and relations, professional associations or trade unions through which to achieve better social
conditions, or mere racketeers and gang leaders. It affords incentive to great literary or
dramatic geniuses who inculcate in their works Plutonian doctrines calculated to bear fruit
through the succeeding generation; total disregard for constituted authority or vested rights,
except as administered for the good of all; and even at its worst, more likely to be activated
by a sense of righteous indignation on behalf of society than by personal vindictiveness.
Planetary Significators. In external affairs the solar system bodies exercise influence as
follows:
Sun: Leaders and persons of authority in government, religious and industrial organizations.
Moon: Public life and the fickleness of the public; fluctuations of popularity, changing
fortunes; the common people, and the transportation and distribution systems that serve them;
the home and home life; the place of residence; the mother, and women generally; in the
State, women of title; the ocean, and voyages by water; water and liquids in general, and
persons who follow occupations connected with them; places and houses near water;
removals, mystery, romance.
Mercury: Business matters, letter writing, short travels, the neigh- bors and their gossip;
schools, colleges, and all places where teaching and learning are pursued; scientific and
literary organizations; printing-works, publishing offices, and all who are occupied at these
places; buying, selling, bargaining, trading.
Venus: Social activities; women, especially those younger; art, music, literature; beautiful
objects, and anything that is prized for its beauty; ornaments; things of luxury and pleasure;
jewels, toys, fine clothes, articles of adornment; pictures, flowers, dancing, singing, acting in
so far as these express beauty or pleasure, apart from skill or intelligence; all places where
these things belong, and where such occupations are carried on; sweethearts, wives, the home
and household; conjugal love, as embodying affection rather than passion.
Mars: Steel, cutlery, weapons of war, sharp tools, and those who use them, fires, slaughter
houses, mortuaries; brick and lime kilns; athletics and sports, in so far as they express
courage, enterprise, strength and dexterity.
Jupiter: Expansion and growth, and their expression in terms of material wealth; occupations,