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THE ULTIMATE ASTEROID BOOK - J. Lee Lehman, Ph.D., $18.95
 Contents:
Introduction
1. Introducing the asteroids

Part 1: Motivations
2. The mind asteroids: Psyche, Pallas, Athene, Minerva
3. Asteroid power plays: Hildago, Icarus, Attila
4. Concepts: Pandora, Pax, Armisticia, Utopia, Fanatica, Harmonia, Prudentia
5. Escapism: Bacchus, Paradise, Ganymed, Beer

Part 2: Mythology
6. Moon & sky goddesses: Artemis, Diana, Lilith, Walkure
7. Earth & fertility goddesses: Gaea, Ceres, Demeter, Persephone, Hekate, Astarte, Aphrodite
8. Sky & heaven gods: Apollo, Lucifer, Helio, Quezalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca
9. The amusing muses: Erato, Urania
10. Heroes & villians: Odysseus, Arthur, Lancelot, Galahad, Parsifal
11. Heroines & leading ladies: Circe, Medusa, Medea, Kassandra, Godiva
12. Egyptian lore: Isis, Osiris, Anubis, Horus

Part three: Sex, passion & intimacy:
13. Sappho: Sex
14. Eros: Passion
15. Amor: Intimacy
16. Relating: Sappho, Eros, Amor, Juno, Pecker

Part four: Mundane, theme & variations:
17. Business
18. The asteroid nodes
19. Conclusion

Appendix 1: Listing of nearly 3000 asteroids by their nodal position.
Appendix 2: Ephemeris, 1920-1999, every ten days, for Sappho, Eros, Amor, Attila, Kassandra, Godiva, Lancelot.

Comment: For those who want asteroids by the dozen, this is the book to get. A do-it-yourself approach to asteroids. Learn to experiment: Customize charts with a unique combination of asteroids. Lehman gives four ways to approach asteroids:

1. By common name. The asteroid Apollo may relate to the Apollo space program, or to any company named "Apollo", or, for that matter, to a certain early 20th century French author.

2. Find asteroids by the various myths associated with them. Lehman cautions that the interpretation of myths changes over time.

3. Use historical information that relates to the name. The asteroid Apollo, in this sense, relates to an historical, one-of-a-kind national program which, once it succeeded, vanished into the mists of time.

4. Use asteroids in a variety of charts to see what turns up. An approach dependent on one of the three previous approaches.

Typically, the author determines the sensitive areas of a given chart, and then use Mark & Rique Pottenger's asteroid program (which will calculate more than 400 asteroids) to find asteroids that fall in those sensitive degrees.

Lehman groups asteroids by affinity. Her commentary about them is introductory in nature & looks to me like a prototype of Martha Lang-Wescott's Mechanics of Future Asteroids. Which is to say this is a good place to start on an understanding of these tiny, but influential bodies.

Whitman, 352 pages.

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CHIRON, NEW PLANET IN YOUR HOROSCOPE, the key to your quest - Richard Nolle, $18.00
Contents:
Introduction
1. An astronomical discovery: Astronomy of Chiron
2. Tale of the Centaur Chief: Mythology of Chiron
3. Chiron time: Chiron's historical milieu (discovery & orbital cycles)
4. The astrologer's astrologer: Astrological synthesis of Chiron's astronomical, mythical & historical archetypes
5. On the way to Pelion: Discovering Chiron in your birth chart through hemisphere, quality, retrograde, element, etc.
6. Sign of the Centaur Chief: Chiron by sign
7. Spelunking the Chironian: Chiron by house
8. Chiron cycles: Chiron by aspect
9. Not the last chapter: A Chiron medication

Appendices: 1. Chiron sign table, 1890-1999; 2. How to get your Chiron horoscope; 3. Selected bibliography.

Comment: In the Introduction, the author says,

This book is written from the perspective of a deep personal conviction that the Minor Planet Chiron is in many respects the key to understanding one's natal horoscope..... But in this whole vast universe of astrological functions, there is only one that is archetypally linked to the teaching & learning of astrology. That one and only function is Chiron.

I do not mean to make the claim that one's understanding of astrology is worthless without Chiron - only that it is incomplete (pg. viii)

One of the earliest studies on Chiron, cited by many later writers. Explains Chiron's astronomical characteristics, extensively examines its mythology, reviews historical trends associated with its discovery - and its anticipation, looks at the orbital cycle.

AFA, 149 pages.

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ASTEROID MYSTERIES & MESSAGES - Diane & Rudy Flack, $14.00
 Contents:

The asteroids - the layout
Turning the cards face up
Valid questions
Reading the cards
The fourth card
A dropped card
The asteroid cards
The Trans-Neptunian points and Chiron cards
Blue timing cards
Notes from archaic teachings
Some example readings.

66 pages. A is A Publishing, 66 pages, comb-bound with deck of cards.

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One last note on the prehistoric Chiron:

Wemyss, Maurice - The Wheel of Life, volume 3. One of a series of five volumes. Wemyss (born 1892, died 1950-60?) invented his own system of sign rulership. Inspired by Witte, he also invented hypothetical planets, the most notable being "Wemyss-Pluto". Of interest is his hypothetical planet, Jason, ruler of Sagittarius, located between Saturn & Uranus with a 45 year orbit. On page 149 is a sketch of its orbit which in a few cases matches Chiron's supposed orbit exactly. Jason had a fairly regular orbit, Chiron has a very eccentric one. The bulk of this book is on Professions & Occupations. Just thought you'd like to know Chiron was anticipated some 30 years before its actual discovery.


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