Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-01-02
Remarkable Horoscopes.



Dion Boucicault was born December Goth,
1899. He had in his figure what is termed
a "Satellitium,"'viz: a great cluster of plan
cts in one spot, always denoting something
remarkable to happen during the life of the
native, favorable in good horoscope, and
the contrary IN bad one. Wilson says II
shows "prodigious success OF detriment at
some period" II appears in the nativities
of Queen Victoria, John Bright, George Ill,
Chatterton, the poet, and others, Mr.. Bou-
cicault had the Sun in CONJUNCTION with
Venus snd Herschel, and Mercury approach
ing both. This renders the native fond OF
the elegant arts and sciences, an excellent
writer, gives much success In literature and
public career.
Raphael's Guide says; "Herschel with
Venus makes good musician or actor, ex-
ceiling in the fine arts and singularly sue
cessful, but very fond Of the fair SEX" Mars
trine with Jupiter gives immense energy,
the courage to undertake great enterprises,
but wastes the wealth. The cluster of plan
cts were In trine with Saturn, and in every
respect the nativity ia most fortunate,
showing remarkable and splendid career,
and II is fact that Boucicault reached fame
and fortune at single bound when he was
only seventeen years old, and has enjoyed
pretty much everything that life can give
since.
Another exemplihcation Of how good
aspect between Herschel and Mercury will
give literary fame and success appears In
the nativity of Charles Dickens. The two
planets were In close sextile. The Moon
was In trine with Mars, but square
with Venus, showing fondness for cunvivi-
atty and carelessness of expense Saturn
square with Mars gave Dickens that abrupt
ness of temper he was pretty well noted for;
and the Moon having just separated from
Herschel, and the latter squaring the Sun,
produced his domestic troubles and the loss
Of his popularity, 10 great extent, upon
the separation from his wife. The Sun was
in trlne to Jupiter, most fortunate aspect,
giving fame and wealth. Mars in Aries
square with Jupiter in Gemini, and the Sun
semisquare with Mars, produced apoplexy,
and the Sun being also afflicted by Her
schel, lie died suddenly.
An instance of how success and detriment
both appear in the same horoscope is appar-
ent in the figure Of person born July 9TH,
1919. Jupiter was on the meridian in trine
with Venus, and the native rose by the
power Of the aspect from nothing to much
success in life, making money with the great
est ease but Saturn falling in the I'd, he
could not retain his substance The Moon
in the horoscope is afflicted by Saturn and
Mars, and Mars was in the West in close
opposition to Saturn, and the child came in
to the world apparently dying. The life of
tn, native has been full of adventure and
peril; he was several times badly injured,
the accidents being produced by the malig-
nant angular aspect Of Mars. The Moon
was in bi-corporeal sign, applying to sew
eral planets, and he consequently married
twice, the affiction Of the luminart by Sa-
turn denoting the death OF the first wife
In the figure of Henry Ward Beecher the
Moon applies 10 the trine of saturn, donot-
ing divine, but Mars is in opposition TO
Jupiter "A most singular aspect in the ma
tivty Of clergyman, causing wide vari-
ance with orthodox doctrines and extremely
free principles. Venus il afflicted by close
opposition 10 Saturn, which uccords pain
fully with the revelations of certain histor-
ical events. The Moon il also afflicted by
that sad dlsturber Of domestic peace, Her.
schel, being nearly In opposition. There Is
a conjunction Of Mercury and Venus, and
both are In sextile 10 the Moon, which gives
Mr.. Beecher his great intellectual ability.
There is much evil in the figure, and, the
hour Of birth being unknown, no predica-
tion can be made regarding the nature Of
death, but both the luminaries have evil "a
poets from the malefce
Belmont, the banker, ut his birth had Mars
and Jupiter together and both In trine to
the Moon, the Sun was sextile with Saturn.
Mercury and Hcrschel were together, and
he 10 man of reading and cultivation, and
writes forcibly and well. Mercury In COM
bustion gives more capacity for business than
letters; and those persons in whose horo-
scopes Mercury is removed from the Sun,
such ~ poets, philosophers, and highly In
tsllectual people, have generally no taste for
or skill At business
Labouchere, In the last number Of Truth,
has fling at astrology, ridiculing the pre-
dlctIons In an English almanac for next year.
He says 1.-THE most curious thing about this
nonsense Is the numbers who believe In IT,"
Quite true, indeed. That same almanac,
Zadkiers, 10 say nothing Of half dozen
othors, has been published for fifty years, and
every year the circulation increases; last
year the sale Of the edition exceeded By
twelve thousand copies that Of previous
years And the editor well says to his half
4 million readers "lf astrology were moth
ing but an idle superstition the spread Of
education would have long ago extinguished
the belief In IT,"
When WE zee men like Boucicaut, Grant
and others rising with scarcely AL effort to
supreme success, falling in nothing; and
others. like Thomas Taylor, the Platonist
philosopher, with IA much merit and energy,
and far more splendid talents, ground down
by poverty all their days, beset BY IL fatality
that overthrows everything they undertake,
we must conclude that there j. some Interior
cause for such things, and they cannot be
accounted for except upon the principle ~
astral destiny This Il logic that all the flip
pant scribbllng " FURNISHES like Labou-
chere, who have probably never given
examination 10 the sri they con
denim, cannot wipe out.
II is an undeniable fact that the belief in
asiroIogy j. reyiying Ia wonderful extent
In Europe. An astrological socieiy has
been formed In London. and several Jour.
nails, magazines, &c, arr projected and, a.
The editor Of Zsdkiel's Epheiners says, sits
; remarkable fact that the belief In planetary
influence extend. concurenily with educa.
ton"