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The Manual of
ASTROLOGY
By Sepharial
FOUR BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME
Treating of the Language of the Heavens. The Reading
Of a Horoscope. The Measure of Time and of Hindu Astrology.
Includes the influence of the Planet Pluto.
THE STANDARD WORK
THE MANUAL OF ASTROLOGY
THE MANUAL OF
ASTROLOGY
IN FOUR BOOKS
TREATING OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEAVENS
THE READING OF A HOROSCOPE, THE
MEASURE OF TIME, AND OF
HINDU ASTROLOGY
INCLUDES THE INFLUENCE OF THE
PLANET PLUTO
BY
“SEPHARIAL”
WITH SET OF TABLES
THE STANDARD WORK
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CONTENTS
BOOK I – THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEAVENS
Chapter I - The Divisions of the Zodiac – The Elements
- The Constitutions – The Decanates – Lunar
- Mansions 1
Chapter II - The Signatures of the Zodiac – The Zodiac
and the Human Body 4
Chapter III - The Planets – Planetary Temperament;
Flavours, Forms, Colours, Notes, Metals, Parts in the
Human Body, and Occupations; Planets as Significa-
tors; the Relations of Signs and Planets, Planetary
Dignities; Planetary Dominions 8
Chapter IV - The Relation of Decanates and Planets:
Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,
Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces 18
Chapter V - The Houses 26
Chapter VI - The Planets and Houses 30
Chapter VII - The Aspects 44
Chapter VIII - Calculation of the Horoscope 46
Chapter IX - Foreign Horoscopes 52
Chapter X - Summary 54
APPENDIX TO BOOK 1
Description of Persons 56
Terms of the Planets 73
NOTES TO BOOK 1
On the Divisions of the Zodiac – On Lily’s Descriptions - 74
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BOOK II. – THE READING OF A HOROSCOPE
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CHAPTER I. – The Bodily Form – Defects and Accidents
- Physical Peculiarities – Accidents - - - 77
CHAPTER II. – The Physical Constitution - - - 82
CHAPTER III. – Physical Infirmities – The Polarity of the
Signs – Diseases of the Planets and Signs - - 84
CHAPTER IV. – Mental Qualities and Infirmities - - 94
CHAPTER V. – Financial Fortunes - - - - 98
CHAPTER VI. – The Rank or Position - - - - 101
CHAPTER VII. – The Profession or Occupation - - 104
CHAPTER VIII. – Marriage – The Time of Marriage –
Happiness or Sorrow – Description of Wife –
Second Marriages – Female Horoscopes – Length
of Marriage - - - - - - 106
CHAPTER IX. – Children - - - - - 113
CHAPTER X. – Friends and Benefactors - - - 115
CHAPTER XI. – Enemies - - - - - 117
CHAPTER XII. – Sympathy and Antipathy - - - 119
CHAPTER XIII. – Travelling and Voyages – Success or
Loss by Travelling – Where to go – Residence - 121
CHAPTER XIV – The Kind of Death - - - - 126
CHAPTER XV. – Illustrations – The Bodily Form – Acci-
dents – Character – Wealth – Rank – Love and
Marriage – Travelling – Kind of Death - - 128
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BOOK III. – THE MEASURE OF TIME
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CHAPTER I. – The Pre-natal Epoch of the Law of Sex –
General Law of the Pre-natal Epoch – Theorems –
To Find the Day and Hour of Epoch – Examples of
Regular Epochs – Irregular Epochs – The Law of
Sex – To Set a Figure without Tables - - 135
CHAPTER II. – Directions – Primary Directions - - - 150
CHAPTER III. – Sepharial’s Method of Directing – Primary
Directions – Secondary Directions – Time-Measure
– Transits – Method of Directing – Primary
– Considerations - - - - - 153
CHAPTER IV. – Effects of Directions – Secondary Direc-
tions - - - - - - - 159
CHAPTER V. – Other Time Measures – Lunations
– Transits – Eclipses – Proportional Arcs –
– Planetary Periods – Planetary Geocentric Longi-
tudes – Solar Revolutions – Lunar Mansions - 166
BOOK IV. – HINDU ASTROLOGY
The Ayan(cid:0) msha – The Asterisms – The Planets’ Periods –
The Signs of the Zodiac- The Houses – Aspects –
Illustration – The Sub-periods – Example of
Planetary Subdivisions – Judgment by Planetary
Position – Periods – Sub-periods – Inter-periods –
Rules to Judge of Planetary Periods – Locality –
The Kalamritam – Effects of Periods and Sub-periods 177
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APPENDIX
PAGE
Lunations - - - - - - - 213
Proportional Logarithms - - - - - 214
Table of British Summer Time - - - - 215, 216
Table of Eclipses, 1856 to 1964 - - - - 217
Tables of Houses for Lat. 53 25’N - - - - 218, 219
(cid:1)
Hindu Planetary Periods - - - - - 220
SUPPLEMENT TO REVISED EDITION
The Progressive Horoscope - - - - - 221
To Calculate the Progressed Horoscope - - - 222
The Lunar Equivalent - - - - - 224
The Diurnal Horoscope - - - - - 226
Note on the Planetary Periods - - - - 227
P R E F A C E
In an experimental subject like Astrology there is always some-
thing fresh to be said, and much that needs to be told anew in the
light of a more catholic experience than that enjoyed by astrological
authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The discovery
of the planet Pluto in 1930 has enlarged the field of our researches,
and much has been added to what is already known in regard to the
nature and dominions of the planets.
The present exposition of the predictive art will find more favour
with students of Astrology than with the lay reader, though, in the
choice of a guide to the celestial science, the present Manual may
recommend itself to the lay reader, as containing the fullest possible
information under the several heads of our subject, and being, at the
same time, devoid of those abstruse calculations and technicalities
which have beclouded some of the most learned and brilliant
expositions. The treatment of that portion of our subject which
deals with prenatal influences, the intra-uterine period, and the law
of sex, has the merit of originally, and truth. The section dealing
with Hindu Astrology, after Par(cid:0) shara, is properly dissociated from
the body of the Manual by the difference of zodiacal measurement
observed in the East, as well as by the interpretation of planetary
influences in relation to the conditions of Oriental life; yet it is
deemed of sufficient interest and merit to introduce in these pages.
In effect, then, the characteristics of fullness and simplicity have
been considered in the preparation of this work, and it is believed
that the Manual will give the average student a better grip of the key
to celestial science, and a wider view of the ground-plan of
Astrology than has hitherto been afforded. The author desires to
recognize to the fullest extent the merits of al former writers whose
works have opened up and illustrated the subject of planetary
influence to many thousands of intelligent minds, Lily, Coley,
Sibley, Ashmand, Simmonite, whose works have been consulted for
the purpose of this Manual.
The law of life is a low of progress, and we, who from our
temporal standpoint take note of the passage of events, can, if we
will, see therein the working out of this law by means of the cyclic
recurrence of those events in successive generations and ages.
The astronomer realises this in the return of the planets and
comets in their orbits, and the succession of phenomena attaching
thereto is found to be continually repeating itself, but always in
relation to the experience of new and successive generations. Thus
all humanity is taught the same lesson, and the same book is
repeatedly studied by each succeeding age. The astronomer, by
his science, is able to predict the return of the comets, the con-
junctions, occultations, and other phenomena of the planets, together
with the eclipses of the Sun and Moon, centuries in advance of their
occurrence.
The astrologer, taking note of the cyclic repetition of events in
conjunction with concurrent celestial phenomena, is enabled, by
similar methods, to predict when such and such events, shall occur
again. There is nothing supernatural in this when once we come to
know the laws of planetary influence, the impressibility of Nature,
and the power of man to read such impressions.
Perhaps the reader will think that in saying this we go too far
without appeal to common experience, but as far as Astrology is
concerned, we go no further than the reader himself can prove by an
application of the rules contained in this Manual to his own life and
that of others. It is not to be supposed that a scientific structure,
such as Astrology purports to be, can have been in building through
the ages upon the basis of a mere conceit of the imagination, or
similar insecure foundation which could not stand the test of the
plumb-line and level of science. On the contrary, we claim that
the predictive art is set firmly in the immovable foundations of
Nature, and that the whole plan and superstructure is but a
presentation of certain well-defined laws operating in and from the
archetypal world. Pythagoras held it as a truth that all things were
formed after a type existing in the Universal Mind, and that all
forms were but the expression of certain numbers or quantities
existing in the soul of things. It is in the imperishable rock of
numbers that the fadeless footprint of astral science was first set.
It is because of this mathematical basis in Astrology that the
science is rendered so easy of proof, in contradistinction to many
other less scientific modes of divination.
SEPHARIAL.
THE MANUAL OF ASTROLOGY
