Download "Were You, Born, Under a Lucky Star" Free PDF book (1901) by A. Alpheus





So many eminent men, eminent both in science and literature, have been secretly interested in astrology of late years, that we may not unreasonably expect before long a public movement toward a scientific investigation of the observed facts in connection with it. And then we may hope that the ordinary man will not burst into peals of laughter at the very mention of the word “astrology” as he does today.There are several elements which militate against the serious study of astrology. The first and greatest is the almost utter lack in this day of anything approaching a scientific knowledge of mind and emotion. Astrology presumes to point out how mind and emotion are molded. But we must understand mind before we can reasonably go on to an investigation of the causes which made it so. What do the scientists know of love, the most powerful of human emotions! How very small is our knowledge of the natural processes of human observation and deduction! What little we do know, came down to us chiefly from the Greeks. Indeed, we may say that our knowledge of the intellectual processes and the commonest emotions of a human being are of the most elementary kind.Introduction—Human Crystallization. 5I. Ptolemy and Modern Science. 19II. The Necessary Knowledge of Astronomy 23III. The Sun and the Zodiac .... 39IV. The Moon and the Planets. 44V. Houses and Angles.52VI. Aspects. 62VII. Prediction.70VIII. Exemplification. 84IX. The Uses and Difficulties of Astrology 99X. Ptolemy’s Rules for Judging Fortunes 106Appendix A.132Appendix B.134Appendix C.135Appendix D.163Appendix E.167Tables. 179