The Goodland republic., 1894-06-08

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of It's declarations. it must needs be
with them all. since the Power which
| guides the stars and which directs the
one adventure, manifestly must take
! cognizance of them all; and declaring
| the one must declare all
It is in regard to the life of ship
! that this article will tredt-the life of
| the staunch old warship Kearsarge
which, after a valiant and useful life
of thirty-two years, met it's death
within three days of its birthday, on
Roncador reef. where misguiding cur
rents-and not improbably an actual
change in the very latitude of the
snarling and treacherous place com
bined to her destruction.
The great English astroIoger Will
lam Lilly (l6O9-168l, who predicted
the fire and plague in London fifteen
years before these events took place
| (1665-166G) was frequently employed
by merchants to announce, through
his art the fate of overdue ships
am not aware that any application of
Rstrology has ever before been made
in this country to the matter of the
life of ship. though the figures illus
trating the loss of the Victoria were
published last year in two London as
trological magazines, writes Frank H
Norton in the Illustrated American
The three maps of the heavens
illustrating this paper are drawn for
the latitudes and longitudes of the
several places concerned. TO simplify
their examination, the following will
be found useful: The upper part of
the map represents the south. and the
left hand or east ''angle" is the as
cendant, or 'house of 1ife;' the next
division, the s'house of fortune;" the
midheayen, or upper angle, the ''house
of fame or glory;" its opposite, the
house of the grave" or conclusion of
life. Benefcent planets are Jupiter,
Venus, the sun and moon, unless af-
ficted by evil aspects from the mall
evolent planets-which are Saturn,
Mars, Herschel and Neptune Good
aspects are coniunCtions (of benevo-
{ 1ent planets), sextiles TOO degrees
apart, trines (120 degrees apart; bad
aspects" are oppositions QsO degrees
apart, squares 900 degrees apart. and
conjunctions of evil planets. With
these explanations, the reader can
easily follow the history astrological
ly set forth in the maps.
In astrology, the ship is signifed by
the sign of the zodiac on the cusp of
the ascendant which, at the hour
when the Kearsarge started on her
voyage of life was the sign Taurus
which is governed by the beneficent
planet Venus, situated in the favora-
bic eleventh house (Friends) with Nep
tune and Mercury, and III good aspect
with the sun, but evil aspect with
Herschel, Mars and Saturn-eviI as
poets which were at last to turn and
sting her The sun was in the mid
heaven, in the house of glory and
fame, significant of the achievement
which was to make the Kearsarge re-
nowned among warsnips Mars in
Sagittarius, in the eighth house
DEATH, was in opposition to HerscheI
and in square to the moon in the
twelfth house Sorrow; while Saturn
and Jupiter were nearly in coniunc
tion with the fifth house (Chance) of
which Venus is cosignifcator, and in
opposition to that planet. Reading
this map, it is to be seen that the
plenets to be watched are Herschel,
Mars Venus and the sun, as these are
in the most important positions We
nus in good aspect to the ascendant
(sextile), with the sun in the mid
career, accompanied by the aeclama-
tions of the world, but endangered
through the adverse. positions of Sat