Chapter Three

THE SELF-ORDERING

I.

The PLANETS thus far have been significant in their weight and position collectively. Perhaps some one of them may have been seen in HIGH FOCUS, with a particular INDICATION according to its identity, but even then the others have remained neutral or without any pertinent distinction from each other. Now and by contrast all SIGNIFICATORS must be considered in a fundamental individuality, such as is established by factors that will be found first of all to distribute them into four well-defined groups. These groups are the PLANETARY departments, and they are important because they provide a means for the measure of man's self-ordering or the economy of the organism. As astrological analysis moves to its more practical application, it tends to approach the NATIVE more and more within the boundaries of his own special capacity or development. The over-all perspective at this point turns to the more subjective face of reality.

The identification of the PLANETS in their distinctiveness stems from a very venerable tradition in the stellar art. The LUMINARIES or LIGHTS have always been placed in a category by themselves, since as already pointed out the sun is not a planet at all and the moon is a terrestrial rather than a solar satellite. Their roles in horoscopic practice, however, are no different from the other eight. Sol or the GREATER LIGHT, from the view of any dweller on the earth, [109] is observed as it takes on the earth's motion. If astrology is to hold to the direct or naïve symbolism of reality such as is the secret of its effectiveness, and is to avoid getting caught up in endless metaphysical concepts that confuse DELINEATION, it must remember that its charting is geocentric in every respect. This is necessary as long as it is seeking to measure human affairs that are inescapably earth-centered. Hence Luna or the LESSER LIGHT gains its breadth of significance from the fact that it is the only one of the ten bodies whose geocentric performance is wholly inherent in its own nature. The sun in the symbolism mediates life most directly, and shows the simple act of being. The moon is immediacy, or the simple possibility of experience. This gives the moon its place in the CHALDEAN ORDER or the arrangement of the PLANETS from which, out of the night of time, the astrological rulerships of the days and the hours are derived. These first two horoscopic SIGNIFICATORS work together in measuring human development and self-expression in a cosmic equilibrium represented by purely physical phenomena. In the very literal actuality behind their symbolical roles they not only provide energy and illumination, but they account for the principal fluctuations in the tides and many vital cycles of organic functioning.

Jupiter and Saturn were likewise paired in their symbolical significance by horoscopy's ancients, and were known commonly as the GREATER FORTUNE or, GREATER BENEFIC and the GREATER INFORTUNE or GREATER MALEFIC respectively. They were the outer bodies of the sun's five satellites known to Claudius Ptolemy, the second-century Greek who wrote the Tetrabiblos or astrology's original [110] bible. Since their orbits did not lie in juxtaposition with the earth's or have any primacy through closeness to the heart of the solar system, but instead were adjacent in a way with outer space, they were given a principal correspondence with the deeper or more remote affairs of life. Mars and Venus, by the contrary token of nearness to man's globe in their circling of the heavens, were taken together and seen as special INDICATORS of everyday affairs or of the more superficial issues of human endeavor. They were identified as the LESSER INFORTUNE or LESSER MALEFIC and the LESSER FORTUNE or LESSER BENEFIC respectively.

Mercury was a difficulty from the beginning since it twinkled and seemed more like a fixed star, and also was an odd number in the original group. With its orbit next to the sun it came to be taken as the messenger of God and hence of man's divine spirit. By association of idea it came to indicate all thought and consciousness.

With the discovery of Uranus or Herschel in 1781 the whole original schematism seemed to fall to pieces, and in its literal sevenfold form it has survived only in the names and sovereignty of the days of the week and in the PLANETARY HOURS. When Neptune was located in 1846 the astrologers began to wait for further discoveries. Many of them expected a rounded-out arrangement in which each SIGN would have a RULER all to itself, and when there would be exactly twelve SIGNIFICATORS to confound the skeptics with a very pretty and universal completeness. The two new PLANETS meanwhile began to provide a fourth fundamental pair, such as has proved of the greatest value in charting the characteristic and unique elements of a modern industrial civilization. [111]

When Pluto was found in 1930 it turned out to be very similar to Mercury in size, and in many features of eccentricity, and this fact suggested that these two smaller satellites might be taken together as INDICATORS of mental or wholly subjective factors. They are not considered a fifth PLANETARY department by the author because their orbits are widely separated in a way that is not true of Mars and Venus, Jupiter and Saturn or Uranus and Neptune. What they have in common is their rational or subjective INDICATION, rather than any distinctiveness of spatial relation in the heavens. Hence they are given a supernumerary role, or Mercury is linked with Mars and Venus while Pluto is kept in association with Uranus and Neptune.

Self-Determination in Vitality

The first PLANETARY department, charting the NATIVE'S continual organization of himself on an entirely physical or bodily LINE OF SELF-DETERMINATION, is established in the motions and interrelations of the sun and moon as these are revealed in the horoscope. The sun is the positive representative of this simple act-of-self, or of man's continual determination-to-be. It gains its role because on the one hand and as the center of the solar system it remains the primary source of all material energy and visible existence, and because on the other hand as astrological representative of the earth it identifies the necessary self-reference during whatever is experienced on the earth's surface. Its basic INDICATION in consequence is pure self-affirmation, or fundamental self-mobilization for each specific phase of existence. Thus it charts the root of any individual being in the primary fact of [112] continuing to be. Philosophically this is pure continuum as unconditioned or uninvolved at core in any detail of individual difference. In everyday language it is WILL or purpose, and is evident in each separate person's case as a capacity for (1) sustained effort directed towards the goals he adopts for himself and (2) persistent attention to interests he comes to recognize as particularly his own, all without need of stimulus or sanction from anything alien to himself.

The moon provides the negative representative of the self-ordering in VITALITY. Its signification arises from the particular directness of its satellite status in the geocentric scheme of the heavens, together with its complete dependence on the sun for the light it reflects. Thus it charts the phenomena of physical needs and bodily maintenance as in contrast with the underlying self-sufficiency or the unconditioned determination-to-be. Its strong gravitational pull, as this ramifies widely through all phases of life and all forms of organic functioning, offers a convenient correspondence to man's inborn capacity for (1) establishing relationship or becoming involved with others as well as for (2) continuing to remain essentially what he is. People around him no less than he himself are engaged continually in specializing one and another facet of the whole cosmos as the practical rather than abstract or largely indistinguishable fact of their particular identity in each case. Symbolically the LESSER LIGHT is bringing the GREATER to pertinency.

The resulting division of labor, as various individuals co-operate with each other endlessly in some common employment of their potentialities, enables the NATIVE [113] both (1) to personalize his own existence or to become the conscious entity and (2) to anthropomorphize a total reality outside himself as something to be known and met in competition for advantage or disadvantage. The moon as next to the earth, and through its swiftness of zodiacal motion, gives an astrological measure for the kaleidoscopic distribution of experience at its point of most immediate manifestation in everyday exigency. In the horoscope it may be taken most simply as the SIGNIFICATOR for (1) nutriment as the whole process of accepting and rejecting the materials going into an organic actuality and (2) FEELING as the unconditioned responsiveness by which the self at core is able to maintain its own dimension, or to be aware of elbowroom in its rehearsal of itself on any particular level and throughout any shifting area of its self-organization.

In a consideration of the relations between the PLANETS that constitute an astrological department, and provide an INDICATION of the self-ordering, the five ASPECTS to be taken into account have been listed and a detailed attention already has been given to the OPPOSITION and TRINE. A sixth of the major ASPECTS, that sometimes are identified as Ptolemaic because they were recognized by Claudius Ptolemy, is a PARALLEL OF DECLINATION that represents an entirely different sort of mathematical conception and is left for exposition in the author's companion volume, Astrological Aspects and Orbs.

When the sun participates in a PLANETARY ASPECT there may be a problem because of the large ORB allowed. Thus a SQUARE involving the GREATER LIGHT can overlap either a [114] SEXTILE or a TRINE by four degrees. In any such a case the relationship closest to exact is considered and the other is ignored. Thus, in the NATIVITY of Louisa May Alcott, the writer known best for her Little Women and Little Men, the LIGHTS are in SQUARE by 14°30' and in SEXTILE by 15°30' and the SQUARE INDICATION is decidedly characteristic of the life.

THE SUN AND MOON IN A CONJUNCTION ASPECT indicate an ordering of the VITALITY in which a simple resoluteness of self has common expression in a complete or habitual disregard of consequences as it follows through on any project of special interest. Individual activity tends to be at the expense of all perspective in the particular area. There may be an embarrassing lack of the superficial good sense developed in everyday experience, and the NATIVE generally achieves any over-all orientation for himself through the more deeply entrenched potentialities of his character. An example is found in the horoscope of Max Heindel, founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship and an occultist who prided himself on his gift for simplifying abstruse truths for the public at large. He succeeded in creating an esoteric philosophy that brought man and the world to an interrelationship such as could be understood by the most untutored individual, but in doing so he narrowed the scope of it to a point that insulated the seeker from any or every context of genuine social responsibility. Another illustration is provided by the chart of Roscoe Arbuckle, the stout comedian and afterwards ace director of silent motion pictures. An essentially good-natured indiscretion at a drinking party, when a practical joke had tragic consequences, ended his days as a [115] performer and made it necessary for him to continue his activities behind the camera and to accept his plaudits under an assumed name.

THE SUN AND MOON NOT IN MAJOR ASPECT indicate a lack of real ordering of the VITALITY, and suggest a great tendency to waste energies on the one hand or on the other to fail to direct them into experience adequately enough for any ultimate self-fulfillment. By the same token the NATIVE is not held to any particular mode of physical self-expenditure, and in consequence he always is able to mobilize his basic physiological and psychological resources according to a free choice under some deeper or broader stimulation of the spirit. Thus in the terms of an everyday accomplishment he may press on far beyond his fellows, and an example is found in the horoscope of Franklin Roosevelt. The onset of his paralysis could have brought his public career to an end before it had gained any significant dimension, but instead he gave a minimal regard to the handicap of crippled limbs and continued on to achievements that probably will rank him high among the chief executives of the nation. Another and contrasting illustration is provided by the chart of Nicholas Murray Butler, whose personal monument is the Columbia University campus on New York's Morningside Heights but who accomplished little in the broader fields where he sought to bring his influence to fulfillment. Although a pioneer educator in the establishment of Teachers College and the founding of the magazine Education, and in earlier days an outstanding and early voice for the liberalization of educational procedures, he ended up as perhaps the best-known caricature of reaction. He began [116] his professional work as a philosopher, and probably conceived himself as essentially the thinker, but in realms of such speculation he remains forgotten except by the specialists.

THE SUN AND MOON IN AN OPPOSITION ASPECT indicate an ordering of the VITALITY in which an inherent over-conscientiousness of self tends to defeat the NATIVE in everything he attempts. This is due primarily to a vacillation between conflicting requirements of his WILL or purpose on the one side, and his FEELINGS or more immediate and transient inclinations on the other. If he wishes to achieve any practical richness of life he must learn to give specific attention to the essential division of labor in this mutual quickening of the two complementary facets of his nature. He brings about an effective unity of their compulsions by demanding that each yield precedence to the other in every special instance where that other has been the prime mover or the occasion for the emphasis in a given set of circumstances. He lets his emotions be content to serve whatever his calm judgment has brought to issue, and requires his rational powers to assist whatever has arrived at a point of concern more instinctively. An example is found in the horoscope of Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator who was projected into the leadership of the military cabal by the kaleidoscopic events at the very beginning of the revolution. He has survived by his characteristic subordination of whatever his real personal reactions may be to the course to which he had committed himself and to which he has held with an almost blind stubbornness. His regime has been characterized internally by the continued uneasiness of [117] balance among the discordant groups who have supported him, and outwardly by the unstable middle ground he has sought to maintain in dealing with the various power blocs on the world stage. Another illustration is provided by Mary Margaret McBride, and it already has been seen in connection with her SEESAW classification that she has won her wide public by her success in keeping her personality in shifting and fascinating rapport with the adventure of the moment on the airways. She always has managed to promote the various products of her sponsors, and entertain her broadcast guests, without ever giving evidence of any overstress of either mind or heart as far as she personally might be concerned.

THE SUN AND MOON IN A SQUARE ASPECT indicate an ordering of the VITALITY in which an excessive appetite for experience is likely to involve the NATIVE in more complexities than he can handle with discretion. In consequence he tends to get worked up in continuous and needless battles with himself, but the characteristic frustrations equally well may become a very dynamic self-realization and hence a highly profitable gift of industry. To this end he must keep the purposive and the emotional or more introspective sides of his nature from interfering with each other, in much the same manner as when the LIGHTS are in OPPOSITION. In general he is endowed with an overflow of energy, and he can go far if he selects or creates his own channels through which to put it to work. An example is found in the horoscope of Winston Churchill, whose stormy career has stemmed from the conflicts created by his consistent intensity of reaction and strength of opinion. His escape from the Boers in his youth, his [118] brilliant work for the navy prior to World War I followed by the Dardanelles fiasco, his coming to the helm of government when it seemed Britain would go down before the Nazis, his parliamentary defeat when there was no longer the near threat of the enemy to challenge his talents and so help him maintain his popular support, and his return to power when economic difficulties weakened the Labor government, all reveal his gift for functioning most effectively in the midst of turmoil. Another illustration is provided by England's Queen Mary, who mothered the dramatic royal chapter of which Churchill has been much a part. Her widespread unpopularity at the beginning of her public life in contrast with the after years when she was beloved on every hand, her battle for the spiritual integrity of her dynasty when her favorite son precipitated a moral crisis and nearly wrecked the family's opportunity, and her heroic sustainment of the unwilling monarch and blindly decent public servant who came to the throne after Edward's abdication, all reveal the strength and beauty that may be born of conflict.

THE SUN AND MOON IN A TRINE ASPECT indicate an ordering of the VITALITY in which there is a marked momentum of self-fulfillment from birth, and so a tendency for the whole being to be grooved in the way of its going as a matter of heredity or strong environmental conditioning. The NATIVE achieves an ease of self-mobilization in everyday experience, and hence seldom has difficulty in conforming to whatever may be demanded of him. If he is willing to drift through his years, with mere surface satisfactions, he may prove to be quite a darling of circumstances. He must find some other and more dynamic [119] stimulus to a worthwhile self-expenditure however, if he is to avoid an unsuspected and even very tragic waste of his potentialities. An example is found in the Duke of Windsor, who surrendered his crown rather than forgo a personal fullness of living. But this he did in the course of an underlying refusal to continue a mere figurehead for the government that declined to face problems over which he had become concerned, and to the point of outrage. There was nothing with which he could come to grips, as far as making sacrifices for a vision was concerned, and so he engineered a redirection in the drift of his life without realizing that he only was trading contexts of ineptitude. Another and happier illustration is provided by General James Doolittle, who achieved worldwide recognition when he carried out the bombing of Tokyo and who has made a real name for himself in both aviation and business. The smoothness with which he has met the responsibilities given him, and the continual streaming of circumstances in his favor, show the value of this CONFIGURATION for anybody well-placed in the way of his going.

THE SUN AND MOON IN A SEXTILE ASPECT indicate an ordering of the VITALITY in which there is a nascent and effortless compliancy, so that life often tends to indulge the NATIVE to an extent that robs him of all adequate depth in self-realization. He may choose to enjoy the rewards of a simple good fortune, but also he may seek a more exciting course of events by associating himself with those who will appreciate his unquestioning co-operation and hence will be led to share some measure of their more challenging self-expenditure. In the ideal case he will stir to dynamic [120] compulsions that arise from some other facet of his general make-up. Under such a condition he can capitalize on his capacity for a basically smooth self-mobilization together with a consistently easy adjustment to the various demands upon him. An example is found in the horoscope of Alfred Tennyson, the highly decorative poet laureate and wholly admirable social lion of Victorian England. The loss of his young friend, Arthur Hallam, when Tennyson himself was only twenty-four, led to the writing of In Memoriam and so to the full establishment of his reputation not very long afterwards. Life from the start seemed determined to encourage his very appreciable talent to the fullest degree. Another illustration is provided by the chart of William Green, the union leader who revealed much of the same well-grooved progress to an assured reward and a mounting high respect in the United States. Originally a protégé of John L. Lewis, and often thought to be little more than an unquestioning lackey of the dynamic Welshman, he was compelled by events to break away and thereupon was carried on the drift of developments in the highest position in the field of American labor for the nearly thirty years until his death.

Self-Determination in Motivation

The second PLANETARY department, charting the NATIVE'S continual organization of himself on an essentially personal or psychological LINE OF SELF-DETERMINATION, is established in the motions and interrelations of Jupiter and Saturn as these are revealed in the horoscope. The first of these PLANETS is the positive representative of this primary act-of-personality, or of what becomes man's continuous determination to play an identifiable role in [121] the company of others in order to make some appreciable contribution to the common and conscious reality. Jupiter gains its horoscopic meaning from the fact that its orbit is nearer the path of the earth than Saturn's, and in the astrological symbolism is seen to represent the assimilation of cosmic potentials to the essentially spiritual faculties of the individual entity. Here is the ensoulment of the physical organism, and the process becomes a basis for all self-consciousness or capacity for building experience into the fiber of selfhood. The sense of a flow of universal reality into the self is a step in self-dimension beyond mere existence, or is self-awareness as more than the desire-to-be that has been identified as VITALITY. It is a refinement of character as in contrast with the mere establishment and maintenance of organic actuality. On this positive side the soul is seen as it comes to focus, continually and variously, out of the illimitable possibilities of itself. Hence the GREATER BENEFIC indicates the spontaneous manifestation of motive and personal stability. It is the PLANET of ENTHUSIASM, or unconditioned self-quickening in responsible rather than instinctive action and reaction.

Saturn is the negative representative of this primary act-of-personality, and its horoscopic meaning arises from the fact that its orbit is the outermost of PLANETS normally visible to the eye and that in consequence it can be used to chart the everyday and direct intervention of the cosmos in all conscious experience. Here is the dominance of the universal factor in the individual-coming-to-be, as in contrast with Jupiter's constant and successful requisition of eternal resources. What results is wisdom in the [122] simplest of senses, or the process through which the self extricates itself from various consequences of its acts and reactions and by learning its lessons actually establishes its immortality of soul. Reference in Saturn's INDICATION is always to the ultimate and the illimitable, and thus the PLANET provides a practical measure of the blocks and difficulties that man encounters whenever he challenges the over-all perfection in any endeavor to express himself with any fullness of being. What then may appear to be the gratuitous supervision by a superior reality is often identified as fate or karma. The GREATER MALEFIC however is not so much restrictive or evil as it is exacting. What it reveals in a horoscope is an uncompromising SENSITIVENESS to every requirement of excellence, or to every phase of self-discipline needed for a genuine satisfaction at any given point of progress in self-realization.

JUPITER AND SATURN IN A CONJUNCTION ASPECT indicate an ordering of life's fundamental motives through which the NATIVE often is thrown altogether on his own resources. This is true at least when it comes to any outer encouragement or inner refinement of his psychological foundations. He is inclined to be especially naïve in the moral assurances he builds up for himself in his relations with other people, and it is very difficult for him to establish or maintain any over-all consistency of character. He manages to remain at the threshold of experience, and to exercise the privilege of shaping his destiny pretty much as he desires, but as a price of this freedom he is apt to be endowed with a minimum of discrimination. As a result he frequently finds his acts and reactions subject to rather irrevocable consequences, but this of course can be [123] opportunity as well as handicap. An example is found in the horoscope of the Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who came to the throne as a symbol of an absolute spiritual and temporal power he never sought to claim in the days when his country was more or less in the control of the Black Dragon Society and the industrialists behind its plans for ruthless aggression. He came into his theoretical birthright as an administrative divinity when he took control of events for the period of transition into a constitutional monarchy, but then he was willing to play the figurehead again and even to surrender the myth of a heavenly origin for his line. Another illustration is provided by the chart of Walt Disney, who brought a fresh horizon of very needed fantasy to a whole world when he created Mickey Mouse. The conception had its origin in lean days at the drawing board, when a very real little creature seemed much more a welcome companion for the spirit than a pest to be harmed. Before long the happy conceit had become a superb dramatization of conscious personality in its brave display of what all too often is only a potential effectiveness.

JUPITER AND SATURN NOT IN MAJOR ASPECT indicate a lack of real ordering of life's fundamental motives. The CONFIGURATION reveals a tendency to underrate the value of any genuine discipline of the character, and thus to permit too great a dominance of the personal life by intimates or associates of any or every sort. Since a majority of NATIVITIES fall in this category, differing from the case of the sun and the moon where the greater ORBS of ASPECT are allowed, the INDICATION is not too sharply individual. It usually means that the actual dynamic potentials in the [124] given case are to be found elsewhere in the horoscopic wheel. The slightness of the stress on moral endeavor suggests an unusual capacity for the assimilation of self to some chosen or even bizarre way of life, or contrariwise for a high self-dedication to values that for better or worse happen to be enthroned in the particular milieu where the NATIVE finds himself. Thus at times there is a surrender to conformity for the sake of peace, and so a betrayal of all spontaneity or ultimate discrimination. An example is found in the horoscope of William Randolph Hearst, the publisher. The splendid abilities he demonstrated early in his career, in his spectacular development of his newspaper empire, were thwarted almost tragically when he sought to win public office and thus capture the real confidence of the American public. His defeat in the political arena was due very largely to his impenetrable indifference, as exhibited when he shrugged off a major setback with a gesture and with the proposal that his companions hurry off with him on a fishing trip. Working against him too was his habit of deciding all personal problems with a regal assurance, such as tended to alienate those around him. Another illustration is provided by the chart of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the principal founder of modern Theosophy. Her occult channelship was remarkable because she seemed to be totally unimpeded by any consideration of self, or of personal motive in any usual sense, and because also she was utterly devoid of awe for the religious and ethical inhibitions of the generation to which she was addressing herself.

JUPITER AND SATURN IN AN OPPOSITION ASPECT indicate an ordering of life's fundamental motives through which [125] the NATIVE usually is compelled to dramatize himself continually in the presence of his fellows, at least if he wishes to participate with them in any course of everyday experience. This necessity often tends to throw a given lifetime into two entirely separate periods, with the latter revealing a greater depth and continuity of realization as a perhaps unsuspected consequence of the mirroring it has given itself through some more superficial role-playing in the former. There may be either a prodigal expenditure of the self's resources, with their ultimate recapture in a refinement of soul, or a moral vacillation that accentuates every weakness of character and so encourages a surrender to a final and hopeless ineptitude. An example is found in the horoscope of Robert Browning, the English poet. He emerged from his initial years of relative obscurity with his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett, at a time when her popularity was at its height, and thereupon proceeded to become the fountainhead of a cult and the inspiration for a very esoteric interpretation and study of his writings. Another illustration is provided by the chart of Chinese Gordon, as the eccentric and famous English general was best known. He distinguished himself signally in the suppression of the Taiping Rebellion, and then managed to lose his magic touch when he sought to repeat his exploits of the Far East in a thoroughly muddled African situation. With much success in meeting his problems at the beginning, he moved on to the tragic climax with an almost quixotic impracticality.

JUPITER AND SATURN IN A SQUARE ASPECT indicate an ordering of life's fundamental motives through which the NATIVE usually suffers very immediate consequences of [126] even the least neglect or abuse of his own potentials. He finds he must fight continually for the ideals in which he has come to take the most consistent interest, and also learns that his conscious well-being is wholly dependent on the moral struggles in which he becomes involved almost inevitably at every stage of his experience. If he does not relish the days in which he seems torn to pieces in self-uncertainty, he must discover ways to tear himself apart deliberately and in equally painful fashion on the behalf either of some cause of real significance or some conception that he can dramatize through his own being. Personal existence under this configuration can become either great opportunity or else a gradual disintegration of the soul in the very core of itself. An example is the horoscope of Admiral Robert E. Peary, the explorer, whose career was marked by a singleminded pursuit of a dramatic objective under exceptionally difficult conditions. Although he is credited officially with the discovery of the north pole, the cloud of doubt raised by the almost ridiculous claims of Dr. Frederick A. Cook still lingers over his achievement, and that is the type of situation characteristic of those who tend to falter at all under this INDICATION. Another illustration is provided by the chart of Walter Winchell, the news commentator, whose career has been marked from the beginning by endless controversy and bitter indictment of his personality.

JUPITER AND SATURN IN A TRINE ASPECT indicate the ordering of life's fundamental motives through which the NATIVE is equipped from birth with a gift for free and easy association with others on every level of experience. He is inclined to participate very happily in whatever may call [127] to him, out of the commonplace activities of his environment, and in general to agree with the reactions and opinions of those with whom he has momentary association. There is danger of a psychological disattunement within himself if he plays the chameleon too often or too thoroughly, and as if in subconscious realization of this he is inclined to cling very dogmatically to whatever principles and prejudices have become the core of his personality. In consequence he may seem to be the hypocrite, in a superficial sense, and if this tendency is encouraged any popularity is likely to be dissipated at once. An example is found in the horoscope of the Duke of Windsor, since his efforts to fit into the pattern of expectation brought him too little general approbation to compensate for what he increasingly felt to be a hypocritical if not impossible role. Another illustration is provided by the chart of Neville Chamberlain, England's prime minister whose Munich pact with Hitler proved to be fruitless appeasement. As is true of every well-meant attempt to achieve sweetness and light without meeting any brutality of spirit in terms it will respect, Chamberlain's effort for lifetime peace ended up in a complete betrayal of moral principles.

JUPITER AND SATURN IN A SEXTILE ASPECT indicate the ordering of life's fundamental motives through which the NATIVE is able to take his place in the scheme of things with little if any of the agony of soul by which character is created. He usually has every encouragement to express himself, and in general there is gratifying approval for whatever he may choose to do. In consequence he is inclined to indulge himself, and to allow much of real value and meaning in experience to pass him by with little [128] attention or appreciation. When he is fortunate enough to make enduring ties with others, or to cultivate strong allegiances in the social milieu in which he has established himself, he gains a genuine stability of spirit and thereupon accomplishes much for himself and for those to whom he offers assistance. When he seeks to work alone, or to depend entirely on his own inner resources, he often finds himself adrift or helpless in every psychological sense. An example is found in the horoscope of Joseph Paul Goebbels, Hitler's fanatical associate and indispensable aid in creating the Nazi Myth. The extraordinary attachment of the warped genius for the almost solipsistic Fuhrer resulted in a deadly effectiveness in the continual appeals to prejudice, such as man's unreasoning desire for special privileges or senseless building of a self-security gained by assuming some sort of racial and cultural superiority. Another illustration is provided by the chart of Eleanor Roosevelt, who grew up in the cradling shelter of the first Roosevelt circle and then ultimately came to have a recognition that while deservedly in her own right was yet entirely consequent on an entrance into public life as her husband's companion.

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