INTRODUCTION

Following is your personal copy of the Classic British Horoscope. At the height of the British Empire, certain men and women, who were educated and intelligent, began to redeem astrology from the disrepute of its superstitious past. In March 1880, Richard Garnett, a wide-ranging author and scholar, who was a librarian at the British Museum, writing under the anagram pen name of A.G. Trent, published an article titled The Soul and the Stars, giving the details and positive results of his astrological study into the charts of historical persons afflicted with insanity (see his E.B. 1911 bio). He wrote, quite sensibly, that we "fully admit that astral science is incompetent to explain the divergences of human constitution and character without a free use of the doctrine of heredity. Our contention is that the two theories complete each other, the latter accounting for the element of stability, the former for the element of variability." He went on to say, "We have appealed throughout to the testimony of facts of history and biography, partly astronomical observations derived from no more recondite source than the ordinary ephemeris. Any one can verify or disprove these observations in a moment by the same process; any one who will be at the trouble to search for examples can investigate the subject for himself." Although they had to protect their careers by writing under pen names, an increasing number of courageous and pioneering men and women did just that. The labor of a century of workers has been to learn how to read horoscopes in an accurate manner. A major step in this direction came with Alan Leo's 1911 publication of *A Thousand and One Notable Nativities*. The best classic astrology writers clearly spent hours and hours poring over the planet positions of the subjects in this book, learning how to read their charts by synthesizing the placements and patterns of the planets. The answer as to why astrology revived first in Great Britain must lie in the prosperity of the nation at that time - with their basic needs met, individuals had the leisure time and resources to devote to understanding the human condition. During the same historical period, pioneers elsewhere, notably in Vienna, had discovered and were studying the unconscious mind from the psychoanalytic point of view. This horoscope draws upon the following interpretations: Alan Leo: Rising sign interpretations and planets conjunct the Ascendant. Sepharial: Planets in the houses. Evangeline Adams: Planets in the signs. Charles E.O. Carter: Aspects between the planets. John Halloran: Pluto in the signs and houses, aspects to Pluto.

As you read your horoscope, you will note that the classic interpretations tend to deal more with external forms and events than do the increasingly psychological and theoretical interpretations of more recent astrology. They are also not evasive about the planetary placements and aspects which produce trauma and difficulty. Most of us are affected deeply by events throughout the course of our lives. And it tends to be negative experiences that send people in search of astrological guidance. Perhaps one of the finest services that an astrologer can perform for a client is to offer an explanation of a traumatic occurrence, an explanation which challenges the politically correct view that misfortune 'just happens'. The interpretations of the Planets in the Signs are the most different from what you will find in a typical brief cookbook-style delineation. But in addition to the thoroughness of these well-written delineations, the discussion of example charts of historical figures who had that planet-sign position teach us how the famous Evangeline Adams actually combined the planets in a chart to arrive at an overall synthesis. This is a valuable skill to learn. To allow AstrolDeluxe program users to look at the charts of the historical figures discussed, I made sure that they are all included, usually with good birth times, in Halloran Software's Famous Charts collection. The data-collection process which Alan Leo began in 1911 with his publication in England of *1001 Notable Nativities* flowered with the thorough, careful work of the late Lois M. Rodden, assisted by members of ISAR and many astrological professionals. Now students in every corner of the earth can spend the quality time needed to learn astrology by easily looking at the relations between planets in a variety of accurate charts and comparing them to known biographies. I have edited and polished these interpretations, so that they are now different from the originals. In some cases, the astrology pioneers had the wrong birth or chart information for the historical figure. And it was fascinating to see how elements of a subject's life sometimes mystified the astrologer who did not yet have access to information about the planet Pluto, discovered in 1930. In all cases, Pluto completed the interpretation. These astrologers also did not know about aspect pattern focus planets, the interpretation of which Halloran Software has pioneered. When important to the understanding of an historical figure's chart, I have edited the discussion to make it complete.

The Classic horoscope template instructs the astrology program to consider a previous house planet to be in the next house if the planet is within four degrees of the house cusp. The interpretation for a planet in a house applies more strongly when the planet is near the house cusp. If the interpretation does not seem to apply, visual examination of the chart will usually show that while the planet is in that house, it is more towards the house's middle or end degrees, away from the cusp. Note that reports for unknown birth times are shorter because they omit readings for the rising sign or for house placements. A "Strength" number precedes each aspect interpretation towards the end of the reading. This number synthesizes how exact is the aspect, whether the aspect is major or minor, and whether an aspecting planet is close to one of the four chart angles. The higher the Strength, the more you are likely to feel the aspect and to live it out in your life. I envision the Classic British Horoscope as the first of many natal interpretation reports to work with the Astrology for Windows program, which is a free internet download. I enjoyed researching biographies and writing the Pluto interpretations. Halloran Software's Famous Charts collection of 5,000 charts, assisted by the search features in AstrolDeluxe, especially the new By Dominant search, helped to identify famous individuals with relevant biographies. Previously, I spent a gratifying nine months researching and writing a set of 392 interpretations for the Halloran Aspect Patterns report, that works with AstrolDeluxe. If you have your own ideas about what should be in a horoscope report, you can open the classic.hro natal file, or the soultran.hro transits file, with a text editor like Windows Notepad and save it to a different name, such as allmine.hro, and then make all the substitutions that you want. Afterward, you can select to use your new file at Customization, Horoscope Report Options. It costs you nothing to do this. Your text can even be in a different world language. You can then decide whether to keep the resulting interpretations exclusively for your own use, to share them, or to let Halloran Software pay you for permission to encrypt your interpretations and sell them to registered program users.

Horoscope for Current Transits PLACEMENTS Rising Sign

Libra Ascendant Libra was rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element air and to the cardinal or movable quality. This gives you a courteous, gentle, affable and kind disposition. Your feelings and affections are strongly developed and are likely to play an important part in your life. You are able to make many friends; you associate easily with other people; the social side of your nature is active and your growth will best be served by cultivating it wisely. You will be less fortunate if you live alone or dissociate yourself from others. You have a refined mind, are fond of beauty and orderliness, with a taste for music or painting. Your surroundings influence you very much and you are not happy unless they are neat, elegant and harmonious. Your mind is susceptible of considerable cultivation especially in connection with the more imaginative and idealistic subjects; but you have more intuition than reason, and emotion and affection are more to you than cold intellect. You are rather fickle and changeable, your likes and dislikes vary a good deal, and your ideas change with your moods. You are not quite constant either to persons or to ideas, and you are likely to experience many changes in your life. Companionship, friendship, partnership, association, and marriage are the keynotes of your nature, and you will not attain to your fullest possibilities without them. Venus is the planet ruling the sign Libra.

Sun
The Sun stands for the individuality, just as the Moon expresses the personality. It also governs the constitution and is the Life force and backbone of the whole system. Where the Sun is strong by position of aspects, it gives strength of character, a powerful will and a vigorous constitution, all of which contribute toward making the life successful. Where the Sun is weak, there is danger of short life or one broken by spells of illness or much misfortune. It cannot be too strongly emphasized that an analysis of the meaning of every factor in Astrology is dependent upon its relation to every other factor. For instance, the Sun in each sign has a certain definite influence which it invariably exerts, but that influence, thus exerted, is combined with every other influence of the Sun in its house position and in its aspects, as well as in reference to the ascending sign and other planetary positions and aspects. Thus, it is from the sum of the forces and not from each one of them separately judged, that an analysis is made. The reader should remember, therefore, that to read the analysis of the Sun in the signs as it follows, as an analysis verbatim of the solar position in a nativity, to read it except as one of the forces of a nativity to be united, accentuated or modified by the other factors involved, is not scientific astrology and will not give a true interpretation. The statements true in themselves, must be united intellectually, in each particular nativity, with other particular factors of that nativity; and then, and only then, are the peculiarities of individual instances described. Sun in Scorpio The Sun in Scorpio, the house of death, is very strong, but the native is very likely to suffer violence. It is quite frequently found that people with this position suffer from diseases which bring them to a premature end, as for example R.L. Stevenson and Stephen T. Crane, or, when badly aspected, they may meet a violent death like Marie Antoinette, President Garfield and Stanford White. This is physically the most magnetic sign in the Zodiac. There are three main types, classed respectively under eagle, serpent, and scorpion. But in every case, an extremely forceful and dominating personality is to be expected. With even the best types, the appearance is often somewhat austere. Tremendous will-power is evident in every line of the countenance,, which is frequently what conventional people call ugly and occasionally this native bears scars. This rather formidable appearance is, however, frequently combined with a kindly disposition. However dark and forbidding may be the countenance, the nature has yet the fascination of the serpent.

The native is easily aroused to anger, and makes a most dangerous enemy, for he cannot be trusted to fight fair, as with Leo, but will take any means in his power to injure his antagonist; nor is he held back by any feeling of pity, but will go on to the bitter end. Occasionally, this is so pronounced as to cause actual defect in the fighting quality. But it is doubtful if any sign in the Zodiac illustrates so markedly the contrast between the spiritually awakened soul and its opposite. Crafty and cunning, with intense passions and jealousies and with a vindictiveness which will wreak insatiable revenges, the Scorpio native becomes, under higher impulses, indefatigable in his desire to help mankind, and his coldness and insensibility to the sufferings of others is transmuted into devotion and self-sacrifice. The coolness of demeanor and stern sense of justice and integrity, together with uncontrollable desire for freedom, may degenerate into harshness, selfishness and discontent, or blossom into efficiency, sympathy and true generosity. Where the Sun is fairly well aspected and Mars is free from affliction, the constitution is extraordinarily strong; the resisting power is greater than with any other sign. The native is capable of infinite hard work and is most dogged, persevering and tenacious in carrying out his plans. He does not, however, go at them like a bull at a gate. He is always exercising his intelligence to outmaneuver his opponent. Where Scorpio assumes the eagle type, the noblest qualities of Mars and the Sun are found combined, and there is a certain, subtlety and intellectuality about them which come more from the nature of the sign itself than from either of the planets. There is no better sign in the Zodiac for commanding success, but this success nearly always comes through bitter fighting. There is a strong tendency to science and all other branches of life which demand the blending of the two qualities, energy and subtlety. Provided that the Sun is strengthened by some good aspects, it is as favorable a position as could be wished for him. At the same time, the student must never forget to expect something secret and sinister in the nature. Scorpio rules the glands of the pelvis and, from its opposition to Taurus, often affects the corresponding parts in the neck and throat, but its most special signification is in connection with the organs of reproduction. Scorpio is particularly to be feared in the recurrence of Cancer after operations, for such secondary growths are usually glandular and such diseases are more dangerous than ordinary local afflictions of the reproductive organs. Sun in the First House Gives honor and success. A proud disposition; frank, outspoken, generous; despising cliques and coteries; independent and firm. It also gives a love of display and publicity, accompanied by high motives.

Moon
The Moon has to do largely with personality, just as the Sun has to do with individuality. The sign in which the Moon is placed describes the type of the personality, showing its variety and quality just as the Sun shows the type and quality of the individuality. As the personality is the intimate and more immediate expression of the temperament and measures the quality and power of sense impression, and therefore the scope and precision of the mental forces, it indirectly determines what we might call the fluid of being. Moreover, as both mental and emotional forces depend first upon sense impression, and since personality is that singular union of the mental and the emotional, it follows that the Moon's position is the focal point wherein sense, mind, and emotion meet in the formation of character. The Moon largely determines the kind of life and activity with which the average human being meets life day by day. Moon in Virgo The general influence of the sign Virgo upon the Moon is to accentuate her coldness and to develop the mental qualities very much as in the case of Gemini, but the restlessness of that sign is replaced by a great steadiness and wholehearted practicality. There is usually a good deal of materiality akin to pragmatism in the general tendency of the mind. The native does not, as a rule, value knowledge for its own sake, but, immediately on acquiring it, asks how it may be used. We have in this sign, many examples of the most eminent and practical minds: Edward VII, Paul Kruger, Lord Brougham, Cromwell, the late J. Pierpont Morgan, Winston Churchill (cusp with Leo), Joseph P. Kennedy, and Sainte Beuve being all good examples of the way in which the acquisitions of the mind are immediately put to service. Aspects from Mercury and Saturn obviously tend to increase the abstract power. This point is exemplified by a consideration of the Moon of Tolstoi, whose mind was decidedly lacking in practicality. Mercury and the Moon are only two degrees from conjunction, Mercury in his own house being evidently stronger than the Moon. Therefore, the influence of Mercury gives an additional touch of his nature to the Moon, thus causing her to act more as if she were in Gemini than in Virgo. The native is very fastidious with regard to his impressions, analyzing and criticizing them with extreme care. He is genuinely anxious to acquire knowledge, but entertains strong prejudices. He has, however, a keen sense of truth, and is, generally speaking, ready to face facts.

Women born with the Moon in this sign are usually cold-blooded and ambitious, as was the case with Cleo de Merode. There is a certain lack of romantic sentiment, a calculating cleverness in their attitude toward men, which is repugnant to the average emotional man. Such women are generally good in the practical affairs of managing the home, but they are not likely to contribute very largely to its happiness. The women who influence them are usually very clever or intellectual and are rarely jealous of them. The women associated with men who have the Moon in this sign will, as a rule, be rather of this same type. Generally speaking, their influence upon the man will not be very strong in a sentimental way, although they may admire their practicality and common sense. Mothers having children with the Moon in Virgo should endeavor to be more affectionate or personal in their attitude toward them; they may display efficiency and common sense in their dealings with such children, but are inclined to call attention to faults which may later in life develop into virtues. Moon in the Twelfth House Female enemies; many secrets touching the native; danger of restraint or enforced retirement; love of mystery; fanciful fears; success in isolated positions and remote corners; voyages.

Mercury
Mercury is the most truly sensitive of all the planets. Venus and the Moon are more easily affected, it is true, but for them a better term is "impressionable." Mercury is the adolescent; he responds to every impression like the weathervane, which is a very different thing from the reception and reflection of every impression. In slightly different language, Mercury is not modified by the signs as are the more passive planets; rather each excites him to give a special expression of opinion. Mercury is, as we know, the mind; and while the contents of the mind are determined by the food of the mind, yet different minds deal quite differently with identical foods. It has been said that thousands of people before Newton saw apples fall from trees, but their only impulse was to eat them. The proper and best influence upon Mercury is Saturn, and without his steadying hand to hold him in tutorship to a profounder wisdom, Mercury may be frivolous and vain. It is only when Mercury is overpowered by Venus that the mental qualities become subservient and slavish, so that one may say of the native "he has no mind of his own." There is, however, always the safeguard of the proximity of the Sun, especially when the conjunction is not too close.

Mercury in Scorpio In Scorpio Mercury is "quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword." No other position so thoroughly accentuates the fierce acuteness of the mind. People with Mercury in this sign are far-seeing and clear-sighted; it is almost impossible to deceive them, but on the contrary they are often over-critical and sometimes incurably suspicious. The thought is bitter and eager, often vitriolic, and the word follows suit. They have an uncanny faculty of knowing exactly where to wound. They make admirable vivisectors on every plane, and they are usually quite unscrupulous in their methods and careless of what pain they may inflict. Furthermore, they are intensely secretive; they hate to commit themselves to any positive statement, but their capacity for insinuation and innuendo may well be described as infernal. They make the most dangerous enemies, and in some cases (though, fortunately, this is rare) there is something of the snake in their temperament, and they may turn suddenly and treacherously upon their antagonists. They make excellent secret-service men. They are capable of long continued dissimulation and, the imagination being exceedingly vivid, they are well fitted to deceive others. With all these qualities, goes an intense skepticism, an intolerance of the opinions of others whom they regard as inferior, and a supreme contempt for those who disagree with them. On the other hand, the secretive side of the sign may sometimes develop as mysticism or some profound interest in secret societies (particularly, of course, when Mercury is in the twelfth house) or in hidden and obscure matters of one sort or another. They have tremendous capacity for investigation and are quite ruthless in their methods. These qualities often cooperate to bring about success, and some of the most profound seekers into the mysteries of life have this position of Mercury. This is exemplified in its highest and best form by William Blake, probably the most profound mystic that the English race has produced. The activity of mind and the love for secret subjects of thought are shown in the horoscope of Robert Louis Stevenson. Gandhi and Nehru exemplify the militant, persistent spirit of the mind conferred by this position. An example of the vigorous eloquence and keen critical instincts of this position manifesting in matters of less universal importance is given by John Bright, and of these same qualities in more intense form by Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. W. S. Gilbert, the greatest of the social satirists of the Victorian Age, has Mercury in this sign, conjunct cynical Saturn. Something of the brilliancy and secretiveness, with a most unfortunate turn, not only for repartee, which made him enemies, but for obscure thoughts, which gave them their weapon against him, is shown in the nativity of Oscar Wilde.

Mercury in the First House A restless spirit, given to ceaseless inquiry and concern. Many journeys, much writing; quick, nervous speech; taste for literature of some sort; an inquisitive mind, always on the alert for new information.

Venus
It may, on first consideration, appear somewhat difficult to differentiate between the action of Venus, the "Lesser Fortune," and that of Jupiter, the "Greater Fortune." Both represent the expansive and altruistic spirit. But Venus is the handmaiden of the Sun and she is consequently attached to the vital force, even as Jupiter is more closely an emanation of Neptune, the other extreme of the system, the Soul. The altruism of Venus, therefore, means love in a quite conventional and often selfish or personal sense; her expansiveness is often mere amiability, possibly assumed in order to gain some end associated with the instinct of self-preservation; and, finally, Venus is altogether more material and, so to speak, fleshy, than Jupiter. Venus in any sign has so much connotation or reference that it is very necessary to take into consideration not only the sign in which it is placed, but also its aspects to other planets before judging of its effects. But the importance of the impact of the different signs is very great. In fact, the more material a planet is, the more easily it is influenced. We see no such violent commotion in the vaster planets; Uranus in Aries is not so different from Uranus in Libra, but Venus in Gemini is utterly different from Venus in Scorpio. In dealing with Venus on the lines hitherto followed with the other planets, we are confronted with a difficulty peculiar to the nature of her own influence. It is easy to observe most of the effects of other planets in the life, character, and work of great men, but we know little of the inner details of their domestic and intimate relations. Alexander the Great may have beaten his wife, and Cromwell may have been a very clever and tactful father, but in the majority of those examples which have hitherto served us so well, we know little or nothing of the private life. And it is essentially, and first of all, the private life that Venus influences. The reader must, therefore, be content to rely, to a certain extent, upon the authority of the author regarding the influence of Venus. Venus in Sagittarius Venus is in some ways at her best in this sign. She has not the passion which we have noticed in the other two fiery signs. She is more impulsive and less constant. The slightest rebuff kills the interest. And in no case is affection likely to be long-lived. These remarks apply to love rather than to friendship, for, in the latter, the fact that Jupiter rules Sagittarius comes into play.

For this reason we call Venus at her best; she has an aspiring and spiritual quality which tends to remove from her any taint of earthy grossness. This very quality, however, may in some eyes appear as a defect. Those who imagine that the only kind of love is that which is expressed in accordance with social conventions may be unmeasured in the hatred of such tendencies as this sign confers, particularly upon women. It is very common to find fantastic passions such as have been celebrated by Baudelaire, Verlaine and Swinburne, as well as by the one supreme poetess that ever lived, Sappho. Those things which are gross and unrefined do not appeal. It is necessary to satisfy mental and spiritual cravings and also to content the imagination. The lack of earthiness, the absence of physical bonds, causes rapid changes which may be mistaken for caprice, but which are really not so; on the contrary, they are symptoms of fidelity to the ideal. People with this position are proud and high-spirited, and they demand the same qualities in those whom they love. Indelicacy shocks. Further it may be said that any attempt to bind down the affections is intensely resented. To fish for such people one must employ the finest lines and the smallest flies; though the more brightly they are colored, the more successful is likely to be the sport. Examples of the peculiar delicacy or spirit conferred by this position are afforded by George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Chatterton, and Lewis Carroll. Perhaps, too, the unfortunate relations of Charles I with his ministers may be attributed to this position. He never seemed able to trust constantly in them. He would trust too much, become disappointed for quite insufficient reasons, and then betray them. One might also look at the political careers of Gladstone, Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt. The extraordinary rashness in speech of the last named is very typical of this position. With most ordinary people, these qualities manifest as something not much better than heartlessness and fickleness. Love sparkles and glitters, but is without warmth. Venus does not expand sufficiently to glow or to ennoble the life with true affection. There is never any excess energy to waste. The native has just so much of the Venusian qualities as suits his own purpose. He has none to give to others. As the swift spark is very attractive to those who really seek love, people with Venus in this sign often cause the greatest disappointment - they attract the passion of really warm-hearted people and then fail to satisfy it. Often they cannot understand how they are failing. Similarly, they may cause much anxiety to those who love them because they do not reciprocate the affections of the other party, who may consequently believe that he is failing in kindness, when, in reality, it is merely that he is trying to rekindle a shooting star. Very often true passion is altogether lacking or, if it exists, it is as transient and ephemeral as we learn that certain brightly colored insects are.

It often happens that the natural instincts are replaced by fantasies, forms of love which are expressed by symbol rather than by sense. Hence, the natural purpose of Venus, which is, after all, vitally important to the race, is frequently thwarted. Venus in Sagittarius often induces the native to act in such ways as to avoid what is, after all, the one great glorious human attribute, willing sacrifice. Thus, a woman with Venus in Sagittarius might prefer to adopt a child rather than to go through the pains of bearing one. In art, we find a very interesting expression of this position in Mark Twain (S.L. Clemens). Here we see an art, extraordinarily jeweled, with brief scintillations, but we rarely find in his writings the large, sustained humor, elaborated and rendered complex by the interplay of one idea with another, such as we find in the greatest masters. One may also recommend to the reader without comment, the study of three people very different in this position who are yet united by the presence of Venus in this sign: Marie Bashkirtseff, Maude Adams, and Evelyn Nesbit (Thaw). Venus in the Third House Strong inclination to the fine arts; pleasant traveling; success in letters and writings; peaceful relations among the members of the family; amiable disposition, and bright, fruitful intellect. Poetry, music, singing, and painting are among the pursuits of those under this influence.

Mars
Mars represents the muscular system; it is often found that a weak brain goes with great development of physical strength, and vice versa. It might even occur that the whole of the higher faculties might be harmonious and strong, yet fail to make good, owing to the lack of practical energy, boldness, and capacity for rather brutal work. The material plane continually presents obstacles to the higher nature; Mars is the force which pushes such obstacles aside, or demolishes them. His external influence upon the man as distinguished from his internal influence within the character, is that of excitement, inflammation, violence, and accident. Thus a square of Mars to the Sun might give a rugged constitution and dauntless energy, and at the same time subject the native to fevers and accidents from fire or steel. The power of Mars will, of course, as before, be modified by his position in the Zodiac, and, owing to his material and therefore easily-molded nature, the variations will be, on the whole, more extreme than we have found to be the case with planets of greater spirituality. Yet so great is his importance, that a badly afflicted Mars practically inhibits the native from making wise use of his enormous energy. It is a curious and somewhat paradoxical situation, and the student cannot pay too much attention to its study. Mars in Virgo Mars and Mercury are not altogether unfriendly, and certainly Virgo has no such detrimental effect on Mars as we found exerted by Gemini, but the combination is a little cold-blooded. There is a certain passionate chastity about it; real warmth of heart in the conventional sense appears to be denied. It will be seen that, of all upon our list, though many are great men and women, not one can be called a great lover. This remark applies as much to method as in the preceding sections; it refers to a certain coldness and detachment of action, as if the enthusiasms were not awakened. Yet the will may be extremely strong. The women on our list are almost ostentatiously passionless, and the men hardly less so. In the devotion to a cause, we find two of the greatest women who ever lived, Clara Barton, organizer of the American Red Cross, and Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society.

Before adding the name of Anna Kingsford to these, we must anticipate the objection that she boasted of an intensely sensual disposition, but here Mars is exaggerated by a square from Jupiter and Virgo is warmed by the Sun, Venus, and Mercury, the first of these being in very close conjunction with Mars. However, there is no trace of eroticism in her work, and it is the actual method of expressing the personality which is denoted by Mars, not the nature of that personality itself. Among men we have Balfour, with Mars on the Leo/Virgo cusp, whose cold intellectualism is at once his charm and his weakness; Kruger, notably the most dexterous and cool politician of his period; Dreyfus, whose detachment made him so unpopular with his men, and thus led to his being accused by his brother officers; Archbishop Laud, whose lack of warmth lost him his friends; William III, most unpopular as a king, owing to his "Dutch coldness"; and Louis XVI, whose lack of sympathy with the needs of his people caused his downfall. Finally, we have two of the greatest generals that the world has known: Napoleon Bonaparte and General George S. Patton. Napoleon had Mars trine to both Pluto and Uranus. Patton had Mars square to both Pluto and Mercury. Both of these owed their greatness very largely to this power of detachment in their method; both, however keenly interested in a matter, were able to view it and treat it as if it hardly concerned them; and this is the chief virtue of Mars in Virgo. Mars in the Eleventh House Contentions among friends; unsatisfactory relations with others in social life. Friends lead the native into extravagance or some form of dissipation. Danger to the wife in childbirth. In a woman's horoscope, the husband is often profligate.

Jupiter
Jupiter, in a general classification, may be said to be the precise contrary of Saturn. The latter constricts and conserves; the former expands and spends. The one is egoism; the other altruism. In religious symbolism Saturn is Jehovah "I am that I am" - which is only a theocratic way of saying "everything for myself." Jupiter is the divine Son, Jesus - the benevolently spendthrift heir - who gives his very life for others. Jupiter is the instinct of creation, of generosity and hospitality, and of the religious emotions generally; and, of course, in so far as the man is passive to Jupiter, he represents these qualities in the cosmos bestowed upon the man, and hence "Good fortune." Naturally, his action depends, with regard to its scope, upon Neptune and Uranus. Unless these planets, signifying respectively the soul and the divine will, indicate bigness in the career, a good Jupiter will be no more than a luck-bringer in business or profession, and make the character noble, generous, and easy-going; and a weak Jupiter will only defeat advancement in life, and tend to enfeeble the character by making it spendthrift, luxurious, and unable to resist the influence of others. We have intimated above through what channels Jupiter comes to express his creative and generous tendencies in material prosperity; but another point which should be emphasized in this regard is that Jupiter represents to a very great extent the ambition of the native. The force, quality, and degree of success of this ambition will be indicated by the strength and position of the planet, and the direction or channel through which this ambition may work out its best prosperity will be shown by the sign which Jupiter occupies, modified of course by other contributory conditions. In the days when a man was either a lord or a serf, a knight or an innkeeper, it was comparatively easy to determine with exactness a man's vocation. In modern days, however, there are thousands of different and characteristic types of employment. While Jupiter is the key to the type of work which may bring a man money or profit, it does not necessarily follow that it is the kind of vocation for which he has the greatest inclination. Too often, indeed, his inclination is not that for which he is best adapted, or it is incompatible with his environment and education. On the other hand, an accurate observer may often see a person with distinct abilities for a certain type of work, and yet he recognizes that, for some other reason, he had an inability to make a success of that work.

Jupiter in Cancer In Cancer, Jupiter is in the house of his exaltation; and that sign being above all a symbol of pleasure, we may naturally expect that it will bring out the truly "jovial" qualities of the planet. This is undoubtedly the case; the native is good-humored, benevolent, and humane; the emotional nature and the imagination are strong; but the pleasantest qualities are more evident in the nativities of private persons than in those of the great. In those there will nearly always be a counterbalance, or life would be dissipated into mere pleasure. The chart of the French novelist Marcel Proust is instructive because Jupiter is angular right on the fourth house cusp, from which it squares Mars and opposes Saturn. The themes of Proust's life and work were guilt and memory, set into motion by the death of his mother. Cancer has a strong connection to home, mother, tradition, and education. Steel magnate and library philanthropist Andrew Carnegie has Jupiter trine rising Mercury and square to Pluto. Born just five days after Carnegie with the same Scorpio ascendant, Mark Twain (Clemens) has the same Mercury and Pluto aspects plus he has Jupiter square the Moon, ruler of Cancer, which emphasizes the connection to the public and the common man. Oliver Cromwell, the wealthy landowner who became the Lord Protector for England after its civil war and who then voluntarily relinquished his position, had Jupiter in the fourth in aspect to the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn. Another statesman who labored for the public good was Benjamin Franklin, whose Cancer Jupiter opposes his Sun and is in quintile to Saturn; his brilliance and his robust physical health stems from a grand Fire trine between Mars, Neptune, and Pluto. He also had Moon sextile Venus, which made him successful as a diplomat. Let us look at the Jupiter of two strong, self-centered men, Jay Gould and Joseph Chamberlain, and of one weak, selfish man, James II. Jay Gould has Jupiter in conjunction with Venus, which turns the self-indulgence shown by Cancer into love of money, and of course implies great luck in getting hold of it. There are no good aspects. Chamberlain has Saturn square, which removes the religious and philanthropic impulses. James II has Uranus square to Jupiter, and the Moon semi-sextile. This is weakness. Jupiter is lord of the ninth house; so we find, as we should expect, religious bigotry, the affliction by Uranus denying illumination.

Dr. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, with his benevolent ideas should have a strong Jupiter; and, indeed, the planet has a trine to innovative Neptune and is inconjunct to Sun and Mercury. These aspects are not strong enough to carry the idea to a successful accomplishment; for this, there should have been favorable aspects to Uranus and Mercury; had there been, we might indeed have had a "universal language" that would have commended itself to the world. John Bright, one of the really fine religious and humanitarian types of the Victorian era, has Jupiter just above the Ascendant; where he is the only planet in the east and is the focus of a Yod pattern from Venus, Neptune, and Mars. In everyday life, the native who has Jupiter in Cancer is imaginative and intuitional, sometimes with inclinations for psychism or other mysteries. The position gives excellent aptitude for moneymaking and the ability to hold money after it has been acquired. He is likely to travel much by water, but is fond of home and is apt to find himself very closely bound by affection to his mother. People born with Jupiter in Cancer have a splendid sense of the practical and natural values of life. The disposition allows for a wider range of vocation, but not for any wider attitude toward the work at hand. Some of our most successful politicians, manufacturers, wholesale merchants, chemists or men interested in shipping or other enterprises connected with liquids, have Jupiter placed in Cancer. It often causes them to deal with something that is used in the home or on the persons and gives excellent aptitude for making money, as well as the ability to accumulate it, although they are often too conservative in business, frequently missing opportunities through too great caution. It makes one a gracious host and a liberal provider for the home. Women having Jupiter in this sign frequently marry men in public life. They make excellent nurses, meet with success in domestic science or in the care of children and the home, also in work connected with food. Jupiter in the Tenth House High honors, wealth, and success. The native rises in his sphere of life, and gains credit and emoluments. It is one of the best auguries of a prosperous and happy life.

Saturn
Saturn, in a general classification, may be said to be the precise contrary of Jupiter. Where the latter expands and spends; the former constricts and conserves. Where Jupiter is bold and extravagant, Saturn is cautious and ascetic. Responsible Saturn acts to protect the interests of self, family, society, and the world from harm. Where Jupiter boldly seeks and grows with experience, Saturn has the wisdom of having learned from experience. But the wisdom and knowledge of Saturn relate to the material world, to the world of conditions, consequences, and rules. Saturn can be ambitious, controlling, and egoistic. Saturn protects the self against hurt by judging according to lowermind polarities, such as smart versus stupid or winner versus loser. The function of the outer planets, which represent the higher mind, is to rebel against the limitations of the lower mind, providing opportunities for freedom from the tyranny of the everyday world's rules, conditions, polarities, and judgments. Man may be master of life and of death - if he will. To the worker in the fields of the intelligence, the farmer of mind, the harvest grows continually. Saturn is once again the golden god. The brain of the brain worker improves constantly until the age of sixty, and even then retains its vigor until the end. Such old men we often see. Instead of the vices and infirmities of age, they have consolidated virtues, conserved strength. Dignity and austerity crown and cloak them. They are simple, strenuous and lofty-minded. Even if they are of solitary habit, they are kind. The purpose of their lives has crystallized; and, because they have desired only the infinite, satiety does not touch them. Life is to them a religion of which they are the priests, an eternal sacrament of which perhaps the ecstasy is dulled, but which they consume with ever-increasing reverence. Joy and sorrow have been balanced, and the tale thereof is holy calm. They know that peace of God which passeth all understanding. The commoner aspect of Saturn, however, is this: the malicious oldster, envious of youth, hating life because he has failed to live it according to the law of righteousness. His will-power is merely obstinacy, opposition to reform, failure to accommodate himself to changed conditions, the conservatism of the hardened brain. He feels his waning powers and tries to receive - to receive, when all his sensibility is gone! Feeling himself impotent, he vents his toothless rage upon the young. Unhappy himself, he seeks to make others wretched. Sordid and heartless, he sneers at enthusiasm and generosity. Weary of life, he thinks life holds no joy.

Saturn represents what one does in the world, one's career, and life's lessons. Look to the planets that form aspects to Saturn for a guide to the activities that will mainly occupy the native's life. Conjunction, sextile, and trine aspects represent activities that will come easily to the native. The best of all of Saturn's dignities is illumination by the Sun. Square, inconjunct, and opposition aspects represent lessons that need to be learned or areas where the native feels blocked and must fight. When Saturn has favorable aspects, the native tends to receive the benefit; when it has unfavorable aspects, then Saturn tends to act as a blocking agent. Saturn in Scorpio The quality of secretiveness in Scorpio, and its order in the Zodiac as the natural sign for the house of death, make it a sympathetic menstruum for Saturn's rays. There is naturally, however, something deep, obscure and sinister in this position of the planet, and where it has a fair chance it will give such a tone to the Akankara, the name given by the philosophers of India to the "ego-making faculty," or the Saturn force in the human character. While this position of Saturn tends to produce a character both masterful and subtle, the evidence of this peculiar effect is not easy to find on account of its very habit of concealing itself. In the case of Tennyson it was so covered by external graces (in particular, the influence of Venus), that it is only from private sources that we know that traces of this Scorpio selfishness ever existed. Similar remarks apply to Lord Brougham. Here Saturn in Scorpio gives a harsh, unscrupulous purpose, which is developed in material affairs by the sextile of Jupiter; but Mercury and Venus just above the Ascendant conceal Saturn effectively, though he is the real director of the inner thought. The self-seeking of the great lawyer wore a mask of tact, wit and amiability, beneath which the corrosive acid of his purpose ate away his enemies. Compare with this the nativity of Archbishop Laud. Here Saturn has a square of the Moon, a trine of Pluto, and a wide opposition of Jupiter, who in the ninth house signifies religion, with no help beyond a semi-sextile of Mercury. Here is the typical selfish and intriguing prelate; Saturn on the cusp of the third house constantly occupying the mind with ambition and the lust of power. But Saturn's strength is not aided by fortune; the afflictions were bound to bring the native's ultimate downfall.

Cicero is a great example of this position; Saturn is sextile the Sun and squared by the Moon. The operation of the sign is intensified by these dispositions. As the first act of his public life, he fearlessly pursued and defeated a group of conspirators against the Roman republic. Ranked in the same category, though on the surface so different, his more lasting achievement, the "Somnium Scipionis", is almost the only mystical treatise which the Latins have left to us. That unfortunate monarch, Charles I of England, had this position. Here Saturn, in opposition to Uranus, is close to the cusp of the fourth house, for an ill end to the matter, and he receives no notable help. But we can gauge the desperate quality of the native's struggle to hold his inheritance, the secret and mendacious and fatal paths trodden by him in that attempt. With a preponderance of planets in mutable signs, one can only attribute to this opposition of Saturn and Uranus in fixed Scorpio and Taurus what is said about him, that he was "self-righteous, stubborn, opinionated, determined and confrontational." An example of over-development of the self is seen in the poet Thomas Moore. Mars and the Moon are in conjunction with Saturn to give recklessness and dissipation; Mercury in opposition to make it blind; only the sextile of Jupiter adds a touch of geniality, which made him welcome only as the companion of an hour in a tavern or a parlor. Compare particularly in this matter the case of the late J. Pierpont Morgan. Saturn is squaring Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sextile to the Moon, while trine to Uranus. While there is plenty of self-preservation, the Moon and Uranus both bring vision. The dispositions are consequently not altogether bad, but the great wisdom was undoubtedly used for material ends. Sir Humphrey Davy has Saturn in Scorpio, but Jupiter and Venus are sextile, and the Sun and Mars semi-sextile. Here is much favorable modification of Saturn, who is rising. Thus the self-force, rendered bright and tender by such aspects, is in complete harmony with the personality. Here strength is wedded with gentleness, and we can understand readily how he was able to give his life to its purpose without upsetting his contemporaries by bitterness of controversy. In Goethe we find adroitness in the emphasis of his ego. Saturn just above the horizon is trined by the Moon, and has the illuminating square of Uranus, all of which harmonizes the personality with the instinct of self-preservation. This instinct is strong but clever, and we comprehend, if we do not altogether applaud, his sword and his diamond buckles.

In many ways, as has been seen, Saturn in Scorpio has critical tendencies; it imperils the reputation, may bring scandal or unpopularity and, badly aspected, may cause reverses or downfall. Its influence upon the health is rather perilous in early life, though, that period safely passed, it promises a long life. It is, however, a position very favorable for association with mystical or secret societies. Saturn in the Second House Business losses; a thrifty nature; hard work for little gain; sometimes poverty.

Uranus
As the race evolves, it seems that man must learn to adapt himself more and more to the vibrations of Uranus and its powerful influx, which appear to be growing more and more potent in the unfolding of genius, or the transcending of intellect. Through the harmonious vibrations of Uranus, it is found that people become prophetic, keen, perceptive, executive, inventive, original, given to roaming, untrammeled by tradition, impatient of creeds, opinionated, argumentative, stubborn, and eccentric. They speak to the point; asserting, with startling confidence, opinions far in advance of their fellows. They come into possession of wealth in unexpected and strange ways, yet often appear to pass under the yoke of discipline as though cast down for a purpose from opulence to poverty, only to rise again by the unfolding of unexpected resources. Always ahead of their time, the natives of Uranus are often dreamers in philanthropy; poetic, though their writings need interpretation and are often unintelligible even to the imaginative, because of their mystical origin and transcendental coloring. In the few years during which Uranus has been under observation, it has been found that, if afflicted, it is the source of incurable organic diseases, collapse of fortune, and individual as well as national destruction. It is demonstrable that, in inharmonious nativities, evil Uranian influences, both through transits and directions, have brought about headlong destruction from bad habits, misdirected affection, illicit connections before or after legal marriage; according to the signification of the place of radical affliction in the horoscope. Every psychic thus far studied by the writer has been found, by careful consideration of the authentic birth data, to be under powerful Uranian influence; and to this vibration may be attributed clairvoyance, warning dreams, secondsight, clairaudience and similar phenomena. The occupations or avocations which seem in sympathy with this strange planet are progressive, inventive, exploring, and of a humanitarian nature. The influence of Uranus is the least personal, and the most universal in the Zodiac; consequently, any endeavor for the betterment of humanity is favored by those who are strongly responsive to its vibration. Uranus produces lecturers, public figures, travelers, inventors, aviators, radio operators, astrologers, electricians, scientists, physiologists, mesmerists, metaphysicians. Uranus makes one impulsive and extremely eccentric; the native does not know his own mind, but is continually moved by providential agencies; he often becomes a fatalist, feeling that his destiny is beyond his own control.

Uranus emphasizes the will, causing the native to move spontaneously from an inner urge; the native is active, original, inventive, and is notable for his love of liberty and an idealistic sense of justice. The planet bestows leadership and causes the native to become a pioneer and to establish new orders of things. Uranus makes the mind independent, original, and not amenable to control. The native is unconventional, altruistic and subject to sudden changes of attitude. There is an uncanny ability to sense motives. Circumstances induced by Uranus are sudden changes, estrangements, exiles, blind impulses, catastrophes, suicides, romantic tragedies, inexplicable changes of fortune, accidents, secret enemies, plottings, and sudden elevations. Every living soul is presumed to have a purpose, and that purpose single. Not one in a million, perhaps, is conscious of that purpose; we seem for the most part to be a mass of vacillations. Even the main objective career of an individual cannot be considered as necessarily an expression of the interior will. But Uranus indicates divine will; and the reason why he is so explosive and violent and upsetting to human affairs is that he represents the real intention, which, lying deeper than the conscious purpose, often contradicts it. The outer and the inner are then in conflict; and whenever battle is joined, the inner must win. To the outer consciousness, this naturally appears as disaster; for the native does not recognize the force as part of himself, or, if so, he regards it as a disturbing entity, and resents its dominion. Uranus is, in Egyptian symbolism, the Royal Uraeus Serpent; slow, yet sudden, Lord of life and death. It takes a great deal to move him; but, when once in motion, he is irresistible. This is why, to the normal mind, he appears so terrible. As has been seen, the deep-lying interior purpose of any being is nearly always obscure and undecipherable to the mortal eye; but there is an indication or hieroglyph of it which is usually very significant. One can hardly call it more than the artistic expression of the purpose, and this appears a very good way to describe it. We call it the Temperament. It does not define the Will itself, but it sets limits to the sphere wherein the Will may work.

We have already found that the personality is imaged in the sign on the Ascendant; and from this we now turn to a consideration of the sign in which Uranus may be situated. Where these two factors are harmonious, we get a character with unity of moral purpose; where otherwise, a self-tortured waverer. It might be cited as an objection that those who have Uranus in the Ascendant are usually eccentric characters; but the argument is on the other side. Such eccentricity is temperament in its highest development; it shows the entire overruling of the superficial qualities by this deep-seated, turbulent, magical will. It is only to others that the person with Uranus rising appears so eccentric. Uranus in Aries Uranus in Aries gives a character intrepid, dauntless, fiery and indomitable, whether for good or evil. Flaming, headstrong, hot-tempered, impetuous, self-willed, and obstinate is the type; but sometimes the native will make a sudden and complete turn-aboutface, and pursue a new and contradictory course with the same energy as he did the former. Nor, as a rule, will he be capable of seeing that he has changed in any respect. There is nothing particularly constructive in this type of energy. A strong example of this temperament is found in Mrs. Annie Besant, Aries being the rising sign. In Pope Alexander VI, the same qualities are apparent; but here Capricorn and Saturn are rising; and, although Mars is exalted in Capricorn, and so not inharmonious with the Aries temperament, yet a Saturnian element is super-added with the most unfortunate results. Here Saturn conjoins the Sun and both are square to Mars oppose Uranus. People with Uranus in Aries are always so firmly convinced they are right that opposition to their wishes appears to them as something positively unjustifiable, and they are therefore entirely unscrupulous in crushing such opposition. Sometimes this masterful quality is confined to legitimate lines, as in the case of Edison. Scorpio is rising, and its Lord, Mars, which sits on the cusp of the money house, is conjunct the Moon, representing the public. As an independent newspaper boy, young Edison learned what interested the public and innovated ways to make money; he would go on to earn much money from the 1093 valuable inventions that he patented. Pluto and Neptune are strong and add to Edison's inventiveness.

Contrast with Edison's Uranus the case of the Earl of Strafford (Thomas Wentworth), and Cromwell, who both had Uranus in Aries. It will also be instructive to compare them with each other. Each had an iron will, an unscrupulous determination to have his own way at any cost; but Strafford has Virgo rising. He prepared a plan for dealing with Ireland called "thorough," which was effectively to legalize massacre; but there is no passion in Virgo to cooperate with such violence, and Strafford was not strong enough to carry the plan out; he hung fire. Cromwell, with Aries rising, went through Ireland like a new Attila. Anna Kingsford had Uranus in Aries; with Aquarius rising it is the ruler of the chart. Uranus gets more favorable aspects than any other planet - receiving trines from the Leo Moon and Midheaven, sextiles from Jupiter and the Ascendant, and an exact biquintile from Mercury. A close conjunction from Mars strengthens the Virgo Sun. Here we find, then, a great example of the driving force of these configurations - Anna Kingsford, despite all disqualifications, disposed of an initiating force sufficient to arouse the thought of half the world. It is her work which made the growth of Theosophy and its analogous cults at all possible. She was, doubtless, the head of the battering-ram that broke in the gates of the materialistic philosophy of the Victorian Age. Robert Louis Stevenson has the last degrees of Aquarius rising, but Pisces is intercepted in the Ascendant, and Uranus in the first degrees of Aries is just within it. There is no great natural harmony between Aries and Aquarius, but their presence together in the first house creates harmony. So we find Stevenson, despite the most distressing ill-health, producing masterpieces. Astrologic students of literature may attribute to Aquarius his curiously gentle, profound psychology, and to Uranus conjunct Pluto in Aries the passion for bloodthirsty incident, which may also be credited to the position of his Mars conjunct Sun in Scorpio. Saturn is also in the Ascendant, just above Uranus, and this adds the tinge of melancholy which so increases his incomparable charm. Another example is Ludwig II of Bavaria. Here Uranus in the eleventh house is in semi-square to a conjunction of Neptune and Mars on the Midheaven. We also see a conjunction of Mercury and Venus in Virgo in the fifth house, where these two planets are the focus of a yod pattern from Mars+Neptune and Pluto. So we see a dreamy, easy, pleasure-loving temperament, which bursts out at times into maniacal enthusiasms and extravagances. The lack of harmony between Uranus and Neptune is the essential blot in the personality which ultimately manifested itself as madness.

A final example is Abbas Effendi. Aquarius is rising, and Uranus in Aries is just within the second house. Uranus is sextile to Saturn in Aquarius and to the Sun with Mercury in Gemini; Uranus becomes the focus of a Talent Triangle pattern. Here we see the same gentle profundity as Stevenson's. But Neptune is rising opposed to the Moon; and, instead of the tremendous will which enabled Stevenson to rank with the greatest masters, there is but a soft and somewhat undefined personality, its Will remaining interior, not externalized, since the forces that oppress it are too strong to overcome, and also since Neptune, opposing the Moon, exercises an inhibitory influence on all continuous activity. Uranus in the Sixth House Nervous diseases; losses and anxieties through servants; changes which interfere with health and comfort.

Neptune
To arrive at the true valuation of Neptune's influence in the signs of the Zodiac and upon the native as he comes under the dominion of the signs, the reader must constantly bear in mind the peculiar nature of the planet as distinguished from other planets. Whereas Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Saturn exert their influences chiefly upon man in his mundane capacities, his evolutionary life, Neptune exerts a spiritual influence upon man in the midst of the latter's mundane existence, for Neptune is the planet of spiritual forces, of the revolutionary spirit itself. Neptune's influence upon a life dominated wholly or chiefly by physical or materialistic interests is likely to be wholly bad or malefic, while this same influence, stressed upon a life already under a spiritual leading, will be wholly good or benefic. It is the Neptune influence that gives the wings of vision to humanity in its long struggle out of darkness into the light of eternity. Materialistic persons can think only in relative values of a day, a month, a year at most; intellectually developed persons think in values of a lifetime; but those of our sphere who are spiritually conscious think and work in terms of the eternal; to these a century is as a year, a cycle as a life; they are the true Neptunians. The materialistic astrologer classes Neptune "malefic, sinister, obscure," but the enlightened astrologian thoroughly understands that Neptune causes upon this earth and upon its natives the influx of a spiritual element unrelated to strictly earthly affairs. While the other planets are commensurable and deal with the relative, Neptune is incommensurable; he intrudes the absolute. In other words, for those developed spiritually Neptune is wholly "good," for others he seems wholly "bad." Neptune stirs the soul to aspiration toward the infinite; the result is that a humanitarian influence is projected by the native for the benefit of humanity's advance as a whole. On the other hand, for those whose desires cause them to plunge and wallow in the troughs of mere material delights and satisfactions, the Neptune influence is as a lightning bolt that shatters their temples of materialism to the very foundations. Neptune's orbit, being the outer circle of our known universe, is so vast, the effect of his movement upon the earth is so slow, that we may best consider his influence as negative upon our physical life, and as positive upon our spiritual impulses. He is as an indication of the tendency of the period, the planet of the new era, a barometer of the latter-day Universe.

Neptune requires approximately fourteen years to move through a single sign. To give an account of his effects upon humanity would be to write the history of the world. One can gauge him, to some extent, by considering certain events of comparatively recent times. Matters requiring wisdom are usually directed by men of between forty-five and fifty-five years, and the consensus of their influence may be divined from the place of Neptune at their birth. Thus the Revolution of 1848 was brought about by men influenced by Neptune in Libra; they struggled for freedom and justice, but their policy lacked virility, while their methods failed because of indirectness. Similarly, the French Revolution was begun by people influenced by Neptune in Leo, but the generations of preparation toward that event involved people with that planet in Cancer or Gemini. Cromwell's Neptune was also in Leo. The recent Great War was doubtless due to the influence of people born with Neptune in Aries; while the rebuilding of civilization has fallen upon those laborious and initiative men and women for whom Neptune works through Taurus and Gemini. The scientific advance of the Nineteenth Century was due to pioneers stimulated by Neptune in Capricorn; and the fruits of their labors were gathered by men born with Neptune in Aquarius. Neptune was in Pisces, influencing the artistic, psychic decadent generation of the Nineties. Times when skeptical thought attacks tradition by purely intellectual methods and makes constructive work possible are those influenced by Neptune in Gemini. Immanuel Kant, who destroyed the old philosophy, Voltaire, who destroyed the old religion, and their contemporaries were of such a generation. Neptune, being the planet of spiritual forces, is always revolutionary. Forever he quickens the old life and increases the new life; the principle is the same; only the material varies according to the signs through which he moves. Because of the character of Neptune and the long period of time it requires to pass through a single sign, its influence upon the individual is very dependent upon its position and aspect to other planets. It is, therefore, obviously unnecessary to go into a lengthy account of its effect upon the individual in the twelve signs. Neptune in Pisces People who have Neptune in Pisces are psychic in the extreme, over-modest and reserved. As Neptune is the ruler of Pisces, it is the most propitious position which this planet can hold. Pisces is a distinctly passive sign, and this is a completely passive position for Neptune. Pisces is also not a sign of great active strength and assertive power; its forces are more negative, receptive, reflectively benefic.

Thus, while in its own sign, Neptune does not possess nearly so much power to affect the material plane as in either more active or more material signs. In fact, the very spirituality of the planet and the very psychic passivity of the sign inevitably do not make for strength of manifestation on a physical earth. Thus, as the materialistic Scorpio is the most powerful position of Neptune and the spiritual Sagittarius its next in force, so, the material Capricorn being the weakest position, the psychic Pisces is its next in weakness, viewed from a material standpoint. Otherwise, Pisces might be considered the most powerful position of Neptune. In the individual nativity, this position of Neptune in Pisces does not, as a rule, make for singularly dynamic impulses of high, altruistic quality. Most people are too materially active for this passive, psychic force to exert its influence. Unlike the position in Sagittarius, so strongly active, this position has little effect upon the average man, while it may lend force to the extraordinary man. Kaiser Wilhelm II, under whose strong rule Germany prospered for thirty years, had Neptune in Pisces angular in his chart, conjunct both the Midheaven and Mars. The talented comedic wit Oscar Wilde had Neptune in Pisces angular on his Descendant; unfortunately afflicted by a close square from Saturn on the Midheaven; the youthful radiance bestowed by Neptune gave way to imprisonment and a tragic end. Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud had Neptune in Pisces square the Moon but sextile to a Sun-Uranus conjunction. Painter Paul Gauguin had Neptune angular on the Descendant and the focus of a Kite pattern formed by the Moon, Mercury, and Chiron; he was successful as a stockbroker until he decided to escape civilization for the simple life of Tahiti. Desiring to escape to a simpler life is a common theme with people having a strong Neptune. A malefic Neptune in Pisces gives a craving for narcotics and strong liquor. Neptune in the Fifth House Illicit amours; absorbing love of pleasures of a sensuous nature. Unless other indications modify this position, the native will be disposed to chaotic and unnatural acts; will have depraved desires, fantastic appetites, and licentious habits. In either sex it is a dangerous position, and leads to trouble in love affairs and all the evils of erotic mania, seduction, etc.

Pluto
Pluto is a cold, remote, and austere planet. But for all its great distance from Earth, astrologers have found it to have a powerful influence in the life - as significant as is Saturn for the direction of one's life. Pluto gives the courage and intensity to transform oneself, sometimes in unexpected ways. All the outer planets symbolize higher mind functions and give awareness of the big picture Pluto confers breadth, versatility, consciousness and judgment. Pluto's choices may violate social custom; it sees in terms of longer cycles and needs. Pluto is not by itself spiritual in nature, rather it is remorseless. It sometimes correlates with efficiency and a Spartan simplicity. Pluto in Capricorn Your generation matures early, occupying itself with serious matters such as the reform of business, politics, government, religion, science, and the environment. You may be a critic, but you are not a radical. Security is important to you. If Pluto is strong in your chart, you will strive for wisdom through reading and learning. You may idealize your father or a teacher and suffer from bouts of loneliness. You are capable of great self-knowledge and self-integration. If you bite the bullet and take well thought-out actions, you will leave the world a better place. Pluto in the Third House The mental processes run deep; communications with others are not easy. A master of non-verbal communication. Tragedy when young or involving a sibling or neighbor who lives dangerously. Should avoid hitchhikers.

ASPECTS
Mars trine Pluto (5.99) You have a toughness that allows you to play with the big boys. The energy that flows through you could make you successful as an athlete. With your mental toughness and ability to see the big picture, you could become a scientist or mathematician. You have confidence and take risks. It tends to make you prolific in your work. A woman with this aspect can see things from a man's point of view. You think in terms of growth and evolution. Uranus square Pluto (5.95) Social technologies, such as broadcasting, publishing, and photography, have always attracted you. You have a live and let live philosophy. You cannot be pigeon-holed, but have eclectic tastes. Your style is supple, ingenious, witty, and socially relevant. You are good at improvisation and could be a host, master of ceremonies, interviewer, or negotiator. It is relatively easy for you to make changes and try new things. You could have many romantic relationships. Your career might go through irregular changes. Your restless, improvisational mind is easily distracted. You experience the most success when you do work that you believe in and not work that you think people will like. You have the right to be selfish. Things will go better and you will enjoy it more when you take charge. Mercury conjunct Saturn (3.90) This important position runs the gamut from stupidity and inertia, in cases where Saturn overcomes and stifles, so to speak, the action of Mercury, to the careful, methodical type of mind, with, possibly, great powers of taking pains, sustained highly focused concentration, and profound perceptions. Provided that the remainder of the nativity supplies initiative and energy, this position is good for any post that calls for trouble, prudence, and caution; but of itself it may incline to waste of time and lack of energy, particularly if it be in water, when mental self-confidence may be lacking. Depression is not uncommon and there is a propensity to solitary habits. Afflictions between these planets are common in cases of suicide, wherein Mercury is also often in a sign of Saturn. There are often checks in the career, and in some cases there is a failure to fulfil youthful promise. Development is frequently slow and should not be forced, unless, as is sometimes the case, there is a tendency to procrastination.

There is often a good deal of self-will and obstinacy, and something of the type that argues to justify itself at all costs and will never admit its mistakes - this is common if Aries is also heavily tenanted. On the other hand, this same tenacity, when directed reasonably, makes a very excellent fighter in adverse circumstances. Sun conjunct Mercury (3.76) These two are never more than about 28 apart, so that only the conjunction and parallel aspects can occur. It has often been stated that a close conjunction is of an undesirable nature, the mental faculties being liable to suffer detriment. This is especially the case, it is supposed, when Mercury is combust, or within 5. I have never seen any suggestion made as to the possible difference between a superior and an inferior conjunction of Mercury or of Venus, but there may be a distinction of values. In Raphael's Guide it is said that the author does not agree that the conjunction of the Sun and Mercury impairs the native's faculties "so far as business or literary ability is concerned, but for clear sound intuitive perception and deep contemplation Mercury is best away from the Sun." I would rather suggest that the real loss is one of flexibility and impartiality. The native is inclined to be dogmatic, stubborn, and sometimes conceited, with little mental receptivity. The feelings impair the clarity of the mind, and there may be prejudices. The abilities are certainly less than with the Luni-Mercurial conjunction, which can, however, also be prejudiced, especially by racial and family influences. It is clear that there is some advantage in having the two bodies in different signs, since this must increase the range of responsiveness. In some cases, where the planet appears to predominate, the intellect subdues the animal nature, and there is an ascetic tendency, though a kindly one. More often the animal passions and spirits seek to control the mind, and the native is self-indulgent, usually in a wild, healthy-animal way. In few cases will he brook interference or counsel. The mind is generally practical and worldly, seeking objective results even when stimulated by religion. It is self-assured, categorical, and independent in a way reminiscent of Uranian action. Probably the truth that lies in Raphael's assertion is that the mind is not sufficiently detached from personal feelings, except, of course, when occupied with pure abstractions - which in this case will rarely happen. The mind is usually healthy and robust, optimistic and vigorous. It is a good position for actors and artists generally, for there is a sense of the colorful; it is also good for the exercise of authority of a set and established type.

Psychologically the mind will benefit by the cultivation of adaptability, and by reflections tending to humility, and the advantage of not taking oneself too seriously. Sun sextile Mars (3.75) This aspect indicates great energy, and, subject to the remainder of the map, much actual daring and adventurousness. Nevertheless, this energy is frequently expressed in intellectual fields and is by no means always concerned with adventures in the usual sense of this word. There is usually strength and hardihood of body, though the physique is often spare and wiry rather than heavy and powerful. There is quick decision, alertness, and ability in all matters appertaining to objective problems. Nothing is too much trouble; the native likes to exercise his powers both physical and mental, and he is never happy unless doing something. He is far happier when busy performing or discussing his own doings than when forced to listen to others. If airy or mutable signs rise, the energy is often intellectual; with watery signs ascending, there is often a "psychical" expression, i.e. the force of character is seen in the personality, which is of the kind often called magnetic. Regard must also naturally be paid to the signs containing the aspecting bodies themselves, but in any case there will probably be a decisive type of character, knowing well what it thinks, wishes, and intends. The profounder Scorpio side of Mars often causes the native to be a seeker after "hidden" things, a deep thinker, and an incisive, close-knit writer, such as R. W. Emerson (had a Yod pattern focused on 10). It likes epigram and apothegm. The same influence makes the native secretive, having a distinct inner side that is rarely exhibited; it is also productive of personal dignity and self-control. Likewise patient endurance of physical pain comes under this configuration, such as was exemplified by the late Earl Curzon. It may be emphatically said that the aspects of the Sun and Mars are by no means the purely pugnacious and brawn-producing influences that they are sometimes supposed to be; in their highest manifestation they signify the true *hero*, or man who fights, as it were, in the front ranks of mankind for the welfare of the race, a modern Hercules, in the ideal sense of the myth. Note that even the harmonious contacts usually bring some of the effects more often ascribed to the inharmonious, especially if either body is weak by sign or by other aspects. But these are likely to fall short of actual harm and may be rather of the nature of narrow escapes. For example, Lord Roberts was in the utmost danger when he won his Victoria Cross.

Sun sextile Pluto (3.74) You start life with great physical strength, but physical strength will decline and you along with it if that is where you have poured all your energies - put that energy into educating yourself and you will rise to the top. You prefer the real to the illusory and superficial. You do not like restrictions or lies and will work to free yourself of them. Have confidence in your own judgment. Take positive risks. Sometimes luck is the power of your own unconscious. You are adaptable, versatile, and have good powers of communication and creativity. You can be a pioneer in the use of new techniques. You have a strong individual will, but you also believe in the collective power of teamwork and comradeship. You are good at transforming and reorganizing. Moon square Venus (3.27) Sorrow through the affections seems inevitable with this influence, except indeed in those cases in which the native voluntarily, and perhaps with no regrets, abandons ties of this kind. This austere, self-abnegating type certainly occurs when other more severe influences are also at work. The sphere of the Moon and Venus is a homely and usual one, and aspiring persons sometimes spurn it in the desire to live a larger life, as is recorded of Gautama, and as is also exemplified in the saying of Jesus, "Who is my Mother, or my brethren?" In more common cases there is simply ordinary incompatibility between husband and wife, or, if there be affection of a kind, nevertheless the woman's influence is an unfortunate one. In other cases marriage does not take place owing to some obstacle. It is probable that this hindrance is usually either a rival (Libra) or a matter of money (Taurus), unless it is due to the signs and houses occupied. Nor is the influence by any means limited to the married state. It is unfortunate for all 7th house matters, and the native is likely to suffer through associates of all kinds that come under this house. It is also bad for money, which will perhaps be rejected together with other worldly things, or may be lost through 7th house affairs - I believe, however, that a voluntary poverty is more common so far as this contact is concerned, and that where the native actually desires wealth the aspects are no serious obstacle. Sometimes there is a certain amount of weakness and shyness and a gentleness or gentility that may appear effeminate; sometimes, to hide this, the native is moody or rough. The affections are very sincere and active. Sometimes the partner is idealized and too implicitly obeyed, with ill results. The characteristic popularity of these aspects does not seem to be diminished when they are inharmonious.

Mercury sextile Pluto (2.02) Although you may need to overcome initial shyness, you do things with an ease and dexterity that people find very cool. People like your style and your positive attitude to life and work, to which you apply exceptional invention and versatility. You are plugged-in and very solid. You could be an intellectual who is interested in social or political reform; Pluto gives the perspective for long-range planning. You are also good at research, at finding facts. You are open-minded and rational, although you may learn to your regret that politics is nine-tenths emotion. Mercury sextile Mars (2.00) This contact powerfully strengthens the mind, and gives great vigor to its faculties, especially the more practical and positive ones. It is untiring, incisive, alert, and singularly capable of detecting weakness in the positions of its opponents, and of instantly taking advantage of them. It is common in the maps of people who have engaged in successful struggles, such as military or naval commanders, politicians, financiers, and reformers. It has been stated that contacts of some kind, usually malefic, were always found in the maps of pacifist conscientious objectors during the Great War. The position is courageous and often rash, so that even the good aspects do not tend to personal security, although naturally the effects are not likely of themselves to be very serious. It tends to literary work and is often childless in a physical sense, its books being its offspring. At the same time there is often much fondness for children and their society. The disposition is usually good-natured, but sometimes the native is centered in his own interests and there is, as a rule, more practical commonsense than sentiment in the character. It is excellent for debaters and disputants, being very quick in argument and retort and never at a loss for an answer; it loves a fight, either with the spoken or written word. It is probably good for all trades and occupations that have to do with traffic and engineering work that is connected with locomotion. With regard to health, it strengthens the nervous system and gives quickness of hand and eye, but it is apt to cause the native to like to run risks and seek the sensation of danger.

Sun conjunct Saturn (1.66) These bodies are antithetic in character, and even harmonious aspects between them are not always in the strict sense beneficent, especially if either body, and in particular Saturn, be in debility by sign or is much afflicted by other planets. The self-assertive and self-expressive "urge" of the native is forced to conform with circumstance, and though in the case of the good aspects this conformity may not be so painful as with the bad ones, and the native may succeed in partially getting his own way, yet the sense of limitation is not likely to be altogether absent. The highest significance of the contact is, perhaps, profound and painstaking thought, a moral, well-ordered life, and wise, well-considered actions. There is a strong constructive tendency and a desire to ordinate which may appear in an intellectual form (e.g. a desire to philosophize or ordinate the mental life), or in the desire to govern and shape the destinies of communities, or to build up and control great businesses. The powerful influence of the conjunction may produce well-earned material success and respect, as in the case of the Indian judge, Sir Gooroodar Banerji, described in Notable Nativities as "a self-made man in the truest sense." In such instances the blending of the two opposite influences is successfully achieved, and the vigor of the Sun is coordinated and directed by Saturn. In other cases the same conjunction appears to operate to cause seclusion and work done in private. The father is commonly found to be domineering, cold, without much interest in or affection for the native, and he is frequently unfortunate in his affairs. It inclines to a worldly upbringing, without much fun or social happiness in youth, and the tenor of the life often continues in the same strain. In other types, when the benefic element is pronounced, the native may be idle and irresponsible, incapable of handling serious matters in the right spirit. If the Sun is the stronger this type is often found, and duty is neglected; if Saturn is the stronger, then life is all duty and the voice of the heart is stifled. In women's maps Sun-Saturn contacts work largely through the fathers and husbands and other male associates; these are often engrossed in business, politics, or local government, attaining prominence, but not always proving equally successful in the domestic sphere. Sun trine Neptune (1.48) These bodies appear to have little in common, yet their good aspects are often productive of great benefits. The native is as a rule a visionary of some sort, or at least he has a very active imagination of a creative or constructive kind, which may be of great use to him in some vocations.

But the direction in which the faculties will expand depends on the rest of the map. Very many writers and artists have this combination and probably owe much to it. There are also many followers of the way of mysticism, as well as philanthropists and humanitarians. The love of animals is commonly very strong: this is usually the case even when the bodies are in affliction, though there may then be excess of feeling, sentimentality, etc. Horses are particularly liked. But besides this side, the combination may be perfectly practical (it has been said that the genuine mystic is the most practical of persons, as, for example, Joan of Arc). It occurs in empire-builders, great financiers, and industrialists, and others who have "visions" of a distinctly profitable kind. It goes without saying that all Neptune aspects incline to relations with water and the sea. These aspects seem markedly to favor the self-made man, although one may say that most people with a strong solar aspect make or seek to make something of their lives for themselves. The most illusive side of the contacts occurs in the cases of mediumistic or psychistic tendencies, though these are commoner under the conjunction and inharmonious contacts. "Charubel," the astrologer-clairvoyant, had a sextile of the Sun and Neptune; William Blake had a trine. We must let the reader judge the work of these two men for himself, sincere as each undoubtedly was. The task of Sun-Neptune is to see visions and to actualize them; the prayer "Thy Kingdom come" is the essence of the aspects of these bodies, and their favorable aspects frequently indicate the capacity to do work of this kind in an unusual and even unique manner. In practical affairs these aspects are favorable wherever vision and foresight are called for, but the native will be happiest and most successful when he can formulate an imaginary picture of the task that he has to do, an ideal pattern to which to work; and the more entrancing and far-flung it is, the more it will draw him on to its fulfillment. The native's father may be Neptunian in character, and may be a visionary or one engaged on mystical or occult work; or he may follow the sea or some other Neptune livelihood. Even with the good contacts he will sometimes have moral delinquencies. Mercury semi-square Venus (0.72) This aspect always give some charm to the manners, speech, and writings, but a certain vanity and effeminacy may be apparent, and sometimes a love of ease and luxury, and an undue sensitiveness. But the aspect is far too weak to be of much account unless the rest of the map is of a similar tenor. It does not of itself bestow genius, but is of value to a writer or orator, for, though it will not indicate a brilliant intellect, it will give a pleasing expression to the native's thoughts.

In respect of the health it operates beneficially, indicating absence of mental friction and healthy nerves. Sun semi-square Venus (0.04) This aspect is not always obviously influential in respect of externals. Venus is perhaps the most interior of all planets in its action, and is concerned primarily with mental and emotional states, and in particular with the faculty of comparison and with the affections. The Semi-square inclines to make women and girls excitable, emotional, warmhearted, but without much stability. It is, in my opinion, by no means inferior to the conjunction so far as actual artistic ability is concerned, and when it is close (say within 2) there is usually talent for Venus pursuits, and particularly for music and dancing. It is not very favorable for marriage, although by itself it should not be taken as a sufficient indication of celibacy or an unfortunate alliance. The family may be numerous, and, in female maps, it seems strongly to incline to feminine offspring; there is usually trouble with one of them. It commonly bestows personal charm. Much the same is true with men. It is not good for compatibility in marriage, or, if this exists, there is usually some other cause of sorrow in the married life. Nevertheless, it is a secondary influence, and must be judged as such. It seems (in men) to indicate shyness and solitary habits, with considerable sensitiveness, even though this may in some instances (such as the ex-Kaiser) be masked behind bravado and noise. In the maps of rulers it seems to denote restless and disloyal subjects and unfortunate foreign adventures and wars.