                   ASTROLOGICAL KEYWORD SYSTEM - INTRODUCTION

     The system herein set  forth is  an analytical  method of  reading the 
     horoscope chart.  It is  developed along  the lines  indicated by  Max 
     Heindel in THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS, pages 405-408. It consists simply 
     of combining the keywords  of the  planets, signs  and houses  to form 
     key-phrases, key-sentences and key-paragraphs, then the  final summing 
     up of these to arrive at a composite judgment.

     By this method anyone  can read  the message  of a  chart in  a fairly 
     intelligent manner. There has been an  idea in  the past  that a  high 
     degree of intuition was necessary before  one could  hope to  do this. 
     But  this  idea has  largely been  disproved. Anyone  who can  combine 
     simple  elements  and  reason  from cause  to effect  can combine  the 
     keywords in a chart to ascertain at least  the essential  part of  its 
     message.    Reference   to  dignities,   exaltations,  retrogradation, 
     interception and other minor factors is omitted, as only the  advanced 
     student needs to consider them.

     Steps 1 to 9 inclusive are preliminary and analytical in  character to 
     show the  student the  reasoning which  must be  done, consciously  or 
     subconsciously, before  the summation  in step  10 is  possible.  With 
     practice, however, the students will arrive  at the  point where  they 
     will be able to omit the first nine steps and give the  net result  of 
     step 10 without this preliminary work.

