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leon? Of course, it will be objected that a prince anglais is specified, but oracles have always been privileged to palter with us in a double sense, and to use words in a way apart from their obvious meaning, and which only becomes clear after fulfilment, often avowedly with the intent of diverting attention from the quarter actually meant. Could the old wizard be questioned he might perhaps say that the hapless prince’s English residence, training, and environments, the way in which he lost his life in the service of England, and the marked manner with which England has taken him to herself sufficiently entitled him', for prophetic purposes at least, to be termed “English” till events should show. Save that word, all else fits.
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Sir,—At fifteen minutes past three on the morning of the 16th of Mach, 1856, in latitude 48º 50 N., the Imperial Prince, son of Louis Napoleon, Emperor of the French, was born. He recently, as everyone knows, met with a violent death in a distant land.
At the hour of birth 10 degrees of the sign Capricorn were rising, and there is no planet near the ascendant. Persons born within this sign, according to the rules of astrology, are “of a dry constitution, slender make, with a long thin face, thin beard, dark hair, long neck, narrow chin and breast, weak knees, and often deformed. Disposition subtle, witty, but changeable; at times melancholy, capricious as a goat.” As the moon is probably hyleg (or Giver of Life) in this figure, she being posited in the seventh house in the sign Cancer, presumably this planet will have considerable effect in giving the physical and mental conformation of the native. The moon in Cancer shows a person “of middle stature, well-made, and fleshy, fair complexion, round face, rather pale, brown hair; of a sociable, pleasing, courteous disposition, kind to all, harmless and respected.” The “moon has always great influence over the constitution, whether hyleg? or not.” The reader is left to form his own conclusions as to which of these two signs most stamped their ideality upon the deceased. There are many interesting points in the figure to which it will not be necessary to allude, but I pass on at once to the particular aspects which declare, in unmistakable terms, what mad folly it was for him to thrust himself into strife, y Any astrologer, by a single glance at the figure, could unhesitatingly ’nave affirmed that disaster would follow his military pursuits. Mars, the great astrological factor in war, is posited in the ninth house (long journeys), and is retrograding into the eighth, or house of death, being written six degrees of entering. The y moon is just beyond the cusp of the seventh (in the house of his public enemies), and Mars, from his evil position, is squaring both the moon (hyleg) and the ascendant. Be it remembered that the moon is posited in the house of the native's foes, and that Mars throws the fatal aspect to both the moon and the ascendant. Turning to the rules of the art we note that “the ascendant to the square of Mars is a very evil direction, giving sickness of the y nature of Mars, and the sign he is in. Accidents, cuts, bums, stabs, hot diseases, and rarely escaping loss of blood.” . . . The moon to the square of Mars gives “mischief to body and mind, accidents, misfortunes, imprisonment, and loss of property. He has diseases, according to the sign Mars is in. If the moon be hyleg he is in danger of death by fire, cuts, wounds, bites, kicks, or gunshot. He is quarrelsome, inclined to bear arms, or become acquainted with military men, and is addicted to vices according to the sign Mars is in.” The sun in the second house is squared from the sixth (sickness) by Saturn, the greater malefic, and Uranus is on the cusp of the fourth. Noting these aspects of the planets and referring to the rules, again we find “when the ascendant is afflicted, and both the evil planets attack the sun and moon, or only one of them, a remarkable death generally takes place. An evil planet in the eighth house (or retrograding into it) is a testimony of a painful death.”
We leave these facts to speak for themselves, with the simple observation that the Prince Imperial was never destined to thrive in arms. His first “baptism of fire” in Europe was a disastrous one, and that in Africa was fatally so; but the end of all his military exploits was clearly written in his own horoscope, and his decease adds further accumulative testimony to the truth of astrology.
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Editor's notes
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London Spiritualist, No. 363, August 8, 1879, p. 71