Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-09

rcle divided by twelve lines and spaces. A
wagon wheel is good illustration of the
above. The lines dividing the circle ara
called cusps, the spaces houses; hence we
have twelve cusps and twelve mundane
houses. The zodiac thus formed represents
a circle of the heavens and extends clear
around the earth, one-half being for the visi
BILE planets, and the other half for those that
are not visible at place of birth. The line
that runs from the center to left hand side
of the diagram is called the cusp of the first
house, and represents line drawn horizon
tai or parallel with the earth's surface. The
next line below this and nearer ia you In
the diagram, strictly north, Is the cusp Of
the second house; the next one below this
the cusp of the third house, and the next
cusp of fourth house, or mid-earth And so
on around the circle until you come to the
cusp Of the tenth house, which Is called the
mid heaven, being directly opposite the mid
EARTH or cusp of the fourth house. The
space between cusp Of first and second houses
is called the first house; that between the
second and third cusp the second house, and
so around the circle until you have
reached the point of beginning. We begin at
the west because the earth reyolves from
west to east, or makes its revolution so We
are travelling toward the east and see the
sun first in the east, 1t sets in the west be-
cause we travel east and from It,
The planets have a real motion and two
apparent motions. The real motion Is
through the heavens. in the order OF the
S,
horizon the move from the right or west,
toward the left or east. When below the
horizon they move from left to right, ana
seemingly toward the west, although astrono-
mers still call 1t toward the east. There
fore the planets are always moving toward
the east. When Venus Is an evening star
observe her apparently rising In the east,
moving up the heavens, TIL she reaches the
mid-heayen or cusp OF the tenth house, then
descends and disappears in the west. This
is one OF Venus apparent motions, and such
a motion of a planet Is called 'rapt notion
and Is really no motion at all, but a phe-
nomena which results from the motion OF the
earth on it's axis as II revOlves toward the
east The other apparent motion is called
"retrograde" and is defined as going In
contrary manner, but planet never moves
in a contrary manner, but only appears 10
be moving back in the zodiac, contrary to
the order of the signs. For fuller ex-
planaton the reader Is referred to works on
astronomy, which will dagramatically ex-
plain it,. The reader should learn that the
top Of a map OF the heavens Is south, ana
the left and right being the reverse OF the
geographical map. The reversion Is the re-
suit of projecting ssrths equator, ana
other mundane cirr into the heavens.
where the equator receives the name or
equinoctial; the Tropics" Of Cancer and
Capricorn are called the signs, Cancer and
CapricOrnus."
A Celestial House" is another name for
a sign OF the zodiac. Thus Aries Is the celes-
tial house OF Mars. Taurus Of Venus, Nemini
Of Mercury Cancer Of the moon. Leo Of the
sun, Virgo OF Mercury, Libra OF Venus, Scor-
| pio OF Mars. Sagitarius Of Jupiter, Caprt-
| cornus OF Saturn, Aquarius OF Uranus, and
Pisces of Jupiter. 1t will be seen that a
number OF the planets have two celestial
! houses. person born in the signs SagL-
tarius and Pisces have jupiter for their rul-
| ing planet, and II the aspects are good. tha
| person 10 expected to be successful and ac-
cumulats wealth. AS Jupiter is the plsnei
| that controls the wealth OF those born with
Jupiter AS signihcator, we also say: Aries u
his OVID house Of Mars. Taurus OF Venus. snd
| 30 on.
| CTo Be continuedl