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the same lack of co-operation. It is as absolutely necessary to help our
stars in one direction as to hinder them in the other. Are you out of a po-
sition with perhaps the family exchequer running low and no means in sight
wherewith to replenish it; but your hopes centered upon a strong favorable
direction such as perhaps a trine of the progressed Moon to the ruler of the
Sixth House or the Sun? Under these conditions you feel sure, from an as-
trological standpoint, that you are going to obtain a good position which
will put you on easy street. Very well, you may be sure that the opportu-
nity will come, but do not expect it to be laid in your lap without a single
effort on your part; if a thing is worth having it is worth going after, it
is worth making the very best efforts to get it; do not neglect any detail,
dress yourself carefully, but not showily when you go to see the person who
has it in his power to bestow the favor, remember, first impressions are im-
portant; have all your ammunition ready in the shape of recommendations and
everything else that you would have were you not depending upon an astro-
logical aspect to help you get the position. Use every proper means if im-
pressing the prospective employer with your ability and you may depend that
your effort will be successful, for YOU HAVE HELPED YOUR STARS, you have
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grasped your opportunity. Or, are you about to embark in a business venture
with some one else and you feel very confident because the Moon is trine to
the Sun and Venus in the Seventh House? Be careful that you do not lay
aside your caution on that account, thinking that under such a direction no
one can come into your partnership who is not all right. If you do, you ne-
glect your part and you will have no reason whatever to blame the stars if
later on it is shown that the person is not all you expected him to be.
Nothing is needed in the world today in the same degree that we need common
sense, and this applies to the department of astrology, as well as to every
other department of life. Opportunity may be likened to a toboggan slide
between ourselves and our desires; it is necessary for us to make an ad-
equate initial effort in order to launch our sled upon this incline, but
once we have done our part, then everything will go along swimmingly under
favorable directions, for then the stars are with us to impress others in
our behalf, or to strengthen our penetrative power so that we may know what
is best for us.
If you want to know positively the power of directions, even transits, as
will call the actual position of the stars in the sky, take an ephemeris and
note the moon's aspects for the current month. When the Moon is in opposi-
tion to Mars you will find in people a general lack of energy and ambition,
they would rather tear down than build. When we have a conjunction of Mars
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and the Moon, people will be active and energetic, but impulse rather than
common sense will govern, hence they will accomplish little good, and may do
harm without intention. But when the Moon and Mars are trine, there will be
a general desire among people to do something of a constructive nature, and
they will meet with success in such efforts. And last, but not least, when
the Moon is square to Mars it will make people irritable, quarrelsome, de-
structive, ready to fly at each other, unreasonable and unmanageable.
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CHAPTER XIX
MIND AND THE RULING PLANET
When we wish to study the character, disposition and temperament of any-
one we must first realize that the mind is the keystone of the arch of the
human personality. But character, disposition and temperament do not depend
so much upon the quality of mind, whether it be keen, sharp, and alert or
slow and plodding, as upon what channels it takes for its expression. In-
tellects of the first magnitude are sometimes put to perverted use to the
detriment of the community and the individual who thus misuses his divine
heritage, while a slow and very inferior mind may minister to many in lowly
but loving meekness and reap sheaves of soul-growth thereby. Thus it is not
sufficient to determine the quality of the mentality; we must also ascertain
what is the channel of its expression. To judge that or any other matter
thoroughly really involves consideration of the horoscope as a whole,
separately and apart from its bearing upon all other matters. But in a gen-
eral way the character and disposition may be learned fro the Sun, Moon,
Mercury, Ascendant and the ruling planets.
It has become the custom of many astrologers to take the lord of the
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rising sign as the ruler of the horoscope. That is correct in Medical As-
trology because the Ascendant represents the body, but when we want to judge
the character which is the combination of all the forces focused through the
horoscopical wheel of life the matter is different. Then we must find what
planet has the most dominant influence in the life and that is then the life
ruler regardless of whether or not it is the ruler of the Ascendant. To
find that planet look first to the lord of the Ascendant. If he is el-
evated, essentially dignified or angular and strongly aspected, remember, it
matters not whether the aspects are good or bad as long as they are close
and plentiful (for if it were only the good aspects that made the ruler then
there would be only good people in the world. But we know that there are
people of all shades of character and therefore it is necessary to select
the ruler according to the aspects, regardless of whether they are good or
bad), and above all, if the aspects are close, then the lord of the Ascen-
dant is also the ruling planet, for he will exercise the most potent influ-
ence in the life.
On the other hand if another planet is more highly elevated than the
ruler of the Ascendant, if it is exalted, essentially dignified or placed in
an angle and its aspects re more plentiful or closer than the aspects of the
lord of the Ascendant, the judge that that planet will be the ruler of the
horoscope and exercise a dominant influence in the life regardless of the
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fact that it is not the ruler of the rising sign.
But if there are two planets running neck-and-neck in the race for
rulership, so to speak, with no strongly marked difference in favor of one
or the other so that it is difficult to make a choice, do not utterly dis-
card one and choose the other, for then they will both be very active in the
life and must be classed as co-rulers.
THE INFLUENCE OF RULING PLANETS
WELL ASPECTED
THE SUN AS RULING PLANET
When the vital, courageous and ambitious well aspected Sun is ruler, it
gives dignity to the whole nature, a lofty price that would not stoop to do
anything small, mean or degrading, a fine and noble courage that may show
itself on occasion as much by disdainfully ignoring the attacks of an adver-
sary whom he considers too far beneath his notice as by a fight to the death
for a principle. There is an intense craving for recognition and leadership
which will make it very difficult for him to occupy a subordinate position;
also an intense warm-hearted, affectionate and demonstrative nature.
VENUS AS RULING PLANET
When the refined, luxurious and musical well aspected Venus is ruler of
the horoscope it gives tender, loving, even amorous nature which craves love
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as we all desire air, for love is the very life breath of such people. They
are extremely fond of children and usually have many pets which serve as av-
enues for their expression of love. They are also pleasure-loving and fond
of social intercourse, neat and artistic in their ideas and in the decora-
tion of their homes. They love jewelry and anything else that adds beauty
to the life; they are luxurious in all their tastes, very amiable and much
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