The first conjunction falling in each triplicity, which is known as the “Great Mutation,” has a very important and lasting effect, and when the places of other conjunctions, eclipses, and lunations which occur after it fall thereon, or in opposition thereto, grave effects are sure to follow.
The influence of each mutation is spread over a period of just under two hundred years, and the effects are slow in operation and are brought into effects by the different eclipses, transits, etc., which fall thereon during such period.
The conjunction of Saturn and Uranus, and that of Uranus and Neptune, are generally connected with serious pestilence and famines, extending over a period of several years. The last conjunction of Saturn and Uranus in Scorpio caused many deaths through plague in India. Very little notice seems to have been taken of these conjunctions, but they are generally connected with serious evils, according to the sign in which they occur.
CHAPTER XXVI
EARTHQUAKES.
The prediction of earthquakes in different parts of the world is one of the most interesting subjects in Mundane Astrology.
It has been ascertained that earthquakes are caused by the action of eclipses, and through the position of planets in the four fixed signs, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, and more especially Taurus and Scorpio.
The following rules have been laid down by various writers, to which we have supplemented some notes and comments.
1. Earthquakes generally follow close on the heels of eclipses and especially in those countries where the eclipse falls on the meridian or nadir. Also if there be
any planets in fixed signs at the moment of eclipse, then earthquakes will occur in those parts of the world where such planets are either rising, setting, culminating, or on the nadir. Thus, if, at an eclipse, the planet Saturn should be in a fixed sign, and distant 45 degrees from the meridian, then earthquakes will occur in that part of the world which is the same distance from Greenwich, east or west, according to the position of Saturn.