Astrology In A Nutshell | by Charles Henry Webber
Designed to show the symbology and personification of astrology in the religious world and also in ancient forms of secret societies.
| Title | Astrology In A Nutshell |
| Author | Charles Henry Webber |
| Publisher | Newtonia |
| Year | 1902 |
| Copyright | 1902, Charles Henry Webber |
| Amazon | Astrology In a Nutshell |


By Charles Henry Webber ("Prof. Henry.")


Prof. Henry's Simplified Method Of Finding The Day Of The Week Upon Which Any Date, In 18th, 19th, Or 20th, Century Falls, Or The Day Of Week On Which You Were Born- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Nov. Feb. Mar. June Sep. Dec. Apr. July. Jan. Oct. May Aug. 1 2 3 4 ...
Astrology In A Nutshell Introduction- The contents of this book are of great value in educating the human mind, especially in its appreciation of the fact, that Order is Heaven's First Law. This may not be realized in a single reading....
Astrology In A Nutshell Introduction. Part 2- About the wheel, also, Prof. Henry did not forget to take advantage of the opportunity to present the order of Decanates, and to mark the days of the week, which every 3d Decanate represents, exactly ...
Astrology In A Nutshell Introduction. Part 3- The Wheel as a whole is a grand circle of the earth, represented by Days and Months, surrounded by the Zodiacal Circle represented by Signs. They are so ingeniously combined, and so filled with detail...
Astrology In A Nutshell Introduction. Part 4- Nothing in reality is bad, on the higher plane of life, but on the Lunar plane of life we are apt to entertain most startling delusions of good and evil, which have been hypnotically impressed upon us...
Astrology In A Nutshell Introduction. Part 5- People born from the 1st to 10th of a month are stronger in the quality of a sign because in the centre of the sign farther from the influences of the signs either side of it. People born on the divid...
Astrology In A Nutshell Introduction. Part 6- Newton Declared Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter with a force or power directly proportionate to the quantity of matter in each, and decreasing as the...
Astrology In A Nutshell Introduction. Part 7- No man can catch or steal the ideas of another, unless his brain is properly attuned as a receiver of those ideas-Even if properly attuned, attention must be given to the ideas as they are expressed, ...
Practical Lessons. 1. For A Reading Of A Life By Aid Of Or, Thibetian Periscope- Put down at the top of a sheet of paper the month and day of your birth. Never mind year, hoUr, nor your age. Find on the wonder wheel the little circle of white rings linked together, like this:...
Birth Number- Each sign has a number. Not necessarily, but merely to denote the correspondence between the signs of the zodiac and the horoscopal houses, which are numbered from one to twelve. The number of each si...
Lesson No. 2. Find What Degree Of The Sign You Were Born Under- Now find what degree of the sign you were born under for all people born in same sign are not exactly alike. In a general way they are, but there are slight modifications according to the degree of th...
Find What Degree Of The Sign You Were Born Under. Continued- Now these qualities may be easily mixed according to the Decanate. Term and Sign in which your birth point is giving the first and greatest power to the lord of the sign, the next to the ruler of the ...
Business Qualifications- To tell the sphere of greatest usefulness in the long run of your life, look down these following numbers and find your own birth number and read: 1. - You are best qualified for head work in which y...
Lesson No. 3. Years Of Life- By the first law of the heavens, which is Order, there are influences of a general nature for each year of life. The year of life is. of course, one year greater than the age. For instance, if one i...
Age Of Life- The age of life, is of course, the number of years one has lived up to the last birthday. It is of course one number less than the year of life. The sign and corresponding houses; ruling the age of li...
To Get The Aspects- 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 y...
To Get The Aspects. Continued- In every circle there is 1 conjunction, 1 opposition, 2 sextiles, 2 squares, and 2 trines, so called. In reality the opposition is only the oth-er end of the conjunction and is also only the corner of...
Lesson No. 4. The Planets- The planets, as previously state-), have qualities and powers similar to the signs which they rule, but each planet has a primary power of its own, which is as follows: Mars normaly is bold, intrep...
The Planets. Part 2- By this it will be seen that civil law is only to protect people from people who are born in planetary bad aspect to each other, and when the law of Astrology is so well known that each individual is ...
The Planets. Part 3- Judge Saturn as earthy; Mars as fiery; Mercury as airy; Moon as watery; Jupiter and Venus as temperate; Uranus as eratic; Neptune as seditious; and make your own story from a combination of the inform...
Declination- Each birth point, except about March 21 and Sept 23, has some declination. It is very important (yet. often neglected) to note what declination your birth point is in, for when any planet is in the sa...
Lesson No. V. Horoscope- Details are not to be despised when the basic laws of the Wonder Wheel are comprehended, but without the corresponding basic the detail is like a red vest on a naked savage. Few people know the hour ...
How To Make A Horoscope- To make a horoscope, (even houses) by means of the circle of days on wonder wheel. For A. M., subtract the hour of birth from noon hour, and count back from date of birth three circles for every hour...
Prof. Henry's Table By which to get the Mathematical Ascendant of a Horoscope at any time in or about Lat. 40.48- Having the M.C., or point of 10th House, as taught, by count or otherwise, then find the name sign at given under the letters M.C, Go down the column of degress on left-hand side till yon come to the ...
The Earth- The wheel is drawn as the Earth stands on March 21, each year; called the Vernal Equinox. The Earth and the Sun's equators are on the same plane, days and nights are then equal all over the world. The...
Judging Planets' Motion By Circle Of Days On Wonder Wheel- Sun (or earth) moves about one degree a day, or six circles a month, around the whole wheel and one degree extra, in a year. This one degree extra per year is what makes the pro-gressional law of a d...
Judging Planets' Motion By Circle Of Days On Wonder Wheel. Continued- Now, having given the philosophy by which the good and the bad operates, and as elucidated by the birth numbers on the wonder wheel, it only remains to explain how these different generations are alik...
Planetary Hours- Clock hours are of even length, regardless of Sunlight and darkness. Planetary hours are uneven except about March 21 and Sept 23. They divide daylight and darkness into 12 hours each. They are very u...
Planetary Hours. Part 2- Many other curious things might be called to your attention, even to the order of these planetary rulings in the foetus, and embryo before birth. For this lesson I will give a primary idea of reading...
Planetary Hours. Part 3- Mars then is an independent and a magnetic power, as per his tablets - Aries and Scorpio - and Venus is a determined and an intuitive power, as per her tablets - Taurus and libra. Each sign that a pl...
Planetary Hours. Part 4- A Summing Up Wherever any planet may be at the time of an event, that place in the Circle of Days, or Degree Circle, is the Birth Point of that planet, just as the Date of the event in the Cir-cl...
A Jupiter Conjunction With Sun- Birth point always gives one means, or ready friends.. These conditions of times and aspects are same as heretofore given, so if you have attended to an understanding of the wheel, you cannot fail to ...
Addato- A few features of character may be revealed to an individual when knowing the Sign occupied by the Superior planets at time of birth. They are as follows: Uranus In Aries Gives Spiritual Visions and...
General Notes Concerning Special Significances By Which Conclusions Are Often Aptly Drawn By Adept Astrologists- The Sign a planet is in quite often denotes the nature of the locality of the one represented by the planet, or the elemental conditions most prominent in his life. For instance: In Aries, Leo or Sag...
Notes Concerning Special Significances By Which Conclusions Are Often Aptly Drawn By Adept Astrologists. Continued- Wherever an afflicting planet is, denotes the nature of the locality where the afflicting party will be met. Its relationship is denoted by the Sign or House it rules. A Planet in a Sign, or House, i...
His Image In Man- To attain in a life, at best but a span, Any knowledge of God, 'cept his imagein man, Is an impossibility, without any doubt. For God and His ways are past man's finding out. The great law of God, i...
Mathematics And Astrology- It is high time that the world, with its eyes now opening to the wonders of Astrology, should learn that mathematics/ or the claim of presumptuous mathematicians, has done more to debase Astrology and...
Mathematics And Astrology. Part 2- As mathematics improved, mathematicians began to assume that the earth's natation should be considered in the hair-splitting features of an. horoscope, hence artificial hours were advocated, in order ...
Mathematics And Astrology. Part 3- Those capable of performing one portion of these studies were found in capable of performing the other portions, hence the whole matter began to split into all sorts of specialties, just as Church Rel...
Astrologic Truths- 1. A wrong act injures no one so much as it does the one who does it. 2. A person suffers in his own mind for every hard look and every cross word he utters. 3. Every suspicious thought against an o...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology- Do The Planets At The Birth, Determine The Future Life Of The One Born? Answer - Not exactly. If they did then the life of anyone might be easily read without the exercise of much judgment or a menta...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 2- What Term Is Used To Denote The Mind Factor? The outer or personal man, that which manifests itself to others by some form of bodily expression, and through which we comprehend, or mind, the worldly ...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 3- Are People Born On The Same Day Of The Month Of Any Year, Alike In Nature? Yes, so far as the sun power is concerned, for the sun is always at the same place on the same day of each year, and as it d...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 4- And Yet You Say That All People Born On The Same Day Will Be Alike? Certainly, in the overruling attributes. On any holiday is not the general spirit of the day prevalent, and yet, the events of each...
Some People Declare That The Moment Of Conception Is Of Greater Importance To The Life Than The Moment Of Birth. How Is That?- The time between these two points is generally considered to be nine months, or exactly three quarters of the wheel. If the conception then was March 21, the birth would be December 21, (approximately...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 5- Is The Space Covered In The Heavens Between Conception And Birth, Exactly Three-Quarters Of The Wheel? This is a difficult matter to state in all cases, as your reason will testify. It is yet a matte...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 6- Why Are Not Astrologers Rich, If The Wise Man Can Rule His Stare? Because they were not born with the proper kind of stars to rule, for the making of money. They accumulate the sort of riches whi...
What Is Heaven?- To answer such a question we must resort to the dictionary. Every word is derived from some ideal or idea. Words often change in their meaning. With words of ancient use, we should observe the root. T...
Is Saturn God?- The word G. O. D. must, like all other words, have a root meaning, or be of Cabalistic origin. At the present day it seems impossible to trace just where the word God came from, and therefore equall...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 7- But Does Not John In Revelation, (7-1) Speak Of Four Angels Standing On The Four Corners Of The Earth? Yes, and it also says these angels were holding the four winds of the earth, which is conclusive...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 8- What Is Disease? We have shown that heaven is relief. The word ease may be used in a like sense. So if ease is heaven, then dis-ease must be a condition in which the mind is separating from the h...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 9- Are Not Sun-Ship Spheres Different In These Matters? They are differentiated in their predominant expressions of the Sun-ship as you may learn from the tablets on the wonder wheel. Taurus people ar...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 10- Are These Planets So Operative Each Time That They Come Into Aspect With Sun And Moon? Yes, invariably, but don't misunderstand this, for right here is a very important consideration. There are tw...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 11- I Thought That The Planets Made The Bias Of The Mind, And The Mind Created Thought True, but it is the appreciation of a thing, and not the thing itself that gives us joy and sorrow. By living in the...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 12- 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...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 13- How About Transits? I suppose you mean by transits,the movement of the planets as found in the current year. They are the apparentplaces, which heliocentric astrologers talk so much about. I pay ...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 14- If A Horoscope Relates Only To The Hours Of One Day, How Are Life Events Computed From It? By reason of a day's movement corresponding to a year; two hours to a month, or 30 years, and a degree to a ...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 15- What May We Learn From Aspects Relative To The Effects Of Planets Upon Our Lives? We may learn whether the planets (of themselves) promise us good or evil.' For instance if the Sun, was at the indep...
What Is This Law Of Aspects, Called "Trines, Squares, Opposition," Etc., Founded On?- Every point in a circle is angularly related to every other point as is also every human being to every other human being or every spiritual or material thing to every other thing. This condition of u...
Is The Geocentric Or Hellcentric System (So-Called) The Better System Of Astrology?- As to which is the better of anything depends upon the use or purpose of our practice. If I wish to catch fish I go to the seashore ,but if I wish to gather corn I am more likely to find it inland. Th...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 17- Where Is The Spirit World? Wherever Thought Is. The Thought World Is The Spirit World. Man Lives In The Spirit World Of Thought Above The Spirit World Of The Body, Which Is A Lower Form Or Expression...
Questions And Answers Relating To Astrology. Part 18- What Do You Call Earthy Matters, Aside From Perceptible Substance? Well, we call the following matters of an earthy nature: Reserved thoughts, slow speech, deliberation, close counsel or timidity of ...
Man- Did'st e'er retire by self, alone, in peaceful, silent, sweet repose, Devoid of care and thought of toil, in trancelike state, yet not a doze, And have you deemed yourself alone, in that sweet rest fr...
God- What is God, and why and where? Is there a God to answer prayer? Pray, pause and think. Is not your thought, On what in nature has been wrought? What wrought it, was it you or me? Or was it more th...
A Good Study- The Sun is the light of strength. The early Christians were filled with this truth. The Bible, in every portion of it, attests this fact. The early Christians were called sun- worshippers by the Jews....
At Ten A Child, At Twenty Wild- At thirty tame, if ever. At forty wise, at fifty rich, At sixty good, or never. Regardless, now, of whether the life of every separate person conforms to the tenet of this rhyme, is it not a fact of w...
Eyes- Blue eyes are called the weakest eyes Of all the eyes we mortals use. Caucasians only, have blue eyes, To some this may be wondrous news. Brown eyes are called the strongest eyes, By strength and wea...
The Great I Am- The Great I Amof the earth is an image of the Great I Am. of the solar system, and the Great I Am of the solar system, is no doubt an image of some greater system, and the Great I Am of this greater...
The Astrologic Cross- The dividing lines between the 12 zodiacal signs are 12. They make, in a circle, six lines crossing each other at the centre, at which the sun (helio-centrically) is supposed to be. These six lines fo...
Our Cross- The great circle, as shown by the wheel, or by the planetary aspectus, is made up of three great crosses. The Cardinal cross is the central, pivotal or equilibrated cross. The lunar mind looks up to i...
God, Or God-I- While the earth is moving about the Sun, the Sun also is not relatively in the centre of this elipse. It is nearest the earth in January and farthest from the earth in June. Books on astronomy will gi...
Environing Influences- People are often led into business operations by reason of laws superior to the laws of one's individual or personal attractions. Inferior influence cannot overcome a superior, nevertheless, there are...
Environing Influences. Part 2- Seth means compensation, or amends for the errors of Adam, and Noahmeans rest, or a cessation of Lunar waywardness. This Lunar force was afterwards called Sinby the Chaldean Astronomers, who...
Environing Influences. Part 3- Where does the life of the child begin, or where did the dispensations begin, are as yet problematic Was the Garden of Eden, or is the vital spark of humanity in the embryo state; or was the beginning...
General Description Of The Wheel- Every line, figure, symbol and number of the Wonder Wheel has a meaning and a special use as hereafter explained. The different features of the Wheel are designated as follows: Circle of Days. This c...
General Description Of The Wheel. Part 2- The Lord of each Week Day is given over the name of the day in the outer edge of the Wheel, in the Second Decanate of each sign. The Clock Time of seven places compared with Greenwich Noon, is given i...
General Description Of The Wheel. Part 3- 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, ...
General Description Of The Wheel. Part 4- 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 fo...
General Description Of The Wheel. Part 5- The efficacy of Planetary Hours has been recognized for ages by adepts in mystic lore, and much that is known as clairvoyancy has been operated through knowledge of the laws of Planetary Hours. For in...
Is The World Fair?- Good preachers tell without reserve, How much we creatures sin, With winsome smiles and loving words They strive each heart to win. Yet they well know the Lord of Lords, When honors are proclaimed, ...
God's Bible- The star of night shows us the way To steer our course and find the ray Of light which teaches us to say, I'm rightly guided. The Pocket Mascot does the same And shows the business man, no blame Can...
Appendix. Understanding Astrology- The greatest difficulty in the way of honest people understanding astrology is due to the popular misunderstandings of it. There are many charlatans who take advantage of this popular misunderstanding...
Understanding Astrology. Continued- If born between September 23 and October 23 your Solship is Libra. - This is the line of the Mediator between Spirit and Matter, otherwise called the Equi-noxtional point, or Balances, Weighed in the...
The Twentieth Century- The twentieth century, what is its voice? Down with oppression, envy and strife! Make way for the white light of justice and right! The thought in this light is the wings of the soul Bearing the mess...
The Himalaya Wonder Wheel, Or Thibetian Periscope- The Planetary Hours expunged, for planetary markings. An ingenious compilation of astrologic lore, showing at a glance IheZodiacal Signs,their names, numbers and horoscopal correspondences, the deg...