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Significance of Birthdays
SIGNIFICANCE =OF=
BIRTHDAYS
By W.
J.
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The Second
The Third
Sign,
Taurus
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41
51
61
Sign,
Gemini
Cancer
The Fourth
Sign,
The The
Fifth Sign,
Leo
69
79
The Seventh
The Eighth
Sign, Scorpio
90
102
111
The Ninth
The Tenth
Sign, Sagittarius
Sign, Capricornus Sign, Aquarius Sign, Pisces
123 132
141
The Four
Triplicities,
General Summary
Significance
List of
153
Kindred Books
163
Gems
Garnet,
of the Months.
January,
Fidelity.
Amethyst,
Bloodstone,
February,
Sincerity*
March,
April,
Wisdom.
Innocence.
Diamond,
Emerald,
Agate,
May,
June,
July,
Happiness.
Prosperity.
Ruby,
Sardonyx,
Sapphire,
Constancy.
Loneliness.
August,
September,
October,
Kindness.
Opal,
Changeable,
Friendship.
Topaz,
Turquoise,
November, December,
Success.
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"The
by
are
in
tfy*
Hratoraal Zoiimt.
wise
man
is
man
obeys them,"
all really
enlightened astrologers.
Just as there
the heliocentric
and
and what
with
is
of stellar science
its
is
physical
We
world
demon-
form
in
nature
is
in
omnipresent intelligence.
When
astrology,
a lecture on
how
any influence on
human
beings,
we
re-
8
tifically
Every world
manifestation,
that glows
and moves
in
space
is
more or
less perfect,
is
of some mental
and
ertia
spiritual
no absolute
in-
tions of
many
than are
who
de-
No
one can be
in-
by anything that has no point of contact with him by reason of some corresponding affiliation with something within him. So soon as this postulate is accepted, the study of astrology and all connected therewith is wonderfully simplified; and the entire theme is rescued from the embrace of empiricism and
fatalism,
and placed on a
is
rational
and
practical basis.
While
there
who
a fundamental
and most
tive
injurious error
whose
is
influence
upon
sensi-
This error
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
ment
influences continually at
work upon
turn, that
us,
and
that
we
by
we
more than pieces of automatic mechanism operated by agencies entirely beyond our own control.
one thing
we
are cer-
and
that
is
that
we
we
re-
arise
We esteem even so modest a work as our present attempt a decided step toward the establishment of a
school of philosophy
whose ground-work
is
in the
human
being holds
own
and
that
individuality
human
is
race.
"One
other
is
star differs
from another
star in glory;"
and
good.
keynote
motto:
We
On
proceed to
we
can-
know
ourselves
and neighbors
better
by
seeking to discover in
great
It
what
human whole we
individually belong.
who
have,
10
and
other celebrated
which
combined
astrology
with
astronomy,
and
taught that
his
man was no
own
own
in
destiny.
Such
expressions as "every
destiny,"
man
own
novels of
cient illumination
they also
embody
the convictions
modern
thinkers
who, imbued
and
than wretched
worms and
all
abject sinners.
Hermes
Trismegistus and
Man
or
wide dissemination of the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg through Europe and America, these expressions
to
modern
ego
students
and
scribes.
Every human
entity or
Our Place
contains
therefore
in the
Universal Zodiac
11
all
it is
possibilities
latent or
dormant within;
it is
within the
But though
here and
now
it is
moment
highly
in.
we
all find
that particular
it
and do
its
in
such
perfect exe-
In these lessons
we
matize as to where
hence, or what
we
shall
we
shall
our teachings are in some senses idealistic and transcendental, they are also intended to be intensely
practical.
is
exalted
and expansive, we
hug
and attainments.
We
Terra*
are here
endowed with
and
hopes,
faculties
aspirations
which are
in
We
are.
what
we
desire because
we
are
what we
;
Our
aspira-
tions
ities
capacities
12
therefore,
do we regard
every soul.
Expansion, not repression, is a theme that needs pursuing. Take a family of from two to six children,
or a class of from ten to
ilarity
fifty,
dissim-
do we discern!
No
are any
more
alike in desires
than
and
abil-
and
necessities.
shelter, air,
exercise,
and other
universal necessaries
how widely
Caste or class
dis-
to
do with
this fearfully
unnatural state of
and wherever
it is
there are
impossible, without
razing the barriers which divide one caste from another, to consult natural disposition.
Only a few
there
were but
gentleman
the
army and
were brought
up
own
set
and genteel
to
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
13
Baker, and
many
In
this
more
stirring
is
and
inquiring
day such a
condition of society
fast
and educators
new and
tion
is
infinitely
able right of every man to be himself and every woman herself, an original, not a copy. The influence of Emerson's essays is being increasingly felt every year,
ethics
lib-
embodied
in those
equity.
troductory discourse
signs of the
we
shall
Zodiac
seriatim.
As
we
one by one
nature,
we
and
of
human
trust that
many
our readers
may be
and
their
companions
human
character;
14
to pass
them
in
review
to exhibit
them
at their best
to interpret
them
to themselves
and
to others, neither
to
Before introducing
we
will, ere
we
conclude
this
Zodiac
to the
Human
Body.
is
whose period
considered
type of person
sense, i
e.,
commanding
The
21,
20
to
May
Gemini, the
May
21 to June 21,
signifies
and stomach.
spine
Leo, the
lion,
and
heart.
September 23,
neys and
to
solar plexus
and
internal organs.
to
Li-
September 23
22
rius,
November 21, organs of reproduction. Sagittahips the archer, November 2 to December 2 and thighs. Capricorn, the goat, December 21 to
1
1 ,
,
January 21 January 21
the knees.
to
February 21
February 21
calves
to
and
ankles.
Pis-
March
20, the
feet.
by
Oar Place
in the Universal
Zodiac
15
much
in-
the general
also instructive
and
tics
entertaining to
characterisis
conspicuous feature of
many
types often
atility,
endow
we
though
we
ly differ,
Genesis, which contains the account of Jacob blessing his twelve sons,
we
fu-
ture career.
first-born,
The
first
is
Reuben, the
whose character
singularly delineated as
very complex.
Reuben
is
inter-
we
at
will simply
comment
as practically as
possible
which are
in the
would make
it
read somewhat
as
follows:
"Though thou
art the
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
\1
if
cellency of dignity
and power,
Warnings
fact
and
this
ponder well.
Every
and some
weakness.
the
weak-
if
make
abeyance and
lie
In these days
telligently discriminate
These
sciences
are
all
Heads,
faces, hands,
and
lines in
body, when
and
show
what particular
now
even rapidly,
way
of either mental or
18
Two
all
facts
need
to
be constantly borne
First,
in
mind by
who
born with
and need
to
be studied so that
we may
Second,
all
undesirable
and
intelligent, per-
metaphysical process.
(birthday
:
prophetic,
energetic, prescient,
toward extreme
ideality.
Persons
who
are confirmed
and
to direct the
work
signs themselves.
new
so
numerous
in this sign,
and
are people
who have
strong, self-opinionated
restraint of
and hard
to
subdue under
dent.
Zodiac, or
who occupy
field.
this
province in the
Grand
Man
to explora-
tion in
some
If
we
consider an ordinary or
this nature,
we
shall find
faculty
exercised
in
planning
new
Our Place
in
the
Universal Zodiac
19
and
When
intellectually
is
same
enterprising disposition
manifested in vastly
is
given to prospect
new
fields
kingdom of thought.
is
When
very largely
adapted
one
to serve as a progres-
who can
brush
away
the
cobwebs of antiquated
psychical element
errors,
and show
life.
to the people
When
the
in the
metric
and clairvoyant
ability
dreamed of
It is
situations.
if this
general delineafaults
tion
is
and
to disease
common
stood and
titioner of
is
rectified
by any
Mental Science.
As
and
to quick
forward
20
The
Significance of Birthdays
and
may
easily
and
prosperity.
The
disorders
common
to the
symptoms peculiar
to
hyper-sensitive constitutions.
But because
can
is
right
mental attitude
well
to
five universally
acknowledged
are
situated
in
the
expression of
and ever on
all
the alert;
and
if
an family,
it is
not at
too
much
lead-
ing positions;
in a
to such offices
normal
tion
It is
Our Place
in
21
fill
really ambitious to
conspicuous
is
compara-
Most men,
as well as most
women,
men
than at present
it
now
often attached to
it,
What we mean by
occupation
is
work
itself,
may
and
it is
on the basis of
we
new
educational sys-
artificial.
Germany,
more than
;
fifteen schol-
ars should
offer
be allotted
one teacher
and we would
made
of
all
the
children submitted to a board of examiners for classification in the schools that only children
profit
who can
adap-
by
the
same
discipline
and show
signs of
tion to the
same
pursuits,
study together.
more im-
for a choice
22
than expression
restless,
is
the
end desired.
Such
much
larger de-
therefore,
though they
may be
their
genuine
seers
schemes
As
pressed and
made
both
in
mind and
are over
who
we deem
it
understand their
own
natures
and cannot
interpret
the
Very
or
is
to
No
To
see
it
know
that
its
ap-
proach, and yet to lack the external means for carrying out your purpose,
is
always
trying,
and
to
an
Our Place
intense,
in
23
exasperating in the
impetuous nature,
Idealists
it
is
extreme.
and
good
anti-
rule, prac-
commonplace
All
artistic
;
Aries type
would be
illy
adapted for
the
way
for
utility.
Two
on the
pull a
this
lips of the
Aries child,
watch
to pieces
why? and how? seem ever who often delights to to see what makes it go. At
and destructiveness seem
point constructiveness
adopted
to secure ends of
new
construction.
The
analytical faculty
when
by other
to
and even
model
fully depict
upon canvas
agony.
24
The
Significance of Birthdays
As
no on
is
compare and
we
find
review of twelve
great varieties of
to
human
expression,
when
called up-
Scientists,
"All
is
Good."
is
All
is
heaven's
first
law; and
mistook
when we
parel
it is
as though
we
and
Everything
has
its
use, place
and
time,
and
wise astrologer ever seeks to inculcate beyond teaching people as far as possible to practically apply an
optimistic
view of
life to
every undertaking.
As
mind
is
very inquiring
it is
and here do we
is
strike
apparently of-
extremely
inconsistent.
Skepticism
and
credulity go
hand
in
The
best
example
which endowed
with horns
is
when
very
sign
;
There
is
intrepidity
far
more common.
The danger
is
Our Place
in the Universal
Zodiac
25
;
or of dis-
Aries person
or child,
is
woman
who can
and appreciate venturesomeness and yet be sufficiently matter-of-fact to discourage rash action
by coun-
seling a
little
is
more
ble step
taken.
make them
enterpris-
who
by counteracting
stances.
is
March
to afford
new
about the
20th of April or a
little
Taurus make an
the
excellent contribution
toward balis
always
bane of Aries.
No words
are
more
truly descrip-
tive of the
strong; but be
in so far as
any
characteristic
aberration,
26
The
Significance of Birthdays
will
be admissible to say a
all astrolo-
Mercury
rising at birth
Mer-
volatility
Mercury
in
who
would never
one
quite
like to
keep
still
who would
thrive
upon constant
and be
all
unless
things
buzz and
stir.
We all
know
upon some
cases
natures, they
make
excellent healers in
of such people
with those
who
are subject to
cold extremities
feet are
clammy
Our Place
in
the Universal
Zodiac
27
whose blood
tion
is
circulates sluggishly;
whose mental
ac-
torpid-
up.
But
to
those
would be
all
make the greatest mistake imaginable. Venus always denotes love of the beautiful;
and
all
dec-
work may be
Venus
in
Aries
is
Mer-
sign,
all
though there
Aries people
a similarity in
the temperament of
would tend
traits
;
though of course
would be
quite natural
and
endowed to earn a good living as some sort of an artist. Mars we regard as the intellectual planet per se, and to the influence of Mars we trace scientific proclivities of the most marked type. Aries people who are strongly influenced by Mars may or may not be combative in the
legitimate for a person thus
pugilistic sense; (they never are unless their develop-
ment
is
development
is
Jupiter,
which denotes
rounded
28
The
Significance of Birthdays
if
rising at the
disposition, which,
when
and
inquisitiveness
asperities,
down
gers
proves an
efficient
many dan-
unwary.
and
evil
inclines
is
toward
taciturnity,
while
Mercury
Saturn's reputed
influence
much
makes
that
it
its influ-
Aries peo-
and make
and
lore.
is
Herschel or Uranus
it
is
in the
Nepsing-
tune
is
an influence
and may
lie
fairly
be
spiritual direc-
mind and
feeling
which
region of normal
mundane
speculation,
Our Place
in
the Universal
Zodiac
29
As
have cited such notable men as William the Germany, Bismark, and Napoleon the Third of France, whose careers have certainly been marked by enterprise and ambition and attended by many
trologers
First of
trying
The
mind
that the
by protracted
study.
$fr.
If^uy^
Taurus, the
to
bull,
whose period
is
from April 21
May
the arms
may
and
two important
sections of
distinctly
a concrete
coupled anatomy.
The
in
Taurus type of
adapted
man
or
woman
and
thick neck,
many ways
far better
any
enterprise.
word
we
intend to
servile
or demeaning
As
Templar
the
German "Ich
itself;
when
is
regarded as the
by
Taurus
is
fills
a so-
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
31
It is,
men who
are chosen to
men
of great originality
of thought or action.
With
occupied by
men whose
Aries sends few people to stations where subjectivity to the will of others is
considered a desideratum
and
eccentric
that they
a decided,
intelligent,
min-
ing castles
there are
solid,
many
architects
the
substantial,
practical
the bulls
who keep
close to earth,
its
finance,
and carry
dreams
of the impulsive
members of
Taurus
type,
which
and
executive.
in
Though no two
their characteristics
signs
By
this
we mean
that
strongly in Aries,
and
32
The
intelligent,
Significance of Birthdays
both are
side
by
side in
will,
of
activities.
To
and a
may be
or
a piano
and a
violin,
or dis-
similar as
as a high soprano
and a
delightfully together,
dissimilar
Two
rules
need always
be remembered,
viz.:
that persons
allied in feeling
different;
and attainments, or
extremely
also that
who
a sincere
times,
and
oil
them
that they
come
to reef-
semble
ficient
nor the other, but can unite the twain until they be-
come one
to all intents
and purposes.
some experiences with de-
To
typically illustrate
who
are
drawn
to-
Our Place
in
the Universal
Zodiac
33
will picture a
gether and
mittee
work
in concert,
we
com-
Ram
and Mr.
and Mrs. Bull have rightfully equal voice and inOur good friends, the Rams, are extremely terest.
progressive.
ahead.
They have
in the
To
them the
for
senti-
ment embodied
for
my
grandfather
is
good enough
is
me,"
is
de-
so unpalatable as
stagnation.
follow in the
Acts of
7th chapter,
who
love
new things. Aries people are always apt to new things because they are new, without alsifting them? to their
ways
foundations to discover
the foundation on
how
valuable or solid
rest.
may be
ideal
which they
But our
Ram
and
what ought
to
34
The
Significance of Birthdays
would not
reduced
to practice.
sits
still,
Taurus
patiently listening
and calmly
feet
nite steps to
and foreseen
seeing
how
to bring
about
everybody
It
without, however,
begins to
association.
Taurus
is
does not
ing in originality
and suggestive
enterprise,
were
it
be reduced
Aries
is is
to practice.
Taurus
and
realists;
while those
who
and
who
marked degree.
instance a happily married couple
We
is
will
now
The man
in this case
much
Our Place
enterprises
in
the Universal
Zodiac
35
which
his
him
will
be
successful,
to himself or
any one
else
is
coming
is
will prosper.
His wife
woman,
but
him.
When
it
he
is full
he
talks
all
no
match
theless
for
him
in
shows him
how
little
work
to
put
machinery
motion to mature
chafe a
He may
at
first
at her slow,
methodical
suggestions.
He may
is
somewhat
rebel at nature's
is
the seed
the one
who
in the
When we
increase
;
read in the
New
Testament
that
Paul
we have
it
Taurus
force
type,
combined
their
Of
course
it is
the wife
may
36
The
Significance of Birthdays
same as though
Aries child
it
An
is
is
and does everything hurriedly; but a Taurus child often thought to be heavy and not so bright.
the ideas grasped
Though
is
when
dealing
with individuals
Zodiac.
slain,
The ram
sacrifice
in
crossing.
Aries
the
is
the
for
who pave
way
and
sight.
com-
They
are frequently
profitably
Taurus.
officer,
an
When
edge displayed
in
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
37
use of the
word
buil
The
gen-
and
this is
Taurus people.
and
They
moment
for action.
As
may
be depended upon
of real necessity
resources,
and
that
out of their
abundance of
latent
and
truly
helpful
sympathy without
people incline
suffering
any sense of
depletion themselves.
Aries
Science.
to the
theory of
Mental
They
are
good
theoretical demonstrators,
and
in cases
disposed to
giving magnetic
They make
excellent masseurs,
and
as attendants
Being very
practical, they
is
want
to see just
how
a thing
it.
to
be done
They
are often a
over-cautious
;
and sometimes
in action
upon.
As
Aries people,
when
afflicted,
are chiefly
38
The
Significance of Birthdays
who
to
and
often,
se-
stolid,
they suffer
Nothing can be
truer than
is
noth-
ing
we
cannot
overcome."
But
those beautiful
optimistic
words of a
gifted poetess
would be meanto
ingless if there
were no tendencies
be mastered.
"He
this
statement also
trials to
if
there
were
no
encounter, efforts to
make and
victories
to win.
The
is
special excellen-
cies
is
and
its
peculiar temptations.
Individualization
the sole
to every conceivable
be inherited or subsestate
is
No
abnormal
natural,
and
no disease
is
unconquerable.
But
in order to
under-
it is
we
by
so
doing
we
fulness
to
do a much greater
work
in truly teaching
we
If a
cast
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
39
easily
be explained, as follows:
Mercury
rising will
singularly active
and
and
is
concerned.
The
essen-
native will be
more impulsive
in his
executiveness
Venus be
Mars be most
will
probably be distinctly
and
to
an extent
iconoclastic.
Jupiter,
which
is
comprehensive, would
a singular
endow
to a very consoling,
would
make
tive,
the
silent
and meditahis
book,
convivial
playmates.
would give the Taurus work alone, persistently, at some strange work which he would probably carefully secrete and carry forward surreptitiously. Neptune in Taurus would give a tendency to
Uranus, always
peculiar,'
40
spirituality
The
Significance of Birthdays
reduced
to a science,
think of
than
such an one,
who would
member
To sum up Taurus, we
is
work of
the world,
and
Aries,
the architect
theorist;
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fiv/uJ.
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After passing from Aries through Taurus
to the
we come
Those
most
Zodiac.
persons
who
strings to their
While
necessary to those
the Twins,
It
which are
we
of
satility
Gemini people
is
a sign
de-
in their favor, as
many
signs; to carry
ruts,
many
and
command
to
over environments,
differing situations.
As Gemini
and
naturally expresses
42
duality.
The
Significance of Birthdays
There
is
head
is
divided into
many
sec-
distinctly
right
and
left.
certainly
act
the hands
in defiance of
each other.
The two
sides of the
respectively intellect
and
af-
When
we
witness
happy a combination of
forces
and
activities that
is
a singularly suc-
when
a person
and
such
conflict,
itself
an one
very
likely to suffer
from
much
on the
in
desolation.
No
much
drilling
subject of unity
and co-operation
is
as
do those
to
from about
to
May 20
June
on
how
and the
this
to unite desire
peculiarly valuable
new
if
ideas,
make
ex-
Our Place
stant
ing
in the
Universal Zodiac
43
disciplin-
The
special tendency
in
which needs
is
and regulating
such people
their
tendency
new
task.
The
studios
and other
artistic
When
this
erratic
tendency
is
properly regulated
di-
fill.
As
in
upon
an emergency, as they
widely different
occupy.
usually
know how
to act in situations
They
work
in stores as clerks
artists or
Gemini children
nature
but
profounder students
of
human
make
consecutive hours
day
and
day
it;
enjoy
adapted
to their
need but
little
physical exer-
and
re-
44
The
Significance of Birthdays
Others again
head
is
much
latter,
is
the desideratum.
satisfied
with
in
Dr.
J.
R. Buchanan's "New Education" were faithGemini children would not comand grown people would not
If all persons
find
own
needs
sufficiently to voice
ward
to the acquisition of
more knowledge
so that
we may
of thought,
is
more he
re-
may be
cited as extremely
advanced
illus*
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
45
trations of the
acteristics of this
be beacon
lights,
others
scaled.
forward
to the
is
heights they
have already
literary
Emerson
magnets
satility
in the reading
we know
who
Therefore
him
to take his
body over
till
the globe.
Then they can stay at home and be the Mahomet who can call the mountain to himself, not needing any longer to make a pilgrimage
to the
mountain
in order to breathe
its
bracing
air
its
and
thrown out by
Queen
Gemini
Victoria
is
type.
One who
famous queen
remarkable
opposite
decidedly
it
Without the
eventful,
least disrespect
may be
was one of
and
and
at the
same time
reigns in history.
46
The
type of mind
to
Significance of Birthdays
is
always astonishing
fathom
like,
it
person
who
is
or bold
and
timid, or conservative
Still these
and progressive,
is
an enigma.
possibilities.
is
A man of one
guilty to the
who
traits,
rides a
hobby,
charge of inconsistency,
anthropologist.
people
who
it,
will
first
read their
own and
way
calculated to interpret
human
to
nature to
itself
be influenced even
in the slightest
degree by a doc-
which
is
of
and
injurious
human
all
inversions, negative
ignorance.
The
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
47
greater necessarily
is
his
power.
Power must be
it
may be
ex-
They
like to
have
many
Therefore,
if
they allow
change and
confusion of a studio
filled
duction
among
The
this
is
to intelligently
admit
is
Gemini type
not
mands
of such a nature,
the day's
work be divided
employ-
much
diversity in
ment as
greatly
possible.
At
then
Or
They
will
work
industriously
and con-
made
to suffer
mon-
otony.
They need
recreation to
a great extent.
rmjul^J
&'?:t^-v^
48
The
Significance of Birthdays
Many
people
who
and
private residence;
one
string
is
everything that
is
like to take in
by
levity with
to treat
As
writers, teachers
for
mind.
brilliant
much
instruction,
when
easily stand
much worry
sleep.
and require a
large
amount of
Ten
if
four
may
of this temperament,
Mercury was
suffice.
rising at their
time of birth.
If
may
As we
have given
in the
two preceding
lessons the
Our Place
cate,
in the
Universal Zodiac
49
be tautological,
to
we
will
to
make
Remember
but
it
And now
ence.
word on
As
the
head and
though
the
distinct,
thoroughly co-operative.
other follows.
The
one leads
and
The
to
work with
their
hands, but
is
The
engaged
comparatively
artistic
intelligence
many
being
exceedingly
accomplished painters,
sculptors
and
As
it is
possible
two hands
it
to
though
is
work
50
perfectly together,
all things to
The
Significance of Birthdays
^y
In dealing with
this,
twelve signs,
we
shall
and
among
is
to
be found
in this province
is
The
,
period of Cancer
from about
his reign.
June 2
to
July 2 1
The
time of the
summer
the time
when
the
days begin
to shorten
to lengthen,
when
the nights
It
has
many
is
always a
spiral
pathway, not
and as we
live in
all is
we grow
changing
52
The
it is
Significance of Birthdays
ward, while
in reality
a forward, move.
Cancer, to our
way
wedded
to antiquities.
They pay
very
without
asking
members of such
This tendency
"Who
is
father?"
certainly in
many
the
cases
At
same
is
time,
it
not
alone in
blood;"
that there
is
a certain advantage
that while
good heredity.
aside,
and
all
if
we
we
shaping a disposition.
way
out of
all difficulties
work
to
overcome.
is
While
trospection,
which
a conspicuous
trait
of the
Can-
cer temperament,
is
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
53
it
and
pessimistic philosophy,
is
and employ
this
tend-
ency as
to
make
it
and successes.
And
in this dis-
and
seat
and here
its
ancient traditions.
When,
in
Cancer people,
tense love of children, of home, of the beautiful, is developed and broadened into the love of the whole
human
man;
lief that
race,
is
one";
when
they
to
them
deck
their persons
and
their
homes
and
in purple
and
made
beautiful within
then
we
find
one of the
in the
whole Zo-
Thus,
in
Masonic
Societies, in lodges of
Odd
Felto-
ward
universal understanding,
we
find large
numbers
of these spiritually
mani-
and
spiritual brother-
hood.
54
The
Significance of Birthdays
An
and
is
undeveloped people
in this sign
stronger
than
their
self-esteem;
and
though
in
these
two
as
confounded, no two
human
the influence
find
they exert
is
concerned,
though
we may
logical chart.
fearless self-assertion.
trait
who
to
it
champion a
new
cause, no matter
how unpopular
may
yet con-
tinue to be.
shrinking, ultra-sensitive,
Vanity and
Con-
Mrs. Gruninnovations
shrine.
They dread
They
usages,
dote on candle,
in-
and ancient
and mediaeval
rites
fascinating to them.
ancient ruins
and as they love to delve among and rummage through old book-cases,
knowledge.
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
55
as
Cancer
ideality.
is
the sign of
idealist
is
memory,
Aries
is
of
The
constitutionally given to
is
ever looking
backward.
singularly
Memory
alone
is,
in
our judgment, a
of
trying
overated faculty,
and instead
memory to excess, and always depending upon it, we should strive for penetrativeness, foresight and many other gifts and graces of which the worshipers of memory take little or no account. We
to cultivate
"You
must
when one
is
"You
if
Cancer peo-
and
memo-
ries,
to a
means of
real
Rememmust
write
all recollections
Memorial
tablets
become
choose. of
we can
good memory
human
by no means
it
so helpful
awakened
56
will.
The
Significance of Birthdays
The remembrance
and leads
is
of former greatness
is
often
depressing,
ties,
when
to
strength
needed here
iand
now
to buckle
to leap for-
The
Chinese Empire
is
in the sign
Cancer.
The
Mongolian race
especially an
Egypt; not
to
march forward
an untried Canaan.
Confucius
was ever
insisting
upon veneration
for ancestors
and
Etiquette plays an
immense part
it
in the
way
rig-
who
in
to
pay court
mere ex-
They
are, as a rule,
extremely conventional
full-
much
in
mat
whether
much and
Our Place
in
the Universal
Zodiac
57
and
is
will
and may,
his surround-
old; to
walk
"My
grandfather
was an
for him,
excellent
is,
and ought
good enough
for
me."
As
to
it
is*
condemn; a philosophic
attitude
toward Cancer
them
to
to yield.
Rheum-
and a host of
and
all
The
may
and
to
58
The
Significance of Birthdays
all similar
mental
and
fatten.
to
be
much
minds
their
to
dwell
upon
insults
and
though they are frequently anything but resentful in the violent sense, they labor
under a sense of
hurt or injury.
and
their
them
for-
it
is
highly
and
to help
them
to realize the
beauty of the
and
to appreciate the
As
the
Cancer
its
unless
past,
diverted from
contoo
templation
the
apt to be altogether
retrospective
who
encourage, as
this type,
all
young people of
those out-door
social gatherings
which
moodiness
and melancholy.
Cancer people are usually highly conscientious.
They have
Our Place
in
the Universal
Zodiac
59
cannot
who
suffer
insults
condemn
An
is
extreme parsimo-
housekeeper of
who
housekeeping,
is
of
little
things
which may
This
be converted
into
money.
deed they
trait is
it
On
domestic economies
may exhibit none of the small we have referred to but the at;
them
in
;
a tento save
dency
old
to conserve old
letters; to
or to accumulate
in curios
may be
led to study
60
really intense
ily
The
Significance of Birthdays
we do
not need to
is
al-
ready present.
Stirpiculture equally
w ith
r
agriculture
and
do
the
The world
lessons
from
Therefore, though
we
our
in
"i^ave
shown
shadowy background,
to
as well as the
this essay,
been
We
;
human
life
and we are
sure
when
is
the
under^
that mysterious
Apocalypse a
the
Leo
modified,
and they
moderate
for
Cancer
really advances,
it
though
it is
its
behav-
sometimes makes
appear that
retrograding.
Vfee
As
the
Jffifllr
M>tt~"f*tf
is
the
ffcm
to
as the heart of
as
an
"Keep
the
As
its
specific character,
and
signs
in direct
contrast,
we
find that
is
Leo people
it is
whose place
in
Cancer as
possible for
is
two
sets
of individuals to be.
Cancer
slow, conservative
giv-
and apt
to
be
selfish.
their enis
Cancer
and
is,
therefore, apt to
be
coldly intellectual,
not curious to note
juxtaposition
shell-fish?
and
is it
when
these
in
how
and
into one's
own
Though when
(crab-
selfish or shell-fish
62
like)
The
character
Significance of Birthdays
becomes
only
well
protected,
shielded from attacks of all kinds, through an unusually perfect development of individual aura.
beautiful can the originally selfish,
So
shut-in nature
it
become
soft,
as
it
at length
may
be compared
Cancer people
retiring
and given
those
becomes
whose province
Grand
expenditure of their
opposite of Cancer.
is,
very
Leo
is
and
same
with Aries
and
We note often
ents,
that
and by
Leo persons
capacity.
and draw
to
we
find
many
effective presid
and
whose career
Ward
was due
how much
to his personality.
He
was
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
63
great,
He
had a
warm,
ten-
to listen to his
Emerson
said
still
growing among
and he
was not highly esteemed by the masses while on earth. His nature and style might be called Platonic
and academic, while Beecher's was
lar.
intensely popu-
And
so
it
was
to a large
Brooks.
Many
which,
when
and
multitude
drawn
to
as
crowds were
Then
consider Ingersoll,
who
from gallery
say,
tures
as.
to orchestra chairs.
His
lec-
brilliant
and
historical
and many
others,
Still
contain
the
same
the
it.
Were
they
it
only
matter
equally content
64
read
it
The
or hear
it
Significance of Birthdays
When
ences,
in ancient
at
its
height,
their
own poems
to
enamored audivisitors
composed of
the wealthiest
and
Leo type of humanity was very much esteemed and very much in evidence. Leo people are remarkably successful healers when they see
near, the
their patients, talk
They
and
We all
is
whose personal
influence
Leo
who
have so far conquered the limitations of the geographical, that they can send their rich,
erful thoughts
warm, pow-
body.
The
is
commanding
and generally
and expressing
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
65
thoughts within.
There
is
as
much
as
difference be-
we have
seen
exhibited
Ingersoll
by Cardinal Manning (Cancer) and Col. (Leo) We do not mean that Cancer peo.
Leo people
r
known men
types.
tradition,
exhibit the
extremes of tw o opposite
all that
tends to
In per-
he
in
mode
of
life ascetic.
Ingersoll,
all traces
an almost
boundless
vitality.
tirely in his
thoughts
in his personal
magnetism.
ents
heart
husband, father
and neighbor.
Leo
and
it
is
Leo people;
his
was
Ingersoll's heart
more than
head
that
lover'* is
a good old
Why
is
it
makes
itself
felt
wherever
66
exists?
The
Significance of Birthdays
Everybody
likes to love
to
be
upon
affection,
and cannot
exist
without
tion
it.
They
of
it
and
it,
to attract
Leo
children are
easily
effusive.
They
make
favorites at school.
They
and
own way
without
much
effort
ant manners,
genial
disposition
and prepossessing
and and
conIn business, people
appearance.
The Leo
child
is
promoted.
They
receive
life in
They can
be
terrible in
anger
if
fine
dogs they
are, as
large
Mirthfulness
is
their brains.
They
and
to
let
by nature
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
67
resented forcibly
is
by
them.
We
find
much
and
must be
and
willfulness are
is
The
former word
rarely used,
and
but
the latter
is
mercilessly abused
these
and misapplied;
in
when both
be very nearly
synonymous.
All
must
upon the
heart.
first
through
the brain,
which
so that
home and
be
characteristic.
like to
by
and
themselves.
They
distressed.
As
many
"Al."
No
sign contains so
natural healers
who,
lack of knowing
aright,
how
to to
are
inclined
68
The
Significance of Birthdays
and
the difficulties
full
comhabit.
mon
Alimentiveness
so
they
w ho
r
get
up
fairs,
bazaars and
ail sorts
ments
for charity.
Such
people are
all
places where
"Lady
inate;
Bountiful'
her generosity.
it
The Leo
type
is
often indiscrimit
is
does not
approve
efforts
of associated
and
systematized
in the
is
name
Impulse
so
strong in
Leo and
and
the slow
movement of
well as disrelish.
On
It
the
whole
this sign
may
fairly
be styled the
many
and most
is
suc-
cessful
right
doctors of
to use
schools.
Heartiness
its
the
word
when summing up
most con-
spicuous evidences.
J7*C-K-5*>/K
is
to
September 23,
the
of
is
includes the
womb
(the
or matrix
heart)
is
organism.
As Leo
warm,
impulsive,
in the
gushing,
fullest
exuberant,
magnetic,
of
rejoicing
consciousness
opulent
and
in
every
way
and whatever
to
communicable, Virgo
is
inclined
of offspring.
all
Leo
that pertains
the affections.
Virgo
is
the
Wisdom
in
in the
and out of
is
the Bible,
spoken of as feminine.
Wisdom
on seven
is
pillars
(vide Prov.
I).
Sophia (wisdom)
so,
a Greek
when,
in the eighth
70
chapter of Proverbs, she
The
is
Significance of Birthdays
Him
from
the beginning,
is
the
masculine
element
there referred to
word
things
and brings
When
at
emblem Pyramid
lesser
which
and understanding.
and 23, are often found to be, by natural tendency, remarkably well balanced. They have, as a rule,
a very
fine
perception of
how
to adjust
and balance
to a nicety.
They
away
people
by
as
many Leo
and
intellectual
many who
Virgo
is
it is
though
this
conduces
is
to sensuality,
tendency
Virgo we
proportion
many
seers
and prophets.
large
or
of those
second
sight,
may be
fairly
stated that
is
the one
Our Place
of
in
the Universal
Zodiac
71
the greatest
is
recuperative power.
The
typical
is
Virgo person
muscular
not
in large degree,
particuis
larly impressive
on
first
The
is
contrast presented
particularly marked.
Leo wins
and holds
attractive-
its
is
way by
the sign
Leo
and
persons
who
is
of large account.
many deep
philosophers and
and
is
naturally
endowed
A
the
very
conspicuous
example
of
Virgo
was
of Schiller,
in
widely
differed
is
many
Goethe
modern
Virgo
writers,
qualities
his
more than
in
his
delineations
of
artists
own
ex-
and record
and
72
or sing; but though this
is
The
Significance of Birthdays
a universal
who can
dissect themselves
To
Virgo people
self-
more than
alysis,
to
comprehension.
an-
Virgo.
general view of
things.
They
what
never contented
and
is
dissection
very gratifying to
it
Virgo type, of
its
whom
may be
said,
representatives so
as
happy
or so con-
genially
employed
when
its
movement.
many
chemists
and some
and
of
alchemists;
many who
in
psychological
there
is
review;
outbursts
may be
rarely a fighter, as he
In the
work
of teaching
and healing we
work, and
find but
few,
as
a rule,
who
are
eminently successful in
still
lines of
fewer
who
Our Place
that
in
the Universal
Zodiac
73
warm
affectionate
to another, as
we
on
a cold night.
themselves,
friends
who
to
what
who sets them forth. many distinguished casuists and many highly successful lawyers are in Virgo; and among able barristers it is well known that eloquence is
than to the one
great
common.
tion,
For
and
many
and
it is
which we
find
much
artistic
and great love of order and beauty. feminine qualities of Virgo are shown in a disposition to retain, mature and reproduce in new
ability
The
forms
whatever
intelligence
has
been
received.
by no means
idle.
In
not, as
All that
is
trans-
74
dwell
The
Significance of Birthdays
much
in the
them
Many
as
people in Virgo
make
excellent debaters,
difficult to
vanquish in argument,
momentary
dis-
hearten them.
soon ready to
work with
all the
and
if
he
and of deep
stores of
knowledge
things
they seem
the fact
tical,
is
much
influenced
by
trivial
occurrences,
and analy-
that they
made
if
the entering
wedge
is
granted.
critical of
themselves
Our Place
in
the Universal
Zodiac
75
as well as of others
book
re-
Having a keen
counselors
and
pleased to be
made
fine,
There
is
They have
often very
little
them; and
if
may make
them
in
but
tell
and they
your
is
trust,
and con-
word, which
attention paid to
They do
respect.
If
you wish
to
make
way
do
it
is
to
pay court
is
to his intelligence, as
pride of intellect
Conscientiousness
is
is
prominent
Virgo, and so
is
self-esteem.
Love of personal
in*
freedom
also conspicuous,
76
The
Significance of Birthdays
is
frequently so strong
is
People
They
be
may
diffi-
altruistic also;
often
They
when they are in the ruler's despotic. Though they adore their
it
think
better than
any one's
else,
own in Leo
world.
animal
Virgo
is
distinctly feline.
we
and
will
divine
emblems
Egypt.
The
was esteemed and venerated as an embodiment of affection and fidelity; while all animals of the cat species were regarded as emblems
protector,
plays in
its
through a
dis-
The
and the
Sedentary pursuits
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
77
The
to
distinctly
be compared
quickly
very fruitful
where seeds
Virgo
germinate
and
results
multiply.
women
those in
and they
much
some other
signs.
When
the development
of a Virgo person
sense nature
fruitfulness
is
is
intensely intellectual,
and the
quite subordinate,
dropped
spring
of a Virgo
mind
will
up and bear a
surprisingly
abundant harvest of
results.
They
by much
that
and while
so,
this
not in reality
but
when
trace
analogies between
things great
and
small,
inward
and outward.
can
Swedenborg's
probably
doctrine
of
correspondences
be
more
readily
understood by representatives of
those of any other,
favorite study
it
this sign
than by
curious analogies
78
its
The
uttermost conclusion.
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of
would be
sign, as
mapped
and of mental
suggestion.
Virgo, in
sign,
fine,
is
and though
to
not at
all
given
coarseness
or gross materiality.
"Let us
mate.
mind of
Goethe we
Wqt Palatum
The number
seven,
perpetual
of old,
men
Seven,
works,
while
when
always
applied
to
anything
in
Kabalistic
of
quality,
designates
perfection
The
may
all
to the value of
ratio,
All
life is
expressed in geometrical
scientific
When
the
and Copernicus,
they did but
in the universe,
it
not
they had
80
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closest reasoners
so enlightened that
many
amaze
of the
other
lines,
structures
on
strictly
geometric
of
which to-day
many
modern world.
seventh sign of the Zodiac
is
The
the sign of
judgment.
by
the
is
The woman
;
is
the
equinoctial
virgin
(Virgo)
We
in a previous essay to
and alluded
qualities of
with
the feminine
the
solar
plexus.
Leo being Will, and Virgo, Understanding Leo being the seat of emotion, and Virgo, of intuition, it logically follows that when Libra is attained
the
day of judgment
to
is
at
hand;
we
in
condition
judge
righteously,
e.,
equitably.
in
stulti-
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in
the Universal
Zodiac
81
more from
technically substituted
in
phraseology
is
as
in treating of
man
as though
woman were
equally.
of
little
or
which
signify
The
Latin
word
the
justitia is
woman
This should
be
Justice
may be
fairly
a whole.
Mercy
the individual.
The two
wrong
doer.
Justice insists
latter.
way
to
and
both
combined
result of
Justice
One
it
never
will not
be
until
human
as to frame
and
and general
prosperity.
82
The
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We
justly
meet
sometimes
with
people
who seem
like the
endowed from
happy
faculty of being
Men
author of
"Ten Great
many
other admirable
w orks,
r
which
is
study of comparative religion would be most agreeable to such a type of mind, because
it
would not
We do
not say
faith.
They may,
like
liberal
any other
their
religious system
on earth; but
system they
they do,
conception of the
will
religion,
stress
and
on
Leo
is
tive philosophers,
who
are called in
"Psycopathy" by Cora L. V.
Richmond,
social solvents.
However
great Shakespeare
in
Our Place
his
in
the Universal
Zodiac
83
ability
to
human
whose
that
nature to
itself,
"The Merchant
It
of
Venice" he
may be urged
and
to the times
reflecting
in the
Europe
middle ages.
Be
that so,
ac-
momentous
Shylock
problem
vitally
affecting
legislation.
is
is just,
Portia
merciful,
drama
need a
in
is
equitable.
who opposed him were unfair. We playwright to-day who will give us a drama
is
which equity
that
exhibited in so unmistakable a
manner
this
satisfactorily
be a characteristic
Libra
man
or
woman.
Libra people are reconcilers and peace-makers by
natural
disposition.
They
are
fine,
dispassionate
reasoners,
excellent in debate,
but by no
means
given
to
contentious
arguing.
out,
is
good
Head and
84
ation.
The
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Only when we deal with questions from the intellectual and emotional standpoint alike are we
in the
way
to
questions
us.
upon
Libra
is
many
world
has ever
seen;
we
often discover
when we
22,
Libra's period.
full
Conciliation
and
arbitra-
tion are
words very
of meaning
who
and
it
may
fairly
of their neighbors.
They do
be very
They may
and have no
confess that
and merits on
either side.
Such
They do
go
purpose of arriving at
an equitable decision
unkind or malicious
intent.
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in the
Universal Zodiac
85
in politics,
In social
life, in
religion
and
Libra
is
The
It exhibits
makes many
friends
and reconpre-
the
embrace of
who had
Wheel,
marking
Libra
is
placed
in the
central
position,
the turning
point or
place
of
juncture
This
is
a somewhat am-
and evolution
preceding
by means
Libra;
of. a diagram.
The
six signs
viz.,
Leo
;
upper hemisphere
and
in the
is
of the earth.
the judge
Thus
in every sense
does
it
denote
who
common
but
with
all
other bodies of
their
its
will
faithfully
face
own
inner
ecclesiastical calendar
and
fearlessly read
86
meaning,
sublimest
The
they
will
find
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therein
key
to
the
and most
they
stupendous
mysteries
life;
of the
human
and
in
discovery
The
philosopher's
in their pos-
stone
and the
elixir
of
life
would be
session.
But forever
let it
in the
key
were seeking
accom-
plish.
ways
of
life
the character-
and
use-
fully, in full
of
the
sign,
when
its
innermost
significance
is
acknowledged.
Many
good
At any
if
rate
they give
work.
social office of
Libra
is
party, or at
any
festive gathering
An
who
who
is
manner
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in the
Universal Zodiac
87
each other,
a falling out.
They
or even
how
in passing
on the
street;
one known that Mrs. Katt had invited the other to her party, neither would have accepted the invitation.
As
it
is
in to dinner.
Mrs. Katt, a very penetrative woman, has purposely invited the Misses Wratfe aad Mousse, and
also a mutual
all like,
esteem and
it
is
whose
regard
who
friend
and
as he
sits
attention of both,
ing
to
room again
why
and
Among
in
Libra,
we may mention President Hayes, who certainly made many friends and left an excellent record
behind him.
so
is
Sarah Bernhardt
is
also in Libra,
and
the
women
and
of
newspapers
to
whom whom
the
88
multitude
will
flock,
The
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though
for
very
different
reasons oftentimes.
many
parts,
wonderfully well
in
sumed.
Mrs.
Besant has
self-denying,
it
philanthropic
life
all
extremes or indulging
in coarse invective.
if
of
Theosophy was based entirely on its appeal to her sense of equity; and it may be here remarked that
many Libra people take very kindly to the doctrines There is much that of Karma and reincarnation.
fascinates
them
in the elaborate
metaphysical systems
of
India,
which seek
to
and
and
patient workers
and,
if
they
who
repre-
Our Place
sent the
in the
Universal Zodiac
89
signs.
Sarah
her parts.
ability,
and supplefiery,
by
art.
Though
parts
she can be
in
many
play
respects a reconciler,
and has
rare
ability
to
many
on both
any character
will usually
overseers,
choir
bailiffs,
masters,
band
managers,
stewards and
housekeepers; and
intellectually
universities.
they
Libra
seat;
equity, those
who
the
manor born."
this
and other
signs,
we do
not wish to be
all
now
we
very
nearly accurate.
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This
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October 22
to
November 22,
the
have given
their
rise
to
very
or
malodorous
concerning
malefic
malignant influence.
Scorpio
is
the place of
nativity of three
very
remarkable
characters in
modern
history,
Marie
those
who
it
are within
its
But
is
we
celestial houses,
we
T
discover as
we advance from
that
sign
station to station
on our journey
marked
is
Each
Our Place
itself,
is
in
the Universal
Zodiac
Scorpio,
and
whose place
Sagittarius.
sting
is
A scorpion with
we
and dangerous.
its
ture to contemplate,
of this sign
both disagreeable
But on
further investigation
;
we
may
for
though
dragon mentioned
of
in the
unknown
terror
to the superstitious
countries
from time
immemorial, the
very devil
this
boon
satan,
to
may be
and
it is
called in
we have now
deal.
Satan as mentioned
not a
The
was a
rightful administrator in
and though
to
it
was
his
mankind
judgment,
just.
the
The
man
or
woman
is
and though
entious.
not apt to be
particularly amiable, he
may be
is
thoroughly consci-
The
Scorpio temperament
92
The
one.
It is
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happy
and too
se-
verely critical to be
what
its
is
natured;
but
it
has
place,
place be the
its
room of
critic
and
and though
its
shadow, and
artistic office is to
need
to
be done.
Scorpio people
when
uncompromising
feel to
in their denunciation of
what they
exacting,
be wrong.
They may be
just,
Their nature
come
most farthing."
We
seemed
have
to
all
work
in life
selves included.
ibility in all
matters
pertaining
to
conscience
or
morals, they have appointed themselves, and consider themselves divinely ordained to
sit
in
judg-
Many
many
and
second
sight.
Quick-
and
action, gener-
and of
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in the
Universal Zodiac
93
peacemakers.
it
difficult to serve as
strife
They
about
usually
their
stir
up
own
ears without in
ment.
midst of
stir
to
be
their special
duty to
things
up and
tions.
call
They have
NOW
the
It
judgment day.
to
greeable features of
out
its
to point
One who
to let
apathy and
in-
may be
a very useful
Healers
netic effect
to
who
upon
mag-
of the munici-
may
like agitator,
whose province
it
is
to scent out
it.
what
how
to
do
Scorpio stands
sagacity
94
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no means suggests
except
spitefulness
is
or
vindictiveness,
where
judgment
perverted
through
As
Libra debalances
the judge
and
that
is
the signifi-
new
scale,
first
stage in
a higher or regenerate
The
gospel
tells
us that after
we have
how
to
when we
and
prejudice, blindness
all else
and moral
vision,
we
shall
be
in
a condition to teach
in their
wrongs
own way
it
of thinking,
and
the conduct
No more
he
to point out to
may
The
for with
remarkably keen
this
and penetrative
incisiveness,
people of
stamp are
Oar Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
95
by reason of
It
their clear
discernment
of special needs.
Diagnosis
a favorite occupation with Scorpio, but diagnosis a totally different thing with metaphysicians than
clair-
All
who have
how easy
to relate facts
view of any
situa-
Now
up news,
to col-
lect statistics
and
to
do
reportorial or
newsmongering
either a
work
in general
and
in particular,
may be
trait,
according
pressions in
made of it by its possessor. Excommon use in society are rarely accurwhich should
talking about people
ever be
made between
them
is
and
talk-
ing against
It is quite
amisay
we
96
about people
The
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when
their
in
any
way
censorious.
So
sure
do we
feel that
people will
that all na-
always seek
and
we cannot positively condemn even the practice of gossiping, to which Scorpio peois
not
by any means an
wisely directed,
lishing
evil,
when
may be made
still
means of accomp-
much
is,
real good.
There
is
however, a
very prominent in
this sign,
and
that
is
the exit,
the
generative
organs.
Much
is
few instances do we
find
much
definiteness
evil,
is
and
and
directness.
The
when
seen
so
;
clearly
many
Scorpio persons
is
ed
The
is
love
there
always
wher-
strong vitality
for good,
commonly
called animal
and
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of
life's
in
the Universal
Zodiac
97
manifestation.
is
artistic
work
when
is
it
ex-
the ser-
where
in the Bible.
distinct tempters
mentioned
in the
dif-
the one
among
who
fulfill
was taken
by Matthias,
the require-
ment of a complete
the Zodiac.
esis
representative of each
If
you read
Genboth
by name, you
Genesis the
name Dan
it is
occurs, while
missing in
Of Dan
ward."
correct
human
nature, so
ment
ted,
in character.
In the Apocalypse
Dan
is
omitits
This involves on
98
truly esoteric side a deeper
;
The
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problem than
we may
yet
we have reached its inwe can certainly discern this we figuratively take up serpents, we
We
gle
much
and
far too
of the strugis
for improvement.
The
procreative faculty
production
is
either ignored or
handled as though
to discuss.
it
Until
all
human welfare
all sides,
are freely
and
we
shall look in
species.
is
The whole
when
in
fall
of Lucifer, who,
fallen,
nature;
and when
-and
it
was
beautiful be-
fore
it
became corrupted
the Phallic
emblems de-
noted purely
natural garments.
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in the
Universal Zodiac
99
of
Henry Drummond
in
"The Ascent
Man," emto
ence,
which
is
The
survival of the
reproduction.
Thus can we
"We
shrined in
its
very heart at
its
vital core,
may
to
illum-
make
by transforming them
what
is
positively
ficent.
Scorpio
tion
it
is
is
can
we
what we
how
this
dream of
the mystics
may be
practically fulfilled in the evolution of nobler character than ever appeared before?
They
which
guidance to
assist
them
to
overcome the
00
their
The
Significance of Birthdays
always surround
to
be
when
may do
they
may
accomplished. Persons in
quick tempers.
Their nature
volcanic.
The
dis-
flamatory type.
ly conquered
As
all
methods
we
should recommend
adopt
and
good
for
quieting.
They
require
much
sleep,
and are
better
At
and
in
much
success
and
the
held in subjection to
intelli-
gence.
Curiosity
is
a leading
all
trait
of
all
Scorpio natures,
a disagreeable
and
this
may
range
the
way from
affairs,
to a
remarkable
The
when
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in the
Universal Zodiac
101
given to
Libra merges into Scorpio, is a time when birth is many very remarkable geniuses, and we
many
the
The
about November 2 1
ittarius, is
also,
two
signs in their
makeup
to decide, impulsive
and determined
to vigorously
sweep aside
all
obstacles
a true de-
worst
and
raise
it
to a noble plane,
ways
that
be.
Though
censorious
often displayed
by Scorpio people,
critical disposition,
which
rightly
is
theirs
by
right,
and lovingly, that instead of censuring their fellows and making the world a harder place for sensitive natures to live in, they can so consecrate and wisely use their critical acumen that they can see
through
all
who
would otherwise be
society in
ness.
victimized, and produce in the which they move a higher tone of righteous-
this sign,
lift
e.,
few whose
entirely be-
them
yond
there are,
indeed,
many who
sign,
1
whose
autumnal
November 2
to
December 2
1 ,
is
indicative of a very
direct nature,
who
will
Were we
character
to single out
an example of
this
type of
by
executed workmanship,
we
sian capitals,
Moscow and
soldiers in
Petersburg.
road, built
by order of one of
abundant
was executed by
proved
their
who
of a constructive nature
when
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
03
is
laid
cities
who
live
intended to serve as
Moscow, and
fined mission,
it
does
it
so.
It
has a
it.
definite,
well de-
and
fulfills
We
expressions
"a bee
line"
characteristic of
An
ar-
row
shot from a
bow
hitting a
is
predetermined mark
Archer
decid-
Zodiac.
this
Whatever
and
is
type of person
may
be, he
is
He
is
Circumlocution
little
and he has
who
As
it is
there
is
tween
him,
man and
elements
of
nature
around
when
is
air, inviting,
almost com-
pelling,
who
104
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answer a pertinent
in-
much
made
in the
North-
ern
constellations
be com-
pletely reversed?
To
of the
this
we
is
much
rea-
human
a special explanation
may be needed
for Australasia,
South
This
specific
by any one
who
might be manifested
in
Libra;
in
mid-summer
in the
the Northern
Hemi-
sphere
is
mid-winter
vice versa.
To
and endeavor
fairly say
to delineate
leading qualities,
we may
impatience of
all
The
and the
or
ocean
man
woman, who
seeks to
Our Place
in
the Universal
Zodiac
105
means of
belong in
rely
who
of the Zodiac;
to furnish
upon them
means
we
expect from
practical annihila-
may be
the
interest
ference,
phenomena
who
We
do not mean
who
is
striving to
true,
spir-
do good
in
"There are
it;"
spirit is
given to every
types of
its
man
expression; all
when
rightly understood
we
all
discover
far better
adapted
to
convey
Others, again, do
06
The
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their
Some
healers
if
not better,
The
type of
now
considering
is,
ability to
Clear-cut,
travel
precise.
is
articulated
mental
messages
always
which are
less definite
and
The
and we
listen
when we only
and watch
their
movement, how
far
excels.
full Sagittarius
Some
type
disagreeable,
because
it
is
so
often
blunt,
little, if
any, of that
there
is
and
that
is,
it
meaning intended
be conveyed.
is
extremely
intuitive,
and
Self-
reliance
another marked
trait;
so perfectly self-
and generally
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
107
the
is
many accidents which so often befall unwary. The ability to lead while others follow
against the
marked
trait;
and
it is
an astonishing development
in
way.
Place them
and they
will, unless
their
way
instinctively to
reach,
points.
lost.
Such
people must be
self-reliant, or
they are
They
fre-
quently to have such peculiar missions and extraordinary vocations, necessitating the employment of such
lost in
a wilderness
own
inner feeling.
restlessness
is
Great
activity
amounting often to
and ready
to take
They
in
ac-
much
in the
way
of definitely consummatother
ters over
Whenever quick
action
is
in a case of
emergency
is
needed, Sagittarius
the
08
The
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readiest
sistance
;
and
and though
is
As
great reserve
power
is
indicated
by
this sign,
it
may be
no special cause
for activ-
When
when
necessity arouses
them
from slumber.
and
thighs,
when
nativity
considering the
is
characteristics of those
whose
at the
1
between Nochanges
the
As
8,
this sign
commencement of
cusp,
on or about December
we
is
and
also decided
econom-
for
so pre-eminently
celebrated.
The marksman
if
;
always
be the symbol of the Archer and when this is borne in mind, it is not difficult to see how much easier it is
for Sagittarius people, than for
many
others, to
obey
The
tendency
the
happy
Our Place
in the
Universal
Zodiac
09
the
When
to
to the
if
victory
be gained
In the accompset,
and
their
fulfilled.
This
is
because they
They do
right
not
march
onward.
we
many successful generals and military commanders, who can so command the manoeuvres of
find
their troops, that
by prompt,
decisive,
sudden
action,
a victory
it
may be
faults
gained, even
when
appear to be tremendous.
The
tics
in
any
which may
at
and no portion of
such as charac-
Taking
this
and unpleasant
eccentricities,
able people,
we do
cidentally mention
them
as perversions or inversions
The
liable
chief faults to
are no doubt
The
Significance of Birthdays
look within.
Many
Sagittarius people
something of the
make good old fashwhen they adopt Quaker mode of worship they are
good from
sit
it;
for
no practice
serves
them
so well as to
and
allow the
spirit
its
within to
commune with
the intellect
and
direct
Sagittarius people
may often spend much of their They are first rate telepathists.
And
after all
no matter
how
many
treatises
may be
know
to
whom and
what pur-
it;
94
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It is
all
the feasts
and
fasts
owe
at Christmas-tide,
when
day dedicated
to
Saint
Thomas,
be imprisoned
in
22, 23 and
line
24
and celebrated on
recorded time.
The Roman
There
are
is
Saturnalian feast
and
to the
same
origin.
a deep significance in
in
all
celebrations
which
held
honor of annual
changes
in the climate
The
Significance of Birthdays
earth, as
man
At
the
we
and
the
day the
;
and
at
once
we behold
and
an increase
For
Some
others, in the
autumn; but
reached that
at length the
it
new
it
and connect
with
distinctively
Christian idea.
all its traditions
Such
is
We
have no word of
We,
however, are
knowing the
Therefore,
we
any
light
much
may
shatter ideals
and
strip
commemorations of
their old-time
beauty and
solemnity.
entirely
The
find
feast of
its
Christmas
is
so suggestive
apart from
ecclesiastical
surroundings,
that
we
ourselves
Our Place
ready
sons
at
in the
Universal Zodiac
any time
to expatiate lovingly
upon the
les-
we may
profitably learn
cluster thickly
all
ciations
which
Christ child,
to
whom
in the
Goat,
we may
and washes
the
humble brethren
is
is
Wales,
heir ap-
No
finer or
more
ex-
words do we
Gospel than
"I
am among you
would be
is
ever
greatest let
him be servant
it
Serfdom
detestable because
service
is
implies coercion;
and whatever
is
instead of willingly,
abominable.
The
Episcopal
is
God
it
perfect
freedom; and
edly
is
if
that
is
the case-
no
which
undoubt-
victim of
some
The
true dis-
The
Significance of Birthdays
tinction
is
is
and
es-
sential to
latter
is
We
to
grow
power
love of
work
will
go on perpetually increasing as
we
The typical Capricorn person is a bora worker; one who loves to be industrious. As a child such a
one loves to help mother with the house work
every possible way, to run errands and to
in the fulfillment of their tasks.
in
assist others
Comparatively few
who
great,
is
commonly
called
greatness forced
may
be,
and generally
of water, as
kind.
Hewers
of
rank and
of the Social
Army
every-
lifted to ex-
number who
Archetypal Man.
The fundamental
all
error
is
we
the
is
wide spread
belief that
Our Place
in
the Universal
Zodiac
So long
as this
view
is
that Capricorn
body more
Such ludicrous
in astrological
we
find
still
promulgated
and works of
all
allied character
make
it
high-
ly
incumbent upon
who know
better to disabuse
the public
mind on
these questions,
Capricorn
is
On the contrary,
is
it
it
Goat
present situation,
which, however,
by by making
so
yield all
it is
capable of yielding.
are
We
all
by nature
go; and
this is
utilitarian disposition,
how
The
its
disposition to
much maligned
ani-
6
its
The
Significance of Birthdays
key
to
whose
natal
day
is
somewhere
Persever-
resolute determination to
most prominent
traits
we
characteristic
of
is
so
stalwart, that,
subsist
self
though
will
bend
to the lowest
is
works and
upon next
to nothing, there
it
a sturdy vein of
all,
work even
at the
humblest trade;
am willing am ready to
down upon my knees and scrub the floor, but I will not be put down no one shall degrade or trample
get
;
upon me."
The
independent and
mark a
vivid contrast.
Voluntary
is
poverty
another.
is
quite
if
we have
who
Our Place
are
in the Universal
Zodiac
now
Among
we
notable people
first
who
will mention as
men
of
man who
and
at eighty-five years
appeared
hale, vigorous
intellectually as able as
when
in
and simply
his
succumb
to difficulties.
Gladstone evidenced
during
long
parliamentary
career
he
steel
van-
who measured
with
him
in the intellectual
arena,
dowed with
removal
of
in his case,
was
perfectly
successful
of age at time of
performance, while
many
man
twenty years
his junior
would be regarded
and recover
as quite
sufficiently to
make
The
inall
domitable push
Many
people
may
the
differ radically
from him
in
clusion; not a
including his
his
power.
The
Significance of Birthdays
Though
all
persons can,
if
termination to succeed,
to all to to butt
it
do
its
so.
The
;
Capricorn temperament
way
world
spite of obstacles
now under
consideration
is
one
on emergency and
Sumner and Lucretia Mott were both born in Capricorn and here again we see decided evidences of the
;
characterizes
is
this
other.
Lucretia Mott, as
well
woman
suffrage,
and
all its
forms, in defiance
Of
gentle na-
and
as a noble pioneer of
is
now
a household
to face
and through
by
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
won
for himself
an
honored place
tals.
in the
The
to that
Capricorn temperament
is,
when
form of
self-assertion
;
head-strong obstinacy
It is, therefore,
pathologically.
In private
type of
men
to
or
women
excels in conquering
things, in rising
which threaten
;
and
it is
and
its
in the
in the
Zodiac uses
tion,
and the
fates
seem frequently
to
war
against
To make
things
their
path
is
Of all
have been or ever can be defeated. There are many successful mental
sign,
soldiers in this
in
120
unsuspected ways by
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Significance of Birthdays
many who
represent
it
in
home
and business
life is
inestimable.
There
is
a great deal
impossible.
yielding disposition, or
who
seek effeminthis
much
in
sympathy with
which succeeds by
utter force of
grip
and inward
any
strength.
Whenever a hard
battle
Capricorn
is
it
manfully and
womanfully.
In the practice of mental healing the characteristics
of this sign are very desirable, as they include ability
to conduct successfully the
pressing cases,
health, even
and
to
when
evident to
mortal view.
desperandum
genial
and
attractive
common
may
often be
undertaken task
this
The
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
to as lascivious, and, in
many ways,
and most
To
make
make
little
go a great
way
not
be
conquered
by
them;
to
live
anywhere
traits
of
Ready
to
judgment,
like the
Knees bend
easily,
and
ble
strain with-
out injury.
To
know how
fate,
to
master
ing
obstacles
and
little
conquer
our
mak-
much
out
of
stances to
this is to
bend
to our decree
know
As we
sign who we have
rant conditions,
we may
encounter persons in
this
22
The
Significance of Birthdays
unscientific to
being led to a state where they will correctly represent their nativity.
is
expression
is
rend-
ered symmetrical.
>^,
^'*
tater
fearer.
man
with the watering
The
Zodiac, whose
Water-bearer immediately brings before us the thought of irrigation and all things
title
pertaining thereto.
qualities of
Having considered
the Paul-like
we
have
now reached
with
where we are
characteristics
confronted
the
Apollos-like
common
ered,
to
Aquarius.
God
we have now
runs up
to deal.
We
who
interest in
what-
we
are,
also,
familiar
with
those
far
less
con-
24
The
Significance of Birthdays
who
fol-
low
terprise
Aquarius
is
not the sign of the brilliant orator so of the patient, quiet, unobtrusive,
much
as the
home
faithful teacher,
one
who knows
if
just
how
to irrigate
as
is
them.
by natural
It
disposition
seat.
may be
publicly or
may be
for that
is
their
method.
il-
They
adapt
comprehensions of any
they
whom
may be
for
thrown.
They
of
fire
classes,
and
their persistency
makes up
any lack
We
and apparent energy they may fail to possess. notice that in this sign were born Abraham
whom
Paine,
Scotland
Strauss,
idolizes,
Swedenborg,
Thomas
Thomas
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
125
of
such
widely
people
Emanuel Swedenborg and Thomas Paine, or Abraham Lincoln and the electric Edison, will show
that
no matter
how
utterly
different
all
their
outward
courses
may have
been, they
had undertell
from obscurity
of speech
to unusual eminence.
in
He
was slow
and deliberate
ness in a desperate hurry, by his leisurely methods of procedure but he was sure of his position before he
;
took
it,
it,
he was uncompromis-
a most painstaking experimentalist, who, long before his remarkable illumination in 1757,
lished scientific
had pubabundat
in great
and marked
infinite
capacity
Thomas
Paine, whose
126
The
Significance of Birthdays
is
now beyond
his
iconoclasm in some
directions
and
"Every man a
brother,
every
good
such
woman a sister, the world my country, to do my religion." What can be sublimer than sentiments? And the marvel of it is that they
at a time
were written
theories
when
in
were circulating
every direction;
when
and devoured by
where.
Robert Burns
spirit
is
of
manly
fearlessness.
Who
has protested
sort of
sham?
has
who
more sincerely?
and many other rationalistic works, also illustrates many of the leading traits of this decidedly unorthodox and unconventional
sign.
practice.
They
among
any
ers of ers of
mankind, and
sort
we
we must have
Our Place
rots
;
in the
Universal Zodiac
127
men and women who soar, and do not imitate. Thomas Edison, who is one of the most conspicuis
a forceful, living
concentrativeness
It is
of
the
its
whole-souled
which
is
one of
this
recorded of
renowned
shortly
was married,
was
he in important
electrical experiments.
chosen duty
there
may be
fairly
regarded as con-
As Aquarius
and
air
is
placed
symbolizes imagination,
we
who
and prophetic
in
mental
Be-
liter-
work
in
These people
est stone.
of the proverbial
away
the hard-
severance.
divinely patient
and
128
The
Significance of Birthdays
pear,
if
need be,
till
after
many
days.
Such people
They
work
usually their
done
in a quiet,
plodding way.
their essays
They
with
sion,
and elaborate
much
by
precision.
their
They
weigh well
clusions
rarely
you
you grant
and wealth of
this type,
who
are
measured
style
netism.
They
statement
we do
agement of
their genius.
We
is
only
mean
that as
Leo
centre of feeling,
and
that
are touched
tional excitement.
It
is
He
is
writes as a
man
of infinite
leis-
ure
but,
though he
somewhat
tautological because
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
129
who
follow
his
him closely
no two sayings of
though there
a close resemblance
between a multitude of
wonderful experiences.
his expressions
and records of
when a young man (he wrote his "Life of Jesus" when fresh from the University he was not much over twenty-five years of age) exhibited all
Strauss
the peculiar limitations of the undeveloped individualist; later
on
his style
improved greatly.
Utterly
also
a sceptic, Strauss
a rational manner,
if
possible;
he simply dismissed
them
in so
as incredible
and
Such writing
is
that of a
man
seeking to
stifle
or repress imagination.
No
so-called "development
spirit
of to-day,
spirit
;
which
there
is is
but
in-
tellect
movement; and
vels
to sift evidence,
compare
tes-
30
In the sign Aquarius
The
Significance of Birthdays
we
of no mean order. This is a student's sign, and because somewhat lacking in intuitive perception, those
who most
fully represent
it
more given
to
According
Aquarius
need
ance.
is
to
physiological
correspondence,
in the
Man, and
suggestion
when
in
good
condition.
and
complete conclusions,,
re-
If they
show pride
it is
pride of
schol-
They
are
good
their teachers.
and
scientific pursuits
show
special
preferential
aptitudes
for
particular
studies.
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
As Aquarius
Man,
is
Grand
we
to
new
ideas.
They have a
the, as yet
it
uncomprehended or unthought
of,
and bringing
"Watery sign,
down
to the every
is
day
affairs of earth.
Though
and
imag-
Aquarius
an
airy,
and Pisces a
air signifies
intellect, the
ination of
Aquarius
kind,
and may
imagination,
whose
to see
ahead
actual.
Ct
A,
X^t
<
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%\p
We
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now reached the final section of the Zodiac, and are now in the feet or ultimate extremities of the Maximus Homo. Feet and fish suggest the lines along which we must proceed if we are to
have
duly comprehend the attributes specially pertaining
to this, the
is
in the
Zodiac, which
is
the place
reach-
ed.
It is interesting to
Presiinto
was born
just as
Pisces (February 22), the period of Pisces extending from about February
nal Equinox.
20
to
March
Many
home
forth
watery
signs,
become
stream.
and bring
are
Hugo
two of the
this
sign,
whose
fulfillment of designs
and
final
decoration of
all that
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
133
or child strikes us
The
at
typical Pisces
man,
woman
much
once as one
who
is
singularly precise
and orderly,
objecting to leaving
person,
and
scripts, etc., in
Aries people often begin things which they never and especially owing to their remarkable quickness of perception, they grasp an idea but canfinish,
it
case
and
Usually
of the law to
its
tittle.
Having
on
at
its
set
insist
entire completion,
and being
particularly apt
left unfinished,
and
do a variety of useful
things
which
their
more
flighty
We
all
pet delight
is
in fully
is
finished productions,
and whose
chief aversion
to
34
The
note
Significance of Birthdays
We
who,
atist,
how
many
distinguished
and playwrights of
this
as in
"A
Doll's
properly no end-
Some when
ones
who
own
mental conclusions
like themselves
and lacking
tellectual ability,
may
They can
by
easily
their
who are in other sections of the Zodiac. know the careful hostess who inspects the
visitor's arrival,
is
We
guest
sure
and makes
complete, even to
in the vases.
and flowers
Such
dress,
woman
is
own
and quick
any lack of completeless in the apparel of another, and in the furniture of an apartto observe
Our Place
ment.
in the
Universal Zodiac
35
Mural decorations, gilding of cupolas, finishing of spires and all similar work is congenial to this type of humanity, whose eyes are very quick to discern outward deficiences wherever they
may
appear.
As
with
all
and
same
in-
by
in
raised,
advanced and
pedestrians
every
is
way
assisted to
more perfect
find
expression. Pisces
a sign in which
we
;
many
and
children
like to
use their feet, and whose congenial occupation compels their use of these
members.
The
motion
ternal
may be
manner, or
may show
sub-
limest
way.
To
less of the
have attained
we
where we
We
know how
"change of
36
The
Significance of Birthdays
air"
We
all
know how
back upon
constantly physicians
these
trite
and
others,
fall
sonings
and
else
seems to have
after
failed,
and
an ocean voyage or a
over land
many a
these superficial appearances are often deeply treacherous, for very soon after resuming the old life in
symptoms
home
and business
is
seemingly necessitated.
Pisces peo-
whom we
they have
to
machinery
in
in
working order.
When
they
domestic hearth.
it is
To
of Mental Science
regenerate conditions.
all that
sequent elevation of
cult lore
know
signifies intellectual
Our Place
.less
in the
Universal Zodiac
137
roaming
disposition.
They
They
We
do not say
buy
pic-
we do
find that as
a rule
They
The
casket which
is
much
as
itself.
and
to give attention
many
actors, elocu-
copyists,
liners,
decorative
artists,
coiffeurs,
mil-
working at
sorts
something.
par-
by no means a
ticular inversions to
at different
who
rule their
38
The
Significance of Birthdays
stars
who
by them but
;
to
both depressing
and unnecessary,
which
Pisces, considered in
its
position of pedal
is
extremities
if
of
the
Grand Man,
to
most
likely,
caught
napping,
be
or
at-
feet,
with
immediately
connected
with
life.
the
most
A very
:
is
the following
Whenit.
you
some
special anIf
in Aries,
is
liable to trouble
you are
specially capacitated
by nature
do
excellent work,
own
We
for
have
to
do
where we are
efficient service;
is
conflict
there
do
we
a wonderful statement
he that overcometh
Our Place
a
in the
Universal Zodiac
39
written the
other than
its
recipient
can read.
result of in-
dividual victory,
when
and
rules in his
slave forever.
Every one of
us,
no matter where
have
to
we may
wrestle until
we have conquered,
in
is
the field of
tried.
The
this
all
in the doctrine of
same Ego, on
to
or
until final
is
ascendancy over
is
reached,
be found
in
reflection;
viz.,
that
we must
learned
strive
we
conquer.
We
lessons again
until
we have
them
lems
to perfection.
problems.
for
regenerating
individual
through the
Suicide
is
weak
jective
bugbear
we may
The wheel
of
dri it,
until
we have
it.
escaped
Now
140
that
The
Significance of Birthdays
to un-
comparison
of the essentials of
the end that
and
philosophies, to
we may
all.
truth underlying
Then
old
as
is
we
on
this
foundation, which
in the
truth
embodied
Quaker
man we shall set to work intelligently to do our own work nobly and cease criticising and reviling our neighbors because we differ one
a Christ in every
there
is
forest trees,
forms of nature
her provinces
or kingdoms.
and
We are all good, though we are all We must agree to differ, but never
shall learn to solve ev-
disagree;
now
a happy,
industrial
army
commonwealth
Having
though but
account
as
in
the
in barest outline
to give as lucid
an
possible
of
the
predominating
char-
acteristics of
Man, we,
in this
many
raised.
questions which
the preceding
let
essays have
In the
first
place
triplicities
The
Leo and
the
Sagittarius,
corresponding to the
head
Grand Man.
airy triplicity
is
The
The
neck)
,
Virgo (the
solar plexus)
knees).
42
The
Significance of Birthdays
profitably studied
by
all
who
main subject
in general
and
in particular.
Those who
fire
domain of
in dis-
and inflammable
it
position.
When
meet
to
is
as
when
this
two
fires
spiritual
we would
this
illustrate
our
theme by referring
impulsive type
is
in the
realm
exist-
living
and
to
and
exciting circumstance.
They
sational,
melo-dramatic
and
tragic
when keenly
of
all
descriptions.
When
and
temperament,
and
may be
conflict.
When
Our Place
lectuality,
in
the Universal
Zodiac
43
common to the lower section of the fiery domain, they may be most successful collaborators and produce a
i
joint
work
of far
either
and
degrees of
these
warm, impulsive
of a sublime
made
that
and
makes
tical truth
is
universe.
God,
Never
any
fire
devil
by
theologians.
was
kind,
was
Moses
to
is
startled
Horeb.
Elijah
Adonai
Baal by means
enters
The New Testament takes up the strain where the Hebrew prophets have left it; so when the Holy
Spirit
inspiration, prior
144
strength
The
Significance of Birthdays
limitations to
Nature un-
mistakably
ception.
Every
living
body
is
As
fire is
God
is
said to dv
in fire forever,
epistle to the
Hebrews
says:
"Our God
is
a con-
suming
fire."
The
is
world the
among
ship
as coeval
and co-extensive with Deity. Animal worwas only a lower form of worship, practised by the comparatively ignorant and illiterate but the word animal literally means a living creature, an organism endowed with some animating principle from the Latin animus, anima, meaning mind or spirit, the English noun and adjective animal are directly derived. Wherein does an animal distinctly differ
;
;
in that
it
is
a higher form of
possess.
at all
To
fully
fire
would
at the least
but
when we
Our Place
in the
in the
Universal Zodiac
45
Man
and
these
vital centres
we
When
mythol-
meaning,
cover
how
truly wise
were, and
gross
unless
how
flippant
ignorance,
it is
that
nothing
worth anything
brand new.
It is
said
by some
man-
same
triplicity
If there is
any
truth or jus-
remark
it
undeveloped
persons
who
in their
when both
marriage
The
question, however,
cannot
unin-
be
settled
utility,
less
tellect altogether,
be actu-
As
mar-
a social
question of the
first
upon people
'
46
their
The
Significance of Birthdays
merely to gratify
own
will probably always remain true as Longfellow has said in his "Building of the Ship":
"It
is
the heart
and not
the brain,
That
to the highest
And
Far
he
who
When
we may
us,
aglow within
its
light to
wisdom,
ject to
be found in any literature. Such a definition cannot be simplified or improved upon, and it opens so wide a field of thought that to follow it as a sugis
gestive leader
to
The
that of
quality of
fire,
air,
the
home
of natives
who
are
by nature
volatile
and
transitional in
fire
temperament or
disposition.
Air and
is
A draught
is
it.
neces-
a raging
The
di-
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
147
in ancient scrip-
vine effluence
ture to
is
always compared
wind
or breath,
and we
all
know
that quick
warmth
As
is
now
a
so
much
discussed
among
students
is
of
all
phases
of
occultism,
and
breathing
unquestionably
vitally
important
are in the
who
may be
power
is
in their breath,
which
is
Kabal-
istically related to
imagination, as
fire is
always asso-
External breathing-exercises
if
only on account of
is
but breathing
really regulated
by imagination, and
may
understand themselves.
Imagination
is,
prop-
is,
vision.
Clairvoyance
is
frequently
in
by children born
many
we know
method pursued by
intelligent
Mental Scien-
who
tion of a faculty
it
accordingly
48
its
The
natural intent.
Significance of Birthdays
with
To
ination
is
language goes,
;
a genuine etymologist
other-
amounts
for the
thoughtless to comprehend.
to every
science,
Imagination
the road
new
literature
and
art.
Without imagination
the summits of
we
bracing
obtainable from
our
dwellings.
The
is
airy
who
above the
intellectual realm,
to planet,
is
much
as possible of
what
going on in the
of the Zodiac,
and
The
trigon
is
fiery
domain
abode of
is
the
travellers.
Restlessness
air are
is
the
most
when
roamdis-
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
149
constant agi-
irritability or
The
and executive
and
logical fulfill-
who
ment.
Service
is
the one
word which
and
it
best expresses
is
only
when
engaged
in
way
who
satisfied
this
belong
whose home
in
one
cannot be content to
the
and
volatile,
and are
dream of
they
may be
determined not to
own
When
air
and earth
and produce a
of joint activity.
signs,
may be
150
people,
The
Significance of Birthdays
everything in a
this triplicity is
by
far the
four.
The
lights;
earth nature
motherly, and
its
though very
practical
it
and often
signifies the
external in
objects
and de-
womb
which
place.
gestation, germination
The
when
Many
distinguished
and
fail to
understand
life
as
it
ap-
peals to
other, so
do we
and
in the fiery,
If
it is
discovered in
and
sisters
to another,
it is
them
to gravitate
together,
which
is
"The
Upon Human
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
151
Aries, Taurus,
positive signs.
Aquarius
and
the
In a picture of
Grand Man
Middle
and
lower
Each
first
the second,
and
This
fin-
makes
the four
though
fire
Though from
the 21st
to the
may
Aries,
March 20
;
to
April 20;
21 to
Taurus, April 20 to
May
1
21
Gemini,
;
May
June 2
22 Leo, July 22 to August 22 Virgo, August 22 to September 23 Libra, September 23 to October 23 Scorpio, October 23 to November 22 Sagittarius, November 22 to December 21 Capricorn, December 21 to January
1
;
Cancer, June 2
;
to July
21
February 20
March
sign
20.
Three days
at the
mencement of each
may be allowed
for the
comwan-
152
ing of the outgoing
influence.
The
Significance of Birthdays
The
and
in the seventh
in the
following order
Aries Benjamin. Taurus Gemini Simeon-Levi. CancerZebulun. Leo VirgoAsshur. LibraDan. Gad. Capricorn Aqua Reuben. Ephraim and Manasseh.
Issachar.
-Judah.
Scorpio
Sagittarius
rius
Joseph.
Naphtali.
Pisces
is
This designation
in
"The
first
shall
be
last
and the
We have
in-
The two
(esoteric)
Both are
In concluding
readers that
further
we desire to state plainly to all our we have written suggestively to provoke inquiry, not dogmatically as though we were
matter finally for
all
settling the
mankind.
Broad
hints
and general
outlines
in-
From
the
we
all
know
to
much importance has been freely assigned names and numbers, and many have been the insignifi-
The number
a modern, as
it
many
ancient, discourse.
Many
of the
have recourse
stress
to
the Jewish
upon the
twenty-two
and
quite
built
up
Eng-
lish-speaking countries
Hebrew.
According
one system,
now much
in
umns
and one of
1
eight letters,
j,
reading thus:
The
value of
is
attributed to a,
s;
154
The
t
Significance of Birthdays
2
f,
to b, k,
o,
3 to
c,
1,
u 4
;
to d,
m, v 5
;
to e, n,
i
to
x; 7 to g, p, y;
to h, q, z;
9 to name by
and
r.
In
this
method,
may be
pursued:
Carolined Crosspuddle.
:
9; O, 6; L, 3; 1,9; N, 5; E, 5; D, 4; C, 3; R, 9;
O, 6;S, 1;S,
3
;
1;
P, 7; U, 3; D, 4; D, 4; L,
total of ninety-one letters,
E, 5
1
making a
1
and
as
all
9 and
make
this is
name
of completeness, as
it.
the figures
and the
is
Now
an unusual one
it is
nevertheless
this
numeri-
its
obvious sugdifficulties,
which
of one
who
conquers
known name Fox are all of the value of 6, but 3 times 6 is 8 and 8 and make 9, therefore Fox is a powerful name, as 9 is the highest
well
1
numeral.
But
as
it is
names
8.
Now
is
1 1
which
is
the
said to
and 22
and not
further re-
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
155
equal 2 and 22
this refusal to
is
The
them
that
not permissible.
be seen by
illustrating
with a
name which
Any name either 2 or 4 by simple first reduction. made up of 11 would ultimate in 2, likewise any name constituted of 22 as its numerical value would
ultimate 4.
the octave of
Eleven
is
22
is
are referring.
D, according to the system to which we What's in a name? is a question conand very often
quite inconsequently
it,
tinually raised,
but
human
experience
by no means
low view.
laid
upon
name-values
The Old
changed, to
to say
and
in
some instances
a
entirely
Abraham
it
is
much
stronger
which
supplanted.
New Testa-
is
that child
when no one in the family into which was born had been so called. It is idle to
is
in
156
The
Significance of Birthdays
interior
we
all
know how
heavily
how
greatly
it is
to one's
advantage to be
word.
age
the possessor of a
good name
persisting
to justify
them, and
evident
when we
con-
In the
The reason for this is very easily traced. one case many and arduous duties would fall
he or she grew to maturity,
The good
it
re-
quired unusual
abilities
rulers,
and
from justifying
laxity in morals
manded
of all
who
set the
and excellence
whom
is
To
up
to a lofty
name
names given
will inquire.
arbitrarily
No, they
by
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
157
who
sufficiently scientific
and
and who
furthermore
sical
insists that
lies
event there
an unseen psychic
We
are born
seeking to
an indication of the
is
to
work
to
be accomplished.
Then we may
right to
Is
well
we any
change our
a
names or
swer
nom
de plume permissible?
To
may be
given.
represent
terial
what we have
and
the
raw maimposed
with which
us, at least
we have
;
to
work;
this is
upon
may be
referred to
karma but
as
we advance
to years
of discretion
responsibilities
upon ouris
and indeed
brought
to
home
which
aforetime
we
The
addition of a
is
name
Church
a sur-
vival of a
history,
and
158
The
to
Significance of Birthdays
which give us
be impressed upon the youth or maiden as a qualification for the graver duties
edged
is
as strength increases
It
often
found
is
that
enduring what
decided
luck"
run
of
what
swiftly
vulgarly
styled
"better
follows
upon the
adoption
of
nent
and
has
bringing
resting
which
been
abeyance.
large
firm
name
deliberately
chosen
has a
it,
influence
as the suggestion
made by
its
and
who
are
ingly to those
who summon
Of course
is
full
awareness
it
of
sys-
tematically;
there
is
very
much
unconsciously
Our Place
in the
Universal Zodiac
159
many
it
be but thought-
As
there are a
names by which multitudes of our compatriots are called, it is interesting to see to what special categories
some of the most widely employed among them belong.
is
1
39, which
is
reducible to
ulti-
2 and ultimately to 3,
mate
tire
to uttermost finality.
As 2
1
number of
first
the
Zodiac and 3
mental
is
noting the
three
planes
is
and
moral-the
is
name
the
appropriate
name
England who
his spurs
Mary,
,
the
name
of the
Queen
ulti-
Consort,
is
numerically 2 1
which immediately
mates
in 3.
are, there-
and 6
also according to
Now
what
the significance of
6?
It
emblem
ex-
throughout the British Empire should therefore augur well for the
House
of Israel, but as
is
only
160
The
is
Significance of Birthdays
preparatory to 7, which
names of our King and Queen united indicate the activities of a sixth working day, not the repose of
a Sabbatic period.
pire
is
Great
Emto
great increase in
all
who
are guided
liberty.
by
it
to
renewed
ultimates
and ever-growing
is
Alfred
as
1
Edward numCharles
numbers 30.
5.
Emma
1
Julia
numbers
7 and ultimates as 8.
10.
Hannah
We
might easily
little
may
not
may
is
obscure in their
to this
peculiar origin,
Diminutives such as
numbering 7
direct,
by
so
upon the
rising
unity, simplicity;
Our Place
4,
in
the Universal
Zodiac
5,
161
dexterity,
brotherli-
quaternity,
equity;
discernment,
sphericity
1
;
reposef ulness
aspiration,
8,
octave,
enterprise,
9,
discovery,
achievement
there
0, universality, completeness.
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Whatever
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