" The wind had arisen, and swept before it the clouds which had formerly ob-scured the sky. The moon was high and at full, and all the lesser satellites of heaven shone forth in cloudless effulgence. The scene which their light presented to Mannering, was in the highest degree unexpected and striking".

Guy Mannering chap iii.

" ----------- Now beamed the evening star, And from embattled clouds emerging slow, Cynthia came, riding on her silver car, And azure mountain cliffs shone faintly from afar".

Beattie.

Cynthia, "the queen of heaven", as the ancients termed her, or the Moon, the companion of the earth, and chief source of our evening light, is a cold, moist, watery, phlegmatic planet, variable to an extreme, in Astrological science, and partaking of good or evil, as she is aspected by good or evil stars. When angular and unafflicted in a nativity, she is the promis-sary pledge of great success in life, and continual good fortune. She produces a full stature, fair pale complexion, round face, grey eyes, short firms, thick hands and feet, smooth, corpulent, and phlegmatic body. Blemishes in the eyes, or a peculiar weakness in the sight, is the result of her being afflicted by the Sun. Her conjunction, semisextile, sextile, or trine; to Jupiter, is exceedingly fortunate; and she is said by the old Astrologers, to govern the brain, stomach, bowels, left eye of the male, and right eye of the female. Her usual diseases are rheumatism, consumption, palsy, cholic, apoplexy, vertigo, lunacy, scrophula, small pox, dropsy, etc.; also, most diseases peculiar to young: children.

Her enemies are and ; her friends, and

In the horary circle of questionary science, she represents sailors, navigators, persons employed in the common or ordinary offices of men, as inferiors, servants, etc.; also all persons connected with the aquatic element, and any kind of fluid. If well dignified, or well placed, the most respectable in these occupations; if ill dignified, the reverse.

Of beasts, she denotes all such as delight in or near the watery element, as the otter, all amphibious animals, fishes in general; also the chameleon, hog, frog, cat, mice, rats, etc. All shellfish are said to be more peculiarly under her influence. Of birds', she rules the goose, swan, duck, dobchick, moor hen, night owl, night raven, and all birds that delight in watery aliments, or love to float on the fluid element. Of herbs and plants, she rules sea weed, lunaria, hyssop, rosemary, agnus castas, pompion, melon, gourd, cucumber, colewort, cabbage, endive, mushrooms, poppy, linseed, rapeseed, and all such herbs which are said to follow the course of the moon, in her increase and decrease. Of trees, she rules the palm tree, (which the ancients say "send forth a twig every time the moon rises",) and all plants, trees, and herbs, juicy and full of sap.

In the mineral kingdom, the ancients attribute to the moon silver and silver ore; all stones that are white and green, as the crystal, selenite, pearl, etc.; and of places, she represents the sea, the ocean, large lakes or bodies of water, fountains, fields near the sea, sea ports, rivers, pools, fish ponds, brooks, bogs, docks, springs, common sewers, wharfs, etc. She pro-duces such weather as her various aspects with the other stars would naturally show, having of her own simple nature but small influence either way, over the electric fluid of the atmos~ phere.