On Sensitive Points in the boroscope.

IT has doubtless often occurred to the thoughtful student of astrology, that there must be certain points in the horoscope which at appointed times bring into action matters that may be expected to operate in accordance with what may be, nay is, foreshadowed in the radix.

The potency of such results depends, as to their intensity, upon the radical indications, the extent of which must be gauged or approximated by the strength of such radical indication, which may be accentuated or diminished according to other indications of a like or adverse nature, and also as to whether the influence (i. e., good or bad as the case may be) proceeds from planets in accidental or essential dignities, or other causes.

As is well known by any student who has been working at the science for any length of time, the Part of Fortune (thus marked in horoscopes, ) is not either a planet or a star, but is an imaginary point in the figure (like the cusps of the houses, which are non-existent), the exact place of which is arrived at by certain computations, the rules for which are no doubt familiar to all, especially to students of the horary branch of astral physics, in fact, whether students of Genethlialogy (nativities) use it or not, they insert it in horary figures, especially if the question is one concerning speculation or finance, even some of the leading astrologers who have thrown it over when working nativities, deal with it in the other section; in fact, a writer in the early part of this century, in his elaborate working of a published nativity, makes the Part of Fortune the "Anareta"! All the old authors whose works I have studied, and they are many, believed in it, if its presence in their maps counts for anything; and it is no secret that some of the modern astrologers are not as pronounced in their adverse criticism of it as they were. The question to be arrived at is, "Is it a sensitive point, or not?" For the present let it pass : personal inves

tigation and proof must decide the point, and I advise the student not to believe all he or she reads, but "prove all things, and hold fast to that which is good."

Other "points" or places in the horoscope that used to receive a lot of attention were the Moon's nodes, Caput Draconis, and Cauda Draconis; (the Dragon's Head, and the Dragon's Tail, thus symbolized, 8, 8). These continue to appear in the English Ephemeris, and are arrived at by calculation, in the same way as the places of the planets. As is probably known, the influence ascribed to the Dragon's Head (8) is by nature benefic, whilst that pertaining to the Tail (8) is malefic. As the position of the latter is exactly opposite to the former in the horoscope, the only point to calculate, therefore, is the Zodiacal position of 8. Here are "three" points which the student is advised to investigate; but in order that correct results may be arrived at, let no investigation be made concerning these, with any nativity, unless the true time of birth be known, and then in all the calculations make sure they are absolutely correct. It is much to be regretted that even in many published horoscopes, errors in calculation have been, and continue to be made; therefore, where it is possible, have all calculations checked. Thus far for the present. The foregoing are "points" that have been "bones of contention" for some time; I shall, however, follow on with several others that have not (with one exception), been dealt with or written upon in any modern work that has passed through my hands, and I have no doubt the earnest student will compare, investigate, and tabulate, as we older students have had to do in the past, and those that have the time and opportunity continue to do, bofore he accepts or rejects any theory, however plausible, that may be "served up" for his delectation.

(To be continued.)

APHOREL.

"THE greatness or smallness of a man is determined at his birth."

RUSKIN.

Prophetic bieroglyphics.

(Concluded.)

FROM the years 1800 to 1803, the sketches appear to be left to time and the curious to construe, and for the first time, in the latter year, an attempt is made to fit events to the hieroglyphic. Rivalry may have had something to do with this. Mr. Francis Moore, referring to the opposition, remarks, "Take care also of counterfeit Moore's Almanac, as there is one printed."

This counterfeit forces Mr. Moore to make allusion to the hieroglyphic published in the previous year (1803), a truly wonderful innovation. He says:

"It now appears that from France, England has gained nothing. To France it seems we have yielded everything. Thus for the present has closed the long, the obstinate, sanguinary council. France has not only obtained every object for which she engaged in the war, but objects which the most ambitious of her monarchs never could, and which the most ambitious of her statesmen scarcely ever hoped to, obtain.

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"All this we intimated and foretold in our preceding almanac, which has now actually been too much fulfilled. my last I represented the political state of England and France by two armies in battalia, between which was a globe, with the picture of a bull upon it; this (beside something more) represented the two countries in an armed position looking with a jealous eye upon each other. Now while. was quietly

passing between the hostile hosts (which was an armed truce), what turned out? Why, the French fleets with troops on board sailed from home, and crossed the Atlantic, bending their course toward St. Domingo, in the West Indies, with the b- flag flying!

"I now hasten to present to my readers another hieroglyphic alluding to these times, which are wonderful in the eyes of all mankind."

In the year 1805 old Moore grows bolder, for armed troops are depicted, and in the year 1807 we find them still marching, but this year, however, to the tune of PAX.

These appear to be piping times for the almanac makers, and there is now room for all rivals.

In later years the hieroglyphics become less simple, and in 1835 we find a complicated series, commencing as the following reproduction indicates.

It will be well to leave the later hieroglyphics to a future date, as they now require a little ingenuity to fit them to the