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TRUTHS IN XADKIEL.
HIS ALMANAC HAS MADE SOME STAR
THING PREDICTIONS.

Tt1Nc ppEDlCTIONS
Superstition and Luck-Gossip Atout Two
Things which Concern Us Moro Than
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poch lor ~ years u l"NorNo III hnsii9h
households of the fairly intellgcnt class,
as it is too abstrusc for the ignorant to
understand Not less than 200, 600 copies
aro sold vrn,lv and this is purclv n history
of the coming wear. based ON Inc researches,
of judicial nstrologv.
These calculations are ,pade bv means
of the SIM. moon and stars-the sirns Of
tho zodiac and the various ASPECT, and re-
latiors of thn nlnncts. In nstr,logv M
tions. like individuals. arc subject to and
are governed hv the planets. Tho greater
mart of ENGLAND lies under the cardinal
sign Aries. but Gcmini rules the west of
ENGLAND ana the United States.
Some of Xadkicls predictions are curl
Gus enough to puzzle Intelligent persons.
For instance in 1886 occurs this passage:
"Shocks of carthouakes i'm the seventy
seventh degree of west longitude may DO
looked for. Great thundorstorms and
waves of intense heat will pass over the
States. There will be great excitement i'm
America" In $50 shocks Of earthquake
reached North and South Carolina on the
night Of Aug 81, between longitude 10
and ~ west and the heat was intense,
many lives hciug lost
In 1853 Zadkicl put forth the following
prediction as to tho future Of Louis Napo-
Icon:
"Lct 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 afTrightcd Europe trcm-
bling beneath the weight of his daring
martial hosts. he dcsccnds beneath the
heavy hand of fate and falls to riso no
more"
1t is undoubtedly true that in three hor-
oscopcs taken by different men entirely
independent of each other n bloody ending
was predicted for tho emperor, but only
Zadkiel forctold the extinction of the dy-
nasty
In the horoscope Of Lincoln and Garfield
the malinc 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 corrcsponded
with the state of tho heavens at their
births, according to the theories of astrol-
cgy.
A belief that human events are affected
by the stars was accepted by many of the
ublcst minds Wa.lcnstoin died at the very
moment when he thought the danger past.
He had the astrulogcr' reading If the stars
IN his hand as he was struck down
Goethe begins his autobiography with
his " Nativity"
ION the 10Th Of August, 1749. at mid
day as the clock struck II, camc ,uto the
world at Frankfort on the Main. My hur-
oscopo was propitious. The sun stood in
the signs OF the Virgin and had cu.minat-
cd fer the day. Jupiter and Venus rocked
on him with friendly eye, and Mercury
not adversely, while Saturn and Mars kept
/ themselves Indifferent. The moon alone,
| just full, oxertcd the power Of her redcc-
| 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 ne, may have been the cause
Of my preservation, for through the un-
kindness of the midwife | came into thg
world as dead, and only after various effort:
was ] enabled t. 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 8
remarkable case in which tho nativity OF
two people was taken and the curious re
suit that followed. About 1888 n mar
named Hague practiced astrology in thi.
city. He was man Of learning and mucl
respected, having many distinguished pcO
pie for his patrons. He made the nativity
for two infants, cousins, and although the
time of their birth varied only eight hour,
their destinics were widely divided. one
promised to be fayoritc of fortune. Tho
others fate was marked by trouble ap
parently coming about his majority. on,
prospered us soon as he entered life, TN
other was wild and reckless, went to Cali
furnia and fell in a brawl in his twcnty
second year, but he was, curiously enough
the one on whose birth fortune was pre-
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