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THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS

What wonder then if the king’s messengers, the circling stars, take from the unfaithful steward that which he had and give to the other, changing their adversity to prosperity in later lives. Thus the pendulum of luck and loss, success and failure changes through many lives till we learn to make our own “luck” by ruling our stars.

“A god can love without cessation,
But under laws of alteration
We mortals need, in changing measure,
Our share of pain as well as pleasure,”


And it is this necessity for change that is ministered unto us by the circling stars which form configurations that we call good or evil, though they are neither from a higher standpoint, for no matter how good the horoscope; by progression of the stars evil configurations are sure to come and no matter how evil, there are always new opportunities for good given by aspects of the Sun, Venus and Jupiter to our planets at birth. All that we have to do is ta grasp the opportunity, help our stars, that our stars may help us.

Amulets, Birth-stones and Planetary Colors

In the windows of jewelers, and in the cheap, ready made horoscopes one may often read that it is ‘lucky’ for people born in a certain month to wear a particular stone or color. It means business