Max Heindel

“ The human figure of Aquarius, the Waterbearer, shows us the ideal towards which this class must strive. Instead of fighting, preying upon, or poisoning others in the struggle for existence they must learn to become humane, to be friends instead of foes to all. The influence of the fixed signs rouses the desive nature, giving stamina and persistence in action. ”

“ If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth its angle strikes us in such a manner as to draw us to a certain type of marriage partner, and the planets under the earth, in the North, have an effect upon our condition in the latter part of life. Let us suppose for illustration of the point that someone is born at sunrise on a day when the Sun and Jupiter arc in conjunction, Then they strike him from the eastern angle and give him a splendid vitality. ”

“ There are three factors which bring to us the mystic message of the stars; the houses, the signs and the planets, The houses ave divisions of the earth; each house represents a department of life; the signs are divisions of the heavens which by their placement relative to the houses indicate our basic temperament and attitude towards life, and the planets are the messengers of God which by their motion through the houses and signs bring to us the opportunities for soulgrowth which we need for our individual development. ”

“ The common class is a sharp contrast. Forces focused through common signs are mental, therefore people ruled by them are averse to strenuous physical action which is the forte of the cardinal class; they labor only when lashed by the whip of necessity. They are also incapable of the slow but sustained effort put forth by the fixed class and are easily discouraged by obstacles. Thus they are leaners and not lifters. Toilers who do the bidding of the inventive and executive classes are recruited from people ruled by common signs. ”

“ In other words, people with fixed signs on the angles “look before they leap;” they look a long time and very, very carefully, but on the other hand, when they have once been won over to a certain cause they are faithful unto death, and no more ardent advocates can be found; their zeal is almost fanatical. On the whole, people with fixed signs may be said to be the most reliable people in the world, either for good or bad. ”

“ As material success depends on ability to cape with material conditions, the cardinal class is particularly fortunate, for it is the chief executive factor in the world’s work, and reaps a ready reward therefor. The fixed class is not so prominently before the public, labors in laboratories and works experimentally to complete the processes and perfect the models which arc later used in manufacture. Therefore they also are potent powers in life, and share the material and financial success of the cardinal class. ”

“ The “rising sign” and the “first house” together form an avenue for the fecundating influences of the Moon which there crystallize and form the etheric matrix that moulds the physical particles from the maternal body into a new vehicle, hence the astrological maxim that the ascendant at birth (or its opposite) is the Moon’s place at conception, This composite body is the part of the human being which is born and dies after a relatively evanescent period of existence. ”

“ The social houses are the third, seventh and eleventh houses and in them are shown the nature of our relations with various classes of souls we meet in life. Brothers and sisters to whom we are bound by the tie of blood are shown by the third house, the companion of our heart with whom our blood blends in another way, is shown by the seventh house, and the friends, more precious than pearls to whoever has earned friendship, are designated by the eleventh house. ”

“ Thus a person born when the three last degrees of Aries or the first degrees of Taurus were ascending would be neither purely Aries nor Taurus but a mixture of the qualities of the two signs.
The nature of the rising sign is also modified by the presence of planets. The Sun and Mars increase vitality if well aspected but if afflicted they incline to fever and inflammatory disorders but they also favor rapid recuperation, they make the nature alert and energetic. A well-aspected Jupiter rising also increases vitality but inclines to corpulence ”

“ If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under much more auspicious conditions than those under which we now live and thus we may truly rule our stars and master our fate. ”

“ There are people for instance, who have the face of a sheep just as perfect as possible. If such a one is in doubt about the birth hour we would at once look to Aries and experimentally try how that would fit with the other characteristics of that person, if we did so we should probably find our guess correct in every ease. Thus also the other signs and planets in signs exhibit distinguishing characteristics of valuable aid to the student in the direction mentioned,
The student should also endeavor to cultivate perfect confidence in the science of Astrology. ”

“ In one place, an aroma of new mown hay fills us with delight: perhaps we are nauseated by the noxious smell of jasmine on the next stretch of our journey; and later become really ill from the stench of stagnant marsh-water. ”

“ We would also advise the younger astrologer not to bother too much with the personal descriptions indicated in the horoscope. It is foolish to spend hours perhaps to find out what the one for whom a horoscope is cast can see in a moment by looking in a glass. We give descriptions of the different types, but do so for the purpose of aiding the student to determine at sight the probable sign and planet rising when a client comes who does not know his birth hour. ”

“ Setbacks which would take the courage from a person with cardinal signs do not daunt the man with fixed signs on the angles, he knows no defeat, and therefore he usually gains his goal in the end and achieves success by Concentration upon one point, and Persistence in following his chosen path. On the other hand such people are conservative to the last degree, They may see and desire improvements in various lines, but ere exceedingly slow to adopt measures to accomplish the desirable end ”

“ A breeze is blowing from the ocean and as it passes over the country separating us from the sea, it brings upon invisible wings messages from that land, which evoke pleasure or aversion according to their nature. ”

“ Libra is the extreme Western point of his path, where he turns away from the Northern Hemisphere, and in midwinter, at Christmas, he is in Capricorn at the farthest point South, where his horizontal ray leaves the people of the North in winter’s icy grip. The effect of the angles, the first, fourth, seventh and tenth houses, is similar to the effect of the cardinal signs because these houses are at the East, North, West and South points of the horoscope. ”

“ The other succeedent houses, the fifth and eleventh, show how our income may be spent, for the fifth house indicates the children of our body who have a legitimate claim to a share of our income, and the eleventh house shows the children of our brain, our hopes, wishes and aspirations which also draw upon our resources. ”

“ The foregoing remarks about Jupiter apply to Venus in a lesser degree. Saturn rising lowers the vitality and favors chronic ill-health in later life, but at the same time he gives such a tenacious hold on life that though the person may pray to be released he cannot die. Mercury, Moon, Uranus and Neptune make the body more high-strung and nervous than the average, usable specially to pioneers in music, literature, higher thought, science and the electrical arts. ”

“ If a person has many planets in watery signs his problem is to generate enough energy to keep warm, for this grouping gives a listless, indigent disposition, except Scorpio be rising or many planets are in that sign. ”

“ None are violent, however, but intensely moral, intellectual and spiritual symbols.
Unstable as reeds they are swayed hither and thither; nothing appeals to them permanently, they desire nothing as much as change. ”

“ To do this they become promoters who bring inventor and manufacturer together, agents who mediate between buyer and seller, peddlers, venders and all other middlemen who go between producer and consumer and live on a commission, also literary men who devote their talent to purposeless fiction belong to the class actuated by the lower phases of the force in the common signs. ”

“ In this connection it should be noted that conception is not necessarily coincident with the physical union of the parents, sometimes two weeks or even more elapse are the auspicious moment awaited by the Recording Angels or their agents strikes, At that time cosmic conditions are such that they will form a body which will facilitate the expression of the Ego seeking re-embodiment and aid it to work out its self-generated destiny, It should also be remembered by students that the moment of delivery is not the time of birth from the astrological point of view. ”

“ The other and immortal part of composite man which consists of the Ego and its finer vehicles is represented in the horoscope by the Sun and the Moon. The specific influence of these planets will be described when we have considered the rising sign. ”

“ Another born on the same day at noon when Jupiter and the Sun are in the zenith position may have a very poor and weak body if other planets in the East are adverse, but if the ray of the Sun and Jupiter falls on his birth figure from the South he will certainly attract attention in his social sphere and be the recipient of public favor and honor. ”

“ There is one sphere, however, where they shine, according to their ability to think, Being averse to work they have created a vantage-ground whence they may reap the benefits of the toil of others, of their inventive faculties and executive skill. ”

“ Thus these two classes work hand in hand and between them they have transformed the wilderness of the world to a condition of comparative comfort, their efforts of improvement are continually carried on, and in time the primitive desert will be made to bloom like a rose. ”

“ Of the two pairs of cadent houses the sixth is the house of voluntary service which we perform as our share of the world’s work for an equivalent share in the world’s wealth, and the twelfth house shows how we may be compelled to labor without remuneration under prison restraint it we do not work willingly. ”

“ Planets placed in the twelfth house are considered as being on the ascendant if within six degrees thereof, so are all planets in the first house no matter how far from the rising degree, but if a sign is intercepted in the first house planets placed therein will not have as strong an influence in the life as where the sign occupies the cusp. ”

“ There is nothing empirical about character reading and diagnosis. In those respects it is plain as A B C. Predictions may fail because the Astrologer is unable to determine the strength of will of the person for whom he predicts, but the latent tendencies are always accurately foreshown. ”