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56 tiny man-made contrivance can make themselves felt and register by mechanical operations involving expenditure of energy many thousands of miles from their source, the planetary vibrations from those great orbs in the heavens make themselves felt millions of miles as surely, us easily, and with equal certainty. We know that the angle of the solar ray determines whether it is winter or summer, We also know the effect of the Moon upon the waters, and it is within the experience of all that we feel more buoyant when the atmosphere is clear and dry than when it is moist and murky. And what determines these atmospheric conditions but the planets, the circling stars?

When we look up at this planetary kaleidoscope from time to time we see in the heavens various configurations which are pronounced lucky or unlucky according to whether they are formed between so-called benefics alone, such as Venus, Jupiter and the Sun, or planets said to be malefic such us Saturn, Mars or Uranus. When Jupiter and Venus are in close conjunction near the midheaven, it is a foregone conclusion that those who come into the world under this configuration will enjoy a measure of good fortune far above the average, and such persons would therefore be considered “lucky” in the extreme. On the other hand there are times when Saturn end Mars occupy the zenith position for souls that are born to suffer,

But why should one suffer and another be born