The Clock Hours of each day are marked in prominent white figures, on black background just inside the Circle of Days. "Noon" is marked at the top; "6" on the east, which is morning; "6" on the west, which is evening, and a white star, meaning midnight, at the bottom of this hour circle. Carry a straight-edge out from any hour that a person was born, and the number, of the sign that the straight-edge passes over, will give the House of a Natural Horoscope that the sun was in at time of birth. For instance: suppose a person was born at 9 a.m. July 4 (any year). We find that July 4 shows the Birth Sign "Cancer," and the degree the sun is in, about "15," then we look for 9 a.m. and the straight-edge from 9 would give us the sign "Aquarius," the number of which is 11. Then we would say, "Your sun was in Cancer governed by the 'lord

and in the nth House of the Natural Horoscope governed by the lord

Here then you have, for judgment, a mixture of the qualities of Cancer

, Moon

Aquarius

, Uranus

and Sun

. As these mixtures are, so the person born is, or will be, in the Higher Expressions of the life.

Cancer is domestic, Moon is common, Aquaries is useful, Uranius is queer, Sun is noble, nth house is friendly, hence the nobility of the subject would be inclined to domestic commonalities, useful, odd but friendly. In this way in Astrology, we blend the different influences as we find them, and thereby arrive at our conclusions, making the story in our own wording.

Tears of Life. These are the numbers between the pictures. There are seven between each picture. Each year of one's life is affected, primarily, by the soul forces of the particular sign that the year of life is found in. All mortals, in their initiation into the Knowledge of Higher Life, pass through similar experiences. The years of life are counted from the east then up and around; contrary to the order of the signs. A life of 84 years, experiences each of the signs just seven times. in addition to the Years of Life and the age findings, add your age to the approximate degree that the straight-edge indicates, when running from the nostrils of the photo, across your date of birth, and divide by thirty, and the remainder will show how many degrees into the next sign (or your own sign) your life has progressed. If well on in years, or if born in the latter degrees of a sign, then your progressed place may be in the second sign beyond your birth sign. These progressed conditions show the nature of your progressed life, but they seldom overcome the Natural Bias of the Birth Sign.

While every one has similar influences at the same years of life, the modifications in the several lives cause them to be differentiated in their detail. The modifying sign may be learned by adding the age (not year of life) to the Birth Sign Number, and divide by twelve. The remainder will give the number of the sign that modifies. If there is no remainder, then the life is ending a round of experiences, from Birth sign, and soon to enter a higher degree of earth-life initiations.

Example for Reading Character. Suppose the birth to be July 9, 1842, at 2 p.m. We find July 9 in Circle of Days. It must be between July 5 and 10. From the nostrils of the photo run a straight-edge across this date. It runs outward across the degree line at about the 21st degree of the sign Cancer

. It runs across the tablet marked "Domestic." It is the 4th tablet, equivalent to the 4th house of a horoscope, and the sign

is numbered 4. The word "Chest" is also in line with the tablet. We have, then, learned that the one born at this time is of a domestic nature; born in the sign Cancer, the lord of which is the Moon. The solar force of the is life in the chest, and the Birth Number is 4. Look in each of the circles in the corners of the card and you see in the Fourth Division the words,"Inheritance and home," "Hidden Treasures," "Father," and "General Endings," and these belong to the "Domestic" (tablet) or Local Sphere of life, and will be prominent features in the life of the one born. In another portion of this sheet you will find still further matters connected with "Sign 4." These combined will give you a fair idea of the Basic or Destined scope of this life, and from these points you can make a Basic Judgment of the character. Character is not governed by Time, hence the Year is not here needed for the Basic, but for the horoscopal or disposition of this Basic you must go to the planets and the Moon for the given year. Each owner of a Wheel should have the planets inserted in the Circle of Days. What we have given is enough to learn and judge at first. The Birth Sign is your 1st or Life Sign, the next is your ad, the next is your 3d, and so on around.

This is on the higher plane.

The lower plane is governed by the Hour of Birth and is horoscopal. There is a natural meth-od and an artificial method of judging the horoscope. Each of them contribute features to the life, and all are alike judged by the same rules and laws. We give the Natural method. This birth (for example) was at 2 p.m. So carry the straightedge out from the centre across the figure 2 p.m. of the clock hours, and that would strike the cusp of the 9th sign, or 9th house, with Jupiter the lord. The tablet says "Proud,"the elementary quality is "Fire,"and the 9th house matters in the circles at the corners are "Long Journeys, Omens, Visions, Religion,"etc., thereby modifying the domestic character by this natural dispositional tendency. No matter what the modifications in a life may be they can never overcome the Basic without destroying the SOUL.