" Hither as to their fountain other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light, And hence the morning planet gilds her horns. By his magnetic beam he gently warms The universe, and to each inward part, With gentle penetration, though unseen, Shoots genial virtue even to the deep !"

Milton.

The Sun is the centre of our system, although in ancient times men deceived by appearances, supposed him in common with the other planets to revolve round the earth: this opinion of Ptolemy although incorrect, according to Astronomical principles, does not in the remotest degree affect the system of Astrology which the ancients founded; for the stars act universally upon the earth and its inhabitants, according to their geocentric or apparent position, without any regard to their true or heliocentric places. He is considered as temperately hot and dry, of his own nature scarcely good or evil, but a most powerful source of ill fortune where afflicted by the other planets, and placed in his debilities, or signs contrary to his nature; as on the contrary, when strongly aspected or placed in a geneth-liacal scheme in signs of dignity, which are those of his own nature, he is the source of much prosperity. The Sun is the natural significator of credit, honour, and dignity or respectability in life in every horoscope, and although he by no means monopolises the supreme or chief signification herein, (as some writers have for lack of proper experience simply imagined) yet it is most assuredly of the utmost consequence in every nativity, that the sun should be strong and unafflicted, both according to the nature of the sign he occupies, and his different familiarities with adjuvant or hurtful stars.

Some writers imagine that Planets near the Sun, are rendered thereby, weak and unfortunate; this is, as far as the authors experience leads him to judge, by no means the case, unless other causes should give testimony thereto: indeed it is quite evident that many planets within 60 zodiacal degrees of the Sun, are typical of an eminent name; and when in opposition to that luminary, the reverse, and peculiarly unfortunate, although this requires some qualification, for should the satellitium of stars near the Sun, be themselves weak, malignant by nature, or afflicted by aspect, public notoriety in infamy alone, would ensue. In these, as in all other cases, the student must well examine the different testimonies, and carefully (not hastily) form his judgment thereon, by which means he will doubtless be enabled to read the heavens with far more exactness, than the greater part of those who affect to disbelieve Astrology, can read their primer! And when once the real first principles of this sublime science are gained, and thoroughly understood, the rest will be comparelively facile and easy; although at first sight they may be con-sideted by the casual reader, as intricate and abstruse, which is the case with every mathematical science, under the heavens.

Indeed it may well be expected that a science which dives so deep into futurity, and which approaches above all others so near to celestial wisdom, should be somewhat more than others, abstruse in the elements thereof; but through the manifold experience, and the united indefatigable labors of the " philosophic wise and great in all ages", the Author can safely affirm that the art may be attained even in a far shorter time than the common routine of mathematics, or even than the know-ledge of the assumed science of Phrenology, which is by no means to be compared with Astrological learning. From this digression, which we thought proper to make, in order to guard the student from being astounded at the (apparently lengthened) descriptions of the heavenly bodies, which, like the quantities of algebras, or the first rules of arithmetic, are essential to be well remembered as the primum mobile of the art. - We hasten to describe the description of person the Sun gives, when principal significator, viz. a large bony athletic strong body, broad high forehead, light sandy curling hair, quick piercing eye, and well made person, but one who will soon become bald.

If well dignified or favourably aspect* ed, the disposition is noble, magnanimous, proud and lofty, but humane; a faithful friend, and a generous enemy, scorning to use advantages which maybe given him over his opponents; gene-rally of few words, but very pompous and magnificent; fond of dress, ornaments, and decorations of all sorts, extremely partial to costly jewels, and splendid attire.

If ill dignified, and ill aspected, the native is both proud and mean, arrogant and submissive, a tyrant, and yet a sycophant; empty, vain, a great talker, restless, vain boasting, uncharitable, despotical, unfeeling, and always seeking to serve himself be-fore his friends, rarely generous; but on the whole particularly unamiable, and generally disliked on account of his arrogance and ignorant pomposity.

The Sun is most materially altered in natural signification ac-cording to the sign he occupies, which experience leads the author most positively to affirm (notwithstanding late writers have affirmed the contrary); thus in the watery signs $ m and , he is not by far so fortunate as in , or even in or . This, the student will bear in mind.

He is said by the ancients to govern the heart, back, arteries, right eye of a man, and left eye of a woman; as also to preside over the retentive faculty, or memory. His diseases, are faintings, palpitation of the heart, weak sight, fever, disordered brain, cramp, foul breath, catarrhs, defluxions, disorders of the mouth, throat, etc. He is by sympathy friendly to all the Planets except

In horary Astrology he denotes, when well placed, kings, emperors, monarch's, princes, dukes, marquisses, and indeed all noble and high born people, and in general all "of gentle blood", persons in high offices, or superiority in city, town, or country, coiners, goldsmiths, workers in gold or silver, and costly lapidaries or jewellers. When ill dignified and afflicted by aspect, he signifies all persons in usurped authority. An old author writes " the Sun is under Mars, placed in the midst of all the planets, being the chief light and president of them all, sitting as a judge or king, amongst his nobles; wherefore some of the ancients have ascribed to him chief rule, and made him as it were, an emperor amongst the stars",

Of the brute and feathered creation, he rules all such beasts as are stately, furious, bold, strong, and invincible, as the lion, wolf, ram, boar, bull, horse, etc, as well as the phoenix, swan, cock, hawk, nightingale, lark, &c; and of fishes, the sea-calf, shell-fish, star-fish, and the prodigies of the vast and mighty ocean. In the vegetable world, be rules saffron, peony, marygold, palm, ginger, dittany, celandine, vervain, amber, rosemary, St. John's wort, musk, rosa solis, cinnamon, eye bright, cinquefoil, lignum aloes, lavender, sweet marjoram, pepper, honey, frankincense and all aromatic herbs. In minerals, etc. be rules gold, and costly jewels, etites, the carbuncle, chrysolite, iris, heliotropion, jacinth, pyrophilus, topas, ruby and diamond.

Of places, he denotes princes palaces, magnificent buildings, dining rooms, towers, splendid apartments, and costly houses. He causes Eastern winds, and delights in the Eastern part of the heavens. His celestial path is always in the ecliptic, and -he never has any latitude, in which respect he differs from every other planet in the heavens; even as in his splendor he is more beauteous than the fairest of the " wandering orbs",

" Hail, amiable vision! every eye Looks up and loves thee ! every tongue proclaims 'Tis pleasant to behold thee!"