ASTROLOGICAL
Over the ambitious signature of "Magus" a correspondent asks in your July
issue, "What is planetary influence and how does it act on man? " "Nemo" in his
reply answers other questions but fails to answer this one.
Not being myself a Magus I will not assume to fully describe planetary
influence, since to do so would lead us into realms quite beyond our
comprehension. But we will get a better idea of the subject by recollecting
that the ancients always considered the "ambient" - or entire heaven - at birth,
as being that which affected man, and that planets were only the pointers or
indices showing when and where the influence of the "ambient" would be felt.
The modern astrologers, following those great leaders, but unable to grasp the
enormous subject, reduced the scheme to the influences of planets. They
have thus come to leave out, to a great extent, influences cast by powerful
stars, which often produce effects not to be sought for under planets: "When
such stars have rule nor wise nor fool can stay their influence." The planets
were held, rightly as I think, to be only foci for "the influence of the whole
ambient," having however a power of their own of a secondary nature exercisable
when the ambient influence was weak.
When London was burnt a mighty star - not a planet - had rule, and Napoleon
was prefigured by a star also, his fall being due in fact to the aspect of the
heavens as a whole, and not to the ruling of Wellington's
significator. A slight accident might have thrown the power of the latter out
of the horary field. Similarly, the cyclic vicissitudes of this globe will not
be show by any planetary scheme, but by certain stars that fix the
destiny of poor Earth. When they have their day and term the wise man will be
unable to rule his own stars or any others.
William Q. Judge
Lucifer, September, 1888
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