A diagram has been already given, page 140, of these directions, to which we refer the reader. Further explanation is therefore unnecessary, since the author will now give the facile and ready method of calculating every celestial arc of direction to the twelve houses, by right ascension only.

Problems. - To bring a star to the cusp of any celestial house.

Rule. - If the star be above the earth, to bring it to the cusp of the ascendant, subtract its semi-diurnal arc from its right ascension. If to the cusp of the twelfth, subtract two-thirds of its semi-diurnal arc. If to the cusp of the eleventh, subtract one-third. If to the cusp of the tenth, neither add nor subtract. If to the cusp of the ninth, add one-third of the said semi-arc. If to the cusp of the eighth, add two-thirds. If to the cusp of the seventh, add the whole semi-diurnal are.

Universally, in all the above problems, subtract from this sum or remainder the Right Ascension of the mid-heaven, the remainder will be the arc of direction sought.

Rules. If the star be below the Earth. If it is to be brought to the cusp of the sixth, subtract two-thirds of its semi-nocturnal arc from its right ascension; if to the fifth subtract one-third; if to the fourth neither add nor subtract; if to the third add one-third; and if to the second add two-thirds of its semi-nocturnal arc.

Universally. Subtract from this sum, or remainder, the R. A. of the Imum Coeli, or fourth house; the remainder will be the true celestial arc of direction.

Every direction to the angles may be calculated by those rules.

The Mundane Directions Which The Stars Form Amongst Themselves

Placidus de Titus (mathematician to the archduke Leopold of Austria,) was the first writer on this system; and there can be no doubt of their efficacy, when we reflect that daily experience confirms the wonderful power which the planets have over all sublunary affairs; by their mundane rising, setting, and culminating; this no one in their senses we think can deny. The proofs of these directions are open to the reader by the following problems:

Problem 1. To direct a significator conversely (or contrary to the order of the signs) to the conjunction of a star, is the exact reverse of problem 9. For instead of taking the oblique ascension, or oblique descension of the aspect under the pole of the significator, we take the oblique ascension or descension of the significator under the pole of the conjunctive aspect. However, we will here give a general rule which will answer in all cases whatever, for calculating mundane directions.

General Problem For All Mundane Directions

Rule 1. Observe that the planet which forms the aspect by moving conversely must always be directed, whether it be significator or promittor.

2. Observe the star to whose place or aspect the direction is to be made, and take its distance from the cusp, either of the preceding or succeeding house: find also the distance of the star to be directed, from the cusp of that house that forms the required configurator with the cusp of the other house,from whence, the first distance was taken, and call this last the primary distance.

3. Then say, as the horary time (one-sixth of the semi-arc) of the planet to whose configuration the other is to be directed, is to its distance from the cusp of the house whence its distance is taken, so is the horary time of the planet to be directed to its secondary distance.

If this secondary distance be on the same side of the cusp from whence the primary was taken, subtract the one from the other; otherwise, if on different sides, add them; their sum or difference will be the true celestial arc required.

A General Problem To Calculate Rapt Parallels

Rapt parallels are the joint approach of two stars conversely to the angle of the 1Oth or 4th, an arc of extraordinary strength and power, even where life and death, are concerned.

Rules 1. Add their semi-arcs together.

2. Find the difference between their right ascensions.

3. Find the distance of the star that applies to the angle when the parallel is complete, which it the primary distance.

4. Say, as the sum of their arcs is to the serai-arc of the planet applying to the angle, so is the difference of their right ascensions to the secondary distance.

5. If both distances are on the same side of the angle, sab-tract the one from the other, if otherwise, add them; the sum or remainder will be the true arc of direction.

The author rejects all rapt parallels formed on the East or West angles as void of any foundation in truth, although former writers say much of their efficacy. The foregoing problems are sufficient to calculate any primary direction whatever, either in zodiac or mundo; the student should therefore become well acquainted with their rudiments, or he will not be perfect in celestial philosophy.

A Table Of The Measure Of Time, For All Celestial Arcs Of Direction

Nativity of M.K.M. Princess Charlotte.

We live in an envious world; and therefore it is perhaps necessary to state that the above time of birth was taken from the journals of the day, and has been twice published, once by a writer in a monthly publication, and latterly in the " Astrological Dictionary". - But each of the foregoing writers were either not Astronomers enough to know, or wilfully forgot, to make the necessary equation of time, or the difference between the and the clock, which on the day of the lamented princess/a birth was full five minutes too fast as the Ephemera for the year proves - The above equation in setting the figure (which in every case the student must well observe, as every Astronomer is aware of,) is all the alteration we have made in the time of her horoscope,, and. which is virtually no alteration. at all, bet merely a necessary correction; so that the author of this work cannot be charged with aught of fallacy, in bringing that singular horoscope as a most amazing proof of celestial philosophy, which it is not in the power of all the sceptics in the universe to invalidate.

The being in the tenth house is the true Hyleg, which the student will readily perceive by the rules before laid down, and her extreme affliction by her application, to the zodiacal parallel of , (being within 8' of the aspect,) is a powerful testimony of a short life, which nothing but the interception of 's parallel could have preserved over the infant state; bet which was doomed to fall a prey to the first anaretic configuration that the Hyleg formed, which we will in this instance calclate at full Length,. as a praxis for the attentive reader.