Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-09-27
TRUTHS IN ZADKIEL,
HIS ALMANAC HAS MADE SOME STAR.
THING PREDICTIONS.

Superstition and Luck-Gossip About Two
Things Which Concern Us More Than
We Are willing to Admit and Which 1t
Isn't Always Possible to Reason About.
There is now in England publication
known as Zadkicl's Almanac, that has
been for 40 years a favoritc in English
households of tho fairly intelligent class,
as it is too abstruse for the ignorant to
understand. Not less than 200, 600 copies
are sold yearly, and this is purelya history
of the coming year, based on the researches
of judicial astrolOgy.
These calculations are made by means
of the sun, moon and stars-the signs of
the zodiac and the various aspects and re-
lations of the planets. In astrology ma
tions, like individuals, are subject to and
are governed by the planets. The greater
part of England lies under the cardinal
sign Aries, but Gcmini rules the west of
England and the United States.
Some of Zadkicl's predictions are curl
Gus enough to puzzle Intelligent persons.
For instance, in 1886 occurs this passage:
"Shocks Of earthquakes in the seventy
seventh degree of west longitude may be
looked for. Great thundcrstorms and
waves of intense heat will pass over the
States. There will be great excitement in
America" In 1856 shocks of earthquake
reached North and South Carolina on the
night of Aug. 81, between longitude rs
and rs west, and the heat was intense,
many lives being lost.
In 1853 Zadkicl put forth the following
prediction as to the future of Louis Napo-
leon:
LET him not dream of lasting honors,
power or prosperity. He shall found no
dynasty, he shall wear no durable crown,
but in the midst of deeds of blood and
slaughter, with affrighted Europe trem-
bling beneath the weight of his daring
martial hosts, he dosccnds beneath the
heavy hand of fate and falls to rise no
more"
1t is undoubtedly true that in thrcc hor-
oscopes taken by different men entirely
independent of each other bloody ending
was predicted for the emperor, but only
Zadkiel foretold the extinction of the dy
nasty.
In the horoscope of Lincoln and Garfield
the maliflc planets Mars and Saturn ruled
their house of life. When their end came,
and in u marked degree the history and
career of the Bourbon family COrrcspondCd
with the state of the heavens at their
births, according to the theories Of astrol
ogy.
A belief that human events are affected
by the stars was accepted by many of the
ablcst minds. Wallenstein died at the very
moment when he thought the danger past.
He had the astrologer' S reading of the stars
in his hand as he was struck down
Goethe begins his autobiography with
his Nativity"
"On the goth of August, 1749, at mid
day rs the clock struck IL, l came into the
world at Frankfort-on-the-Ma Main. My hor-
oscope was propitious The sun stood in
the signs of the Virgin and had culminat-
ed for the day. Jupiter and Venus looked
on him with friendly eye, and Mercury
not adversely, while Saturn and Mars kept
themselves indifferent. The moon alone,
just full, exerted the power Of her rehec-
ton all the more, as she had then reached
her planetary hour. She opposed herself
therefore to my birth, which could not be
accomplished until the hour was passed.
These good aspects, which the astrologer
managed subsequently to reckon very au-
spicious for me, may have been the cause
of my preservation, for through the I'M
kindness of the midwife came into the
world as dead, and only after various efforts
was l enabled to see the light"
But this, of course, is dry humor
In all horoscopes the happy life and for
tune of the subject depends mainly on the
friendly aspects of Venus and Jupiter,
while the signs Of the zodiac give strength
and disposition.
The writer can recall here in this city a
remarkable case in which the nativity Of
two people was taken and the curious re-
suit that followed. About 1888 man
named Hague practiced astrology in this
city. He was a man Of learning and much
respected, having many distinguished peo-
pie for his patrons. He made the nativity
for two infants, cousins, and although the
time Of their birth varied only eight hours
their destinies were widely divided. One
promised to be favorite of fortune, the
others fate was marked by trouble, APP
parently coming about his majority. One
prospered as soon as he entered life; the
other was wild and reckless, went to Cali
fornia and fell in brawl in his twenty
second year, but he was, curiously enough,
the one on whose birth fortune was Ire