resources for study ~ suggestions

Oh Minderwiz, would you mind elabourating on what the Frawley book is about? I'm not sure which section to paste it into.

Certainly Isthmus,

The central theme of Frawley's book is that modern Astrology is but a pale and indeed distorted reflection of Traditional (i.e. 'Real') Astrology.

The book is written in an extremely humerous and often hilarious way - though to be honest it often breaks the forum guidelines of Aeclectic - there is a fairly devastating critique of psychological Astrology, and of the materialism and scientism of our age . To him Modern Astrology is rubbish.

He accuses modern psychological Astrologers of producing character readings, which cannot be checked (for him Astrology is about prediction') and which basically reduce to the following

'Your are important' 'People do not fully understand you'. Your vices are quite endearing. really'

Everyone wants to here this, so they don't complain that there is nothing of real substance there.

His arguments about astrological time vs clock time are not only fascinating but often hilarious. for example he argues that modern science treats every hour as having the same qualities - time is measured materialy by clocks. He goes on to point out that Astrologically each hour is ruled by a planet and has quite different characteristics - his example is Monday - the day of the Moon. The first hour (astrological days start at sunrise) is rule by the Moon - this is an hour where we feel babyish, want to be nurtured and snuggle up and sleep. However the second hour is ruled by Saturn - the planet of work, discipline, duty and time itself - a most unwelcome visitor. He asks if those who argue that all hours have the same quality have never thrown the alarm clock across the room first thing on a Monday morning.

You will find a discussion of the geocentric universe, the planets, houses, aspects and the various branches of Astrology - but all from the point of view that Astrology should be useful and help us in our day to day decision making. Traditional Astrologers were employed to provide accurate predicitions on business, diplomacy, warfare, politics, etc. If they had not been at least mainly accurate they would never have survived. The did so by applying clear rules - no intuition, or psychic stuff.

This book has cause uproar and controversy in Astrological circles - there are even side swipes at Liz Greene - and you should prepare to be shocked but you will learn much of positive value from it. You will also get a different perspective on what Astrology is and more particularly, why it works.

In a nutshell, the book is about why we should throw out Jung and bring back Lilly.

For anyone wanting a more extensive review of Frawley's book(s) the following link will take you to a fairly full review.


http://www.classicalastrology.org/bookreview.html

Here is my list of recommended books

Hello isthmus nekoi,

Would you consider adding these books to the list?
(The links following the book title lead to amazon.com where more information is available.)

* The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need by Joanna Martine Woolfolk

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1568332319/ref=nosim/aeclectic/

* How To Be A Great Astrologer: The Planetary Aspects Explained by James Braha

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0935895027/ref=nosim/aeclectic/

* The House Connection by Karen Hamaker-Zondag

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0877287694/ref=nosim/aeclectic/

* The Twelve Houses by Howard Sasportas

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0850303850/ref=nosim/aeclectic/

* Astrological Voids by Janis Huntley

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1852302275/ref=nosim/aeclectic/

* Work Your Stars by Matthew Abergel

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=068484995X/ref=nosim/aeclectic/

I have more books in my astrology collection, but they are already on your list.

Mystic Chris

Thanks Mystic_Chris

I can certainly recommend the Sasportas book - its great and Hamaker-Zondag is also well worth recommending.

I'll check out the others and see if there's anything there to add to my wishlist

A study course . . .

A long time ago, and far, far away I studied with the Faculty of Astrological Studies in the UK. I studied with Jeff Mayo who had succeeded Margeret Hone. This was, truly, a long time ago. Is that facility still in operation, Miderwiz? Dave.

Dave,

You'll be pleased to know that it is thriving and you can visit its website at:

http://www.astrology.org.uk/

For others information; This is a well respected and well established organisation one that has done much to advance Astrology as a profession and a discipline. Liz Greene, Charles Harvey, Julia Parker, Melanie Reinhart and Howard Sasportas started out with the FAS and Rob Hand is a patron. Dane Rudyhar and John Addey were patrons during their lifetimes.

You certainly are in illustrious company Dave - I'm several shades of green envy

resource link has been updated. Thanks for the amazon links, Mystic Chris.

Hi isthmus nekoi,

As an absolute beginner, I am finding http://www.north-node.com/tutorial/ to be extremely helpful and I wonder if it's something that could be added to your resources list? I'm still working through it so I don't know how much it covers but it's certainly a very clear and well-explained summary of the basics

Thanks for all the info in the astrology forum, especially all the recommendations for study (you've saved me a lot of time!)

Pip

Most certainly Pipstrelle - the thread shall be updated