This section is from the book "Astrology In A Nutshell", by Charles Henry Webber. Also available from Amazon: Astrology In a Nutshell.
Find now by Years of Life and Age, as otherwise stated, and the Signs (their influences) for current year, will give the temporary modifications, inferior to the others, but generally more apparent for the time being.
These various matters are very difficult to state in brief, but study them over and over and talk them with others, and as soon as you catch the spirit of the matter it will become plainer and plainer to your mind, how fearfully and wonderfully man is made, and how grandly sublime (though apparently complicated) are the subtle vibratory laws which govern our lives from day to day. The forces from North, South, East and West form a cross with our bodies as the centre, and on that cross we are too apt to be crucified by our own misconceptions of it, or by our fellow men.
Houses. Houses are the Natural, or Artificial, Divisions of a Horoscope, corresponding to the Natural Divisions and order of the signs. Signs belong to the Heavens; Houses belong to the Earth. See the small figures in the little white disks, between the tablets. With the straight-edge you will see that they correspond with the cusps, of signs bearing the same number. For convenience and better understanding we give these Houses in the Circles in the four corners, which we call the "Horoscope Circles."Your House Number is the same as your Birth Sign Number.
Influences of the Houses. These you will find stated in the spaces in the Horoscope Circles at the four corners of the card. Wherever the Sun is, gives the Soul attractions. In Cancer (corresponding with 4th House) shows Father, Hidden Treasures, Inheritance and Home, also the end and outcome of things in general. In the nth House the attractions would be: Advisers,Father,Friends, Hopes, Wishes, and some way exercised over death of father. These examples give simplified methods of arriving, with the WonderWheel, (without mathematics) at the foundation laws and eventualities of any or every one's life.
Physical Disabilities. The different parts of the body are marked between the Obliquity Circles.
Any evil planet in these parts, or in square to them (if not also protected by the presence of a good planet or its trine), denotes the weak portions of your physical system.
Planetary HoURs. These are given in a unique arrangement, very handy for daily reference. For their use alone everybody should have a Wheel. Under and above the words "sunrise" "eve" and in the middle column of the table (arranged in each of the Signs, between the pictorial sign and the degree line), will be found (following each other from early morning until midnight), the hours and minutes when each planet begins to rule, in the several months, (approximated). The planets, each day of the week, have a different ruling; therefore, to know which planet is ruling at any given time, first find the table for that month, then find where the hour and minute comes in one of the three columns named, and, on a line with that hour you will find, under the day of the week, the planet that is working at that time, for good or evil, in or about you, SURE !!! This is one of the most useful features of the Wheel. Can be depended upon from day to day. Our "POCKET MASCOT" give these and, all the fine explanations connected with them. The Mascot and Wheel are works which no one should be without if SUCCESS IN LIFE is desired.
If used in places differing from these lengths of days, then ascertain the length of day for the given time in your longitude, and select such one of the tables as corresponds nearest to your length of day, and the planetary hours will be near enough for general purposes. The hours of Jupiter
may generally be depended upon for most anything; the hours of Venus
are not unpleasant, Saturn
.Mars
Sun
, Moon
and Mercury
hours are uncertain, yet are good for such things as are especially ruled by them.
Natural Hours. These are exactly 60 minutes in length. They are the same the world over, and will be found in the sign Aries
Ordinarily they are safe to depend upon, and to use at any date in any longitude.
Artificial Hours are of unequal length, and consequently changing from month to month. In important matters it would be well to select an hour when both the Natural and the Artificial Hours are not ruled by evil forces. Ask questions at any time (seriously and not out of mere curiosity) and the hour it is asked in will denote whether the matter will be attended by good or evil results. Diseases may be diagnosed, or revealed, by these factors, and also the kinds of people to be met with - whether good or bad to you, and their personal appearance.
 
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