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MEDICAL ASTROLOGY

often causing them to make silly and out of the way remarks. Saturn and Mars afflicting each other often cause broken bones, sprains, and falls from animals, but sometimes cause disease according to the signs they are located in (people born with Saturn and Mars in conjunction seldom ever escapes broken limbs some time in life, especially if located in Gemini, Sagittarius, Capricorn, or Aquarius).

Having shortly summed up the manner of giving judgment on the nature and length of disease, we would again warn every one against giving judgment from transits alone, consider well the position and strength of all the planets concerned in the sickness, and then calculate the directions and promise recovery or otherwise at time of their culmination.

The following rule for judging of time in horary figures is given in "Simmonite's Horary Astrology," which we find to be the most accurate. "Should the aspects be cast from mavable signs and angles of the figure we judge days for degrees; If from succeedent houses and angles, weeks; Cadent houses to angles, months; from common signs to angles, weeks; common

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