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HORARY ASTROLOGYJames Wilson, 1819: There is nothing in it eithercelestial or diabolical, meritorious or criminal,good or evil; a person is equally justifiable inmaking an inquiry into one thing as another,and to propose a horary question is an act asindifferent in itself as to ask what it is o’clock; itcontains nothing supernatural, for it is natureitself, operating in its usual way.Nicholas deVore, 1947: A valid HoraryFigure indicates the querent’s birthmarks,and bodily deformities. This phase ofAstrology is useful to prove whether thepropounded question is radical, whether ornot it conforms to the querent’s Nativity inone or more important features, and perhapsto prove to skeptics the validity ofastrological analysis & prognosis.

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– from Fixed Stars, by Vivian Robson

ALPHECCA. alpha Coronae Borealis. 12 ä 26Notes: A brilliant white star in the knot of the ribbon. From Al

Na’ir al Fakkah, the Bright One of the Dish. According to Ptolemy it is of the nature ofVenus & Mercury. It gives honour, dignity & poetical & artistic ability.With Sun: Active & brilliant mind, self-seeking, subject to scandal that does not affectthe position.With Moon: Public honour & dignity, suffers through law, partners & neighbors,trouble through underhanded dealings of enemies but eventual triumph over them,bad for love affairs, some faithful friends, greatly esteemed by Venus & Mercury people.With Mercury: Mind more active than body, somewhat indolent, benefits from friends,extravagant but saving in small things, loss by enemies.

A C.E.O. Carter FestivalI AM often asked for the “secret” to

learning this ancient science. My usualanswer is, “practice, practice, study,

study.” Now it seems that many of us willshortly have the time to study & practice,thanks to a collapsing economy. So, shallwe put our time to good use?

One of the best ways is to find a master& copy slavishly. As a boy in Kansas I foundBeethoven and played his music until I hadmemorized virtually everything he everwrote. People said I was mental, and I am.At university I fell in love with an Alsaci-enne & took up the study of French, but hadno knack for language. So I copied the text-book in longhand, captions, quizzes, an-swers, everything. I went to France & wenthitching. Rote work taught me the gram-

mar, making small talk taught me how tospeak. Ever since I have recommended both.Even though, tant pis, I lost the girl.

It was once common for art students toslavishly copy the great masters. Not fornothing did Rembrandt put a hand here, acolor there, along with a shadow, or a sur-prising burst of light. Do you want to writemysteries like Agatha Christie? Take yourfavorite book & write it out, in longhand.Copy and you will learn the secrets.

So how to learn astrology? Pick a mas-ter, get his books, copy. Even if you’ve readthem, even if you think you know them. No,he isn’t God, he isn’t perfect, he will comewith warts galore. Copy & you will findthe invisible links from a paragraph in onebook, to a sentence in another. Copy & theman himself will stand in front of you, asreal as life.

AND you could hardly do better thanCharles E.O. Carter, who livedfrom 1887 to 1968. It was Carter,

not Leo, who established modern astrology,Carter who led & taught for half a century.

Carter wrote ten books, nine of whichare still in print. In this newsletter, temptingextracts from four of them, with more tocome in the weeks ahead. Enjoy!

A C.E.O. Carter Festival

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What You Wantand WhetherYou Get Itfrom Here & There inAstrology

IN a natal or horary chart it is alwaysinteresting to determine what it is thatthe person wants, & also whether or

not he is going to get it – at least in part ifnot wholly. WHAT is wanted is denotedby the 11th house of Hopes, Wishes & Cir-cumstances, and WHETHER it is achievedis shown by the planet ruling the Sign onthe cups of the 11th House. Be sure to notethe distinction we make here.

An intercepted Sign in the 11th signifiesanother great desire bus of secondary impor-tance & usually held in abeyance because ofcircumstances over which the person has in-sufficient control. Sometimes this disclosesa future desire still to be formulated.

Fire Signs on the 11th cusp have a ba-sic desire for spiritual things: Whatevertouches the heart & soul & is creative. Earthsigns want the practical & material, safe-guarding type of thing that can be devel-oped into future security: they want rootsin solid ground & something they can holdon to. Air Signs want whatever is intellec-tual & scientific – the impersonal intereststhat can logically be given to people in gen-eral, because Air Signs are diffuse, havingonly a light hold on what they want whenthey get it, especially in matters intellectual,desiring to spread their knowledge... —Here & There in Astrology, 1961

FromThe Principles of Astrology,1925

THE present work is designed to give aclear and concise presentation of theessential facts of modern Astrology.

A good deal of experience in teachingthe average beginner has convinced me that,while there are several text-books suitablefor the use of the more advanced student orof a novice who has the advantage of per-sonal tuition, the majority are either tooprolix or too condensed for one who is com-pelled to be his own instructor. Moreover,Astrology is now to some extent in themelting-pot : on the one hand, many newideas are being introduced ; on the other,statistical research, such as earlier astrolo-gers could not carry out for lack of suffi-cient data, has cast considerable doubt onthe validity of portions of the rather inco-herent mass of tradition that till recent yearsrepresented astrological science.

The beginner does not wish to be con-fronted with controversial matters, howeverattractive he may find them later. He re-quires, firstly, a statement of what may beregarded as known astrological facts ; andsecondly, an explanation as to how thesefacts affect human life. It is this that I haveaimed at giving him.

An endeavour is made not to neglect thetheoretical aspects of Astrology, for themodern student dislikes what appear to himas isolated statements, and looks for a logi-cal and synthetic aspect to our teaching,without, of course, wishing to plunge at theoutset into metaphysical speculation.

I trust that the Index will be of consid-erable use in practice, since it should enablethe student to find readily those passages thatdeal with any matter that may trouble him.

Finally, I would express my sincere hopethat this book may be of some value in as-sisting its readers to grasp something of thetrue nature and worth of astrological sci-ence, both in the commonest and the mostsublime aspects of human life. Those whohave realized what this may mean to theindividual are reluctant to set any boundsto their estimate of the beneficial effects thatits universal recognition, in a proper form,would mean to the human race.

CHARLES E. O. CARTER

February, 1925.

MOST text-books, including theone for which I am personally re-sponsible, are mainly of an ana-

lytical character and do not attempt to guidethe reader far along the path that leads to pro-ficiency in horoscopic delineation. In fact,few attempts have been made to attack thisproblem, and for a good reason—it is so dif-ficult. Delineation is an art and it cannot betaught as one teaches merely factual knowl-edge. It comes with experience, if the stu-dent have the right inborn aptitudes; that isall that can be said.

However, there seems to me to be a sortof border-land that lies beyond the realms ofpurely text-book teaching and yet is withinthe scope of instruction. No one can make astudent into a good delineator, and, on theother hand, almost anyone with moderateteaching ability can inculcate the alphabet ofastrology : between these two extremes thereis a field wherein, I think, experience can helpinexperience and some general principles canbe formulated and explained. This is what Ihave attempted here, illustrating my ideas inseparate chapters that deal with importantclasses of psychological condition. This bookis designed to follow The Principles of As-trology and may be read in conjunction withThe Astrological Aspects and The Encyclo-paedia of Psychological Astrology. . . .

THE question has often been asked—and will often be asked again, espe-cially in reference to prognosis—

what is the use of astrology? I would replythat man is, at least in his more human mo-ments, a reasoning creature to whom the ideathat life is essentially unreasonable & chaoticmust always appear distressing. It is astrol-ogy, the “grand old science,” as our forerun-ners called it, that can demonstrate how veryfar from chaotic life is, even in its apparentlywidest aberrations from reason, and prognos-tic astrology shows in what orderly ways ourlives unfold their meanings. This, in my expe-rience, greatly tends to satisfy the soul & sootheits moments of tribulations. Indeed, if I mayspeak personally, after almost a quarter-of-a-century of astrological study, astrology not onlyassists us to direct our lives wisely when it isin our power to do so, but it teaches us also toendure bravely whatever may be beyond ourpresent powers to alter or control.

FromSome Principles of HoroscopicDelineation, 1934

—C.E.O. CARTER——C.E.O. CARTER—FromThe Principles of Astrology,1925

FromSome Principles of HoroscopicDelineation, 1934

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– Electional Astrology, 1937

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FromAn Encyclopaedia ofPsychological Astrology, 1923

EVEN from the earliest times certainparts of the Zodiac, usually identi-fied with nebulae or fixed stars have

been considered to possess peculiar powers.Medieval writers also published lists of de-grees to which they assigned special names& qualities, such as azimene, pitted, smoky.Later on, Alan Leo published the“Charubel” and “La Volasfera” delinea-tions of degree-influence, the one certainly& the other probably, based upon clairvoy-ant investigations, and of doubtful scientificvalue. Recently Mr. Maurice Wemyss haspublished, in the pages of Modern Astrol-ogy, numerous articles dealing largely withdegree-influences, treated in pairs of oppo-sites—0o Aries-Libra, and so on—and it is nowwidely held that the study of the individualcharacters of the degrees is one of the mostpromising fields of astrological research.

My own investigations in this direction,while stimulated by Mr. Wemyss’s valuablework, are the results of original study. I amnot prepared to say whether the influencesin question are inherent in the degree, or forsome reason originate in a wider zodiacalarea. In some instances the peculiarity seemsvery local; in others much more extensive.In some cases it seems to derive from onedegree only; in others, from a pair of oppo-site degrees; in others again, from the corre-sponding degrees in the four signs of thequadruplicity. In any event, the reality &value of these local effects are beyond ques-tion, although our knowledge of them is inits infancy. It should be noted that the val-ues of degree-areas are often to be seen inprogressions as well as in the natal figure.

FromThe Astrology of Accidents,1932

THIS work represents an attempt toascertain the astrological indicationsof the accident-diathesis, if we may

call it so. At this point we may state defi-nitely that the aphorisms & rules that havebeen handed down to us from the ancientson this question may be ruthlessly thrownaside as worthless, or nearly so. . .

Our first investigations must be directedto discover, if possible, any factors that arecommon to all serious accidents, or at leastoccur more frequently than mere probabilitywould explain. . . .

The ascendant must be considered with-out forgetting the fact of long & short ascen-sion. The infrequency of Aries & the fre-quency of Libra are perhaps the most note-worthy & unexpected features of the ascend-ing signs. Aries & Pisces rise in about thesame time at London, but the Martian signhas less than half as many occurrences as theJovian. Libra outnumbers Virgo & Scorpio,though these are associated with the 6th &8th houses, of which the second, at any rate,is somewhat suggestive of accidents. ThatLeo should be high is, to me at least, surpris-ing. It is also a common ascendant in infan-tile mortality cases. Capricorn is rare. . . .

WHEN washing, the Moon shouldbe in a watery sign, particularlyCancer, well aspected by Venus or

Jupiter. Afflictions from Saturn should beavoided, for they cause the articles to becomedirty very quickly. When cleaning, a favour-able aspect from Saturn is helpful for it tendsto produce thoroughness; while a good aspectfrom Mars adds energy. The Moon is best inan earthy sign if brooms, brushes, and dustersare being used, and airy signs should beavoided. When having chimneys swept theMoon must not be afflicted by Saturn. It isbest in a fiery sign in good aspect to Jupiter.For household repairs the Moon should be inthe sign ruling the article to be mended, in goodaspect with Venus, Jupiter, or the Sun, and withits dispositor. For general carpentry work theMoon is best in Cancer, favourably aspectedby Jupiter, but for mending furniture Libra orAquarius are the most suitable signs. For paint-ing, the Moon should be in a watery sign, es-pecially Scorpio; for whitewashing, in Cancer;and for paper-hanging, in one of the airy signs.For electrical work the best signs are Aquarius,Libra or Gemini, or when the Moon is in goodaspect to Uranus; and for gas repairs, the Moonshould be in Aquarius, or in good aspect toNeptune.

Charles Carter, aged 61

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