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ELEMENTS
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ASTROLOGY
BY
BROUGHTON,
L. D. M. D.
"To deny the influence of the stars is to deny the wisdom and providence of God."
Tycho Brahe.
'"A mostunfailing experience ofthe excitement ofsublunary naturesby the conjunctions and
aspects ofthe planets, has instructedandcompelled my unwilling belief.'' John Kepler.
"Principles builton the unerring foundationofobservationsandexperiments, must necessarily
stand good until the dissolution of nature itself." . Emerson.
Price, $1.50.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,
68 South Washington Square.
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ASTRONOMICAL SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
OF
SIGNS, PLANETS AND ASPECTS.
SIGNS.
¥ Aries. =s= Libra.
8 Taurus. ttl Scorpio.
n Gemini. $ Sagittarius.
2p Cancer. Y3 Capricorn.
^
Leo. Aquarius.
Si
Virgo. X Pisces.
rrti
PLANETS.
» Neptune. O Sun.
TJIJlT rClTcflilnliLiloc. $ Venus.
^ Saturn. £ Mercury.
2£ Jupiter. J Moon.
S Mars. © Part of Fortune.
ASPECTS.
(/ Conjunction, oo° Sesq. Sesquiquadrate, 135
-*- Semi-sextile, 3°° Bq. Bi-quintile, 144
Semi-square, 45° Opposition, 180
Z_ c? =
^c Sextile, 6o° P Parallel,
Q Quintile, 2° & Dragon's Head.
7
n Square, 9o° Dragon's Tail.
£5
A Trine, 120°
Degrees, o H Hours.
M
Minutes, / Minutes.
Second of Space, If S Seconds of time.
One would think that people would ask the advice of some competent
Astrologer who has made thousands of observations, on such as marriages,
partnerships, commencing business, or laying a corner stone, etc., before
commencing these undertakings, especially when it can be proved by thou-
sands or even millions of instances, that when the planets at these events are
in evil positions for such undertakings, in 99 cases out of every 100, prove
unfortunate or disastrous to the persons undertaking them, that these people
would, in time learn to pay attention to such matters, but such is not
the case.
I will here state that I had intended devotinga certain part
of this work to "The Elements of Horary Astrology," also
"Mundane Astrology," " Medical Astrology," and "Astro-
Theology," but I shall have to defer these branches of the
science to another volume. I hope to follow thepresent book
with one on nativities, in the same method as the horoscopes
commencing on page
295.
Copyright, 1898, by L. D. Broughton. Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England.
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PROVO.
BROUGHTON,
L. D. Mc D,
CHART OF THE HEAVENS
FOR THE TIME OF BIRTH OF
BROUGHTON,
Dr. L. D.
April 20th, 1828, at 10.00 A.M.,
Leeds, Yorkshire, Eng.
PREFACE.
Many of my readers may think I have devoted too much
space in these pages in answering the opponents of Astrology,
my
instead of giving all attention to the teaching and illustra-
tion of the science, but as the opponents are in a great
majority in all Christian countries their influence is too im-
portant to be slighted.
Some years ago, when the Legislature of a Western State
enacted a law to suppress Astrology, the Philadelphia
" Ledger," in an editorial stated that the Legislatures would
not need to enact such laws if they would teach the people
to read and write therefore the only reason that I am an
;
Astrologer is because I can neither read nor write.
If some kind missionary, instead of going to teach the
heathen in China or in the wilds of Africa to read and write,
would devote some of his energy in teaching me, he would
forever stop me from prating about Astrology; besides, it
might be the means of saving my soul.
At the age of eighteen it was my misfortune to lose my
father, and I shall never forget how the minister of the
Episcopal Church which we attended, devoted a whole after-
noon, while my father lay dead in the house, in arguing and
trying to persuade my eldest brother to give up the belief
and practise of Astrology. There is little doubt that the
minister, in his mind's eye, saw my father's soul writhing in
all the agonies of the damned, and felt it to be his duty to
save my brother, if possible, from such torments.
The same minister, when talking to me afterwards, praised
the beautiful language in the forms of prayer in his church
prayer book, and said that ' we not only ought all to pray
'
alike, and use the same set forms of prayer, but we ought all
to think alike on all religious subjects*"
In trying to compel every one to think and pray alike, the
authorities have tried, convicted, and executed in Europe,
within the last fourhundred years, over eleven million heretics
and witches, including Astrologers, and they have not yet
IV PREFACE.
succeeded in accomplishing their object. If we estimate the
amount of money, time, and energy that it has cost the
people of those countries in hunting up, arresting, trying,
convicting, and executing these people, even if they had
succeeded in their object, would they nothave paid too dearly
for their whistle? And if the governments and priests had
spent the same amount of time, money, and laborin teaching
the people useful knowledge, including Astrology, how much
further would the world now be advanced in civilization and
human happiness? Even if the priests and clergy had suc-
ceeded in compelling every person to think and believe alike
in religious matters, I should like to know how much better
we would be. Should we not, in that case, be taking rapid
strides backward to the dark ages, and to the hanging and
burning of witches and heretics? Would not human intellect
be shrouded in ignorance, superstition and bigotry?
A large number of these heretics and witches, including
Joan of Arc, have been placed on the calendar of saints, and
the people have built monuments to their memory but in
;
all history I have never met with a single instance where the
judges and persecutors of these witches and heretics have
been thus honored and immortalized. From our standpoint
the question natturally arises, who were the guilty par-
—
ties those who were executed, or the persecutors and execu-
tioners?
My father had many friends on account of his Astrological
knowledge, and they often came to him for advice, but he
did not take money for it; he also taught a number of per-
sons the science, among them the late Frof. Lister,'formerly
of Boston, afterwards of New York. My-father was a man
of extensive information, and to my young mind seemed to
be a walking encyclopoedia. I do not remember asking him
a question on any subject whatever to which he could not
give me a lucid and proper answer; but he always had one
saying when he got through, which I now repeat: "I am
getting old, my memory is failing me do not take my word
;
for it, but read and study for yourself."
