Since the 1st edition of this book was published in 1991, it has been a widely used reference book for many astrologers and their students who have recognized the value and importance in horoscope interpretation of the midpoints--the halfway point between any two planets or a planet and a highly significant point such as Midheaven, Ascendant or the north or south Node of the Moon. The format of this edition is very similar to the first edition, but you will find that the author has updated the interpretive text, so do read it carefully...and if you have not used midpoints routinely before, you will soon realize how significant they can be in chart interpretation Following are a few comments from well-known astrologers familiar with the first edition and midpoint techniques.
This is the book that only a Uranian astrologer who is also a graphic artist could do It has well over 100 illustrations that show step by step how to use a 90 dial to study charts in detail and prove the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. Within this book you'll be taught step-by-step how to set up charts on the dial and study them for aspect relationsips and the midpoints that are such a signficant key to obtaining detailed information about the person whose chart you are studying. One page has a full size 90 dial that you are free to cut out and use, and you are free to make copies of it so that you can have more than one dial to work with. An interesting variety of case studies are used to demonstarte the dial techniques and help you learn how to use them not just with words but with pictures, showing you exactly how to rotate the dial to see midpoints and planetary pictures. Since the original publication of this book in 1989, Dial Detective has become the most frequently recommended book for learning these very useful techniques. The book includes an appendix of planetary pictures listed alphbetically by delineation, an appendix of grim planetary pictures with alternative delineations, an appendix of Uranian tips and terminology that also features 360 dial techniques and the Uranian astrology houses.
This lightweight, large format ephemeris is your ideal companion volume for the American Ephemeris series. In this book, you will have ease for quick scanning of current transits. Here you will find:
Daily longitude tables, Sun through Pluto, and including Ceres and Chiron.
Pallas, Juno, and Vesta now appear in longitude at 5-day intervals.
Monthly Julian Day, Obliquity of the Ecliptic, Synetic Vernal Point
Monthly longitude for Eris and improved calculation for Galactic Center
Daily Declination and Latitude, Sun through Pluto, including Ceres.
Declination and Latitude for 5-day intervals for Chiron, Eris, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta.
Moon at midnight and noon, maximum declination and latitude, perigee/apogee, and both True and Mean Node positions.
Full and Quarter Moon phases, plus Void of Course and Ingress tables.
This book is actually two books.
In the first place, it's a book about my father, the late Warren Weaver, a distinguished scientist and mathematician - so distinguished, in fact, that New York University named their math building Warren Weaver Hall. Vice president and director of natural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation, world traveler, author of seven books and hundreds of articles, and a brilliant, kind, and charming man, he was my hero. This is a book about my father and me. So I guess you could call it a memoir.
But it's more than that. Sometime in the sixties my father became mildly alarmed when I became a serious student of astrology. He was concerned that his intelligent, well-educated daughter, as he believed me to be, could wish to devote her time to such an activity.
For years, we couldn't talk about it at all. Eventually we began discussing it politely in letters and finally, toward the end of his life, when I was interviewing him on tape about his life and travels, he became intrigued by what he called the astrological hypothesis, and we found ourselves engaged in a dialogue about astrology and science. We planned to write a book, to be called Dimensions of Personality (his title). But shortly after we began work on that project his health took a turn for the worse, and when Knopf offered me a major translating job, he urged me to take it. When I received the manuscript - it was 1200 pages - I knew that the book that Dad and I had planned to write was not to be. He died in 1978.
Nevertheless this is, secondly, a book about astrology. It's not the book that Dad had in mind - that book was made impossible by his death - but it's as close to that book as I can get. For example, Dad wanted our book to be in dialogue form - a traditional form of exposition in the history of Western philosophy - so I have incorporated some of our conversations that made it onto tape. He thought our book should include a history of astrology, for he had always felt that something with a long history should not be disregarded. So with the help of some modern astrologers and academics who have specialized in the subject, I have put together a little history of astrology. And since at 72 pages it is too long to go in the so-called memoir, I have relegated it to an appendix. Also in an appendix is a discussion of the birth charts of the Weaver family which seemed too technical for the non-astrologer. If this is a book about my father, why is there so much about me? Because I want to show how each of us developed a philosophy that made possible such an unusual meeting of minds. And when I discuss the birth charts of the Weavers, the reader needs to know enough about both Dad and me to see how astrology works.
Because it does work! For as the great astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the three laws of planetary motion, wrote, The belief in the effect of the constellations derives in the first place from experience, which is so convincing that it can be denied only by those who have not examined it.
Astrology, the study of the stars, is at least 7,000 years old: almost as old, if not older than, recorded history. For all but the last three centuries of that time, astrology has been closely associated with astronomy. In ancient Babylonia and Egypt observation of the heavenly bodies was the province of a priestly class who also engaged in the prediction of terrestrial events.
History has been full of battles, wars, and times of upheaval that lead to greater struggles. What if we were to look at these events as crime scenes, in which murder takes place at an extreme level? If we were to examine each crime scene, we would find two persons of interest who would bear closer attention. These persons of interest are Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, and Eris, Lady of Discord. Today, we know them only as dwarf planets, far out at the edge of the solar system. Yet, by observing their orbits and aspects, we can see that they appear at the crime scenes of the most violent events of history.
When there have been cooperative aspects between these two dwarf planets, that was when the biggest struggles have taken place, such as World War II, the Taiping Rebellion, and the Thirty Years War. Challenging aspects between the dwarf planets have shown confused fighting, lopsided victories, and achievements which seem good at the time but which bring disaster later on. Conjunctions between these bodies can be a time of treachery, leading to a collapse of international power.
This book examines 800 years of major aspects between these two bodies. Their appearances at times of trouble are well-documented. Astrological charts for the events provide snapshots of the crime scenes, with these bodies making a connection. There are also charts for historical figures taking part in these upheavals, with descriptions of how the dwarf planet transits were aspecting their natal charts.
Thomas Canfield has previously examined the role of dwarf planet Eris in his book Yankee Doodle Discord: A Walk with Planet Eris through USA History. His book explained the idea of the Eris Frenemy Principle, in which the most discord takes place when Eris is in cooperative aspects. In his work with historical events, he has found that connections between Eris and Pluto mark the most destructive times between nations or within nations. Brother Pluto, Sister Eris is an expansion upon this theme, showing how the cycles of the dwarf planets match the most violent cycles with humanity. Can future generations resist these cycles of violence, or will survival depend upon moving to the most neutral spot and then waiting out the conflict?
In a light, conversational style, the author has traced the spiritual evolution of western civilization through the precessional ages of history and a detailed study of the biblical Genesis.
Her narrative along with lively dialogue with her students are interspersed with stories from Genesis, Exodus and the gospels that are retold from class discussions that emphasize the zodiacal and numerological symbolism that can be found in the stories.
The use of astrology is seen here as a synthesis of such apparent opposites as faith (religion) and reason (science. The astrology of the Great Ages is shown to reflect the matriarchal roots of humanity through the dominance of the patriarchy to the current and future reemergence of the Goddess.
The vision of Esdras, from the Apocrypha, of an eagle with twelve wings brings this story of the ages to a close, but with hope and inspiration for a future for humanity that extends and will quite likely to continue to extend far beyond the fabled Age of Aquarius ...the song for which we've not often heard in recent years. Were not yet in when the first edition of this book was published in 1988, 30 years ago, and now in 2018, we are still in tn the Age of Pisces.
Little in changed in the text in regard to the history of past ages past, though there is commentary and at least a estimate on when the new age might actually arrive...and when we might once again be hearing a new revival of that popular song of years past that began with the lyrics, It is the coming of the Age of Aquarius...Aquarius Aquarius