MUNDANE ASTROLOGY. =============== CHAPTER III. --------------THE TWELVE MUNDANE HOUSES, THEIR POWER AND SIGNIFICATIONS.

In dealing with this, the same rules must be applied as in delineating a horosco pe, for where the latter applies to an individual, in Mundane Astrology it refer s to a nation, and it therefore follows that the same mode of procedure must be applied, but in a more extended form. The influence of the twelve mundane houses in connection with national affairs i s as follows :The first house.-The common people, public health, general conditions of the cou ntry, and state of home affairs generally. The second house.-National Exchequer, Revenue, Stock Exchange, Banks, Commercial affairs and trade. The third house.-Railways and matters to do with them, traffic returns, stocks a nd shares; telegraph, telephone and postal affairs, locomotions and means of tra nsit, motors, omnibuses, and the like; Books, newspapers and literary concerns. The fourth house.-The weather, agriculture, crops and landed interest; mines, pu blic buildings; and the opposition part to the Government. The fifth house.-Theatres, music halls and places of amusement, children, educat ion, birth-rate, schools, morals and betting. The sixth house.-Sickness, public health, Army and Navy, Warships; Working class es generally. The seventh house.- Foreign affairs, and relations with other Powers. War and international disputes. Marriages, divorces, foreign trade. The eighth house.-Mortality, death-rate, suicides. Privy council. The ninth house.-Law courts, judges, clergy, religion, Colonial trade and affair s, Commercial powers, Science, Shipping, and matters to do therewith. The tenth house.-The King, Royalty, Government, Ruling Powers, Aristocracy, Nobi lity and Society. The eleventh house.-Parliament, House of Commons, Legislation. The twelfth house.-Prisons, Workhouses, Hospitals, Asylums, Reformatories, Chari table Institutions; Crime, Murders, Criminals, Spies and Secret Foes. NOTE.-The strongest houses are the first, tenth, seventh and fourth, then the second, fifth, eighth and eleventh, and lastly, the third, sixth, ninth and twelfth. The first, third and ninth are termed the intellectual houses, because the first represents the minds of the people, the third has to do with newspapers and the like, and ninth represents the religious attitude of the people.