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In 1917 at the height of his fame, Alan Leo was charged with fortune-telling, which was illegal, and taken to court. He had been tried on similar charges in 1914, which had been dismissed. But the charges brought in 1917 stuck. Leo was given a hefty fine. As winning on appeal seemed unlikely, Leo paid the fine and went to Cornwall for a rest, where on 30 August, 1917, he unexpectedly died of a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 57. His friends blamed it on the strain of the court proceedings.At the time of his death, this Dictionary was one of Leo's unfinished projects. Installments of the Dictionary had appeared in Leo's monthly magazine, Modern Astrology, up to the end of the article "Horoscope" (pgs. 130-136). That the project was long-standing is hinted by the article on Hindu Astrology (pgs. 76-101), written by Sepharial some years before and which Leo had presumably purloined. More material was in preparation, but Leo's untimely death brought matters to a halt.By the early 1920's, Vivian Robson had succeeded Leo as editor of Modern Astrology, a post he shared with Bessie Leo, the widow. An intense, scholarly type, Robson stumbled across bound copies of Leo's incomplete book while he was compiling his own astrological dictionary. At the suggestion of Bessie, Robson abandoned his dictionary and set about to complete Leo's, using the many notes and fragments that Leo had left.Which was published in 1929 as Alan Leo's final book. Shortly thereafter Bessie and Vivian had a falling out, whereupon Vivian left. This book was to be an orphan.Like its precursor, James Wilson's Dictionary of Astrology of 1819, Leo's book contains several full-blown monographs. Both books have lengthy entries on Horary Astrology, for example. These articles tend to break the flow of the book. For this reason the current publishers, Astro-America, have added headings to each page, that the reader may know whereabouts in the book he may be. The publishers have also added a list of principal articles to the front, as well as a complete list of entries (forming an index) in the back.Alan Leo's Dictionary of Astrology is again in print. Profit from the wealth of knowledge it contains

Transits are defined as the daily motion of the planets as they travel through the zodiac in their path through the heavens. As they pass through the signs, they transit each house in a natal chart and aspect each planetary position. It is these transits that activate the chart, creating opportunities for the individual as well as potentially difficult situations. Through this advance knowledge, the individual can plan and then act or react in the most beneficial manner.This volume contains delineation for each planet as it transits each house and aspects each planet in the horoscope. In addition to major aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine, square and opposition) to the planets, the author delineates aspects involving the North and South Nodes, and the Part of Fortune.Also included is the parallel of declination, an aspect of importance that is found in few astrology books.A quick reference gives keywords for each house and planet.

Almas Gemelas, Astrologia, La Frmula, es el primero de su tipo. Este libro es un mapa que indica el camino para encontrar su pareja especial . Sylvan proporciona una frmula para que usted llegue en la vecindad de dnde esta persona se encuentra. Una vez usted se comprometa a trabajar a travs de los ejercicios simples que se le indica, y sigue la frmula segn el plan de Sylvan, usted encontrar su Alma Gemela en 16 citas de las personas elegidas o menos. Su Alma Gemela completamente cambiara' su vida, y hara' que usted se desarrolle a ser el mejor que usted puede ser

Charles Jayne focuses on the complexities of progressions and directions in this volume that includes insightful information and clear instructions about: Secondary, or Major, Progressions Minor Progressions Tertiary Progressions Primary Directions Symbolic Directions Single, Double, and Triple Interpolation Right Ascension Also included are extensive examples and useful tables, as well as a thorough explanation of the various methods of angle progression. Charles Jayne, long noted for his pioneering research in astrology, was particularly interested in the astronomical basis of astrology as well as its technical aspects.

THIS 24 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Sepharial's Astrology: How to Make and Read Your Own Horoscope, by Sepharial . To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564598195.

1923. A sequel to the Art of Synthesis wherein the progression of the horoscope is exhaustively considered, both in principle and in practice including also a full delineation of every possible progressed aspect, with its influence on character and destiny, the effect of transits, etc. to which is added a complete treatise on primary directions.

1912. Contents: Generalities; the Heavenly Bodies; The Zodiac; Airs, Waters and Lieus; The Synthesis of Constitution; Physiological Synthesis; The Theme; Pathological Synthesis; Therapeutical Synthesis; The Practice; The Therapeutics of Chronic Ailments and of Acute Diseases; The Hygiene; Periodicity; Drugs Affinities; Temperaments; Seasons; Rulership of the Parts of the World; Index.

THIS 18 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Book of Talismans, Amulets and Zodiacal Gems, by William Thomas. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564594610.

Planetary Powers is a comprehensive book on the Morin Method of Horoscope Interpretation. It begins with examples of the fundamental principles and steadily advances to the full techniques. Each principle and technique is illustrated with examples. Each of the book's sections focuses on a specific factor of horoscope interpretation. The Morin Method is a practical and useful set of rules that results in accurate chart interpretation. Familiarity with the Astrologia Gallica, the works of John-Baptiste Morin, although desirable, is unnecessary in order to use the Morin Method of Horoscope Interpretation. Section I covers planetary powers, including theory of determinations, houses, signs, planets, essential dignities and debilities, natural and acquired analogy, and analogy of the planets with the houses. Section II explains the cosmic state of the planets in relationship with the houses. Topics covered are benefic and malefic planets, dispositors, peregrine planets, determination through house position and rulership, cause and effect, conjunctions, and determining combination by analogy. Section III discusses the Morin Method regarding determination by actual location, empty house judgment, affairs signified by the houses, determination and evaluation of the effect of a planet in a house, the houses of life and death, and the power of aspects. The book concludes with numerous charts for study. "To my knowledge this book is the best available instruction manual for the Morin Method."-James Herschel Holden, translator of eleven books of the Astrologia Gallica series by John-Baptiste Morin

Ancient myths describe an eclipse as the Sun or Moon being swallowed by a dragon. Since an eclipse could only occur near the lunar nodes, these became the head and tail of the dragon. Older references and eastern astrology still call the Moon's North Node the Dragon's Head and the South Node the Dragon's Tail. The Node Book goes beyond detailed information about the Moon's Nodes in signs and houses. Also included are chapters focused on the planetary nodes of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto, and the nodes of the four main asteroids: Ceres, Vesta, Juno, and Pallas. Extensive tables and directions for their use make it easy to find the nodes for the planets and asteroids.

Book No. 2 of Alan Leo's Astrological Manuals Series. This is a book for beginners and is an elementary work on astrology. It fully explains the meaning of a horoscope in all senses of the word, with all calculations avoided.

In this definitive book, Bernice Prill Grebner focuses on the decanates and their importance in taking chart interpretation to the next, and a much deeper, level. All 36 decanates are delineated in detail, including a complete explanation of every degree of every sign. Using both keywords and thorough explanations, she guides the reader through the physical, mental, and spiritual meanings of the decanates and also explains how to use the planetary rulers of the decanates in chart interpretation. Using these methods, you will gain fresh insights into each chart. One chapter is devoted to synastry and aspects and how the patterns of the decanates and dwads influence relationships, both initially and over time. Another chapter focuses on the houses and interpreting them through the use of the Ascendant's decanate. The author also disusses the influence of dwads and navamsas, and presents a system of individual degree meanings. Each of these is delineated for ease in interpretation and can be used with all planets in the chart.

The annual diagram is a valuable astrological forecasting technique that uses the 45-degree graphic ephemeris. At a glance it is easy to see all the aspects in effect for a given period of time, from a day to a year to several years to decades. Reinhold Ebertin takes the reader through a series of case studies in which the graphs are shown to be a powerful aid in determining the nature of events. In many instances the cases used are ones in which events were in fact foretold by him prior to the event. Also, many of the cases are drawn from actual counseling situations so that the reader can see how the graphs can be used in practical work.

Using both a practical and a humanistic approach, Zip Dobyns guides the reader through the proven techniques used to rectify a birth chart. The precise methods she outlines to find the correct birth time are easy to follow, and include the use of various methods of planetary and angle progression, solar arc directions, local house cusps, transits, and more. She also discusses less dependable techniques.About destiny, Zip wrote: "Materialistic science assumes that destiny (experience) creates character. Materialistic astrology assumes that the planets create both character and destiny. Humanistic astrology assumes that our attitudes and actions (including unconscious desires and habit patterns) create our destiny, that we are born when our character-destiny matches the state of the cosmos, and that the planets offer a useful blueprint of the cosmic order, but do not create it. All approaches agree that internal nature and external circumstances match, so that we can understand one more clearly in the light of the other. They differ in where they place the power: in chance and matter (science), in the planets (materialistic astrology), or in the mind(humanistic astrology)."

A psychological view of ourselves and our world. This is a revised version of the classic book by Bruno & Louise Huber, first issued as 'Man and His World' in 1978. A thorough understanding of the houses is essential for psychological analysis of the horoscope because the houses establish the actual framework of individual personality and relationship to the environment. Unlike earlier approaches, the twelve houses are considered not as a classic space structure but as dynamic developmental tendencies that result from the combination of crosses (modes) and temperaments (elements). This book shows how the houses relate to ourselves and to our life experience in the world. Of interest to the practicing astrologer, psychological consultant and those seeking self-awareness.

Dykes presents the first complete translation into English of al-Kindi's famous work on horary and electional astrology, which is used by many famous traditional astrologers including William Lilly.

Using a practical approach and many examples, Helen Adams Garrett explains how to analyze intercepted signs through the houses. She also explains the results in terms of different house systems.This book will help you to identify the year when an intercepted sign and any intercepted planets within that sign will open up by progression, freeing the energy and signifying what can be a major life change. Duplicated signs are also addressed, as is the meaning of an interception in a horary chart.Throughout the book you will find the specific steps needed to correctly delineate both the natal and progressed charts. And the final chapter is a step-by-step summary that can be used to interpret these charts and guide you in identifying the key factors in the natal chart, when the chart will unfold by progression and how transits and eclipses can influence the timing of events.

In this book, Charles Carter (1887-1968) seeks a method of astrological forecasting that produces accurate results without the complicated calculations of Primary Directions. To quote Carter, an ideal directional system should fulfil four criteria: 1. No important event should pass without a direction. 2. No direction should pass without an event. 3. Events and directions should correspond narrowly in time. 4. Events and directions should correspond in character. (from page 10) To achieve these goals, Carter examined a number of symbolic systems. Symbolic because they were not based on any actual planetary movement, but rather, were arcs, arbitrarily chosen and then uniformly applied to all factors in the natal chart. In this book, he presents the best of his research. Among the systems of exceptional merit are the One degree, the Naibod (59'8"), the Duodenary (2o30'), the Sub-duodenary (12'30"), the Septenary (4 2/7 o), Novenary (3o20') and the Fractional Measure, which is based on natal aspects. Along the way, Carter's restless mind tackled the subject of death. Here, he discovered what he termed the Measure of Death. He says while it does not always forecast death, the Measure of Death is always present at death. Carter found symbolic directions to have real value in astrological forecasting. His work remains unique. This book was first published in 1929.

In Astrology it has long been known that the sign of the zodiac, rising in the east at birth (the ascending sign), largely determines physical appearance. In this book David Anrias shows what each sign looks like when rising. He goes further and, dividing each sign into 10 degree sections (known as "decanates"), shows how appearance changes, from early degrees, to middle degrees, to late degrees of the same sign. All 36 drawings are by the author himself, who was an accomplished artist and a keen observer. Twelve of these you will find in the frontispiece, the remaining 24 are in Book 1, chapter 7. While other artists have sketched the twelve basic types, and one or two have given variations on some of them, Anrias is the only astrological artist/writer to make systematic sketches of all 36 variations.Anrias follows this with deft character sketches. If a given decanate (the third decanate of Libra, for example) produces a distinct face, it also produces a distinct personality. Of this book, Dr. H., of Regulus Astrology LLC (author of A Rectification Manual; America is Born) writes, "I find Anrias' use of the decans based on triplicities more accurate than Chaldean decans for application in physiognomy judgments."DAVID ANRIAS, the pen-name of Brian Ross, served with the British forces in World War I. A natural sensitive, after the war he joined the Theosophical Society, studied in India, and wasassociated with Jiddu Krishnamurti's ill-fated Order of the Star in the East. He strenuously disagreed with Krishnamurti's decision to dissolve it. Anrias's intense study of theosophy and metaphysics enlivens his astrology, making his book most fascinatingreading.

1922. A copy of the lesson first issued to members of The Brotherhood of Light. A valuable addition to the libraries of students of natal astrology, as well as students of religion and spirit. The ethical ideas symbolized by a constellation provides excellent text for astrological teachers delivering sermons.

1942. One of a series of books on astrology by American occultist and astrologer, Elbert Benjamine (a.k.a. C.C. Zain), and the founder of The Church of Light. Elbert Benjamine was known as a natural seer. One can see in his early training the logical progression and preparation for his role in assisting the evolution of The Religion of the Stars, which claims that True Religion and True Science are One. Contents: Diet and Breathing; What to Eat When Mercury and Uranus is Afflicted; What to Eat When Sun, Moon or Pluto is Afflicted; What to Eat When Jupiter, Saturn or Neptune is Afflicted; and What to Eat When Venus or Mars is Afflicted. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Here is a collection of essays from AstroAmerica's acclaimed weekly Newsletter, along with an assortment of other essays of interest. Highlights include: The key to using house rulers and dispositors in reading a chart. Numerous tricks to interpret intercepted signs. Reincarnation and the natal chart. Aphorisms, what they are, how they work. The secret to politicians and their charts. The best ways to make money with astrology. A new, unique, history of astrology. How to rectify a chart using character, not math. Why Western astrology is just as good as Vedic. The surprising secret of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism: It's an astrological tool.Specially written for this book, a revolutionary new theory of astrology, based on planetary resonance in a defined clock-work mechanism. Discover the Earth's secret third zodiac.Interspersed, slice-of-life, stream-of-consciousness essays. What it's like to live in America in the first years of the 21st century.The author was introduced to astrology in the early 1980's and has studied intensely since the mid-1990's. He previously published AstroAmerica's Daily Ephemeris. This is his first book of essays.

Our new planet discovered in 2005 beyond Pluto and larger than he, was named Eris for the Greek Goddess of Discord at the 2006 meeting of International Astronomical Union. In astrology, does she express her name and its mythology, and if so, how? And, how can we get a handle on the meaning of a planet with an orbit of over 500 years? Thomas Canfield has taken up the challenge by researching Eris in the charts of events, Presidents and other major players in USA history. Tom discovered that Eris has a consistently contrary streak in that she reverses astrological tradition about how "hard" and "soft" aspects work. He calls it the "Frenemy Principle" and demonstrates it through 43 charts, more than a few touches of sardonic humor and interpretations laced with numerous anecdotes that will interest history buffs, as well as astrologers and students of astrology. So, where is Eris in YOUR chart? After reading this book, you will surely want to know!

First published in 1898, this is a very different astrology book from what we have now. There are extensive delineations for the signs of the zodiac, especially when found on the ascendant. There are delineations of planets in signs when they are in the first house or are the chart ruler, in both cases, describing the physical appearance. There are delineations of planets in the various houses, which will also serve for the planetary rulerships of the houses. There are only sketchy notes on aspects. So far as the "pure astrology" of planets in signs, in houses, in aspect, there is almost nothing at all.The reason is found in the second part of the book. We are not reading the chart as a psychological abstraction. We are, instead, looking for specific traits, attempting to answer specific questions. Will we have a profession? What kind of marriage? What kind of children? Will we vanquish our enemies, or submit to them? What kind of illness? We then find the house(s) of the horoscope which rule the question, and then delineate the signs & planets we find there. These are, by the way, the sort of questions that clients would ask, if they only knew we could give answers The sort of things that astrologers themselves want to know.In the process we learn how to read a chart & get real meaning from it. We get ideas from one section and then apply them to other sections. There are hundreds and hundreds of useful aphorisms, except that Sepharial doesn't label them as such.Get this book, study it, underline key passages, scribble in the margins. You will learn more from this book than most all others put together.