Armor of the spirit blunts the sting in the tail of the season. October 24 through November 2. Topaz. November 3 through November 13. Moonstone. November 14 through November 22. Lapis lazuli. _Sagittarius, the Archer_ Aim well through the dark night, for the dawn shall turn. November 23 through December 2. Turquoise. December 3 through December 12. Amethyst. December 13 through December 22. Diamond. _Capricorn, the Goat_ Leap up, heart, with glad resounding as light is born anew! December 23 through January 1. Onyx. January 2 through January 11. Garnet. January 12 through January 20. Chrysolite. _Aquarius, the Water Carrier_ Out of me come all things that live beneath the rainbow. January 21 through January 30. Green jasper. January 31 through February 9. Emerald. February 10 through February 19. Crystal. _Pisces, the Fishes_ Abundance of untold treasure glints from the depths of the seven seas. February 20 through February 28-29. Pearl. March 1 through March 9. Pearl. March 10 through March 21. Pearl. As the zodiac sets a ring around the heavens, so the zodiacal ring around one’s finger sets the sign of heaven in one’s fate. If one does not have a special jewel wrought with one’s astrological sign, it may find fit place as a charm on a bangle bracelet. Cassius, in Shakespeare’s _Julius Caesar_, may exclaim: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings— but every man is born under a lucky star, and borne along with the virtues of the stars’ configurations, if only he can make it shine upon his fortune. It should be remembered (as Milton records in _Paradise Lost_) that God smiled upon the angels when they came to calculate the stars. If the astrologer has cast one’s nativity, one then may have it fashioned in a jewel. PART TWO _The Art of Feminine Adornment_ CHAPTER 4 _The Art of Feminine Adornment_ From head to foot milady is concerned with jewels. Her crowning glory, her hair, is today, however, left largely to display its own lustrous beauty in coiffures carefully designed for the individual taste and figure. Hat ornaments of elaborate jewels have long ceased to be popular. By the beginning of this century even the essential hatpin had been reduced to utilitarian simplicity, a round piece of jet or colored stone atop a long rod of steel which, with its sharp point, not only held the hat in place but made a handy weapon of defense.