Max Heindel

“ It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy,
It is also good to be born in May and July when the life-light of the Sun is focused through the exaltation sign and home of the Moon, Taurus and Cancer, especially, as said, when the lesser light is increasing for those configurations, also furnish an abundance of vitality which is such a great asset in physical life. ”

“ Absolutely impossible, Can the flower cease to bloom or the mineral to crystallize? Certainly not; because they are under laws which are unchangeable as the laws of the Medes and Persians. They have neither choice nor prerogative but must obey the dictates of the group spirit which guides them along their path of evolution, But in this respect we differ radically from those lower kingdoms, we have both choice and prerogative. We may do whatsoever we will and that is a factor which is never shown in the horoscope, a factor that may be made to play an all important role in every life. ”

“ If we are born under a lucky star it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves. ”

“ And it is this necessity for change that is ministered unto us by the circling stars which form configurations that we call good or evil, though they are neither from a higher standpoint, for no matter how good the horoscope; by progression of the stars evil configurations are sure to come and no matter how evil, there are always new opportunities for good given by aspects of the Sun, Venus and Jupiter to our planets at birth. All that we have to do is ta grasp the opportunity, help our stars, that our stars may help us. ”

“ What wonder then if the king’s messengers, the circling stars, take from the unfaithful steward that which he had and give to the other, changing their adversity to prosperity in later lives. Thus the pendulum of luck and loss, success and failure changes through many lives till we learn to make our own “luck” by ruling our stars. ”

“ It is not enough to be born under a lucky star to have a lucky life, for the horoscope shows only the tendencies and the person who is so well endowed will without question have an aabundance of opportunities to make his life fortunate in the very highest degree. ”

“ From the higher standpoint those who are living in the lap of luxury are to be pitied when their lucky stars give them all the good things of this world and cause them to forget that they are stewards and that the day is coming when their souls shall be required of them with an account of their stewardship. They shall then be forced to confess that they have failed to use the substance entrusted to them in the proper manner; while others under the strain and stress of life, expressed by the horoscopical squares and oppositions, have wrong from their unlucky stars a measure of victory. ”

“ With respect to the time of day most favorable for birth it may be said that children barn about. sunrise, or during the forenoon from 8 to 12 while the Sun is traversing the houses of friends and social prestige are the ‘luckiest’ for they are helped on every hand. Children born between noon and midnight are less ‘lucky’ the nearer. the Sun comes to Nadir, and then the ‘luck’ turns again for the children born in the early morning while the Daystar is ascending towards the eastern horizon. They will have to carve their own way in the world, but opportunities will be given them in abundance. ”

“ The Archangels, who were human in the Sun Period when the present animals started their evolution with a mineral-like existence, are now the Group Spirits of the annals.
The Angels, who were human in the Moon Period when the present plants commenced their evolution with a similar mineral constitution are now the Group Spirits of the plants. Man, who reached the human stage in the Earth Period, is now working with the new lite-wave which started its evolution on the Earth as minerals, He is not far enough advanced to assume the role of Group Spirit, that is reserved for the future. ”

“ Nevertheless people often ask the astrologer when is the best time to be born; young astrologers also frequently want to know, not that they have any idea of controlling birth but so that on seeing a horoscope or being told a person’s time of birth they may make quick mental calculation to determine a good or bad horoscope. Such a judgment would, of course, be founded only on the position of the sun ‘by sign and approximate house, hence general in the extreme. ”

“ A gem or an amulet made on these principles is a focus for the stellar rays of the planets they represent, and infuses vibrations of their nature into our auras all the while we are wearing it, just as surely as the wireless receiver attuned to a certain pitch catches the waves within its range, and we may blend the colors in the same manner to obtain help from them. ”

“ In the light of occult investigation of some of the modern methods it appears that Birth is an advent we are powerless to control, when we seem to do so in a slight degree we are really the agents of Destiny to accelerate or delay till the proper moment has arrived. ”

“ At present he is working with them to the best of his ability, smelting them into iron bridges, ships and skeleton skyscrapers; he is pulling them into wires which wind around the world; he is grinding from them gems that glitter and grace the great in our social structure, and thus he is gradually establishing an intimate relationship with them and preparing ta take charge of their evolution as a Group Spirit at, some future time. ”

“ It may be said however that other planetary positions being equal, it is better to be born when the Moon is increasing in light from the new to the full than when she is decreasing from the full to the new for the growing Moon always increases vitality and furthers our affairs. ”

“ But as the counterfeit coin argues the existence of the genuine, so also the fallacious information flippantly dispensed by people who eater to the sense of mystery and wonder which is deeply imbedded in human nature argues the existence of a genuine science of mineralogical correspondences with the stellar rays impinging upon all who inhabit our sub-lunar sphere, and when this is rightly understood and used, that which is loosely termed luck results ”

“ In the Jupiter Period he will give them life as plants have, in the Venus Period he will bring out their desires and emotions as animals, and in the Vulcan Period he will give them a mind and make them human, That, however, is all in the future. ”

“ Finally it should always be borne in mind that there is no ‘luck,’ in the commonly accepted sense, but that what we have or Jack in any respect is due to our own actions in the past and that in the future we may have what we now lack by proper application. ”

“ The only harm it can do is if some unscrupulous person starts to make them for coin, and even then, if he is conscientious about the work, whoever obtains it will not be cheated, the re-action will be upon the one who prostitutes the spiritual science for material gain. ”

“ As a matter of fact, it is the complimentary color which is seen in the desire world that produces the effect of the physical colors, If it is desired to restrain one whose Mars is too prominent, the gems, colors and metals of Saturn will help, and such a person should have as little to do with iron (tools, machinery, etc.,) as possible, but if we want to help someone who is moody and taciturn, we may use the gems. colors and metals of Mars to advantage. ”

“ Nor should this statement of the stellar influence create doubt when we consider that wireless waves of different lengths and different pitch sent out from a tiny man-made contrivance can make themselves felt and register by mechanical operations involving expenditure of energy many thousands of miles from their source, the planetary vibrations from those great orbs in the heavens make themselves felt millions of miles as surely, us easily, and with equal certainty. ”

“ When we look up at this planetary kaleidoscope from time to time we see in the heavens various configurations which are pronounced lucky or unlucky according to whether they are formed between so-called benefics alone, such as Venus, Jupiter and the Sun, or planets said to be malefic such us Saturn, Mars or Uranus. ”

“ The philosophy of Horary Astrology is that at the tine one is impelled to ask a question concerning an important mutter the heavens contain also the answer and a figure set for that time will contain the solution to the problem, But it should be particularly noted that the time to set the figure is when the inquirer asks the question of the astrologer, when this is done in person ”

“ Similarly when you look into the heavens night after night you will notice changes among the planets, in fact such is the variety of changes that occur among them that it would be impossible to duplicate the position which they held relatively to one another while you are reading, for almost twenty-six thousand years. ”