The course of events in the lives of several hundreds of persons whose horoscopes have come under our notice has amply justified our diagnosis of the influence of Neptune to human life and thought. Its chaotic, nebulous, scheming, and seductive influence when afflicting the significators by conjunction or evil aspect; its neurotic and enthused character, bordering upon the insane; its inconstancy; its excitability; its love of watching and spying out secrets; its predisposition to homicidal mania and assasination, have found illustration in numerous and conspicuoous instances, supplemented and confirmed by the experience of very marry students.

On the other hand, the ethereal, intuitive, and inspirational nature of Neptune when in benefic aspect to the significators, or dominating the mind by its presence in the first, third, or ninth houses of the horoscope, has not escaped observation and comment.

That Neptune is a malefic planet is well shown by the effects of its conjunction and parallel with the significators at birth and by direction.

Its benefic aspects, like those of Saturn, Herschel, and Mars, are capable of conferring advantages and benefits in accord with the character of the planet and its radical import.

So far, then, experience has gone farther than mere surmise based upon the constitution of the higher gamut of the Solar System, which supposes Uranus to have the same nature as Mercury, and Neptune that of Venus.

This surmise is, in a measure, true, for no doubt Uranus and Neptune are the higher representatives of those minor planets; but the mere exaltation of faculty produced by Uranus and Neptune is sufficient to place their subjects outside the pale of convention, and so to set up a strain in the conditions of everyday life, all of which makes the natives of their influence to be like these planets themselves--outre'es.

But whereas Venus is a benefic in all worldly matters, Neptune, its prototype, is in all such matters a malefic, though in the higher regions of the mind its gifts are most manifest, and far more enduring than thsoe of the fair goddess.

But now we come to a yet more novel ground of research. Dr. Waltermath, as everyone now knows, has definitely located the orbit of the second (?first) satellite of the Earth, whom we will here call, for convenience, Lilith. In his article to the "Globe", February 7, 1898, he mentions various observations of this unrecognized member of the Solar family, a number of which, taken for the dates of transit over the Suns disc, enabled him to fix its synodical revolution at 177 days. We refer our readers to the Globe for further particulars concerning the satellite, and here reproduce the dates of observation referred to therein:

1. Lilith conjunct Sun...June 6, 1761

2. Lilith conjunct Sun...Nov 19, 1762

3. Lilith conjunct Sun...May 3, 1764

4. Lilith conjunct Sun...June 11, 1855

5. Lilith conjunct 148 deg elong...Oct 24, 1881

Now, in order to establish the synodical revolution of Lilith it should be found that the number of days from one solar conjunction to another is a multiple of 177. This is actually so.

From June 6, 1761 to November 19, 1762, are 531 days =177X3. From the latter date to May 3, 1764, are 531 days. From May 3, 1764 to 155 are 33,276 days=177 X 188 showing that after 188 complete revolutions its period is not affected by a single day. Now, as Waltemath points out, 177 days are six times the revolution of the moon, or, as we may observe, one-half the lunar year of 354 days in use among the Hebrews.

From the synodical revolution of Lilith we are able to deduce its mean diurnal motion in the zodiac--vis., 3 degrees--and as this motion coincides with its actual position after three revolutions, and after 188 revolutions, to within 30 minutes of longitude, it must be very exact.

To determine the longitude of Lilith in a natal chart you would use the following:

1. Take any one of the dates when Lilith was conj the Sun, according to observation. These are:

June 6, 1761

Nov 19, 1762

May 3, 1764

June 11, 1855

2. Count the number of days from the epoch to the date of birth, allowing 365 days for common years and one day extra for each intervening leap year.

3. Divide the total number of days by 177, and the quotient will give the number of complete synodical revolutions, the remainder being the number of days expired since the last conjunction of Lilith and the Sun. If there be no remainder, the satellite is in conjunction with the Sun on the day of birth.

4. With the remainder, count that number of days from the date of epoch in the year of birth. This will bring you to the longitude of the Sun and Lilith at last conjunction.

5. Multiply the number of days from the day of last conjunction to the day of birth by three, and add that number of degrees to the longitude of the last conjunction. This will give the mean longitude of Lilith on the day of birth.

Thus, for May 9, 1864, we count from epoch May 3, 1764 to May 8, 1864: we obtain 26,525 days which divided by 177, gives 206 revolutions and 63 days; and counting 63 dys from May 3, 1864 backwawrds we find March 1, 1864 to be the date of the last conjunction as may be seen in the Table of Conjunctions, which will greatly facilitate the calculations.

The Sun is then in Pisces at 11 degrees, and 63 X 3=189bdegrees to be added to Pisces 11 degrees for the longitude of Lilith on the given date and Pisces 11 degrees + 189 degrees= Virgo 20 degrees, longitude of Lilith, May 3, 1864.

Having obtained the approximate longitude of Lilith in a number of intimate horoscopes, the following observations should be made in order to obtain a knowledge of the normal characteristics and influence of the satellite.

1. In a horoscope of birth it should be found "Void of Aspects".

2. Being thus uninfluenced, its normal effects on the affairs of the several houses may be known by its position alone.

3. To determine the influence on the mind, it should be found in conjunction with Mercury when Mercury has no other affections than those conferred by the sign it is in. Or Lilith should be devoid of aspect, and in the third or ninth house of the horoscope.

4. Its effects on the body may be found by reference to the ascendant. The presence of Lilith in the first house (and near the horizon), when void of aspect, would serve to show its physical peculiarities, if any.

N.B.--It is essential that Lilith should be found void of aspect, or in conjunction with Sun, Moon, or Mercury, when these latter significators are not otherwise affected. For obvious reasons, the Square, Opposition, Sextile, and Trine aspects are of no use towards determining the normal value of Lilith; since the Square and Opposition are always evil, the Sextile and Trine good.

The next line of research in regard to Lilith is that afforded by directions and transits. Its approximate longitude can be brought to the mid-heaven, ascendant, or their aspects, by meridian distance and semi-arc measures in a rough manner, but before this can be done with any degree of accuracy a complete ephemeris of the satellite must be forthcoming. Meanwhile, I have every reason to think the Table of Conjunctions will enable students to proceed.

By secondary direction the satellite, as significator of x, can be directed at the rate of three degrees for every year of life, and can also receive the Conjunction aspects of the planets in their secondary direction.

The transit of planets over the radical place of Lilith should also afford some indication of its particular function in human affairs. New Moons falling on the degree held by Lilith at birth will afford yet further evidence in the required direction.

It may facilitate the calculation of Lilith's longitude to observe that in thirteen years it forms its conjunction with Sun exactly thirty-one days later. The subjoined Table of Conjunctions, which I have calculated for a period of fifty-two years, wil show the dates on which Lilith and the Sun are in the same geocentric longitude. It will be observed that a conjunction, as foretold by Dr Waltemath,took place on February 2, 1898, and the next would take place at the end of July of that year.

So far as our experiences extends--and at present it is necessarily inconsiderable--the effect of Lilith is to produce rapid changes and upsets, and from a few instances under observation it would appear that Lilith's influence is somewhat like the Moon's, but not fortunate and more violent in its action.

In this connection it will be a matter of interest to know that an unrecognized scientist, Dr. Ziegler, an Alsatian, who was born in 1818, has noted the existence of an aeriform body in the orbit of Earth whose period is taken as 121 days. This corresponds very closely to the satellite of Dr. Waltemath's discovery, the period of which is 119 days, its synodical period being 177 days.

The satellite Lilith returns to the same longitude on the same day in 126 years.

The "Table Of Conjunctions" will facilitate the calculation of Lilith's longitude, inasmuch as the days elapsed since the last conjunction to the date of birth have only to be multiplied by three in order to obtain the number of degrees to be added to the longitude of conjunction to obtain the longitde at birth. The table can be extended right and left indefinitely by adding or subtracting (as required) 13 years and 31 days from the epochs in the first and last columns of the table. A conjunction of Lilith and Sun does not infer a visible transit of the Sun's disc. It will depend upon the position of the satellite in its orbit at the time, and the inclination of the orbit to the plane of the ecliptic. All conjunctions of the Sun and Moon are not eclipses.

The unfolding of the higher gamut of planetary existence being so far satisfied by the discovery of Uranus the octave of Mercury, Neptune the octave of Venus, and Lilith the second (? first) satellite of the Earth, we may now look ahead in anticipation of the discovery of an octave of Mars. This, when discovered, will prove to be an extra-Neptunian planet of great dimensions but small density. It may be called Pluto, Lord of the Pit, Lord of Destruction, etc., according to the fancy of astrologers; but its functions will be those of Mars on the grand scale, and its lace at the date of 1914 will link it directly with the indications of Great War.

In the foregoing pages, the substance of which appeared in 1898, I have cited a number of observations of Earth satellites supplied to me by Dr. Waltemath. It will be observed that many of the dates are those of the satellite Lilith's conjunction with the Sun. Its return to the same longitude on the same day, taking place every 126 years, makes the process of identification very simple. Thus, we find an observation of Lilith conjunct Sun on March 27, 1720 by Dr. Alischer, at Fauer. Now 1720 + 126 =1846. This date does not enter into our Table Of Conjunctions, but the table may be extended right and left by the addition or subtraction of 13 years and 31 days. So, if we add 13 years and 31 days to March 27, 1846, we obtain April 27, 1859, which is the date of a conjunction of Lilith and the Sun as found in the table. Therefore, the observation by Dr. Alischer in 1720 was a transit of Lilith over the Sun's disc. Again, observation March 15, 1721, is identified in the Table of Conjunctions by the addition of 126 years and 13 years 31 days = 189 years 31 days, which brings us to April 15, 1860, where we find Lilith Sun Conjunction.

The observation of June 6, 1761, at St. Neots, by an anonymous writer to the London Chronicle, is at once identified by the addition of 126 years, which yields June 6, 1887, as found in the table under the previous day.

In 1762, on November 19, a transit of Lilith over the Sun's disc was observed by Lichtenberg and Sollnitz traveling to Erlangen. This is found in the table as November 18, 1888. The observation of May 8, 1764, by Hoffman, near Gotha, is found in the table on May 2, 1890.

The conjunction given in the table on March 12, 1863, should be altered to March 13. The rest of the dates are taken correctly for a mean synodical revolution of 177 days, which experiment has shown to be fairly exact. Having proved the existence of the satellite, we may presume an influence so long as it remains in relation with the earth.

The influence of Lilith is undoubtedly obstructive and fatal, productive of various forms of catastrophes and accidents, sudden upsets, changes and states of confusion. Falling in the fifth house of a horoscope, it has been found to indicate insanity and death of a lover, loss of children, and death by childbirth. In the third house, it has signified accidents and death to brothers and sisters, and a series of troubles arising out of correspondence. In four cases under observation, the progress of Lilith in the sixth house has produced dangerous occupation ending in fatality.

The Name Lilith comes from the Hebrew word Lilah, which means the Night. Dr. Wynn Westcott, the well-known author of several translatoins upon Rabbinical literature, and especially reputable as the exponent of the Kabalistic notions of the Hebrews, has the following notes upon the Spirit of Lilith, or Lilis, as derived from the Semitic traditions:

"Concerning Lilith, or Lilis, there is an immense collection of fables. In some she is a woman of pre-Adamic race, whom Adam found, and she was his first wife, and she begat demons. In others she is a Queen Demon, who seduces Adam and brings forth devils. Again, she is a general succubus at all times. Another idea is that she is constantly on the watch to do evil to the newborn babe who is not protected by Jewish theological rites. Again, she is a vampire always seeking to kill infants; and again, that she seeks to kill men also, and that no man is safe who sleeps in a house alone, for he may thus be captured as Adam was.

She is also commonly called the wife of Samael and the mother of Shedim, and she ensnares. Lilith means a dust-cloud, but is also translated as Owl, and as a screeching bird of night.

In the "Secret Doctrine" it is stated that "the third and fourth races became tall with pride: 'We are kings', it was said, 'we are gods.' They tookd wives fair to look at; wives from the mindless, the narrow-headed. They bred monsters, wicked demons, male and female. Also Liliths with little minds".

The Rabbinical stories about Lilith would appear to have come down from the Lemurian and Atlantean ages. Those "giants of the Earth", who were primarily "sons of god", mind-born, took to themselves the "daughters of man", those who had come up along stage, but were without the spiritual inspiration which made of the Adamic race "living souls". Hence they were called the "mindless", though possessing natural intelligence derived from instinct, passion and commerce with material things. They were of the pre-Adamic evolution, and their progeny from the sons of Mind was of the nature of Lilith, Rakshasas, Dakini, ghouls, demons, of the kind commonly known as incubi and succubi.

This note is of remarkable significance, inasmuch as it confirms the astrological character of Dr. Waltemath's second Earth satellite, which, for reasons I cannot enter into, I at once christened Lilith. Suffice it to say that both in the East and West the dark, seldom visible, and mysterious "Eighth Sphere" is traditionally known. But more to our purpose is the fact that a considerable research already made has revealed the influence of Lilith (the satellite) to be just that which the Hebrews ascribed to Lilith (the Mother of Devils). The name is derived from Lilah (hebrew, the night), and just as Adam was overcome by Lilith, so Samson was overcome by his Philistine wife, Delilah.

Those who understand that a myth is a veil will not be content to scan the literal tradition, but will further seek to know and understand what truth lies behind the veil.

Let us now look at some of the astrological facts.

The following instances of young men who lost their lives while following their respective occupations have been sent to me from the Newcastle Colliery. The times of birth are all authentic, having been given to my correspondent by the parents themselves, and as they offer some interesting points for the student, I venture to bring them forward, in detail.

No 1.___Born August 5, 1863, at 4:55pm. Killed in the Seaham Colliery explosion by pit-fire September 8, 1880.

I find by calculation that the 29th degree of Libra is on the meridian at birth, and the 23rd degree of Sagittarius rising. The following are the places of the planets at the time of birth.

1. Sun in Libra at 12:13

2. Moon in Taurus at 4:10

3. Neptune in Aries at 5:56

4. Uranus in Gemini at 23:19

5. Saturn in Libra at 2:05

6. Jupiter in Libra at 21:11

7. Mars sextile Virgo 00:14

8. Venus in Capricorn 27:14

9. Mercury in Leo 15:20

10. Lilith in Gemini 7 degrees

The Moon is found in the fourth house in the fixed and earthy sign Taurus, in square to the Sun, and Neptune in Leo in the eighth house, and the ascendant is opposed by the exact aspect of Uranus. Lilith holds the cusp of the sixth house in the airy sign of Gemini. These are the immediate signs of danger in connection with the occupation of a collier.

Lilith causes rapid changes and upsets, its influence being unfortunate and violent, disruptive and fatal.

On September 8, 1880, the native was killed in the Seaham Colliery explosionm, or rather by pit-fire following upon the explosion. His age was 17 years, 1 month. The Moon had progressed to 5 degrees Sagittarius 51 minutes, and was therefore on the cusp of the twelfth house (the house of imprisonment and restraint) in close opposition to Lilith.

The Sun in the eighth house is posited in the fiery sign, Leo, and 17 days after birth is found in declination 11 degrees and 53 minutes, which is that of Mars at birth, another indication of "fire". The planet Mars had progressed to 12 degrees Virgo 37 minutes, and the new Moon of September 5, 1880, fell exactly on this progressive place of Mars! There was also an eclipse of the Sun on August 7, 1880, which fell within 2 degrees of the place of the Sun at birth. The ephemeris for September 8, 1880, shows Saturn in exact opposition to the meridian of the horoscope.

No.2___Born August 9, 1861, at 1:pm., near Berwick. A stoker on a locomotive; he was killed by a truck falling upon him from a siding on December 30, 1887.

The 1st degree was Virgo on meridian at birth, and the 12th of Scorpio was rising.

The planets were placed as follows:

1. Sun 16:51 Leo

2. Mon 26:31 Virgo

3. Neptune 1:19 Aries

4. Uranus 15:37 Gemini

5. Jupiter 3:00 Virgo

6. Mars 22:39 Leo

7. Venus 11:05 Virgo

8. Mercury 28:09 Cancer

9. Lilith 5:00 Taurus

It will be seen that the mid-heaven of the horoscope is occupied by Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and Moon. All in the sign Virgo. The Sun in the ninth house in the fiery sign Leo is in conjunction with Mars, a fiery planet, a very fitting indication of his occupation as stoker. The Moon is approaching the Opposition of Neptune. Here again we find Lilith in the sixth house, denoting dangerous occupation, a fatal service!

At the time of the fatal accident, the native was 26 years and nearly 5 months old. On the twenty-sixth day after birth we find the Sun in Conjunction with Saturn and Mercury, and Mars Conjunct Jupiter, all in the sign of Virgo, the Sun also applying to the Square aspect of Uranus in Gemini in the eighth house.

In December, 1887, the moon came by direction to a conjunction of the Sun and Saturn in the mid-heaven of the horoscope, having lately passed the Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter. The direction is exact, and measures closely to the time of the accident. Yet there are really sober people who seriously deny the validity or th efficacy of "secondary" directions! To my mind, the obscuring mental faculties which led to the accident are well accounted for by the Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter, and of Mercury with the planet Saturn by direction.

In 1887, there was an eclipse of the Moon in the 19th degree of Leo close to the Sun at birth in Leo 17 degrees.

No.3____Born September 12, 1871, at 8 am.; was a seafaring engineer. Fell Overboard a steamer on August 22, 1897, and was drowned.

My correspondent writes: "This case, so far as I can see, affords no indication of untimely death. His father, who is well informed in astrology, showed the horoscope to me. We anticipated nothing but a successful future. His father declared that, had the horoscope shown any indications of death at twenty-six years of age, he would have kept him at home".

At birth, the 20th degree of Cancer culminates, and the 14th of Libra rises.

The planets are posited as follows:

1. Sun 19:05 Virgo

2. Moon 19:14 Leo

3. Neptune 23:33 Aries

4. Uranus 29:57 Cancer

5. Saturn 3:18 Saturn

6. Jupiter 23:43 Cancer

7. Mars 19:45 Scorpio

8. Venus 9:50 Libra

9. Mercury 29:45 Virgo

10. Lilith 6:00 Aries

It will be once noticed that, although Jupiter holds the meridian of the horoscope and Venus is not far from the eastern horizon, yet Jupiter is afflicted by the near conjunction of Uranus, Ascendant and Venus by square Saturn, and in Opposition to Lillith. Here again we find Lillith in the 6th house, a most singular coincidence, surely! And here, too, it indicates danger in the occupation, and employment that is fatal. The Moon is hyleg in this horoscope, and is found in the sign of Leo in Square to Mars in Scorpio, and in exact parallel with that planet.

These significators are in fixed signs, which predispose to drowning or suffocation.

Twenty-six days after birth, corresponding to twenty-six years of life, the Sun has progressed to a Conjunction with the ascendant at birth. The Moon at 7:20am, on the twenty-sixth day (corresponding to August 22, 1897) is on the place of Uranus Parallel in Leo 0:52. The Ascendant is directed to the Square aspect of Uranus in Scorpio 0:52.

The indications herein are certainly somehwat inadequate, for although at birth the Moon is square Mars, it is elevated above Mars, and Jupiter holds the mid-heaven in the ocean sign Cancer, while Venus safeguards the ascendant by its proximity to and rulership of the point. The Sun, it is true, has an approximate SesquiSquare aspect of Uranus, but it also has sextile of Jupiter, and this latter planet is essentially and accidentally dignified.---i.e., in regard to both its zodiacal and mundane positions.

It should not escape notice that the Moon is in the sign Leo in a house, the eleventh, that corresponds to Aquarius, and Mars is in Scorpio, in the second house, normally that of Taurus, so that the involved signs, being in opposition houses, and, indeed, the whole horoscope being inverted in respect to the natural zodiac, may in some sense have portended such a catastrophe as that by which the native lost his life.

Venus, the prime significator of the native is badly afflicted by the right angle Moon, Square Saturn and Opposition to Lilith, this latter body being in the sixth house, as was hitherto remarked in the preceding cases, in each of which the occupation proved fatal. This circumstance should have record in the student's notebook, for we shall have to watch the newly discovered satellite very closely for some time to come.

Emile Zola had Lilith in Sagittarius eight degrees at birth, and in 1898 the sun was directed to the exact Opposition of that dark satellite and Saturn at the time of the Dreyfus debacle, instituted by Zola in the winter of 1897, was in Conjunction with the place of Lilith at birth.

In Queen Alexandra's horoscope Lilith is in the fifth house, in Pisces 19 degrees, and the Duke of Clarence (her first-born) died at twenty-eight years of age, when Lilith was directed to Opposition M.C., in the Queen's horoscope.

It is an important factor, inasmuch, as Jupiter holds the fifth house in its own sign Pisces, and hence would suggest long life and good fortune to the first-born. Lilith, however, negatives this influence by its nearer position to the cusp of the fifth. Comparing this with the horoscope of the lady born January 29, 1864, at 8:10pm., London, we find Jupiter in Scorpio in the fifth house, but Lilith in Sagittarius at 5:00 also in the fifth house. She had daughters born, but the first male child died.

The one time popular actor, Win Terris (Lewin), had Lilith in the tenth house in Capricorn 16 degrees, SesquiSquare to the Sun on the cusp of the twelfth. He led a roaming life, followed by many pursuits, and died a violent death.

The Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II., has the satellite at birth in the fifth house, in Aquarius 5 degrees, and it will therefore be interesting to mark the destiny of his first-born son, in whose horoscope the Sun is opposed by Saturn.

The Kaiser Willhelm II has Lilith in Cancer 90 degrees in the ascendant of his horoscope, a further indication of the evil destiny of this monarch.

The Horoscope of King George V, shows the Sun in the 15th degree of Capricorn, and therefore in the tenth house, an indication of great political changes and revolutions in the course of his reign.

It would be possible to extend these observations indefinitely, but probably enough has been said to indicate that the nature of Lilith is violent and subversive, destructive and sinister. Its position at birth of an individual will show what dangers are signalled, according to the "house" or "division" of the heavens in which it is found. By means of the Table of Mean Conjunctions its position may be calculated in all known horoscopes, and a valuable series of observations may be thence made.