Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
ny GRACE ELLERY WILLIAMS.


Y OOKING into the mirror Of 1927
one sees but few flashes that
might be interpreted as indica'
tons of striking events to come.
It Is rather q year Of blending,
shifting, subtle notifications carrying
on the movements of the forces and
tendencies the previous years have
get In motion.
suspended like q billiard ball in the
efnpyrean. the planet Earth, as 1t
enters successive fields of space on
its route among the stars. Is played
on by magnetic currents that affect
the subtle elements which comprise
che human organism. What happens
is the individual and group response
Of the atoms of these structures to the
vibrations, positive and negative.
which they encounter. Like musical
Instruments, men and things answer
In the terms of their own pitch. So,
though each person or group seems
TO be having different experiences,
they are but parts of an orchestra
anoving to the sway of the conductor S
baton and in the terms of the music
ehrough which he leads them.
Saturn is entering the sign of Sag
tttarius, the home of Jupiter, and all
conditions during the next two years
will represent shifting Of our circum-
stances and affairs as moved by the
pull of the Saturnine planet.
In April Uranus enters the Mars
efgn of Aries, where 1t is called the
''Frlail of the Gods and mankind
must perforce adjust itself to the
movements of stronger, fresher
cosmic beat. Saturn inhibits, re
etricts, tightens. 1t will force changes
by making the old ways and ideas i'm
possible. Religious organizations.
legal administrations, business insti-
buttons that have conVentionalized
themselves in accepted forms of trans
acting their affairs will find their ways
Smpeded. They will be called dull and
oid-fashioned, and told they must
change their styles to keep UP with
the times, just as parents are being
assured by their children today that
this is q new world, and that the
things which were good enough for
father don't suit Fred and Jane.
So, we will hear Of new discontents
CT the manner in which our legis
. tors, our judges, our municipal Off
Gals perform their functions. Espe-
tiRlly will it affect the churches. Greed
ind orthodoxes will hear in still louder
IND stronger voices that they are out
AUIU anu IilUSI CLldnBO-BeI Tic
new stride, so to speak.
Uranus in the head sign is the
Gwakener, reformer, inventor, scien-
fist, astrologer, and its influence will
be to agitate and quicken the minds of
men. Under it's vibrations they will
question every phase of the old life,
which will mean greater unbelief. in
credulity, sdisaffection, leading eventu-
ally toward better, truer state. The
s'from Missouri" attitude is a Uranus
characteristic.
But opening minds means also ad
$usting brain matter, so don't be sur.
prised If you hear lot this year of
neuralgia trouble. 1t will merely
mean that the cells are expanding or
adjusting themselves to the higher vi
brations-the glands of spirituality
are being aroused. All this will bring
about developments In our knowledge
of the psychic sciences. Throughout
the year. there will be reverberations
of the gathering Of the scientists in
terested In psychics held at Clark
University in December, and prevail
ing materialistic conceptions will be
abated.
Don't imagine this suggests revolu-
ton. because mental changes of any
kind move imperceptibly. You sim.
ply get up one morning with a differ
ent feeling about things to which
formerly you were either antagonistic
or favorable.
The world this New Year will
seem the same sort of place it was
last-but it won't be-. New matters
viii be IN every mind, and the old
order will be wabhling badly in many
places.
Astrology is the art of interpreting
the effect on mundane affairs and in
etitutions of these imperceptible Co.'S
tnic currents. Things don't always
happen in the way the astrologer
suggests, at least so you can recon.
cile the prediction and the event; but
depend upon it, something has oc-