AstroAmerica's Recycled Book pages: Recycled books, page 2 Recycled books, page 3 Recycled books, page 4 Recycled books, page 5 Recycled books, page 6 ONE-OFFS One or two of a kind These are unique books. They will be OUT OF PRINT once we've sold them. ASTROLOGY IN A NUTSHELL: Cast your own horoscope - A.E. Partridge, $2.00 Comment: A very small book that doesn't actually do much astrology, just talk about it. In the section on signs, a very nice set of keywords for each sign, along with where to look on the body for moles or scars. When you're looking at pictures of naked girls, which I confess I sometimes must do (I force myself), do you ever find yourself wondering why she has a mole in that location? Could this small book be of help to the anxious male? The author of this book, and the one above, A.E. Partridge, is not the famous 17th century Englishman (John Partridge), but an American living in Seattle in the 1930's. Books - Dorothy B. Hughes, 72 pages, tiny: 3.3 x 5 inches, or 82 x 127 mm. THE ZODIAC EXPERIENCE: Initiation through the 12 signs - Patricia Crowther, $5.00 Contents: Introduction Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces About the author Comment: For each sign, there are keywords, introductory notes, legends (Egyptian, Celtic, Italian, Tibetan - this varies) & a rite (i.e., initiation). These are Wiccan. Each ritual starts with a brief initial ceremony (appropriate to the sign in question), and then has a visualization, which amounts to a short story. A good many of these feature nudity of one party or another, but these are visualizations & not what can actually be staged. On page xi is a line drawing of a nude female (complete with pubic hair) which is to orient us to the rulerships of the constellations with the parts of the body. At the very end of the book, About the Author, we learn she has been a witch since 1960 (this book is from 1992). Presumably she is of the sky-clad sort. There is something about wicca & nudity. They are either going out of their way to emphasize it, or backpedaling just as fast to say that they don't do that. Weiser, 221 pages. COSMIC ASTROLOGY - The religion of the stars - June Wakefield, $5.00 Contents: Introduction 1. What astrology IS, and what it is not 2. History of astrology 3. The spiritual nature of astrology 4. Man - the ultimate creation 5. The secondary Suns 6. The nature of the planets & the principles they express 7. The nature & functions of the zodiacal signs 8. Something about the houses & the aspects 9. Some afterthoughts Comment: The book is Theosophical in nature, which, in this case, does not seem to include Alice Bailey's additions. AFA, 149 pages. TEN WORDS OF POWER - A New Age interpretation of the Ten Commandments - Marc Edmund Jones, $5.00 Contents: Marc Edmund Jones portrait Foreword Biography The original introduction The first word The second word The third word The fourth word The fifth word The sixth word The seventh word The eighth word The ninth word The tenth word The Sabian Assembly Comment: This is a book about the Ten Commandments, updated for modern times. So here they are, reformulated: 1. Thou shalt be suitor to no other source but this. 2. Thou shalt admit superiority of source in no other but thyself. 3. Thou shalt invoke thy power for none but worthy cause. 4. Thou shalt enter the transcendent and keep it holy. 5. Thou shalt be faithful to all thy inspiration. 6. Thou shalt terminate no cycles. 7. Thou shalt have no alien fellowship. 8. Thou shalt not misappropriate reality. 9. Thou shalt admit no evil as such. 10. Thou shalt not accept without ensoulment. I think Marc Edmund Jones was a nice guy & a good astrologer & a nice story teller, but I part company with this. The original use of second person singular (thee, thy, thine) & the language of the King James Bible, in general, was to speak as simply and as directly to the common people as humanly possible. It's not religion's fault that the English language has changed over time. All languages, societies & cultures do. But it is the fault of religions that they use the hoary past as rationalization for their abuse of power. Not only are these Oracular Pronouncements from the Godhead Itself, they are also gibberish that requires the Most High as intermediary. What does terminate no cycles mean? That you can't interrupt the dishwasher once you've started it? That it's forbidden to turn off a computer? That if you hit REPLAY on your CD player that you're stuck with that song until the player wears out? No, you say? That isn't what was meant? Then what was? Here is how Marc explains it: The sixth of the Ten Words emphasizes the principal difference between superficiality in living and an absolute co-operation with a higher reality. The person as yet unstirred to the immortal potentialities of his soul or the eternal or invisible fellowship shared by the Masters is marked above everything else by an inner irresponsibility and parallel outer lack of . . . We're clearly not getting anywhere, so let's skip ahead to the next section: Orderliness in termination & beginning is free will in the thinking of higher occultism. Therefore the sixth of these Words concerns itself with only the former however much the average aspirant is naturally interested in the latter. A superficial teaching may be the most insistent in demanding a conscious . . . Not here, either. So let's try the next: The sixth of the Ten Words presents the exalted realization that it is no individual's privilege to bring things to an end in any way at all either directly or indirectly. Everything has its own God-given right to run an appointed course, and more seekers have lost all real chance for immortality or eternal life through their ruthless closing of chapters than for any other one single cause. When an individual cannot take it, in the slang of the time of writing, he often becomes frantic in a concern with every possible means for avoiding contact of the least sort with the issue in question. . . Finally! We're two & a half pages into a four page text & now we have the meat of it. OhMyGod!! No, you can't turn off the computer!! You can't even turn off the lights!! You certainly can't turn off Rev. Jones. Once you're part of his Assembly, he's got you!! He's going to run his God-given course & you can't back away from it. It would be cowardly!! You would be a quitter!! You don't want to be a quitter, now, do you?!! But there's one final section. We should look at that, too: In the Eastern philosophy the sixth Word has become perverted into a doctrine of a rigid & inflexible karma, and it is said that whatever has been put forth in realms of causation must irrevocably run its course & that man's only hope is in will-engineered [sic] self-annihilation. So, according to Marc, in India turning yourself off is the way you can turn everything else off & finally get peace. Marc clearly disapproves. Thou Shalt Not Take Shortcuts!, I can hear him thunder, if he could express himself in so few words, that is. There is a bit more, the conclusion. The Commandment in question, remember, is Thou Shalt Not Kill. Clear, simple, direct, one of the biggies, impossible to misunderstand. In higher realms the individual is vulnerable because he only exists in his co-operation or fellowship with others, and for the indiscreet soul to refuse to participate in events by placing anything before a social necessity would be to do irreparable harm to others in the reality of a higher existence. Hence each lesson must be learned by every seeker long before his chance may come for a real place in an immortal fellowship. The aspirant must see circumstances his servant and the living momentum in each cycle his own particular signature. (pgs. 61-64) Okay, it's not about light bulbs, but what about college? Suppose you stumbled your way in but it's just not for you? You're flunking or you're bored or you're out of money or the girlfriend is pregnant & you need a real job, whatever. Must you keep going until you graduate? Or until the Dean decides for you? This is not a joke. Jones is saying that faithfulness is superior, always, to common sense. The Sixth Commandment is about respecting others, not loyalty to a philosophy. I am told there are boxes & boxes of these books at what's left of the Sabian Assembly. Which, as is typical of such groups, faded after the death of its founder. Sabian Publishing Society, 105 pages, hardcover with dustjacket. THE SABIAN BOOK - Letters of insight - Marc Edmund Jones, $5.00 Contents: Introduction 1. The Sabian way 2. The seeker 3. New thought & occultism 4. Sabian philosophy 5. Sabian disciplines 6. Spiritual fellowship 7. Sources of vitality 8. Healing 9. The ten words 10. The Masters & the Lodge Numerical index General index Comment: These are short essays, selected from among 1200 weekly messages written by Dr. Jones to students of the Sabian Assembly, from 1927 to 1950. (If you do the math, that's 1200 weeks.) In the years afterward he recycled them, as the Sabian Assembly exists to this day. Hey! He wrote a lot more than Paul did, and if you want to know why I'm not respectful of religious beliefs, know that I think we must grasp beliefs in our two hands and look at them squarely & apply every scrap of inspiration & intelligence & wide reading & study that we can to them. Only then will arid artifacts - the Bible comes immediately to mind - come to life. In this book are about a third of the total essays, given one to a page. The thrust of many of them is that you're lucky to belong to an enlightened outfit like the Sabians. They were not intended to be read aloud, but to be slowly pondered, meditated upon. Each is summarized at the bottom, though the summaries are not especially more clear than the main text. Sabian Publishing Society, 389 pages. Not a hardcover. ASTROLOGY DRAWN TO LIFE - Learning astrology by pictures - Jairy Willingham-French, Dottie French Montgomery, Grey Blackwell, $5.00 Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: 1. What is a natal chart? 2. What is a natural chart? Part 2: 3. Who are the planet people? Muscular Marty Vee Valentine Mercurial Merv Moody Mona Sunny Sol Meticulous Mindy Victor Valentine Powerful Pauline Jolly Jud Stern Stella Unpredictable Uri Nebulous Natalie 4. How are planet people alike & different? - Polarity; quality; element; property Appendix Bibliography Comment: A book of BIG BOLD SIMPLE LINE DRAWINGS. The illustrator, Dottie French Montgomery, is the author's mother-in-law. You can get a flavor of the book from the contents of chapter 3, above. This book can be sumarized as Mars in Aries on steroids. In addition to the graphics, the text consists of, for the most part, slogans & catch phrases, sometimes mindless. Here are some for Pisces: I hate noise. I don't like people who press me for answers. I am an escapist. I can be very secretive. I have a vivid imagination and a keen sense of color. Others see me as impractical, overly emotional & a dreamer. - etc. The first four of those lines are in boldface. The end of the third line is bigger than the beginning. The last line is italics. Even with Pisces, there is no resting in this book. It would be a good coloring book. Markers, I think, but not too strong as they will bleed through. AFA, 92 pages, oversize. SIGN BLENDING - Diane & Rudy Flack, $5.00 An elementary view of a sign, how it develops from the sign before it, how it transforms into the sign following. 24 pages. A is A Publishing, paper. PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ASTROLOGY - Pamela Rowe, $5.00 Contents: Moving towards the 21st century and the age of Aquarius Sun sign astrology and the astrological ages Understanding astrology Interpreting the horoscope Calculation of the birth horoscope New boundaries of the Aquarian age. Comment: Mostly introductory material, but the topics raised & the charts supplied, you can do your own analysis & get a lot more out of the book than what the author intended. 153 pages including references, recommended reading and worksheets. Gemcraft Books, paper, 152 pages. THE ALCHEMY OF FUSION: Planetary Pairings in Signs, Volume 1: Pluto - Sioux Rose, $5.00 Contents: 1. Pluto's alchemy: the gift 2. Pluto - Sun alchemy 3. Pluto - Moon alchemy 4. Pluto - Mercury alchemy 5. Pluto - Venus alchemy 6. Pluto - Mars alchemy 7. Outer planet fusion zones. > Comment: New age types throw the word "alchemy" around a lot, I've never been sure what they meant by it. In the American Heritage Dictionary 3rd edition (1992), alchemy is defined as either a medieval method of transmuting base metals into gold (which is erroneous, by the way), or "a seemingly magical power or process of transmuting." So far as I can tell, Rose does not define the word herself. In the text of the book, she uses the word, "fusion" instead, which I think is clearer. This book is about Pluto/planet conjunctions in the signs Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius & Pisces, which Pluto will enter January 19, 2044. This looks to be fairly pedestrian writing about Pluto, with all the usual ideas about reincarnation, death, regeneration, etc. AFA, 135 pages. NOT A SIGN IN THE SKY BUT A LIVING PERSON - Marc Robertson, $5.00 Comment: From the back cover: "This book is not about "signs" or "planets" or "houses," except as SYMBOLS of human functions to be found in LIVING PEOPLE....the material here will show you how to find a LIVING PERSON in those mysterious symbols we call astrology." All of Marc Robertson's books are exceptionally sharp in writing, but all of them were exceptionally bad in organization & page layouts. I'd like to give you a table of contents as a guide, but there is none, nor is there any point in copying out the big words you find on the pages, as they are things like: The eye in the "I" Eight human personality types Impulse the new moon Incarnation project Possession struggle crescent struggle Activation action first quarter act Evaluation growth gibbous analyze Culmination full mooon illumination From which you get the idea Marc's talking about the Moon in some fashion. This takes up the first third of the book & then the author moves on to something else. Lunation cycle & planetary pairings & such. 31 pages. AFA, oversize paper. OVERSTOCK These are books from various sources which we have too many of. Some of these will be OUT OF PRINT once we've sold them. NOW THAT I'VE CAST IT, WHAT DO I DO WITH IT - Maxine Taylor, $5.00 Contents: The houses Signs on cusps Planets in houses Planets in signs Aspects to planets Aspects to angles Linking planets with signs The 13th house (tidbits): dignity/detriment exaltation and fall afflictions, patterns mutual reception the charts in our charts retrograde planets potential vs. manifestation example chart 86 pages. AFA, paper. WHAT'S A RELOCATED CHART? - Maxine Taylor, $5.00 Contents: What's a relocated chart? How do you relocate your birth chart? Example charts Math work on example charts. 11 pages. AFA, small paper.

	Recycled & Used Books, page 1 Good books for $5.00

These are not really used books, they're mostly excess stock from one of my suppliers, and they are all several years old. Most of these are from India. Which means Indian standards of quality, which are a bit shabby by modern American standards. As we got these for a good price, we're happy to pass it along. These are, for the most part, $5.00 each. Some we have in quantity, but for some there are only a few. Expand your library, expand your horizons, take a dare. The stranger the book, the more interesting its adventure.

Please note: Books published by Taraporevala / D.B. Taraporevala Sons, are notably crude in printing & binding.

Enjoy!

	used: SECRETS OF ASTROLOGY - W.J. Tucker, $5.00 D. B. Taraporevala Sons. 92 pages. Condition: good. Printed: 1984. Sun sign stuff, but nicely written. Printed In India.

	used: THE KEY TO ASTROLOGY - Felix Fairfax, $5.00 Taraporevala. 186 pages. Condition: Fair. Printed: 1988. Sun signs. Fairly well done. Printed In India.

	used: PLAN YOUR LIFE WITH THE PLANETS - Edward Lyndoe, $5.00 Taraporevala. 172 pages. Condition: good. Printed: 1990. Notes on various topics (gambling, friendships, love, marriage, job, habits, health, success, etc.), each with delineations for of the twelve signs. Edward Lyndoe, an English astrologer, was born in 1901. He was an early sun-sign columnist. Printed In India.

	used: ASTROLOGY FOR EVERYMAN - William J. Tucker, $5.00 Sagar. 306 pages. Condition: Fair. Printed: 1971-? Probably printed in the 1990's. Tucker was an English astrologer who lived from 1896 to 1981. He was an advocate of houses drawn from the MC (most house systems, including Placidus, are drawn from the ascendant), and, judging by the lack of house delineations in this book, got very little from them. The book is notable for 144 delineations of the Sun & Moon through the signs (polarities). Printed In India.

	used: PRACTICAL ASTROLOGY: How to make it work for you in love, marriage, career & health - Jerryl L. Keane, $5.00 Tarang Paperbacks. 240 pages. Condition: good. Printed: 1989. A textbook of natal astrology. The type is tiny, but the printing is clear. Includes progressions & transits (both brief) along with individual degree "pictures". In the back, a condensed ephemeris, 1900-1970. Printed In India.

	used: YOURS STARS OF DESTINY - William J. Tucker, $5.00 D.B. Taraporevala Sons. 144 pages. Condition: good. Printed: 1984. In this book the author explains a bit more of his unique house system. Which is to determine the degree on the MC. The ascendant is 90 degrees in advance of that. Which, in London, is virtually never true, so far as actual observation goes. Also in this book, all 144 possibilities of Sun & Moon, times the 12 possible ascendants, the result broken down as Height, Build, Complexion, & Colors. Mine are tall height, average build, fair hair, good complexion and blue, orange & yellow for colors. Which, except for the colors, is mostly right. (Who likes orange? And who likes all three of those on a single plate?) But then, 90 degrees from my MC is not the sign I generally accept as my ascendant. The ascendant Tucker would assign me gives me medium height (no), sturdy build (no), clear complexion (?) and blue, orange & pink as my colors (ick!) Good clear printing, nice interior paper stock, which are rare for books from this publisher. Printed In India.

	used: THE INFLUENCE OF THE ZODIAC UPON HUMAN LIFE - Eleanor Kirk, $5.00 Taraporevala. 189 pages. Condition: Fair. Printed: 1991. This is on sun-signs, grouped by element, eg, the three fire, the three air, the three earth, and finally the three water. Printed In India.

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