This entry will display the last of the Astrology books - a mixture of the frivolous and the serious.
So here they are:
Grant Levi’s Astrology for the Millions and Heaven Knows What for a start.
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Followed by a few books on Synastry – the study of relationships within star signs.
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And finally Marc Edmund Jones Guide To Horoscope Interpretation and an Ephemeris for the years 1890 to 1950, a rather handsome (though battered by time) hardcover book.
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Next - Tarot
Every man and his dog must have had a copy of Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs on their bookshelf back in the 1970s. As did I, as well as a copy of Linda Goodman’s Love Signs.
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Perhaps not as well known as Linda Goodman, Liz Greene also produced books with similar titles. I preferred her interpretations – they had a more intelligent approach. I always thought her book on Saturn was an excellent book on that much maligned planet. I was interested in Saturn as my own horoscope has a very dominant Saturn, which I figure has given me my phlegmatic and stoical approach to life along with a certain dour seriousness and an appreciation for black humour.
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Another book in the popular context is Moon Signs by Sybil Leek and Sun Sign Revelations by Marie Elise Crummere.
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Back to the more studious side of Astrology there is also A Handbook for the Humanist Astrologer by Michael Meyer and Astrology for the Aquarian Age by Alexandra Mark
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Next – yes, you guessed it, more Astrology
As well as conventional (if you could call it that) Astrology I also have several books on Chinese Astrology. They more or less vary in quality of information, but here they are anyway.
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Next - and yes, there's more Astrology
Every self respecting Astrologer would probably have in their library a copy of The Sabian Symbols by Marc Edmond Jones.
The Sabian Symbols were developed in San Diego in 1925 by Marc Edmund Jones, a well known astrologer, and Elsie Wheeler, a spiritualist medium. They consist of 360 word images corresponding to the 360 degrees of the zodiac (each zodiac sign has 30 degrees)
They add depth to a horoscope and are vividly pictorial. These days apparently they are used as an oracular device.
To give an example:.
Today (28 July 2009) the planetary position for the Sun is 05.04°: in Leo
The Sabian symbol for this planetary position is “Rock Formations Tower Over A Deep Canyon”
An Astrological Mandala by Dane Rudhyar is another reference and reinterpretation of the symbols.
The books displayed below are texts relating other oracular systems to Astrology and various old astrological books I picked up second hand, which were once owned by an Ernest S McIntyre in the 1930s. Waite’s Compendium contains Ernest’s notes on the mental characteristics of the planets.
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Next - Yet more Astrology
As well as containing Art books, Science Fiction and Fantasy, the medium bookshelf also has two shelves of New Age literature.
During the 1970s I developed, along with many of my peer group, an interest in Astrology, Tarot, Numerology, I Ching and other fortune telling systems. I taught myself how to draw up and interpret horoscopes, learnt to read the Tarot, developed a familiarity with the I Ching, played around with pendulums and became reasonably adept at Numerolgy.
Scanning the books, as I have done over the past weekend, I had forgotten just how many books on Astrology I had collected during the 70s decade. Therefore I have discovered a fine reference library of most of the important Astrological texts, as well as the more popular sun sign paperbacks of the time. It will take several posts to display them all.
First and foremost in the Astrological texts are the books of Charles E O Carter. A famous Astrologer, Carter’s work is still known for its perception and relevance even today. In 1955, he accurately predicted his own death in 1968.
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I have always regarded Carter’s The Astrological Aspects as one of the best books for interpreting aspects i.e. the relationship between planets formed by the angles which they occupy on a chart. For those who don’t know about aspects, this site explains them quite well.
Anyway, I am not going to explain the finer details of horoscopes here, but just display the covers.
Some more well regarded astrological text books, such as Alan Oken’s Complete Astrology, the A to Z Horoscope Maker & Delineator (very comprehensive) by Llewellyn George as well more esoteric texts are below.
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More astrology coming…
