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ASTROLOGY

F you want to learn the secret soul of Jonca or dis-

up urt 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 Betelgueuse ("Beetle-juice" to sailors): disregard the Plough; give the spiral nebulae of the Milky Way a miss in baolk. 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 By their

in position heavena say the Astrologers- the Fate of the "Native" is ruled.

Greece,

Aug. 23-Sep. 22 Virgo, the Virgin. grees away (sextile); 90 deɣrces Belle! in the stars goes back to Sep. 23-Oct. 22 Libra, the Schies. away (square); 120 degrees away

Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Scorple, the Babylon,

India, Chiao, Arabia centuries). Europe (during the first stlerings of the Reniscence) all un- derwen!

(trine); 135 degrees away (sesquí- Scorpion, quadrate); 150 degrees away (quin- (between the seventh and thirteenths Nov. 22-Dec. 22 Sagittarius, the cunx) or in opposition; 180 degrees Archer. (a whole semi-circle) away. If you. Each of these signs 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, It enrt requires a knowledge of astro- half-circle.

Each of the Own super- logleaf shortlind. unt) in our

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sclentille, hyper-civilised, twentieth planets in also given a symbol. Each Food: conjunctions

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ARTICLE Strangled

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WALTER HAMMOND, Eng. land's 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?

in a cricketing acne there is every reason why he should be the man, but I doubt very much if the selectors will lot 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 field-nnd yet oft it the pald players are treated as a.race part.

FALSE PRIDE

ID not Lord Hawke, cap-

Din of England and York-

one

greatest of the shire, and cricketers of his day, say not so long ano, "I would rather die than see a professional lead England"? graceful, fruitful, plensure-giv- { Hammond will be in a position to ing. negative; peace, humour, play without pay.

spirit but the

Hawke's un- justice, love,

represented by Lord Mars: Hot, dry, inflammatory, yielding statement exists everywhere. barren, warlike; accidents, wors, particularly at Lord's, and will take fires, passions (Lesser Infortune), a myriad bombs to kill it. Jupiter (Greater Fortune): benevo-} There is so much false pride in lent, charitable, jovial, expan-county cricket that I am amazed that the professionals the backbone of Saturn (Greater Infortune): Secrethe game-live not killed

tive, apprehensive, suspicious, ridicule long since. selfish, cold, chaste.

sive.

with

The square is bad, the trine Ik and parallels century era (when we seek artistic positional relation likewise.

are variable; sexilies and semi- The involved rules of casting In Jungle-rhythm and inspiration totem-pales) Astrology has again horoscope require a book to explain sextiles are goodish; the others bad

to very bad. destinies them. The Signs are grouped into emerged to guide our

Trine is good, but three planets of three-each wear diamond green, use triplicities-groups cording to the Sunday

one of the primitive trine is bad. The nearness or re- moteness of planets from exact Mr. fire, "To "cast it horoscope," an astrolog- Each member of each triplicity is positions controls the degree of in- er (no longer, a venerable sage in regarded as a sub-ruler of a certain fluence the aspect bears; so that if 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 ishing sickles crowned with stars, but the main sign.

loss good. The Signs are again grouped into business men making income-tax

Measurements are now taken frst four. returns of large size) finds out of quadriplicities-groups

Moon. then which "House" (le.. Zodiacal sign) They are characterised as movable, from the Sun to the

from the Sun to each planet in turn.

Is it right that a man who plays you are a "Native." The Zodiac is fixed and mutable.

The next series of measurements is The positions and relations of the from the Moon to the

well enough to get into the county regarded as a perfect circle and each

planets in

side, and who cannot afford to spend twelfth of it is ascribed to a differ- stars now regulate the character turn. Then from Mercury to the

ave months of the year away from ent sign. Each twelfth of it is also say the Astrologists. The Sign can other planets then designated to control a given division be House, Detriment. Exaltation or and so on until all relative positions from Venus,

whatever job he holds, should be of the year.

Fall. That means, it can occupy a have been calculated.

To make it more difficult, the chart given a nominal official position, be Dec. 22 Jan. 19 Capricorn, the position within its

las East on the lett, North pt the paid for it, and turn out regularly House: own Guat, opposite to those it rules (when it time to Greenwich time or B.E.T.

Further calculations reduce astral bottom. And the "aspect" alters is an amateur? Is evil); on the righthand, or on the

the influence of a planet so that a It is only snobbishness that makes Jan. 28-Feb. 18 Aquarius, the

Now the characteristics of the "malefile" (evil planet) well aspect-him wish to retain his status public- Waterman. Lett.

planets are taken into account: Feb. 19-Mar. 20 Pisces, the Fishes.

ed, can herald good luck while a ly at any cost to his pride private- Sun: Hot, dry, positive, electric, benefte badly aspected can herald -Mar. 21--Apr. 20 Aries, the Ram.

masculine, strong, sanguine.

cvil.

SHEEP AND COATS Apr. 21-May 22 Taurus, the Bull.

Moon: Cold, moist, phlegmatle. May 23-Jun. 21 Gemini, the

And, despite all the sneers of the negative, feminine, changeable. rationalists, all the Twins

Mercury: Cold, nervous, change- reason Jun. 22-Jul. 22 Cancer, the Crab.

of this quasi-science, the able, exeltable, bi-sexual, busy, things it foretells often come true- Jul. 23-Aug. 22 Leg, the Lion.

Venus (Lesser Fortune): Magnetic, say the Astrologista,

Then.

planets-Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Nep- tune--and the Sun and Moon #re "spected" to the Signs. They enn be parallel, in conjunction, 30 de- grees away (semi-sextile): 45 de- grees away (semi-square): 60 de-

Uranus: Eccentric, explosive, indi-

vidualistic. Neptune: Chaotle, prychle, dreamy,

deceptive, self-sacrifice.

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CURELY the tinics have changed since the days when we had 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 erletctters.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 dead anyhow at Lord's. Nor docs the M.C.C. (calling Itself in this case the Board of Control) at- tempt to keep an England team together when it plays Test matches in this country,

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the last occasion that the | South Africans were here I person- ally found at Leeds that some pro- fessionals were at one hotel, others at another, others sill (quite natur- ally) were at their homes.

The amateurs were quartered claz- where: the captain was at Harrogate and the three selectors in three dif- ferent places,

If this state of affairs exista when the Australians are here next scuson it will not be a very great help to England's team spirit.

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sense. They pay every man who comes over here for the loss of time he suffers; cierka, school-teachers, farm work- ers, are all paid £000, and they live together as one family with nothing to emphasise any duference in their socini status.

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A parent run after a feline to make a vessel of a kind (9). 8 This one of the US.A, counds

the most important (5),

10 Flower (8).

11 The labour we delight in →→→

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rather funny! (B), three professional sides against the 31 This kind of basket is of course Gentlemen

well-knitted powerful whole. SNOBBISHNESS

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