Astrology; Your Place Among the Stars

544 Pages·1930·9.047 MB·English

by  E Adams

This compilation © Phoenix E-Books UK
ASTROLOGY
YOUR AMONG
PLACE
THE
STARS
By
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FOREWORD
The aim of this book is to give to the public the benefit of the
practical findings gleaned by the author through a lifetime of astro-
logical study and human experience In the course of her con-
sultations with hundreds of thousands of clients. These daily and
Intimate contacts and this extensive research have made possible the
interpretations set forth In this volume, so cosmic and yet so human
and
personal.
No attempt has been made to cover the elementary facts or in-
structions necessary for drawing up a chart of the heavens, as this
has adequately been covered from time to time In many text books
on the science.
The Sun, Moon and Planets have been touched upon rather
briefly, as a more exhaustive description of them and of the twelve
signs in the zodiac can be found In "Astrology Your Place in the
Sun," published by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1927. In this present
volume, the effects of the Sun, Moon and Planets In their passage
through the twelve signs of the zodiac have been stressed at great
length, and numerous examples of well-known persons in different
periods and walks of life have been given to illustrate their oper-
ation.
The positions of the Planets, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter, from
about 1850 and through the 20th century, have been tabulated so
that the layman, with little or no knowledge of astrology, will be
able to discover just when he will come under the chaotic and bene-
ficent influences of Uranus, the adverse effects of Saturn, and the
beneficent vibration of Jupiter. With this information in his posses-
sion, he will know when to guard his health, when to take advantage
of opportunities, when to push forward and when to hold back,
in short, how best to make the most of his life.
There are also tabulations which follow the description of each
Planet in the twelve signs, giving the sign position of the Planets
from about 1850 on, thus enabling the reader to ascertain the sign
in which his own planets were placed according to his date of birth.
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The time has passed when It is necessary to present a brief foi
Astrology, as the latest findings of science prove conclusively thai
life is vibration and that man is under the influence of the whole
universe. We know that the difference between light, color and sound
is a matter of vibration; in like manner, the difference between
Saturn9 which represents the centripetal vibration,, and Mars, the
centrifugal, is a matter of vibration.
And so with all the Planets.
Not even Einstein5s latest contributions to astral science affect
this aspect and Implication of the Theory of Gravitation ; namely,
that we are part of a world of mutual Influence and that every
particle of matter, a star or an atom, and every kind of being, in
influenced by (and, in turn, influences) every other.
Therefore,ItIs desirablethat each of us should know the "setting"
of our particular world, at our birth and throughout life. To this
knowledge of our status and our relationship with the Cosmos,
Astrology affords a continuously helpful clue.
The Individual meaning YOU should summon to his service
all the Power available. That means, in addition to what has already
We
been suggested, the use of all possible psychic force. live not
merelyin a physical, but, even more significantly, in a psychic world,
to which we should be Intimately and consciously related.
The conscious being YOU, as a spiritual individuality should
draw upon The Subconscious and the Superconscious. Ponder the
implied significance of the inspiring suggestion contained hi Kmer-
son's lines
:
"The passive master lent his hand
To the vast Soul that o'er him planned."
That merely means: That, if YOU, mastering the technique of
living, make yourself actively passive to all the vast complex of
physical and psychical energy In the universe, you can multiply
infinitely your power and your efficiency,
Enlightened self-interest, then, should move you to Page Your
Fate, and make it serve you most effectively towards a creative
career of power, wisdom, beauty, and joy.
INTRODUCTION
TO
IT has often been a source of bewilderment to the student that,
with such small variations in the heavens, the variations should be
so large on earth. Everybody has just as many signs and planets
as everybody else; yetone man is a nobody and another is more than
half divine. No study of aspects as such can explain the fact. They
"work," more or less, when they are far from being exact; and, on
the theory of probabilities, it would seem as if at least a third of the
human race should be of noble calibre. As a fact, hardly one man in
ten thousand leaves even a transient mark upon his generation.
How is this? The problem has always baffled astrologers and en-
couraged their critics. In fact, few astrologers have fairly faced it.
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What is the difference between an amoeba and an elephant? The
cells of which an elephant is composed are one and all not very dis-
similar from the amoeba. The difference is that one is varied and
organized, a harmonious republic; the other remains single.
What is the difference, to go higher in the scale of evolution, be-
tween a monkey and a man? The answer is similar. It is not so much
the size and weight of the brain that differ; some men with small
brains have been the intellectual superiors of men with large brains.
But if we take the brain of an ape and that of a man from their
envelopes, a radical difference becomes immediately patent. The
convolutions in the ape are few and simple; in the man they are
many and complex.
There lies the great secret; the men who mould the destinies of
humanity are the most evolved and therefore the most highly com-
plex types. They are not men who have small interests here, and
small functions there; they have built up every factor in their being
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into asingle composite pattern. Often the manifestations of the com-
plex will be widely divergent, on the surface, but this is only an-
other symptom of the complexity. All this is explained by Astrol-
ogy.
m
A glance at the horoscopes of the greatest men of whom we have
record shows that, generally speaking, the planets form exact or
very close aspects, and also this is the important point that all,
or very nearly all, the planets are interwoven. Sometimes we find
two or three complexes in a nativity, perhaps even four; and those
have BO close relation with one another. Such horoscopes are those
of commonplace people. It is as if they had several strands in their
nature which had not been properly interwoven. As a result, there
are times when one is at work in its own feeble way; then it is for-
gotten, and another comes into operation. The lack of continuity is
fatal to the performance of any constructive work. If such a person
should acquire fame, it is the result of some action suddenly con-
ceived and executed, or because of an apparent accident. A few
examples of great horoscopes will make these points certain.
Shakespeare, to begin with, has all nine planets in a single com-
plex. Five of them are in aspect within three degrees, and only one
is more thanten degrees fromthe very farthest.
Dante may be said to have two complexes, one of five planets, all
within six degrees; another of four, all within nine decrees; and one
complex is only nine degrees from the other.
Michael Angelo has six planets within six decrees, with a seventh
only four degrees, and an eighth only three degrees away.
Petrarch has six planets within six and a half degrees, and the
otherthreewithin ten degrees.
Sir Richard Burton has five planets within five degrees and the
other four within seven degrees.
Bismarck has seven planets within ten degrees, the oilier two
within four degrees.
Edison has six within eleven degrees; the others within eight
degrees.
Shelley has five within eight degrees; three within two and a half
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s^ and the other only six degrees from a conjunction with
one of the larger complex.
Zola has all nine within eleven degrees; Copernicus, eight within
the same limit.
Goethe has two distinct complexes? one of six planets, within
thirteen degrees,theotherof threewithin seven degrees.
Napoleon has six within ten degrees., three within three and a half
degrees^ and the one is but eight degrees from the other.
Newton has three within one and a half degrees, three within five
and a half degrees, and three within seven degrees.
Balzac has four within nine degrees, five within ten degrees, and
the two complexes are related within seven degrees.
Wagner has five within five degrees, three within six degrees, and
the last only five degrees away.
Baudelaire has two complexes within ten degrees, one of five
planets and the other of four.
Pasteur has six planets within six and a half degrees, two within
three degrees, and the Moon, which stands aloof, is by far the least
important of the host of heaven.
Swinburne has six planets within five degrees, the rest within one
and a quarter degrees.
If we had chosen to include minor aspects, such as forty-five de-
grees and one hundred and thirty-five degrees, or the quincunx and
sesquiquadrate an even stronger case could have been, made out;
but it Is undesirable to introduce too much subtlety Into an argu-
ment of this sort we prefer to base it only upon obvious and patent
;
facts.
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In the Investigation of any nativity, it Is quite useless to content
oneself, as Is too frequently done, with the consideration of planets
In pairs. These will give details of the native. It is true; but It is
the complex which decides on what scale these details are to be
Interpreted. Zola had Saturn trine to Mercury, which made him
great in construction. But had not this aspect been merely part of
a mighty complex, It would have madehim a goodmerchant, a clever
lawyer, or something comparatively common.
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SheIIey9s conjunction of Mars and Jupiter is very differently
effective from that aspect in the horoscope of the late J. P. Morgan.
Why? Because they form parts of complexes of quite opposite na-
tures. The mere fact that one is in Leo and the other in Libra would
not account for the difference. And here it is that we must empha-
size the necessity of looking not only for the complex, but for the
key to It.
Twomenmight haveidentical aspects and yet be utterly different
just because in one case the Lord of the Ascendant was Mars and
in the other Venus, It is not always easy to divine the secret pivot
on which a complex swings. The Lord of the Ascendant is usually
the cardinal point, but if there be several planets or even one very
strong planet rising, he may be overwhelmed by them or it and his
place in heaven,, as it were, usurped. And it is of the utmost impor-
tance that this fundamental planet be detected with accuracy; for
it makes all the difference in the world whether we regard the other
planets as modifying Saturn or Jupiter. If the native be a Satur-
nian at heart, the trine of Jupiter will favor his selfish plans; if a
Jupiterian the trine of Saturn will restrict and balance his en-
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thusiasms. The conjunction of the Sun and Venus which made
Shelley so glorious an incarnation of Light and Beauty would
hardly have acted in that way had Scorpio, not Sagittarius, been
his ascendant. It is the Lord, Jupiter, culminating in conjunction
with Mars and Neptune, that determines the disposition, and the
superiority of the Sun in Leo to Venus that made effective the man-
ifestation of that disposition in the heart through art; had those
planets been influenced by Pisces, for example, it would have shown
itself In some soft shadowy way.
Enough has been said for a preliminary account of this matter;
in the course of these pages we shall pile Pelion upon OHHH, and
Ossaupon Olympus, in demonstration of tlus secretof the Astrolog-
ical Complex.