The Evening critic., 1881-09-22
A REMARKABLE PREDICTION.
gen. GnrGeid's violent Death Fore
fold

told.
That the stars do say many things, and
their language Is Of clearly prophetic char
acter, is evidenced in the following remark
able prediction by the Baltimore astrologist,
Ruthiel, and which was published in the
Sunday Capital of this city, on the goth Of
last March, This gentleman Is the same
who prophcsied the assassination of the
Gar of Russia nearly ten days before its
occurrence The document is curiosity of
literature and evidences that there really
are more things in Heaven and earth than
are generally accepted in our philosophy
Gen. GarfcId's Horoscope.
Gen. Garfield, according to the very best
authority, was born November 10, 1881, at
9 o'clock in the morning. The planet Saturn
had risen shortly before in the sign Virgo,
and Mars was not far below the horizon in
Libra. Mercury and the sun each cast a
sextile aspect to the ascending degree and
the moon a trine. He has, therefore, some
portion of the qualities of each of these
planets in his physical and mental organiza-
ton.
Ptoemy tells us that the intellectual
abilities arc never first-class unless Mercury
and the moon have aspect with one another
or with the ascendant. In this case they
are conflgurated together, and also with the
ascendant. The President is man of very
striking ability. Mercury in Scorpio makes
him Just, incorporating, constant,
firm of purpose, prudent, patient, in
dustrious. strict, chaste, mindful of
injuries, steady in pursuance of an object
and DESTROYS of honor" These character
istics are somewhat diminished by the OPP
position of Mercury to the moon. Mercury
has no aspect with any other body except
the sun, and, says Ptolemy: Mercury alone
hn VIM don, nj nf thn mind .
clever, sensible, capable of great learning,
inventive, expert, logical, studious of ma
ture, speculative, of good genius, emulous,
benevolent, skillful in argument, accurate
In conjecture, adapted to science and tract
able" He adds: "The sun likewise co.
operates to increase probity, industry, honor
and laudable qualities"
The nativity is not fortunate except as
regards the Presidents intellectual gifts.
Tho moon was Mt the full, and neither sun
nor moon had any aspect with Jupiter or
Venus. He is likely to have troubled
Administration.
for the country at large as well as for its
Chief Magistrate. On this account | Judge
there is not the slightest probability Of his
election to second term
This being nocturnal birth, and the
moon being on the cusp of the ninth house,
she was the hylcg, or giver of life. Her
position could scarcely have been more un-
favorable. She was very near the most evil
of the fixed stars, Caput Algol, at her full
and nearly in parallel to Mars. These
things threaten injuries to the face and
eyes, and painful death.
The President did not. like Grant reach
his eminence i'll life by a fortuitous comb.
nation of circumstances, but by his con-
spicuous ability, and thiswc find designated
by the fortunate trine from the ninth house
of the moon to Saturn. The only other
good position in the horoscope is the trine
of Venus and Jupiter
AS already remarked, the Presidents
firmness Of character is likely to be consid-
erably modified, by the opposition of the
moon and Mercury A writer in the Eng
lish University Magazine, in an article some
time ago on "The Soul and the Stars" took
occasion to point out the remarkable recur-
| renee of this aspect In the horoscopes of men
of high genius. 1t is found in those of
Shakespeare, Byron, Wordsworth Shelley,
| Keats, Heinc Musset and Rusbin, and ap-
pears to bestow tinge of romance and
poetry to the mind. These, in Garfield's
case, are tempered by the graver character
istics produced by the beautiful trnc of the
moon to Saturn.
1t is curious circumstance that at the
time Gen. Garfield was nominated
June 8, 1880, near one o'clock p. M, the
last degrees of Virgo were rising, the same
portion of the zodiac assembled as he came
into the world. The sun, moon and Mer-
curry were all near tho meridian, and the
sun was in trine (fortunatc) to the places
occupied at the nativity by Jupiter and
Venus When the tide first turned in the
convention the very degree of the sign of
the Virgin under which Mr.. Garfield was
born was making its appearance ON the
eastern horizon as the machinery of the
universe performed its daily course.
| Persons interested in this study will do
woil to watch the transit of Saturn through
the mid-heayen of the Presidents horoscope
in 1884 and the public events with which 1t
comedies.
| News has arrived of the death by assassi-
nation of the Emperor of Russia. His i'm
pending danger from the transit of Mars
through Aquarius, the sign ruling Russia,
was pointed out in an article Of mine in the
Baltimore Daily Neps, March @, q week he
| fore the event RUTHIEI