Those born when Aries ascends are born under the sign Aries and planet Mars. This is the diurnal, fair, and masculine house of Mars, and partakes also largely of the nature of the magnanimous Sun, and the benevolent and moral Jupiter, who rule the fiery trigon, of which Aries is the first sign.
As affecting physiognomy we are assured that:
The Scorpio noses are more aquiline than those of Aries, and are more frequently conspicuous for a sort of bracket shape beneath, which prevents the under part of the nose from forming a right angle with the upper lip; while the under lip, both being usually small, recedes in a greater degree, as if drawn tightly against the teeth; so that the mouth appears in the act of pronouncing the word SEVERE.
When we meet in volume after volume with page after page of such composition as this, when we reflect on the sublimity of the heavens and the paltriness of such combinations as are here given of the planets with mundane affairs, we ask the reasons for arriving at such judgments. To be told that it is so because it is so; or because it was an ancient belief, and is to be found in the writings of Ptolemy, Nostradamus, Dr. John Dee, William Lilly, or Zadkiel; or because it has often proved as true in its predictions as the telling fortunes by means of a pack of cards, is no evidence whatever; yet the Astrologer boasts of his very paralogisms.
Zadkiel, in prefacing a work by Lilly, says:—If a proposition of any nature be made to any individual, about the result of which he is anxious, and, therefore, uncertain whether to accede to it or not, let him but note the hour and minute when it was first made, and erect a figure of the heavens, (See [Plate 1], Fig. 1,)—and his doubts will be instantly resolved. He may thus, in five minutes, learn infallibly whether the affair will succeed or not; and, consequently, whether it is prudent to adopt the offer made or not.
Such is the belief of this sound, intelligent man, as we fully believe him to be in other respects. But we say it is not given to man to assign special influences to the stars, to select one portion and discard all the rest, or to be more intimately acquainted with the starry heavens above him, than with the stony earth he inhabits, and with his fellow creatures around him.
The works claiming to expound this pretended Occult Philosophy prescribe such childish processes that one naturally wonders how in the midst of so much impudent imposture Astrology and its kindred pursuits ever found or retained any honest partizans.
Take, for example, the use of fumigations, such as of frankincense, &c. to Saturn; of cloves, &c. to Jupiter; of odoriferous woods to Mars; of all gums to the Sun; of roses, violets, &c. to Venus; of cinnamon, &c. to Mercury; of the leaves of vegetables to the Moon; of all or any of which there must be a good perfume, odoriferous, and precious, in good matters; but in evil ones quite the contrary.
The Zodiac is also favourably affected by proper suffumigations.