"To ask or search I blame thee not; for heaven is the book of God before thee set. Wherein to read his wondrous works, and learn His seasons, hours or days, or months or years.

_MILTON’s Paradise Lost.

All nature is but Art, unknown to thee;

All chance, direction which thou can’st not see;

All discord, harmony not understood;

All partial evil, universal good."

                                        _Pope

CHAPTER XI

FEBRUARY

The zodiacal influence for the month of February in general. Its effect on the character, disposition, finance and health of persons born in this period of the year.

The Zodiacal Sign of Aquarius, also called the House of Saturn, (Negative) commences on or about January 21ˢᵗ, but for seven days being overlapped by the “cusp” of the preceding sign, it does not come into its full power until January 28ᵗʰ or February 1ˢᵗ. From this date on, it is in full strength until February19ᵗʰ. From then out it is gradually losing force on account of becoming overlapped by the incoming Sign—Pisces.

Note: Those born in the “cusps” take from the qualities of both Signs of the Zodiac.       

If you were born in February you will be inclined to be oversensitive and easily hurt and wounded by others. You will feel lonely in life though you are likely to make contacts with large numbers of people.         

You will not be demonstrative in your affections or able to express your love nature; you will, however, be intensely loyal to those you love and will fight to the bitter end for a friend or for any cause you espouse.

You will have strong intuitions about those you come in contact with and will be generally right in your judgment. You will “read” people instinctively, but being so sensitive and so disinclined to hurt others, you will be prone to conceal your opinions or keep them to yourself.                                                

You will be extremely highly strung from the very fact that you cannot “let go” and express yourself, and your nerves at times are likely to become much over-wrought.                      

If you do lose control, and say what is in your mind, you will suffer from fits of conscience and bitterly regret what you have said and go to the other extreme in trying to repair the breach.

you will have a great desire to be active or employed for the public good and will be more than usually generous in helping to relieve the distress of others. You will be inclined to aid public charities more than the average individual on account of an innate dread of being imposed upon or “taken in” by a personal “hard luck” story.

You will have a very logical type of mind and like to have subjects quietly reasoned out with you.             

You will have remarkably good ideas in business and will be found giving excellent advice to others, but as a general rule you will find yourself filling positions of trust and responsibility and more successful for others than for yourself.

You will require some call of duty or circumstances to demonstrate the sterling qualities that you possess, but if “the call” does come, you will rise to the occasion and surprise everyone by the hidden powers and abilities you possess.

If you can overcome your sensitiveness and develop self-confidence, there is no position in life you could not attain.

You would succeed best in some large sphere of action for the good of others. 

Those who become “awakened,” if born in this Sign, usually leave a great name behind in the cause of humanity, or by some great invention that has brought unusual benefit to the world at large.     

You will be inclined to take a deep interest in public movements that attract large masses of people. You will be found attending important ceremonies of national interest in whatever country that you may call your own.

Although living much in yourself , you will exhibit the strange contradiction of liking crowds and going where people congregate, such as mass meetings, theatres, places of amusement and such like. You will also exhibit the strange complexity that, although your own nerves are nearly always in an over-wrought condition, yet you will have great power over excitable people or those who are hysterical or insane and you will often find yourself thrown among such types in your journey through life.                                                                  

 If you are boom into wealthy surroundings the likelihood will be that you will never develop your best qualities, but just drift down the stream of life, until too late to make any change.               

You should study the companions you choose more than perhaps any other class, for the reason that being lacking in self-confidence, you could easily become influenced by those you come into close contact with.

HEALTH

In health you will be likely to suffer through nerves and the upper part of the stomach, liver and gall-bladder, in a way that is difficult for doctors to understand or relieve. You will be inclined to buy any quack medicine that is well advertised and have always some new pill or tonic to offer to your friends.        

You will suffer, as a rule, with poor circulation of the blood, anaemia, chilblains, pains in the head and back, palpitation and weakness of the heart, disorder of the bladder and kidneys, dropsy; also peculiar accidents to the feet and “turning” or twisting of the ankles or breaking of the bones in advanced years.

FINANCE

The influence of Saturn and Uranus governing this part of the Zodiac gives the likelihood of great and sudden changes in your fortunes. You will always be liable to experience remarkable and unexpected reversals and should be very careful in matters of an uncertain or hazardous nature. It is a favourable position, however, for your receiving an income from trusts, insurance companies, banking concerns, also from railway companies, electrical installations, aviation and the floating of inventions.                                                                                               

Your income, however, unless you are extremely prudent, will always be more or less uncertain, and it will generally be your portion to experience extremes. At some period of your life you are likely to come into a great deal of money from a totally unlooked for source, and in a very peculiar or “out of the way” fashion.

MARRIAGE, UNIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, ETC.

You will find your most harmonious relationships with persons born January21ˢᵗ to February 19ᵗʰ, in your own Sign (Aquarius), Third House of Air; or in Gemini, First House of Air, May 21ˢᵗ to June 20ᵗʰ; or in Libra, Second House of Air, September 21ˢᵗ to October 20ᵗʰ; and in the seven days of the "cusp” at the beginning or ending of each of these periods.

You will be much attracted to persons born in the part of the year opposite your own, in this case from about the end of July to the end of August.