Next you will want to know what kind of people you will find in life to. offer most or least resistance to your life efforts. This is the philosophy of squares and trines, etc. Count four signs from your own and the fourth signs together with their corresponding horoscopal houses will give you what are called "squares."

Count five signs and the fifth with their corresponding houses from your own sign, and you get the trines. Count seven houses and you get the opposition. The trines are the least resistance, and are called good. The squares and opposition are greatest resistance and are called bad. Always count your own sign as one. Sextiles and semi-sextiles are called good. Count three signs for sextile and two for semi-sextile. The other signs are uncertain.

There is a trinity of parts, or three signs of the zodiac, to each quarter of the heavens, or each season of the year, and, the element of each sign, viz., "Fire, earth air or water," is in trine with the same element in any of the other quarters. Things of a like nature, added, give power in quantity, if not in quality. This is one of the reasons why trine aspects in zodiacal relationship are good. Houses bearing the corresponding number of same elemental order in nature, are also termed good, because the same quality of power is supposed to exist in the same angles of a circle whether it be a circle of the heavens, a circle of the earth, or the circle of gold which forms your finger-ring.

The very first thing to learn in Astrology is the Signs of the Zodiac What a sign (or sine) is. The names of the Signs. The symbol of the Signs. The cusps of the Signs. The numbers of the Signs. The Pictorial Signs. The lords of Signs. The correspondences of the degrees of Signs, with the days of the month and year. The elemental qualities of the Signs and their aspects or angles to each other then their relationship to each other by trines, squares, oppositions and sextiles; then the decanates of the signs, and the terms and the lordships of signs, decanates and terms, and how to blend them with characteristics of signs, then learn to read the years of life and the age, and become proficient in all of these things before attempting to think of Moon, Planets or of a Horoscope.

When all of these matters are understood and the various factors blended and the good and bad times of the year are known, as judged from the birth point, then one has become so proficient in the general law of Astrology that a similar judgment may be made from any other point in the circle, if desired.

The places of the Moon and the Planets at time of birth constitute these other points, and when each one of them has been gone through with, they may all be blended, and the general mix-up, or combination of times and places in the circle gives the exact condition of one's life without any regard to a Horoscope.

To obtain the positions of all other bodies but the sun, an Ephemeris must be resorted to, and when their places are noted in the wheel it is only necessary to see whether they are in the signs spoken of as good or bad, to know how they affect ones life, and to notice how near they are to the dates corresponding with birth date to judge whether they are strong or weak.

Now, if any planet happens at birth or otherwise to be in any of the signs which I have termed good, from birth point, then that makes those good signs better, and if any planet happens to be in any of the signs which I have termed bad, then that makes those signs worse, and the strength of the good or the bad is most powerful, or most noticed, when these planets in these signs are nearest to the date in those signs corresponding to the birth date. This certainly is easy to understand.

If any planet happens to be in these signs at birth, then it is bad if they are in the squares or opposition, but good if in the trines, sextiles or semi-sextiles. The latter is the weakest of the good. If any planet at any time, passes through these signs then it stirs up all or a portion of the qualities of these good or bad signs

Now there is but one other matter and that is to state how the moon and planets affect each other for good or bad. Take each one of them separately and call the sign in which they are in 1. Then count every other sign from that one (either way) good, and all the rest of them consider bad, including the one directly opposite. It any planet is in these signs then they are good or bad, to the moon or the planet that you count from, and more strongly so the nearer they are to the corresponding date, or degree that the one counted from is in. Judge of their effects upon each other just the same as judgment is made from the birth point. In every particular, and use the Horoscopal Houses in corners of the wheel precisely the same as done from birth point, and in addition to that use the House corresponding with the number of signs (not number of sign), from the planet counted from that any planet is in. By the time you have done all of this (using same law in all cases), and these things are jotted down upon paper, you will have material enough for a $10 Astrologic reading without bothering with any Horoscope from hour of birth.

All planets are good in the sign of the birth number, except Uranus, Saturn and Mars. If exactly on or close to the date even then their influence is in the life, although it then manifests itself in combine with the sun influence all through the life, because they both meet the rays of all other bodies at the same time, and sun being the strongest of all the bodies it is sun qualities that manifests most prominently.

The relationship of the Sun to the Moon (which is equivalent to earth) and the relationship of the planets to each other and to the Sun and Moon, and, the relationship of the Earth circle to the Zodiacal circle and the signs to the ecliptic as shown on the Wonder Wheel, is the Book of Life, in the heavens, in which all our conditions are recorded according to time and planetary positions, either in the past, the present, or in the future, and so on, backwards or forwards, through generations past or generations to come.