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	ASTROLOGY: A Language of Life, vol. 1: PROGRESSIONS - Robert P. Blaschke, $14.95 From the foreword by Robert Hand: "This book on progressions is quite accessible to astrological readers of many levels, but it is not a beginner's book....It goes beyond that to provide a practical and theoretical foundation for integrating the various methods of progressions into a single body of method..." Contents: Rules, laws and definitions; Progression theory; Progressed planetary motion; Progressed sun-moon relationship; Progressed retrogradation and stations; Signs, degrees, houses and angles by progression; Discerning significant progressed aspects; Miscellaneous thoughts and interpretive strategies. Appendices: Planet stations 1920-2010; Outer planet stations 1920-2010; Lecture, class and workshop tapes by the author; Astrology software programs; Computer chart services; Contacting the author. 137 pages including bibliography. Earthwalk School of Astrology, paper.

	THE A.C.D / L.D. METHOD OF PROGRESSIONS SIMPLIFIED - Sandra D. McDow & Jo Anna Graziano, $6.00 Contents: General information; Definitions; Rules; Examples: AM GMT on the same day as birth; AM GMT on the same day after birth; PM GMT on the same day as birth; PM GMT on the same day before birth; Progressed ephemeris date with examples; Progressed moon math/monthly motion Comment: Progressions are a day for a year exchange. If you're 40 years old, you know that the line in the ephemeris 40 days after your birth are the positions of your progressed planets for your 40th year. But, exactly when in your 40th year will those ephemeris positions (the moon, in particular) be exact? If you knew what day of the year the ephemeris positions were exact, you could easily bump the progressed moon up one degree a month & know exactly when it made contact with natal planets. For these reasons, the Ajusted Calculation Date (ACD) was devised. It's a simple calculation: Essentially, with a midnight ephemeris, subtract your GMT time of birth from 0:00:00. Add to that the interval between 0h GMT & your GMT birth time at 10 seconds/hour (9.86 seconds if you're fussy). To that sum, add the sidereal time (as shown in the ephemeris) for the last day before your birth. Take the resulting Sidereal Time & look it up in the ephemeris. The date with the closest match is your ACD for a midnight ephemeris. (This book uses a noon ephemeris. The only change for calculation at noon is to start with 12:00:00, instead of 00:00:00.) The better computer programs have long printed the ACD (noon & midnight) on the charts. If you were wondering what it meant, now you know. This book also contains instructions on exact calculation of the progressed moon. A small but useful book. If this is the only item on your order, we will ship at reduced rates, both domestic & international. AFA, 12 pages.

	THE PROGRESSED HOROSCOPE SIMPLIFIED - Leigh Hope Milburn, $19.00 Originally published in 1928 - which reminds us that there seems to be very few surviving books from about 1940 to about 1980 or so (the dark ages of astrology?). Contents: Progressed horoscope defined; General application; Predominance of the planets; The nature and influence of the planets; Progressed planets through the signs; Progressed ascendant by decan (and its ruler); Progressed moon through signs & houses; Aspects by the progression of the moon and the sun; Parallels; Transits; Aspects of the transits. Unique for its time, free of mathematics. 170 pages. AFA, paper.

	LUNAR RETURNS - John Townley, $19.95 Contents: List of charts; Introduction by Susan Wishbow Townley Part 1: Anatomy of the Lunar Return: 1. Meet the Moon; 2. Interpreting the Lunar Return Part 2: Delineations: 3. Lights & planets in the houses of the lunar return; Lunar return ascendant by sign; 5. Lights & planets in aspect in the lunar return; 6. Featured natal planets; 7. Transits into natal houses; 8. Transits into lunar return houses; 9. Transits to natal planets; 10. Transits to lunar return planets; 11. Full & new moons in natal & lunar return houses; 12. Transiting retrogrades & eclipses. Comment: You asked for it, and here it is: An entire book on Lunar Returns. Lunar returns happen when the moon returns to its exact place at birth, which it does every 28 days. Lunar returns are therefore our monthly cycle, for better or worse. The book has some dramatic case studies (Martha Stewart, 9-11 (yet again)), but for the most part falls flat. Take an okay book on transits & put "this month" in front of all the delineations, and you pretty much have the flavor of the book. Examples: Lunar return Saturn in the first: You may want to pull in your wings a bit for a while, as restricting forces are in the air that can put pressure on you if you don't carefully mete out your energies... (pg. 75) Any Natal Planet Conjunct Lunar Return Venus: You will likely run across issues & opportunities that allow you to demonstrate your charm & magnetism & set the tone for some time to come... (pg. 34) Sun Conjunct Midheaven: The Sun at midday spreads its widest beams abroad & can be seen from afar, like a flag at the masthead. This month's energy therefore is great for letting people know where you're at. (pg. 116) The author, John Townley, is described at the end of the book as, A millennium Renaissance man, he is also an artist/producer of over a dozen record albums, the author of multiple scholarly maritime historical papers & book reviews, and an Internet multimedia journalist. Llewellyn, 245 pages.

	TRANSITS & SOLAR RETURNS: A new system of analysis for two ancient methods - Ciro Discepolo, $25.00 Contents: Preface 1. Thirty rules 2. Transits of the Sun 3. Transits of the Moon 4. Transits of Mercury 5. Transits of Venus 6. Transits of Mars 7. Transits of Jupiter 8. Transits of Saturn 9. Transits of Uranus 10. Transits of Neptune 11. Transits of Pluto 12. The houses of the solar return 13. Celestials in the houses of the solar return 14. Moon of SR in the houses of the solar return 15. Mercury of SR in the houses of the solar return 16. Venus of SR in the houses of the solar return 17. Mars of SR in the houses of the solar return 18. Jupiter of SR in the houses of the solar return 19. Saturn of SR in the houses of the solar return 20. Uranus of SR in the houses of the solar return 21. Neptune of SR in the houses of the solar return 22. Pluto of SR in the houses of the solar return 23. The index of risk for the year 24. Examples Postface: 25. Preface to the second edition 26. Forecasts: This is why I say yes 27. The question of health 28. What you can do if you cannot leave 29. Results of the more recent researches 30. An essential bibliography Compendium 31. A short preface to the compendium 32. Psychoanalysis & the escape 33. References to the transactional psychology 34. Few links with mythology 35. Few links with Roman religion 36. Active astrology & magic 37. Predation 38. A bibliography to the compendium Comment: In the first section, on transits, there are harmonious & dissonant aspects, which sort of leaves the conjunction up to the reader to figure out. Delineations are extensive (many are nearly a full page long), and for the most part, are given as one long paragraph. Jupiter in harmonious aspect to the Moon is different from Moon in harmonious aspect to Jupiter (ie, no Sakoian & Acker shortcuts). The author also delineates each planet as it transits the twelve houses. Delineations are a lot less psychological than Rob Hand's famous set. In many places, Discepolo, unlike Hand, pulls no punches. Among other details, Saturn transiting the 4th, you could lose a parent. Uranus dissonant to Mars, you could have a bad accident (true, for me). Saturn dissonant to Moon: Possibility of death, if other factors (listed) agree. While the delineations broadly agree with accepted dogma, there are many insights from his long experience. With solar returns, he seems to be a master. From the Preface: I reckoned - by an approximation - that until spring 1997, after twenty-seven years of intensive practice in astrology, I had 'forwarded' at least ten thousand persons to an aimed birthday (over 20,000 in 2007). What's more, year after year I've been recording their outcome, about the splendid reality of the Aimed Solar Return. [ie, relocated solar return - Dave] ... In this volume you'll read quite different observations than those which you might find in any other book. Two examples follow that substantiate this reflection. In the next sections you'll read that a Solar Return starting, say, with Jupiter at the Medium Coli gives one hundred times lower positive effects to the native's social & professional promotion than a Solar Return with the Ascendant lying in the 10th house of the birth chart. Reading the following sections you'll also realize that the SR ascendant in the 1st house of birth is one of the worst positions that could ever strike a man. The above remarks, together with many other observations, originate from an extremely long practice & are supported by hundreds of personal reports of people who relocated their own SR according to the method described in this book, who can confirm every single point of what I have written down here. (pg. 5) In the Solar Return section itself, he writes, It is important to make one thing clear. In other books of mine, especially in my Trattato pratico di Rivoluzioni solari, I have already tried to explain this, but perhaps I haven't been clear enough - or maybe my readers did not understand. I would try again, further emphasizing the meanings of such a celestial combination. Perhaps if I speak out in further detail, readers would hear me & understand me better. According to my experience, the 12th, the 1st & the 6th house of the Solar Return are extremely dangerous & detrimental places, without significant differences of degree among each other. Saying that they show 'amost the same level' of detriment means that if the 12th house scores, say, minus 100 points, both the 1st & the 6th house score minus 98. These are facts, I have been misunderstood so far.... I would not spend a single word about the alleged growth that you can achieve being in trouble, or about the good of these three houses: the reader may find my point of view in other sections of this book and in my other books. I would rather underline the meanings of such wickedness... (pg. 325) From these extracts we get a sense of the author's techniques & point of view. Since there are 365 AND A QUARTER days in a year, the solar return ascendant shifts by roughly 90 degrees a year, meaning that every four years, the solar return ascendant & the natal ascendant are, more or less, the same. This is one of the very few books we have of non-English astrology. It is very well-translated, and printed on heavy coated stock. The book weighs twice what any other book would. Both of these are indications the author is highly regarded in his native Italy. I would like to hear feedback from readers. Ricerca '90, 558 pages.

	THE CHANGING SKY: A practical guide to predictive astrology - Steven Forrest, $14.95 Contents: Dedication Acknowledgements Preface Part 1: Creating the future: 1. Who's in charge?: Uncertainty, Three levels, Fields of probability 2. The root prediction: Tuning in Part 2: Transits: 3. Transits 1: Definitions: The first technique, Trigger points, The slow-fast distinction, What about retrogradation? When the party's over 4. Transits 2: Teachers & tricksters 3. Transits 3: The cycle of houses: Cyclical patterns, Houses in practice, Trigger points in houses 6. Transits 4: The cycle of life: Planetary cycles, The scheme of life Part 3: Progressions: 7. Progressions 1: What are progressions?: Symbolic time, Secondary progressions, Regrograde progressions, The orbs of the progressed aspects, Other progressive techniques 8. Progressions 2: More teachers & tricksters: The progressed ascendant, The progressed midheaven 9. Progressions 3: The progressed Moon: The significance of the progressed Moon, Progressed Moon through the houses, Progressed Moon through the signs Part 4: The progressed planets: 10. Progressions 4: The progressed planets & angles: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Midheaven & Ascendant Part 5: Synthesis: 11. Putting it all together: Your ace in the hole, The ace up your sleeve, Strategic overview, Four nets, Net one, Net two, Net three, Net four, The scope of time, Impact thresholds, Detecting patterns & themes 12. Artist, evangelist, madman: Vincent Van Gogh 13. Weather working Appendix: How to look up transits; The teachers & tricksters ephemeris,1999-2010 Comment: Of the various chapters, Transit 1 gives the mechanics of transiting planets. Transit 2, Teachers & Tricksters introduces Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto as Teachers & Tricksters, which is a recurring theme in Forrest's books. He then introduces Mars, Venus, Mercury, Sun & Moon, but as transiting planets the best they can do is backfire. Or the worst, I suppose. This chapter is a general overview of what transiting planets may do in your chart. Transits 3 gives a general overview of houses, as if they were one continuous storyline, from one house to another, on & on. I've never really understood this, as, to me, house transits are at best background influences, but I digress. Forrest: If our passage through the second house has been a successful one, we are now filled with a sense of legitimacy & authority. We have proven ourselves to ourselves. We now become curious and communicative, eager to learn - and eager to teach. Restlessness & mental energy become dominant features of our character.... (pg. 78) Well, Steven, in my chart Saturn moves too slowly to get this kind of house-to-house impression. Jupiter in the houses never seems to make much impression at all. Since I started with Uranus in the 2nd, Pluto in the 3rd, Saturn & Neptune in the 5th, I won't ever see them going from 2 to 3. The Sun, of course, hits every house every year on pretty much the same exact dates, but even then, the month of July doesn't seem to be about finances, the month of August isn't about communication, the month of September is not about home. Even with Mercury & Venus as consorts. And if I can't sense the annual transit of the Sun, I'm pretty much lost trying to use your ideas as you present them. Your writing is abstract, not practical, as you claim in your title. But let's continue. Transits 4 is the 29 year Saturn cycle, the 84 year Uranus cycle, the Neptune cycle, the Pluto cycle, the Jupiter cycle, all neatly summed up. In Progressions 2: More Teachers & Tricksters, we get Sun, Mercury, Venus & Mars as teachers & tricksters. Of this concept, Forrest writes, Teachers & tricksters. Exactly what are we talking about here? The mind likes myths; heroes & villians always hold our attention. To speak of "Mercury the Trickster" or "Venus the Teacher" is evocative. It excites the spirit & alerts the mind. For those reasons, speaking of Teachers & Tricksters elivens our approach to astrology, making it interesting and effective. Still, we must careful not to be deceived by the power of our own mythology. Teachers & Tricksters are not forces of Light and Darkness "out there" in space. They are internal. You are your own Trickster and your own Teacher. Transits and progressions signal developmental steps happening inside you. They can be ridden like a perfect, cresting waves or tripped over like misplaced furniture - all according to the choices & commitments you make. (pg. 138) This is, in fact, how most of the book goes. In the entire book, the only actual delineations are the progressed Moon through the signs & houses, and the progressed Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Midheaven & Ascendant to the various planets, Sun through Pluto. Steven Forrest graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1971 with a degree in religion. In America, this usually means intensive study of Christianity, as revealed in the Old & New Testaments. If this is true, then Steven's concept of Trickster & Teacher probably stems from Matthew chapter 4, verses 1-11, the story of Jesus's sojourn through the desert & his famous temptations by the devil. Make of it what you will. ACS, 308 pages.

	ROADMAP TO YOUR FUTURE, A Quick Guide to Progressions & Transits - Bernie Ashman, $23.00 From the back cover: "...illustrates the potential of every aspect, whether easy or challenging, and sparks the thinking process by beginning each section with a series of pertinent keywords. His concise interpretations contain the depth that only a mix of astrology and psychology can achieve." Contents: Prediction and life processes; The birth chart - roots of prediction; The dance of the planets - aspects; Transits; Symbolic time pieces - progressions; Progressed angles; Planet/planet aspects; Planet/ascendant aspects; Planet/midheaven aspects; Planet/nodes of the moon aspects. 429 pages. AFA, paper.

	POTENTIAL FULFILLED, vol 1: ACCIDENT PATTERNS - Priscilla M. Gilbert, $9.00 From the introduction: "To be forewarned is to be forearmed, and this to me is one of the best reasons for each individual to know the potential pattern of his natal chart...." Contents includes: Plane crash; Hit by car; Hit by train; Head-on car collision; Car skidded into a telephone pole; Car ran into an embankment; Car collision; Accidental electrocution; Pinned under a car; Hit by a truck while on his motorcycle; Death by a fall. 105 pages. AFA, paper.

	POTENTIAL FULFILLED, vol 2: WHAT SAVED THEM? - Priscilla M. Gilbert, $8.50 From the introduction: "Since there is a season for all things, then there must be a cosmic clock, a life rhythm to which we individually respond, and this - the potentiality of events - is reflected or shown on the life map of the chart." Contents: Drove car into a drainage ditch; Rolled over in his semi-truck; Head-on collision; Fall from a sand motorcycle; Fell off a cliff; Hit by a train; Shattered foot on curbstone; Train crash; Third-degree burns; motor-cycle accident; Car crash; Car accident. 100 pages. AFA, paper.

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