This compilation © Phoenix E-Books UK DIRECTIONAL ASTROLOGY DIRECTIONAL ASTROLOGY TO WHICH IS ADDED A DISCUSSION OF PROBLEMATIC POINTS AND A COM PLETE SETOFTABLES NECESSARY FOR THE CALCULATION OF ARCS OF DIRECTION BY SEPHARIAL AUTHOR OF "COSMtC SYMBOLtSM,""AMANUAL OF ASTROLOGY," "A MANUAL OF OCCULTtSM,""THE KABALA OF NUMBERS," "KABALtSTtCASTROLOGY,"ETC- PHILADELPHIA DAVID McKAY 604-608 SOUTH WASHINGTON SQUARE 1921 PREFACE A word by way of introduction to this work may be necessary, inasmuch as it deals with a technical subject, and the scope and purport of it cannot very readily be apprehended by the casual reader. It is essentially a book for the astrological student. To the astronomer it is particularly informing in that it brings out the more scientific part of the subject and shows the mathematical basis underlying the " lucky hits" to which many of our astrological exponents have undisputed claim. The general scope of this work embraces all that is essential to the art of " directing " as practised by Claudius Ptolemy and Titus de Placidus, and more recently by Sir John Wharton, Mr John Gadbury, Commander Morrison, R.N., and Mr A. J. Pearce, all of whom pursued the same general principles of astronomical directing, and differed considerably in their application of the celestial arcs to the measure of time. These points are reviewed and critically examined in the following pages. v vi DIRECTIONAL ASTROLOGY An attempt having been made to bring the Arabian system of a day for a year into accord with the astronomical system of a degree for a year, some suggestions have here been made as to their rapprochement, the feeling being that, where credit is claimed for one system over another by exponents of either, the probability is that there is truth in both and hence there must be a co-ordinating factor. In the attempt to scientific ally extend our horizon to include a prescience of coming events, we have primarily to remember that there are many ways up a mountain, but there is only one top. A study of these various methods may lead to the conclusion that they are all leading in the same direction. It is as if one should say there are three hundred and sixty paces from endto end ofthe path, and another should say that there are three hundred and sixty-five. Both may be right according to their count and the measure of their tread, but the actual length of the path will remain the same whatever they make of it. This pathway is that which a man has to travel from his cradle to his grave ; and there is nothing that concerns a man so vitally as that he should know its trend and gradient, its pitfalls and rocky eminences, in advance of his going, so that experience may be laid by the heels and made to serve instead of to subjugate. And in the direst extreme of human experience we have to remember that " the wise man foreseeth the evil PREFACE vii and obscureth himself, while the ignorant pass on and are hurt." I have used a well-known and thoroughly authenticated horoscope for purposes of illustra tion, and anybody following the rules here given in relation to that horoscope will have no difficulty in following them out in respect to any other horoscope. Particular care has been taken to define the principle underlying each operation, and to give a clean-cut rule of procedure. Unlike most authors, who proceed by befogging the mind of the student with technicalities and afterwards explaining them by means of an appendix, I have devoted the first chapters of my work to technical definitions which are essential to the proper under standing of the subject ; and until these are clearly apprehended and understood, the student need go no further. To save further expense and trouble, my pub lishers have completed my work by the insertion of a complete set of tables, which include tables of Right Ascension and Declinationfor every degree of the zodiac, together with the ascensional differ ence due to the latitudes of London, Birmingham, and Liverpool under the present obliquity of the Ecliptic ; also tables of Sines and Tangents, and tables of Proportional Logarithms. These are all that are essential to the present treatise, and in themselves constitute a very valuable addition to the volume. It is, of course, presumed that the viii DIRECTIONAL ASTROLOGY student of "Directional Astrology " will have mastered the preliminary task of setting a horo scope for any given time and place with adequate precision, and hence that he is familiar with the use of an ephemeris. The present work is intended to replace and supersede Prognostic Astronomy, which is now out of print. Beyond this I have nothing to say, save that I trust to have done my work efficiently and to have left no point on which a reader need question me. In such case the work may be regarded as complete, and so I hope it will be found. SEPHARIAL. CONTENTS CHAP. PAOE 1. Astronomical Definitions 1 2. Example Horoscope 11 3. Directions in Mundo 18 4. Directions in the Zodiac .... 25 5. Zodiacal and Mundane Parallels . . 32 6. Order op Directing 37 7. Effects of Directions 40 8. Planetary Indicators and the Measure of Time 49 9. Illustration 57 10. Ptolemy and Placidus 62 11. Directions under Poles . . . .71 12. The Part of Fortune 81 13. Lunar Parallax and Semi-diameter . . 86 14. Lunar Equations 94 15. Cuspal Distances 99 16. Suggested Method of True Directing . 107 17. Conclusion 117 Appendix—Tables of Sines, Tangents, etc. . 125 Tables of Right Ascension and Ascensional Difference . . 173 Tables of Proportional Logarithms. 181 iz Directional Astrology CHAPTER I ASTRONOMICAL DEFINITIONS The following definitions must be fully understood by the student before themore intricate part of the system of directing is undertaken. Longitude is oftwo kinds : longitudeinthe Orbit, andlongitude inthe Ecliptic. Thelatteris theonly one recognised and used in this system. It is de fined as distance from the vernal equinox, Aries 0, measured on theplaneof the Ecliptic or Sun'spath. Latitude.—Celestial latitude is distance north or south of the Ecliptic. Declination is distance north or south of the Equator. The Ecliptic lies in declination 23° 27' north and south. RightAscensionisdistancefromthevernalequinox measured on the plane of the Equator. Right ascension thus answers to geographical longitude in the same way as declination answers to geo graphical latitude. Meridian Distance is the distance of a celestial 1