Stars and Kings.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14274, 13 August 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

Stars and Kings.

ASTROLOGERS HAVE SCORED. Astrology is just now looking up in the world. The death of the late Kinu I'.dward last month was nredicted by the astrologers la.t year. And what is nili more remarkable, the accession of George \ . was predicted when he was only two years obi and his elder brother was alive and well. The Kditor of the ••Occult Ueview." who is a ..-re;.' believer m astrology, exults OVHr this double score made by the students of the stars.

Iho astrologers. Old Moore. Zadkiol. and the ■•Astrological Ma-azino'" ail predated tin- King's death, although they couched the prophecy in guarded laiiiruajre. not likinu io alarm *1. 0 public. Hut there was little mistake a-; to ."hat they meant. S:n-s iJanhrt'-I writing in the summer of 1909 ■— '•"Unfavourable influences are ■shown to he operating in the Kin-r', horoscope. The conjunction of M-7---and Saturn falls mi a" critical P -;„* ;',, square to the place of Mars and "the progressed Sun. which is = ir:><i<'!\- j r <-i; cat.ve of ill-health but, I hop- u'.jr latal. • ' i • "JBut a more remarkable forecast, <=av« !s - ii,at .> ; Green Rook of Prophecies" 1 for'Wil '•! calendar published bv (he nrop.-oto-sV' /am-Buk. tho well-known 'he-'Pi—' '■':.-,.' niont. This almanac -.dves .', 1,;';,;.,,„';,.'.;,:. —a coflin. on which is ul.-'ed '■< Vmwn surrounded by seven wreath.. (.•'.',„•,.=..|,*1 lug the seven J{ l)Vi ,l Courts affected) ami the Bnti.sh and Danish n -'"s ~t ]>■,],• mast. After alluding to the'stav' of Saturn ,„ Ancs and its conu !!M ion "with Mar-, the writer ob-orv«s "The year 1010 is fraught with ~. CPptioual interest, if ;,,,i <:i a „„,,..,,. choly kmd. ior all thos- heir is "J. the welfare of our country and our King. ]r i.s with regret that smr.s o? -National bereavement are noted" Can you discern the direction in which we shall now meet with this .r:- f . :i£ !,,,.. ■••• The immediate cause of Kin- Edward s death. iis t.f,l„s i i ( . :I J!v speaking, was the rast parallel of th.. Moon ami: Mars a violent affliction of the lunar orb. the weakest and consentiertlv most j susceptible point in the King's'figure : 7. 7 ,V- ?."'*• , nffilVtio n led the editor of "Zadkiels Mmanne" to wain his doctors against li-tthjg him go nhro-ul ■ m tho spnrg As it was he caught a • dangerous on ill m going out to Biarritz. . inmigh nad Ins return been postponed ' tor another three weeks he would ! doubtless be among us to-day. j Lonrr before there was any suspicion '• of the Kings illness, the "Globe" '. newspaper quoted the curious old ada<Te 1 as applicable to the present rear: — = j 'AMien our Lord falls in'our Ladv's ' lap. " j On England will come a "Teat ; mishap. ; ' J

Ihe HiejnKiiir of this appears to 1 )G that : Lnglaml may expect misfortune when ! Lady Day (March 25th) synchronises! with Good Friday, as it does this rear i "A resident the ".St. James's Gazette"'!, named j T?alph, was hi-.rii on the same d:-v as i King Edward. was married on" the ; same day, and has died at the same j hour."

A similar incident- i;; narrated in connection with George HI. Tj, e ~c . count appeared many years njio in the "Leeds Mercury.' 7 It records that an lromuonser named Hemmin-zs was horn on the same day and .hour as this kin-' and in the same parish of St Mar+ ; !i<-]e-Fiolds. "When George lIL came to the throne Mr. became bead of his business throw.;'," tlie death of his father. He married on the same day had the same unmoor of children, and the deaths ot the Kins; and factor synchronised. More remarkable still Mr. Hcmminrrs v.a« attacked with a species o> intermittent insanity, which | came ami V?t Kim at tlie same times ,i at which Kir.?.' George m W;ls attack . ,; ed and recovered. I t. Atte " t ' : "" * d ™Y n elsewhere in the Press to the fact that a areat collierv (disaster immediately followed on the : late Prince Consort's death, enrrespondI mi;, strano-elv enoueh. with th» Whi*e 'haven colliery explosion, which happened within a j death, and j„ which ISr, wnrVWe ; lost their lives. In addition to this' -"n connection with, this particular mine, i

it is remarkable to note that the first coal was brought up from the mine ou the day on 'which King Edward was hnrn, and that the mine took fire, for the first time in 1863, the year of hi« marriage.