This is a very old tradition, and in mediæval ages these days were universally shunned as "ruled by evil influences." In conclusion, those consulting the wheel of Pythagoras are advised not to ask more than one question on the same day and to refrain from all gibing, sporting, or jesting, and—above all—from all unbelief whilst making use of this mystical wheel in order to know the truth.
ENVOY.
Go—little book—and teach the present age something of the wisdom bequeathed us by the Past.
Footnotes
[1] The ambient means the heavens when spoken of in a general manner.
[2] Saturn, Mercury and the Moon.
[3] Aries is always opposite to Libra; Taurus to Scorpio; and so on of all the rest, as shown by the table given (p. 11).
[4] The foregoing chapter explains this term.
[5] The Chaldees averred that when Saturn was powerful in a nativity the person then born was "mystical and confederate in secrecy."