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	PLANETS IN COMPOSITE: Analyzing Human Relationships - Robert Hand, $19.95 Contents: Foreword; Introduction; 1. Casting the chart; 2. Reading the chart; 3. Case studies; 4. Houses; 5. Sun; 6. Moon; 7. Mercury; 8. Venus; 9. Mars; 10. Jupiter; 11. Saturn; 12. Uranus; 13. Neptune; 14. Pluto; 15. Moon's nodes; Index. Composites combine two individual charts to create a composite third chart, of the relationship itself. The technique is to reduce planetary positions to 360 degree notation, add a planet from one chart to the same planet from the other chart (eg, Sun + Sun; Mars + Mars), divide the result in half & convert to standard zodiacal notation. So, for example, if you combine an Aries Sun with a Gemini Sun, you get a Taurus Sun composite (the author cautions that signs have no value in a composite chart). The result gives the student a single chart to interpret, rather than two as in classic chart-to-chart synastries. Includes delineations of composite planets in each house & every major aspect - some 374 in all, plus 41 more of the Moon's nodes. An essential reference book. 366 pages including index. Whitford Press, paper.

	PLANETS IN LOVE: Exploring Your Sexual Needs - John Townley, $19.95 A look at your love life as represented by your natal chart. Delineations of planets & ascendant for every sign, house & planetary aspect, some 550 delineations written exclusively in terms of sexual behavior & relationships. The 10 planets are associated with five areas of human development: primal, physical, social, structural & spiritual. Case studies show how the natal horoscope reveals these possibilities. A coherent framework for understanding sexuality in the birthchart. 368 pages including index and appendix. Whitford Press, paper.

	RELATIONSHIPS & LIFE CYCLES: Astrological Patterns of Personal Experience - Stephen Arroyo, $16.95 Relationship questions & life cycles are the two things most often asked of astrologers. This is an intelligent discussion of relationship issues between the author & his audience. In a readable format, it illuminates the practical problems common in relationship analysis & how to understand them. 225 pages including index. CRCS, paper.

	SYNASTRY: Understanding Human Relations Through Astrology - Ronald Davison, $22.95 Contents: Introduction; 1. Marriage & other relationships; 2. Marriage horoscopes; 3. General notes on comparison; 4. Various methods of chart comparison; 5. Sun sign compatibility; 6. Benefic & malefic planets; 7. Interaction between nativites: the planets; 8. Interaction between nativities: the houses; 9. The relationship horoscope; 10. Examples of horoscope comparison; 11. Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. Comment: This comprehensive guide includes not only male-female relationships, but also employer/employee, doctor/patient, student/teacher relationships as well. Topics include planetary cross aspects (eg, the man's Mars to the woman's Venus), house interchanges (her moon in his 8th), the Part of Marriage, the First Meeting horoscope, good days for weddings, & more. Among the case studies: The Duke & Dutchess of Windsor, the Manson Family, Freud, Adler & Jung, Hitler & Braun. This is the book that introduced the "Davison Relationship Chart," a chart drawn for the midpoint in space & time between the two charts. This technique is now included in most astrology programs. 333 pages including bibliography and index. Aurora Press, paper.

	ASTROLOGY & DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIPS: Why are you in my life? - Beverly Flynn, $14.95 Contents: Introduction 1. Astrology & relating 2. Astrology basics 3. Categorizing difficult relationships 4. If the relationship is unbearable 5. Obstacles to relating 6. Will the relationship improve? 7. Walking in another's shoes 8. When should we take action? 9. How to analyze your difficult relationships 10. There is no such thing as a difficult relaationship Sources Comment: The introduction starts with a story of a woman who could not bear to visit her parents, so this is a book that deals with more than marriage problems. Skimming the book, she defines the nadir as representing foundations or roots (pg. 23). Among the signs, Sagittarus is defined as single minded, while Scorpio is a crisis or test (both from page 27). Clearly not your usual definitions. She categorizes difficult relationships according to their planetary energy. So, significant contacts to your sun contributes to your sense of self-awareness. Lunar contacts imply that you are living in the past & may need to let go. Mars is about the elimination of unhealthy desires. Jupiter is teacher / pupil, Saturn is debt / debtor, Neptune is a reality check, Pluto is power, etc. Those who bring us contacts to the ascendant are here to help us with our life's mission. (Anytime I can see my old relationships in a book, I tend to like that book. I'm seeing that here.) In chapter 4, unbearable relationships, Flynn shrewdly remarks that unbearable means pain, pain means lots of emotion, and lots of emotion is a characteristic trait of the three water signs. As these signs come with earthly opposites, she then proceeds to pair Cancer & Capricorn, Scorpio & Taurus, and Pisces & Virgo. She analyzes how these signs get into bad relationships & how they might refocus their energies to improve things. In the next chapter, Obstacles to Relating, she takes up problems with the air & fire signs. These people, she says, are cold & willful. Where earth & water will cling or be stubborn, thus keeping a bad relationship close at hand, fire & air will simply walk away, to repeat their blunders over & over again. This book primarily focuses on signs, with planets as a secondary emphasis. It also includes Chiron, the four major asteroids, the Vertex, and the angles. The formulas for resolution in the last chapter are a bit starchy, but well-intended. TLH Publishing Company, 173 pages.

	USING THE BIRTH CHART TO DETERMINE SEX, MIND & HABIT: COMPATABILITY - Marc Robertson, $11.00 If you already know how to compare people, planet by planet, chart-to-chart, use this books for pointers for what works between two people & what doesn't. Planet-to-planet aspects in the book are better done elsewhere. Gives rules for comparing slower moving planets in one chart with faster moving ones in another, similar to the waxing & waning moon & reminiscent of Rudhyar's lunar phase work. 52 pages. AFA, paper.

	SEX SIGNS: Every Woman's Astrological & Psychological Guide to Love, Men, Sex, Anger & Personal Power - Judith Bennett, $15.95 Despite the bombast of the title, this is a very good book, comparable to Linda Goodman's Love Signs. Contents: General traits and background, personality, relationships, sexuality, anger, and lifestyles for women of all twelve signs and for the "cosmic woman". 530 pages. St. Martin's Paperback, paper.

	PICKING YOUR PERFECT PARTNER THROUGH ASTROLOGY: A Guide to Compatibility in Relationships - Mary Coleman, $12.00 Contents: New concepts of love for new lifestyles; The four elements: their role in attraction or dislike; Polarities and quadruplicities; Compatibility - the sign and planet picture; Childhood conditioning versus adult expectation in relationships; The sign on the fourth; Fourth house planets, data and aspects; Romantic love, and marriage today; Signs on the seventh; Seventh house planets, aspects and planetary 'conversations'; Five certain marriage-wreckers; Sun signs in love; Signs on the fifth; Parenthood; Fifth house planets, data, and aspects; Journey's end in Pluto meetings; Ascendant and Mercury - their role in mutual attraction; Mind and ego; Mercury signs and basic mental attitude; Mercury houses and aspects; interpretations of ascending signs; Problem of the unknown birth-time; The man-woman synthesis; Solar compatibility rating; Living, learning and loving again; Getting through to each other. 223 pages including index. CRCS, paper.

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