Little Wonders: Helen Adams Garrett

Passed away, 2002

Interest in Helen Adams Garrett's book on the 29th degree was so lively, we thought we'd try some of her other books. Since she passed away, the AFA has been redoing them with better printing, better covers, and somewhat higher prices. Reduced shipping charges for the smallest books: If you include these with regular books, the shopping cart will correctly calculate shipping costs by weight. If these are the only items on your order, the shopping cart will tend to overstate shipping charges, which we will automatically reduce. This applies to both domestic & international orders.

	UNLOCKING INTERCEPTIONS - Helen Adams Garrett, $6.50 Contents: Different House Systems; Interceptions Through the Houses; Multiple Interceptions; More on Interceptions; Summary of Interpretation Method. Comment: Garrett is the first (and only) author I have found who understood the mechanics of interceptions, which gives her small book a great advantage over all others. As she says, interceptions are no big deal, and whatever you think you find in them can be found as well in an equal house chart. Includes many chart examples to illustrate her practical ideas. A common-sense approach to one of the mysteries of chart construction. AFA, 52 pages.

	CHIRON EPHEMERIS WITH KEYS TO INTERPRETATION (1680-2051) - Rudy Flack & Helen Adams Garrett, $15.00 Contents: Charts & Tables; What is Chiron (rulership, health); Chiron's energy for interpretation (Chiron blesses the signs, Chiron in the signs & houses); Aspects; Declinations & Chiron (an amusing example); The calendar was wrong!; Chiron ephemeris; Facts & stats. Comment: Garrett's refreshing point of view is much appreciated with Chiron. She gives all credit to Zane Stein's pioneering work. Regrettably, the Keys to Interpretation section comprises a mere 19 pages, one would have wished for more. The bulk of the book is a quite lavish ephemeris for the staggering period from 1680 to 2051 (every 10 days), which will no doubt encourage historical research with Chiron. The 4 page article, The Calendar Was Wrong! is informative, though not in any way related to the rest of the book. A is A Publishing, 157 pages.

	KARMA BY DECLINATION - Helen Adams Garrett, $5.50 Declinations are the N/S sides of the sun (the zodiac runs E/W). How parallels/contra-parallels of declination indicate karmic debt/rewards. A starting point for declination study. 32 pages. AFA, small paper.

	THE KARMIC HOROSCOPE, "Get it right this time!" - Helen Adams Garrett, $8.00 Garrett's books look a lot like extended magazine articles. Karma, according to this book, is indicated astrologically by Saturn, retrogrades, the 29th degree, declinations, interceptions & the "Karmic Degree" - the Sun/Moon midpoint. Not so much preaching (unlike Schulman), more a grab-bag of ideas you might find of use. Revised & expanded, 55 pages. AFA, small paper.

	WHEN PLANETS JOIN FORCES - James & Helen Garrett, $8.00 This book begins, "Welcome to our world of astrological simplicity." Here's an example: "The natal chart is like a gun.... like a gun, it can be cared for, perfected & polished to excellence. Progressions are ammunition for coming events. The transits pull the trigger." A sample chart analyzed for natal, progressed & transiting aspects, delightfully playful sign keywords. AFA, 54 pages.

	UNDERSTANDING RETROGRADES - Helen J. Adams (aka Helen Adams Garrett), $13.00 Garrett has studied the mechanics of retrogrades. She notes, for example, that Mercury retrograde picks up at the same place in the zodiac as the Mercury retrograde some ten months before, the 96 year Venus retrograde cycle (by sign), aspects formed by retrograde planets, transiting & progressed retrogrades, the number of houses a retrograde is from the sun, retrogrades in health & more. Free of the karmic retribution stuff (as found in Martin Schulman, for example). 69 pages including bibliography. AFA, paper.

	MORE ABOUT RETROGRADES - Helen Adams Garrett, $7.50 Contrasts the geocentric (ephemeris) sign position of retrograde Mercury, Venus & Mars with their possible heliocentric positions, a useful new slant on retrogrades. Skips that for the outer planets, where she contrasts the advancing & receding aspects between retrograde planets & the sun, eg, Sun trine Saturn as Saturn goes into retrograde, then the Sun - Saturn trine as Saturn is about to go direct. These two books on retrogrades by Helen Adams are useful & include things we've long wished for in books about retrogrades. Concludes with health & retrograde planets, retrograde planets by progression & transit. 52 pages, AFA, paper.

	YOUR HAIR TALKS - Helen Adams Garrett, $5.25 Contents: Length, Cutting by the moon; Color and color interpretation; Creating by color; Style; Wigs; Ears; Especially for men; Baldness; Using astrology. 28 pages. Self-published, small spiral paper.

	ASTROLOGY & METAPHYSICS IN THE BIBLE - Helen Adams Garrett, $8.50 Contents: The bible and its churches; Bible references to astrology; Astrologers among God's people; References used against astrology; Astral travel; Automatic writing; color; dreams; Healing; Incense; Levitation; Necromancy/mediumship; Numbers; Palmistry; Psychometry; Stones; Tea reading; transmutation. 60 pages. AFA, small paper.

	THE ANARETIC DEGREE - Helen Adams Garrett, $5.50 The intensity of the 29th degree of each sign of the zodiac (not death, as in medical astrology). Planets in these degrees indicate where you "can't get enough - too much or too little" of whatever. 32 pages. AFA, small paper.

	FAVORABLE ECLIPSES - Helen Adams Garrett, $5.00 Contents: Eclipses, Solar eclipses, Lunar eclipses, Eclipses conjunct planets. Comment: From the book: The solar eclipse, being a new Moon, represents a new beginning. The father energy of the Sun unites with the mother energy of the Moon & a new Moon is born because there are no voids. Something new replaces something old & there are things, people, places & circumstances that we have resisted releasing. This results in our regrets toward that which was eclipsed. There is a lack of acknowledgement & appreciation for the replacement. Eclipses have a way of leaving us in a state of shock, whether that which was eclipsed or cut out is a great loss or is a thing, person or circumstance of good riddance. The word itself gives us a clue as to interpretation: e-CLIP-se - something is clipped out. (pgs 7-8) (This, by the way, is one of the best concepts of eclipses I have ever read.) One of the few eclipse books based on actual study of natal charts. Includes an interpretation checklist, similar to that in Jansky's never-again-to-be-reprinted book. Short but good. AFA, 24 pages.

	NODES, LIFE'S PURPOSE - Helen Adams Garrett, $6.50 Contents: Forward; The nodes: Your purpose in life; Nodes in the signs & houses; South node conjunct planets; North node conjunct planets; Nodes in the houses; Your node conjunct another's planet; The nodes, body & health. Comment: Nodes in signs, planets conjunct nodes, nodes by sign & house (all 144 combinations), how the north & south nodes differ karmically, nodes in relationships - the south node brings people to you, the north node takes them away. 43 pages. AFA, small paper.

	WEDDING & DIVORCE CHARTS - Helen Adams Garrett, $5.00 This is a quick look at an important day in the life. Never underestimate the importance of the marriage chart! 24 pages. AFA, small paper.

	YOUR IDEAL COMPANION, or the 3 L's: Love, Like & Lust - Helen Adams Garrett, $5.50 A brief overview of the astrological rules for relationships. Unlike Marc Robertson's similar book, this is more to the point & easier to read. This small book ends with this sage advice: "You don't have to eliminate sex - elevate it! Spirituality is somewhat like advertising: It doesn't cost - It pays!" 32 pages. AFA, small paper.

	THE HOROSCOPE & THE APPETITE - Helen Adams Garrett, $6.50 What to eat for your sun, moon, ascendant & 6th house & how that compares to what you're attracted to. 44 pages. AFA, small paper.

	INTERPRET HOROSCOPES IN 24 STEPS - Helen Adams Garrett, $5.75 Contents: cayce's natal chart; Sun's place based on time of day; Ruler of the ascendant; Characteristics of the ascendant sign and the sun sign; Examining the moon and the planets; Where are the nodes?; What planets are on the angles?; Is there a stellium?; retrograde planets and changes of direction by progression; Cayce's solar chart; Analyzing Yods; Progressed moons; Progressed aspects; Transits to natal and progressed planets; Where is the assistance to the afflictions?; Applying information to other's charts. Appendices: Calculating decans and dwads; Moon last over(planet and meaning). 33 pages. Self-published, small paper.

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