Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-08-08

SsSIe| struse for the ignor-
ant to understand.
Iot less than 100000 copies are sold
yearly, and this is purely history of
the coming year. based on the re-
searches 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
lions, like individuals, are subject to
and are governed by the planets. The
greater part Of England lies under the
cardinal sign Aries-but Gemini rules
the west Of England and the United
States.
Some Of Zadkiels predictions are
curious 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
thunder storms and waves of intense
heat will pass over the States; there
will be great excitement in America"
In 1886 shocks Of earthquake reached
North and South Carolina on the night
OF August 81, between longitude 76 and
7S west and the heat was intense, many
lives being lost In 1853 Zadkiel put
forth the following prediction as to the
future of Louis Napoleon: Let him
not dream Of lasting honors, power or
prosperity. He shall found no dy-
nasty, he shall wear no durable crown,
but in the midst of deeds of blood and
slaughter, with affrighted Europe
trembling beneath the weight of his
daring martial hosts, he descends be-
meath the heavy hand Of fate, and falls
to rise no more" 1t is undoubtedly
true that in three horoscopes taken by
different men entirely independent Of
each other a bloody ending was pre-
dicted for the emperor but only Zad-
kiel foretold the extinction of the dy-
nasty In the horoscope of Lincoln and
Garfield the malific planets Mars and
Saturn ruled their house of life when
their end came, and in marked de-
gree the history and career Of the Bour-
bon family correspondent with the state
of the heavens at their births, accord
ing to the theories of astrology.
A belief that human events are affect
ed by the stars was accepted by many
Of the ablest minds. Wallenstein died
at the very moment when he thought
the danger past. He had the astrolo-
gers reading of the stars in his hand
as he was struck down. Goethe begins
his autobiography with his Nativity y
"On the Goth Of August, 1749, at mid
day as the clock struck IL, came into
the world at Frankfort-on-the
My horoscope was propitious The sun
stood in the signs of the Virgin and
had eliminated for the day. Jupiter
and Venus looked on him with friend
ly eye and Mercury not adversely, while
Saturn and Mars kept themselves in
different. The moon alone, just full
exerted the power of her reflection al
the more as she had then reached he1
planetry hour. She opposed herself
therefore to my birth, which could moi
be accomplished until the hour was
passed. These good aspects which the
astrologer managed subsequently tt
reckon very suspicious for me, may
have been the cause of my preservation
for through the unkindness of the mid
wife | came into the world as dead anC
only after various efforts was I enabled
to see the light" But this, of course
is dry humor
In all horoscopes the happy life anC
fortune of the subject depends mainl!
, on the friendly aspects of Venus anC
Jupiter, while the signs of the zodiac
give strength and disposition. Thu
: writer can recall a remarkable case IL
which the nativity Of two people wa
taken and the curious result that fol
! lowed About 1888 man named Hagu
practiced astrology in Philadelphia
| He was a man of learning and nue.
D respected, having many distinguishes
3 people for his patrons. He made tn
nativity for two infants, cousins, an
although the time Of their birth varie
only eigth hours their destinies wer
widely divided One promised to be
favorite Of fortune, the others fate wa
marked by trouble, apparently COMM
:, about his majority. One prospered a
!. soon as he entered life, the other wa
wild and reckless, went to Californi
. and fell in brawl in his 22d year, bu
J, he was, curiously enough, the one o
whose birth fortune was presumed
. shine, and his cousin falsified his SIMS
- ter predictions by prospecting beyon
the usual lot of man.
4 House of Hapsburg.