Use of astrology in character creation

I know of a case where the authors of a play took an imaginary personality to a friend interested in astrology, and, giving her certain salient characteristics, said: "Under what signs would such a man be born and what would be his other habits of thought and action?" The friend was both amused and excited and went to work; pres¬ently the man had a birthday and a horoscope. This was done with several other characters and the re¬sult was interesting. The old astrologers knew a thing or two of human nature—certainly, in respect to those propensities which "went together "; this was provea,by the fact that each of the characters in that play was alive and as nearly as possible true to his own nature.