Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-04
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 Zadkiel's Almanac, that has
been for 40 years favorite in English
| households of the fairly intelligent class,
as it is too abstruse for the ignorant to
understand. Not less than 200, 900 copies
are sold yearly and this is purely a history
or 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-
iatlons of the planets. In astrology ma
tons, like individuals, are subject to and
are governed by the planets. The greater
part Of England lies sInder the cardinal
sign Aries, let Gemini rules the west of
England and the United States.
Some of Zadkicls 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 thunderstorms 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 Aug. 81, between longitude 76
and rs west, and the heat was intense,
many lives being lost.
In 1858 Zadkiel 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 ho,ts he desccnds beneath the
heavy hand of fate and falls to rise no
more"
1t is undoubtedly true that in three hor-
oscopes taken by different men entirely
Independents 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 malific planets Mars and Saturn ruled
their house of life. When their end came
and in marked degree the history and
career Of the Bourbon family correspondent
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
ablest 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 as the clock struck -, I came into the
world at Frankfort on-the- Main. Ny hor
oscope was propitious. The sun stood in
the signs of the Virgin and had culminat-
ell 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 refcc
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, whaSh the astrologer
managed subsequently - reckon very au-
spicious for me, may have been the cause
Of my preservation, for through the I'M
kindness of the midwife l came into the
world as dead, and only after various efforts
was enabled to sec 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 tho zodiac give strength
and disposition.
The writer can recall here in this city
remarkable case iii which tho nativity Of
two people was taken and the curious re-
suit that followed About 1888 man
named Hague practicod astrology in this
city. He was @ man of learning and much
respected, having many distinguished peo-
I 10 for his patrons. He made the nativity
for two infants, cousins, and although the
time Of thciy birth varied only eight hours
their destiuiss were widely divided. One
Promised to be favoritc Of fort unc, the
others fate was marked by trouble, APP
rarcrtly coming about his majority. One
prospcred as soon as he entered life; tho
other was wild ard reckless went to Gail
fornia ana fell in Il brawl in his twenty
second year, but he was, c1lriously enough,
the one on whose birth fortune was pre-
sumed to shine, and his cousin falsified
his sinister predictions by prospering I've
You'd the usual lot of man.
There is scarcely an intelligent human
being who docs not recognize the element
called ''luck" in shaping our destinies.
There is family in Philadelphia that
has been rich since 1880, and the third
generation is now basking in luxurics
won for them by "hukc" as pronounced
as winning in the lottery. There was
firm here of three partners, doing large
western business. Two Of them We're ex-
cellent business men, the other mere
dead weight, and his partners resolved to
get rid of him. So they dissolved the firm,
and taking the cash and bills receivable
made him take his share in 100 acres of
land in the northern part of the town site
of Cincinnati. He kicked, but was bullied
into compliance. So they made new
partnership, went on getting richer and
richer, while the other partner was max
ing poor living trucking on his city
land. Then times changed. Lots in Gin
cinnati began to sell; the rich partners
failed and died poor while their victim
grew into millionaire. No forethought
or sagacity could have under the circum-
stances brought about such result.
A Land of Windmills.
Western Kansas is entirely unlike Hol-