Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-25
WARNINGS IN THE STARS.
woman Astrolocer Defends Her An.
cient CUT to the New York Police,

49," tAAe Now 1 OK police. Re-
Gently them had 4 roundup of nal,n-
ISIS, erystal-Eezers Hindu scers.
phfenologists. star-gazcrs. and other
Wouia-be prophets. and took them into
court. Many of them were coavictod-
anu that in itself was apparently proof
that they were takers. for what com
nonsense prophet would allow him
self to be arrested ii he leresav con-
tiction?
Nevertheless. one If the prjs ,ners
Was dismissed without having to offer
4 "efence. Magistrate Murphy of III.
Night Court, NOR" discriminating than
the police, recognized in her a disc ipi,
of III" astrologers art
some one was moved to call upon
this Woman. He went 10 an uptown
building. and found 1 Stenographer,
busy even at nine O'clock in the morn
ing, and a debating photograph 10 at
test To the modern methods Of this last
OF the ChaldeanS. The astrologer pyi-
IDENTIFY found WaN rolls 4 smoother re-
e"ptaeie fer her thoughts than fool
scap.
III" visitor passed through heavy
green curtains into the inner Sanutu-
airy. carved oak bookcases With lead
ed glass fronts lifted one wall. ON
taes" stood Euddhas. jewclled bronze
COW, and photographs vi what doctors
would call e. T. s..
TWO large photographs Of the foster
land OF astrologr gave just enough
color of the inScrutabic and the eternal
10 make one forget the trolley cars.
one Mas of the Sphinx and the ltyra :
mid of CheOps. The other depicted the
rockhewn colossi of Abu- Simbtl. ir
the deep recesSes behind which tal
though not shown in the photograph
sat Ptah and Anon and Harmaehis
really to catch the first ray OF the ris-
ing sun
NAPOLEON WAS WARNED
Everything has its time of rise and
fall said the astrologer. ITO this
law astrology is no exception Al
Catherine de- Medicrs court nothing
WAS undertaken without first consult
ing the stars. AMI the very converse
ton of tie courti>.rs was rooted in as
trology. Even in Napoleon the Great 5
time everybody believed in this dis
regard of planetary warning, YOU
krovn. led to Waterloo.
After Napoleon, the science fell into
disrepute. Ignorant men found tina;
they could make money by lmposine
on the superstitioES of the populace
Thus the parent Of the seienCes-the
most venerable and exalted of them all
fell into the hands of charlatans.
Only now IS thu Western world be-
ginning to realize its mistake. Agar
ftfvpiD-v n no IN t..ar,
their fate. In fifty years one Of OH;
leading Senators has said. astrologS
will be taught In the public schools.
That is true. No power on earth car
keen astrolOgy from Selling the throne
it deserves
She leaned back till the jewels in the
brow of the bronze Buddha on top OF
the bookshelf Glittered above hel
head DO, re, mi, IA, SOL in a ris-
ing cadence cut its rasping va?
through the music studio next door
Then she looked UP again from the lit
tie green elephant with the urinklet
skin that stood on her desk.
"Astrolosv is not only my chief in
terest in life. it is my religion. Do yot
| wonder that l long to see it taken out
vi tlic vi
when | was arrested my case wa:
dismissed oct of respect for me. no
| out of respect for my profession.
| look forward to the time when the law
will no longer base its decisions thu:
on personality. but viii distinguish be
tween na-fide astrologers and char
| latans as such. The science of astrol
ogy will then come into good reputr
| just as the science OF medicine wa;
| dignified by the elimination Of quacks
I'VE have been accused of being de
| ccivtrs because we pretend to predic
| future events. Any science that deive
| into the future is Sneered at by thi
| matter of-fact generation, But VIVA
of the doctor. and the minister. an'
| the lawyer, and the spectators The,
must answer the same charge.
Tile doctor tells you when to take ;
pill. and what its effect will be unde
different circumstances. The lawye
| advises you not to begin suit now
| for if YOU wait till certain suits befor
| the Supreme Court are cleared up you
| chances of success will be greater. -
the astrologer tells you that for begin
! ming an undertaking some perioos o
| the wear are more propitious than 9th
erS
DRAWING THE HOROSCOPE.
"Astrology is the oldest science II
the World-or, at least, it shares tina
honor with alchemy. solomon the WIS
ordered his life by the counselS OF al
astrologor Shakespeare said: 1t Il
| the, stars above us that govern ou
condition. Napoleon held himself al
agent of planetary forces to such al
extent that the ignorant considered
him superstitious: in fact the oni'
time that he, the greatest OF al gen
erals, needed not the predictions OIL TN
planets was the cause of his Waterloo
We are all inclined to cau supersti
tlous those who are acquainted VIII
laws of which we know nothing.
..Thc question naturally arises IL
ones mind, What is the benefit to d
derived from astrology"
"Astrology teaches us the method o
drawing up what is known as the nor
oscope. and this horoscope tells VI
what the planetary forces are whicf
operate upon the life and events of TN
Individual whose horoscope is beinf
drawn up or cast. 1t is therefore a al
agram of the sun, moon, and planets II
tLe;r violation TO the zodiac and tn