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ASTROAMERICA'S DAILY EPHEMERIS, in three volumes, MIDNIGHT. Compiled by David R. Roell
For the years: -------2000 - 2020------------2000 - 2010------------2010 - 2020


Contents:

For each of the three books:

Daily:
Longitudes and declination, Midnight, GMT, for Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto & the True Node.
Daily Sidereal Time.
Complete aspectarian, including declinations.
Last aspect (void-of-course) and lunar ingress.
Lunations and eclipses.

Every Three Days: Chiron's longitude (its declination given monthly). Stations & ingresses precisely timed.

Monthly: Ayanamsa, Julian day, mean node and SVP (Synthetic Vernal Point).

In the Introductory, the key to computing a daily mean node, an explanation of the Julian day, and the Ayanamsa defined, with instructions how to use it. Additionally, how to compute Nakshatras, with a handy list of all 27 (28).

Comment: From the back cover:

"I once had a nice 20th century ephemeris, with good, clean, easy to read layouts, eclipses at the very top of the page where I could find them, lunar phases and void-of-course that I could actually make sense of, with a nice, clear aspectarian at the bottom. It was a French thing (later a Kansas thing - I’m a Kansas boy, I liked that), but on December 31, 2000, it ended. The “replacements” just weren’t as good. I’ve been stranded ever since.

So after years of frustration, I decided to make my own ephemeris. Halfway through the Aspectarian overwhelmed the page size. With bigger pages and a bit of extra room, I added Chiron, and I’m glad I did. For the first time in a standard ephemeris, Chiron every three days, its stations and ingresses precisely timed, as well as its declination (‘Dec’) given monthly. I hope this will encourage further study of this notable celestial body.

The ephemeris project took longer and was more work than I expected, but I am pleased with the results. I hope you find it as useful as I do.”

This is the best 21st century ephemeris available in America. In addition to clear, easy to use layouts, it's also a convenient size: 7 x 10 inches, or 17.5 x 25.5 cm. Click here for a sample page (PDF)

David R. Roell started his study of astrology in 1983. Since 1993, he has run The Astrology Center of America.

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---- The compiler


THE BOOK OF INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ELEMENTS OF THE ART OF ASTROLOGY - Al Biruni, translated by R. Ramsay Wright, $12.95
Contents:

The Signs: Nature, characteristics, related to compass & winds; Influence on character, figure, face, profession, disease, crops, animals; Years of signs; Signs & planets in aspect & inconjunct; Relations other than aspect; Ascending & descending; Triplicities & quadrants

Planets: Nature, characteristics, related to compass; Lords of the hours & days of week; Relation to climates & cities; Their years, periods (Firdaria) of control of human life; Tables for indications as to soils, buildings, countries, jewels, foods, drugs, animals, crops, parts of the body, disposition & manners, disease, professions, etc.; Orbs & years: details of Firdaria; Domiciles & detriments, exaltation & fall; As lords of triplicities; Aspects, friendship & enmity

Divisions of the signs: Halves, Faces, Paranatellonta, Decanates, Ptolemy's thirds; Terms & their lords; Ninths & twelfths; Characteristics of degrees of the signs

The Houses: Tables of indications at nativities, at horary questions, as to organs, powers, joys & powers of the planets; Sex; Characteristics of of groups of houses in threes & sixes

The Part of Fortune: Tables of other Lots cast in a similar way; Relative position of planets & sun; Gazimi; Orientality; Influence changed under certain conditions; Tables; Application & separation; Dead degrees; Conjunction in longitude & latitude; Dignities; Order of precedence; Favorable & unfavorable situations of planets in signs & houses; Interference with their conjunctions; Reception, etc.; Substitute for conjunction & aspect; Opening the doors; Strengths & weaknesses of planets; The Combust Way

Judicial Astrology: Five divisions & astrological principles on which inquiries are based in each; Lord of the year; Determining conditions at a nativity, Hyleg, Ascendant, Horoscope, Direction or Aphesis, Gifts of length of life, Positon of the malefics which terminate it; Elections; Selecting suitable time for action; General questions; Thought reading; Danger of hasty conclusions; Index.

Comment:

Written in Ghaznah in 1029 AD, this is a classic compilation of astrological rules & techniques. Much of the Greek-based material in the book is contrasted to Hindu astrology, which only reminds us that the Arab world was located between the Greek & the Indian. Among the highlights: Introduction to Firdaria, as well as ninths (navamsa) & 12ths (dodecatemoria) of signs. The largest listing of Arabic parts (Lots) ever, more than 150. Here they are organized by house, with secondary groups for planets, as well as mundane, crops & horary. The discussion of areas of the sky promoting blindness led to the surprising discovery that Arabic lunar mansions have shifted by two entire mansions over the past 1000 years. In other words, what used to be the 5th mansion is now the third. Notes on astrometeorology of the signs are further broken down by decanate & declination. Many other surprises in this book, I suspect. Completely reset (including tables), with index. Click here for a pdf extract.

ISBN: 1-933303-16-6

Astrology Classics, about 100 pages.


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HORARY ASTROLOGY: An Introduction to the Astrology of Time - Derek Appleby, $23.95
Contents:

Part 1: The methods of horary astrology: 1. Charting the question; 2. Preliminary considerations; 3. Significators; 4. Perfection; 5. Fixed stars & important degrees; Denial of perfection; 7. Third party questions; 8. Multiple questions; 9. Time & distance.

Part 2: Collected judgements: 10. Marriage & relationships; 11. Births & babies; 12. Property; 13. Education; 14. Career & status; 15. Loss & theft; 16. Sickness & death; 17. Miscellaneous; 18. Conclusion. Bibliography; Index.

Comment:

It should be recorded that the horary revival in the UK was in very significant measure directly inspired by Derek Appleby, who originally taught himself astrology, and along with it horary. Derek Appleby turned on a small group of us at the Astrological Lodge in the early 1970s. We knew of horary through several of the modern authorities, yet the subject seemed to slumber. I now know that I couldn’t properly ‘see’ horary. Like others, I was amazed when Derek Appleby demonstrated the capacity to bring horoscopes alive and make the symbols dance with radicality... (from The Moment of Astrology, by Geoffrey Cornelius)

Derek Appleby (1937-1995) was the leading UK exponent of horary astrology of his era. He was also a much respected teacher and lecturer, briefly President of the Astrological Lodge of London, and a founding member of the Company of Astrologers. As Geoffrey Cornelius suggests, it is to Derek Appleby we owe not only the revival of horary techniques, but the larger traditional revival as well.

This is not the traditional horary book in format. Appleby has by far the clearest exposition of how long it will take, how far away, and in what direction, that I have seen in any book. The chapters on third party questions, and multiple questions, are unique so far as I know. Appleby picks up on Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson's technique for planets in mutual reception. Both he & Ivy transfer the degrees of these planets to each others's signs & read the new aspects formed thereby. Influenced as well by Lilly, this is not your usual horary book. It is full of surprises, all based on Appleby's own experience. Many, many charts, as well as unique diagrams.

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ISBN: 1-933303-15-8

Astrology Classics, 246 pages.


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THE PRENATAL EPOCH - E.H. Bailey, $23.95

Contents:

Introduction
1. Objections answered & refuted

Section 1: The scientific basis & laws of the epoch
2. The astro-physiological basis of the epoch
3. The practical uses of the epoch
4. The laws of the prenatal epoch
5. The paramount law of sex

Section 2: The prenatal epoch as a factor in rectification
6. Preliminary steps
7. First steps in rectification
8. Rectification by epochs of the first order
9. Illustrations of epochs of the first order
10. Rectification by epochs of the second order
11. Illustrations of epochs of the second order
12. Rectification by epochs of the third order
13. Illustrations of epochs of the third order
14. Rectification by epochs of the fourth order
15. Illustrations of epochs of th fourth order
16. The cause of irregularity
17. Final considerations

Section 3: Some astro-physiological problems
18. The period of gestation
19. Marriage & the epoch
20. Illustrations of short & long period births

Section 4: The prenatal epoch & multiple pregnancy
21. Fallacies & facts in relation to twins
22. The astro-physiological laws of multiple births
23. Illustrations of twin births
24. An illustration of multiple birth
25. Divergence of character & fortune in twins

Section 5: The epoch in relation to prenatal affections
26. The chart of descent
27. Illustrations of prenatal abnormalities
28. The date of quickening

Section 6: The prenatal epoch as a factor in directions
29. Directing from the prenatal epoch
30. How to calculate directions from the epoch
31. Epochal directions illustrated
32. Illustrations of epochal directions
33. Primary directions & the epoch

Section 7: The prenatal epoch & infant mortality
34. Infant mortality
35. Illustrations of infant horoscopes
36. The procreation of children
Conclusion

Section 8: Appendix
Some mathematical rules
Tables of ascendants

Comment:

Many people ask, why do astrologers study birth charts, why do they not study the moment of conception? This is not a new question.

The reason for birth charts is that birth is a significant, easily determined moment in time. The reason against conception is that it's darn hard, in most cases, to figure out exactly when that was. You need a technique.

The standard technique, which was not new to Bailey - nor Sepharial, his muse - was to go back nine months, interchange ascendant & moon, and call that the Epoch, or moment of conception. This is as far as Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson ever took it. The problem was the simple interchange did not work in all that many cases. The solution, which both Sepharial & Bailey gradually arrived at, was an additional three epochs. Which one applies to you depends on where the moon is by house, and the angular relationship it has to the sun.

As to the various goodies in this book, read the Table of Contents (above) carefully: The prenatal epoch is a factor in rectification, twins & multiple births, and birth defects. It can also be used with directions, primary directions & more. Which amounts to an entire school of astrology, if anyone wants to push it. Towards the end of Bailey's life (1876-1959), Hans Niggemann, of Uranian astrology fame, got him to admit there should be even more rules & epochs, but until someone else is so inspired, E.H. Bailey's work is the standard which all others must meet.

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ISBN: 1-933303-24-7

Astrology Classics, 239 pages.


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THE PRINCIPLES OF ASTROLOGY: Intermediate astrology book 1 - C.E.O. Carter, $21.95

Contents:

Foreword to the first edition
Foreword to the second edition
Foreword to the third edition

1. Astrology & its subject-matter:
1. The uses & nature of astrological knowledge
2. The Sun, Moon & planets
3. The signs of the zodiac, sign rulership & lord of the horoscope
4. The houses of the horoscope
5. The nature of the aspects
6. Minor considerations

2. The erection of the horoscope

3. The Sun, Moon & planets in detail:
1. Planetary strength
2. The Sun
3. The Moon
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Venus
7. Mercury
8. Saturn
9. Uranus
10. Neptune
11. Pluto
12. Tabulation of basic psychological concepts respecting the planets

4. The qualities, elements & signs in detail:
1. Their mutual relations
2. The qualities
3. The elements
4. The signs considered in detail

5. The houses in detail:
1. Their meanings
2. Secondary house influences
3. House-orbs
4. Methods of house-division

6. The judgment of the horoscope: Character:
1. Character & destiny in child & adult
2. Moral status
3. Disposition & temperament. The effects of the planets in the signs
4. Intellectual abilities
5. A table of the effects of the aspects

7. The judgment of the horoscope: Destiny:
1. Health & death
2. Relatives, marriage & friends
3. Vocation & finance
4. Accidents & violent deaths
5. Parents & children
6. Travel
7. Religion, mysticism & occultism

8. Examples of delineation

9. Personal appearance

10. Prognostication:
1. Classification of factors
2. Transits, lunations, revolutions & the diurnal horoscope
3. Secondary progressions
4. Primary directions
5. Symbolic directions
6. Rectification

11. Horary & electional horoscopes:
1. Horary questions
2. Elections

12. Theoretical considerations

Bibliography
Index

Comment:

While Carter said he intended this book for "beginners", he didn't quite mean that. While he does spin you through the basic signs & houses, while he tells you how to construct a chart (both north and south of the equator), if you've already grasped that, you'll be prepared for the amazing details, the practical, hard-won, sharply observed things that you simply won't find anywhere else. Open the book anywhere & you'll be surprised. Mutable signs rising tend to slouch. What's another way to spot a Leo rising? They love fur. Did you ever really want to know what death looks like in a chart? How about infant mortality? Carter gives you the good, and the bad, and so much more as well. Get this book (and the companion, Some Principles of Horoscopic Delineation, below), and, using them, learn astrology and unlock his other books, among them: Astrology of Accidents, Encyclopaedia of Psychological Astrology, Symbolic Directions in Modern Astrology, all of which you will find elsewhere on this page.

But enough of me. Here is Carter, himself. From the Foreword to the first edition:

The present work is designed to give a clear and concise presentation of the essential facts of modern Astrology.

A good deal of experience in teaching the average beginner has convinced me that, while there are several text-books suitable for the use of the more advanced student or of a novice who has the advantage of personal tuition, the majority are either too prolix or too condensed for one who is compelled to be his own instructor. Moreover, Astrology is now to some extent in the melting-pot : on the one hand, many new ideas are being introduced ; on the other, statistical research, such as earlier astrologers could not carry out for lack of sufficient data, has cast considerable doubt on the validity of portions of the rather incoherent mass of tradition that till recent years represented astrological science.

The beginner does not wish to be confronted with controversial matters, however attractive he may find them later. He requires, firstly, a statement of what may be regarded as known astrological facts ; and secondly, an explanation as to how these facts affect human life. It is this that I have aimed at giving him.

An endeavour is made not to neglect the theoretical aspects of Astrology, for the modern student dislikes what appear to him as isolated statements, and looks for a logical and synthetic aspect to our teaching, without, of course, wishing to plunge at the outset into metaphysical speculation. I trust that the Index will be of considerable use in practice, since it should enable the student to find readily those passages that deal with any matter that may trouble him.

Finally, I would express my sincere hope that this book may be of some value in assisting its readers to grasp something of the true nature and worth of astrological science, both in the commonest and the most sublime aspects of human life. Those who have realized what this may mean to the individual are reluctant to set any bounds to their estimate of the beneficial effects that its universal recognition, in a proper form, would mean to the human race.

- Charles Carter
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Astrology Classics, 216 pages.


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SOME PRINCIPLES OF HOROSCOPIC DELINEATION: Intermediate astrology book 2 - C.E.O. Carter, $18.95

Contents:

Foreword

1. The scope of the nativity
2. The aspects
3. Mundane position
4. Sign-position
5. Planetary position
6. Infant mortality & longevity
7. Suicide & insanity
8. The violent criminal
9. Outstanding abillity & failure
10. Directional delineation

Comment:

In an effort to teach chart interpretation (ie, actually getting meaning from the various pieces), Carter first gives some general guidelines: A mixture of hard & soft aspects produce better people than too many trines or too many squares. He extends this to aspect patterns. Carter notes that crimials often have harmonious aspects from Moon & Mercury to other planets in the chart, one of many surprising discoveries. He considers mundane position as an explanation for people born on the same day who don't quite have the same the same life. He says, the further planets are from an angle (moving counter-clockwise), the less significant the planet is. (Looking at my chart, where all the planets are in succedent or cadent houses, none angular, I have to agree.) Carter follows with a chapter on Planetary Psychology, with some of the best writing on Venus & Uranus (along with all the other planets, including some notes on Pluto) that I can remember.

With that for an introduction, Carter introduces some well-defined groups of people & then does statistical analysis to show what people in the various groups have in common. Among them, infant mortality & longevity, insanity & suicide, the violent criminal, and, outstanding ability and failure, treated generally.

Let Carter himself have the last word. From the Foreword:

Most text-books, including the one for which I am personally responsible, are mainly of an analytical character and do not attempt to guide the reader far along the path that leads to proficiency in horoscopic delineation. In fact, few attempts have been made to attack this problem, and for a good reason—it is so difficult. Delineation is an art and it cannot be taught as one teaches merely factual knowledge. It comes with experience, if the student have the right inborn aptitudes; that is all that can be said.

However, there seems to me to be a sort of border-land that lies beyond the realms of purely text-book teaching and yet is within the scope of instruction. No one can make a student into a good delineator, and, on the other hand, almost anyone with moderate teaching ability can inculcate the alphabet of astrology : between these two extremes there is a field wherein, I think, experience can help inexperience and some general principles can be formulated and explained. This is what I have attempted here, illustrating my ideas in separate chapters that deal with important classes of psychological condition. This book is designed to follow The Principles of Astrology and may be read in conjunction with The Astrological Aspects and The Encyclopaedia of Psychological Astrology.

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Astrology Classics, 136 pages.


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AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASTROLOGY - C.E.O. Carter, $18.95

Subtitled, An Encyclopaedia of Character & Disease, this was the result of decades of study of hundreds of horoscopes. Carter discovered zodiacal degrees that produce abscesses, poor vision, goiter, medical ability, jaundice, immorality, musical talent, spinal curvature, oratorical ability, insanity, alcoholism, asthma & much more. He found general astrological guidelines for illnesses & personality traits such as boredom, love of animals, hayfever, imagination, rashness, rambling speech, stoicism, satire & much more. Specific degree areas for specific traits, as well as general guidelines for many more.

In the Foreword, the author writes, This work is a attempt to produce a useful astrological Encyclopaedia of Character, and, as far as data permit, of Disease.... Some reference might perhaps at this point be made to the study of the local zodiacal influences which are frequently mentioned herein. Even from the earliest times certain parts of the Zodiac, usually identified with nebulae or fixed stars, have been considered to possess peculiar powers. Medieval writers also published lists of degrees to which they assigned special names & qualities, such as azimene, pitted, smoky.... Recently Mr. Maurice Wemyss has published, in the pages of Modern Astrology, numerous articles dealing largely with degree-influences, treated in pairs of opposites - 0 degrees Aries-Libra, and so on - and it is now widely held that the study of the individual characters of degrees is one of the most promising fields of astrological research.... My own investigations in this direction, while stimulated by Mr. Wemyss's valuable work, are the results of original study. I am not prepared to say whether the influences in question are inherent in the degree, or for some reason originate in a wider zodiacal area. In some instances the peculiarity seems very local; in others much more extensive. In some cases it seems to derive from one degree only; in others, from a pair of opposite degrees; in others again, from the corresponding degrees in the four signs of the quadruplicity. In any event, the reality & value of these local effects are beyond question, although our knowledge of them is in its infancy. It should be noted that the values of degree-areas are often to be seen in progressions as well as in the natal figure. (pgs 5-6)

Sometimes known as Carter's Little Green Book. Often witty, always surprising, a book you will use forever. Includes six nativities of interest, and a table of local influences mentioned in the book. Click here for a PDF extract.

ISBN: 1-933303-08-5 Astrology Classics, 199 pages, paper.


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DEGREES OF THE ZODIAC SYMBOLIZED, two contrasting sets of degree symbols - Charubel & Sepharial, $14.95
Contents:

Charubel's section runs from pgs 1 - 46, Sepharial's section runs from pg 47 to 136.

Comment:

It has long been believed that each degree of the zodiac has an image associated with it. Presuming this is true (and on absolute terms, it is), the best way of determining the exact images would be by clairvoyant means. By "clairvoyant", I mean the seer must summon himself to go out & actively look for symbols. Marc Edmund Jones's random chance method will work, but not as well. What is not acceptable, in my opinion, are channeled symbols, where a psychic contacts an invisible partner who tells him anything he likes. For more symbol books, go to the Sabian Symbols page. That different authors have different opinions of the symbols may be more apparent than real. I doubt degree images are any more straight-forward than anything else in astrology, so differing opinions can be valid, as Carelli observed.

Charubel (1826-1908), was the pseudonym of John Thomas, a Welsh clairvoyant, occultist & healer. As a young man he studied for the ministry, but when forced to choose between religious life & his psychic abilities, he chose the later. He founded (and later dissolved) an occult order. He published numerous books & was editor of several periodicals. His symbols were the result of his own investigations & were first published in Alan Leo's Astrologer's Magazine in 1893.

Sepharial claimed his symbol set was a translation of La Volasfera, by Antonio Borelli (or Bonelli), but attempts to find the original have failed. (It would not surprise me if Sepharial found the original on the astral plane. He was comfortable on the astrals & there is a lot of unique stuff out there.)

Until they were supplanted by Jones' Sabian Symbols, these two were the most popular of the many degree-symbol sets. Click here for a PDF of the intro & the beginning of Charubel's section.

ISBN: 1-933303-05-0 Astrology Classics, 136 pages.


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THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MEDICAL ASTROLOGY - H.L. Cornell, NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR WHOLESALE See note below

Contents:

Author's portrait; letter of introduction; Abbreviations & symbols used in the book; Cornell's birth chart; Introduction to the 2nd edition; Forward; the Encyclopaedia.

Comment:

This is by far the best book ever written about medical astrology. Though it dates from 1933, it is, in fact, the best medieval astrological medical reference ever put in print. It's not that Cornell set out to write a medieval treatise, but that the works he used in his daily practice, which he exhaustively cross-indexed to create this book, were themselves ultimately basd on the best medieval knowledge. Which was sifted through Cornell's practice in the early days of the 20th century.

In this book you will not find techniques of treatment, since, as Cornell says, once you know what's wrong, there are many different ways that will successfully treat. This book excells in diagnosis, in other words, if the symptom is X, then the astrological cause is Y. Which becomes the key to reading the patient's chart, or the decumbiture. This diagnosis is not give in current medical jargon (which is nearly incomprehensible, even to those who are trained, and which changes from decade to decade), but in traditional language. The same language, in fact, as you will find in Culpeper, Saunders, Lilly, Blagrave & many others. This book is the key that will open all of these & many more. I learned this by accident while preparing a glossary for Blagrave. Of all the sources I consulted, of all the people I asked, Cornell was head & shoulders above the rest.

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2010: Due to the current economic climate, there is no longer money to keep this book in print. As of February 7, I had one copy remaining - and I am the publisher. I regret that it sold the very next day.

However, I have an additional 60-ish copies that are defective, specifically, pages 19 and 455 are partially blank. When this book was last printed, five years ago, the printer replaced these copies at his expense, directing me to destroy the bad ones. But I confess that I cannot bear to throw a book away (much less cartons of them), so I did not.

I will make these copies whole by pasting (tipping in) the missing pages, using archival paste. I will sell them, at retail only, for $40.00 each. You will never again see this book, new or used, at this price. Perhaps by the time these copies are sold (this book sells slowly in the best of times, those who study it are unique & rare individuals), the economy may have improved enough to permit me to reprint. Unlike all other books, this is too massive for print on demand, hence my dilemma.

ISBN: 1-933303-07-7

Astrology Classics, 958 pages, hardcover.


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ASTROLOGICAL JUDGEMENT OF DISEASES FROM THE DECUMBITURE OF THE SICK - Nicholas Culpeper, $17.95
Contents:

Liber 1: Judgment of diseases much enlarged, Abraham Avenezra of critical days; Liber 2: Astrological judgment upon diseases, or a methodical way to find out the cause, nature, symptoms & change of a disease, etc. Chapter 1: Definition of the word crisis; Chapter 2: Way to find out critical days, also decumbiture by ancient & modern writers; Chapter 3: Sympathy & antipathy of signs & planets; Chapter 4: Critical & judicial days by a figure of 8 houses; Chapter 5: Former rules illustrated by an example; Chapter 6: How to set a figure of 16 houses & judgment on it, how to set a figure of 12 houses for the crisis; Chapter 8: To find the exact time of crisis by a table of logistical logarithms; Chapter 9: Certain precepts premised before the Prognosticks; Chapter 10: General Prognostications of the disease; Chapter 11: The diseases the planets signify, diseases the signs of the zodiac signify, parts of the body the planets rule, parts of the body ruled by signs; Chapter 11 (sic): How to read a decumbiture chart; Chapter 12: How to know if the disease be in the mind or body; Chapter 13: How to know which part of the body may be afflicted; Chapter 14: How to know if the disease will be long or short, or whether it will end in life or death, signs of long or short sickness, signs of life at decumbiture, signs of death; Chapter 15: For the cure of any disease take these few rules; Hermes Trismegistus upon the first decumbiture; Results of Moon in each sign afflicted by Mars & Saturn; Chapter 16: Observations of Cardan, Augerius Pererius, Boderius, John Antonia Maginus, John Baptista Triandula. There follows the Four Books of the Presages of Hippocrates, finally, Culpeper's own Urinalia, an extensive study of problems in the urine, bladder & kidneys.

Comment:

Another excellent medieval astrological medical text. Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) is best-known today for his English Physician, a comprehensive guide to the medicinal uses of native plants & herbs, the first such book published in English. Culpeper, a Puritan, was the son of a clergyman. In 1634 he spent a year at Cambridge, where he learned Greek & Latin, which enabled him to study old medical texts. He was apprenticed to an apothecary & started his formal practice in Spitalfields, London, around 1640. Culpeper supported the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War, suffering a severe chest wound in 1643. After recovering he returned to his medical practice in London, where he established a reputation as an outstanding healer. War wounds combined with overwork led to his death from exhaustion in 1654, aged 37. According to his widow, he left behind some 70 unfinished manuscripts. This book is the astrological companion to the English Physician. In this book, the distilled experience of a very busy practitioner. The text, while newly reset, retains the spelling & punctuation of the original. Click here for a PDF extract.

ISBN: 1-933303-04-2 Astrology Classics, 182 pages.


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CARMEN ASTROLOGICUM - Dorotheus of Sidon, translated by David Pingree, $21.95
Contents:

Preface

The first book of Dorotheus: On the upbringing and condition of the native
1. The knowledge of the seven in longitude and latitude, and the triplicities of the signs and their lords; 2. The exaltation of the planets; 3. Judgment about the case of the native or his difficulty to his mother; 4. Judgment concerning the matter of the upbringing of the native; 5. On the superiority of the places; 6. The power of the seven planets; 7. The upbringing of natives, and for whom there will be an upbringing or for whom an upbringing will not be known; 8. Knowledge of the masculine and feminine “hours” of the nativity; 9. The matter of bringing up again; 10. Knowledge of what indicates whether the native and his mother are slaves or free;

11. The knowledge of how many will own the native if he is a slave; 12. Consideration concerning the upbringing of the native, his condition, and his livelihood; 13. Knowledge of the lot of the father; 14. The lot of the mother; 15. Knowledge of the death of the parents of the native, one of the two before his companion; 16. Knowledge of whether the native will inherit his parents’ property or not; 17. Knowledge of how many will be born to the mother of the native; 18. On the matter of brothers; 19. The lot of brothers; 20. Knowledge of the love of the brothers;

21. Knowledge of the number of brothers and sisters; 22. Knowledge of the matter of the fortune of the native and [his] property and his illness; 23. Knowledge of the division of the planets with regard to good and evil; 24. In it are judgments concerning the matter of fortune and property in nativities; 25. On the knowledge of the excellence of fortune; 26. The magnitude of fortune and property; 27. The decline of status and disaster; 28. Knowledge of masculine and feminine signs, eastern and western, and diurnal and nocturnal.

The second book of Dorotheus: On marriage and children
1. “The beginning of its beginning is from marriage"; 2. Knowledge of the lot of wedding; 3. Knowledge of the lot [in] the nativity of a woman; 4. The lot of marriage; 5. Knowledge of how many wives he will marry; 6. Knowledge of the lot of wedding by day and by night; 7. Knowledge of sodomy; 8. Exposition of the matter of children; 9. Knowledge of the number of children; 10. Knowledge of the lot of children;

11. Lot of transit with respect to children; 12. Knowledge of females and males; 13. Knowledge of whether females or males are more numerous; 14. Aspect of trines, if one of the planets aspects another from trine; 15. Quartile [aspect]; 16. On the planets’ aspect from opposition; 17. Aspect of the planets from sextile; 18. If Saturn is with one of the seven; 19. If Jupiter is with one of the seven; 20. Knowledge of the places of the planets;

21. Arrival of the Moon in the places; 22. Arrival of the Sun in the places; 23. Arrival of Saturn in the places; 24. Arrival of Jupiter in the places; 25. Arrival of Mars in the places; 26. Arrival of Venus in the places; 27. Arrival of Mercury in the places; 28. Arrival of Saturn in another’s house; 29. Arrival of Jupiter in another’s house; 30. Arrival of Mars in another’s house; 31. Arrival of Venus in another’s house; 32. Arrival of Mercury in another’s house; 33. On the arrival of the planets, one of them in the house of another.

THE THIRD BOOK OF DOROTHEUS WHICH HE WROTE WITH RESPECT TO THE HAYLAJ AND THE KADHKHUDAH, WHICH ARE THE GOVERNOR AND THE INDICATOR OF THE TIME OF THE YEARS OF LIFE.
1. Governors and indicators of the years of life; 2. The haylaj.

THE FOURTH BOOK OF DOROTHEUS ON THE TRANSFER OF YEARS. 1. The transfer of years.

THE FIFTH BOOK OF DOROTHEUS, ON INTERROGATIONS.
1. “Introduction"; 2. Judgement according to the crooked and the straight; 3. Judgement according to the tropical [signs]; 4. Judgement according to the twin [signs]; 5. The corruption of the Moon; 6. One who wishes to build a building; 7. If you wish to demolish a building; 8. “Hiring and letting out"; 9. Buying and selling; 10. The buying of land;

11. The buying of slaves; 12. The buying of animals; 13. If you want to free a slave; 14. If you want to ask from a ruler or from a man for a request or a gift or other than this; 15. If you want to write to a man or you want to teach a man a science or writing; 16. Marriage and matrimony; 17. The courtship of a woman, and what occurs between a wife and her husband when she quarrels and scolds and departs from her house publicly; 18. A pregnant woman, if her child will die in her belly; 19. Partnership; 20. Debt and the payment for it;

21. The journey; 22. Departure from a journey; 23. Buying a ship or building it; 24. Commencing to build a ship; 25. Commencing to row the ship in the water; 26. “If a book or a message or a letter"; 27. Bondage and chains; 28. Judgement about what may not be afterwards of a matter which one hopes for, or according to this of things; 29. Query about the sick; 30. The commencement of all things;

31. “To know the condition of a sick [man]"; 32. “To know when the property of the native will increase or decrease"; 33. Clarification of the matter of two adversaries, if they argue and plead before a judge, which of the two will be successful and which of the two will be defeated; 34. “Concerning whether whether a man will depart from his land"; 35. If you want to know the matter of a theft that has been committed or something that has been lost, whether he will possess it [again] or not; 36. The runaway; 37. The treatment of spirits; 38. Someone wishes to retain [his food] or to drink a medicine for diarrhoea, and the rest of what is a remedy, with which he is cured from vomiting and diarrhoea; 39. Someone wishes to cut something from his body with a knife or scalpel, or to bleed a vein; 40. If there is an infection in the eye or a covering over it or something of what is treated with iron;

41. Illness as Qitrinus the Sadwali says; 42. The will; 43. On clarifying the phases [fasis] of the Moon and the head of the dragon and its tail, which indicate selling and buying and cheapness and expensiveness.

Appendix 1: Charts in modern format; Appendix 2: Table of dignities; Appendix 3: Dodecatemoria; Index

Comment: Dorotheus of Sidon, who appears to have lived in Alexandria, flourished in the first century AD. He wrote his Pentateuch (five books) on astrology in Greek, in verse. This translation, from 1976 by David Pingree, is from a fourth century Pahlavi (Persian) source.

The first book is on the judgement of nativities. Book two concerns marriage and children. Book three is on the length of life. Book four is on the transfer of years, i.e., forecasting. Book five is on interrogations, i.e., electional astrology.

In this book are the earliest known astrological charts. Dorotheus bases much of his interpretative methods on the triplicity rulers, by day and by night. All fire signs have the same rulers. All earth signs have their rulers, as do air and water signs. He uses Egyptian terms. He, like the Greeks of his day, also uses the Dodecatemoria, which are the twelfths of a sign. And many, many lots, all defined.

For the first time in this edition: Pingree's Preface newly translated. An appendix with charts in modern format. A complete table of terms and triplicity rulers. A table to calculate Dodecatemoria. Newly reset to match Pingree's original 1976 edition.

Written a century before Ptolemy, here is the mainstream of Greek astrology. It will handsomely repay study. Click here for a pdf extract, which happens to include seven of the nine charts in the book.

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTROLOGY - Nicholas de Vore, $29.95

In a fine paperback edition, this is the best of the many astro-reference books, one you will use constantly. Among thousands of entries are the complete terminologies for natal, mundane, electional & horary astrologies, as well as definitive articles on Arabian Parts, Aspects, Calendars, Cycles, Degrees, Dignities, Directions, Eclipses, Houses, Planets, Ptolemaic Astrology, Retrogrades, Ruling signs of major cities, Signs of the Zodiac, the Solar System, and much more. The section on eclipses runs 36 pages & includes solar & lunar eclipses from 1800-2000 listed by date & by zodiacal degree. It includes the 19 Saros cycles from 600 AD to 2100 AD. Under Degrees, deVore gives degree meanings similar to those of Carter. In the extensive entry on Houses, he gives the meanings for each house, in natal, mundane & (depending on the house) various other situations: In a court of law, in an organization, in an ingress, in a national figure, etc. The entry for the Invariable Plane (one of several contributions by Charles Harvey) is a fascinating discussion of (among other things) Mahayuga, Root Races & solar eclipses in ancient Palestine. There is a fine, 9 page analysis of Ptolemaic astrology, along with how the Galactic Center relates to the Solar System, as well as definitive entries on every other facet of astrology.

Complete, concise, informative, highly intelligent: Long a classic, still essential for all astrologers.

Nicholas de Vore, 1882-1960, was President of the New York based Astrological Research Society. Click here for a pdf extract.

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MUNDANE ASTROLOGY: Three classic books by H.S. Green, Raphael & C.E.O. Carter, $24.95
Contents:

Book 1 by HS Green: Mundane or National Astrology Mundane astrology; Solar ingresses; New moons; Eclipses; Planetary conjunctions; Daily aspects; Comets; The 12 houses in mundane astrology; The Sun; The Moon; Mercury; Venus; Mars; Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune; Countries & towns ruled by the signs of the zodiac; Transits through the signs; Conjunctions in signs; Mundane maps for conjunctions; Transits & directions in mundane astrology; The effects of eclipses; Earthquakes; Strength; Prominence; The strongest aspect; Co-operation of influences; Some mundane horoscopes; Appendix: Horoscope for foreign countries. 125 pages

Contents, Book II: Raphael's Mundane Astrology: Mundane astrology; The planetary & zodiacal signs & symbols; The 12 mundane houses, their power & significations; The significations of the planets; The essential & accidental dignities of the planets; The mundane maps; How to erect the mundane maps for foreign parts; Concerning the 1st house & planets therein, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th; How to judge a mundane map; Example of a mundane map; Eclipses; The effects of solar eclipses; The effects of lunar eclipses; Planetary conjunctions; Earthquakes; Comets; The parts of the world affected by the signs of the zodiac. 80 pages.

Contents, Book III: An Introduction to Political Astrology, by C.E.O. Carter: Foreword; The aims & the subject matter; The Material Employed, part 1: Classification of the material, Astro-geology & astro-topology, Eclipses & lunations, Great conjunctions; The Material Employed, part 2: Stations, Comets, Ingresses, The nativities of important persons; The Material Employed, part 3: Inceptionals, The horoscopes of nations, Some special horoscopes, The New Year figure; Historical cycles & newly found planets; The sun, moon & planets & the signs & houses in political astrology. Appendix 1: Calculation of foreign horoscopes; Appendix 2: List of cities with suggested astrological affinities; Appendix 3: List of countries with suggested astrological affinities. 103 pages.

Comment:

Here, in one volume, are three complete books on mundane, three of the best. Green & Raphael's books are the fundamentals. They are a comprehensive guide to the classic rules of mundane. Green organizes his book planet-by-planet, Raphael organizes by house. The two are complimentary. Of note, Green's descriptions of eclipses by house, Raphael's description of eclipses by decanate. Raphael wrote in 1910, Green wrote about the same time.

Carter's book, building on the other two, was published in 1951. He was writing in reaction to the failure of astrologers in London to foresee the outbreak of World War II. They knew there was a full-scale war going on in China, they knew things in Europe were tense, but they had studied the mundane charts for 1939, they knew the fuss with Germany would blow over. And they were wrong. Charles Carter determined to find out why. This book was the result of his studies. His plea for better data has largely been met, but the need for more work remains.

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