The Evening critic., 1881-07-07
THE EVENING CRITIC.
GARFIELD,s HOROSCOPE.
what the Planets Have Had TO do
with Him.
ESTABLISHED Angus

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who has made n study of the connection of
the planetary system with human events
will be read with interest at this time:
Some months ago the assassination of the
Emperor of Russia impressed me so forcibly |
with the evil character of Gen. Garfield's |
horoscope that wrote brief analysis of IL
for the Capital. Some persons were very |
much amused, recollecting that the Prcsi |
dent had passed safely through the war and
that he come to his Executive seat amid the
enthusiasm of the whole country, irrcspect-
i've of party, at my warning that owing to
the evil position of the moon at his birth, |
q he would be in danger Of n violent death.
The general statement that his nativity
was, except as regarded his mental gifts, ex
-.tremely unfortunate, seemed likewise an
fbbsurdity. Four months have not passed
away and the accuracy Of the forecast has
been lamentably justified. The connection
of the late Emperor of Russia with Gen.
Garfield in the last paragraph of my article
does not, in the light of events, since 1t was
penncd, seem so ridiculous rs it did then.
Some people, as number of letters from
readers of the Capital indicate, are even dis
posed to think that there may be influences
in the stars after all, and that the mere
giving of small quantity of light, when
the weather does not happen to be cloudy,
may not be their only office.
In CHANGING over the map of the celestial
position at Mr.. Garfields birth would not
shut my eyes to several most ominous sgni-
Hcations. He came into the world Novcm-
Der 10, 1881, ut about 2 o'clock In the
morning. The evil planet Saturn had just
risen and was in that part of heaven we
term the twelfth house, termed by Claudius
Ptolcmy "Thc evil demon" The planet
Mars was in the ascendant and had very
nearly arrived at the horizon. The charac-
ter attributed to this star is well known
even to those who know little else about
tie much-abused science of astroloey. He
is the planet of blood and slaughter and on
this account was worshiped among the
\ Greeks and Romans as god. The whole
System of heather mythology took its ORR
gin from the belief in the influences of the
stars, the primary doctrine of the ancient
!. peoples of the time of Abraham, who was
skillful astrOlOger, becoming in the course
of ages, and from being handed down only
by tradition, corrupted and turned wholly
aside from its original significance. Mars
was ever recognized as, when presiding at
birth, either in the ascendant or meridian,
and when aspecting the sun or moon, the
producer of certain character of evils
cuts, blows, gunshot wounds or injuries by
fire.
In Gen. Garficld's case Mars was rising
and had the same parallel of decinatiOn as
the moon. This latter body, owing to her
position in the ninth house, which isa little
west of the midhcavcn, was what the
Egyptians termed the hylez, or the giver of
life. From the character of the aspects
thrown to her from the other bodies, astrOlo-
gers would Judge, as well as human fall
libility will allow, the nature of the physi-
cal injuries and diseases to which the child
born at that moment would be sub
tject. In my analysis of Gen. Garfcld's
nativity, which was of course only brief
and general, rs must be the case with u
newspaper article intended chiefly for per-
sons unacquainted with the science, / re-
marked that the moons position could
scarcely have been more unfavOrable. She
was very near the most evil of the fixed
stars, Caput Ngol at her full and nearly in
parallel to Mars. These things threaten
injuries to the face and eyes and painful
death" The assassin, it is stated in some
of the accounts, aimed Mt the Presidents
head at the first fire, and the ball struck
him in the shoulder
= To the general reader, unacquainted with
the principles of celestial science it is diff
cnlt to point out the many remarkable Cir
cumstances connected with the assault upon
the President. Viewed merely as coinci-
dences they are extraordinary. For instance,
from the positions of the stars ut the
> annual revolution Of any subject, or as it is
termed the birthday, we infer something
of the general tendencies of the year SUBJ
~ sequent--on the 10th of November, 1880,
Mars in 10 degrees of Scorpio, and therefore
opposite the very place occupied by the
So moon at Garfelds birth and now within a
few degrees of the place of the sun.
At the location previous to the occurrence
of any important event the positions of the
. stars will usually show its character. The
last new moon was celebrated on the Goth
of June and it fell in about degrees OF
Cancer and, therefore, in square (cviD as
pect to the place occupied by Mars at the
Presidents birth. Finally, by directional
motion the moon was in opposition to
Saturn and in square to Mars.
There is also one other circumstance to
which l desire to draw especial attention
and / am quite aware of the ridicule tC
which, among some wise folks, expose my
self in so doing that is, to the sudden ap
pearance in the northwest skies, q week OF
SO ago from the time of the present writing, o.
large and brilliant comet. This appari'
ton was not expected by the astronomers
and they were the last to see it.. 1t was frs
seen near the star Capella, which is in thu
sign Gemini, ruling, as l mentioned in my
Garfield article, the United States Now
note that at the Presidents birth the sta
Capela was very near the meridian of hi
horoscope, as may be seen by anybody
who chooses to erect figure for hi
birth, and consequently the comet frs
appeared close to the place of his mid
heaven. Is this chance, or is it something
else? The Sultan of Turkey and the Lore
High Chancellor of England died within a
week after the appearance of the comet o
1861, and the Prince Consort, in the mid
heaven of whose nativity the comet ap
peared, died December IA, 1861. Oppose
to these curious condolences we have TIN
word oftheastronomcrs who tell us that the.
!. know all about comets, and that they mear
nothing but who yet did not predict tn
appearance of the present comet, and can
not for their lives come to any agrcemen
as to its distance, motion, perihelion pas
sage or constituents
Finally, draw attention to another fact
and one which must impress all tair-minde'
and candid people who will think for them
selves and not be governed by the opinion
of others, who, like Mr.. Proctor, arrogate t
themselves all authority in teaching upol
matters relating to the celestial bodies. Oh
June 12 there was a total eclipse OF tn
{ moon visible in the United States Ancien
writers tell us that cclipses are not mer
freaks performed at stated intervals, ascci
tainable by computation of the luminaries
but that they have meaning and prophet
signihcance They tell us that the effect