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To cast a horoscope accurately one must know the hour, day and year of one's birth. The following list gives the general characteristics of people born under the twelve signs of the Zodiac. However, one's entire personality may be twisted by the rising of a conflicting sign or planet within the period.
Aries (rani), Mar. 22 to Apr. 20, governed by Mars. These people are intolerant, impulsive, aggressive, insufferably proud. The women tend to be more passive than the men, and are often free lances. If the Aries man is immoral, it is in a conventional way. But he is honest. Both men and women are subject to stomach trouble, fevers, apoplexy. They have a profile suggestive of a sheep. Under this sign were born James Thomas Heflin, Andrew William Mellon, James Branch Cabell, Mary Pickford, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Constance Talmadge, Charles Evans Hughes, the late John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Jefferson, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck.
Taurus (bull), Apr. 21 to May 21, governed by Venus. The landed gentry and the contented plowman are typical Taurus folk. They are unimaginative, conservative creatures of habit. They make good friends and good homes. Some of them will become lazy and sensual. They are sturdy of body and should beware of heart and throat diseases. Under this sign were born Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Sir James Matthew Barrie, Sigmund Freud, Christopher Morley, William Guglielmo Marconi, Ulysses Simpson Grant, William Shakespeare.
Gemini (twins), May 22 to June 21, governed by Mercury. "Most Gemini natives try to walk in two directions at once." They work on all manner of subjects, good or bad, and think they are producing logical and accurate results. High-powered U. S. businessmen are often Gemini. So are gold-digging women. Childishness, thin lips, lung trouble are Gemini characteristics. Under this sign were born Douglas Fairbanks, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman, Patrick Henry, Alighieri Dante.
Cancer (crab), June 22 to July 23, governed by the Moon. Those folk are clearly divided into two types. The active ones take a poetic view of the universe. They love to be made martyrs; ridicule makes them even more active, although they feel it personally. The passive type is sentimental, full of stagnant platitudes, lazy. Both types tend to become fleshy with years, should watch their digestive systems. Under this sign were born Calvin Coolidge, William Edgar Borah, Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, John D.. Rockefeller Sr., Jack Dempsey, the late Lord Northcliffe.
Leo (lion), July 24 to Aug. 23, governed by the Sun. Lordly, often haughty are Leo people. They excite envy, but seldom seek revenge. They are gluttons for work and like to have the bands playing with them. The spirit of Kiwanis and a tendency to early baldness are theirs. Under this sign were born Benito Mussolini,* Herbert Clark Hoover, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Ford, Ethel Barrymore, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Napoleon Bonaparte.