i mmmmm*?™"*™: **1 Mm^^M^^Wy? HHHH ••• t ;^:W-N<- KtfHH* THE L1BKAKX \ TCHAiU VOUNG UNIVERSH* fROVO, UT1H if ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY BY BROUGHTON, L. D. M. D. "To deny the influence of the stars is to deny the wisdom and providence of God." Tycho Brahe. '"A mostunfailing experience ofthe excitement ofsublunary naturesby the conjunctions and aspects ofthe planets, has instructedandcompelled my unwilling belief.'' John Kepler. "Principles builton the unerring foundationofobservationsandexperiments, must necessarily stand good until the dissolution of nature itself." . Emerson. Price, $1.50. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 68 South Washington Square. v ASTRONOMICAL SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS OF SIGNS, PLANETS AND ASPECTS. SIGNS. ¥ Aries. =s= Libra. 8 Taurus. ttl Scorpio. n Gemini. $ Sagittarius. 2p Cancer. Y3 Capricorn. ^ Leo. Aquarius. Si Virgo. X Pisces. rrti PLANETS. » Neptune. O Sun. TJIJlT rClTcflilnliLiloc. $ Venus. ^ Saturn. £ Mercury. 2£ Jupiter. J Moon. S Mars. © Part of Fortune. ASPECTS. (/ Conjunction, oo° Sesq. Sesquiquadrate, 135 -*- Semi-sextile, 3°° Bq. Bi-quintile, 144 Semi-square, 45° Opposition, 180 Z_ c? = ^c Sextile, 6o° P Parallel, Q Quintile, 2° & Dragon's Head. 7 n Square, 9o° Dragon's Tail. £5 A Trine, 120° Degrees, o H Hours. M Minutes, / Minutes. Second of Space, If S Seconds of time. One would think that people would ask the advice of some competent Astrologer who has made thousands of observations, on such as marriages, partnerships, commencing business, or laying a corner stone, etc., before commencing these undertakings, especially when it can be proved by thou- sands or even millions of instances, that when the planets at these events are in evil positions for such undertakings, in 99 cases out of every 100, prove unfortunate or disastrous to the persons undertaking them, that these people would, in time learn to pay attention to such matters, but such is not the case. I will here state that I had intended devotinga certain part of this work to "The Elements of Horary Astrology," also "Mundane Astrology," " Medical Astrology," and "Astro- Theology," but I shall have to defer these branches of the science to another volume. I hope to follow thepresent book with one on nativities, in the same method as the horoscopes commencing on page 295. Copyright, 1898, by L. D. Broughton. Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England. THE LIBRARY BRIGHAM YOU: PROVO. BROUGHTON, L. D. Mc D, CHART OF THE HEAVENS FOR THE TIME OF BIRTH OF BROUGHTON, Dr. L. D. April 20th, 1828, at 10.00 A.M., Leeds, Yorkshire, Eng. PREFACE. Many of my readers may think I have devoted too much space in these pages in answering the opponents of Astrology, my instead of giving all attention to the teaching and illustra- tion of the science, but as the opponents are in a great majority in all Christian countries their influence is too im- portant to be slighted. Some years ago, when the Legislature of a Western State enacted a law to suppress Astrology, the Philadelphia " Ledger," in an editorial stated that the Legislatures would not need to enact such laws if they would teach the people to read and write therefore the only reason that I am an ; Astrologer is because I can neither read nor write. If some kind missionary, instead of going to teach the heathen in China or in the wilds of Africa to read and write, would devote some of his energy in teaching me, he would forever stop me from prating about Astrology; besides, it might be the means of saving my soul. At the age of eighteen it was my misfortune to lose my father, and I shall never forget how the minister of the Episcopal Church which we attended, devoted a whole after- noon, while my father lay dead in the house, in arguing and trying to persuade my eldest brother to give up the belief and practise of Astrology. There is little doubt that the minister, in his mind's eye, saw my father's soul writhing in all the agonies of the damned, and felt it to be his duty to save my brother, if possible, from such torments. The same minister, when talking to me afterwards, praised the beautiful language in the forms of prayer in his church prayer book, and said that ' we not only ought all to pray ' alike, and use the same set forms of prayer, but we ought all to think alike on all religious subjects*" In trying to compel every one to think and pray alike, the authorities have tried, convicted, and executed in Europe, within the last fourhundred years, over eleven million heretics and witches, including Astrologers, and they have not yet IV PREFACE. succeeded in accomplishing their object. If we estimate the amount of money, time, and energy that it has cost the people of those countries in hunting up, arresting, trying, convicting, and executing these people, even if they had succeeded in their object, would they nothave paid too dearly for their whistle? And if the governments and priests had spent the same amount of time, money, and laborin teaching the people useful knowledge, including Astrology, how much further would the world now be advanced in civilization and human happiness? Even if the priests and clergy had suc- ceeded in compelling every person to think and believe alike in religious matters, I should like to know how much better we would be. Should we not, in that case, be taking rapid strides backward to the dark ages, and to the hanging and burning of witches and heretics? Would not human intellect be shrouded in ignorance, superstition and bigotry? A large number of these heretics and witches, including Joan of Arc, have been placed on the calendar of saints, and the people have built monuments to their memory but in ; all history I have never met with a single instance where the judges and persecutors of these witches and heretics have been thus honored and immortalized. From our standpoint the question natturally arises, who were the guilty par- — ties those who were executed, or the persecutors and execu- tioners? My father had many friends on account of his Astrological knowledge, and they often came to him for advice, but he did not take money for it; he also taught a number of per- sons the science, among them the late Frof. Lister,'formerly of Boston, afterwards of New York. My-father was a man of extensive information, and to my young mind seemed to be a walking encyclopoedia. I do not remember asking him a question on any subject whatever to which he could not give me a lucid and proper answer; but he always had one saying when he got through, which I now repeat: "I am getting old, my memory is failing me do not take my word ; for it, but read and study for yourself."