10
THE
FEBRUARY HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
7, 1938.
— FAGTS ABOUT
SPARE
ASTROLOGY
F you want to learn the secret soul of Jones or dis cover if Jane should take up art or floor-scrubbing, look at a plan of the sky at the Instant of their birth. You will not be misled-say the astrologers.
Don't worry about Belelgueuse ("Beetle-juice" to sailors): disregard the Plough; give the spiral nebulae of the Milky Way miss in baulk. All you need study are: 12 Signs of the Zodiac; 7 Planets; Sun; Moon. These 21 heavenly bodies-say the Astrologers-are the only stars that matter to mankind. the in By
their position heavens-say the Astrologers- the Fate of the "Native" in ruled.
Greece,
Aug. 23-Sep. 22 Belief in the stars goes back to Sep. 23-Oct. 22 Oct. 23-Nov, 21 Babylon,
China, India.
Arabia (between the seventh and thirteenth Nov. 22-Dec. 22 centuries), Europe (during the first stirrings of the Reniscence) all un-
an astrological
derwent
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Virgo, the Virgin; grees away (sexille); 20 degrees Libra, the Scales. away (square); 120 degrees away Scorpio, the (trine); 135 degrees away (sesqui- Scorpion. quadrate); 150 degrees away (quin- cunx) or in opposition; 180 degrees Sagittarius, the
Archer. (a whole semi-circle) away. If you Each of these slims is given get them further away than a half- phase, symbol, so to read an astrological circle, you measure on the other Then, during the Age of Reason, chort requires a knowledge of astro- half-circle
Each of the own super- logical shorthand.
trine is The square is bad, the sank until in
good: conjunctions and scientific, hyper-civilised, twentieth- planets is also given a symbol. Each
parallels rentury era (when we seek nrustic positional relation likewise.
variable; sextiles and semi- The Involved rules of casting sextiles are goodish; the others bad inspiration
in jungle-rhythm and Intem-poles). Astrology has again horoscope require a book to explain to very bad.
destinies them. The Signs are grouped into our to guide emerged
of three each Trine is good, but three planets ("to-day, we
wear diamond green, use triplicities-groups
the primitive in trine is bad. The nearness or re-
from the Sunday representing one of
exact No. according
elements-earth, air, Bre. water, moteness of planets
positions controls the degree of in-
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ARTICLE
Strangled
by the Old School
TIE
WALTER HAMMOND, Eng
land'a greatest all-round cricketer, recently left the ranks of the professionals and this season will play for his county, Gloucestershire, as an amateur.
Will he be chosen to captain England when the Australian Test team goes Home?
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In a cricketing sense there every reason why he should be the man, but I doubi very much if the selectors will let their better judg- ment escape from the strangling effect of the old-school-tle habit of mind which dominates many phases of English life.
Cricket is so full of snobbishness. It is the one national game where amateurs and professionals mix on equal terms on the fleld-and yet of it the paid players are treated as u race part.
FALSE PRIDE
ID not Lord Hawke, enp-
D'D
tala of England and York- greatest of the shire, and one ericketers of his day, say not so long ngo, "I would rather die than ecc ä professional lead England"
#raceful, frutiful, pleasure-giv- Hammond will be in a position to ing, negative; peace. humour. play without pay, but the spirit Justice, love.
represented by Lord Hawite's un- Mars: Hot,
Inflammatory.yielding statement exists everywhere, barren, warlike; accidents, wars, particularly at Lord's, and will take To "cast a horoscope," an astroloz. Each member of each triplicity uence the aspect bears; so that if fires, passions (Lesser Infortune). ja myrind bombs to kill it.
Jupiler (Greater Fortune): benevo- er (no longer a venerable sage in regarded as a sub-ruler of a certain
There is so much false pride in white robes and white beard brand- ten days of the month controlled by a planet is very nearly in trine, it
is pretty good; If far away, much lent, charitable, jovial, expun-county cricket that I am amazed that lass good. ishing sickles crowned with stars, but the main skin.
The Signs are again grouped into
the professionals the backbone of business men making income-tax
Saturn (Greater Infortune): Secrethe game have not killed it with Measurements are now taken first ol four.
then
Live, returns of large size) finds out of quadripllcities-groups
apprehensive, suspicious, ridicule long since. which "House" (i.c., Zodiacal sign) They are characterised as movable, from the Sun to the Moon,
selfish, cold, chasle. from the Sun to each planet in turn.
Is it right that a man who plays fixed The Zodiac is
The next series of measurements is you are a "Native
Uranus: Eccentric, explosive, indi-well enough to get into the county The positions and relations of the from the Moon to the planets in
vidualistic. regarded as a perfect cirele and each
side, and who cannot afford to spend twelfth of it is ascribed to a differ- stars now regulate the character turn. Then from Mercury
Neptune: Chaotle, psychic, dreamy.ive months of the year away from The Sign can other planets; then ent sign. Each twelfth of it is also say the Astrologists.
from Venus,
deceptive, self-sacrifice,
whatever job he holds, should be Exaltation or and so on until all relative positions designated to control a given division be House, Detriment.
Fall. That means, it can occupy a have been calculated.
To make it more difficult, the chart given a nominal offelal position, be of the year.
has East on the left, North at the paid for it, and turn out regularly position within ils own House: Further calculations reduce ostral bottom. And the "aspect" alters us an amateur? Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Capricorn, Bie
Guat, opposite to these it rules (when it time to Greenwich time or B.E.T. the influence of a planet so that a It is only snobbishness that makes
Is evil); on the righthand, or on the Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Aquarius, the
Now the characteristics of the "malefic" (evil pinnet) well aspect-him wish to retain his status public- Waterman, left.
ed, can herald good luck while ally at any cost to his pride private- Feb. 19-ar. 20 Pisces, the Fishes.
Sun: Hel, dry, positive, electric, benefle badly aspected can heraldly. Mar. 21-Apr. 20 Aries, the Rtam.
masculine, strong, sanguine. evil. Apr. 21-May 22 Taurus, the Bull.
Moon: Cold,
molst phlegmatic, And, despite all the sneers of the May 23-Jun. 21 Gemini, the
negative, feminine, changeable. rationalists, all the Involuted Twins
Mercury: Cold, nervous, change reason of this. quast-science, Jun. 22—Jul, 22 Cancer, the Crab,
able, excitable, bi-sexual, busy things it foretells often come true Jul. 23-Aug. 23 Leo, the Lion,
Venus (Lesser Fortune): Magnetic, say the Astrologists,
Then, planets--Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Nep- tune-and the Sun and Moon are "aspected" to the Signs. They can be parallel, in conjunction, 30 de- grées away (semi-sextile): 45 de- grees away (semi-square): 60 de-
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SHEEP AND GOATS
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the days when we bud men with £2,000 a year or more and plenty of leisure to play our national games and play them well.
Yet our attitude to cricket has not altered and to retain, a false social status a man will go to any lengths to camouflage his real position.
Cricket to-day is full of men who hold-decent-jobs-because they are. cricketers. There is such a hair. line of difference between these men and those who are paid openly by the counties to play cricket that I for one cannot see it.
The old segregation of amateurs and professionals in pavillons is not yet dend-onyltow at Lord's. Nor does the M.C.C. (calling itself in this case the Board of Control): at-
keep tempt to
an England team together when it plays Test matches In this country. On the last
the ocession that South Africans were here I person- ally found at Leeds that some prom fessionals were at one hotel, others at another, others still (quite natur- ally) were at their homes.
The amateurs were quartered else- where: the captain was at Harrogate and the three selectors In three dif- ferent places.
If this state of affairs exists when the Australans are here next season It will not be a very great help to England's team
team splett.
The Australians treat this matter with
the greatest common sense. They
pay every man who comes over here for the loss of time he suffers; elerks, school-teachers, farm work- ers, are all paid £000, and they live together as one family with nothing to emphasise any difference in their social status.
me
A former England captain said to the other day, "I cannot soe where the next England captain is coming from." Hammond's decision is the answer.
I hope the Test selectors will act
with vision.' COUNTY PRECEDENTS
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7 A parent ran after a feline to make a vessel of a kind (0).
8 This one of the U.S.A. Sounds
the most important (5).
10 Flower (8).
11 The labour we delight in g
pain" ("Macbeth") (0).
12 Stands for a musician
quadruped (4).
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13 Useful art for a demagogue
(8).
10 Well-known opera title (4).
18 Vessel and makes a bad man
(7).
It is
20 A noise in the wood?
something the shooting party are doing (7).
alire after playing professionally for 24 A strange one (8).
V. W. C. Jupp led Northampton-22 Where we may get our teas.
from (4).
Sussex.
reasons (0).
There are county precedents for 20 This is often taken for divers
26 A popular railway (4). the cholen of Hammond as England's Teader. He hay shown qualities of 30 This man was a Derby winner, Hendership that have made the Inst
rather funny! (8). three professional aides against the 31 This kind of basket is of course Gentlemen П well-knitted powerful whole. SNOBBISHNESS
and
USTRALIA did not hest- inte to put the best mon In the job in any circumstances. If we are to give England players a chance we shall have to sink false pride and silly sentiment,
And when you think of it, it testi- fies to the anobblähness In cricket that many of our great professional players should be anxious to finish their careers among the company of men who are labelled amateurs.
not at all strong (5). 32 Stately (D).
makita
DOWN 1.This bird seems to
mother to imitate another bird (B).
2 It sounds as if this man though oid would make a good ghillin (a).
3 Presumably this useful fellow would never be out of the way when wanted (8).
4 A fat tailed seabird (7).
A little garment for Infancy (0),
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6 This is in the carly stages (9).
9 Kind of recess (4).
14 Dulch old master (4).
15 A branch of the army shows trouble in the way of blood (9).
17 To rear the tender thought, to teach the young-how to shoot" (Thomson) (4).
10 Looks like pecullor behaviour of a small boat but it is very large (8),
21 Furniture that
sounds as if it
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23 The word is old-fashioned but
you probably know it (7).
25 Vegetable (4).
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23 This flower can often be found
In Easter time (5).
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