The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-29


make use OF knowledge for the better
ment of the human race, claiming that
each individual has his own destiny in his
own hands, and by foreshadowing the In
fuenees of the planets in their good and
evil aspects that a person will be able to
avert evils entirely such as threaten to
overwheIm him.
That artists differ in their Judgment in
reading the influence Of the stars at GER
tain times is on account of their difference
of opinion as to the value of evidence, just
as lawyers and judges differ In their con-
illusions in summing up testimony in eases
in court. The difference of the conclu-
sions OF artists Is no more against the sci
ence of astrology than the difference of
opinions of lawyers and judges is an argu-
ment against the science of the law.
In the figure have cast the sign Virgo
was rising. (The time taken was April %.
o'clock p. m)
Mercury rules Virgo. Mercury and the
Moon therefore are signiticators. Gemini
rules the United States. and Pisces rules
Spain. Mercury also rules the United
States in the figure. and Jupiter rules
Sgsain in the figure. Mars, the god of war.
Is posted in the watery sign Pisces in the
seventh house, which means that the
fighting will be mostly on water.
Jupiter. the ruler OF Spain, is posted in
the first house. and is retrogradng, which
means that Spain has great power and
strength and courage as well as firm con-
viction Of the rightfulness of her cause.
Jupiter is conscientious. Jupiter in the
first house retrograding, and In square
with Mars, the god Of war. in the sew
enth. and Mars being in the house of
Jupiter, is very significant, and shows
first the danger of war and trouble at
home. The square aspect OF the malific
Mars is one of the worst Affections pos
sible, and the retrograding Of the ruling
planet is a strong evidence of the over
throw of the present ruling dynasty in her
own country. Jupiter being in sextile,
good aspect. with Uranus in the third
house, is an evidence OF the diplomatic
efforts Of the friends OF Spain to settle the
matter and terminate the difficulty, but
Uranus retrograding also shows that their
efforts are futile, and that they were too
slow In exerting their influence.
Saturn in the fourth house. the weakest
of the angular houses. and also retrograd-
ing, and Mercury and the Moon, the s.g-
Indicators Of the United States, in the
ninth and zenith houses, which is the mid
heaven. the most powerful positions In the
figure, show that in the end the United
States viii be successful. The Moon In
exact sextiie with Mars, associated with
Neptune, the god Of the ocean, shows VIE
tory in naval engagements for the United
States, and the other signifieator Mer-
curry, associated with Venus and the Sun
in the ninth, the house of voyages. and
the Sun being fortunate, is another evil
dence of success.
The part OF Fortune in the second in
Scoripo, the house ruled by Mars. the god
of war. shows that the final results of tho
war VIII not be so disastrous TO the United
States as might be expected, In a tinan-
ciai way. think 1t indicates plainly that
there Will be no financial distress In the
United States on account OF the war The
Sun in Taurus gives vitality TO the Amer
lean arms and American cause.
Summing mp the evidences. / cannot see
that the conflict WIZ be prolonged to any
great extent. In fact. they show, accord
ing to my reading, that II viii be shor,
ard decisive. sometimes bloody and san
culinary. but triumphant for the United
States. The indications are that GONE in
fuence will be brought 10 bear on Spain
by the niaiifc planets Uranus and Saturn.
which probably represents the diplomacy
of the powers which will call a halt very
suddenly q think by oyerthrowing the
present rulers In Spain and establishing
others In their stead. This seems TO be
the indications as have read hope i'm
partially. from the figure cast.
REGJIIrS