Astrology (Shoemaker)/Chapter 9

Next to the Sun and Moon, the planets are the most important factors in a horoscope. So to be able to cast one intelligently, one must know the character and qualities of each planet.

Then, knowing their character, and finding out where each planet is at the time of birth, it will be easy to tell by the sign they are in, what qualities in the person will be strengthened. And according to what part of the Grand Man the signs correspond—so that part of the body will be strengthened or weakened by the planet. Thus a favoring planet in Leo, the Heart of the Grand Man, would bring a good circulation and an intensely loving nature, while an adverse planet in Pisces—the feet, would give restlessness, love of travel and pains in the feet.

Each planet, having its own nature, would give these qualities in its own way, Jupiter in a noble way, Venus in a loving way, Mars in a patriotic way, etc.

​Including the Sun and Moon, and counting in Vulcan, Neptune and the Asteroids, we have again the twelve complete mystic influences.

Vulcan, the planet nearest the sun has only lately been discovered and has as yet no ephemerides. But judging by the date of its discovery and the characteristics of its newest neighbors it may very well be the Genius of the Times, the Progressive Awakening Spirit which has sent the world farther in the last hundred years than in ten hundred before it.

Mercury, the next from the Sun, is the planet of Memory and Perception. It gives physical power and a great desire for the acquirement of new knowledge and sciences.

Venus is the planet of Love, especially of the conjugal type, and wherever it is found strengthens the digestion and tends to assimilate nutrition.

The Earth is the planet of Charity, General Love and the Emotions of Pity and Fear. It is the heart of the solar system and sends its pulse circulating to every other planet in the system.

Mars is the planet of Patriotism, Love of Humanity, and of the Family. Where it is strong it gives a maternal love and care of others.

​The Asteroids are the Lungs of the Solar System and give strength to the breathing powers and added vitality to the system.

Jupiter is the planet of Art, especially of sculpture. It corresponds to the shoulders, arms and hands of the Solar System and gives skill in their use. Where Jupiter reigns, he brings a love of the sublime, the noble and beautiful.

Saturn is the planet of Science and Religion. It gives great powers of thought and executive ability.

Uranus is the planet of the Occult, and where it is strong tends to lift the thoughts from a material basis to one more mental and spiritual.

Neptune is the planet of Poetry, controlling the inmost recesses of mind and spirit, and where very strong giving a poet's soul.

The Moon is the planet of Intuitive Sympathy. It is feminine and negative in its influence, and conduces to harmony in social relations. It makes the characteristics of the sign it is in stronger, and has an influence on the sign the Sun is in.

The Sun has the most influence over us, of course, and the sign it is in at birth marks the character of the child. But it is greatly modified ​by the moon and in a lesser degree—the planets.

It is the star of life and energy. It gives a masculine and positive turn of mind to any one it controls, with a fiery and impetuous nature and a loving and generous heart.

Aries (the Ram), March 21st–April 19th.—This is the first Sign of the Zodiac—beginning at the Spring Equinox—the awaking of a new year. It is the Head Sign, or Positive Pole of the fire element, and corresponds to the head of the Grand Man. Its colors are blue, pink and white, and its birth stones diamond and amethyst, its profession, letters and teaching or lecturing, and its chief characteristics are intuitive insight, reason, and a controlling power which the brain has by means of nerve telegraphy. Its tribe is Gad, of which it is said, "Lo, a troop cometh!" fitly expressing its impetuous, unconquerable energy. And the meaning is "armed and prepared," indicating the insight and reasoning powers it possesses in such abundance for its fight in the world. The Sun is strong in this sign and its planets are Neptune, Uranus and Mars. Neptune has control of the inmost parts of our nature and is said to be the poet's planet.

​In personal appearance there are two distinct types of Aries people—one tall, slim, strong, broad-shouldered, with transparent complexion and good eyes. The other—short, stout, dark or auburn-haired, with florid complexion, dark eyes and nervous manner. This latter type are more changeable and talkative than the others and have better success in business and less literary talent.

The direct frankness of an Aries person would be almost brutal if it were not for the generosity and intuition which govern their nature. The activity of their brains inclines them to be impetuous and restless, but given some congenial employment in which their natural mechanical ability may assist and counteract the restless brain-work, this energy makes splendid workers of them.

These people have a passion for spreading any helpful knowledge or information they possess, which makes them natural teachers, lecturers and writers, and having an intuitive knowledge of the natures and conditions of those with whom they come in contact, their lessons and precepts are delivered with a tact which disarms opposition. They love music and dancing, making good ​leaders in society, the originality and directness of their nature keeping them from being mere followers of conventional form. They make the best of friends, apparently seeing no fault and grudging no sacrifice, no matter how great, where they love. As their insight is keen enough for others' shortcomings, this is undoubtedly a wilful blindness growing out of a generous desire to show their friends as perfect as they would have them.

Aries people are born comforters, their intuition making them understand without words the troubles of others and showing them the way to help the sufferer.

In their love affairs they are apt to be very fickle, turning easily from one to another, till they meet their real mates. But then all the energy and impetuosity of their being is turned into their love-making, and their nature made or marred at this time. It is through their love-nature that the Aries people reach their greatest height. Before this they are apt to be hard and critical, book-loving and indolent, unsteady at their work and restless in their habits. But when they begin to love some one else more than themselves they become awakened to the mean​ing of life and its duties, less sure of themselves and less critical of others, and though it goes harder with these people to be disappointed in love than any others, they seldom go back to their shells, but grow broader-minded, nobler and more generous through their trials. Some of the more restless natures plunge recklessly into folly, but as no one sees more quickly than they do through its shams and hollowness, they generally struggle back, much disgusted, to lead a life of more use than the pursuit of pleasure. It is their innate desire to overcome all opposition and conquer every obstacle in their path which helps them to make a success of a hope no matter how forlorn or a fight no matter how unequal.

This passion for conquering—whether difficulties or people—makes good soldiers and commanders of them. Their natural mechanical ability would make good artisans of them, but poor accountants, clerks, or employees of any kind where patient drudgery and careful detail is required. In anything in which they can originate—branch out independently and do in their own way—they succeed. Literature, trading, commercial work in any original way would appeal to them and be well carried through.

​But just as they have large virtues these people have large faults. They are sometimes afflicted with a selfishness so all-absorbing that they are entirely unconscious of it, and cannot be made to believe in its existence. One of their greatest faults is jealousy, their over-weening desire to be the first and best-beloved causing themselves and their friends much unnecessary pain. This is also seen in their desire to talk about themselves and their doings at all times and on all occasions, with a tendency to exaggerate their importance. They see everything as a whole and hate to be bothered with details.

A hot temper, easily provoked but quickly reconciled, a headlong, almost reckless, impetuosity, and a fickle, thoughtless disposition concludes a category of faults enough to stagger any but the indomitable will of an Aries person. But as the more there is against them the better they fight, so their energy and love of usefulness, with the softening effect of an awakened love-nature, may raise them from the mire of selfishness and conceit, and make strong, broad-minded, helpful men and women of these firebrands. Being, as they are, the head sign or positive pole of the Fire Triune, they partake the most strongly ​of its fiery character. And as they are also the first of the Intellectual Trinity the brain is doubly active and every disease contracted tends to go to the head. Business worries or inharmonious domestic relations cause sick headaches which in turn affect the digestive organs. So, running more risk than others would of brain fever, they should cultivate a habit of taking a little rest every day, a nap of fifteen or twenty minutes or a half hour's quiet thought on some pleasant subject. Rest, fresh air and sleep, are the sovereign remedies for these people. They have actual need of more sleep than people of any other sign, and yet as a rule give less time to it. They are in constant danger of bankrupting their vitality, but if at the first sign of a nervous breakdown, they would go away into the country and sleep, dropping all thought of business or other worries, their recovery would be surprisingly swift and permanent.

Aries babies, while teething, should be kept cool and quiet; in fact their bringing up should be as harmonious and unexciting as possible, as they are inclined to be nervous children. They dearly love to have their own way, and should ​be early taught that beating one's head against a stone wall will not remove it.

As an Aries person's love-nature is more intense than that of any other sign, it behooves them to be very careful to whom they make the unconditional surrender of their life and happiness. To be rejected, hard as it is for them, will not work such havoc with their life as the acceptance of an unworthy object. Their sympathies being so quick and their adaptability so great that, failing to raise and ennoble the object of their affections, they would be in great danger of sinking to the same level. A union of the body, soul, and spirit, is necessary to make a perfectly harmonious marriage. Whereas we seldom see more than a union of the first, which soon loses its attraction, or of the third, which is an intellectual companionship entirely unsatisfying to the heart and soul.

The union of an Aries and Sagittarius person, which would be uniting the Positive and Negative Poles of fire—if their bringing up, nationality and social position are about the same—would satisfy the requirements of each nature as perfectly as the inherent faults and selfishness of the two will admit. Such a union could be made ​perfect with forbearance and good temper on both sides.

A union of Aries and Aries would be very sympathetic, unless the two heads would each try to lead at once. Aries and Gemini would make good friends. And Aries and its opposite, Libra, would, according to some authorities, make a perfect union. Aries and Leo are sympathetic, and Aries and Aquarius make boon companions. Aries and Cancer, the Positive Pole of water, would be very unfortunate; for being head signs of such antagonistic elements unless there was wonderful self-control and forbearance, there would be such a sputter and fizz of warring natures as would leave no peace at all.

The most fortunate times in the year for Aries people to undertake new enterprises are the two weeks beginning April 13th, and November 29th.

Taurus (the Bull), April 20th–May 20th.—This is the Head Sign of the Earth Triune, and corresponds to the neck of the Grand Man. Its colors are azure, red and lemon-yellow, its birth stones, moss-agate and emerald, its profession science, and its chief characteristics are a strong will and much natural sympathy. Its tribe is Asher, ​meaning happiness. It is the natural home of Venus, which gives a tendency to early marrriages. These people rarely remain single, both the men and women having a natural attraction for the other sex.

Their personal appearance is also favorable to this, as they are usually good looking, the men being broad-shouldered, powerfully built, full faced, with a good complexion and much animal magnetism, and the women their healthy, handsome, magnetic duplicates.

Taurus people are great lovers of science, literary pursuits and art in its various branches. They are studious and clever, but make better imitators than originators. Their temperament is slow and steady, even stubborn at times, and they have a tendency to grow stout. Their sympathies are very easily excited, this being the vulnerable point in their armor, by which they are much imposed upon. But once let them think they are being used in this way, they will shut up in a shell of silent stubbornness which nothing can pierce. This sympathetic trait makes thoughtful, helpful friends, and ideal neighbors of them, and gives them a love of animals.

It makes them splendid nurses, and excellent ​doctors, their steady, unexcitable natures having a soothing, comforting effect on their patients.

Taurus people are remarkably even-tempered and generous, unless crossed. But when thrown into a rage, they resemble nothing so much as their prototype, the Bull, with no regard for entreaties, threats, and still less for the furniture. In men of uncontrolled and dissipated habits this trait is frequently met with, but it generally modifies in a woman, or man of control, into a slow, cold, steady aversion much harder to bear. These people have both vigorous brains and physiques, and their affable manner and good memories, taken with their strong will, make very popular leaders of them. They have keen business insight, if left to themselves, but are apt to be influenced by others' opinions. Their success in life will depend a great deal on a good education, as no people can improve more with it or fall so low without it. Both sexes have strong passions and a good deal of jealousy in their nature, which work strongly toward misleading them while young. But if they once overcome these faults, the wholesome strength, powerful mental gifts and quick sympathies of their nature raise them to great heights. So ​though still earth they are of the mountain-tops—not the plains—and tower above mediocre air, fire and water.

These people, above all others, seem to enjoy life. They love the good things of this world, and are very fond of giving and attending dinners and banquets. If the over-eating of rich food is indulged in too freely, they are liable to contract dropsy. But this only applies to the dissipated unregenerates or habitual gourmands of this sign.

Taurus people as a rule are extremists, being often as zealous in religion and church work as they are in business and the pursuit of their own pleasure. They should be very careful in picking their friends and associates, who, once having gained their sympathies, have also gained a great though perhaps unconscious control over them.

One of their strongest points is their courage, which, coming from quiet nerves and a wholesome, phlegmatic disposition, is a constant surprise to people of more nervous signs.

There will rarely be found a miser among these people. Money with them is only a means to an end, and they give it freely in charity, and generously among friends. They are very fond ​of beauty in every form, and so are apt to judge things by appearances. Shabbiness is an eyesore to them, and they are generally well dressed themselves and like to associate with well-dressed people. There are brilliant speakers and writers among them, and the more intellectual have the power of thought transference to a marked degree. They are slow to provoke to anger, but when they become fully roused, they make the most bitter and unforgiving of enemies.

When they get into a rage they should have perfect quiet till they entirely regain their self-control, as the stouter ones are in danger of breaking a blood vessel or in some other way injuring themselves during the paroxysm. These people are sometimes as capricious and fickle as the unawakened nature of their Aries neighbor, and as they think their own way the best always, they are sometimes very hard to get along with. Considering themselves in a position to give any one advice, their interference with other folks' affairs sometimes causes a great deal of trouble.

Being the head sign of Earth, they will be very congenial friends with Capricornus, the negative sign. A marriage of these two would have every reason to be perfectly harmonious, the ​occasional coldness and selfishness of the two earth natures, which might interfere with the happiness of others, being offset and sympathetically understood in the companion nature. Should Taurus marry a Libra person, which is the middle sign of Air, there would be congeniality on a more intellectual basis. Cancer, head sign of the Water Triune, would make a good friend, but a marriage would mean that one or the other would have to forego natural leadership to keep peace in the family.

According to some authorities Scorpio, the middle sign of Water, would be the most perfect mate for Taurus, being its exact opposite in the zodiac. In any of these cases, and most certainly in all others, the chances of a Taurus person's happiness depends on himself. This of course is true of all signs in a degree, but with Taurus rests the making or marring of his own home. If he would remember that the ruling of others, but the ruling of self, is the greatest conquest in the world, no heights of blessedness in this world or the next would be impossible to him.

The most fortunate times in the year for Taurus people to undertake new enterprises are ​the two weeks beginning September 5th and January 11th.

Gemini (the Twins) May 21st–June 20th.—This is the Head Sign of the Air Triune, and corresponds to the shoulders, arms and hands of the Grand Man. Its colors are green, red, blue, and white, its birth stones beryl, aquamarine and sapphire, its profession is lecturing, literature, or politics, and its characteristics are the power of clear expression and good reasoning. Its tribe is Issachar, meaning reward, the Gemini nature always receiving the reward of its mental labors, in fame if not in money. It is the natural home of Mercury, the planet nearest the sun, which gives a quick and brilliant brain power and a great love of new knowledge. In other words, these people are the reformers and pioneers in all things of educational and progressive advancement.

Their personal appearance is generally of a nervous, alert, high-strung, bookish type. Either small, or of medium height, they possess a well-shaped head, brown hair, good color, a quick eye—usually hazel or brown—narrow, studious shoulders and a student's stoop.

These are the people who would be greatly ​benefited by a thorough course of corrective gymnastics, being inclined to have weak throats and a leaning toward nervous prostration; though, owing to their changeable nature, they would probably take it up most enthusiastically and, soon losing interest, drop it before it had time to materially benefit them.

The sign Gemini is the Greek myth of the Twins Castor and Pollux, and its people partake of its character, having a double nature which is constantly contradicting itself. They seem to have two minds about everything they do, one nature desiring it, the other not. With one phase of character they are idealists, reformers, peace-lovers; with the other, they are mundane, tyrannical and quarrelsome. They are apt to talk beautifully and practice badly. But given the education, training and will to control and lift up that unregenerate half, so that both may pull in the same direction instead of against each other, and the beauty and sweetness of this character can be likened only to the heights and purity to be obtained by the air, of which it is a type. The poet Emerson is one of these harmonious Gemini people.

They further carry out this likeness in their ​nervous restlessness and desire to travel. They are brilliant, unstable, graceful, airy and fickle. Wonderfully artistic and intuitive, their undoubted intellectual ability makes fine writers and public speakers of them. But their instability of character tends to lose for them the confidence their brilliant speech has gained.

The fact that the newest thing will always supplant the rest, and that they are constantly substituting new boards in their mental or political platform, causes people to distrust the brilliant intellect on which they are tempted to depend. They are preeminently fitted to be commercial travelers or touring lecturers, their restlessness, bright speech, graceful manner, tact, and headiness assuring them success, and the fact that they are constantly moving on, preventing any show of instability. It must not be forgotten that they belong to the arms and hands of the Grand Man and this gives them unusual mechanical ability. They seem to have more serviceable hands than other people, more skilful and better controlled, and are fond of making ingenious little labor-saving devices and improving on other people's more clumsy work. Like air, they are always moving, and their constant activity is ​a result of their restless craving for something new.

Air people, like fire people, should cultivate repose of manner, and should have one hour of the day for absolute quiet. They should be surrounded by wholesome, restful people, as too much excitement is very bad for them and is apt to induce one of their tornadoes of rage.

These babies are inclined to be hysterical while teething, and should be kept very quiet and happy at this time. Indeed this applies to their whole childhood. If a Gemini child is kept satisfied and happy all his minority, when he arrives at years of discretion there will be no habits of excitable nervousness nor restless discontent to battle with, and his dual nature working harmoniously in one direction will have a strength and compass to it which would be perfectly irresistible. These people think a great deal of blue blood, and are excessively proud of their family and ancestry. They are generally religious and will show less instability in sticking to their chosen sect than in anything else. They are charitable, self-sacrificing and affectionate, and for this reason do not always attain the wealth they ​might accumulate if they had more miserly tendencies.

They are in a great degree butterfly people—brilliant, inspirational, inconsequent, blown hither and thither by every new breath of air, easily beaten down and as easily uplifted, to be loved, humored, comforted and gently led into steady says, but to whom to argue with the hard facts of reason would be to waste the breath.

In marriage, the greatest happiness may be expected from a union of Gemini and Aquarius, the corresponding poles of air. The reserve, strength and quiet of the Aquarius nature gives the rest and stability to Gemini of which it stands in so much need, at the same time that the two air natures have a sympathetic bond of mutual comprehension.

Leo, the middle sign of Fire, would make a congenial companion. Virgo, the middle sign of Earth, is believed by some to be a good match, but the caustic criticism and cold, fault-finding nature of a purely material Virgo person, would break the nervous butterfly Gemini on the wheel. A better match would be the negative pole of Fire—Sagittarius—though in this case one would ​feel sorry for the faithful, loving Archer, bound to inconsequent Gemini.

Give these people a responsible position, which is at the same time congenial and progressive, and they will settle down with a steady attention to business truly commendable. But unoccupied and dissatisfied there is no telling what mischief their restless desire to be doing something will make.

This unintentional mischief-making as a child, coupled with their nervous fear of consequences, tends to make them very untruthful, and if not early broken up this habit follows them through life.

If Gemini people would learn to criticise themselves, not others, and talk about others, not themselves, stop complaining of their own troubles, but give more thought to other people's, learn, as children, to keep their hands and feet still, and as grown people to conquer their restless habits, these people would reach to their rightful heights the rare pure air which merges into the ether of the universe. The most fortunate times of the year for Gemini people to undertake new enterprises are the weeks beginning April 26th and November 14th.

​Cancer (the Crab), June 21st–July 21st.—This is the head sign of the Water Triune, and corresponds to the breast of the Grand Man. Its colors are orange, green and russet, its birthstones emerald and black onyx, its profession manufacturing and literature, and its chief characteristics sympathy, sensitiveness and domesticity. Its tribe is Zebulun, and its watchword is "Home," indicating the great love of and desire for a home, the exact opposite of its restless Gemini neighbor. This sign according to some authorities is the natural home of Venus, according to others, of the moon, which accounts for its variable nature. These people are generally of medium stature, and rather delicate appearance, with gray eyes and colorless complexion. Their features are usually small and fine and the face thin in youth, but inclined to lose its oval toward middle age. This is called a feminine sign. That is, a woman born in this sign is strong natured, positive and talkative. A man born in it is quiet, negative, not aggressive. These people are the most sensitive of the twelve signs. No matter what they are doing, nor how much interested they may be in it, if their feelings are hurt, they want to give up the whole thing then ​and there. But, laying this aside, they are the most persistent of people, holding on to, and standing by a thing to which they have once attached themselves like their prototype the Crab, till it either leads to their ruin, or they make it a success.

With these characteristics it is easily seen what a contradictory nature they have, and adding to it the fact that they seem to feel and suffer from the inharmonious mental conditions of those around them, one is not so surprised at the seemingly perfectly unreasonable states of depression, irritability, and sudden changes of humor which mark a Cancer person. It is said that as babies, they become delicate, nervous and even fatally ill from being in charge of thoughtless, cruel, bad tempered or diseased nurses; and inharmonious companions during their childhood, so warp their natures, that the effects will be noticed during the rest of their lives in fits of morbid depression, sullen, morose moods and a general manner of nervous irritability from the slightest causes. But with all this outward crab shell of crustiness, there is no more loving, thoughtful and tender father, mother, brother, sister, son, or daughter than can be found in ​this sign. Their genius is the home. There they blossom into their sweetest nature. Deprived of it they are wanderers on the face of the earth, unhappy themselves and a source of unhappiness to others—cross, morose—all their bad traits in evidence, all their good and tender ones shut back into themselves.

The femininity of this sign is so strong, that should the father of a family be born in this sign, and the mother in another, the children, recognizing the strong mother love in him will love him more than the mother. In fact the men make better husbands than the women do wives, though the women are wonderful mothers. Both sexes are lovers of knowledge, but the man is better at manufacturing, trading and commerce, while the woman tends to literary pursuits. Cancer people are Positive Poles, and hate to be under others' control. They insist on being master of their own home, and do the best work when they are at the head of their own business. For this very reason they should guard against their tendency to domineer unduly over every one with whom they come in contact.

These people like money for its own sake, and, crablike, stretch out their hands to grasp every​thing they can reach. This carefulness in money is a good thing in moderation, but when indulged in till the stinginess of the child becomes the hoarding, miserliness of the man, it cannot be too greatly condemned. Even the home love is swallowed up in it, and the wife and children are stinted, pinched and starved for a little of the money that is hoarded away. There is a seeming contradiction to this in the inordinate love of precious stones, jewelry of all sorts, and fine clothes which characterizes some of these people, especially the women. But it is a form of the miser, getting and keeping for themselves what they most desire. The unregenerate Cancer women are in some cases lacking in constancy (much more so than Cancer men), and with them their jewels are a means toward shining in society. A Cancer person should watch for and fight to the death the very first symptom of miserliness, love of display, or inconstancy. And yet these people seem absolutely unable to see and realize their own faults. They consider themselves the soul of truth and fidelity, and criticise others freely on this point, and they are frequently lacking in both. There is no excuse for extravagance, and the women should realize ​this when they are using every means in their power to obtain the jewels and fine raiment they so desire. These people have exquisite taste, and with half the outlay of less talented persons could dress beautifully, but as a rule they are un satisfied with anything short of the extremes of elegance and costliness. They are lazy folk and very jealous, yet they will work night and day to get the money they love, and give much more cause for jealousy in themselves than they would take from any other. So, contradictory, unexpected, and hard to understand, we see the crab nature approaching its object sideways or backward or any way but straight ahead, never seeming to realize that the best way to get along is to be open and above board in your dealings with men, and direct and straight in your reckonings with yourself. A marriage of Cancer and Pisces, its opposite pole, would be the most harmonious. Pisces would have a sympathy with the contradictions of this nature which would greatly help Cancer to overcome and grow out of them.

A marriage of a Cancer man with a Taurus woman is sometimes very happy, because of the great sympathy of the latter sign.

Restless Cancer will be attracted to the steady ​strength of Aquarius, for the support and comfort it would give him, and a union with Capricornus is pretty sure to be a success from a financial standpoint if not from a purely æsthetic one, as these two natures help each other in the accumulation of wealth.

But a word of advice to Cancer people would be, if they desire happiness, to be well on the road toward conquering their faults before they think of marrying; never do it early in life, and let the Cancer woman think very seriously over her own nature, and the man's, before she marries at all.

Cancer people will be fortunate when the moon is on the increase, and should avoid enteriog on new business during its decrease.

Leo (the Lion), July 22d–August 22d.—This is the middle sign of the Fire Triune and corresponds to the heart of the Grand Man. Its colors are yellow, red and green; its birth stones ruby and diamond; its profession—the ministry, the arts or society leader, and its chief characteristics are conservatism, faith, and self-control. Its tribe is Joseph and it has a double meaning, "Increase" and "Judgment—luminous, perfect." So we find two kinds of people in Leo, unregenerate self-seekers or spiritual-minded workers for ​the good of the world. Their planet is the earth and their star the sun.

These people are generally good looking, the unregenerates with a handsome, sinister type, and the more spiritually minded with a fine, delicate beauty less striking and more lasting.

They are well built, strong and sinewy, with broad shoulders and slim figures. Their complexion is generally fine, with good coloring, their voices should be strong and deep, but are occasionally light and sometimes husky. Their eyes are either sparkling and quick or large and trustful.

This is a distinctively masculine sign. The women born in it are apt to be quiet and negative with high talents of which they make little use.

The men are aggressive, impetuous, magnetic, active and pleasure loving, or conservative, self-controlled, high-minded and religious.

Like Aries, these people reach their greatest heights through the nobility and intensity of their love-nature. They will go to any lengths and sacrifice themselves to any extent for those they love. The women make the most intensely loving and sympathetic wives and mothers, nursing their loved ones with untiring devotion. But ​given a patient to nurse in whom they have no interest, and only the most perfunctory attentions will be paid him. It is the quiet, gentle Leo mother who will fly into a rage at any one who dares correct her children.

Their love-nature is their mainspring, and from it they work out their salvation, or else bid fair to lose their souls.

All Fire people are active, standing always in danger of burning out their own vitality, and Leo people possess this quality in body as well as brain, causing them to succeed in mercantile as well as intellectual pursuits.

But with all this activity and nervous energy they can be the laziest people in the world, having a strong leonine, catlike love of comfort and ease. There is an indolent grace of movement in the Lion people too, and sometimes, a sneaking, stealthy, treacherous disposition which is inhumanly suggestive of their prototype. These are wonderfully adaptable people—seeming to fit perfectly into any position they happen to occupy, and if they partake at all of the self-control which is the heritage of any one in this sign who wills to have it, they invariably make their place a leading one by the magnetic attraction of ​their nature. Impetuous and rash they are apt to be; springing headlong at the thing they want, and caring little for consequences; but so lovable with it all that they are more than likely to escape what they most richly deserve.

Their intuition, which they in common with all fire people possess, helps them to far seeing conclusions which secure for them the reputation of philosophical thoughtfulness, but seems to stop at forming a correct estimate of human nature. If people are attractive, plausible, good looking and kind to them, they never seem to stop to analyze their character. They accept them with that exaggerated trustfulness they have in humanity, and as often happens, follow them blindly to their own undoing morally or financially. Thus we see their love-nature is their greatest strength—or weakness, just as they possess or lack self-control and good judgment.

They have remarkably orderly minds and great skill in the use of their hands. They are born communists, borrowing inordinately, but lending just as freely. As children they imitate those around them, generally unconsciously, sometimes much to their detriment.

These people are generally artistic, but in an ​intellectual way, which causes them to be better critics than artists. It is only by intense application and concentration of energy that they cease dreaming of doing something, and really accomplish it. From childhood they seem to live in dreamland, and it takes some very hard knocks to awaken them to the real facts of life. Some even seem to go through life to the end in an ideal world of their own, much to the astonishment of their friends and acquaintances. While the others, awakened perhaps too cruelly, are apt to go to the other extreme, thinking there is no honesty in the world, and become conscienceless self-seekers—thinking first and always of self-advancement and comfort, and unscrupulously appropriating everything they desire whether obtained by fair means or foul. These people show a great lack of natural policy at times, not even attempting to cover their selfish acts, which results in much unpleasantness and makes it hard for them to retain the unshaken confidence of their friends. In every Sign there are black sheep—and astrology, written for all humanity, must show the faults of the criminal as well as the highest virtues of the best minds.

As a rule Leo people are too artistic to be brutal ​and too idealistic to be gross, and have too much natural refinement to lead any but law-abiding lives. And they are very quick to notice any one who infringes, unconsciously or otherwise on the laws of etiquette or state. Their observant nature and great adaptability help to cover their lack of tact, or to extricate them from the difficulties into which such a lack has led them. And these are the traits which make of them inventors, and improvers on existing forms, in all walks of life.

They belong to the heart of the Grand Man, and any weakness is apt to be felt in an impaired circulation which in turn affects the lungs and nerves.

Inharmony in the daily life is ruinous to these people causing nervous debility which merges at last into chronic nervous irritability, and actually impairs the health. Their ideal nature demands harmony as a medicine, and if they can obtain the peace they crave, their warm, sunny, geniality of nature is as different from the irritable nervousness sometimes found in them as day is from night. The key-notes of this nature are faith, love and harmony—faith in mankind and something higher—and harmony of thought. ​And when either faith or love is lacking, there will be no harmony, only a mass of irritating contradictions and a strong nature in impotent rebellion against a fate which its own blindness has made hard. Their salvation comes through their love-nature, the desire to sacrifice everything for the loved one, and a consequent ignoring of their own desires and troubles, tending to tranquillize the nerves, harmonize the conflicting emotions, and round out the otherwise unsatisfied nature.

These people are conservative rather than original and have a great regard for appearances.

"How a thing will look" is their law, and good form the breath of their nostrils, and many Leo persons have married unhappily for the simple reason that they judged the nature of their partners by their appearance. Another point which militates against their happiness is their inordinate desire to lead and direct. They are constantly giving orders, and not being natural leaders, neither coming under the commanding nor Head Signs, nor executive or Negative Poles, they receive either only tolerant obedience or utter disregard from those they attempt to rule which yet fails to teach them the self-evident truth, ​These people should not marry until very sure of the absolute certainty of their heart, as inconstancy is one of the greatest faults of Leo.

A marriage with Sagittarius is generally sympathetic and harmonious—also one with Aries, though in the latter there is apt to be a clash between the real leader and the assumed one.

Gemini and Libra are both very congenial—Libra more so, as Gemini leads—where Libra would submit to be led so far as its judgment allowed. Perhaps Aquarius would be the most harmonious mate of all, in its quiet negative strength, and steady, unexcitable nature. Leo people are most fortunate during their own sign—and the week beginning January 27th.

Virgo (the Virgin), August 23d–September 22d.—This is the Middle Sign of the Earth Triune, and corresponds to the Solar Plexus and Digestion of the Grand Man.

Its colors are amber, gold, and black with turquoise spots. Its birth stones are pink, jasper and hyacinth.

Its profession is chemistry, proof-reading and the finer details of a large organization. And its chief characteristics are order, method, self-reliance and will-power.

​Its Tribe is Benjamin, meaning Son of Right Hand, or Power. The ruling planets are, Venus, Uranus, and Mercury.

Its personal appearance is almost invariably that of health and strength, as this Sign is considered the healthiest Sign in the Zodiac, having no diseases common to it at all and bestowing everlasting youth on all those born in it. They have unusually fine, well-built figures, oval face, strong voice and fine carriage. Their manners are more elegant than gentle, and are sometimes laid aside entirely.

It is a feminine sign—the women born in it being especially brilliant and aggressive.

There is a strong resemblance seen between them and their Leo neighbors, as Joseph and Benjamin were the only two sons of Rachel, and also because though Virgo is an Earth Sign it stands for the interior fire in the Earth, which makes it akin to Leo.

The Earth Element tends to give them a materialistic cast of mind, and the Fire, a keenly accurate and discriminating eye, which makes them fine literary critics. They are extremely fond of music, generally being expert performers on some instrument.

​The order and method of their minds they carry into their business and personal habits, making valuable organizers in everything which needs to be reduced to a method. For this reason they make fine scholars, pigeon-holing their knowledge and information in their minds in the most available form.

They are without exception the healthiest people in the world, and yet there is no sign which shows such a mania for medicine taking. These are the people who patronize the new cures—and patent medicines—a quack having an irresistible attraction for them. They pin their faith to their physician and almost wear his life out with their incessant demands for new medicines for every ache or pain they have or imagine. If these Virgo people, with their wonderful digestion and assimilative powers, would forswear all medicines, except fresh air, wholesome diet, early hours and regular habits, the wonderful health and vitality they would gain and keep would be the envy of all their less fortunate friends. Like their Leo neighbors, they prefer people of good appearance, are fastidious in dress and are firm believers in good family and blue blood. They take great interest ​in the affairs of others and are inveterate match-makers, but though they may interfere themselves, they will not allow others to meddle, and can keep a secret when necessary.

These people are decidedly self-supporting. They are the capable and successful members of society, no matter in what walk of life, though perhaps they reach their greatest height as musicians, chemists, public speakers, writers, editors and reporters.

They easily win the trust of their employers, fellow workmen, and the public at large through their intellectual discrimination, their knowledge of human nature, and the steady permanence and security of their temperaments. A family-tree is an essential to the happiness of Virgo people and their exaggerated family love or clannishness sometimes widens into the political party champion or patriotic leader, where their elegance of manner and power of influencing and gaining the trust of the public are the means of brilliant successes. Whereas Leo cannot take a disappointment with any degree of composure, Virgo people rebound quickly from any disaster and begin with all their strength and capabilities to build a success out of the defeat.

​They have a wonderfully exact sense of touch and a keen ear for harmony. And these characteristics make them very sensitive in every way, sometimes degenerating into carping criticism of everybody and everything and an intolerant desire for perfection in others, though far from furnishing an example of it themselves. So there are found fault-finding men and nagging women in this sign, and always consciously or unconsciously a critical weighing and measuring of human nature.

Like fire-people, these earth-fire people need harmony in domestic life, though frequently they themselves are the principal cause of the inharmony. They are the kind of people who cannot sleep in a disorderly room, are rendered irritable by dusty furniture and lose their appetite, or become downright ill if there is quarreling at the table.

(We might say right here, there isn't a person born under any sign in the Zodiac who can get any good from eating during a quarrel.)

The domineering tendency of Virgo, like that of Leo, should be suppressed in youth. They are not natural leaders, though they frequently fill high positions, and their constant commands ​delivered without the tact or authority of a true leader, are in continual danger of making enemies and creating rebellions. The exaggerated respect in which they hold family, wealth and position tends to make them either toadies or purse-proud.

A curious fact about these people is their instinct in eating, even as children picking out what is good for them.

In spite of the interior fire in them these are Earth people and fond of the good things of life. Like Taurus they speak the truth as they see it to their friends, and never realize that their sharp and generally uncalled for criticisms are harder to bear than they have any idea, till some enterprising person turns the tables and begins to criticise them. Then oddly enough they will answer for all sorts of faults they do not possess and absolutely deny the existence of their real and most apparent ones. It may seem a contradictory nature which is so quick to inflict woúnds and so supersensitive to any themselves. But the intense selfishness of the unregenerate Virgo nature has the effect of utter callousness to others' feelings and a great delicacy of its own.

​This sensitiveness is constitutional with them, in company with their delicate touch, fine skin and acute feeling, and makes them unable to stand any pain at all.

This sign possesses an intense power of loving, coupled with great self-control.

The women are inclined to be hero worshipers, and both men and women make very devoted husbands and wives.

A marriage of Virgo and Pisces has often resulted in harmony and happiness. Virgo married to another of its own sign is a wonderfully sympathetic union, if each will give up its domineering tendencies. Virgo and Libra make a brilliant couple. And Virgo and Sagittarius tend to more originality than is usually found in Virgo alone, though the unconscious selfishness occasionally found in Sagittarius, sometimes makes a union with an unregenerate Virgo person somewhat stormy.

Virgo people will be successful with any enterprise begun during the weeks commencing May 10th and December 28th, but unfortunate during the week beginning June 21st.

Libra, the Balance, September 23d–October 22d.—This is the Middle Sign of the Air Triune ​and corresponds to the hips of the Grand Man.

Its colors are crimson, black, and light blue. Its birth stones are opals and diamonds. Its profession is law, oratory, military commander, commercial organizer, and often a director of religious organizations.

Its chief characteristics are ambition, perception, pride, conservatism, inspiration and respect for the laws. Its tribe is Reuben, meaning, vision seer, perception and foresight. The ruling planets are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune.

Libra people are almost invariably fine looking, unless given over to evil habits. They possess unusually good figures, tall and slender in youth with small hands and feet, and inclining toward stoutness as they grow older. Their foreheads are broad, their voices ringing, enunciation quick, and their eyes expressive.

They should guard against worry and impatience which tends toward nervous break-downs and a peculiar intestinal indigestion common to them. These are the people who go by their first impressions, which are nine times out of ten correct, owing to their wonderful powers of foresight. But they should bear in mind that the ​tenth time they are not, and this should keep them from stubborn prejudice and intolerance of others' opinions. It is this characteristic foresight which makes speculators of them, and often with great success, only there is always the chance of the tenth time ruining all the other nine successes.

Libra is a masculine sign and the men are hopeful, energetic, rashly impetuous and reckless of consequences, sometimes very inconstant, mercenary and passionate or just the opposite, generous, noble and deeply religious, but always, whether practiced or not, possessing a wonderful perception of justice, typified by the Balance or Scales of their sign. The women are quite different, being retiring, gentle and anxious, though still energetic and capable with a great distaste for money matters.

They have the clear seeing justice of the men, but both men and women, acting as they always do on first impressions, often form a stubborn prejudice which covers their sense of justice entirely.

The women are kind and merciful and hate cruelty or unnecessary bloodshed of any kind. Their powers of intuition are even stronger ​than those the men possess, causing them to feel the mental conditions of those around them so keenly as to be a positive discomfort in cases of inharmonious surroundings and companionship.

Libra people are more capable of real rulership than either of the other two Middle Signs, though they all have a great desire to lead, whereas a natural leader thinks very little or not at all of leading, but being a natural originator, which none of the conservative Middle Signs are, unconsciously lead where others are glad to follow.

The perception and judgment of an intelligent Libra person, fit him for leadership except in the case of a reckless speculator where he would unhesitatingly walk into ruin himself and with his usual energy walk out again, perhaps leaving some of his less elastic friends behind him.

Both the men and women are possessed of a peculiar stubborn setness of purpose, which the opinions of others have no power to move and which only changes by their own choice, and never yields to outside forces. In a highly endowed nature, this attribute is a tower of strength to the weaker natures surrounding it. For this reason they find it hard to obey those in author​ity over them, preferring to work for themselves, unhindered by any supervision.

It would be a hard thing to cheat a Libra person who was engaged in buying and selling horses and cattle. They seem to have an unerring intuition as to what is wrong with the animal. They have the same instinct in buying and selling merchandise, seeming to know what will sell and what will not. They are fine natural mechanics and mathematicians, and many good actors and public speakers are found among them. They are born mimics, all of them with a keen sense of humor which helps them over many rough places in life.

Being naturally religious, their keen insight causes them much anxiety over the conflicting points of different sects.

Like Leo they have an ideal world of their own, of love, harmony and honesty, and failing to find it in daily life they either suffer from the blues, or plunge into excitement, dissipation or even vice—not so much for the love of evil, as is the case with some natures, but in the pursuit of some new and untried excitement.

The great danger of these people is their excessive activity, which tends to wearing them ​out mentally and physically and when so exhausted leaving them a victim to fits of melancholy and anxiety.

When in this condition, they should have rest, wholesome food and above all harmonious, sympathetic and cheery surroundings.

These people make the most devoted friends and parents, and seem always to feel it their bounden duty to help everybody who asks.

They are usually strong, earnest workers, but too many of them are impatient and subject to fits of uncontrolled passion.

When Libra people learn to control themselves, there is nothing else in the world which is too hard for them to master.

But they hate criticism, which only seems to hurt their feelings and do no good, while the approbation of others is as the breath of life to them.

They are inclined to be more careless of their belongings and in dress than their neighbors, and habits of neatness and orderliness should be early inculcated in their childish minds.

Reserved, self-controlled Libra persons are seldom angry, but when they are, their denun​ation is most comprehensive and the result generally decisive.

They stand in positive need of a place where they can go for perfect quiet and peace, and where they can act on their own intuitions, and not be over-persuaded by some other mind, against their own better judgment.

When Libra people marry they should take great care to choose a person who will help them to rise always to greater heights.

A marriage with a Sagittarius is sympathetic.

One with Aquarius would be very harmonious.

Perhaps the happiest would be a union with Aries, if both would conquer their quick temper.

Gemini would make a good match with them, and sometimes Leo.

In fact Libra people have a large choice, compared with some signs, but in spite of it they are very prone to make themselves unhappy by marrying Pisces people—the worst sort of a combination, as Pisces always wants a reason for everything and has one itself to give—and Libra acts entirely by intuition and has no reasons for anything.

Another bad match is with an unregenerate Virgo person whose nature is to criticise every​thing so sharply that Libra's easily-hurt feelings would be in a constant state of laceration.

The two most fortunate weeks in the year for Libra people are those beginning April 13th and December 6th.

Scorpio (the Scorpion), October 23d–November 21st.—This is the Middle Sign of the Water Triune, and corresponds to the generative organs of the Grand Man.

Its colors are scarlet, golden-brown and black.

Its birth stones are topaz and malachite.

Its profession is surgery, medicine and the ministry. It has at times a gift for public speaking, and works best in partnerships, firms and trusts.

Its chief characteristics are love of labor, tenacity, activity, justice, silence, skill and attachment.

Its tribe is Simeon—meaning "He who hears or obeys."

Its planets are the Asteroids and Mars.

A peculiarity of Scorpio is the fact that most of its inhabitants are brunettes—either possessing dark hair, dark eyes, dusky complexions—or all three.

They are robust, warm-blooded and inclined to ​put on flesh in middle life. They should guard against heart trouble, weak back, lumbago and gout.

This is a feminine sign, having like its Head Sign, Cancer, a strong leaning toward domestic life and home comforts.

Scorpio people possess in common with all the Middle Signs a great respect for the ideas and customs of the public, and for persons of wealth and high position. With this comes a high regard for appearances and generally very good taste in dress.

These people make excellent public officials, as the public ideas are their laws, and a love of work thoroughly done is second nature to them.

Perhaps their greatest heights are reached as surgeons and physicians. Their magnetic presence, great skill with their hands, cool, clear-headed judgment, and indomitable will, coupled with an immovable self-control, and an absolute belief in their own powers make them phenomenal surgeons and inspirational diagnosticians.

A spiritually awakened Scorpio person is most earnest to help mankind, often in the ministry as well as medicine, and their quiet superiority of ​demeanor, graceful tact, and fine command of language are great helps toward their success.

These water people love the ocean and ocean voyages, and are often found as sailors or in other transportation work. They seem to keep the coolness of their native element always with them, which when in excess, causes them to become cold, unsympathetic, calculating and unfeeling. This coolness of demeanor, and its stern sense of justice and integrity and an uncontrollable desire for freedom and liberty, have caused Scorpio to be greatly misjudged as being harsh, selfish, unfeeling and dissatisfied.

A good Scorpio person is very much like our Puritan forefathers. Stern, forceful, liberty-loving, dealing out severe justice, untempered by mercy, industrious himself and having no patience with those who are not. Harsh in his criticism of others, but brooking neither criticism nor interference himself. All this softened and beautified by a devoted love of home, tender and helpful, and a noble desire to be of use to all mankind.

But the unawakened, worldly-minded Scorpio person has a decidedly unpleasant character to deal with. These are the men who use their ​tact and magnetism to gain friends whom they drain dry and cast aside, to be taken up again with infinite diplomacy if again found useful. They calculate to a penny what everything with which they come in contact is worth to them, and take nothing else into consideration. Their self-love is abnormal, and their feelings supersensitive, yet they have no regard whatever for others. The unregenerate Scorpio woman is much the same in a weaker way. Her criticism weakens to a habit of incessant nagging and scolding, and her calculating traits turn to petty selfishness. They are both tyrannical, passionate, jealous and suspicious, and if not constantly fed on flattery will make things very unpleasant for those around them.

In fact these untaught Scorpio people can be the most unhappy of the Twelve Signs—a single smile from their married partner, causing them untold pangs of jealousy and storms of tears and reproaches follow, and even blows from the Scorpio man, for there is no jealousy nor passion like Scorpio's when once aroused. The husbands, wives, and children of Scorpio people have a hard time of it usually, which seems a shame when their unparalleled self-control and strength of ​will can so easily conquer these habits of harshness, jealousy and selfish irritability, and the tact, magnetism and devoted home-love of their nature could make the home a paradise and all within it more gloriously happy than all the plodding, clumsy good intentions of a lifetime of some other less gifted sign.

In other words, Scorpio has it in his own hands to be an absolute scintillating happiness to himself and everybody else, or else suffer misery unequaled, and at the same time make all about him perfectly wretched.

And when he starts out to make mischief there is no one to equal him at it.

Like Cancer, Scorpio people are apt to be lazy. They prefer to direct others to work rather than work themselves. And there is no more exacting and tyrannical task-master than they. But they have the virtue of having anything committed to their care, well, and thoroughly done.

These people venerate book-knowledge and always try to show how much they know and to appear as if they knew more. All the Middle Signs have the characteristic. It is a part of their love of appearances, which is also the cause of their suspicious and consequently jealous natures. ​They see the evil itself in the slightest appearance of it.

They should fight with all their strength against this foolish and hurtful trait and learn the lesson of consideration for others' feelings, and none for their own. And when they realize that a true friend is an inestimable treasure, whether of immediate value or not, and that flattery is worse than poison, they will become the loveliest, as well as the most fascinating people in the world.

But it is almost impossible to make a Scorpio person acknowledge his own defects. They are so used to the flattery they demand that they succeed in deceiving themselves, and like Virgo and the other Middle Signs, become very indignant when told of their most apparent faults and will deny them unconditionally. They might know that that very indignation is a sure sign that they have been hit in a vulnerable place. And when they once acknowledge their failings and set to work to cure them, the battle is almost finished, for their strong will makes short work of it. Some Scorpio natures by their own observation of the bad effects of their suspicious jealousy and incessant nagging, have stopped short ​in fear and trembling of the deceit, aversion and disgust their actions cause, and have won back despairing husbands and wives, miserable children and deceitful employees by their gracious tact and magnetism.

In fact, in spite of their harshness Scorpio's marriage relations are tolerably happy, and their partners excuse them because of the love behind the jealousy, and the strong nature within the petty selfishness. They generally marry young, and if their partner dies, marry again, because they cannot bear to live alone. A marriage with Virgo is sympathetic, as they are very much alike; though in some cases inharmony may result from the two critical natures brought together. Libra is sometimes congenial but apt to be stormy. Pisces is harmonious but would be apt to suffer from Scorpio's passionate nature.

Cancer in some cases would be congenial, but both desiring to lead would cause trouble. Taurus would be an excellent match, the thick-skinned complacency of this sign, easily shedding Scorpio's criticisms, and a union with Capricornus would be likely to be happy also.

The two most fortunate weeks in the year for Scorpio people are those beginning February ​19th and July 3d, but they should be careful during the week beginning April 13th.

Sagittarius (the Archer), November 22d–December 20th.—This is the Negative Pole of the Fire Triune and corresponds to the motor nerves and thighs of the Grand Man.

Its colors are red, green and gold. Its birth stones are carbuncles, turquoises and diamonds.

Its profession is traveling, buying and selling, commercial enterprises, or anything in which the great executive ability, penetrating foresight, and wealth amassing characteristics of this sign can be exercised.

This nature is cautious, conservative, courageous in defense rather than offense, self-reliant, introspective, and as in all fire people, its keynote and mainspring is its deep love-nature, less impetuous but more lasting, devoted and faithful than either Aries or Leo.

Its tribe is Levi—meaning "Those who are joined or bound" which is characteristic of its fidelity and faithfulness to the marriage-vow.

Its ruling planets are Mars and Jupiter. Sagittarius people are almost invariably refined and graceful, with a quiet elegance of manner and dress. Their eyes are expressive and true, their ​movements quick, the shorter ones more robust and jovial, the tall slender ones silent, and appreciative.

These people should guard against intensity of application and overwork, which is liable to cause a derangement of the digestion. They should have plenty of fresh air and not too much sedentary occupation, or their lungs might suffer, and should take precautions against rheumatism.

Sagittarius is a masculine sign and is considered a most fortunate sign in which to be born. It seems to gather all the energy of the two preceding Fire Signs, and instead of wasting it in Aries' impetuosity, or Leo's love of show, it turns it all inward away from the world. This makes these people independent, original, a law to themselves, and regardless of others' opinions. They still retain the impulsiveness and generosity of Aries, but lack the intense regard for appearances of Leo. For this reason, the quiet poise of their manner often creates a better impression than the studied elegance of Leo. Being fire people, they possess a prophetic intuition, and have a natural inclination toward higher aims than some of their neighbors, which fact should make them very thankful and not at all conceited, and ​should rouse them to greater efforts to shake off any incumbering bad habits they may possess. They should remember where much is given much is required.

These are the archer people who generally hit the mark. In games of skill when a good aim is required they excel, also in shooting and fencing. And still surer are they of hitting the mark when in anger they hurl an accusation or sarcasm invariably at the weakest spot of their opponents' armor. They should remember this and lay it on their conscience not to so cruelly hurt their fellow men. For all the nagging and fault-finding, the criticism and ill-temper of the other signs, cannot so mercilessly wound, as Sagittarius' keen barbed arrow driven straight into the one defenseless, helpless break in the armor, the one sore spot in the heart. They themselves are so perfect in their own power of defense, so well-protected, and sure of themselves that the shots of others only occasionally penetrate far enough to hurt them.

These people, like Virgo, have the power to take care of themselves, to which they add the ability to care for others also, and an inherent ​faculty for amassing wealth. Not in speculation, like Libra, but cautiously, wisely and far seeingly, for they are always shooting their arrows far ahead, and then more than likely wearing themselves out trying to keep up with them. This faculty of looking ahead is often seen in Sagittarius in the prophesying of events, such as the prediction of storms and weather changes, the announcement of who it was rang the bell, or what a letter contains. One can often tell a Sagittarius person from these little traits. They are also the emergency people; they seem to know by instinct what to do in cases of sudden danger or untoward occurrences. Often of a seemingly timid or indifferent nature, they will rise at such times to heights of heroism and presence of mind which astonish every one, including themselves.

As Libra conserves laws and ideas, this nature conserves wealth, and in consequence these two work to great advantage together.

This conservative or defensive power is strongly noticeable in all their acts. Quiet, inoffensive, poised they seemingly have a mild, easily controlled nature. But go too far, offend their pride or self-love, in other words invade ​their own territory, and instant and utter route may be expected.

Their shafts are unanswerable and their defense perfect.

Their motto is Touch me not!

And we will say for them that they are too busy tending to their own affairs, to interfere with others. It is said of this sign that because of its wealth amassing proclivities it causes more success, and prosperity or more distress and misery to others than any other. It reads human nature well and takes advantage of others' experience in the past, the habits of the present, and its prophetic insight into the future.

These people are distinctly persons of one thing at a time. They throw their whole force and strength into whatever they are doing, to the absolute exclusion of everything else and this may be the reason why they so often succeed. But it tends to wear them out as they never want to drop a thing till it's finished, an unfinished task hanging over their heads like a sword of Damocles. It also superinduces a nervous irritability, when interrupted by other things, which is a sign of a somewhat narrow mentality and should be peremptorily stifled. In this forecasting ​way of theirs these people are apt to draw conclusions not always correct, but which they treat as facts, thus sometimes getting a name for fabricating, which is generally entirely undeserved. But for their own peace of mind they should make themselves morally sure of every statement they make. Neatness with them is a virtue, and they dislike disorder of any kind. They hate anything underhand or secret, even going so far at times as to disapprove strongly of secret societies. If they ever suspect everything is not perfectly open and square, they give their opinion of it on the spot, and this tactless habit of saying carelessly and sometimes cruelly whatever comes into their minds makes many enemies and hurts many friends. Yet these people are the most devoted of friends, and are likewise equally bitter enemies, though their better nature usually restrains them from the acts of violence sometimes committed by the inhabitants of the other signs. But their quick temper often causes them to say and do what they are sorry for. They have a natural inclination toward purity of thought and action, and this is the fundamental cause for their physical power and endurance. Their physical strength is greater ​than that of people born under any other sign.

They love music, and some of the finest musicians have come from this sign. They are naturally religious and home-loving. To be able to have a home of their own to which they can devote some of their superfluous energies in beautifying it and making it comfortable, is the greatest desire of a Sagittarius heart, and the love they give their help-mate is of the highest, most devoted and ideal kind, the wreck of these natures often being brought about by a failure to obtain the one of their choice, or to unfortunately bind themselves to a coarse and unsympathetic nature.

Their most harmonious union will be with their opposite pole, Aries. They sometimes mate with Virgo, but usually are put on the defensive by Virgo's criticisms. A more peaceful union would be with Libra. Sagittarius and Gemini occasionally make most sympathetic marriages; also Sagittarius and Aquarius, though the coldness and irresponsiveness of this latter sign is generally a source of pain to the former. Sagittarius people are most fortunate during their own sign, but ​may have some misfortune during the week beginning June 27th.

Capricornus (the Goat), December 21st–January 18th.—This is the Negative Pole of the Earth Triune and corresponds to the knees of the Grand Man.

Its colors are maroon, brown, silver and black. Its birth stones are moonstone and white onyx. Its profession is teaching and the management of large sums of money, estates or many servants. Its chief characteristics are ideality, inspiration and a great love of learning and self-improvement. Its tribe is Judah, meaning "The Praise of the Lord." Its planets are Saturn and Mars. These people always possess the charm of looking well. They are generally fine-looking, with beautiful, expressive eyes—round instead of almond-shaped—dark hair and sometimes olive complexion.

The ambition they have to carry anything they undertake to a brilliant finish has a tendency to overtax their endurance and cause acute indigestion. This in turn leads to fits of the blues, as every one knows the digestion is responsible for a great deal of the unhappiness in the world. This is a feminine sign, the women born in it being the strongest natures and having the most ​brilliance. The men of the sign are gentle, tender, sympathetic and unambitious, except in cases of a perverted nature, when we find them cruel, selfish, passionate and vindictive.

Capricornus is another contradictory sign. Its people are very fond of a free and lavish way of living and like to give expensive gifts and pose as Lord and Lady Bountiful. Yet they will at times be selfish and penurious to the verge of miserliness. They are a nature of extremes. When they are gay they are more hilariously jolly than any one else, and when they are miserable there is no one so melancholy. These different phases of their character are undoubtedly the causes of their differing states of meanness and generosity. They are conventional people as a rule, but in a large, free way, and they like large plans and schemes. They are splendid as organizers of public enterprises and big business schemes, and are not happy unless they have an unlimited amount of money to spend. So we find these people working to amass large fortunes and more often than not succeeding.

They make capable, quick and exact commercial agents and are very successful at doing all kinds of commission work. They are essentially ​travelers and form wide acquaintanceships. They have tremendous reserve power and never seem to come to the end of their capacity. Occasionally there is a lack of ambition, which tends to narrow their business ability, but when highly endowed they possess wonderful fire and force. Like Sagittarius, these people mind their own business and expect to be unmolested by others. And should any one meddle with their affairs their vengeance would be sharp, vindictive and even destructive.

At these times they are sarcastic and severe, and their judgment harsh and unmerciful. There are many good mathematicians, accountants, civil engineers and recorders in this sign. And they have the faculty for turning their artistic talents to practical use. Especially is this seen in the case of the women, who make excellent housekeepers of beautiful homes.

They depend on their heads to accomplish their success—and the working out of their mental plans occupies their time to the exclusion of much manual work. They are the natural heads of the business of the world. They seem to need wealth to expand to their greatest capabilities and are rendered very unhappy by poverty, for ​in spite of their occasional miserliness, they cannot seem to economize except in a spasmodic way. They are proud, independent and high-minded, and not given to manual labor except as a furtherance of one of their own plans. They have great determination, executive ability and positive convictions which amount to stubbornness when crossed. These are the proud poor, who keep up appearances till they starve. They live too much in the externals of this world, and yet they have a deep, fine inner nature, with a high ideal of love and harmony. This idealism in their nature causes them to set their friends on pedestals and predisposes them to hero worship of all kinds, and on finding that human nature is very frail and their ideals are constantly tumbling off their impossible perches, most melancholy fits of the blues follow and a conviction that "only man is vile." When these people are born on the cusp where Sagittarius joins Capricornus, they are wonderfully prophetic. So though they correspond to the knees of the Grand Man, which is an external attribute, still as Hiram Butler says, "The knees are the feet of prayer" and they possess an ideal, internal spirituality, more lofty than that of any ​other nature. This shows itself in a sympathetic philanthropy and love of doing good. They are lovers of literature, art, education and are the most wonderful teachers of all the signs, being very patient with the details. Their teaching is simple, plain and easily understood, well illustrated and very pleasing. From childhood they should be taught to conquer their pride, and learn that not wealth and position, but usefulness to mankind makes the man. No matter how rich they are they should be taught the value of money, and its proper care and uses. They are secretive people and loyal friends. They are not demonstrative themselves and do not like it in others. This sign has produced many fine musicians and brilliant actors and actresses. They dislike flattery but appreciate the commendation they deserve.

Capricornus is a talkative sign, and should learn the discretion of silence. Their worship of intellect and book learning often blinds them to the greater beauties and uses of a loving tender heart, or a pure, charitable soul. They must work out their salvation by looking away from self and the contemplation of their misfortunes, and looking up to higher things than ​the attainment of their selfish desires and the public esteem. Capricornus natures are generally happy in the married estate. They need companionship and dislike being left alone. A very happy union is that with their Positive Pole, Taurus.

A marriage with Libra is conducive to greater intellectual activity and growth.

Genius and power go with a marriage to Virgo.

A union with Pisces tends to artistic attainments.

One with Aquarius or Cancer to the beautifying and making lovely the home.

Capricornus people are most fortunate during the two weeks in the year beginning October 14th and May 27th.

Aquarius (the Water Bearer), January 19th–February 17th.—This is the Negative Pole of the Air Triune, and corresponds to the ankles of the Grand Man. Its colors are salmon pink, Nile green and blue. Its birth stones are sapphire, opal, and turquoise. Its profession is art, music—especially vocal—electricity and social leadership.

Its chief characteristics are memory, sensitiveness, good taste, and a faculty for absorbing and retaining knowledge.

​Its tribe is Dan, meaning a judge, and it seems to possess a wonderful gift of reading human nature.

Its planets are Uranus and Saturn. The natural tendency of these people is toward a fine, dignified appearance—tall and healthy—with beautiful complexions and clear eyes. But there are also found careless and lazy persons in this sign and these suffer much in appearance and health. Their inactive habits cause bad circulation, which induces pains in the head and feet, nervous break-downs, fits of the blues and rheumatism. This is a masculine, talkative sign, the women in it being apt to be quiet and negative, or possessed of an almost masculine ability. These are honorable, high-minded people, proud and quiet. They possess a strong magnetic power over those with whom they come in contact, which makes friends for them wherever they go, makes them excellent teachers of children and gives them the most wonderful healing and quieting control over the insane. They like city life and social intercourse of all kinds and the men make natural politicians and financiers, and the women patronesses of operas and public entertainments. When endowed with a deep re​ligious nature these people become pillars of the Church. The women make good, tasteful and economical housekeepers, except where their love of appearances and display leads them into extravagance. Once a friend with them is a friend always, and their friendship is of the most devoted and loyal kind. Their excessive sensitiveness sometimes goes so far as to interfere with their health, in the case of inharmonious home life. It is thought that Aquarius babes have died from no other reason than living near a noisy factory. But this trait, unlike the abnormal self-love of Virgo, makes them very sympathetic for others. This faculty in a highly endowed nature makes them most successful workers for the public good. And politicians of this stamp are much beloved by their followers.

The controlling power of the well-poised, unruffled spirit looking through the steady, clear eyes of the high-minded Aquarius person makes them leaders—often unconsciously—of whatever sphere they are in. And on the other hand, the lazy, indifferent, careless one passes unnoticed or avoided through life. So we see these people can be the strongest or weakest in the world. They are clear reasoners, and are capable of ac​quiring a fine education if they can overcome their natural disinclination to work, and cultivate enough application. But even in cases where there has been no chance for an elaborate education these people still seem to absorb information as they go through life and appear, helped by the natural dignity which this sign possesses, to as great or greater advantage than others of far more learning. They should strive to overcome their love of a fine personal appearance, and their rather slavish deference to public opinion, as too great a regard for these two things will stunt the growth of the finest nature and lead almost invariably to extravagance and debt.

These are faithful, earnest workers in any position they may take, whether congenial or not and have the faculty of making themselves proficient in it. Public parades and public resorts of all kinds are their delight, and it is said that if one were to ask the date of birth of those we meet in crowded assemblies, the greater part would be Aquarius people, or those characterized by Aquarius. This love of intercourse with their fellow men makes them natural traders and in this way they find their greatest success. They are nervous people generally induced by their ​love of social pleasures, which leaves them too little time to rest. Their best medicine would be rest, regularity in living and sleep. From trying to do so much they form a habit of breaking their promises and failing to keep their appointments, and one of the first things an Aquarius person should learn is to keep his word. They mustn't forget they belong to Air, and in spite of their wonderful gifts, they are far too easily blown hither and thither by public opinion and their own moods. Like Capricornus they must overcome their tendency to be happy one day and blue the next. The women are fond of owning property, but very nervous and anxious about its proper care and the management of their investment. They are not passionate or easily roused, but can deliver a very dignified and crushing rebuke when necessary.

Both men and women are very fearful of poverty, which is a debasing and morbid trait for a healthy, energetic person, and will stunt their higher development more surely than almost anything else short of crime. The women are apt to be timid and fearful of everything and this fault should be eradicated in childhood, along with the procrastination, and caprice of this ​sign. The men sometimes degenerate into braggarts and toadies, and they are both too fond of blue blood and aristocratic connections.

To overcome their restless anxiety and melancholy, they should look always for the good in everybody and everything, and try to convince themselves that the world and the people in it are growing better, not worse all the time. They should strive not to condemn in others the faults they have themselves, and aim to become perfectly independent of public opinion.

Taken all in all, the high-minded Aquarius persons are very lovable. They make the most true and loyal friends, and the most loving and devoted wives and husbands, and unless married to an impossible subject, they have the faculty of making their husbands, wives and children very happy, and their home a little paradise. They belong to the Negative or Attractive Pole, and they also have an intrinsic and powerful magnetic attraction of their own, so they count their friends by the score, and stand a better chance of being happy in their marriage relation, and making a harmonious union with more of the other signs than many of their neighbors.

Their Positive Pole, Gemini, would make a very ​sympathetic union with them, Gemini probably getting the best of the bargain: A marriage with Aries would be wonderfully harmonious and the harmony would last.

Sagittarius and Aquarius would accord well, both of the contracting parties being improved by such a union.

Aquarius and Pisces would be a good intellectual match for each other, though both are too much inclined to worry.

A union with Leo would be ardent and sympathetic.

One with Cancer would be a good thing for Cancer, but if Cancer were still an unregenerate, a sorry one for Aquarius.

The two most fortunate weeks of the year for Aquarius people, are those beginning May 27th and October 14th.

Pisces (the Fishes), February 18th–March 20th.—This is the Negative Pole of the Water Triune, and corresponds to the feet of the Grand Man.

Its colors are gray, emerald-green, pink, white and black. Its birth stones are chrysolite, pink shell and moonstones.

Its profession is art, as expressed in sculpture and symbolism, mechanics, and grade.

​Its chief characteristics are perception, emotion, and silence.

Its tribe is Naphtali—meaning "Wrestlings"—which aptly describes its anxious, lifelong fight with its own faults and outer circumstances.

Its planets are Jupiter, Neptune and the Moon.

Pisces people are of two types, the one possessing fine, straight figures, wide-awake, piercing eyes, square head and jaw, and elastic step. The others are apt to be round shouldered, with weak carriage, full faces and sleepy eyes.

The active ones are subject to pains in the head, feet and back, to weak digestion, rheumatism and fits of anxious self-censure.

The inactive ones go farther sometimes, degenerating into melancholy and despair.

Pisces women should strive to strengthen their internal organs. This is a silent, feminine sign, the women usually having strong characters, and the men often possessing wonderful hidden tenderness of nature, the occasional appearance of which through the alert, masculine manner is highly disconcerting to their possessor.

The heritage of these people is a pure devoted interior love-nature, and a generous and loyal faith in mankind. Unfortunately this faith and ​generosity is too often betrayed and abused, and as they grow older they withdraw into a shell of indifference and cynicism to protect the natural sensitiveness of their nature. Thus enclosed in scale-armor, like their prototype, they gain the name of being "cold-blooded fish," which is not always merited.

These are faithful students, never considering their education finished, but always striving to improve their minds and bodies. No sign appreciates more the advantages of a liberal education. There is a hidden, unsuspected lack of self-confidence under their determined manner, due to their over-conscientious ideas of their duty and requirements, which causes them much secret anxiety. These are careful, restless, thoughtful, faithful people, building far better than they know or expect, over-anxious about starting out in any new direction as a rule, yet at times strangely radical in their business affairs.

They love history and travel, and are upright, kind and affable when unruffled.

Pisces people are very sensitive and proud, and desperately afraid of ridicule. They often cruelly hurt the feelings of others in their frantic efforts to save their own.

​They are capable, executive, and love art and beauty in all its forms. Their perceptive faculties are abnormally keen, a mistake or defect never escaping them, which tends to make them severe and accurate art and literary critics. They seem to take in everything, even to the smallest details, in a glance. This accuracy in taking a thing in from all sides at once accords them the gift of reducing everything to a method, and the perfection of the methods of a Pisces person is the admiration of every one else.

These people are always calm in action, the greater the heat of the argument or stress of circumstances the more immovable the calm. They love harmonious and elegant surroundings, and are never happier than in beautifying their home. Nature is a constant source of delight to them, and their best medicine. There is an innate modesty and purity about Pisces which reminds one of the pure water of their native element, and these feet of the Grand Man, or faithful, conscientious support of the human race, generally walk in straight, clean paths. They are very fond of responsible positions, and usually fill them faithfully and acceptably.

All Pisces people, both men and women, seem ​born with the feeling that people and fate are against them. Others' paths are comparatively easy, but they have many obstacles to overcome. And this very fact is often the secret of their success, causing them to put forth greater effort, and be more persistent and faithful in their work.

They are natural philanthropists, having much sensitive sympathy in all cases of suffering, and giving generously where they feel called to, yet they are quite close and careful of their money. If this trait develops and, as is sometimes found in Cancer, the Positive Pole of water, the love of money becomes the controlling principle of their lives, their upright, honorable nature becomes debased, their sensitive sympathies and generous impulses become obliterated, a disposition to trickiness and dishonesty is shown and they turn into cold-blooded fish indeed.

A wrong start in life is a more serious matter to these people than any others, as once started they are apt to continue in the way. They avoid change, and a child of this kind should be given a good education and then placed in a position where there are good chances of rising. Their best chance is found in some growing mercantile business. Should they become authors, ​their style partakes of the clear purity of their native element, with an eye to the picturesque. They are very seldom egotistical, and sometimes so lacking in self-esteem as to induce a certain awkwardness of manner. They have a deep religious nature with great loyalty to their particular creed. These are law abiding people, exacting and severe in domestic and business discipline, and expect every one to possess the same steady unoriginal persistent traits they have, not taking into account the difference of talents and natures.

Pisces, like Sagittarius, inclines to a faithful adherence of the marriage vow, but lacks the latter's ardent, devoted love.

The women have more devotion in their nature, but are less methodical. Unless trained in childhood to careful habits, they are the most thoughtless of persons, dropping and losing their belongings, constantly mislaying or leaving other people's things in disorder, and generally turning the house upside down. They have an odd unreasonable stubbornness at times which is the outcome of their pride, timidity and fear of ridicule, and at these times, no argument will move them.

They are very fond of asking questions, curi​osity being one of their strong points, and unless possessed of enough tact to perceive their mistake, they can make themselves very unpleasant. They are inattentive listeners and think little of breaking into a discourse with something entirely irrelevant, showing their attention was far away. When these people have learned the value of silence they are far on the road to success, but their faculty for seeing the faults of everything and criticising so freely spoils a fine nature, loses them friends, discourages their associates and ruins their own happiness.

Pisces and Cancer would make a sympathetic union, though their failings are too much alike. Pisces and Virgo make a harmonious match, both being equally critical. Pisces and Capricornus promise domestic comfort and satisfaction. Also a union of Pisces and Taurus. Aquarius and Pisces are magnetically attractive, though the latter is almost too cold-blooded for the former's more impetuous nature. They should never marry Sagittarius or Libra, as neither of these like to give the reasons for their actions which Pisces expects and exacts.

Pisces' most fortunate weeks of the year are those beginning November 12th and August 5th.