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36 role of protector on the plea that woman is not mentally competent; meanwhile he is becoming that which he admires in her; he is more gentle and. Kind, Venus is conquering Mars, but the Mercury delusion of intellectual superiority needs another influence to conquer it, And this woman is now attracted by the aspiration. As she mastered martial brutality by Venus beauty, so also, will she free herself from Mercurial bondage by Uranian intuition.

To primitive man, driven by the whip-lash of Saturnine necessity, when not by the animal bust and passions of Mars and the Moon the World looks gloomy. Fear is the key-note of his extistenceexistence [sic]; fear of animals: fear of other men; fear of the nature forces; fear of everything around him. He must ever be watchful and on the alert, vigilance is eternally the price of safety. But when evolution makes him amenable to the influence of Venus and Mercury, they soften his emotions and brighten the mentality; he begins to feel love and reason as factors in life. The Sun also begins to brighten his outlook upon life, and sunshine in the nature of man during this phase of his evolution partly dispels the cloud of Saturn. Thus, by degrees, as he evolves and becomes responsive to the music of the spheres, one string after another in the celestial harp strikes the kindred chord in the’ human soul and makes him amenable to its vibrations, so that as a tuning fork which is struck, awakens the music in other tuning forks of even pitch within reasonable distance, the