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	ASTROLOGY, HISTORY & APOCALYPSE - Nicholas Campion, $40.00 Contents: Part 1: The history of astrology: The origins of astrology In the beginning: Babylonian astrology The Greek world view: The Greek thinkers & their influence; Plato's cosmology; Aristotles's contribution; Thrice-great Hermes; The Stoics; Ancient astrological techniques; Ptolemy & the Tetrabiblos When in Rome: Mithraism; Roman astral religion The medieval world: The advent of Islam; Astrology in the medieval west; The rediscovery of Aristotle; Astrology & the Church The Renaissance: Marsilio Ficino & the revival of the pagan gods; The decline of astrology; The new astronomy The modern world: The astrological revival; Esoteric undercurrents; Alan Leo's astrology; C.G. Jung; The emergence of psychological astrology; Sun-sign astrology Part 2: Apocalypse: Myths of time: The vocabulary of millenarianism; Recreating the world The myth of progress: The psychology of millenarian thinking Myths of rebirth: Equinox festivals; Astrology & the unfolding of time; The doctrine of inevitability & the belief in personal choice; Astrology & salvation; The cult of the messiah; Inner & outer New Ages The theory of historical cycles: The Platonic Year; The idea of spiritual evolution; The precession of the equinoxes; The beginning of the Aquarian Age Part 3: The Age of Aquarius - a modern myth: The New Age Millenarianism The Platonic Year The precessional year Precession in classical astrology Precession in the modern period The beginning of the Age of Aquarius The nature of the Age of Aquarius The evidence New Age millenarianism The impact of precession on astrological thought The uses of precession in astrology Conclusion Bibliography Index About the author Comment: Part 1, The history of astrology, was given on March 22, 1992, at Regents College, London. Part 2, Apocalypse, was given on March 10, 1996, at the same location. Both dates were Sundays. Part 3 is a revision of a paper originally published in The Astrology of the Macrocosm: New directions in mundane astrology (Llewellyn, 1990, now out of print). This is not only the best CPA title I have yet found, it's a darn good book as well. It has earned its yellow star. Astrology, history, the New Age, are subjects that Campion has studied intensively, read widely, and thought deeply about. He has also worked quite hard on the original lecture transcripts. He has not only made them pleasing to the eye, he has also supplied a useful index. In the first lecture, Campion displays his grasp of astrological history. He moves effortlessly through the subject, illuminating everything he touches. It isn't a complete history, of course, as that can't be given in a single lecture, but it will tell you where astrology came from & how it prospered over the centuries. The section where he describes how the astrology of Alan Leo turned into the astrology of Liz Greene is both fascinating and unique. Campion witnessed the last stages of this process first-hand, and knew/knows many of the principle people involved. Part 2, Apocalypse, is about the run-up to the turn of the 21st century, some years ago now. Campion, like me, like many others, expected isolated outbreaks of mass suicides to mark the event. I am happy that we were all proven wrong. Otherwise, Campion's description of Millenarianism is comprehensive & thorough, one of the best I have read. Part 3, an essay on The Age of Aquarius, is a general debunking of the myth of the Aquarian Age. Personally I think Campion is mistaken, but, on the other hand, I believe that I am the first & only person to figure out how the Ages actually work, and I didn't do that until 2001 or so, some years after this paper. Campion's essay is a useful corrective to the fantasy & wooly thinking that continue to pervade this subject. Some people may be surprised that I would like a CPA Press book, as I am supposedly "hostile" to them. I am never hostile to honest scholarship. I quite enjoy it. I am opposed to untalented fools. While the Centre for Psychological Astrology has a lot of those, I am pleased to reaffirm that Mr. Campion is not one of them. I like to think that Campion is helping to make the CPA a better place, one little bit at a time. CPA Press, 170 pages, hardcover with dustjacket.

	CYCLES OF LIGHT: Exploring the mysteries of solar returns - Lynn Bell, $45.00 Contents: Part 1: How to "see" solar returns: Introductory matters: Birthdays, more or less; SolaVision: what to look for Angular planets in the solar return: Saturn angular in the solar return; Natal & solar return planets in the same degree; The Moon angular in the solar return; Pluto angular in the solar return; An example; Scandal & power: Uranus & Pluto; Summing up Timing in the solar return: Using the Moon as a timer; A degree for a month; Using the sun as a timer Understanding aspects in the solar return: Aspects to the luminaries; Solar return moon opposition Venus; Solar return Jupiter conjunct sun; A solar return grand cross; Solar return Pluto square sun; A natal aspect repeats: Moon square Uranus Part 2: The Moon in the solar return: The Moon in the elements: The solar return moon in air; The solar return moon in water; The solar return moon in fire; The solar return moon in earth; Aspects to the solar return moon; A partile aspect to the moon; Pluto rising in the solar return Solar return new moon: The progressed moon & the solar return moon; New moon plenitude with Jupiter; A new moon in the solar return 12th house; A nineteen year cycle Solar return full moon: A solar return with an eclipsed full moon; Nineteen years later: full moon again; Solar return full moons in other houses Part 3: Location, location: Relocated solar returns: Steven Spielberg; Degree areas in the solar return Differences & similarities: Aspects that repeat: Moon-Pluto-Saturn When a solar return doesn't make sense Part 4: Aspects in the solar return: Trines smooth the way: The grand trine in the solar return; Squares into trines; Sun trine Saturn; Mars & Venus: taking hold of desire The repetition of natal aspects in the solar return: Repetition & planetary cycles; The metamorphosis of natal aspects Exceptional years in the solar return: Jacques Cousteau's exceptional year Retrograde planets in the solar return: The cycling midheaven in the solar return A solar return in progress: Shifting ground: Pluto on the IC; Secrets from the past; A family pattern: Mars-Pluto-Sun; Sun-Neptune: letting go; A dream come true; Solar return planets filling in a natal T-square; Oppositions between 4th & 10th: a parental power struggle Collective aspects in the solar return: Jupiter-Neptune aspects; Uranus trine Saturn: opening the structure; Relocating the story; Lunar returns Part 5: Interpreting the solar return houses: Basic concepts: The sun illuminates the houses; Foreground, middleground, background The water houses in the solar return: The solar return 4th house; Saturn in the solar return 4th house; Mars in the solar return 4th house; Sun-Uranus in the solar return; Neptune-Moon in the solar return 4th house: ideal or illusion?; The lunar nodes in the solar return; The solar return 8th house; The solar return 12th house The air houses in the solar return: Siblings & the solar return 3rd house; A Jupiter-Venus-Pluto T-square; Jupiter's sign in the solar return; Saturn's sign in the solar return; The solar return 7th house: adversaries & partners; The solar return 11th house: opening to the future The fire houses in the solar return: The 1st house: is that me?; Pluto-Moon: a mother's death; Moon-Mars: fighting for feelling; Neptune-Midheaven: without guidance; The solar return 5th house: will I fall in love?; The solar return 9th house: finding our way; The 9th & 12th houses & spiritual awakening; Solar return Mars on the natal MC; Thalia's natal chart; When planets repeat in natal & solar return houses The earth houses in the solar return: The solar return 6th house; Oppositions between the 6th & 12th houses; Natal contacts give meaning to hte solar return; From grand trine to conjunction; The solar return 10th house: taking direction; The solar return 2nd house Appendices: Examples of solar & lunar returns: 1. Sigmund Freud, solar return for 1906 2. Carl Gustav Jung, solar return for 1906 3. Paul Eluard, solar return for 1928 4. Bob Dylan, solar return for 1965 5. Jenny, solar return for 2003 6. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, solar return for 1942 7. Mia Farrow, solar returns for 1991 & 1992 8. Annie, solar return for 2003 9. Francois, solar return for 2000 10. Sandra K., lunar return for February 2004 11. Martha Stewart, lunar return for December 2001 Bibliography & chart sources Comment: Before giving these lectures, the author had previously given many similar lectures on solar returns. Her technique is to highlight angular planets in the solar return and, secondarily, planets in the solar return which fall on angles in the birth chart. She does not precess, and, for the most part, she does not relocate charts to the birthday location. For the most part, this works rather well. When this technique fails - see Part 3, When a solar return doesn't make sense - she is stumped. On pgs. 82-86, she tells us of Bob Dylan's transformative solar return of 1966, set for his birth place of Duluth, Minnesota. The problem is that it's not remarkable in any way. This was the year in which Mr. Dylan suffered a serious motorcycle accident in Woodstock, NY, which ended his concert career, and which happened approximately two months after his 25th birthday. So where was Bob on that birthday? Bell doesn't seem to know. Probably not in Duluth, but probably not in Woodstock, either. So we can't draw a return chart for his birthday location, which means the mystery of non-angularity of the solar return remains. But not so. For a time I was bi-coastal, moving from New York to Los Angeles & vice-versa. I had opportunity to observe, and my conclusion was that regardless of where one spent his birthday, and regardless of where he was born, the solar return changed with each new location during the year. The solar return is, in other words, portable. It is a moment in time which can be pulled up & redistributed elsewhere, for the duration of the year in question. In the case of Bob Dylan, relocating his 1966 solar return for Woodstock produced the angularity that Bell sought. Which she has noticed. She is only lacking the theoretical framework in which to orient it. Which is this: If your birthday was a month ago - or six months ago - and it was a near miss and it would have looked a lot better if you had been down the road over there someplace, well, it's not too late. Pick yourself up, go & remain there for the rest of the year & get it (whatever "it" is) before the year ends, ie, before your next birthday. This amounts to a specialized use of Astro*Carto*Graphy, specifically Cyclo*Carto*Graphy, but when I Google the idea, I find the Astrocartographers are as daft here as they are with the rest of their craft. As a corollary, if the old war wound suddenly flares up, if an old flame phones from the blue, if the government takes you to court for student loans you defaulted 30 years ago (it happens), if, in other words, some event from the deep dark past threatens to overwhelm the placidity of your current life, Relocate your natal chart to the scene of the crime (ie, battlefield, first meeting site, your university, etc.) and see if planets in your most recent solar return hit any of the relocated angles. These tricks are not in Lynn Bells book. I, David R. Roell, WORLDS GREATEST ASTROLOGER (TM REGISTERED) (might as well puff myself up) have given them to you. This isn't the book that will teach you solar returns, but if you're already familiar with them, this will expand your thinking considerably. Which brings up another point. Liz Greene is running a school & sponsoring lectures & publishing the results. Why not lift one's horizons a tiny bit & open the Regents College lecture hall to the finest astrologers in the world today? Expand beyond the psychological crowd Greene favors so much. Why not Hindsight? Why not Arhat? Why not Alan Oken? Lee Lehman? Why not bring in the biggest names, charge the bigger bucks, publish bigger books to bigger acclaim? Why not move out from the Jungian ghetto into full astrological daylight? If anyone's paying attention to my ramblings, know I could really get behind such a series. The "CPA Press Premium Seminar Series," perhaps. CPA Press, 212 pages.

	ANIMA MUNDI: The astrology of the individual & the collective - Charles Harvey, $35.95 Contents: Foreword by Suzi Harvey Editor's preface, by Liz Greene Part 1: The astrology of the individual & the collective: The part & the whole Establishing the context I would say that, wouldn't I? Fate & free will Hiroshima & the doctrine of submission Signatures of individual-collective balance What's in a name? The journey from unity to identity Chinese boxes The nature of the collective The collective unconscious Defining the collective "Above all else, keep your gaze on unity" The fickleness of the mass psyche Mass consciousness & mob unconsciousness The Platonic world-view Microcosms & macrocosms Listening to the unfolding cosmos: an exercise The evolution of collectives The foundations of the first German empire The "Iron Chancelor": German unity in the 19th century The creation of the Nazi party Hitler as collective embodiment The Third Reich Germany reborn From idea to manifestation The relationship between individual & collective Relations between collectives: Britain & Germany Party politics The mechanistic nature of mundane horoscopes The philosophical dimension Where is it? The chart of the Centre for Psychological Astrology Howard Sasportas & the CPA Anima mundi Oneness & manyness Nested hierarchies The ruler as embodiment of the people The individual's place in the cosmos The artist & the collective Frederico Garcia Lorca The Duende Garcia Lorca's Spain Spain's Aquarius Sun Potential & choice Chart sources Bibliography Part 2: The Zeitgeist The spirit of the time Plays within plays The ultimate video Weaving the cosmic tapestry The qualities of time Some philosophical foundations The Zeitgeist in flux The archetypcal cycle The cycle of Pluto The Great Ages Cycles within cycles More about Pluto's cycles The cycle of Neptune Cycles of duads The Neptune-Pluto cycle Idas & zodiacal degrees The Uranus-Neptune cycle The Uranus-Pluto cycle Dyad cycles in the theatre of the world The Saturn-Neptune cycle The Saturn-Uranus cycle The Jupiter-Pluto cycle Dyad cycles at work in nations The incarnations of Russia The incarnations of Great Britain Individuals & collectives Britain & Queen Victoria The astrologer as historian Tony Blair's Britain Havel & the incarnations of Czechoslovakia The current Zeitgeist Individuals as embodiments of cycles Jupiter in Sagittarius The nature of Sagittarius Pluto in Sagittarius The rebirth of China Essential resources Books Computer software Bibliography About the author About the CPA About the CPA Press Comment: The first seminar, The Individual & the Collective, was given on October 4, 1992, at Regents College, London. Part 2, The Zeitgeist, was given on December 4, 1994, at the same location. Both dates were Sundays. Charles Harvey (1940-2000) edited Part 1, but did not live to edit Part 2, which was edited by Liz Greene. To his original seminar, she has added two of Harvey's articles, which were originally published in the short-lived Apollon: The Journal of Psychological Astrology. They were: Anima Mundi: Astrology in the Theatre of the World, and, Hymns Ancient & Modern: The Saturn-Uranus Duet. Wiki defines Zeigeist as "Zeitgeist" refers to the ethos of a select group of people, that express a particular world view which is prevalent at a particular period of socio-cultural progression. Zeitgeist is the experience of a dominant cultural climate that defines, particularly in Hegelian thinking, an era in the dialectical progression of a people or the world at large. Hegel's main contribution to the formulation of the concept of Volksgeist is the attribution of a historical character to the concept. The spirit of a nation is one of the manifestations of "World Spirit" (Weltgeist). That Spirit is essentially alive and active throughout mankind's history. Now, the spirit of a nation is an intermediate stage of world history as the history of the World Spirit. The World Spirit gives impetus to the realization of the historical spirits of various nations (Volksgeister'). The spirits of individual nations are both the articulations (Gliederungen) of an organization and its realization. The spirits of individual nations represent a segment of the World Spirit out of which emerges the unlimited universal spirit. A comparison is introduced here between the status of an individual and that of a nation's spirit. In the process of his formation the individual undergoes various changes without, however, losing his identity. As a part of world history, a nation - exhibiting a certain trend expressed in its Volksgeist - plays its part in the total process of world history. But once it contributes its share to world history it can no longer play a role in the process of world history. The submersion in the total process prevents a people's cultural rebirth, because it has exhausted its creativity in the historical growth of its guiding spirit. It is for this reason that one of Hegel's disciples, Michelet, considered the idea of a renaissance of the Jewish people as philosophically impossible. CPA Press, 244 pages.

	WHERE IN THE WORLD?: Astrocartography & relocation charts - Erin Sullivan, $37.95 Contents: Part 1: Astrocartography Introduction Here & now: everywhere Seeing the world Being global, thinking local Living all over the world Astrology works differently "up there" As above, so below The angles: orientation to life Ascendant, descendant & MC lines Orbs Latitude & declination The power of angularity A Moon/Neptune story More on the angles IC lines Crossings: all across the world Parans Zenith points Moving right along: Cyclocartography "Real" movement Changes in latitude, changes in attitude As the world turns: the planetary lines Sun lines Moon lines Mercury lines Venus lines A Venus family line Mars lines Shadowed planets, sleeping self Latest degree planet as a "shadowed" planet Unaspected planets as shadowed forces Planetary lines continued Jupiter lines Saturn lines Moving beyond the boundaries of the ego Uranus lines Neptune lines Pluto lines Real lives, real lines Pluto down under: hauntings of the Antipodes Transits to lines Andrew Cunanan: Mars on the loose Rectification with ACG Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales Diana: Sagittarius rising Diana's ACG map for Sagittarius rising Diana: Libra rising The ACG map for Libra rising Diana - creating the future A woman's work is never done Manifestation of an archetype Sans everything Stories from the group Christopher: ships ahoy! Pluto/descendant - mutiny Moon/Pluto in mundo at sea Jackie: healing the family lines Roots - black & white Opening the doors for the future Post script Susie: all over the map Right lines, wrong place The mutable dilema - full Moon lines Bibliography Part 2: The astrology & psychology of relocation - Finding your place in the world Introduction Relocating within AstroCartoGraphy lines Thinking globally while living locally Changing places: why move? Subtle changes: same person, different perspective Choices: heaven on earth Sphere of influence: zodiac, ecliptic, equator Pluto: what you see is not always what you get Aspects recreated Moving house: relocation Solar return relocation charts Planets in the relocated chart The voice of an angle Planets moving house Relocating an event: the "long-distance phone call" charts Global sympathy: feeling the world inside Other places, other lifetimes Moving with intent Progressions & transits to relocated charts Nita: Saturn on the move Pluto in transition The manifestation of illness Work & play Clearing the past The progressed full Moon in the relocation chart Living in two places Mars out of hiding Post script: Diana Pars Fortuna: you can take it with you Comment: The first lecture, Astro*Carto*Graphy, was given on September 28, 1997, at Regents College, London. The second, The Astrology & Psychology of Relocation, was given a week later, on October 5, 1997, at the same location. Both dates were - can you guess? - Sundays. Quite frankly, there is almost nothing more dear to my heart than relocation, since I have been moving, continuously, since the very week of my birth, many, many years ago. And though I made my mind up to settle, in London, in September, 1979, I have been unable to truly settle, anywhere, to this day. So I'm a natural candidate. Can Astro*Carto*Graphy explain why? And it should be easy. I was born within a few miles, either side, of Sun MC, Moon IC, Pluto IC, and not too terribly far away from Mercury MC. I started this business in Ventura, California, with Mars DSC within sight of my shop (with Mars Local Space - LS - crossing it, again, within sight). So what does Erin Sullivan have to say about these specific lines? Sun: Where you feel your life force, your libido, your fire, the fuel you burn (pg. 49). Well, no. In high school in my native Kansas, I was not a jock. I was not a sports hero. I was listless & depressed, ie, devitalized. The very opposite of what would be expected. Moon: On a Moon line, we are more aware of our need for safety, containment, nourishment, and nurturing, which is why the lines are associated with "home". There are people who are not generally responsive in a lunar sense, but if they go to a Moon line, they find themselves doing things & behaving in ways which they might not normally do because they feel free to be more feeling. (pg. 50) The first opportunity I had I got away from daddy's endless small towns to the biggest university in the state. Before I had graduated I had already made two academic trips abroad, as well as private trips across America & Mexico. After each trip I tried to settle, or resettle, in my native Kansas, only to fail repeatedly. Finally I left for London, for good. After two years there, I could kiss the ground beneath me. I have never felt as much at home before or since. I cried for weeks after I was forced to leave. In my ACG chart, there are no lines whatever in the UK. Pluto: ....however, on Pluto lines we can meet death literally, through hauntings, through ghosts, through work, through grief & loss, and through collective suffering. (pg. 77) No. This is mere fantasy on Sullivan's part. I have been uniquely free of physical death in my life. I am now 56. I have yet to deal with a corpse. I have only ever seen two, and one of them was my father. I have lost several friends to death - which, by one's 50's is only to be expected, but I was never in the same state, or country, when they died. So far as ghosts & hauntings are concerned, I have experienced many, but never one in mid-America, my birth-place. There is a logical contradiction in Sullivan's delineation of planetary lines, delineations which I presume she got from the late Jim Lewis, when these are compared to basic natal chart interpretation. If I move to a Moon line, I am said to be "at home" in some fundamental sense. But in which, if any, of the four angular houses (which are what the lines represent), does the Moon have this effect in a natal chart? Moon in the fourth? Well, maybe, but to the extent that's true, it would also be true that 4th house moons do not move, since, according to Sullivan, they would not feel "at home" anywhere else. I have a 4th house moon, and I have never stopped moving. This is, in fact, one of the definitions of a stressfully aspected 4th house moon, that they never stop moving. Same for the Sun. In which house of the natal chart does the Sun fill the individual with energy & vitality? The first, and only the first. One might say that, if, in my experience, the Sun & Moon lines do not seem to work, representing the two fundamental, primary bodies in astrology, that none of the other planetary lines would have much chance. But let's see about Mars: In Ventura, California, I lived directly under my Mars line, from August 1993 to January 1, 1998. I had previously lived in the vicinity of my Mars line while in Los Angeles in 1985 & 1990. During those two years I made many trips specifically to Ventura. It was exactly one hour away by car. Mars: I would say that, if you are going to go to a place under a Mars line, be aware that there is likely to be a hostile atmosphere at some point. That could just be a strong wind, or it could be a mugger; it could be an infection or it could be a coup d'etat! Mars is about acute things, sharp things, revolutions, and so on - very yang energy. (pg. 56) I can report my years in Ventura were peaceful. I was not mugged. I was not attacked. I did not get hurt, my shop did not burn down, I didn't even burn incense. I did not get sick or infected, I never had a fever. I would be happy to go back, if housing wasn't so expensive. As I mentioned, the exact crossing of Mars DSC & Mars LS were visible out my door over the Pacific. Can't get more precise than that. Super-charging Sullivan's delineation to make it 7th house specific, I was not confronted with hordes of angry women, ie, partners. There are, in fact, at least four women in Ventura whom I still fondly remember. I am strongly in favor of experiencing the world at first hand. I strongly recommend travel. Go where you want to go! Do what you want to do when you get there! Pick astrologically favorable times to go, using traditional electional methods. I have studied AstroCartoGraphy maps for 20 years now. I find they are sometimes interesting, but never important. There is no reason for casual travelers to pay them the slightest attention. I have also observed that people, when they are far away from home, are often in an alternative state of consciousness which sharply colors their perception of their travels. This temporary state of consciousness can probably be explained, primarily, by the sign on the cusp of the 9th, the ruler of the 9th, its sign & domicile, planets in the 9th, etc., and, secondarily, by the same factors from the 3rd house. I believe this temporary alternate reality to be the secret behind the belief in AstroCartoGraphy, as the success of ACG clearly stems from something. I had long been curious about this book. CPA Press, 261 pages, hardcover.

	THE ASTROLOGICAL MOON - Darby Costello, $35.95 Contents: Part 1: The Moon as source: Introduction Lunar myths Goddesses The Moon & the dead The Moon & the body The harmonic conversion The disturbance of natural rhythms The Moon & mind Traditional lunar rulerships Mother & child The Moon in the signs The Moon in the fire signs The Moon in the earth signs The Moon in the air signs The Moon in the water signs Fate & freedom The Moon in the houses Lunar aspects to other planets Aspects to the outer planets Aspects to the personal planets "The problem with mother" Transits to the Moon The progressed Moon The Moon & soul-making The progressed Moon in the signs The progressed Moon in the houses The Saturn cycle & the lunar cycle Bibliography Part 2: The Moon & its cycles: Introduction Sun-Moon relationships The lunation cycle New Moon Crescent type First quarter moon Gibbous Moon Full Moon Disseminating Moon Last quarter Moon Balsamic Moon Progressed Moon to natal Moon First square: building a nest First opposition: falling in love Returning square: mending walls Lunar return: bearing yourself Second cycle, first square: relining your nest Second cycle opposition: falling in love again Incoming square: mending walls & windows Second lunar return An individual chart Acknowledgements Bibliography About the author About the Centre for Psychological Astrology About the CPA Press Comment: The first seminar, The Moon as Source, was given on July 26, 1992, at Regents College, London. The second, The Moon & its Cycles, was given on November 12, 1994, at the same location. The first date was a Sunday, the second was a Saturday. As mentioned on pg. 12, the date of the first seminar, July 26, 1992 was the date of the "Harmonic Conversion". Google says "harmonic conversion" is a term relating to lasers. The date fell during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. If you look very hard, you will find that Jose Arguelles designated it to be the date of a Time Shift Energy. It was described, here as, THE TIME SHIFT OF 1992: (This is the 2nd excerpt from a wonderful 28 pages article by Barry Martin*) In the spiral toward Zero Point, the Time Shift in 1992 was also a crucial marker, because at this point in the journey to Omega-Alpha, we entered what might be analogous to a wormhole within a black hole. This passageway between dimensions was graphically depicted in the movie "Contact," when the Jodie Foster character got into the "inter-dimensional pod" and traveled through a wormhole from 3-D to a higher dimension. Darby Costello has her own website. CPA Press, 210 pages.

	EARTH & AIR - Darby Costello, $46.00 Contents: Part 1: Earth, the ground of life: Roots: A brief history of the world; The earth deities; Magic & religion; Psychological & alchemical earth; Gaia consciousness Astrological earth: The importance of ritual; Earth stelliums; No earth; Shadow & denial Taurus: Planets in Taurus; Planets in the 2nd house; Taurus rising Virgo: Planets in Virgo; Outer planets in Virgo; Planets in the 6th house; Virgo rising Capricorn: Planets in Capricorn; Outer planets in Capricorn; Planets in the 10th house; Capricorn rising Teilhard de Chardin: Earthy roots; The search for treasure; The visionary & the scientist; The Christian Neoplatonist; Taurean celibacy Bibliography Part 2: Air, the Breath of Life On wing: Heaven's breath; A dictionary browse Idea & ideal: From mesosphere to earth; The idea of beauty Astrological air: The sea of things invisible; Missing air; Singleton in air Gemini: Mercury; Planets in Gemini; Gemini rising; Planets in the 3rd house Libra: Venus; Planets in Libra; Libra rising; Planets in the 7th house Aquarius: Saturn & Uranus; Planets in Aquarius; Aquarius rising; Planets in the 11th house William Butler Yeats: A biography; Mapping reality; Beauty passing like a dream; The true wife; Saturn the wordsmith; The man & the masks Bibliography Acknowledgements About the author Comment: The first lecture was given on April 20, 1997, at Regents College in London. The second lecture was given on February 2, 1997, at the same location. Both dates were Sundays. This seems to be the only CPA Press book which, when the table of contents says, "Planets in [sign]" or "[house]" actually delineates all the planets in the stated sign or house. This speaks to Costello's focus as she gave the lecture, as it is easy to be distracted by the audience & never finish. The book is also helpful in that the planets are Bold Faced in the text, so you can find the passages easily. Her delineations, while spontaneous & informal, are drawn from observation, rather than theory. This is a better book than I had expected. CPA Press, 235 pages, hardcover.

	THE FAMILY INHERITANCE: Parental patterns in the horoscope - Juliet Sharman-Burke, $45.00 Contents: Part 1: Images of Mother & Father in the Natal Horoscope: Introduction The MC, the IC & the 4th & 10th houses The house of Atreus Family patterns Children & the parental unconscious The Sun in the 4th & 10th houses The Moon in the 4th & 10th houses The Moon & Pluto in the 4th & 10th houses Uranus in the 4th & 10th houses & Moon-Uranus aspects Neptune in the 4th & 10th houses Mercury in the 4th & 10th houses Venus in the 4th & 10th houses Mars in the 4th & 10th houses Saturn in the 4th & 10th houses Chiron in the 4th & 10th houses Bibliography Part 2: Zodiacal Myths & Their Correlation with Parental Images Introduction Aries the ram Taurus the bull Gemini the heavenly twins Cancer the crab Leo the lion Virgo the virgin Libra the balance Scorpio the scorpion Sagittarius the archer Capricorn the goat-fish Aquarius the water-bearer Pisces the fishes Bibliography Comment: The first lecture was given on July 5, 1994, at Regent's College, London. The second was given on May 25, 1995, at the same location. The first date was a Tuesday, the second was a Thursday. (Surprise!) The first lecture starts with the attribution of the father to the 4th, the mother to the 10th. This was an early discovery of Hindsight, but is here attributed to the genius of Liz Greene. Sharman-Burke's explanation of how these rulerships were determined is rather convoluted. (It's the mother who prepares the child for the outside world: 10th. The father's influence is hidden: 4th.) The first lecture then gets down to basics. Each section starts off with a questions from the audience, which produces rambling responses, before the speaker gets down to her main points. The second lecture reverses this. Each of the 12 myths is given a lengthy, detailed recitation, before we are told what parts of each myth are important, and (in the contrasting silence) which parts to ignore. So, for example, with Aries we are to ignore the part where Jason, having ruined himself, is in the process of committing suicide when he is accidentally killed by the massive prow of his own ship. For Taurus, we are to ignore the fact that when Gilgamesh spurned Ishtar, Ishtar sent a bull to murder Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh slew the bull of Taurus, which is why Taurus is a fertile sign to this day. (Inconvenient details like these are why I keep astrology & myth separate, but I digress.) In the introduction, Sharman-Burke compares these myths to fairytales told to children. At the end of each myth, she asks for audience response. And for each myth, there are at least a couple of members of the audience who can relate. Audience response is where the parents come in, as the lecturer does not mention parents or parental roles in the myths themselves. Sometimes I wonder how these lectures were assigned. CPA Press, 151 pages.

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