from evil, Seraphine cast my horoscope (I
wonder why she never did this before?), and now much that was previously
inexplicable in my life is made clear to me. She says that astrology is
not a cheap form of trickery, but a recognized field of knowledge and
investigation.

From the earliest times wise men have emphasized the influence of the
stars upon human lives--for good or ill. I like to believe this. It
gives one a broader and more charitable view of one's fellow creatures,
of their sins and weaknesses, to realize the presence about us of these
vast and mysterious forces.

My horoscope, with its queer phraseology, reads:

"Your Neptune is in evil aspect to your Venus, which makes you attract
men almost irresistibly."

This was the case, Seraphine says, with Georges Sand, George Eliot and
various women in history who were the favorites of kings, although some
of them had little beauty. They were dowered, however, with this
terrific magnetism for the opposite sex.

I remember, even as a school girl, how the boys used to fight over me,
while they scarcely noticed prettier and brighter girls. I never
understood this, any more than they did, for I was rather indifferent to
them. There was one girl in our set who attracted the boys as much as I
did, but she was also drawn to them. When this girl was about eighteen
her father began to receive anonymous notes telling of his daughter's
escapades and warning him to guard her more carefully. Finally there
came an open scandal when the girl ran away with a married man. At the
time I thought myself a better and stronger character than she, since I
resisted temptation, but my horoscope shows that I had "in beneficent
aspect" certain planets that were "evilly aspected" for my friend, and
this made her temptations greater than mine.

Seraphine says that the horoscope, wisely used, is like an automobile
light in the darkness--it reveals dangers in the road that may be
avoided. "_The stars incline, but do not compel_," she always tells her
clients and assures them that, by power of the will, we can overcome any
influence of the stars, strengthening the good and weakening the evil
aspects. That is a blessed thought.

When I was a trained nurse I received many confidences from women and
some confessions of an intimate nature. At one time I took care of a
married woman in Washington, a neurasthenic case, and this woman told me
that she had several times tried to kill herself be