Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-20
The False Aquarium, Age

! sun cross the line Now. so long as they
take fees for their wisdom why do they
not know--to them by their own theory
the fundamental point? have not wasted
precious time-all too short in answer
ing these senselcss letters.
But this correspondent. not by any
means an astrologer really wants the
information for its own sake But must
decline TO give this date. I am wilkins
to answer almost any question that I am
able 60 but this.
A hundred astroloEers would like TO
know where tho eaunoxcs arc. but
refuse TO tell them. You see that II
should como right out and tell, then
/ thousands OF horoscopes now held by
dupes, many costing in fees from s.
| away up to $50, would become invali-
! dated. The victims would all see that IL
| this fundamental--to thcn-date is to-
| tally unknown to astrologers. that their
precious horoscopes are all fakes. No; I
must save the faces" OF the horo-
scopes and save the hundreds OF thou-
sands OF dollars paid for them.
Here are tho facts: There Is no such
thing as an ERA" The Magma Charta
was a step in advance Of liberty In Eng
Hand. and the Declaration OF Independ-
ence likewise In America. The discovery
OF the steam engine was an advance, but
il cannot be said that We have an era
OF the engine. Tho same is true OF the
discovery OF the printing press, the PEN
dulun, the telegraph and telephone
the electric engine, telescope. microscope.
Apectroscope. roontgen rays, radium ana
eleetrons These arc not eras, so the
word may as we'll be put away over into
the appendix In the rear OF the diction@
ary--ike thousands OF now absolete
words
The sentence. sun entering the sign
Aqunrlus," has no real scientific mean
ing Tho main reason for this is thar
there Ia no such thing as Aquarius- All
queationers actually seem to believe
that there is such an object In the sky
as Aduarius. The only scientific words
in the mass Of letters and in many frantic
i,pnmphlets raving about the approach
OF a new era--the AquarIun-are these;
Procession of the eaunoXes' Ana these
few words are casually alluded to as II
they did not amount TO much.
Not one letter book, treatise. pamphlet
or printed leafiet on the Aquarium era
reveals trace OF real knowledge OF the
true scientific phenomena, that grand
motion. the sliding around OF the edvi-
noxes in each period Of 25.S1s years. Why
the ignorance Is simply disgusting| sun
enters Aauarius?" OF course II does,
once q year, " you will still wish to
cling to the ancient mythology OF the
Greeks, Assyrlans and Egyptians. who
pictured beasts and snakes, with hydras
and dragons, amid the gllttering stars.
II YOU stln wish to believe In zodiac
and its twelve purely imaginary signs
then. the sun apparently enters the
hypothetical sign Aquarlus once during
each year, when the earth apparently
enters the imaginary sign on the OPP
porite side OF the imagined zodiac. All
OF which simply amounts to nothinSl
more than mere weather climate, etc..
and winds. But the srand problem OF
procession OF the equisqxes l refuse 10
diHcuss on the Same paper upon which
have written the horrible word astrolosy'
There is no such thing as zodiac no
Aouarius. and therefore no Aquarium
eRe nor era: nor any other era, for all
eras are purely astrological, all invented
before one law OF nature had been dis
covered The universe Is governed by
mathematical laws. not vain imasinings'
or course, the sun appears TO pass be-
fore the distant stars IN what has been
Imagined as the constellation Aauarius
once annually; but II comes from Capri
cornus. What the astrolosers are vainly
seeking to find 10 when the eduinoxes IN
their majestic motion of procession pass
from sign to sign, going the other way
thus. In this question, from Pisces back
wards into Aqusrius. This date 1 sinai
not publish for their satisfaction.
But II makes no difference when th'
equinoxes pass from sign" to sign
TO any individual human being or an'
collection OF humans into nation. Till
is a fake pure and simple and 10 no
based on any lay OF nature whatever.