ASTROLOGY AND EINCARNTION
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PREFACE
T nang n n on o nanaon now nng a ma o n uo A num o omnn a a wn w omn oo ang w mmo o a momn mo an a au n w nang anan T a gna n ougo wol awa om n maam A oal omaon mll olm o l a a om ongl no o an onou mmoa a om n a a o ou a au om o mu gn au on ao aon n on a ma o m w o o o o aoun o nanaon an w w an an n n wl man n on on Aoog Aoog ano an o u u u u w w ganng wa l uo W omaon aaa amo a o on an lo nal an omnn mn o a a a o nanaon na naon an aolog aolog an on naua a wo a mu n ommon w a o wou nng o o o a m an man o a o momn In man a o o nowlg mg a auma o nua n mmo o n l o 5
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a T wall o Boouu a magnn Bu un on lan o Jaa a oa w n om 6 ou l o Gauama Bua Only Ply Enlgn On oul onmla u a anoama o ou w aonal omou To mo Bu a ml a I on o mnng lmn n al an moal lo o o ol T quon naually a: Woul ol aologally o o yon a aow o ou a nanaon an aual a? Coul a a be u a m o a w woul a o ny nng ual wol an woul ol o u a a o al onon o a ny n aa a a wll a m an la o on yal lan? Woul alo onal a a a o n l oul o om lu o ou nanaon? Hnu loo woul anw quon n ama u Wn n a ong aon . I woul m oou om ln o oug a w o uo on unany y ano T y quaon alo om nol any lamng o mm ou l n a nowlg a om o m oug on an mla myal n O a n ol aou a n y laoyan an an mum In a n mu on a l o onon Lo Baon on a a wn y oougly unoo wll no u n o may
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Uoey we hve o ye eched h ppy e o eve Ee coue ologe do o llow he Wee yem o epeo C e eeced wo egd oomy ude ood he We Clco e om xed cyce o me clled exgey cycle ee epe hemeve evey xy ye A dvol co ly voved he ce o he I Ching. Expe cuou wo e o membe o he c chool de codey w p d e lve d he pee embodme wch bdge em he ee evle h we hve o h ype o hg dced he pee ey me l pogeo o odcl g ppoed by e poo o he moo Soh Node he hoocope o e pee le he Sou Node mc d ee o e uhed be bough owd om he p Apec mde by d o e So Node dce e d ble whch e ey h bog wh e me o pee co Oe peo uggg w cee why dvdu hoocope e o he me o bh e e me o cocepo o h e wod eem he b me c be leed og c ccmce pemue b Cee eco o emoh pegcy ee bch o oogy coceed wh he pel epc d ch e e o h me doe o eem howeve h he mome o cocepo cly moe ce h e mome o bh he phloophy o h geel po
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a a yal oun ung n ual no yal wol an ngng m no ona w yal o oang n un. Tu a ang uon aly lng an o w w yally onn. I alo l a a an o unal ngy am l uon nwon a wn a a an ng a oy an o ul an unon w w aoa w moal o In Ean nng ow moyng ny nal an no ol way o alulang ognal non Pyal aology al o gn o a onaly an no o wll n oy. A oml naon o gn ao ul n lo mn o onaly. Aology aum a a no wo omoun o aa w a nal. En nal wn a on a w mnu aa . I yal ooo u o mn ol n o a ou momn an al only w yal onon o na n a a l. I anno ol myy o uyal ng lo moaly n l T ng a lgm ang m an a. I mu u ow a a n wol w ng w u uan o all ou aomlmn W a wa w a n an aoun o nn y o uman ng . Lon w a lan o onu o lau an o unlan al ul w w mu ol oug onou o. A n w n om oul a mo au
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w n mnal moonal an yal nowmn om ou an T Mnlan law al only o om B Lo n book Astrological Essays w T on o Rnanaon oul a a al lam uon Aolog a Aology om ally un Saun an Saun lan o justice. L u ak oul : I u o on man o b bon w a goo ooo an ano w a ba on b no om ng au? A any a Rnanaon a aonal yo a a ba o oug. T oblm an oow o l a many an m o m a any bl w l u o unan wol w l n b an w g u a lu o o many on o onoy an mu b o all oulymn ol a a woy o anon I unal law a u n u a a mu a a a own. T ooo ol many my w a ow nomnbl To b manngul mbomn mu onbu o gow o ny w omng no b T Bbl ll u a a m o b bon w oul mly a oon o anly bo a a gn momn bow uon nomng ny a ooo w onnu unn labo o om na naon Bau a ml bu o no oml a lm o o lln an unl aon o ommon goo la o a o aou lanay bo Toug onqu o l a o u an an a b ny T a o "
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la a m o laly a aal al ual oal T y au ay mu a om laay o oly y ag ow wa . I oou a y ooo o o lmom. Ea la a o a ga a a lu m am a oal o aa. Fo aml may ao o mual au u g o w lo uo lg a ao By am o a oug owa aal ooo ou o w a aa mom. Alo ogly ml owa ga ougul a ag ll I a w mu ougow a o la a a w y om. To ou gow ally ma o om o amoy w g qual o laay gy. T ooo o uu mom lagly uo aomlm o mom Gow ou ul yal oy a o. T g o u o o ou may a gal o o uu ay T o ou alway g oo o y yal l o ay T ma uo omo uy a oom aly. I a a a y o ou al uo o lg. I alo y ay o mu wal o lu. T m a g w m am oqu o lqu I o ou wll a a oa ol la y o moou u o oo a a o
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au owa wal ga T am ou ollow oug a Alo o aou la wa a ou kama mu aga a T ma a al lg oul ow a o o ualz o amu ual oguao A al a may a a a a m o ool a a ooly a Sau a omm og ll a ga ao Tu wl o o o m aly wo you w a om l o w you l ol o ga a a mo o a om mam a ow wa ula o gl ay o l a y o mm a la agm o a al Oaoally o o aou m o au Ca o k oul oma o ooo o m w ol aay omao
HOW TO RAD YOUR AST AND FUTUR LIVS
T n o aology a gnnng w mo lan naon o anqy T aolog w an loo wo on no onl wn nl o aology an a lo oal ym w ann oan ag w al o many y go T aology no only onom w o nal law w w onaon o ann wom alo ly omal w ann ana o moaly an Unonaly looy o aology n w onn n mon ag Mn mo n n maal n an mayal my o ol a gno mo on o aal n. B Baman ag n own ml Calan mag on loy gga an Egyan n on oao no o oan o ya o on o aology mly o o oy onnng mnan aa . To all w mn my o an w a laon o n nl an n wll. T an wng o a on wall o an wa o m n y langag o go T naon mo gn o aologal a alo a on o o man ol Sn wo moan ang aology an 15
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nanaon, lo y , an l n on ang w alo onn o o, n a no on o onl wn l n an n o a . T Hm loo, w o Egyan o a ooun nowlg o o o my, a alo Pyagoa, Plao, an A ol, nol n among G. T Du o Ban an Gaul nlu o nanaon an aology among ang. T nol mn, a among w an mo uou o moal, oul no a n ay o gnoan o uon. In ma, n, w oul on onon w all oun. Among Onal naon, n o aology an on o a ll nlu og n looy o l. Ol Hnu oo on aology, au o an an R, onan n an alluon o mo o mnng a an uu a o n om a naal ooo. Among lama o T, omula, aully gua om on, a ll u y aolog o mn a o ou n om o on o a a gnnng o l. T olm w Tan o ol a omn un ang
1. T la o ual ny among nidanas, o qun o onqun, w au yal nanaon o oul. 2 T ll o lan o f onoun n w
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entity functioned prior to its present life. which contributes the moral rce to the present existence 3. Such details and circumstances of the pevious existence as may account for the karma, or processes of retribution, which are at work in the present existence In addition to these, a horoscope may be erected for the momet of death by which the uture state of the soul or entity is estimated Altogether this part of astrology is concerned with that larger theater of action of which the present life is but a agment To l philosophic peoples man's present state is the result of previous life and action To understand this is to discover the cause of present conditions Asiatic astrologers have practiced this part of the science for thousands of years, and their ndings should be of interest to Western students of astrology The principle behind the Bhava Chakra (Cycle of ransmigratory Eistence) recorded on the ceiling of the Lamaist monastery at Sikkim is entirely astrological The outer circle of the gure is divided into 2 parts which are termed the nidanas, or the causes, that move the soul to rebirth These nidanas are the 2 zodiacal signs, each one of which contains within it an impulse to action, or as the ancients termed it, a cause of contact The first nidana under Aries is called the uncoscious wil t is represented by a blind man, and signies the soul passing om death to rebirth The second nidana under Taurus, is caled conjormation and is represented by a potter and his pots signifying the soul shaping the matrias of the mental
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an pysal naus T nidana un Gmn s all con scious wil an s yp by slssnss o monky. I sgns s o onsous pn n soul. T u nidana un Can all se-con sciousness s psn by a sp onanng man woman an anmals an sgns s o qualy o nualy. T nidana un Lo s psn by an mpy ous an sgns lopmn o sensory perceptions T s nidana un Vgo s a gu psnng marriage an sgns ousng o sns p-
pons upon o obs. T sn nidana un Lba s psn by a gu w an aow n s y an sgns ilusions of pain and pleasure an aon upon soul T g nidana un Sopo s all desire an s nol n pns o gaaon. I s psn by a man nkng wn an a woman olng a wn ug sgnyng pn o pan o lus plasu T nn nidana un Sagaus s m indul gence an s psn by a man ollng u no a bask I sgns aamn o wolly possssons. T n nidana un Capon psns maturity an sgns ullnss o maal sn boug o s gs plosopal ll T ln nidana un Aquaus s compen saion psn by b o a son Ts sgns
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ayng o all o nau an nal amn om T wl nidana un P ow a oy ng a o ga I gn ay o all on o ona y w l l o maal a A wl gn agan an o on oug all yl o n T nidanas o ou n omnang onoun o la o ual l n ga yl o og Wl ou ll l a gow mauy an ay o many un o l om og a ga yl nolng a a o o l mong oug al ag By oon o un nidana mn an y Anan uon o nidana aan Tu a on on w un n P on o n o amn o ng ng a yl o n o an n A on on w un n Soo on un g nidana an ol uo o n o n onqun o g onaly an oon T Anan o ooo n a mno yl o n w a ga on I qual an al gnal gnan. Fo aml nidana o Lo an nalng o noy ow an gnally man a amon I Anan n nidaa o Gmn n ng o o al nual un qual mao ao an no a am on wll o an nllual o mnal nau By
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auaions as uon is aangn iay uos o sous inanaion is sais. n aiaion i is gnay oun a is uos o o ss oinas iniviua in wos ooso i is inia In Tian onasy igu na a o sign sning wo o o xay oniions o onsiousnss wi og a u wo is ivi ino six as n aining s as o ans a wi aoa signs sing oniions o sous in vaious vs o gs o siiua von T six oans o i a ivi ino an u an ow is o oans a T u is sns no sas o ing wi a noina in gs o xn (1) wo o gos; (2) wo o Tians o os (3) wo o n Tog s as i ay sas o onsiousnss wi a wa o goo aaa is ivs o no oug an aion T oans o ow is o i i isis suan o a kaa o suiv oug oion an aion T oans a na sivy (1) wo o anias; (2) wo o goss; (3) wo o s o ss o vion iuion n a o s six as o wo is aso i a o Bua syoizing univsa n ignn wi gnas an svs voving sous in a ss o ing.
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he su o course represets the Buddh the power o dfused umto he sor eergy distrbuted through the tur creto is the uivers source o the impuse towd ight d ruth he sx comprtmets through which the su's ght shies pert to the other mjor bodies o the sor system ow to the od troogers he word o the gods is the sphere o Jupteri coscousess; tht o the ts Mrt cosciousess; tht o hum beigs Mercur cosciousess hese pets there ore domte the upper hemisphere o the sphere o coscousess Veus represets im cosciousess the moo the imgitive cosciousess termed the word o ghosts; d Stur the retrbuto coscious ess or the rmic hes I the Est t is tught tht ech sou comg ito mter i eters om oe o the sx comprtmets o the Whee o the Lw Astroogcy the rue r deter mg the orgi o the sous preset e cyce s s ows Exmie the horoscope d dscover whether the su or the moo is the stroger Determie ths om pos to dgty d spect he observe whch decte the more powerfu umiry s pced Fd the ruer o ths decte ccordg to ordry stroogic prctce d the ruer o the decte sh sgiy the sphere o cosciousess or Los om which the sou cme ito brth Next exme the posito o the pet which s ruer o the decte s to its dgty postio spect etc From this determie the uity o the previous ie If the ruer o the decte ejoys dgity
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and high position, the same would be true o the previous lie o the native I it is alicted cadent, or illplaced, the previous tate o the lie was lowly or un rtunate A similar system is practiced by the Brahmans. They consider only ur worlds, but the method o determining his importan mater is identical in both systems In asrology, the sign ascending on the eastern angle o the heavens at he moment of birth is the genera sig niicator of he present incarnation, and the entire horoscope is read om this Ascendant, and all the testimonies o the chart are blended with the undamental keynote o this ascending sign The odiacal sign upon the cusp of the 12th house may be termed the preceding sign to he Ascendant, and the zodiaca sign upon the cusp of the 2nd house may be termed the succeeding sign rom the Ascendant As the Ascendant signies the present sate o the evolving soul, the cusp o the 2th house becomes he signiicator o the lie previous to the present one, and the sign upon the cusp o the 2nd house, the next incarnation after the present one The rule is tha angular houses signiy the present lie, suc cedent houses the next lie to come, and cadent houses he previous lie and its karma If, then, we move the horoscope suficiently to bring the 12h house cusp to the Ascendant, we can then read the horoscope as the naivity of the previous lie Ordinarily the 12h house o the horoscope is termed the house of selundoing, in that it reveals the undamental wnesses o character which undermine the proba
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bility of present success The term sel-undoing is iden tica in meaning with karma, or the accumulation of past actions which overshadows present conditions This accumulation is carried f rward from life to if until al weakneses are overcome and final perfection is achieved t naturaly f llows that whatever zodiacal sign dominates the present ife of the individual, the sign previous to it signies the kma brought rward f om the past. The positions of te ruler of that sign and planets in the 12t house revea the circumstances of the previous existence, the probabe place and time of the previous birth, and the general circumstances of that existence The sign Aries ascending indicates Pisces to have dominated te previous existence Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, is the beginning of a new cycle of experience Aries people have come into this lif e from a previous existence of limitation, responsibility and bondage Their present life is theref re a release, and they move forward, dominated by strong ambition and enthusiasm If Taurus is ascending they have brought forward the impulse of the previous Arian existence Most Taurians bring f rward attitudes of Aries and beneath their artistic suface, emotional fires bear witness to the mili tancy of their previous incarnation. When Gemini ascends, we find beneath the intellectual attitude the karmic pressure of Taurus The super ciaity of the Gemini temperament is evident throug out this country which is strongly Mercurial Yet, under
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th gnra intctua surfac of th nation is a owr an sotic conomic forc that is a istinct Taurian hangovr hn Cancr ascns, Gmini urks in th backgroun Cancr o ar subjct to th istort imag inations of a ngativ an uncontro Mrcury. It is har r Cancr o to b natura an rax, for bhin thm is a if iv unr th influnc of a ngativ Mrcury agitating th intct by a comx of oinions an fas ha ar oo oftn aow to grow ino fcts hn o is ascening, her is gnray a strngth comx arising ou of th eaknss of th rvious if For this rason, eo o ar at to b gotistic an owroving, buiing a posiiv outwar font to rotct a vry snsiiv, moiona, imaginativ, subjc tiv naur he over fom h Cancr infunc hn Virgo is ascning, hre is a subconscious rntanc in h sou h rvious if was unr th forcfu, ominaing infunc of Lo Th Lo incarnation rva the mtinss n vainnss of authority an th nativ is born into Virgo with a strong tnncy to th sim if Virgo is a sign of atonmnt, an th iniviua has th imus to h a wor which h robaby tyanniz in th rvious if. D insi thmsvs many Virgo o hav rathr a nit Lo suriority comx an a tnency to boss hn ib ascns, th iniviua brings into if Virgo karma he o of Virgo hav a tnncy to an an n, an his waknss coms forwar in Libra as a sns of intrnal insufficincy Th Libra
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nve s of n rsc somew rrbe dece emperen He s srong vny rsng o of s Vrgo repenence Wen Scorpo scends e srong emoon power of e prevos fe combnes s rce w e ery nre of s sgn Lbr s rsc nd emoon w e dency o mencoy Scorpo nenses ese qes gvng lso dep nd orgnzon o e og. e self-grco of Lbr s e nr fondon r e powerfl mbons of Scorpo Sgrs scendng prodces jov empermen b e Scorpo qles of e prevos fe re so presen prodcng er ove of e myseros rel gous nd posopc sprons srong emoon nre ove of power nd poson nd dnger of overndugence e scemes nd pos of Scorpo re reesed s vs promoon projecs by e Sgrns my rs seem mprobbe we sod fnd muc of Sgirus n e Cprcornn W Cpr corn rsng owever we nd gre empss pon e mbios nd a consderbe mesre of e Sgrn concep of usce Wen Cprcor scends e ndvdu generly fees e s lmed or nbed e lrge Jupern promoons of s prevos lfe re cured by e Srnne lmons of s presen spere of con so e s dsssfed nd repressed As Cprcorn s e mos med sg n e odc ( mon owever mosy sefmposed) s nrl e ex ncrnion sod be revol gns mon e res s e Aqrn wose ife s ofe dedced o convenony W Aqrs rsng
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there is a general revol against precedent, convention, and conservativeness Generous in large maters, Aquar ians often retain a selshness in small things essentially Capricornian Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac and i brings to an end he cycle of karma set in motion in Aries People with this sign rising will usually have rather hectic lives, gathering up the loose ends of uninished business rom Auarius, the preceding sign, come vacillation, in consistency, and nervousness From all he preceding signs come responsibilities and problems to be assimilated and transmuted ino soul power t is he paricular duty of the Piscean o pu his life in order and prepare himself for a new beginning and a higher level of action Pisces is he weakest of the signs because it represents the end of a cycle of exprience By reading the 2th house as the Ascendant, the general pattern of he previous life can be determined with reasonable detail, and we can discover the subtle forces which have brough us o our present state and dominate our presen life Through the understanding of this branch of asrology, we can appreciate the old philosophical belief that all we are today is the resul of what we have been, and that what we will be tomorrow must be the result of what we are today We learn om the past, we labor in the present, and we build fr the fture f the same sign is on the cusp of both the 12th and 1s houses, it is believed to indicate what is called a contined existence The previous life was interrupted in some way before its purposes were consummated, ie , a
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young man killed in war or a fatal accident f here i an intercepted ign in the t houe the native in the preent embodiment will experience in hi life event and peronality change which would normally have been allotted to the next embodiment Thee exceion reveal the variou degree of progre which come a the reward of good karma If the igniicaor are undeirable, the need for elfdicipline i emhaied
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lavus Claudus Julan generally known as the Apostate Emperor of Rome was born at Constant nople November 6 33 AD He proptated the god Mercury as lord of hs genture and rom ths crcum stance checked by hs appearance and the events of hs lfe t appears that he was born wth the sgn of Gemn ascendng Julan was by fr the most learned and phlosophcal of the Roman emperors and probably also exceeded all the others n personal vrtue and ntegrty At the tme of hs brth the lavan famly rulers of Rome was nomnally Chrstan as the result of the converson of Constantne surnamed the Great Julan was educated as a Chrstan n Ncomeda by the Bshop Eusebus and even ofcated as a lecturer n the Chrstan church The crcumstances whch caused Julan to denounce the Chrstan ath and return to the pagan doctrnes of the classcal world have been varously descrbed The young man was of an extremely relgous and senstve nature wth strong development of the fculty of veneraton Hs ne sense of values led hm early to the realzaton of the greatness of Pythagoras Plato and Arstotle Hs chldhood brought hm nto constant contact wth the nqutes of the Chrstan house of lavan The Chrstan Emperor Constantus massacred 9
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Julian's fther and most of his relatives banished his halfbrother Gallus to onia and spared Julian only because of his extreme youth A third factor in Julians conversion to paganism was probably the Grecian influence in the prevailing educational system Julians teachers were men who highly venerated the Grecian philosophies and early instilled the old lore into the young mans mind n his twentieth year Julian was secretly initiated into the Mysteries of the Ephesians by the priestphilo sopher Maximus and four years lter in Athens he was solemnly accepted into the Mysteries of Eleusis He may therefore be regarded as one of the last great initiates of the pagan world There is no evidence that Julian ever persecuted the Christians although he wrote a powerful essay against the corruptions of their faith t is certain however that he gave fvor in government to pagans and surrounded himself with philosophers and priests of nonChristian rites The call to the purple came on his birthday Novem ber 6 355 AD which seems to check the probability of the accuracy of his horoscope as given The responsi bilities of government weighed heavily upon the soul of the philosopheremperor and interfered seriously with the development of his religious ideals But it has been said of him that he penetrated as far in philosophy as the responsibilities of empire would permit Representations of the Emperor Julian portray him as a man of noble visage heavy beard prominent nose and a definitely Scorpio asymmetry of features He de
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cribed himelf a being utterly indifferent to the frmali tie of rulerhip and the nicetie of peronal appearance He tell u that even while campaigning he continued hi tudie and writing, and that on the battleeld hi finger were tained with ink Bound by the circumtance of the time in which he lived, Julian neverthele repreented a tandard of peronal integrity far above the majority of hi contemporarie and worthy of recognition in any age The hitorian Libaniu thu decribe Julian' amazing life and temperament: Alway abtemiou, and never oppreed by food, he applied himelf to buine with the activity of a bird, and dipatched it with infinite eae n one and the ame day, he gave everal audience; he wrote to citie, to magitrate, to general of armie, to hi abent fiend, to thoe who were on the pot; hearing letter read that were addreed to him, examining petition, and dictating with uch rapidity that the horthand writer could not keep pace with him He alone had the ecret of hearing, peaking, and writing at the ame time; and in thi multitude of complicated operation he never mitook After having dipatched buine, and dined merely through urgent neceity, hutting himelf up in hi library, he read and compoed till the intant when affair of tate ummoned him to other labour A upper till more paring than the dinner wa followed by a leep a light a hi meal He awakened in order to labour with other ecretarie whom he had allowed to leep on the preceding day Hi miniter were obliged to relieve each other; but, a fr himelf, he knew no
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repose but the change of employment He alone was alwas labouring he multiplied himself and assumed as many forms as Proteus Julian was a pontiff author diviner judge general of the army and in all these characters the father of his country.' The extraordinary personality of Julian is well shown in his horoscope There is a grand trine of planets in the watery triplicity abundantly testifying to the accounts of various historians who describe his devotion to the mystical and occult arts t is seldom that one discovers a nativity containing a grand trine involving the sun the moon the ruler of the chart and the lord of the midheaven
HOROSCOPE OF AVIUS CAUDIUS JULIAN, EMPEROR OF ROME, BORN NOV. 6, 1A,6:0 PM
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Thomas Taylor the eminent Platonist in his Intro duction to the Orations of the Emperor Julian, ob serves: The grandeur of his soul is so visible in his composition that we may safely credit what he asserted of himself that he was formerly Alexander the Great and if we consider the actions of Alexander and Julian we shall easily be induced to believe that it as one and the same person If it is possible to discover from the positions of the planets any key to the previous life of an individual no better example could be chosen for study than the horo scope of the initiate Julian By virtue of his acceptance into the sacred body of pagan learning he should be particularly qualified to pass judgment on the condition of his previous existence As a pagan Julian was well infrmed concerning the action of the law of rebirth Let us now turn for a moment to the life of Alexander the Great Unfortunately we are without a correct horoscope of his nativity In 1662 the English astrologer John Gadbury published a horoscope purported to be that of Alexander but the 17th century was notoriously inaccurate in matters regarding history and as early as 1697 the astrologer Partridge exposed the improbability in the accepted birth date of Alexander Modern histo rians have shown the old nativity to be incorrect not only in month and day but also in the year According to Hogarth probably the most reliable authority on the subject Alexander the Great was born BC 356 probably in the month of October Portraitures of Alexander and written descriptions of his appearance agree in general that he was a man of medium height of strong
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srly bil body T d ws lrg c som w ys lrg d wid pr rd low wi vy promi loc or o ir low i cr His ys r dscribd s liid d mlig T c ws somw rg ci sr d lips ll I or words w v pry good dscip io o Tri or is r lc o prcd o corig powr o Trs scdig Gorg Wsigo d is sig risig d i domid iviy o Grl Gr From Hogr's d s sig ws mos lily Libr Tis sig is lso o ssocid wi ldrsip d corig gis Accordig o giv im Npolo I d Libr risig d or xmpl o mbiios o is sig ws Adolp Hilr Gdi lso d s i Libr T livs o xdr d Jli wr crily prlll i my rspcs Bo m wr dvod o clssicl lrig Alxdr Gr rspcd is or Arisol bov ll or m O o occsio dclrd Arisol o b r drr o im is ow r r sid: "My r gv m big b Arisol givs m wllbig!' T yos o bo Axdr d Jli wr similrly ivolvd i co spircis d dissrs Bo m did rly g Tr ws oly o rs dirc i lg o ir livs xdr did o poiso; Jli o wod Bo did disc om ir iv lds wil o cmpigs o cos d plcs wr o r rmovd Alxdr did i Bbylo; Jli i Assyri
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Following the rule et forth in the preceding chapter let u examine the chart of Julian The firt rule i to oberve which of the luminarie i more dignied and take the ruler of the decan a the ignificator of the etate and condition of the previou life The un and moon are both highly dignified in the chart of Julian but the moon enjoy the added trength of being in it own ign The moon i in the econd decan of Cancer which i under the rulerhip of Scorpio; therefore Mar i the ignificant planet From thi we hould read that in hi previou incarnation Julian hould have been a oldier or ome peron engaged in martial puruit n Julian' nativity Mar i in the 10th houe the houe of kinghip leaderhip and honor and o placed i part of the grand trine enjoying powerful benefic apect rom the un moon and Mercury It would be perfectly proper according to the mot conervative rule of atrology to declare Mar o placed to repreent an extraordinary meaure of martial dignity and a royal or at leat highly honored poition among men Our econd rule relate to the progre of the un and Acendant fom life to life According to thi the ign on the cup of the 12th houe hould indicate the Acendant of the prevou life and the ign previou to the un ign hould repreent the un ign of the previou life f Alexander wa born in October it i quite reaonable to uppoe that hi un ign could have been Libra which i the ign previou to the un ign of the Emperor Julian The decription of Alexander i o definitely Taurian that it i well within poibility that he had Tauru riing Alexander believed himelf to be the
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incarnation or embodiment of the god Dionysus This divinity was equently depicted with the horns of a bul, and is usually associated by mythologists wit the sign of Taurus. It is therefore quite possible tha lexander propitiated Dionysus as the deity of his ascending hour in the same way that Juian propitiated Mercury Some asroogers maintain that the sign ruling the 12th house may indicate the nationality of the previous life Taurus rules Greece To fllow out the theory that the 12th house cusp signifies te previous incarnation turn te chart of Julian so that the cusp of th 12th becomes the Ascendant, and discover if possible to what degree this position coud represent the life of Aexander To point out a few possibiiies, Capricorn becomes the ruer of the mid-eaven Capricorn governs India, and it was one of Alexander's greatest ambitions to convert the Hindus to Grecian art and religion Mars and Uranus are in the 1h house, to represent Alex anders hopes ideas and ambitions May not the grand trine ocusing upon these panets signify the extreme emphasis of ambition in the life of Alexander, who waid to his generals that tere were no more words to conquer? Sagittarius is on the 8th cusp, becoming the signiicator of death Jupiter, the ruer of the house of death, is in the 5th opposing Mas and Uranus to signify his undoing Venus also is in te 8th house and shares with Jupiter in signifying the circumstances of dissolution Alexander feasted and debauched r six days (Jupiter in the 5th), was nally poisoned (Venus in the 8th) and died a great distance from home (Sagit tarius on the cusp of the 8th)
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From these indications and others it is possible to conclude that if Julian were not the reincarnation of Alexander, he was certainly the reincarnation of a person much like Alexander in many respectsa brilliant military genius, whose ambitions were inordin at e and against the balancing and reasoning frces of Jupiter. t is also interesting to ask the fte of the soul of Julian after it was freed om the body of the Roman Emperor Move the horoscope so that the 2nd house becomes the Ascendant, and try to solve the mystery of the next life of Julian the Apostate
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"There is no atal necessity in the stars, wrote Lord Bacon, "and this, more rudent astrologers have consis tently allowed ' Oonents of astrology frequently advance the argu ment that belief in the influence of the heavenly bodies leads to a ftalistic attitude toward all the roblems of life We all like to think of ourselves as fee agents We chafe at any actor of restraint, hysical or sycho logical We all like to talk about free countries, free seech, and ree trade The very thought of reedom has become a fetish We rise in righteous wrath against anyone who seeks to curb the sontaneous abandon of our actions We acknowledge no authority suerior to our own desires, and feel that the democratic theory of government has releaed us forever fom suervision and restraint Are we not all born ree and equal? May not the humblest child hoe to be a senator when he grows u? Were not all our great caitalists, rizefighters, and movie stars once humble and insigniicant ersons? Every man knows he is the equal of every other man, and suerior to most Success is a matter of "breaks Even the subtle restraint of the merit system , demanding certain standards of thought and action, has been dissiated by the equality comlex 39
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he materalst vews astrology as a sort of astral theology He feels that ol orthooxes are beng fe to hm agan, uner a new name He feels the nuence of the heavenly boes to be a s mrobable as heaven an hell, an relegates angels an planets to a common lmbo he moe man, wse wth the concets of h century scholastcsm, can fn nothng n the unverse nobler than hmself an settles own to a fanatcal veneraton of hs own superorty t s not of course wthn the provnce of any scence to convert man aganst hs wll yet even a lttle thought must onvnce the reasonablemne man that some prncple of orer bns together the frflung purposes of the cosmos t certanly cannot be scentfi cally emonstrate that the unverse s merely one vast accent manfstng by means of nnumerable lesser accents Despte the concets of mos the vast pageantry of cosmc orer manfests throughout ts every part absolute an mmutable law he very thought of ths cosmc law oppresses an sturbs the lawless mortals of ths generaton Man hates to thnk that he s a mere atom move by nevtable an mmutable laws Egotsm s the most easly offene of the concets an man s mortally offene by the mmenstes of the unverse about hm he unverse of the wse man s unenurable to the folsh o ease the achng of hs personal pre the Sophst has ecree that space be regare as mnless an soulless that man alone s enowe wth soveregn eason, ecree by the accent of te to become master of all the works of the nfnte wll
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How different om this modern attitude was the gentler vision of the ancients They held all creation to be ensouled by a divine will and a universal purpose nstead of being ofended by the sense of their own smallness, they rejoiced in the vastness and sufficiency of the wisdom that preserved all life and sustained the order of cosmic progress t was among the wisest of ancient nations that philosophy and astrology grew up together each accepted as a complement of the other Nor was anti quity enfeebled by a sense of fatalism; rather it rejoiced in the recognition of immutable institutions of law in which no elements of change or accident existed Having discovered and accepted the great laws of life the philo sophers of antiquity put their own lives in order gladly acknowledging the sovereign wisdom which regulated justly and certainly all celestial and terrestrial affairs The law of cause and effect is one of the most important of the seven great laws by which according to the ancient wisdom the universe is sustained The acceptance of this law and the understanding of its in ferences is fund in nearly all of the old systems of reli gion and science Over frty great nations of the past have preserved this law in their scriptures by the state ment which we call the Golden Rule. Unrecognized by most this sme law preserves all the consistencies of life and action The farmer plants his seed with perfect assurance that it will grow cience accepts this law in every laboratory experiment We live fom day to day sustained by the conviction that certain causes will always produce
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conssen effec, and we have never ye been dsap poned Ye very few people apply he law of cause and effec o personal acon, somemes because of gnorance, bu more ofen, already observed, because he ranng of he modern man has caused hm o feel ha he s n some way superor o or apar om he ordnary edcs of naure The grea phlosopher of Inda, Gauama Buddha, once sad "Effec fllows cause as he wheel of he car fllows he fo of he oxen We lve n a world compleely ruled by a law of unversal compensaon Mos of he mseres whch now afc sufferng manknd are due o our gnorng he prncple of com pensaon n acon We do no sense he profound moral nference behnd he sory of he sowng and he reapng I s perfecly naural o ask how does asrology no hs pcure Wha par do he sars play n he admnsraon of he law of cause and effec To under sand hs pon, we mus also have recourse o anoher law of he ancensrencarnaon Lfe s eernally buldng, consanly mprovng vehcles for s own expresson For our presen purpose, we narrow down hs subjec o he lfe of man, fr as ocraes once wsely observed: "The proper sudy fr manknd s man encarnaon appled o man eaches ha each human beng has already lved many mes upon hs earh, and n fuure ages wll fequenly reurn The presen lfe of a person s , herefre, no he whole of hs
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exstence but a mere fragment Causes leading up to ths present exstence are not always evident n ths life nor are the consequences which arising om present action wll manfest in some uture life The ancents beleved that from the horoscope t was possble to discoer certain generaltes of the prevous lfe The law of cause and effect when appled partcularly to human concerns was called karma by the ancients Karma does not mean fatalsm but rather compensaton When a man buys somethng on credt he creates a debt and the law declares that he must pay that debt In a materal economic transaction ths would not be regarded as ftalsm but as responsbilty Every acton whch a human beng perfrms may thus be regarded as a cause and every cause thus set in motion must have an effect consistent wth itself This s not ftalty; ths s compensaton or karma n ths unphlosophc age we all lke to hope that by some mysterous formula we can escape the respons blites of destructve acton We want to be selsh but we do not want to suffer the reactions of selshness We constantly break natura law and we are all seeking some panacea whch wll emove om us the unhappy consequences of our ndscretons The theological doc trne of the frgveness of sn s a salve to take the sting om the reactons of nquty but the law of cause and effect can never be evaded and all the evls that we do return to us agan There s no escape fom any part of them The law of compensaton or karma has two dstnct
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aspects Good karma is the benecent reaction of constructive action Fine and noble causations produce like consequences, bringing us joy and security and the good things of life Bad karma is the reaction of destructive action Evil causes set in motion produce evil conse quences, resulting in the miseries and misfrtunes which afict this present life When we are born into this world, there are three actors working together, molding and modifying our existence here The rst is good karma, which brings certain privileges of happiness and improvement, and surrounds us with such good things as we have earned The second is bad karma, which manifests as the difficulties of the hour and the apparent il ftality which dogs our footsteps The third factor is action itself, our individual expression which is constantly making new karma, good or bad, according to the merit of the action itself Philosophy teaches us to be modest in success good karma, patient in adversity bad karma, and construc tive in all action life so lived promises future lives of greater enlightenment and happiness The law of cause and effect controls, among other things the actual phenomenon of birth itself e are born at the time which we have merited, into conditions which we have merited, and into opportunities suitable fr the net stage of our development Each person is in the place he has earned r himself, and, if he is dissatised with his present condition, then he must set up within himself the causes which will result in a better state
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Astrolog is the mechnism which dministers the w of krm The universe is vibrtion The interction of the heven bodies is constnt setting up eds of specilized vibrtions The incrnting entit of mn is lso rte of vibrtion modied b the krmic ctors within itsef The incrntion of the individu is deter mined b these vibrtor fctors He is born into cir cumstnces consistent with the krmic modictions of his own nture He is born when the plnets re rnged in pttern consistent with his own krm With his first breth mn brethes in the siderel inuences; nd wht he hs merited comes to him rom the strs nd becomes the individuit determinnt r his entire ife The strs then re not merel sending bneu inu ences upon some poor wek hepless mort The re rell dministering universl justice bestowing upon ech ccording to his ow works This is not tlism t is compenstion One of the rst things tht ever philo sopher must ern is to p gdl the debts which he hs incurred in nture Al krm both good nd bd leds nll to enightenment through experience It is ver often possible to determine to some degree the krmic elements in life om the horoscope fr in mn respects the ntivit is sttement of indebted ness bil rendered to ech of us when we re born In it re set frth the debits nd credits of krm s these ppl directl to the present life The pth of progress is with the sun nd s krm rises f om pst ction it is most pt to be reveled through the qulities of the signs preceding those
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occupied by he sun and he scendan in his resen ife s yo realiz, he signs of he zodia are alernaely posiive and negaive The osiive signs are ris, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagiaris, and quarius The negaive signs are Taurus, Caner, Virgo, Scorpio, Cariorn, and Pisces To undersand wha is mean by posiive and negaive, i woud probaby be more apro riae o use he erms objtiv and subjtiv Ob jecive signs gain exerience by conac wih exernal soures of knowledge, and objecify imulses The subjecive signs are muh more inrovered, and heir rea ions arise om wihin hemselves raher han from exerna conac The negaive and osiiv signs aler naing represen an ebb and fow of energy The Orienal hiosophers symbolized i by an inbreahing and oubreahing, an alernaing roess of exernaliz ing These signs hemselves are losely reaed, herere, o cause and effec, he posiive signs being causes and he negaive signs effes, or aions and reacions Persons born under he posiive signs of he zodia are no so ap o sens he karmi aors in life as hose born under he more sychialy snsiive negaive signs This does no mean ha he osiive signs sa osmi aw, bu hey inerre impuses so deiniely ino acion ha hey sedom feel he reribuive asc of energy This explains why eople born under he negaive signs are much more aaisic han heir osiive sign brohrs and sisers You may have aready observed ha each of he
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zodicl signs includes mong is eywods quliies belonging o evious signs. I believe h ech sign wos ou he m o he evious sign Also ech sign ebels gins he limiions o he evious sign The sign o he zodic unde whih we e bon evels no only he esonl endenies o he esen e sonliy bu lso bings owd semen o unin ished business om he s I evious cion hs meied oune m hen he quliies o he sign e osiively sed I evious cion meis n un une m hen he negive esonds o he negive vibion o he sign All o he sideel inluences e in hemselves neul bu hey mnies s consucive o desucive ccoding o he mei o he individul himsel Le us conside he signs in hei ode being in mind esecilly he woings o he lw o m: Aries he fis sign is in isel osiive bu i cies wih i much o he negiveness o Pises he eceding sign Thee is no moe cein indicion o weness hn onsn eo o be song o n ovesemen o mbiio Aies is sign o ebellion gins he limi ions nd esin o Pises isoinmen my be consideed n Aies cheisic. Pesons bon unde he sign e onsnly suggling o oveome obsles no elizing h hei gees obscle is he Piscen weness wihin hemselves. Taurus is negive sign bu esons bon unde i e in mny wys moe osiive hn negive in hei imulses Mny men sucessul in indusy nd miliy e bon unde his suosedly negive sign The
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reaso is a e iordiae aiios o ries ie i e kari akgrod o a Tars eoe Te reaso e sig is ered egaive is ease ver oe ese dai ises are oked i eir aiesaios e iexie Taria eerae iio is oked i ad oes o oig, ess e Taria erso sjes is ie o a ower sedisiie Eve e sess Tarias are oorios a aever e aieve is saisig, ad e ive d die i odage o ed desires Teir ries kara deies e oee Gem is osidered o e a srog osiive ie ea sig rogo a o is ases i is doi aed e sjeive eoioa ises o Tars Geii eoe are oorios irriae ad iosa Oe o e ie roessios o e sig is wriig ad ierare as a woe is eoioa ad arisi, ad is i siraio oes ore o Ves a o Merr Merria eoe are srog eeraea, oe ood, ad o ieqe ave orid iagiaios Te egaive Merria eqe aks iegri ad is arge doiaed ises ad sese graiaio wi is rog over ro Ves, he rer o Tars Cacer is a egaive sig, srog saei ad eqe a vii o iadeqae ea oro Te ad kara o Geii works o rog e dios reasoig owers o e Caer e Te deveoed Caer ersos deveo e os exraordiar aides o e eros roes o ie ad reaiosis Their saies do eir ikig r e ad sei
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menta antpathe breed furou dle Falure to orent n the ntelectual phere whle lvng under the Gemn nfluence mean a cattered extence under Cancer wth the thnng power partly eclped by the halucnaton of the entment Leo a potve gn but requently a vctm of the evl of the gn Cancer Unbalanced Leo type re quently ufer om ome frm of obeon a malady pecular to the pychm of Cancer The obeon may range om a dvnty complex to a hghly aggravated nfalblty complex Leo people f equently feel that they are not other mortal that they are made by a pecal pattern pecularly endowed wth emdvne attrbute Ther profeon may vary but whether they be evangelt or dctator artt or nancer they are overwhelmed wth the mpule to refrm. Cancer a gn of parenthood and teachng and Leo people feel that they are the fther and teacher of all mannd Vrgo a negatve gn and o to pea the let down from Leo. Vrgo people very often nd Leo cr cumtance thrut upon them and they are f rced by condton beyond ther control nto poton of reponblty d leaderhp The Vrgo mnd naturally ee comfort ecurty and protecton but eldom prvleged to enjoy ether It a gn of reponblty and gnfe the ervant and the breadwnner The gn of Leo requently aocated wth monetary affar and the problem of Vrgo are uualy monetary one If Vrgo nhert a good arma f om t Leo pat the t may be paced n poton of reponbty and trut and become an admntrator of power and authorty If
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he Leo person has ramped on ohers in his pah o power, he is ap o nd his Virgo inarnaio one o hopeess imiaion and nania reverse Libra is a posiive sign and is regarded as one o he mos arisi o he weve Though under he ruership o Venus, Libra maniess many endenies o he Mer uria sign whih preedes i Libra equeny revos agains ass imiaion and rises o superioriy usuay om humbe anesry In oher words, i is a imbing sign Two good exampes o his imbing endeny o Libra are Napoeon Bonapare and Adoph Hier Virgo symboizes he proearia, and he undamena psyhoogy o Libra is a srugge agains medioriy From is Virgo bakground, he Libra ype aso seures he apaiy o judge human naure Libra ypes beome pubi idos beause o he abiiy o hade peope Their bad karma, however, equeny imis heir apaiy o remain in high osiion, and disaser ows honor orpio is a negaive sign, ye in many ways i maniess a srengh no aways o be ound in posiive signs Bu, again, he ourse o he impuses is inrovered Sorpio's grea probem is emoiona onro The emoions o Sorpio are no derived om Mars, he ruer o he sign, bu om he aumuaed karma o Libra, rued by he emoiona pane Venus Libra signiies jusie, and is symbo is h saes Bu where bad karma has ausd he Libra naive o depar o sandards o inegriy, he disorion o he jusie sense omes ou in Sorpo, where ruh beomes invoved in a housand emoiona eexes and ses a sembane o
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igriy is h bad arma of Scorpio o always ow ha i is righ, whhr i is righ or o bcoms is ow sadard of igriy a highly advacd Scorpio, his ss of usic may b highly prcd ad lad o gra aaim i h occul ars, bu i a lss dvlopd yp, udgm is usually hoplssly biasd by h isiis of h moios Saittaris is a posiiv sig ad sms o dlibraly rvol agais h irovrsios of Scorpio Th Sagiaria is a good orgaizr ad promor H rcivs hs qualiis as a lgacy rom Scorpio, bu h pus hm o much mor vid us Th Sagiaria is usually irly op ad abovbard wih his plas This is a raci fom h Scorpio scrivss Sagi arius is a rligious sig, which agai is du o h srg moioal iuc of Scorpio Sagiarius is also h sig of log ourys o war, y is o islf a war sig, bu borrows is affiiy o liquids om Scrpio Sagiarias quly gag i occupaios of a Scorpio aur, as mdici, occulism, diplomacy, c Th armic i bw h wo sigs of maiss as dissipaio, which is a gaiv Scorpio wass Caprico is a gaiv sig, hough i may ways of h srogs ad mos durig of h wlv o sig is hr mor dagr of irovrsi ha i his o Th gaiv qualiy of h sig urs all h impulss bac upo hmslvs ad mas ormal mal, moioal, ad psychical xprssio dificul Y apricor popl ar lld wih h bubblig husiasm of Sagiarius Thy ar a idpd, ambiious, aurally progrssiv grup of popl, bu hir
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norma expression is made almos impossibe beause of a peuliarly rysaized personaliy The Capriorn person inheris rom his Sagiarian inarnaion high aspiraions and widely saered resoures The lesson of Capriorn is a moderaing of al exremes of living Mos of a he Capriorn naive mus maser he impaiene and inordinae ambiion of he Sagiarian and see down o an appreiaion of reasonable and simple hins apriorn people are ofen unhappy no so muh fom he evis of heir sae bu fom he ompaion beween heir presen posiion and some absra andard oward whih heir ambiions are poine Aquarus is he las of he posiive sins and inheris om Capriorn a peuiar xaion of viewpoin in he mids of an oherwise amos omplee inonsiseny quarius is ermed he sign of he iberas and from soia rerm o dieeis he quarian is ap o be fund poining ou he advanages of somehing new and he hopeless disadvanage of hings as hey are I may be said ha quarians are born in he objeive ase One ha I know one referred o himsef as one of he ranks ha make he world go round The sign is original and apable and reeives from Capriorn erain psyhi underurrens whih srongly inuene al of is aivi ies Firs i embodies he Capriorn enaiy of viewpoin and a he same ime i ives in a onsan sae of revol agains Capriorn onservaism and aeped insiuions From Capriorn aso omes a deinie srain of meanholia and like Capriornians quarians have very few ose iends This is no beause