What, Then Is Your Advice In Speculations?

To do in them, as in all things else; operate at times when personal planetary conditions are good, totally regardless of the rise and fall of stocks. "What is one man's meat is another man's poison." For little daily matters, go by the planetary hours. Follow a thing up on a good hour, and it will surely bring you to the best good there is for you. The planetary hours are the little droppings that wear away a stone. If not willing to work by nature's laws, then do otherwise and prepare sooner or later to "take your medicine."It will surely come as every cause produces its effect.

Is Not Money A Necessity?

Only as a means, just the same as a shovel. So long as we have use for money it is good. If we have no use for it, then it is no better to us than so much sawdust. No man can get more enjoyment out of his money than his planets permit him to have, and he would have that just the same if there was no money in the world. Man created money only as a measure of values, and the value of money depends entirely upon the mental value placed upon it The making of gold and silver into money is about the poorest use that the metal could be put to. If the mind of man should declare against money, then it would become useless as the tea in Boston harbor in 1776. It is an error and a delusion to think that money gives happiness. A person with Moon afflicted by Venus and Mercury will never be happy on the worldly plane no matter how much money he has, nor what his social position may be. These inferior planets and a debilitated Jupiter create more troubles in the world than Saturn and Mars.

In What Spheres Should We Study The Various Planets?

A. For wordly matters, study the place of the moon, for love matters, the place of Venus, for intellectual or passional matters, the place of Mercury; for glorification or means, the place of Jupiter; for sober, industrious, or scientific matters, the place of Saturn; for enterprise, the place of Mars; for ideas or matters in advance of the age, the place of Uranus; for seditious matters, the place of Neptune; for greed, pure and simple, study the place of part of Fortune; for the true inwardness, or rock of ages, upon which the true life rests, study the Sun. The places of these (except the latter) must be obtained from a nautical almanac, or ephemeris. After that, judge them on the wheel, as per the laws for birth point, only varying the judgment as per sphere of the planet

Can All People See Things In The Same Light?

Presumably not if we judge by the general experiences of the world. An artist, with ecstatic mind, beheld a beautiful angel in a painting, but an Indian looking as the same thing could only see "paint on a rag."People with a mystical mind can see, in the planetary aspect the great cardinal cross of the world. At the birth point they can behold the Sun of Birth, just starting on its upward climb to the centre of the great cross, to which all are destined, in a 90 years' journey, in material or immaterial existence. The Indian was climbing the ragged material path of the mind. The artist was climbing the path of ecstacy, the immaterial, or, idealistic, mind. Bach of them had their joys and their sorrows, only cast on different planes of heart and head creations.

Are Encyclopaedias Standard Authorities?

Yes, so long as the standard which accepts them remains unchanged. They merely represent popular acceptance or credulity. As soon as the world ideas change, then words and facts contained in words change proportionately. Encyclopaedias' can never keep up with the changing thought-world. To understand Bible and ancient lore, we are not warranted in depending upon encyclopaedial statements, when our heart thoughts deny them. The proof of all things lies in the heart of each individual man. Hence Paul spoke to the heart when he said: "Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good." To understand ancient events, miracles and the meaning of ancient words, we need not judge them by present popular acceptances if we are at all able to gather any different understanding by the heart acceptances of the past.

Are There Not More Planets Than Are Used In The Planetary Hours?

Yes, but they are not used in the division of time. Chronus (Saturn) governs time. As 7 is to 22, so are all cyclic movements great or small, from Sun to Saturn. Sun and Moon are not planets, but for convenience we call them so, just as we say "sun rises," etc.

What Should Be Our First Understanding Of Astrology?

It should be in accordance with the powers of the signs. Next, the particular sphere of life which we are to express through the Sun. Then we should understand by the aspects when in each year are our best times to operate, and the same understanding informs us of the people who best accord with our life. Then we should learn whether or not any of the planets are in these aspects to annoy or benefit us. Having learned these we have learned the whole fundamental law of astrology. All the rest is but the one fundamental law, repeated in volumes of different words.

How Shall We Operate With The Moon, The Planets And The Horoscope?

In the self same way as with the Sun. Judge them each in their own respective spheres of operation. Moon, the sentient plane upon which the Sun-ship expresses itself. The horoscope, the dispositional plane of expression by reason of physical relationships. It is only necessary to judge these three departments, ordinarily, because the planets are but helpers or hinderers to these three superior departments. For instance, if two planets affect Sun, then the two planets affect each other, but it is through the Sun that we get the effect, hence it is not necessary to judge the planets' affliction of each other, but rather mix the affliction of the planets upon the Sun. and we at once have the conclusion, and without confusion. Judge the Sun sphere first, Moon sphere next and horoscopal sphere last.