venereal disease,  but it was of such a ma-
lignant nature that it was believed to be leprosy, for  all outward symptoms


[PAGE 306]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

indicated leprosy.

   Certain forms of venereal disease go hand in hand with the dread  disease

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
[                             BIRTH CHART NO. 12B                         ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Cancer 23     SUN: Pisces 29:30       SATURN: Scorpio 18:43R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Leo 23       MOON: Taurus 25:54      URANUS: Scorpio 24:21R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Virgo 25     MERCURY: Pisces 5:56    NEPTUNE: Gemini 15:24  ]
[ ASCENDANT: Libra 25:28   VENUS: Pisces 0:30      DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Scorpio 26    MARS: Aquarius 12:12           Pisces 2:22     ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 24    JUPITER: Cancer 29:08R  DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
[                                                         Virgo 2:22      ]
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

of leprosy;  when the blood stream is poisoned, the glandular system is also
affected, which in turn interferes with the metabolism of the entire body.

   The  Jews in olden times used no medicine to cure this  unclean  disease.
They claimed  that  it  withered  all  desire  for grace and spiritual life;


[PAGE 307]                                                           LEPROSY

therefore the only cure was prayer and spiritual purification.

   In Matthew,  8th chapter,  we find:  "When he (Christ) was come down from
the mountain,  great multitudes followed him.   And,  behold,  there came  a
leper and worshiped him,  saying,  Lord,  if thou wilt,  thou canst make  me
clean.   And Jesus put forth his hand and touched him,  saying,  I will;  be
thou clean.  An immediately his leprosy was cleansed."


[PAGE 308]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

                                CHAPTER XXIV

                                  PARALYSIS

                             NO. 13A.--PARALYSIS

   Female, born August 22, 1899, 1:30 P.M.

   Paralysis  of the limbs and arms is the affliction of this  young  woman.
We  note first that this condition is indicated by the moon,  which  is  the
particular significator of health for a woman.  She is in Pisces which rules
the feet,  and square to Saturn, the planet of obstruction, placed in Sagit-
tarius,  the sign ruling the hips.  Thus the whole region of the lower limbs
is afflicted.  The moon is also square to Neptune and the saturnine Dragon's
Tail, which are placed in Gemini, the sign ruling the arms.  The life-giving
sun  is  square  to Uranus in Sagittarius and to the  Ascendant,  and  these
afflictions are all the more powerful because the sun and moon are both  an-
gular, one near the Midheaven, the other close to the Nadir.  Thus there are
strong tendencies to trouble with the arms and limbs, dropsy, paralysis, and
wasting disease shown in the natal horoscope.


[PAGE 309]                                                         PARALYSIS

   These  conditions did not become manifest until the patient was  eighteen
years of age.   At that time the progressed sun had reached Virgo 16-33;  it
was then square to the radical Saturn.  This brought out the latent weakness
and  resulted  in  a  gradual  loss  of control of the limbs, which left her

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [                           BIRTH CHART NO. 13A                          ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Virgo 22      SUN: Leo 29:44         SATURN: Sagitt. 17:04R ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Libra 21     MOON: Pisces 21:46     URANUS: Sagitt. 4:02   ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Scorpio 15   MERCURY: Leo 23:25R    NEPTUNE: Gemini 26:38  ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Sagitt. 3:47  VENUS: Leo 22:44       DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Capricorn 6   MARS: Libra 10:38             Sagitt. 26:07   ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Aquarius 15   JUPITER: Scorpio 4:39  DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
 [                                                        Gemini 26:07    ]
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

prostrate.   Neptune conjunction the saturnine Dragon's Tail in Gemini,  the
sign ruling the lungs,  gives an asthmatic condition and the afflicted  moon
in  Pisces  gives  a  tendency  to  dropsical  swellings,  which  have  also
manifested.  Thus for the time being she is in the  grip  of  what  seems an


[PAGE 310]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

incurable condition.  But it is noteworthy that the afflictions are all from
common signs,  and this gives the astrologer a ray of hope that when the sun
has  passed the critical points the affliction may be cured and she may  re-
gain the use of both arms and limbs even if not in full measure.

   In the meantime every effort should be made to promote circulation by the
manipulation and massage of the limbs and arms.  A diet of fresh milk, which
contains  much  ether,  and uncooked vegetables that will give  her  mineral
salts  is sure to be of great benefit in helping to keep the limbs in  shape
and  preventing atrophy so that when the present planetary afflictions  have
passed,  the sextile of the radical sun and Jupiter may restore circulation.
This patient can best be treated by a healer having Aries or Leo rising  and
whose  Saturn is not in any place included in the degrees of  the  patient's
1st or 6th houses.


[PAGE 311]                                                         PARALYSIS

              NO. 13B.--PARALYSIS AND HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES


   Male, born February 9, 1855, 9:00 P.M.

   We note first the mental qualities of the patient.  The moon is conjoined
with the Dragon's Tail, a saturnine influence, and Mercury is square to Sat-
urn.  Thus the two significators of mind are afflicted by an obstructive and
melancholy  influence,  which also operates upon Mars and Venus through  the
square of Saturn.  Saturn moreover is placed in the 9th house in the sign of
the lower mind, Gemini.  Thus there is very little joy for this person;  all
the  world looks blue and gloomy to him;  he meets everybody and  everything
with gloom and distrust,  and is always afraid to make a move in any  direc-
tion for fear something is going to happen to him.

   This mental attitude is at the bottom of all his trouble,  for no one who
carries  such  thoughts  of fear and worry can ever be  healthy.   The  more
cheerful and optimistic we are,  the more we act as magnets for good things;
we  become what people call "lucky."  Conversely,  such an attitude as  this
person has is bound to bring misfortune and trouble.  He thinks he has cause
to  be worried,  and upon the surface it may appear so,  but the trouble  is
that he mistakes effect for cause.   The first work of a healer should be to
show  him  this  fatal error and teach him to smile or at least  to  try  to
smile.


[PAGE 312]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

   Just as cheer promotes circulation and elimination,  keeping the body  in
health,  so worry produces concretion by hindering the elimination of  waste
matter,  and  therefore  a diseased condition of the  body  follows.   Three
places in this patient's body are affected by the  saturnine  influence.  In

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 [                          BIRTH CHART NO. 13B                          ]
 [                                                                       ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Cancer 4    SUN: Aquarius 20:49      SATURN: Gemini 8:55   ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Leo 7      MOON: Scorpio 20:21      URANUS: Taurus 12:55  ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Virgo 8    MERCURY: Pisces 5:34     NEPTUNE: Pisces 14:40 ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Libra 3:29  VENUS: Pisces 4:48       DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Scorpio 0   MARS: Pisces 3:49                Taurus 17:20  ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 0   JUPITER: Aquarius 12:17  DRAGON'S TAIL:        ]
 [                                                         Scorpio 17:20 ]
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------

the first place Saturn is in the sign Gemini, which governs the lungs; he is
square Mercury, Mars, and Venus, and thus he obstructs the expulsion of car-
bonic acid and prevents the proper oxygenation of the blood.   The moon  has
particular rule over the fluids of the body.  She  is  in the latter part of


[PAGE 313]                                                         PARALYSIS

Scorpio  in conjunction with the Dragon's Tail.   Thus we may look  for  ob-
struction of the urine and for concretions in the bladder.   The sun and Ju-
piter are in Aquarius.  Uranus squares Jupiter and the moon squares the sun.
The effects of this is felt in the opposite sign Leo, which rules the heart.
The  sun is also parallel to Uranus, and therefore the heart action is  very
uncertain,  the circulation poor,  the blood poisoned and heavy  with  waste
matter  that  cannot be eliminated through the regular  channels.   So  this
clings to the walls of the arteries,  and in the course of years the  condi-
tion  known as hardening of the arteries takes place,  and the body  becomes
dry and emaciated.

   The  horoscope is the clock of destiny which marks the time when  tenden-
cies shown at birth are due to materialize.  In August,  1910,  the moon had
progressed to the conjunction of its radical place.   his configuration  ex-
cited  the moon's radical conjunction with the Dragon's Tail to  action,  as
well as her square to the radical sun and her opposition to Uranus  radical.
Thus the disease which had been prepared for during so many years took a se-
rious turn and commenced to seriously hamper the native.  In January,  1912,
the moon progressed to the opposition of Saturn radical and squared Mars and
Mercury, thus enlivening and bringing into action the condition foreshown in
the natal chart.  Mars and Mercury govern the nervous system.  Mars has rule


[PAGE 314]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

over the motor nerves and Mercury over the sensory nerves.   The above  pro-
gressed affliction obstructed the vital flow along the nerves and  paralyzed
the body.

   Jupiter was parallel to the sun's radical place during 1912-14,  and  the
conjunction of the progressed sun and Mars in January, 1914,  served to give
more energy.   These influences should have been taken on he wing.   The pa-
tient should have outdoor life, on a farm if possible,  with a diet in which
buttermilk has a large part, and above all the cultivation of a cheerful at-
titude should be forced.   This with manipulation of the spinal nerves would
probably  bring life into the paralyzed limbs and might restore a fair  mea-
sure of health under good progressed aspects.


[PAGE 315]                                                         PARALYSIS

                         NO. 13C.--FACIAL PARALYSIS

   Female, born April 13, 1912, 9:00 A.M.

   This horoscope is that of a young girl with the watery and cardinal  sign
of  Cancer on the eastern angle and with the fiery Mars in conjunction  with
the Ascendant.   Mars is square to Venus and trine to the moon, the moon be-
ing the ruler of the Ascendant.   Mars is the ruler of the 6th house,  which
has rule over the health; consequently we must look to Mars as the indicator
of health.

   Mars in Cancer afflicted by a square from Venus, and Venus in the martial
sign of Aries,  would indicate a gourmand,  one who would as a result of too
much  rich and highly seasoned food suffer from indigestion or  inflammation
of the stomach.

   Neptune in Cancer afflicted by a square from the sun and Mercury would be
apt to give nervous trouble or malnutrition.   But this young girl has  been
in  the very best of health,  with the digestive organs in  good  condition.
The conjunction of Mars with the Ascendant in Cancer and square to Venus has
had little effect upon her health.

   The birth of this child was prepared for under the purest conditions  and
in  the most careful manner.   The parents had prepared for it  even  before
conception,  for they desired to attract to birth an Ego advanced and  pure.
During all the prenatal period the mother received the  greatest  care,  and


[PAGE 316]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

the  child was loved into this physical world by advanced and pure  parents.
She was a most wonderful child--healthy, happy,  far above the average child
of her years, and superior to other children of her age in mentality.

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [                          BIRTH CHART NO. 13C                           ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Pisces 2     SUN: Aries 23:23         SATURN: Taurus 19:35  ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Aries 5     MOON: Pisces 8:22        URANUS: Aquarius 3:12 ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Taurus 20   MERCURY: Aries 26:26R    NEPTUNE: Cancer 21:02 ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Cancer 2:32  VENUS: Aries 1:21        DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Cancer 20    MARS: Cancer 4:30               Aries 21:38    ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Leo 9        JUPITER: Sagitt. 15:10R  DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
 [                                                         Libra 21:38    ]
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

   In the summer of 1922 she was taken with frequent hemorrhages of the nose
and with severe headaches.  The best physicians were consulted,  who did ev-
erything possible to locate the cause, but to no avail.   The facial muscles
of the right side began to relax,  and  facial  paralysis  finally  set  in,


[PAGE 317]                                                         PARALYSIS

greatly  disfiguring a beautiful face.  After trying every available  method
to  relieve the child,  the father and mother took her on a touring trip  to
southern California,  hoping that the sea coast and lower altitude might re-
live her, which they did to some extent.

   Having  read  the Rosicrucian  books on astrology,  and  knowing  of  our
method  of healing and diagnosing,  they visited Headquarters with the  hope
that  the writer would be able to diagnose and help them in  their  trouble.
This hope was realized.  As soon as the aura of the child was contacted, the
writer  was impelled to lay the child on her face and to run her  hand  over
the spinal column.  Although not an osteopath nor a chiropractor,  she found
irregularity in the region of the upper cervical vertebrae, also in the cen-
ter of the dorsal region.

   During this,  may we call it intuitional or spiritual, diagnosis the par-
ents  were  silently watching every move of the writer,  exchanging  glances
from  time to time.   When it was mentioned that the spinal column  was  ir-
regular,  the father spoke up,  saying, "Oh, her spine is all right."   When
asked  if she had had an adjustment,  he admitted that both he and his  wife
were  chiropractors and had practiced for almost two years.   When asked  if
they  had not both practiced on the child,  they shamefacedly admitted  that
they had, with the result that the motor nerves had been over-stimulated.


[PAGE 318]                                                   ASTRO-DIAGNOSIS

   Through  the wonderful keyboard,  the spinal column with  its  thirty-one
spinal nerves, a skillful operator can by manipulation enervate or stimulate
almost any part of the body, while an unskilled one may cause untold suffer-
ing.  Such was the case with this beautiful young girl.  The parents who had
loved  her into existence,  who would have sacrificed their very  lives  for
her,  had in ignorance played once too often on her spinal nerves,  exciting
them  to work overtime,  and after the damage had been done,  they were  not
skilled enough to know what method to use to undo the damage.

   We  take the rulers of the 10th and 4th houses to indicate  the  parents.
Neptune is the ruler of Pisces,  which is on the Midheaven,  and Mercury the
ruler of Virgo,  which is on the cusp of the 4th house.  The above two plan-
ets are squaring each other.  Mars on the Ascendant indicates accidents, in-
juries,  etc.   Mars is square to Venus in Aries,  the head.   The  cardinal
signs act upon each other.   the parts affected by squares such as from  Ar-
ies,  the head, to Cancer, the stomach, are in mutual bondage to each other.
While the nerves of the stomach may have been over-stimulated, thereby send-
ing  an excess of blood to the head causing the bleeding of the nose,  by  a
knowledge of proper adjustments a skilled osteopath or chiropractor could in
a  few treatments overcome this trouble.  The Invisible Helpers of the  Rose
Cross, by materializing a hand, can also accomplish the same thing.


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                           NO. 13D--E:  PARALYSIS

   Male, born March 25, 1876, 2:00 A.M.

   We  will use for this lesson the horoscopes of a man and woman  who  have
afflictions  in common signs,  in order to illustrate why one  patient  will
succumb to disease and become an invalid when another who has many more  af-
flicting  planets rises above them and thus becomes able to lead  an  active
and useful life.

   We  will first diagnose horoscope 13D,  where we find the common sign  of
Sagittarius on the Ascendant with the ruler, Jupiter, retrograde, and in its
own sign in the 11th house, trine to the life-giving sun,  but square to the
obstructing Saturn, which is in the sign of Pisces, another common sign.  We
find the sun making only good aspects.  The moon is square the Ascendant and
in  conjunction with the desire body Dragon's Head,  which has a  Jupiterian
influence,  sextile  to Mars and Venus, and trine to  Jupiter.   These  con-
figurations  should give much vitality and be a strong factor for health  in
this horoscope.  Now why should a man with so few afflictions have become an
invalid?

   We find only two afflictions which would be detrimental to health;  these
are  Saturn square Jupiter,  and Venus conjunction Mars in Taurus square  to
Uranus in Leo.  But with the common sign on the Ascendant  this  man's  will


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was  not strong enough to withstand the temptations shown by Venus  conjunc-
tion Mars in Taurus,  the larynx (Taurus also represents the generative  or-
gans by opposition from Scorpio), and square to Uranus.  Dissipation in food
and  drink  filled  the  blood  with impurities, which impaired the arterial

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 [                            BIRTH CHART  NO. 13D                        ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Scorpio 5      SUN: Aries 4:47         SATURN: Pisces 2:52  ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Scorpio 25    MOON: Pisces 25:58      URANUS: Leo 16:14R   ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 10    MERCURY: Pisces 11:07   NEPTUNE: Taurus 1:45 ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Sagitt. 23:36  VENUS: Taurus 16:17     DRAGON'S HEAD:       ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Aquarius 12    MARS: Taurus 18:11             Pisces 28:53  ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Aries 4        JUPITER: Sagitt. 1:54R  DRAGON'S TAIL:       ]
 [                                                          Virgo 28:53   ]
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circulation.   Saturn in a common sign,  square to Jupiter also in a  common
sign,  Sagittarius,  which has rule over the sacral region,  shows that  the
fifth lumbar nerve and the sacral nerves were obstructed in their  function.
Naturally this interfered with  the  circulation  in  that part of the body,


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causing paralysis of the lower limbs.  The common sign man naturally follows
the line of least resistance and drifts into invalidism.

   Now horoscope No. 13E, that of a woman, has the fixed sign of Leo rising,
and  Mars  is  on  the  cusp  of the Ascendant, but in this case we find the

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  [                        BIRTH CHART NO. 13E                          ]
  [                                                                     ]
  [ MIDHEAVEN: Aries 27   SUN: Libra 22:08        SATURN: Sagitt. 3:10  ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Gemini 4  MOON: Libra 12:12       URANUS: Cancer 17:26  ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 9  MERCURY: Scorpio 16:48  NEPTUNE: Aries 15:44R ]
  [ ASCENDANT: Leo 9:02   VENUS: Virgo 7:02                             ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Virgo 0    MARS: Leo 7:15                                ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 25   JUPITER: Aries 7:26R                          ]
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ruler,  the sun,  also the moon, both afflicted by the opposition of Neptune
and the square of Uranus.   Venus,  which has rule over the venous  circula-
tion,  is in the common sign of Virgo,  square to the obstructing Saturn  in
Sagittarius, the home of Jupiter, Sagittarius also ruling the sacral region.


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A  native with the dynamic Mars on the Ascendant in the fixed and  impulsive
sign of Leo is full of energy and ambition,  and would naturally use up much
strength  and  through temper and impulse dissipate much  of  her  vitality.
With the circulation restricted in the sacral region by Saturn,  why  should
this  woman not suffer with conditions similar to those of the man in  horo-
scope No. 13D?

   In  the man's horoscope we find conditions indicating a phlegmatic,  men-
tally  lazy  person.   With moon and Mercury in conjunction  in  Pisces  and
sextile to Venus and Mars,  and with Jupiter trine sun,  everything came  to
him without any great effort.  Especially was he drawn to 5th, 7th, and 10th
house people--musical,  theatrical people and movie actors, who led him into
a life of pleasure.   We find the woman in horoscope No.  3E with plenty  of
will and ambition, whose desire to heal and help humanity led her to take up
the  medical profession.   But she had a constant fight to keep  her  joints
from  becoming stiff and sore.   With Saturn obstructing the circulation  in
the sacral region she suffered greatly with granulated joints of the  shoul-
ders,  hips and feet.   Venus or Jupiter afflicted from common signs gives a
tendency to paralysis of the limbs,  but with a fixed sign on the  Ascendant
the  native will not succumb.   Therefore i is most necessary at  all  times
when diagnosing a disease to observe the rising sign and the aspects of  the
sun, moon, and the ruler of the Ascendant.

   One who suffers from such  afflictions as the above should make an effort


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to  keep the circulation normal by eating very lightly of plain food,  exer-
cising plentifully,  and with a pair of bath mitts rubbing the limbs briskly
morning and night.  This will often avert a case of paralysis.

                        NO. 13F.--INFANTILE PARALYSIS

   Male, born July 7, 1908, 2:00 A.M.

   We  will here examine the sympathetic aspects of planets in the  cardinal
signs.  We find in this horoscope a most interesting lesson illustrating the
sympathy and antipathy of the planets when placed in signs which are  square
or in opposition to each other.

   The horoscope of this young man has the common sign of Gemini on the  As-
cendant,  with Mercury, Venus, Neptune, the sun, Mars, and the Dragon's Head
all  in Cancer,  the sign which has rule over the stomach.   Four  of  these
planets,  namely,  Mercury, Venus, Neptune, and the sun are in opposition to
Uranus  and square to Saturn.   The sun is parallel to Uranus  and  Neptune;
Neptune,  Uranus,  and the sun are square to the moon in Libra  in  the  6th
house.


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   From our first observation we might diagnose this case as one of  stomach
trouble,  for with Venus in conjunction with Mercury,  Neptune,  and the sun
afflicted  in Cancer we may expect poor digestion.   When Neptune is one  of
the afflictors, especially when  it in turn is afflicted by Saturn, there is

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[                          BIRTH CHART NO. 13F                             ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Aquarius 11  SUN: Cancer 14:50       SATURN: Aries 10:00      ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Pisces 10   MOON: Libra 21:22       URANUS: Capricorn 14:55R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Aries 20    MERCURY: Cancer 10:59R  NEPTUNE: Cancer 14:37    ]
[ ASCENDANT: Gemini 4:14  VENUS: Cancer 12:51R    DRAGON'S HEAD:           ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Gemini 28    MARS: Cancer 29:32             Cancer 4:30       ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Cancer 19    JUPITER: Leo 15:40      DRAGON'S TAIL:           ]
[                                                        Capricorn 4:30    ]
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a tendency to underdevelopment; the organs affected are often undersized and
Misshapen.   With Saturn square Neptune and Uranus, Uranus being in the sign
of  Capricorn  which is in opposition to the sign ruling the  stomach,  this
child could not digest its food,  which  was  often  found  in  the stool in


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pieces.  The parents, being ignorant of the cause of the condition, were in-
dulgent and permitted him at the age of two years to eat whatever he craved;
as a small child he was given solid food to eat.

   With Neptune in the sign of the stomach, square Saturn, and in opposition
to  Uranus,  the tiny glands which secrete the gastric juice of the  stomach
and  which are so necessary to furnish the lubricating mucus as well as  the
digestive  fluid,  were  lacking in vitality and  prone  to  function  spas-
modically;  for Uranus causes spasmodic action, Saturn sluggish action,  and
Neptune  undersize or abnormal functioning.  Therefore we would expect  that
the blood in this case would not receive due nourishment from the food.  The
body,  as a result, would be deprived of the elements necessary for nourish-
ment.

   The  damage  in  such cases generally materializes where  the  planet  is
placed  which has the most evil aspects.   Here we find Uranus in  Capricorn
making several adverse aspects as noted above.   Uranus is receiving no help
whatever from other planets;  therefore naturally we may expect the place of
such  an  afflicted planet to be the focusing point of the  vicious  circle.
Capricorn has rule over the legs and joints, especially the knee joints.  At
the  age of two years this boy was afflicted with what the doctors call  in-
fantile paralysis, which caused him to lose the use of his feet.   Infantile
paralysis is a disease which is diagnosed by the doctors as inflammation  of
the gray matter of the spinal cord but this  has  not  been proven.  Some of


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them are in doubt about this, and are seeking for another cause.

   No two children have the same effects from this infantile disease.   From
an astrological standpoint no two who are afflicted with it have exactly the
same planetary afflictions nor necessarily the same rising sign.  The writer
has found in seven horoscopes of children afflicted with it that Neptune has
been  the  chief afflicter in each case.  As stated in THE  MESSAGE  OF  THE
STARS,  Neptune has rule over the spinal fluids and the pineal gland, and it
depends  upon the planet which is afflicting Neptune as to how  the  disease
expresses itself.   This naturally baffles the doctors,  and they are unable
to explain why one child is left with one paralyzed leg,  another with  both
legs and arms paralyzed,  and still another with one side entirely  useless.
But the planets tell he reason for this diversity of outward expression.

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