might diverge the sublime rays of ever-enduring truth to the remotest climes. For myself, nothing within the circle of my humble means shall be wanting to compass this desirable end, and I shall look forward with real anxiety to the reception this letter may receive from you, and your intelligent readers. In the hope that my proposition will find many early supporters, I shall merely add, that those who are disposed in its favor had better convey to you their sentiments, so that a meeting without delay might be called to adjust the preliminary basis. In the mean time I shall cheerfully attend to any intimation that may be given either by you, or any of your correspondents, and shall be proud to see you view the thing in a favorable light. With my warmest wishes for the success of your work, I remain, Sir, ASTROLOGUS. Remarks upon the Nativity of Mr. John Lambert. [Continued from page 288.] MR. LAMBERT strictly followed the opinion of Ptolemy, excepting as to the terms of the planets, and the mode of directing the hileg to the western horizon, with the addition and subtraction of the interjacent rays, as explained by Placidus and Partridge; and I must confess that in respect to the terms, whether they are taken according to the Chaldean or Egyptian method, they af ford some grounds for objection; and though from the experience I have had of the wonderful truths contained in almost every part of the quadripartite, and firmly be lieve in the whole, as far as relates to a general judgment; yet it is possible, the consideration of the terms may not affect that judgment. The ancients, no doubt, must have been extremely diligent and attentive, in their observations for ages, in tracing causes to their effects, and in discovering the harmony and sympathy between the heavens and the earth, to be enabled to transmit to posterity, such a volume of true and infallible science, as the quadripartite of Ptolemy; yet it must be allowed, that they judged certain parts of the zodiac to be the terms of one planet, and other parts to be the terms of another, from the agreement between those places, and the nature of the planet they attributed them to. Now it is near seventeen hundred years since Ptolemy wrote his quadripartite; and he gives the terms according to the Egyptians, as he says, " on account of the credit of its ancient tradition;" and in the same chapter, in speaking of the Chaldean terms, he mentions an old writing containing them," in many places worn out by age;" therefore if we suppose the terms were found by experience, two thousand years back, to agree with the planets then allotted to them, it is evident the nature of those places must be greatly altered by the change of longitude, and declination of the fixed stars, occasioned by the retrocession of the equinox; so that the stars in one degree of any sign, two thousand years ago are now in the twentyninth degree of the same sign. However, it is possible, that particular parts of the same sign may agree with the nature of one planet, and other parts of it sympathise with another, independent of the fixed stars, from their respect to, or distance from, the equinoctial and tropical points, from whence the sighs themselves derive their nature and virtue. without regard to the fixed stars in them. I should be sorry to differ from Ptolemy, even in a single sentence, without repeated experience and demoustrative proofs of its error; yet reason tells us, that the Georgian planet should be allowed to possess some terms, as well as the others; but not being known to the ancients, it has neither house nor terms; and it is therefore reasonable to suggest, that the allotment of the terms may be erroneous; and from its being nearly the lowest essential dignity a planet can have, it will make but little difference in the general judgment, deducible from any astrological figure. It may be fairly asked, why the luminaries are not allowed to possess certain terms, seeing they are allowed to have their regular triplicities in common with the planets? And here it may not be amiss to notice, that notwithstanding the little apparent derangement produced in the system of astrology, by the introduction of the Georgium sidus, it happily fills up a chasm of greater consequence, if we allow it to preside with Mars, over the watery triplicity, as one planet was certainly wanted before the discovery of Herschel, to complete the system in this respect. As the dignity of triplicity is of infinitely more power and consequence than the terms, therefore the ancients were less liable to err in the triplicity than in the terms; and without destroying the system of astrology transmitted to us by the ancients, according to the best means of information they possessed; it would make it more agreeable to nature and reason, to allow Saturn and Herschel to possess the two signs opposite to the houses of the luminaries; so that Saturn, though perfectly agreeing with the nature of Capricorn, being cold and dry, may possibly be strong there, yet the Georgian planet may perhaps possess the supreme rule of Capricorn, which would make the sys tem with the introduction of the Georgian planet perfectly harmonious. However, I merely throw this out as a hint for the consideration of the unbiassed student, as I am well aware that the ancient system of astrology resulted from long experience, aud laborious observation, and should not be subverted, or suffer the least detraction upon slight grounds. But if we allow the Georgian planet to have influence, it must be admitted the system of the ancients was a little defective; but as to the four small planets recently discovered between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, they may reasonably be left out of astrological consideration: for in the first place, they are so extremely diminutive in comparison with the least of the other planets; and in the next place they deviate so far from the ecliptic or path of the earth, as not to affect it: yet it is possible they may have some slight operation when in their nodes, which happens but seldom. It was such considerations as those, which induced Mr. Lambert to receive cautiously, and examine closely for himself, even Ptolemy's opinions; and his own nativity, set him upon enquiry about directing the hileg to the western horizon, as the sun is unquestionably the giver of life; yet he could not find, by adding the good, and subtracting the evil interjacent rays, it wonld agree with the result: and from various experiments I am led to think with Mr. Lambert, that Ptolemy was either mistaken, or has been misunderstood by Partridge or Placidus: for I have in my own family three nativities, where the hileg is above the western angle, and within four degrees of the cusp, and they each had illness at the time it came to the seventh house by oblique descension, yet did not destroy life in either; and being so near the horizon, there could not be many interjacent aspects, either good or bad. Indeed, so far from the seventh house I i NO. VIII. invariably destroying the lord of life, as Ptolemy expresses it, I have seen several persons living, where the hileg was exactly on the seventh at their birth. I shall just observe further, that Mr. Lambert could not see the reason for directing the sun differently from its being in the eastern crepusculine space; and he thought himself justified by experience in his different opinions. To proceed to his nativity, we find Taurus ascending the eastern horizon. and Venus ruler of it in Capricorn, upon the cusp of the tenth house; and though Venus in that sign generally describes a small person, yet the moon being in Leo, and exactly on the cusp of the fifth house, or in mundane trine to the ascendant, would add to his stature; and he was a well grown man, pos sessing a firm, determined, and resolute mind, from the moon being in a fixed sign; and having the declination of Mars, and nearly in conjunction with that planet in a fiery sign, made him hasty in temper; and though Mercury in conjunction with Jupiter in Sagittarius, in the seventh house, gave him excellent abilities, and made him ready at learning every thing he applied himself to; yet their being in an obeying sign, and the moon in a commanding sign, strong as his reasoning faculties were, his sensitive were still stronger. It is remarkable that he was from 18 years of age to the end of life, almost con tinually embroiled and entangled with different females at the same time; and his inclination in this respect is aptly signified by the potency of Venus, his significator on the tenth, in the amorous and movable sign Ca pricorn; and though never exactly single, he was never married ;. which is well denoted by the moon being in conjunction with Mars, and in opposition to Saturn. However, he was very near marriage about 36 years of age; he had then operating in his nativity the moon te |