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MEDICAL ASTROLOGY

We now come to the reading of the horoscope or horary figure in order to form an opinion as to the nature of sickness, how long it will last, and whether or not it will result fatally, or leave the patient weak and debilitated.

In judging of sickness from the horoscope we have only to erect a figure of the time of birth, and find the "ruler of health" and calculate the directions operating at the time, and give judment by the rules given under "diseases of the planets and signs". If we find the ruler of health afflicted by the ruled of the 6th or 8th or other imical testimonies, and this affliction passing from the ruler of the 6th to the 8th, and no good testimonies occuring, we judge that such disease will terminate fatally, but should the rulers of the 6th and 8th be fortunate planets, it will not end fatally unless the patient be very old and feeble; again, should Jupiter cast an aspect to the evil configuration, even a square or opposition to Saturn, or 21