Saturn both in zodiac and mundo, and the Moon to the opposition of Mars in mundo, but the breath of life was yet preserved and the cause is still obvious. The Sun came to his own sextile in mundo, and to the quartile of Venus. I might proceed to shew the correspondence between the equated arcs of direction and their effects in many other instances, but sufficient, I trust, has been said to convince any rational inquirer after truth, however sceptical he might be. I will merely remark, that the mundane parallel of the Sun and Mars again brought disease in the 51st year of the native's age, and I fear the fatal directions, which are to terminate all the joys and sorrows of this amiable female, will be the Sun to the zodiacal parallel of Mars and the quartile of Saturn; the Ascendant to the sesquiquadrate of Venus; the Sun to the quartile of Mercury in mundo; the Moon to the quartile of Saturn in mundo; the Sun to the conjunction of Mars in mundo; the Moon to the mundane parallel of Saturn; and, the Sun to the conjunction of Mars in the zodiac.

These directions form a train which, in my opinion, mortality cannot withstand; all of them are in operation within the short space of three years, and on this account they become still more malevolent.

A number of benevolent directions immediately succeed, but alas, their assistance will undoubtedly come too late, and will only serve to shew the nature of the fatal disease, which will be disorders of the lungs or asthma, accompanied with pains in the head, ending eventually in consumption. This latter is denoted by the aspects of Saturn and Jupiter to the anaretic place.

It would have been easy for an astrologer, unacquainted with the native, to judge that her health would be always delicate, for the student will have observed, that Jupiter is in zodiacal quartile to Venus, and Saturn forms the same configuration with Mars. The aspect of Jupiter and Venus weaken their benign power, and the quartile between Saturn and Mars increases their natural malevolence.

Note. The above predictions have been strikingly fulfilled. The native died of consumption in July, 1833, at the age of 53 years and a-half-the author having calculated this nativity above one year previously. In fact, the present work was nearly ready for the press in December, 1831, containing the preceding calculations without even a verbal alteration.

This is the nativity of a very interesting young lady, who, even when a child, was remarkably beautiful; but at the early age of three years and a-half her health began to decline. The ascendant was then directed to the quartiles of Mercury and Jupiter, and to the semiquartile of Saturn and Herschell. The quartile of Jupiter preserved life at this period, but left behind a consumptive habit of body. When nearly eleven years of age she had the scarlet fever, and the ascendant was directed to the quartile of Mars; as this aspect was formed in the radical place of Jupiter, life was still preserved. In nativities similar to the present, death frequently takes place without any anaretic direction falling exactly at the time. This was the case in the present instance. The amiable native died at the age of twenty-three years and four months. Her health began gradually to decline in her twentieth year. The Sun was then directed to the conjunction of Mars and the rapt parallel of the Moon. 'Tis true, that at the time of death the Moon was directed by secondary motion to the bodies of Saturn and Herschell, and to the quartile of her radical place. These, although not primary directions, were sufficient to cause death in a nativity so radically weak as the present.

The positions of the Moon in Capricorn, and Mercury in Sagittarius, render the mind ingenious and acute. The conjunction of Mercury and Jupiter, the latter orb being in his own celestial mansion, is a position which always causes benevolence and an amiable disposition; and the close zodiacal parallel of Mercury and Venus endowed the native with a great love of poetry, music, the fine arts, and beauty, with an exquisite taste and sensibility. The quartile of Saturn and Herschell to the Moon gives melancholy feelings, romantic ideas, and a love of strange and extraordinary things.

The personal appearance cannot possibly be discovered from the configurations in the horoscope, these being so varied; Herschell, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, and the Moon, each giving their testimonials. The two latter, however, principally formed the person. The native was of middle stature, or rather tall, slender, possessing a beautiful and symmetrical form, delicate and interesting

features, fine blue eyes, dark brown hair, and a complexion exquisitely fair.

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness on the desert air."

Such was this amiable young lady, but the hand of death soon removed her from earth-and bore her

"To that bourn

From whence no traveller returns."

The following horoscopes are those of three children, the times of whose birth were carefully noted by a medical gentleman, an intimate friend of the author's, as early trials of his skill in the astral science; their authenticity may, therefore, be depended upon.

There are evident signs of a short life in this nativity. The Ascendant is giver of life, and is afflicted by the semi

quartile of Mars from the second house, vitiated by the presence of Herschell and an approaching opposition of Saturn. The Sun, the light of time,* is afflicted by the zodiacal parallel of Mars, is applying to his opposition, and has but recently separated from Saturn. The Moon is in quartile to Venus and Saturn, who are conjoined in the seventh house, the Moon being nearly in semiquartile with Mars in the zodiac and mundo. Thus all the aphetical points were vitiated, and when Mars formed his semiquartile to the ascendant, arc 20 minutes, this child died, at the age of 4 months, viz. on the 27th December, 1830, at which time, about 3 in mane, the Moon had only a few hours passed the quartile of the radical Saturn, and Mars was on the cusp of the seventh,-thus opposing the house of life in the radix.

Children who die under five or six years of age generally die by position not by direction; that is, if the nativity be weak and afflicted, as in the present case, an astrologer might rationally conclude that the child would die in its infancy, but would not frequently succeed in predicting the precise time of death. For instance, there are certain tokens of a short life in the illustrative horoscope, page 18. Raphael, the author of "The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century," &c. was of opinion that if this child survived his first year, he would attain the age of manhood. I thought differently, and assured the child's parents that he would die before he was six years old. He was apparently healthy and strong, but shortly before the end of his sixth year, notwithstanding the aid of one of the most skilful physicians of the age, the child died. This death was caused by position, not by direction. The following is another instance of the same kind.

The Sun by day is termed the light of time, and the Moon by night.