Our Fate & the ZodiacWith its wonderfully florid and poetic descriptions of the denizens of the signs of the zodiac, this 1900 book is a delightful example of the theatrics we associate with turn-of-the-20th-century spiritualism. Stuffed with snippets of classical culture-do you know which month the ancients dedicated to Ceres, goddess of corn?-and bursting with illustrative literary quotes to complement each of the celestial houses, this is a most charming astrology guide. But what makes this work a fascinating artifact of another time is the space reserved, for each zodiacal sign, for signatures by members of that house, for "the reader may find it both amusing and instructive to obtain autograph evidence as to the general truth of theories herein advanced." |
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Términos y frases comunes
affairs amusement April 19 Aquarius Aries August 22 autograph become Cancer Capricornus Central America Climate confine congenial COSIMO country or clime December December 21 desire dream earlier half earth Emerson Epicurean extend the preference extravagant faith Fate favorable February 19 fellow-men flower fondness force fortunate friends Gemini genius gp ty harbor heart honor human important undertakings impulse inborn inclined influence inspiration January 20 July 22 June 21 Jupiter latter half less Libra Life's light lives magnetic March 20 mental mind month nature Nature's never November 22 ofttimes Oliver Wendell Holmes once original particularly physical Pisces born places planet possible propitious day proteges renders Romans dedicated Sagittarius born Saturn Scorpio seldom September 23 soul spirit strong success sympathy take their inheritance Taurus things tion true ty otitac uncomfortable unless unto usually Virgo heirs wayward wind women Zodiac
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Página 75 - Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.
Página 61 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página v - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Página 99 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Página 30 - It is the type of an eternal truth— that the soul's armour is never well set to the heart unless a woman's hand has braced it; and it is only when she braces it loosely that the honour of manhood fails.
Página 49 - Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you ; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you ; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving ; Unless you can die when the dream is past — Oh, never call it loving ! A MAN'S REQUIREMENTS.
Página 101 - Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown, Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own: So think thou wilt no second husband wed; But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.
Página 111 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Our Fate & the Zodiac |
| Autor | Margaret Mayo |
| Editor | Cosimo, Inc., 2006 |
| ISBN | 1596059141, 9781596059146 |
| Largo | 156 páginas |
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