Best of
Astrology

1998

Making the Gods Work for You: The Astrological Language of the Psyche


Caroline W. Casey - 1998
    Casey's remarkable doctrine of Visionary Activist Astrology. In this reverently irreverent mystery school disguised as a book (in which each of the planetary gods is a professor), we are invited to think of our lives as spiritual detective novels. For example, Venus teaches us that our affinities and quirks are clues to our unique mission and contribution to the world. The astrological language of the psyche is a tool for deciphering and revitalizing this sense of mission. Casey teaches you how to expand your range of intimacy with the ten parts of yourself represented by the planets, here called gods. You will learn how to use this language to reverence and feed the forces of your psyche that connect you to very real external forces. This book intends to catalyze a movement to engage the imagination of all people with a sense of humor and a desire to do collaborative good in the world.Expanding on the ideas first presented in her popular audiotape series, Inner and Outer Space, Casey explores the archetypes at the heart of human relationships, aspirations, and spiritual quests. In an engaging narrative enlivened by stories, fables, exercises, and meditations developed through her work as an astrological counselor, she provides a practical system of personal and collective liberation. Making the Gods Work for You provides us with innovative principles to live by and rituals inviting us to become active, dynamic participants in the dance of life. We can then become increasingly conscious players on the team of creation, capable of sharing our gifts with the world at this crucial historical time.From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Power of Birthdays, Stars & Numbers: The Complete Personology Reference Guide


Saffi Crawford - 1998
    Packed with an extraordinary wealth of knowledge and clear, easy-to-interpret graphs and charts, The Power of Birthdays, Stars and Numbers provides: ¸  BIRTHDAY FORECASTS--366 profiles--one for each day of the year--reveal your positive and negative personality traits, career strengths, tips on love and relationships, your secret self, your best days for romance and friendship, potential fatal attractions, famous people who share your birthday, and much more!INCLUDING! ¸  FIXED STARS--Though astrologers have used fixed stars for centuries, now the general public can reap the rewards of this classic method for enlightenment. The stars that line the heavens radiate great power, depending on your date of birth. You'll learn your primary fixed star plus those that influence your astrological chart. ¸  NUMEROLOGICAL PROFILES--Discover the importance of the nine basic numbers, and learn how to calculate your holistic number (which reveals your life purpose) and your personal year number (which sheds light on what specific lessons a particular year has in store for you).Travel beyond the twelve signs of the zodiac and tap into The Power of Birthdays, Stars and Numbers. You hold centuries of wisdom in your hands.

Secret Language of Birthdays Relationship Workbook and Birthday Keeper


Gary Goldschneider - 1998
    Individuals born during specific six-to-nine day personology periods--Gemini III or Cancer II, for example--share significant characteristics, ones that may attract you over and over again. With The Secret Language of Birthdays: Relationship Workbook and Birthday Keeper, you can keep track of all your loved ones' birthdays and their personality traits, strengths, and weaknesses in this attractive spiral-bound keepsake. The workbook section provides a format for personalizing the book by examining your relationships with the people in your life and exposing relationship patterns, in the mode of The Secret Language of Relationships. Here is a lovely, illuminating, budget-priced, enduring gift for the more than a million Secret Language addicts.

Notable Horoscopes


B.V. Raman - 1998
    This will prove to be a useful book for study and research work. No other existing book contains such a collection of valuable data and horoscopes. (Reprinted)

Direction and Destiny in the Birthchart


Howard Sasportas - 1998
    This volume deals with the themes of direction and destiny in the birthchart: the first explores how to find vocation and the right path in life, the second looks at the role of the Lunar Nodes, and the third discusses what draws people into the helping professions.

The Yod Book: Including a Complete Discussion of Unaspected Planets


Karen Hamaker-Zondag - 1998
    These planets are in different signs and modes and are deeply significant, for they usually symbolize patterns in families that have lasted for generations. This is what HamakerZondag discovered when she started to research the inconjunct aspect as it related to a yod. Also included in this book is a complete discussion of how the energies of unaspected planets, and planets in duet (that only aspect each other) are expressed in a person's birth chart. HamakerZondag says that people with a yod are often insecure, or have trouble expressing themselves, and there is an emphasis on stalemates or unusual situations. She analyzes the background and places it in a broader perspective, including how she works with elements, modes, orbs, and other astrological factors when interpreting this aspect. All in all, this is one of the most exciting books on aspect interpretation published in recent years!Included are great case histories: you have a chance to examine the Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, Kenneth Starr, Bill Clinton scenario and see it with new eyes. And Princess Diana, Prince Charles, and Prince William are not without these family patterns. The stories are profound. These aspects work in the lives of people who change the world, people who have lived the unpopular position of stalemate, delay, and social change indicated by the presence of a yod in their natal chart, by transit, or by progression. She uses the examples of Gandhi, Vaclav Havel, Khomeini, Solzhenitsyn, Willy Brandt, C. G. Jung, Jim Jones, and others. To help you work with your own clients, HamakerZondag brings in the charts of her personal clients and explains them in depth.When you've read this book, you'll want to check out the charts of everyone you know!

Progressions (Astrology: a Language of Life, #1)


Robert P. Blaschke - 1998
    It does not just give the basics of progressions. It goes beyond that to provide a practical and theoretical foundation for integrating the various methods of progressions into a single body of method...Blaschke's theory is that these three types of progression derive their usefulness from the following relationships. Secondaries are the result of the interaction of the Earth and the Sun (day and year) which in turn correlate to Matter and Spirit. Tertiaries are the result of the interaction of the Earth and the Moon (day and month) which correlate to Matter and Soul. And finally minors are the result of the interaction of the Moon and the Sun (month and year) which correlate to Soul and Spirit...This is technically a very rich book and one which teaches a definite method which would not be difficult to apply in practice...this book should advance the study of progressions in astrology on both the practical and theoretical level and for this we owe Robert Blaschke a vote of thanks."

Brady's Book of Fixed Stars


Bernadette Brady - 1998
    For the first time, this book offers astrologers: Paran Maps and Star Phases for over 60 stars; new insights into the natal use of fixed stars, as well as their use in mundane astrology; extensive appendices of Heliacal Rising and Acronychal Setting--graphs and tables so that, for any given location, the dates of these risings and settings can be found/ a list of 176 stars with their 21st century Ptolemaic precessed positions versus their commonly--considered positions based on Ulugh Beg's methods.

Born to be Together


Terry Lamb - 1998
    Terry Lamb presents a deep, sensitive portrayal of not only what the astrological symbols mean in comparing two charts, but more important, she gives a spiritual perspective to healing, compassion, and growth of consciousness in partnership.

Water and Fire


Darby Costello - 1998
    Part One examines the element of water first through its expressions in myth, alchemy, philosophy and psychology, and then through the water signs and water houses in the horoscope. Each planet in a water house is described in terms of its meaning and expression; the three water signs on the Ascendant are examined; and planets transiting through the water houses complete a detailed analysis of all the permutations of water in the birth chart. The chart of Marcel Proust is presented as a vivid example of the imaginative power and longing for unity reflected by this most mysterious and most primal of elements. Part Two takes the reader into the chaotic, inspirational realm of fire, beginning with the ways in which fire is symbolised in myth and philosophy, and then examining Mars, the Sun and Jupiter as planetary rulers of the fire signs. Each fire sign is then explored in detail, with an analysis of planets placed in fire signs and fire houses, the nature of a fire sign on the Ascendant, and the meaning of the outer planets in fire signs in relation to the the generation group to which the individual belongs. The charts of two very different fire temperaments - William Blake and Heinrich Himmler - are presented, followed by a discussion of the meaning of a singleton in fire, what lack of fire in a chart suggests, and the experience of fiery people born into generation groups when the outer planets are placed in earth and water. Audience participation enriches this unique journey throughout both seminars, allowing individual experiences to deepen the reader's understanding.

Astrological Timing of Critical Illness


Noel Tyl - 1998
    He explains how aspect patterns in natal/transit charts relate to the onset and development of specific body weaknesses and illness. Case studies, including those of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ernest Hemingway, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Ford and Carl Sagan are presented. The history of medical astrology, and the predisposition to pathologies as indicated by the chart, are explored.

Astrology for the Light Side of the Future


Kim Rogers-Gallagher - 1998
    Kim Rogers-Gallagher's writing has been praised by such renowned astrologers as Steven Forrest, Rob Hand and Jeff Jawer. In this work, she provides a complete picture of transits (the planets interacting with your birth horoscope) in an easy-to-read style that both entertains and instructs! Transits of planets through houses and aspects to natal planets are described in vivid detail - you may be packing your Venus kit (flowers, silk sheets, chocolates and a Yanni CD) for a trip through each house of your chart or learn how a Uranus/Neptune transit can make you feel like Dorothy waking up in Oz. Highly entertaining, this serious look at forecasting future trends emphasizes personal empowerment through knowledge.