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Here are books with unique and original observations, as well as experimental points of view. If any of you were wondering if the "Research" pages might be a general catch-all, well, you'd be right. For more of the same, see the Astrological Essays pages. As I find time I want to set up pages on Sidereal & Heliocentric astrologies, among others.

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THE BEST OF AL H. MORRISON, selected & edited by Karen Christino, $21.95
 Contents: Acknowledgments

1. Introduction; 2. Horoscope interpretation; 3. The void of course moon; 4. Chiron & the minor planets; 5. Declinations; 6. The U.S. & mundane charts

Index

Comment: Al Morrison, 1916 - 1995, was that eccentric guy who livved in the Chelsea Hotel on New York's West 23rd Street for all those years. The guy who never had a telephone, the guy who wrote all his countless letters by hand. (I even have one, somewhere.) For decades, he was the ultimate New York astrologer. Cranky & everything else. You can read more about him at Donna Cunningham's Astrologer's Memorial.

This entire book is composed exclusively of extracts of Al Morrison's letters & lecture tapes. It is Al himself speaking to us, as many have long wished for. One woman, an old friend of Al's, said she laughed & cried as she read this book.

This is partly a memoir, partly a first-rate compendium of techniques, by someone who knew, and more than merely knowing, who tirelessly experimented & innovated. What we know of asteroids, what we know of Chiron, what we know of the void-of-course moon is all due to Morrison's work. This book will handsomely repay close study.

Stella Mira Books, 266 pages.


THE BEST OF CHARLES JAYNE: A Book of His Books - Charles Jayne, $22.00
 More truthfully, a book of monographs: Horoscope Interpretation Outlined, Introduction to Locality Astrology, Parallels: Their Hidden Meaning, The Technique of Rectification. 174 pages, a pretty dense book, all in all. AFA, paper.


ASTRODYNE MANUAL - Elbert Benjamine (aka C.C. Zain), $18.95
 Astrodynes, harmodynes & discordynes are measures of astrological power, harmony & discord. Their numerical strength determines the interpretation of the horoscope & the effect of transits, progressions & directions. Complete guide to their calculation & use. See also the two books immediately below for more on Zain's invention. Contents: Finding and using decimal numbers; Power due to house position; Power due to aspects; Calculating the astrodynes of any zodiacal aspect and of any parallel aspect; The total power of a birth chart planet; Calculating the power of a birth chart sign and a birth chart house; Calculating the birth chart harmony and discord; The total harmony or discord of a planet; Calculating the harmony or discord of a birth chart sign and a birth chart house; Calculating the power and harmony of the normal progressed horoscope; Completed astrodyne chart of Elbert Benjamine; Birth chart astrodynes, harmonodynes and discordynes; Calculating peak power, peak harmonodynes or discordynes of a progressed aspect; Calculating un-reinforced power of aspect on a given date; Calculating practical power and harmony of a sign or house on a given date; Calculating the peak power and harmony of a minor and of a transit progressed aspect; Calculating the power and harmony of a minor and of a transit progressed aspect on a given date; Calculating the peak reinforcement power of a minor progressed aspect; Calculating the reinforcement power of a minor progressed aspect on a given date; Calculating the total influence of a progressed aspect. 65 pages. Church of Light, newly reset, oversize paper.


HOW TO READ COSMODYNES - Doris Chase Doane, $11.00
 One of C.C. Zain's leading students gives her thoughts on his system. Contents: House power wheel; Aspects and their orbs by planetary house position; Table of mutual reception; Cosmodynes of essential dignities; Table of astrological signature; Minutes expressed as degree decimals; Disease tendencies; Glands and planets; Reconditioning mental and physical chemistry; Signs and body areas; Planets and body organs; Method of financial gain mapped by houses and by planets; Horoscopes with cosmodyne reports and summaries. 49 pages. AFA, oversize paper.


DELINEATION WITH ASTRODYNES - Ken Stone, $13.00
 Contents: Planets; Signs and houses; Aspects; Temperament, disposition and health; Vocational analysis; Compatibility; Progressions; Temperament; Vocational selection; Compatibility; Delineating the whole chart. 37 pages. AFA, oversize paper.


THE PART OF FORTUNE IN ASTROLOGY - Judith Hill, $9.95
 Contents:
1. What is the Part of Fortune? Description, calculation.

2. What the Pars Fortuna means: The three keys. Interpretative meanings in the chart.

3. Pars Fortuna in the twelve houses.

4. Pars Fortuna in the twelve zodiac signs.

5. Pars Fortuna conjunct natal planets, sun, moon & the north/south lunar nodes.

Summary; Bibliography

Comment: Ptolemy mentions the Part of Fortune in his Tetrabiblos, proving the great ancestry of the Parts generally. Instructions for calculating both by day (preferred by the author herself) and by night.

The three keys to interpretation: 1. The Part of Fortune indicates the place of happiness, ie, the degree of the zodiac that brings you bliss. 2. The Part of Fortune is the place where you may profit financially from planets in or passing through its exact degree, or, by extension, by the planet which rules that sign in your chart. 3. The Part of Fortune can strengthen & otherwise improve any unfortunate planet it may conjunct. There are four categories of "improvement", but not all of them lead to positive results so far as the native may be concerned. Improvements have often been noted when the Part is conjunct the south node.

The book concludes with brief delineations of Fortuna in houses, signs & in conjunction to sun, moon, planets & nodes. For orbs, Judith tells me 3 degrees or less is best, but all planets in the same sign as Fortuna are affected by it to some extent. First published in 1998.

Stellium Press, 29 pages.


EXPANDING ASTROLOGY'S UNIVERSE - Zipporah Dobyns, $12.95
 Thought-provoking essays on new asteroids, healing, psychokinesis, power/faith/caring, the 12th house, house systems, retrogrades & more. Notes on the 2nd Coming & another batch of charts for July 4, 1776. Contents also includes: Basic premises; Psychological theories; Minor forms of the astrological alphabet; Aspects; A case for locality charts; How many systems work? 249 pages including index. ACS, paper.


NEW INSIGHTS INTO ASTROLOGY - Nona Gwynn Press, $26.95
 Contents: Sex is a T-square; Number symbolism; Harmonics (extensive treatment of harmonics, arc transforms & more); Asteroids - some 61 mentioned in the text; Lunations; Solar returns; Research. Notes on the failed New York NCGR suicide study of the 1970's & why computerized statistical "testing" of astrology leaves much to be desired! Appendices: Asteroids with glyphs; Uranian planet key words; Heliocentric nodes (hundreds of them) for 1990 in alphabetical and zodiacal listings. 424 pages including index. ACS, paper.


PRIMER OF SIDEREAL ASTROLOGY, Moray Series No. 1 - Cyril Fagan & Brigadier R.C. Firebrace, $21.95
 Contents:

Preface to the third edition
Preface to the first US edition
Abbreviations

1. Our city universe
2. The sidereal zodiac
3. Conversion of a tropical map into the sidereal
4. The Mean Sun (M.S.)
5. The calendar
6. The example horoscope
7. The progressed horoscope
8. Primary directing of the angles
9. The Sidereal Solar Return (S.S.R.)
10. The Solar Quotdian progression
11. Progression of solar planets
12. The Progressed Sidereal Solar Return (P.S.S.R.)
13. Regressions
14. The sidereal lunar return
15. The Anlunar return
16. Kinetic returns
17. Mundane astrology
18. The art of interpretation

Appendices:
Calculation of planets in mundo
Calculating lunar configurations
Paranatellonta
Precessing
Notes on tables

Tables
1. Mean sidereal longitude of the Synthetic Vernal Point (SVP) for the beginning of each century (Julian), 4000 BC - 2100 AD
2. Reduction of minutes & seconds of arc to decimals of a degree & vice-versa
3. The mean sidereal longitude in Pisces of the S.V.P. for January 1, for each year from 1800 to 2000 AD inclusive
4. First correction (precession & solar mutation) to obtain the True Sidereal Longitude of the S.V.P., calculations being based on the M.S. Compiled by Garth Allen
5. Second correction to obtain the True Sidreal Longitude of the S.V.P. due to the effects of lunar nutation

Comment: Interest in western sidereal faded in the years after the passing of these men (Fagan d. 1970; Firebrace, Bradley (aka Garth Allen), Gleadow all d. 1974), but now seems to be increasing. At this time this is the only remaining book by Fagan still in print, but I have hope for the future. It is most valuable for its examination of numerous rare forecasting methods, most of which remain experimental.

In this book, the Mean Sun is used in the calculation of progressed & regressed horoscopes. Fagan's calendar starts on March 1, with Leap Day the very end of every 4th year. Chapter 8, on the "primary" means of directing angles, are a variation on standard secondaries & not "primaries" as we have come to rediscover the last few years. Sidereal solar returns are, in their tropical incarnations, known as precessed solars. The Solar Quotidian & Precessed Sidereal Solar Return are both ways to progress a solar return or ingress chart. "Regressions" are also known as converse progressions. Anlunars are lunar returns based on the moon's position in the year's solar return.

Kinetic returns. You might do better than I: Solar Kinetic Return (S.K.R.) is based on the return of the Sun to its secondary progressed longitude at the time of the ordinary solar return. The Solunar Kinetic, formerly known as the lunar kinetic, is based on the progressed moon of the solar return. The Natal Quotitian Lunar Kinetic (N.L.K. for short) is based on the progressed secondary moon & could be called the secondary lunar kinetic. Other kinetics are possible. These are all based on moving, or dynamic, placements, rather than static (ie, natal) ones.

The chapter on mundane astrology suggests this ranking of seasonal ingress charts: Capricorn, Cancer, Aries & Libra, using the sidereal zodac, which puts the Capricorn ingress on January 14/15. This is one of the areas in which it is most clear that sidereal is based on stellar positions, while tropical is based on the Earth/Sun relationship, two entirely different frameworks. Sidereal ingresses are where tiny differences in ayanamsa make big differences in charts. One minute of one degree of ayanamsa translates into six degrees across the midheaven. Which brings me to Chapter 8, on Interpretation: Aside from a general dislike of houses & rulers, Fagan's ideas of natal interpretation were fairly ordinary for his day. But then, that's not the point of this book, which will repay close study.

AFA, 146 pages.


THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO CRYSTAL ASTROLOGY - Marina Costelloe, $26.95

Contents:

An introduction to Crystal Astrology
Traditional & modern birthstones
Crystal Astrology
Information you will find in this book
How to use Crystal Astrology
Summary

Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pisces

Acknowledgments & thanks
Bibliography
Index

Comment: Author Marina Costelloe expands the traditional 12 birthstones into a unique stone or crystal for every degree of the zodiac, 360 in all. A list which includes all the usual gems & minerals, plus a lot of rare & unusual elements.

Since the 360 degrees have already been employed elsewhere, Costelloe shows how to relate her crystals to Marc Edmund Jones's Sabian Symbols, as well as Jane Ridder-Patrick's Handbook of Medical Astrology, specifically Reinhold & Elsbeth Ebertin's Anatomical Correspondances, 360 specific body parts, which Ridder Patrick's book includes. In assigning crystals to the individual degrees, Costelloe was heavily influenced by the Sabians. Here is the complete presentation for Aries 1:

ARIES 1
Birthdays: March 20th - 22nd
Numerology: 1 Sabian Symbol: A woman rises out of the water, a seal embraces her
Marc Edmund Jones Key Word: Realization
Jane Ridder-Patrick Healing Body Point: Cerebrum
Crystal Element: Obsidian
Expression: Obsidian is a shiny, black-green-grey volcanic glass. Obsidian is a protective, shielding stone, it opens opportunities & invites Mermaid Energy into your life.
Message: Knowledge is channelled from the unconscious to reality.
Sun Focus: Unique & independent, you display a high degree of psychic & creative talent.
Affirmation: I provide comfort through awareness.

I would like to see what Robert Blaschke could make of this. A final note: The title on the cover, Crystal Astrology, is printed in silver foil, it scans as black.

Earthdancer/Findhorn, 223 pages, color throughout.




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