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Here are essays on astrological themes. Some of these books are very good:

Indicates a book on our Top Ten list. If you would like to find more books like it, click on the star.

	THE CONSULTATION CHART: A Guide to What It Is & How to Use It - Wanda Sellar, $22.00 Contents: 1. The rising sign; 2. Prognostication: What may happen; 3. The personal planets; 4. The social planets; 5. All change: The outer planets; 6. The magic dragon & the wounded healer; 7. All around the houses. Case histories; Conclusion; Bibliography; Astrological schools & organizations; Index. Comment: How to know in advance what clients will demand? Here’s one of Evangeline Adams’ tricks: Use the chart for the moment the client walks in the door, AKA the Consultation Chart. The ascendant is the matter at hand, the ruler of the ascendant is how the client feels about it & to what extent s/he can deal with it. Sound simple? This powerful tool brings immediacy to a reading. An excellent book. Wessex Astrologer, 225 pages.

	NUMEROLOGY, ASTROLOGY & DREAMS - Dusty Bunker, $19.95 Contents: Numerology; Astrology; Dreams; The brain and laboratory research; Symbols; Personal year cycle dreams; Recording your dreams. 194 pages including appendix. Whitford, paper.

	ASTROLOGY'S WIDE INFLUENCE - Doris Chase Doane, $18.95 A collection of essays. The table of contents describes them: You can't ignore Uranus; The Vernal Equinox; Mind & mater; ESP trends; Full moon beams on a riot; Uranus & past destiny; Stars along the air lanes; Does anyone know what time it is?; Key to auto-conditioning; The difference between personalities; Action in a Mars year; Do you need to change?; Our economic barometers; Christmas constellations; California & astrolgy; Horary astrology dividends; Stars of love & marriage; Destiny of a nation; Are you familiar with Pluto?; Emphasis of horoscope areas; Cycles underline manifestation. The bibliography cites six of her own books, 10 by her teacher C.C. Zain, one by Edward Doane & one by Sydney Omarr. AFA, 142 pages.

	BLENDING ASTROLOGY, NUMEROLOGY & THE TAROT - Doris Chase Doane, $21.00 Contents: The tarot tells what's in a name; More names and numerology; Tarot reflections of the birth path; Tarot philosophy; History and background; Foundation and purpose of the tarot; How to handle the cards; Illustrations and keywords; Astrological symbolism; Zodiacal signs symbolized; The planets symbolized; The spreads - yes or no, pyramid, sephiroth, three sevens, magic seven, kabala, solar, wish, spread of 36, magic cross, life, 4 trines horoscope, 12 horoscope houses, individual horoscope; biblical associations. 183 pages. AFA, paper.

	VERSATILITY OF ASTROLOGY, Its Place In Your Life - Doris Chase Doane, $24.00 Contents: The importance of time to the astrologer; When man and the heavens disagreed; Pluto: yesterday, today and tomorrow; A key to your relationships with others; Venus in your horoscope; Facts and importance of the number nine; Your valentine in the zodiac; Star magic for year-round vacations; Mars on a roller coaster; Keep healthy to enjoy life; TLC for your best planet; The twelve labors of Hercules; Detours in your horoscope; Seven ways to immaturity; Obesity: mind over matter; Cosmic forces behind your aspects; Six sweeps of the scythe; The trinity of wealth; Christmas shopping with the stars; The astrological case history; Prophesy 1641 - Fact today; The accident event chart; Your power graft; Animals have horoscopes; Journey through darkness; Radio jackpot winners; How to relive job tensions; How to use astrological constants. 208 pages. AFA, paper.

	A NEW AGE CONVERSATION - Doris Chase Doane & Earl H. Cramer, $14.00 A Psychiatrist and an Astrologer Exchange Ideas. Contents: Setting a foundation; Getting acquainted; Inner plane influences; Comparing horoscopes; Childhood conditioning; Conditioning and behavior; Energy and sex hangups; Tracking energy patterns; Astrological illustrations. 87 pages. AFA, paper.

	FINDING THE PERSON IN THE HOROSCOPE - Zip Dobyns, $11.00 Contents: Assumptions create reality; Materialistic vs. humanistic astrology; Alphabet soup; Virgo sun; Don't forget houses; The exaltation fallacy; We need all twelve; Elements ; Element combinations; Qualities; Neptune in the seventh; Saturn in the seventh; The cardinal dilemma (In defense of Saturn, Solving the problem); The fixed dilemma (Self-mastery through sharing, Gate to the universals, Sisterhood/brotherhood, Freedom vs. closeness); The mutable dilemma - world of the mind; Search for absolutes; Aspects; Asteroids ( Earth mother, All work and no play, The fighting side of Libra, Doing a good job for it's own sake); The vertex axis; Dwads and decanates; Planetary nodes; Fixed stars; Midpoints & Arabic parts; Sorting the alphabet soup; Is once enough?; The alphabet in action (Billy Jean King); Ethical astrology. Appendix: House planet-sign combinations; Key phrases; Aspects. 84 pages. TIA Publications, paper.

	VENUS TRINES AT MIDNIGHT (astrological love poems) - Linda Goodman, $12.95 Contents: Venus trines at midnight; A Taurus ascendant is sensual but the bull is conservative; Gemini-Gemini; Jupiter prayer on Christmas Eve; Incantation of a moon child; Venus exposed; Taurus; Aquarian awakening after sundown; Mars and stars; The fish meets the water bearer; Throw a little Neptune in with the image; Pluto moves slowly but surely; The Aquarian age of what; Capricorn calendar; Combustible but compatible; February people are real pals; Cancerian cry; Venus in Virgo or Venus in Aries; Scorpio silence is golden; Uranus in Libra can shake up Mendelssohn; It's not easy to please a virgin; Lots more. 127 pages. Hampton Roads, paper.

	ASTROLOGICALLY SPEAKING - Ingrid Lind, $16.50 Contents: The nature of astrology; The natal chart; Signs of the zodiac, and their correspondences in human character; Personal appearance through the signs; the signs in the context of love, money and authority; The planets (including extra-Saturnians); Aspects and transits; Importance of the birth moment; The houses; Progressions; What is the Ecliptic?; The precession of the Equinoctial points and the great year (including tropical and sidereal Zodiacs); The client-consultant relationship; What does chart interpretation entail?; Difficulties-disasters-death; Health and psychology; Clairvoyance-dreams-sensitivity; the Predictive scene; Heredity; children; Animals can have charts too; Relationships (compatibility, chart comparison, inter-family, professional and business); Questions commonly asked; Various techniques and branches of astrology (mundane, electional, horary, palmistry, medical astrology); Philosophical questions (evil; separateness and wholeness - reincarnation and human potential). Appendix: Recommended reading; Study courses; Societies and journals; Glossary; Keyword system of interpretation. 267 pages. L.N. Fowler, paper.

	THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A CELESTIAL VIEW - Steffan G. Vanel, $14.95 Contents: Preface; Introduction; Birthchart of the US; Understanding astrology 1. The planet Pluto & the self-image of the US; 2. The birth of the US; 3. Tension & conflict within the US birthchart; 4. Causes for material success & obsession in the US; 5. America & sex/birth/death; 6. Spit-balls & relationships; 7. America's drug culture; 8. Where are we going from here?; 9. A tarot reading for the US; 10. The Arab/Israeli conflict & the tribulation Appendices: The astrological system; Bibliography; The Hilarion series; Acknowledgments; About the author Comment: This book is an excuse for a rehash of the writings of Maurice B. Cooke, a Toronto, Ontario, businessman, who claims to be the channel for Hilarion, an "Ascended Master". Occultists know of an Hilarion, whom they believe to be the ultimate incarnation of the man who was once Paul of Tarsus. They claim he doesn't give interviews & is generally busy elsewhere. Presuming they exist, ascended masters would be quite busy generally. It seems to be a rule that the greater the talent, the greater & harder the work. That Mr. Cooke is a channel I can accept, as it requires only low-grade clairvoyant ability. (In fact, continued channeling often degrades the channel remarkably.) Should we believe those who claim to channel some famous or great person, that they, in fact, channel this or that famous person? Generally, no. We should never. Our first job as readers is to strip away the name & then ask if what we are reading is worthy of such an exalted source. And the answer is always no. Perhaps hearing voices, perhaps not, Mr. Cooke was unwilling to publish under his own proper name, presumably for fear that no one would notice. And, in fact, what he has written under the pen name Hilarion, is no better than what one may read from a variety of strictly human sources - and there are many better. For Mercury in Cancer, the Great & Wise Hilarion writes: Mercury here if afflicted will make it very difficult for the rational mental process to operate independently of and unaffected by the emotional life. Negative feelings & emotions will have a way of muddying up the reasoning ability. The main lesson is to separate thought from emotional influences. (pg. 62, emphasis in Vanel's quote, taken from Hilarion's Astrology Plus, pg. 39) Which, true to form, is no great revelation. Many people, including myself in more cheerful days, want some form of divine guidance, or, at the very least, divine inspiration. Seekers will look everywhere for it, they will wait forever for it to arrive. Alas, if there is a certain source of the divine, it is through sheer unremitting hard work. Such is what all the great sages have said, and such has been my own discovery. The book is mediocre, eg, not horribly bad, but rarely inspired. Spiritual Company Press, 149 pages, oversize.

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