people; good health to the honest and upright.
Mercury: Advances in science and education; favors the development of inventions;
prosperity to merchants and traders. Afflicted: changes, reversals of policy.
Venus: Increased leisure for self-advancement and recreation of the laboring classes; arts and
artists will flourish; increased birth rate. Afflicted: epidemics.
Mars: Advancement in accident prevention and safety of workers; protection to those in
hazardous occupations. Afflicted: wars, fires, storms, strikes.
Jupiter: Prosperity to the upper classes; constructive legislation; abundance and a contented
populace with respect for law.
Saturn: Increased construction; propitious to agriculture; class amity. Afflicted: cold;
scarcity; mortality among the old; national calamities.
Lucifer. The 'light-bearer'. Applied to Venus when a 'morning star', rising before the Sun;
poetically called, 'Son of the Morning'.
Luminaries. The Lights. Said of the Sun and Moon as distinguished from the planets. It is an
ancient classification hardly in keeping with the fact that the Sun is the only direct source of
energy, and that the light from the Moon, like that from the planets, is reflected from the Sun.
Their function with reference to solar energy is that of a filtering reflector whereby certain
frequencies are absorbed by chemical properties inherent in the mass, resulting in the
transmission to the Earth of an altered ray. However, the astrological significance warrants
the classification of the Sun and Moon separately from the planets, in that the Sun and Moon
have to do with Man's spiritual consciousness, while the planetary influences operate through
the physical mechanism. The Moon is a luminary in the biblical sense that it affords to Man
"light by night."
Lunar. Relating to the Moon.