These directions have usually been termed " secondary" by modern Astrologers; for what reason does not appear plain, since it may rather be said that they merit the name of primary, on account of their palpable effects over the life and fortune of every native. If any error has arisen in observing their effects, it must have been through failing to take in, in the scale of reasoning, the natural state of the planetary places at birth; for it must be well observed, that if the at birth be in good aspect to or , the effects of any, and every evil direction, are proportionally weak, and should or be very weak or afflicted at birth, the good aspects by direction of a planet or star will have but a trifling effect either way. For want of observing these preliminaries, and blindly judging by certain (so deemed) infallible rules, the science has met with that blame which should only have been attributed to its injudicious professors.

Julius Firmicus, a celebrated old author, speaks highly of these directions, which he calls primary, wherein he says " that the being in , and full of light, was carried towards the beams of the ". The expert Astrologers of the east use no other method but this, for calculating nativities. The author thinks fit, however, to term them progressive, as they certainly exhibit the true diurnal progress of the heavenly bodies.

The true method of calculating these important arcs is exceedingly simple, and consists in nothing more than taking out from the Ephemeris at birth, the places of each planet for every succeeding day, accounting a day's motion of the heavenly bodies for one whole year, and two hours motion for every month.

Thus in the scheme of nativity already given, page 131, the on the 17th day, twenty-two hours after birth, formed the complete of , which caused a most violent inflammation of the chest and lungs, requiring, surgical aid, and attended with imminent danger, at eleven months after the birth - and it is also worthy of notice, that during the first six months of the infant's life it was continually afflicted. The student will observe, that the by period met the of , six weeks after birth, the of at four months old, the of at five months and three quarters old; and that the was applying uninterruptedly to the of by progressive direction during greater part of the first 11 months, which were certainly sufficiently powerful to produce so many months illness. - Again, the student must not only observe what aspects the luminaries, form with each other, or with the good or evil stars at birth, bat the aspects they form with the actual places in the radix; and in this respect even the change of the superior planets must be accounted, which no former author has yet mentioned. Thus for instance, in the nativity of a certain person; the at birth was in r22° 51', and when by progressive motion, came to that degree of the zodiac, at so many years after the birth as there were days, the native married; and in the child's nativity, page 131. at eight days and nine hours after the birth day, the will be in to , which answers to eight years and four months and a half of the child's life, when he will be in danger of a violent scald or burn; and in his sixteenth day after birth, corresponding to the sixteenth year, the will be in with in , which will be productive of amazing friends, happiness, and good fortune, in various ways.

Another occurrence which has already taken place in the aforesaid child's horoscope, was occasioned solely by the periodical direction of , (and will serve to show the excellence of this method) for by accounting the distance between the place of at birth, and the place of the 's , in 15° 11' of , it is found to be nearly 22°, which denotes twenty-two months, 's motion being 1° per month, at which time the infant received a violent fall, which caused a fracture of the os humeri (or collar bone) for observe the aspect took place in , which rules the shoulders, but which was not dangerous, as by the same method was in 0. 0'within orbs of the of the

(Hyleg) and by her periodical aspect was exactly in 220 40' of , in close to the Hyleg; the by her motion, O0 00 11' of , in to , another preservative; but had proceeded to 1° 38'in to the place of , in , the sign which rules the extremity of the neck, another testimony that an accident was likely.

The attentive student will, from the above examples, be expert in his calculations by this process; but in order to give every possible clue to the method of these predictions, we shall insert several remarkable horoscopes, as proofs of our theory; in all of which the time of birth may be relied on, as they are obtained from undeniable sources of veracity.

The first example is: