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.Second decan, sudden motion of armies and commandeeringof private and public things.78 Third decan, death of some illustrious man.Cancer.-First decan, the Moon being here eclipsed denotes the stirringup of wars.Second decan, grievous exactions, intolerable tributes, taxes,and like burdens.Third decan, death to the female sex, sudden destruction andmiseries.Leo.-First decan, sudden infirmity of the king or the death of agreat man.Second decan, journey of the king and mutation of things.Third decan, stirs up the people and armies to new attempts.Virgo.-First decan causeth sickness and infirmaties to the king, andvarious seditions and discords among men.Second decan, great damage to counsellors and scribes.Third decan, diseases to mortals.Libra.-First decan provoketh furious storms of hail.Second decan is pernicious to everyone.Third decan threatens the death of some renowned andillustrious man.Scorpio.-First decan, horrible thunder and lightning, and perhaps anearthquake.Second decan dries up olives and the air, and causes burningfevers.Third decan, sharp sickness, with many seditions, quarrelsand slaughter.Sagittarius.-First decan presages thefts and rapines.Second decan, destruction to horses and mules.79 Third decan, the pestilence and many evils among men.Capricornus.-First decan, instigations among men and the lamentablemurder of some excellent man.Second decan, frequent incursions and assaults of soldiers,robberies and captivities.Third decan, the death of some king, and also sedition.Aquarius.-First decan, the sickness of some king.Second decan universally hurts the seed of the earth.Third decan causeth a change in all things.Pisces.-First decan brings sorrow to priests and religious houses.Second decan, death of some great illustrious person.Third decan threatens robberies and promiscuous rapinesboth by land and sea.Thus far the author, who evidently lived in troublous times.Itmust be confessed, however, that the ascriptions areexceedingly vague, and in some instances unduly boisterousand violent, while it is difficult to trace the connectionbetween eclipses of the Moon in any sign and violenthailstorms unless they happen immediately at or very soonafter the eclipse.But in some particulars it will be found thatthey have a remarkable close application to the trend ofevents as we find them.80 CHAPTER X.-----------------Transits over Eclipse Points----------------The longitude of an eclipsed luminary being noted, thesubsequent transits of the major planets both by conjunctionand opposition are valuable pointers as to the exact time atwhich an eclipse will eventuate, or events symbolised will berealised.This seems to indicate that the eclipse in itself has nocausative value so far as human happenings are concerned,but rather a symbolical signification which point to eventswhich are signalled.It is as if one should say the clockshowing seven of the evening indicates the hour for dinner.Itcannot be said that the clock either produces, sets out, orserves the dinner, but simply that it indicates the dinner-hour.Similarly a white light showing down the railroad indicatesall clear ahead, a green light is a caution as to time, while ared light is a danger signal.It is open to the driver of alocomotive upon seeing the red light either to slow down andstop until the signals are favourable to progress, or to goahead with full steam and meet disaster.Eclipses have nocompelling influence; they are not efficient causes in a moraland intellectual sense, though they may very well have adirect dynamic effect upon the body of the Earth itself,existing and operating as they do upon the same plane.Alsothey may have responsive action in the physical body of man,it being compounded of cosmic elements81 similar to, if not identical with, those that enter into thecomposition of all celestial bodies.In this sense the Sun isrelated to the organic nature of the body of man, and theMoon to the functional nature.But of this more anon.The significance of an eclipse having been determined by itssign position, it will be found that what is signified usuallycomes to pass exactly at the time that one of the majorplanets afterwards makes transit of the longitude of theeclipse, whether by conjunction or opposition.Thus the eclipse of April 17th, 1912, which was the precursorof the Balkan War, took place in Aries 27.Now the planetMars came to the opposition of that eclipse, that is to saylongitude of the Sun, on October 14th, 1912, and on that veryday war broke out at Adrianople.It is worthy of note that theeclipse line of apparition fell in latitude 43 degree North, andits longitude was 27 degree East of the equinox, which,measured from Greenwich, points exactly to the centre ofoutbreak, the Balkans.The war took its course, and came toan apparent end, but suddenly broke out again in June, 1913,on the very day Mars came to the place if the same eclipse inAries 17.From this we learn that eclipses, or the eventssignified by them, may remain in latency for many months,and are liable to spring into existence at such times as themajor planets transit them
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