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	RULERS OF THE HOROSCOPE: Finding your way through the labyrinth - Alan Oken, $19.95 Contents: List of example horoscopes Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1. Peeling the onion: Planets, signs, houses, aspects, qualities, elements, gender, summary 2. Planetary dispositors defined: Hidden rulers revealed; Planetary mutual reception; Determining the relative strengths of planets in mutual reception; Effects of aspects between planets in mutual reception; Multiple mutual reception; Final dispositor; Planets as final dispositors in the natal chart. 3. House dispositors & planetary rulers: Overview; Mutual reception by house; Linkages by same house rulership; Natural & natal house relationships; Strengths & weaknesses of planets when posited in their houses of honor or dishonor; Aspects between house rulers. 4. The ruler of the horoscope & its dispositor: Determining the ruler of the natal chart; The sign on the ascendant & the delineation of the ruler; Intent & theme of the ascendant; Essential meaning of the ruling planet & its effects on the horoscope; Ruling planet by sign; Ruling planet by house; Ruling planets in the houses; Secondary dispositorship. 5. The ruler of the horoscope & its aspects: When the ruler of the horoscope is a planet conjunct the ascendant; When the planet conjunct the ascendant is the ruler of the sign on the ascendant; Final dispositor & the planetary ruler; Assessing the affinities between ruler of the horoscope & its dispositor; Assessing the effects of other aspecting planets to the ruler of the horoscope. 6. Summary of rulership & planetary compatibilities: Leo rising (Sun); Cancer rising (Moon); Gemini or Virgo rising (Mercury); Taurus or Libra rising (Venus); Aries or Scorpio rising (Mars); Aries rising (Mars); Scorpio rising (Mars); Scorpio rising (Pluto); Sagittarius rising (Jupiter); Capricorn rising (Saturn); Aquarius rising (Uranus); Pisces rising (Neptune). 7. The placement of the rulers in the astrological houses: Summary of astrological keywords & phrases; The nature of the second house; The nature of the third house; The nature of the fourth house; The nature of the fifth house; The nature of the sixth house; The nature of the seventh house; The nature of the eighth house; The nature of the ninth house; The nature of the tenth house; The nature of the eleventh house; The nature of the tenth house. Recommended reading list Index Comment This book tells how signs relate to each other by means of the planets that rule them. This is accomplished by an understanding of planetary dispositors. In other words, this sign is disposed by that planet in that sign. In other words, Venus in Scorpio can make a mess of Taurus. Oken does this part very well. When he tries to add houses, he stumbles, as he does not have a clear understanding of them. Which surprised me, frankly, as I know how brilliant he is. He lists keywords for planets, signs & houses. His house keywords are sign-based, and excessively simplistic. Here are his keywords for the third: The Houses - from a more Socially Evolved Perspective ... Third What I think & seek to communicate to others (pg. 193) On the next page we have: The Houses - from a More Traditional, Astrological Perspective ... Third method of communication, early education & environment, brothers & sisters, close friends (pg. 194) Oken then proceeds to use the socially evolved perspective as if it was the only one. Here is the start of Ruler of the second in the third: ...the nature of one's self-worth or actual substance of value (money, for example) has to be communicated. The need to connect with people or with life situations that amplify one's opportunities is essential. Any planet found in the Third House is used to make connections. When it is the ruler of the Second, then such connections are sought that may increase the potential uses of one's personal talents & resources. If that planet is afflicted, then there is a limitation or difficulty with the connection-making process.... (pgs 196-7) Yes, all of this is true, but, well, yes, houses two & three are more than this and, yet, less than this, too. Which means that Oken understands his socially evolved keywords, but, by what he does not say, seems not to understand those of the traditional astrological perspective. In this book are a great many useful ideas & techniques that are grounded in astrological basics. Things you always knew but never knew what to do with, at least, not like this. Study of this book will be rewarding, up to the point where one grows frustrated with Oken's rather limited grasp of the houses, which undergirds his topic. At that point, this becomes the most excellent of all excellent books: One that forces you to go beyond what the author has written. Ibis/Nicholas Hays/Weiser/Redwheel, 317 pages.

	YOUR HIDDEN POWERS: Intercepted Signs & Retrograde Planets - Joan Wickenburg, $20.00 An intercepted sign is when the house swallows up the sign (big house). An intercepted house is when the same sign falls on two adjoining houses (small house). These always come in pairs (2 intercepted signs, 2 intercepted houses). Charts that have intercepted signs always have intercepted houses, too. Since people confuse this with retrograde planets, the author also includes notes on retrogrades & the retrograde process. Inspired by Dane Rudhyar. Contents includes: House systems; Polarity of the signs; Rulerships and retrogrades; Duplicated signs or intercepted houses; Are you out of your element?; The planets; Aspects and phases; Relocation charts; Transits and interceptions; Environment versus destiny charts; How planets retrograde; Eight stages of cyclic unfoldment; The planets in retrograde; Retrograde transits of trans-personal planets; Progressions. Appendix: Retrograde planets. 223 pages. AFA, paper.

	UNDERSTANDING INTERCEPTIONS, A Key to Unlocking the Door - I.I. Chris McRae, $22.00 Interceptions are what happens when you have the same sign of the zodiac on two house cusps, and elsewhere in the chart, two opposing signs missing. The further your birth from the equator, the more common this becomes. This excellent new book examines this in detail. Contents: Value & effect of interceptions; Effect of house systems; How much of the chart is affected; Effect on signs, Strength of ruler; Interceptions developed by transit & progression; Interpretation of intercepted (missing) signs in pairs (eg, Aries/Libra, Taurus/Scorpio, etc); Interpretation of repeated signs, in pairs; Intercepted planets; Elements (air, fire, water, earth) & modes (cardinal, fixed, mutable); Horary & electional applications. 206 pages including bibliography. AFA, paper.

	FROM ONE HOUSE TO ANOTHER - Sophia Mason, $13.00 From the introduction: "New astrologers often anticipate a certain transiting aspect to a natal planet, only to have it pass without any noticeable effect. Then, after a few days or weeks have passed, favorable news is heard regarding a family member or friend. If the individual were to reexamine the natal chart and correctly apply the transiting aspect to its proper house, it would be viewed with a different perspective." Find out how. 63 pages. AFA, paper.

	PLANETS IN HOUSES, Experiencing Your Environment - Robert Pelletier, $19.95 From the back cover: "He discusses the meaning of each planet in each house as derived by counting from each of the other eleven houses, and he discusses the meaning of each house position in relation to the other houses with which it forms trines, sextiles, squares and oppositions, inconjuncts and sextiles. In each chapter, wheel symbols graphically show the seventeen different house relationships delineated for each planet. Finally, Pelletier delineates the Sun-Moon polarities in terms of the wheel of houses....The introductory material includes a discussion of such topics as hemispheres and quadrants, empty houses, planets transiting houses, the planetary ruler of the sign on the cusp of a house, direct and retrograde planets in houses, and the meaning of houses in circumstances, character and purpose in life." Appendix: Thoughts on the use of house systems - by Michael Munkasey. 366 pages. Whitford, paper.

	HOUSES OF THE HOROSCOPE, An Introduction - Alan Oken, $16.95 From the back cover: "Your horoscope is an illustration of the what, how, and where of your life. The "what" is represented by the planets, the "how" by the energy of the planets, the "where" by the astrological houses where, in which sphere of our lives, these cosmic energies land." Contents: What are the houses of the horoscope?; A house divided; The name, address, and quality of a house; Each of the twelve houses - signs on the cusp, planets in the house, astrological factors, people, places and things; The secondary meanings of the houses. 207 pages including reference guide. Crossing Press, paper.

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