678 THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS
removal of the growth and when that has heen eom- pleted the suppuration ceases, but immediately a new growth begins to form. Lately the jaws have also eommenced to grow stiff, so that now the young man can no longer eat with comfort.
The very first glanee at the horoscope shows us Uranus, the planet of spasmodic action, in eonjune- tion with the Sun, and being in the sign Libra, which rules the kidneys, We also note that Uranus is par- allel with Mars, the planct of dynamie energy; this shows at once that the action of the kidneys is spas- modic and irregular so that instead of the poisons being eliminated from the body by these organs they are reluined and naturally contaminate the whole sys- tem, But we also find that this patient is poisoned to a greater extent than ordinarily by a venereal dis- ease contracted about seven or eight years ago; this is shown as a tendency in the natal horoscope by the conjunction of Mars, the planct of dynamic energy, with Venus, the planet of love, in the Fifth House, which governs eourtship und the relations of the sexes before marriage. Saturn is also there with his obstructive hand and square to Neptune, the planet which governs strange and unusual conditions. He is in the sign Gemini, whieh rules the hands and fm- gers. About seven years ago, when the Moon was in Pisces by progression. the sign which governs the toes, it was in opposition to Venus, Mars and Saturn and square to Neptune, We base our judgment that the disease was contracted at that time on the fact
