Astrology Lost and Found

Sagittarius (The Archer), November 22nd - December 20th This is the Negative Pole of the Fire Triune and corresponds to the motor nerves and thighs of the Grand Man. Its colors are red, green and gold. Its birth stones are carbuncles, turquoises and diamonds. Its profession is traveling, buying and selling, commercial enterprises, or anything in which the great executive ability, penetrating foresight, and wealth amassing characteristics of this sign can be exercised. This nature is cautious, conservative, courageous in defense rather than offense, self-reliant, introspective, and as in all fire people, its keynote and mainspring is its deep love-nature, less impetuous but more lasting, devoted and faithful than either Aries or Leo. Its tribe is Levi—meaning "Those who are joined or bound" which is characteristic of its fidelity and faithfulness to the marriage-vow. Its ruling planets are Mars and Jupiter. Sagittarius people are almost invariably refined and grace...

Sagittarius: You are a little too impulsive and wavering for conservative lines, yet where finance is the conservative question you might not object, so long as there was a surplus for daily demands. Financering is no doubt your better business qualification. Stock boards, banks, or some form of speculation would easily attract your earnest attention, and in connection with these affairs, church bodies or horse flesh, and such worldly glorifications would find a ready advocate in you, and in some cases a broken down victim in the decline of life. You live to worship. SAGITTARIUS, is the nature of an unafflicted Jupiter; proud, vain-glorious, self-gratifying, and generous in matters that may redound to its honor. It is by the Centaur, represented as the most satisfying condition of man and animal blended. Excerpt from Astrology in a Nutshell by Carl Webber (1902)