What Alan Leo and Sepharial said about this chart's placements ↓

What the astrologers said about these placements

The wheel above is arithmetic — the same positions any ephemeris gives, cross-checked against Swiss Ephemeris. What follows is not. These are opinions, published around 1900 by astrologers writing for a Theosophical readership, matched to the placements this chart happens to have and quoted with their pages so you can see exactly who is talking.

4 of this chart's 10 placements have something written about them in these books. The rest are listed too, saying so.

  1. Sun 10°22′08″ Capricorn house 10

    Nothing in these books.

  2. Moon 13°19′26″ Scorpio house 8

    Moon in the eighth house

    Moon in the eighth house denotes a death of a more or less public nature, death by drowning, shipwreck, public calamity, or in the presence of many people. Afflicted by Mars, danger of sudden or violent death; by Saturn, a lingering or very grievous end;

    Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity, p. 199 — Modern Astrology Office, London, this printing 1928 · The 1928 printing, scanned

  3. Mercury 1°53′21″ Capricorn house 10

    Nothing in these books.

  4. Venus 1°33′57″ Sagittarius house 9

    Nothing in these books.

  5. Mars 27°57′48″ Aquarius house 11

    Nothing in these books.

  6. Jupiter 25°15′11″ Aries house 1

    Jupiter in the first house

    Jupiter in the first house gives a good, happy and long life; in the second riches; in the third family affection and fortunate short journeys;

    Rosa Baughan, The Influence of the Stars, p. 267 — T. Fisher Unwin, London, fourth edition, 1889 · Project Gutenberg, ebook 42889

  7. Saturn 10°23′44″ Taurus house 2

    Nothing in these books.

  8. Uranus 14°48′33″ Aquarius house 11

    Uranus in the eleventh house

    Uranus in the eleventh house denotes peculiar and remarkable friendships ; the native will meet with those who will either benefit or injure him considerably. Sudden and unusual attachments will be formed, and also sudden and unexpected estrangements.

    Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity, p. 218 — Modern Astrology Office, London, this printing 1928 · The 1928 printing, scanned

  9. Neptune 3°11′35″ Aquarius house 11

    Neptune in the eleventh house

    NEPTUNE in the eleventh house denotes unfavourable attachments, which rarely produce any lasting or satisfactory friendship. If much afflicted there is serious trouble and danger from friends and acquaintances. It signifies unique friendships, good or bad.

    Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity, p. 218 — Modern Astrology Office, London, this printing 1928 · The 1928 printing, scanned

  10. Pluto 11°27′17″ Sagittarius house 9

    Nothing in these books.

Why so many are silent: Leo's house readings are uneven, his sign readings cover the Sun and the Moon and no other planet, Sepharial arranged his book by question rather than by placement, and any passage whose scan carries a word no dictionary holds is refused rather than half-quoted. Forty-nine readings exist in all, against a possible one hundred and thirty-two.

Who is quoted here, and who is not

Alan Leo, whose How to Judge a Nativity is the only one of these books arranged as a lookup table — a paragraph per planet per house — which is why everybody copied it; and Sepharial, who arranged the same material by the question a reader brings, so only a few of his judgements stand alone well enough to quote.

William Lilly is not here, and not because he was not asked. Christian Astrology (1647) is the most important book in English on the subject and this study holds it as a text already — but every scan of it is long-s blackletter, and the OCR renders the title of its own first book as “An Introduci ion to Aftrologje”. There is nothing in it a reader could trust a quotation from.