Were You Born Under a Lucky Star?

FACTS: Certain stars or planets on the point of rising at the time of birth have been observed to be connected with certain types of physique.
-from the Introduction

The ancients held a profound reverence for the art and craft of astrology... and so have plenty of thoroughly modern folks. This delightfully portentous 1901 guide to casting a horoscope and interpreting the stars introduces the reader to the Ptolemaic roots of astrology and explains everything the amateur forecaster needs to know:

. the important facts of "human crystallization"
. how to determine the exact place and time of your birth, necessary for astrological calculations
. appreciating the differences between fire, air, earth, and water signs
. incorporating our "modern" knowledge of Uranus and Neptune into the rules of ancient astrology
. understanding "houses," "angles," and "aspects"
. how to formulate predictions from cast horoscopes
. and more.


Pseudonymous American astrologer A. ALPHEUS (b. 1868) also wrote Complete Hypnotism (1902).