People are often led into business operations by reason of laws superior to the laws of one's individual or personal attractions. Inferior influence cannot overcome a superior, nevertheless, there are certain attractions under all circumstances or conditions. For instance, were Jupiter influences dominating, by being in the sign which he lords, and Sun were in Aries, and Moon in Leo, we could not positively affirm that the subject would be a speculator in Wall street, and possess much finance. Such a subject might be on a lonely island with no knowledge of Wall street, and where finance would be worthless. The environing Influences would be superior to his personal and superior influences and what goodness he might receive from Jupiter, Sun and Moon would have to come from the resources of the Island. If there was but one oyster upon the beach and but one plank to get away from the Island on then he would no doubt be the lucky one to get them. The planets do not tell, in an individual life what will be. They tell merely the grade of privileges which the individual is warranted to express, according to the opportunities granted by the superior influences of his environments, his community, his age, or the age in which he lives.

Business qualifications in like manner, do not denote just what business a man will follow, for there are many lawyers today who ought to be farmers and farmers who ought to be lawyers. In the line followed, however, you will see the natural qualifications stick out plainly in the particular business which superior influences have forced the man into. It is in the exercise of judgment in these matters that constitutes an adept in Astrology, and not in the thumb rule judgments gleaned from books, which an Astrologer can reel off glibly, through his power of memory. Each planet has something, in his individual case, to govern in every operation whether it be in business or social affairs, or any other, and the planets give the secondary conditions to the predominant operation, in every case, no matter what that case may be. It is merely necessary to arouse that planetary influence into action, and this may be often very easily done, on a planetary hour, even though there be no transit, no directional, no progreasional or other evidences to be found in the ordinary considerations of a life. The tick of a clock has as much to do with the recording of the clock's movement as have the hands.

The moving of the hands do not indicate that the tick is correct, nor does the ticking indicate that the hands are moving. There are basic laws relative to the clock through which we may all make judgments and be benefitted thereby, but when deeper judgments are necessary we must apply to the clockmaker, and even then we do not find all clockmak-ers satisfactory to our own mind. It, of course, is needless to add that the same considerations may be applied to Astrology and Astrologers.

Tycho Brahe's Observatory, 1676. (Drawn by Himself.)

The morning of our life begins where the Sun is at the time of our birth, but it may not be the civil morning to the world. The civil day begins at midnight. The Biblical or as-trologlc day begins at noon. "And the evening and the morning: were the first day."The civil year begins January 1. The astrologic year begins at Aries 1. (March 21). The Christian era began at Aries 1, in the great aeonic cycle created by the precession of the Equinoxes. It takes 25.868 years to complete this cycle. Not one-quarter of it has yet been made since the Mosaic age. By this cycle, the astrologic signs and the astronomic constellations do not agree, each school adhering to it's old land marks, for different judgments of effects and motion. The sign Aries now, almost covers the constellation Pisces, and ere long the first point of Aries will enter the constellation Ac-quarius, and the world will respond to the change. In spite of this change which has its correspondence in both daily and yearly movements, the Gregorian calendar, like a clock as related to the Sun, provides for the discrepancies so that the Vernal Equinox always happens on the 21st of March. The earth is nearest to the Sun on January 1, and farthest from the Sun about the 3rd of July. The Sun does not rise, it is the earth that revolves.

And so we might go on and in hundreds of ways denote how mixed up these matters appear when presented to minds uneducated to them, and it is very dangerous for some people to attempt to solve these problems, if continually harping over this thing or that, and mixing astronomic, civil, church and astrologic ideas, and heliocentric and geocentric standpoints. With our wonder wheel, we present the true astrologic laws, as simple as A. B. C. When these other tantalizing questions are eliminated from the mind, ours will be fully and plainly understood. These various claims are all right; are wise, sound, and have their purpose, but they depend entirely on the standpoint from, which they are viewed.

In the Genesis story Adam represents the first expression of Sunship, the "sealed book" in the "earthen vessel,' and Eve is the first expression of the Lunar force in humanity. The serpent is the path of the Moon, either side of the ecliptic, and best represented in Astronomy by the "Dragon's Head" and the "Dragon's Tail." In other words, humanity yielded to the sentient forces of life, making them of greater importance than the Solar, or Sunship forces, hence, interests became sensual, rather than intellectual, and human wants became like the lower animals dependent upon the products of a wiluerness.

The "sons of God" or the intellectual Sunship, united with the daughters of men,"the Lunar influences, and worldly valor and renown increased to a degree termed "wickedness,"from which life was preserved only through the prophetic wisdom of Noah, who learned his Astrology from Seth.