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90 moment, and therefore the stars affect each individual differently from all others, not even the horoscopes of twins are alike. It is also strongly emphasized that according to this explanation we do not have a certain “fate” because we were born at a certain time, but we are born at a particular time because we have a certain self-generated destiny to work out. That is a very important distinction for it substitutes divine law for divine caprice, it eliminates the element of “luck” and inspires man to mastery of “fate” by working with the Law. If we have made our present horoscope by our past actions in a past life logically we are now preparing for future embodiment and may make it what we choose. If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under much more auspicious conditions than those under which we now live and thus we may truly rule our stars and master our fate.

When the last three degrees of a sign are rising, or when the first three degrees ascend at the time of birth the person is said to be born “on the cusp” between two signs and then the basic nature of the signs involved are blended in his or her body. Thus a person born when the three last degrees of Aries or the first degrees of Taurus were ascending would be neither purely Aries nor Taurus but a mixture of the qualities of the two signs.

The nature of the rising sign is also modified by