                      ASTROLOGICAL  KEYWORD  SYSTEM

                                   OF

                    ANALYZING  CHARACTER  AND  DESTINY


                                   BY

                                  J.D.





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                             INTRODUCTION



   The system herein set forth is an analytical method of reading the 
horoscopical chart. It is developed along the lines indicated by Max Heindel 
in THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS, pages 405-408. It consists simply in combining 
the keywords of the planets, signs, and houses to form key-phrases, key-
sentences, and key-paragraphs; then the final summing up of these to arrive at 
a composite judgment.

   By this method anyone can read the messaage of a chart in a fairly 
intelligent manner. There has been an idea in the past that a high degree of 
intuition was necessary before one could hope to do this. But this idea has 
largely been disproved. Anyone who can combine simple elements and reason from 
cause to effect can combine the keywords in a chart to ascertain at least the 
essential part of its message. Reference to dignities, exaltations, 
retrogradation, interception, and other minor factors is omitted, as only the 
advanced student needs to consider them.




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   Steps Nos. 1 to 9 inclusive are preliminary and analytical in character to 
show the student the reasoning which must be done, consciously or  
subconsciously, before the summation in Step No. 10 is possible. With 
practice, however, the students will arrive at the point where they will be 
able to omit the first nine steps and give the net result of No. 10 without 
this preliminary work.

   1.--Determine the nature of the aspect, harmonious or inharmonious in the 
one case indicating that good judgment is used, and in the other that the 
person goes to extremes in the activities indicated by the aspect.

   2.--Look up the keywords of the two planets entering into the aspect. There 
are three sets. The basic keywords apply in all cases. The positive qualities 
are used in addition to the basic keywords with harmonious aspects. The 
negative qualities are used in addition to the basic keywords with 
inharmonious aspects. The word "negative" is here used to denote the results 
of these qualities rather than the qualities themselves.

   3.--Ascertain the keywords for the two signs containing the two planets. 
The positive qualities of the sign are used in addition to its basic keywords 
when the planet in it is in good aspect. The negative qualities of the sign 
are used with the basic keywords when the planet is adversely aspected.

   4.--Combine the keywords of each planet with the keywords of the sign in 
which it is placed to determine the corresponding type of character. 






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   5.--Combine the keywords of the two planets by themselves, taking into 
account the aspect, harmonious or inharmonious, indicating whether the 
qualities of the two planets will work together or in opposition to each 
other, to determine the character as given by the aspect in the abstract.

   6.--Ascertain the keywords for the two houses containing the two planets.

   7.--Combine the keywords of each planet with the keywords of the house in 
which it is placed, leaving out of consideration temporarily the aspect in 
order to determine the planetary influence in the house.

   8.--Consider the action of the affairs of one house upon the affairs of the 
the other as brought about by the aspect between the two planets; that is, a 
harmonious aspect will enable the affairs of one house to reinforce those of 
the other, and an inharmonious aspect will cause the affairs of one house to 
detract from those of the other.

   9.--Consider the reaction of the affairs of the second of the two houses 
upon those of the first, following the method indicated in No. 8. 

   10.--Correlate and balance all the elements above mentioned into one 
composite judgment which will express in everyday language the net results 
without any reference to aspects of other astrological elements. 

   11.--When reading an entire horoscope, correlate and balance similarly the 
effects of all the planets, house and sign positions, and aspects. 

   (See page 13 for example of method of reading an aspect.)






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                         NATURE OF THE SIGN 


Cardinal signs--Initiative, activity
Fixed Signs--Stability
Common Signs--Flexibility 
Fire Signs--Spiritual power, impulse
Earth Signs--Materialism
Air Signs--Intellectuality
Water Signs--Spiritual and psychic qualities, emotion



                        KEYWORDS OF THE SIGNS


                               ARIES


BASIC--Self-esteem, iniative, pioneering.
POSITIVE--Ambition, courage, enterprise.
NEGATIVE--Self-will, temper, brusqueness, overbearance.


                               TAURUS


BASIC--Determination, interest in mundane affairs.
POSITIVE--Endurance, thoroughness, conservatism, harmony.
NEGATIVE--Obstinacy, argumentativeness.



                               GEMINI



BASIC--Intellectuality, literary affairs, work with hands, dualism.
POSITIVE--Versatility.
NEGATIVE--Changeability, indecision, superficiality.



                               CANCER


BASIC--Love of home, capacity for home building, impressionability.
POSITIVE--Sympathy, sensitiveness, artistry.
NEGATIVE--Clannishness, timidity, restlessness, indolence.








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                                 LEO



BASIC--Vitality, authority.
POSITIVE--Affection, nobility, generosity, loyalty, dignity, leadership.
NEGATIVE--Arrogance, autocracy, cruelty, overbearing, vanity, 
          ostentatiousness.



                                VIRGO


BASIC--Service, mentality.
POSITIVE--Discrimination, analysis, studiousness, hygienics, purity.
NEGATIVE--Criticism, cynicism, introspection, fear of disease.



                                LIBRA



BASIC--Capacity for partnership, art.
POSITIVE--Balance, justice, courtesy, hopefulness, artistic ability.
NEGATIVE--Indecision, lack of poise, emotional fluctuation.



                               SCORPIO



BASIC--Secret forces of nature, sex, healing power, military affairs, surgery, 
       magic.
POSITIVE--Regeneration, courgae, resourcefulness, ability for secret 
          investigations.
NEGATIVE--Discord, misuse of sex, passion, temper, willfulness, 
          vindictiveness, jealousy.



                              SAGITTARIUS



BASIC--Aspiration, idealism, orthodox religion, philosophy, law.







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POSITIVE--Generosity, love of out-door life and athletics.
NEGATIVE--Over-confidence, dogmatism, fanaticism.



                                 CAPRICORN


BASIC--Position, honors, ambition.
POSITIVE--justice, organization, caution, economy, authority.
NEGATIVE--Pride, suspicion, resentfulness, pessimism, unofrgiveness, justice 
          without mercy.




                                 AQUARIUS


BASIC--Humanitarianism, science, new systems, corporations, universality, 
       universal friendship.
POSITIVE--Progressiveness, cooperation, diplomacy.
NEGATIVE--Impracticableness, undervaluation of personal friendship, 
          dictatorship.



                                  PISCES



BASIC--Sensitiveness to superphysical influences, sense of unity with all 
       life, mysticism, ripe destiny.
POSITIVE--Intuitiveness, inspiration, compassion, renunciation.
NEGATIVE--Psychic negativeness, introspection, lack of confidence, 
          secretiveness, procrastination, sorrow.




                         KEYWORDS OF THE PLANETS



                                 THE SUN



BASIC--Individuality, what one really is, vitality, will, chief ambitions, 
       those in authorty, men.
POSITIVE--Generosity, dignity.
NEGATIVE--Despotism, arrogance, ostentation, lack of ambition, animalistic 
          qualities.




                                 THE MOON



BASIC--Personality, imagination, instinctual mind, emotions, change, 
       fecundation, the people, women.
POSITIVE--Positive psychic qualities, personal magnetism.
NEGATIVE--Negativeness, visionariness, dreaming, vacillation, frivolity, 
          fretfulness, procrastination, indecision, incorrect impressions.



                                 MERCURY



BASIC--Reason; self-expression of all kinds; speaking, writing, gestures; 
       knowledge through reason.
POSITIVE--Quick-wittedness, eloquence, literary ability, dexterity.
NEGATIVE--Restlessness, gossip, profanity, demagogy, dishonesty, deceit, 
          nervousness, worry, indecision, forgetfulness, clumsiness.




                                 VENUS



BASIC--Attaction, cohesion, coalition, personal love, social instincts and 
       activities, art, ornamentation, beauty.

POSITIVE--Harmony, artistic ability, cheerfulness, suavity.
NEGATIVE--Sensuality, dissoluteness, vulgarity, sloth, laziness, 
          sentimentality, vanity, inconstancy.






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                                 MARS



BASIC--Dynamic energy.
POSITIVE--Constructiveness, courage, enterprise, enthusiasm, gallantry.
NEGATIVE--Combativeness, friction, temper, destructiveness, apssion, 
          lustfulness, impulsiveness, audacity, coarseness, egotism.



                               JUPITER



BASIC--Expansion, vision, optimism, ideation, orthodox religious tendencies.
POSITIVE--Benevolence, braod-mindedness, executive ability, legal ability, 
          respect for law, honor, charity, reverence, conservatism, opulence, 
          popularity, success.
NEGATIVE--Overconfidence, extravagance, indolence, prodigality, showiness, 
          bombast, dissipation, sportiness, lawlessness, procrastination.



                               SATURN



BASIC--Contraction, persistence, caution.
POSITIVE--Faithfulness, stability, concentration, analysis system, building 
          qaulities, tact, diplomacy, justice, thrift, economy, deliberation, 
          conservatism, endurance, discipline.
NEGATIVE--Crystallization, obstruction, selfishness, slowness, fearfulness, 
          limitation, materialism, melancholy, pessimism, avarice, 
          secretiveness, suspicion, severity, cynicism.




                               URANUS



BASIC--The Awakener; altruism, inventiveness, originality, sudden action, 
       unconventionality.







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POSITIVE--Progressiveness, universality, universal love of humanity, 
          impersonality, independence, love of liberty, romance, intuition.
NEGATIVE--Eccentricity, spasmodic action, bohemianism, fanaticism, 
          irresponsibility, licentiousness, anarchy.




                                 NEPTUNE



BASIC--Superphysical entities of all degrees and impressions from them. 
       Divinity, occultism, knowledge from sources above reason, viz.,
       superphysical beings.
POSITIVE--Spirituality, intuition, inspiration, clairvoyance, prophecy, 
          devotion, music.
NEGATIVE--Delusions, chaotic mental conditions, morbidity, fraud, incoherence, 
          deception, dishonesty, mediumship.




                                 PLUTO



BASIC--Renewing, enlivening, breaking open, germinating, erupting, 
       reorganizing, provoking, transition.
POSITIVE--Regeneration, transmutation, positive clairvoyance, revivification, 
          universal welfare, motivation to strive for spiritual power.
NEGATIVE--Force, defiance, death, destruction, fanaticism, struggle, 
          sensuality, regimentation, underworld, black magic, decomposition.




                       KEYWORDS OF THE HOUSES



1st.--Beginnings, early environment, personality, physical body.
2nd.--Finance, freedom given by money.
3rd.--Lower mind and speaking, short journeys, brothers and sisters.






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4th.--The home, the mother, conditions at end of life, lands, and mines.
5th.--Pleasure, education, children, publications, specualation.
6th.--Servicem, relations with employers and employees, health and sickness.
7th.--Partnership, marriage, the public.
8th.--Legacies, cause of death, occult tragedy, regeneration.
9th.--Higher mind, religion, law, long journeys.
10th.--Profession, standing in community, the father.
11th.--Friends, hopes, and wishes.
12th.--Paying debts of destiny, limitations, institutions for care of 
       unfortunates, secrecy, mysticism.




                             KEYWORDS OF ASPECTS



   The keyword of an aspect is usually a VERB DENOTING ACTION which connects 
the affairs ruled by oneplanet, its sign and house, with the affairs ruled by 
the other planet and its sign and house.

   The keywords of the sextile and trine are verbs which express 
reinforcement, assistance, and cooperation. 

   The keywords of the square are verbs which express obstruction, inharmony, 
or detraction. 

   The keywords of the opposition in the case of the average person are 
similar to those of the square. The opposition, however, usually brings into 
play the two directly opposite signs of the zodiac, which constitute the two 
poles of one department of nature. Therefore these two signs have a certain 
affinity between them which tends to reduce the inharmony of the opposition 







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and make it less than that of the square. For instance, Leo represents the 
personal love for one's one children; Aquarius represents the impersoanl, 
universal, altruistic love for the children of all people, namely, humanity. 
Therefore the opposition of Jupiter in Leo to the Sun in Aquarius, for 
example, is not as inharmonious as the square between Jupiter in Leo and the 
Sun in Scorpio, the sign of militarism and force. In the case of advanced egos 
the opposition may become an aspect of great power.

   The keywords of the conjunction are the same as those for the trine or the 
square depending respectively on whether the conjunction is harmonious or 
inharmonious. For information as to the harmony and inharmony of conjunctions 
see SIMPLIFIED SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY, pp. 98-99.





                             GENERAL NOTES 



Planets represent the driving forces.

Signs represent the static forces which color and modify the influence of the 
planets.

Planets in signs indicate the character and inner capacities.

Planets in houses give the circumstantial details of the life.

The aspects indicate harmony or disharmony between the planetary influences. 





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KEY TO THE CHART:

   Astrology is a science of probabilities. Any aspect, position, or 
configuration may represent any one of a number of possibilities, and the only 
way to get a reasonable line on which one of these will develop is first to 
ascertain the key to the chart as a whole. The key is usually found in some 
strong group of planets or in the ruling planet. For instance, if a person has 
the 12th house occupied by two or three of the strong planets, we know that he 
is more or less of the mystical type and therefore, he will be interested in 
the mystical aspect of life. Then, since he is mystically inclined, if in the 
same chart there are planets in the 8th house, which rules legacies and also 
latent occult ability and regeneration, we judge that the native will be more 
interested in the two latter matters than in legaices of money or property, 
and that legacies therefore will play a comparatively unimportant part in his 
life even if he should receive any.




NO EVIL IN PLANETARY VIBRATIONS:

   There is no evil in any planet. The only evil that may result from 
planetary vibrations comes from out misuse of them or our inability to control 
them. Any planet emots exactly the same vibrations at all times. But the 
square between two planets tends to incite to excess in the use of these 






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vibrations and to carry activities that come under their influence to such an 
extreme that they become evil.




              EXAMPLE OF THE METHOD OF READING AN ASPECT 



The Sun in Capricorn in the 7th House, Sextile to Saturn in Scorpio in the 5th 
House:



                               STEPS 



   1.--The sextile aspect is harmonious indicating that the native uses good 
judgment in all matters ruled by this aspect.

   2.--The keywords of the sun may be found on page 6 and the keywords of 
Saturn on page 8. Use the basic and positive keywords in both cases.

   3.--The keywords of Scorpio and Capricorn will be found on pasges 5 and 6. 
Use the basic and positive keywords in both cases.
   
   4.--Sun in Capricorn:
      Justice (Capricorn) belnded with generosity (Sun). Ambition (Sun) for 
   position and honor (Capricorn). 
 
   Saturn in Scorpio: 
   Persistence and concentration (Saturn) in investigating the secret forces 
   of nature (Scorpio) such as those of chemistry or occultism.
   Conservative (Saturn) in methods of healing (Scorpio).

   5.--The Sun sextile Saturn:
   Diplomacy and tact (Saturn) in all dealings with men (Sun).







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   Capability of effort (Sun) sustained (Saturn) over a long period.

   6.--The keywords of the 5th and 7th houses may be found on page 10.
  
   7.--The Sun in the 7th house:
   The main ambitions of the life (Sun) are in connection withg partnerships 
   (7th) and the public or some form of publicity (7th).
   Gives a generaous, virile (Sun) marriage partner (7th).

   Saturn in the 5th house:
   Conservative (Saturn) in educational methods (5th), also in investments 
   (5th).  
   System (Saturn) in publishing matters (5th).
   Few (Saturn) children (5th).
   Serious (Saturn) in pleasures (5th).

   8.--Action of the 5th house affairs upon those of the 7th, using the 
   Sevenfold combination of Keywords:

   here we have seven keywords to combine into a key sentence or paragraph. 
   These keywords are those of the Sun, Saturn, Capricorn, Scorpio, 5th house, 
   7th house, and the sextile.
   Through persistence and diplomacy (Saturn) the native has the capacity to 
   succeed in publishing (5th) articles or books on chemistry or occult 
   philosophy (Scorpio) or some other branch of science. These books would 
   bring (sextile) him publicity (7th), gain (sextile) him the confidence of 
   men in authority (Sun), and enhance (sextile) his position in the world 
   (Capricorn).






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   9.--Reaction of the 7th house affairs upon thos of the 5th, using the 
   Sevenfold Combination of keywords:

   Partnerships (7th) are likely to be formed with those in authority (Sun), 
   and through them the native rises in position and power (Capriocorn). The 
   resulting publicity (7th) would help (sextile) him to sell the books he had 
   published (5th), and through his thrift (Saturn) he would conserve the 
   income from his books (5th). He would thus be enabled to start an 
   educational system (5th) devoted to some of the secret science (Scorpio) or 
   to healing (Scorpio) through the power of concentration (Saturn).

   10.--Summation in non-technical language:

Character of the Native:

   The individual has a strong, stable character so far as this aspect goes. 
He is worthy of trust, commands the confidence of men, and is capable of 
holding positions of responsibility, in which he will use diplomacy and be 
faithful to his trust. he is patient, persisten, and capable of sustained 
effort in any chosen line of endeavor. H e is generous to a certain degree 
but prudence rules his generosity. He has an ambition to rise in the world. he 
has a liking for the secret sciences and the ability to investigate them by 
analytical means. He is conservative ij his business methods and has good 
judgment in the matter of investments. He is serious in his pleasures.






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   He will gain the confidence of men in positions of prominence, who will 
perceive his ability and help him to rise to places of authority and trust. 
His rise will be slow but steady. He should be successful in entering into 
partnerships which will promote his material interests. He has the possibility 
of succeeding in the field of publications, educational work, or the 
investment field. He may specialize in or make any one of these his major 
work. He will obtain throughout his life a considerable amount of favorable 
publicity as the result of the above conditions. He should be successful in 
marriage, and will probably marry a woman of the vital, commanding type who is 
also ambitious for material success. He will have few children, they will, 
however, be well brought up, but subjected to considerable discipline.

   As indicated on page 1, the preliminary analysis of Steps Nos. 1 to 9, 
inclusive, may be omitted after sufficient practice, and the net result of 
Step No. 10 given at once.



                          ALTERNATE METHOD



   An abbreviated method which, however, does not give as complete results as 
the above, is merely to select a keyword for each of the planets, signs, and 
houses involved and also one for the aspect. Then combine these into a 
sentence that indicates a plausible, reasonable deduction. By using different 
keywords several such sentences may be made, each indicating some possible 
aspect or phase of the life. This is in reality an expansion of Step No. 8, 
omitting all the other steps.





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