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    Fun Astrology - Teach Yourself the Signs of the Zodiac and What They Mean
    Fun Astrology - Teach Yourself the Signs of the Zodiac and What They Mean
    Fun Astrology - Teach Yourself the Signs of the Zodiac and What They Mean
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    Fun Astrology - Teach Yourself the Signs of the Zodiac and What They Mean

    By Rosa Bingham

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    Making astrology accessible for everyone, Rosa Bingham’s Fun Astrology will help you to learn the signs of the zodiac and gain a better understanding of the world around you.

    If you’ve always wanted to deepen your knowledge of astrology but are overwhelmed by the amount of information available, then this 1891 classic volume will help to steer you in the right direction. Rosa Bingham explains the zodiac in a clear and simple manner, making this the perfect astrology book for beginners.

    The chapters featured in this volume include:

      - The Influence of the Stars
      - The Nature of the Seven Planets
      - Of the Influences of the Seven Planets
      - Concerning the Twelve Houses
      - The Dragon's Head and the Dragon's Tail
      - Of the Influence of the Fixed Stars
      - The Effect of Each Planet
      - Concerning Directions and Horary Questions
      - Aphorisms Culled from the Works of Ptolemy
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 21, 2016
    ISBN9781473358447
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      Fun Astrology - Teach Yourself the Signs of the Zodiac and What They Mean - Rosa Bingham

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      Fun Astrology

      Teach Yourself the Signs of

      the Zodiac and What They Mean

      By

      ROSA BINGHAM

      First published in 1891

      Published by Wyrd Books,

      an imprint of Read & Co.

      This edition published by Read & Co. in 2022

      Extra material © 2022 Read & Co. Books

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the publisher in writing.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      ISBN: 9781473358447

      Read & Co. is part of Read Books Ltd.

      For more information visit www.wyrdbooks.co.uk

      Contents

      ASTROLOGY

      THE ALPHABET OF ASTROLOGY

      CONCERNING THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC

      OF THE NATURES OF THE SEVEN PLANETS, AND OF THEIR ESSENTIAL AND ACCIDENTAL DIGNITIES

      OF THE INFLUENCES OF THE SEVEN PLANETS

      CONCERNING THE TWELVE HOUSES OF HEAVEN AND THEIR POWERS

      OF THE PART OF FORTUNE, AND OF THE DRAGON’S HEAD AND THE DRAGON’S TAIL

      AN EXPLANATION OF VARIOUS TERMS USED IN ASTROLOGY

      OF THE FIGURE OF THE HEAVENS

      HOW TO PLACE THE PLANETS

      TO FIND THE PART OF FORTUNE.

      OF THE INFLUENCES OF THE FIXED STARS

      TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL FIXED STARS, WITH THEIR MAGNITUDES AND NATURES

      OF THE EFFECT OF EACH PLANET IN EACH OF THE TWELVE HOUSES

      ON FORMING A GENERAL JUDGMENT ON A NATIVITY

      CONCERNING DIRECTIONS AND HORARY QUESTIONS

      APHORISMS CULLED FROM THE WORKS OF PTOLEMY AND OTHER ANCIENT ASTROLOGERS

      THE INFLUENCE OF THE STARS

      ASTROLOGY

      To doubt the influence of the stars is to doubt the wisdom and providence of God.

      —Tycho Brahe

      THAT a certain power, derived from æthereal nature, pervades the whole earth, is clearly evident to all. Fire and air are altered by the motions of the æther, and these elements, in their turn, encompassing all inferior matter, vary it, as they themselves are varied, acting equally on earth and water, on plants and animals. The Sun, not only by the change of the seasons, brings to perfection the embryo of animals, the buds of plants, and the springs of water, but also, by his daily movement, brings light, heat, moisture, dryness, and cold.

      The Moon, being of all the heavenly bodies the nearest to earth, has also much influence, and things, animate and inanimate, sympathise and vary with her. By her changes rivers swell, or are reduced, the tides of the sea are ruled by her risings and settings, and animals and plants are influenced as she waxes or wanes. The stars also produce in the ambient¹ many impressions, causing heats, winds, and storms, to the influence of which earthly things are subjected. The force of the Sun, however, predominates, because it is more generally distributed; the others either co-operate with his power or diminish its effects. The Moon more frequently does this at her first and last quarter; the stars act also in the same way, but at longer intervals, and more obscurely than the Moon. From this it follows that not only all bodies which may be already in existence are subjected to the motion of the stars, but also that the impregnation and growth of the seeds from which all bodies proceed are moulded by the quality in the ambient at the time of such impregnation and growth. When, therefore, a person has acquired a thorough knowledge of the stars (not of what they are composed, but of the influences they possess), he will be able to predict the mental and physical qualities and the future events in the existence of any one whose actual moment of birth is accurately given to him. But the science of astrology demands great study, a good memory, constant attention to a multitude of different points, and much power of deductive judgment; and those persons who undertake to cast horoscopes without possessing these qualities, must necessarily make frequent mistakes in their judgments, which, perhaps, accounts for much of the disbelief which exists as regards the power of astrology; but it is unfair to blame the science for inaccuracies which are only the result of the ignorance of its exponents. No one should attempt to pronounce judgments on the influence of the stars without having first given years of study to the science; and even then, unless he should have been born under certain influences,² he will never become a proficient astrologer.

      The practice of observing the stars began in Egypt in the reign of Ammon (about a thousand years before the Christian era), and was spread by conquest in the reign of his successor into the other parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe; but it appears to have been taught in the earliest ages only by oral tradition, for there is no good evidence of its having been reduced to written rules before some years after the first century of the Christian era, when Claudius Ptolemy (who was born and educated in Alexandria) produced a work called Tetra-biblos, or Quadripartite, being four books of the influences of the stars. In this treatise (translated into English by John Whalley—professor of astrology—in the year of 1786) Ptolemy seems to have collected all that which appeared to him of importance in the science. Another translation of the Tetra-biblos, rendered into English from the Greek paraphrase of that work by Proclus, was made in 1822 by J. M. Ashmand, and this is, by most people, preferred to the translation made by Whalley. Somewhere between 1647 and 1657, Placidus di Titus, a Spanish monk, published a system of astrology, founded, to a great extent, upon Ptolemy’s calculations. This work was printed in Latin, and is called the Primum Mobile: or, First Mover, and was translated by John Cooper in 1816; other translations have appeared, but this is the best among them.

      The planetary orbs, which the ancients recognised as having the most powerful influence, were seven in number (now known under the Latin names of the principal deities of the heathen mythology), viz.: Jupiter, Saturn, Apollo or Sol, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Luna or the Moon.

      It may be objected that science has long since revealed to us many more planets than the seven known to the ancients; but in considering a study so mystical as that of astrology it is better to adhere to the theories of the old-world writers. In the earliest ages almost all the inhabitants of the earth led pastoral lives,—were, in fact, merely shepherds,—but amongst these shepherds there naturally arose, from time to time, men of superior intelligence, whose imaginations

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