Astrology: How to Make and Read Your Own Horoscope

This e-text is based on the 1920 edition. Punctuation errors have been tacitly corrected. The Table of Contents has been completed to match the text. Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling (e.g., ‘every-day’/‘everyday’; ‘formulæ’/‘formulae’) have been retained. Large tables have been split and rearranged.

The following typographical errors have been corrected:

# p. 6: ‘sublinary’ → ‘sublunary’; ‘towhich’ → ‘to which’ # p. 62: ‘Shakspeare’ → ‘Shakespeare’ # p. 107: ‘intuite’ → ‘intuit’ # p. 132: ‘Sagitarius’ → ‘Sagittarius’ # p. 135: ‘Viola’ → ‘Voila’

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ASTROLOGY:

HOW TO MAKE AND READ YOUR OWN HOROSCOPE

By SEPHARIAL

EDITOR OF “MOORE’S” AND “OLD MOORE’S” ALMANACS AUTHOR OF “THE MANUAL OF ASTROLOGY,” “PROGNOSTIC ASTRONOMY,” “THE BIRTHDAY BOOK OF DESTINY,” “THE CRYSTAL AND THE SEER,” ETC.

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Copyright, 1920 Chicago, Ill.

Preface to the Revised and Enlarged Edition

Since the publication of this small manual of practical Astrology, two editions of which have been exhausted, the attention given to the subject has so far extended as to create an increased demand for a concise work of this nature, designed for the initial use of students and offered at a price that is within the means of all. It is believed that the revision and enlargement of the present work will render it even more popular than hitherto with beginners.

The practical uses of Astrology are daily more and more recognized and appreciated, and although some of the higher and later developments of Astrology in its relation to every-day problems have necessarily been withheld from these pages, yet it is to be hoped that so much as is here presented of an abstruse and recondite science will enable the student to pursue the subject with increasing assurance and satisfaction, in which case doubtless he will readily discover for himself, and without any special pointing on my part, that Astrology is primarily and finally a practical and useful study.

There are, of course, many aspects of this fascinating subject which find no place in this small work, which deals solely with Genethliacal Astrology, or the doctrine of Nativities. Yet if it be true, as I think to be the case, that “the proper study for mankind is man,” then undoubtedly we are right in selecting this phase of Astrological Science as that to which the student should first devote himself.

When we have thoroughly arrived at an understanding of the complex nature of human character and the primary causes of variety in expression, when we have seen for ourselves how the many-coloured dome of Life overarches us of this sublunary world with its kaleidoscopic interplay of forces, we shall be to some extent better equipped not only to deal with character as we find it, but also to direct the forces of the human mind along channels which lead to the preservation of our social economy, and that not by any restrictive measures or harmful suppression of natural passions and powers, but by conversion of them into forms that are conservative and useful.