Venus was ascendant in Virgo when Rat Hyatt came into the world, but the watchful eye of Saturn in Leo was upon him. The benign love star was not allowed to monopolize his fortunes. There were three malefics in strategic sectors that betokened danger. The moon was coyly ensconced with respect to Venus, and thus neutralized the dire influences to some extent. Counterparts of Rat’s characteristics, indicated by planetic conditions at his birth, were found in Richard Coeur de Lion and Marcus Aurelius. They evidenced one “skilful in command, ambitious, cautious, strenuous, obstinate, active, yet indolent at times, versatile, inventive, acute and self confident, busy in all things, terrible in anger, intrepid and invincible when roused, loyal to friends and modest, yet fond of applause.” There were many dark spots in the picture, aspected by the moon, that were fraught with peril, and Hyatt must beware of the angry Saturn. Mars was also an interfering factor. Rat must never go below a certain bend in the river during a waning moon, or in the summer time, and must shun women with protruding teeth. (An obvious allusion to Hyatt ’s friend, Malindy Taylor, whom Wattles admired from afar.) In a vision in Wattles’s crystal, while Rat Hyatt was under consideration, there appeared a tall skeleton, with a helmet and a fiery spear. It wore a breast plate on which was inscribed “_Sent from God_.” The bony arms waved the spear, and the crystal was suffused with red. The interpretation was that Hyatt would be wanted in the near future. In another crystal vision, a slowly moving figure, with a sorrow stricken mien, and a halo above its head, approached a water’s edge and contemplated men who drew a net. When the meshes came upon the sand the figure stooped, took from them one of the fish, and cast it back into the sea. A darkness then came upon the face of the waters. Wattles divined that this signified something in connection with Hyatt, and that “the fish was no good.” As I finished reading the horoscopes the tom cat Scorpio returned through the hole in the door and crawled under the stove with a chipmunk he had caught in the woods. “That crystal was at one time in India,” explained Wattles, as he placed the horoscopes between the leaves of a big book. “The Buddhists used it, and it was stolen by a desecrater of a temple, who fled to Italy. There it was used by a great astrologer and magician for over fifty years. From Italy it went to England and into the possession of the world renowned Zadkiel. After that it went to New York by inheritance. I bought it from a man in Cincinnati for two dollars. He did not know what it was, but I did, for it was fully described in some books I have. I believe it to be the celebrated Lady Blessington crystal that was exhibited in London before all the nobility in 1850. I will show you how it works.”