If the people born in these domains-Fire, Earth, Air, and Water—do really embody the qualities of their triplicities, it must be plain to the thoughtful stu­dent that the cause of many an unhappy marriage can be traced to the attempted union of uncongenial elements. This has always been ascribed as a reason, though until recently very vague notions have been held in regard to the causes of such uncongeniality.

Everybody has speculated and won­dered at the quarrels and separations of the most excellent people considered individu­ally, men and women who outside of the marital relation were the corner-stones of social and life. United, they were little short of demons. «It is a shame and a disgrace," has been said, "that those folks cannot get along together, and they certainly are not what they seemed to be before marriage, nor what they now ap­pear to be when they are apart." All can call to mind example after ex­ample of such domestic infelicity, and so alarmingly frequent is this mismating that long ago marriage was called "a lottery," and more lately pronounced a «failure."

We have spoken of magnetic attraction and repulsion with very little idea of what we were talking about. We have wit­nessed the most crucial suffering of married people, for which neither wife nor husband could ascribe any adequate cause. We have observed the quick re­pulsions which have taken place after marriage, and which grew into unen­durable hatred. We have seen the con­stant wife broken-hearted because of her husband's inconstancy, and faithful, noble husbands made miserable by their wives' extravagance, selfishness, and dishonor. But that there was a scientific explanation of such conditions has not been under­stood until lately.

If this explanation is found in the Zodiacal Domains, we must logically find in these domains the prevention of marital misery. If, for in­stance, one born under the head of a certain triplicity—we will take Aries, the head of the Fire—understands that it is unwise to marry one born under the head of another triplicity, and will carefully look into the reasons, a great deal of trouble will be saved.

If, however, these persons have learned to control them­selves and live above the influences of selfishness, anger, prejudice, envy, or whatever faults may belong to their signs, and the peculiarities of their domains, they are safe. Humanly considered, the heads of the triplicities are prone to domination, and when both husband and wife are determined to govern, harmony is an utter impossibility. Out of such a condition springs everything that is mis­chievous and cramping to the soul.