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MEDICAL ASTROLOGY us, according to their aspect with the ruler of health, what kind of a death a person will die; whether violent,—by accident, drowning, by fire, water, hanging, etc., or a natural death,—from old age, painless, etc., should we find the ruler of health afflicted by the 8th or its ruler; ruler of health in the 8th and afflicted, ruler of 8th in the 1st and afflicted, are testimonies of a violent death.

The 4th house and its ruler represent the end of life, and point out the condition of man in his latter years of life, and not particularly refering to the grave. Should we find the cusp of the 4th house and its ruler well aspected and strong, we judge that the latter part of life will be fortunate and prosperous, but unfortunate and afflicted the reverse.

Thus we see that the 4th house and its ruler are of much smaller importance than the 6th and 8th in our treatise, but the afflictions of the 4th strongly assist in causing sickness to end fatally.

We look to the 6th house and its ruler for the nature of sickness, and to the ruler of health and the 8th house and ruler at the time of such sickness, whether or not