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    a hanoOBook for the humanistic ASTROLOGER LINN MICHAEL R. MEYER toExcel San Jose New York Lincoln Shanghai CONTENTS Foreword Proface BY DANE RUDHYAR Part One: Astrological Philosophy; 1L 2 3 4 Astrology as a Discipline of Mind ‘THE ORIGIN OF ASTROLOGY WHAT IS ASTROLOGY FOR? TWO APPROACHES TO ASTROLOGICAL KNOWL~ EDGE OPERATIVE PRINCIPLES Part Two: Astrological Principles; ve 3 4 5. 6 7. Astrology as a Symbolic Language ‘THE BIRTH-CHART AND ITS IMPLICATIONS THE AXES OF INDIVIDUAL SELFHOOD AND THE CIRCLE OF HOUSES THE ZODIAC AND ITS SIGNS ‘THE 360 DEGREES AND THEIR SYMBOLS ‘THE PLANETS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS ‘JHE QUESTION OF PLANETARY RULERSIIP PLANETARY ASPECTS: THE FORMATION OF RELATIONSHIP PLANETARY ORDS: THE QUALITY OF RELATIONSHIP PLANETARY MID-FOINTS: ‘THE RELDASE OF RELATIONS xiii a 26 46 64 67 8 81 103 110 CONTENTS 10. PLANETARY NODES AND PARTS: ‘THE SYNTHESIS OF RELATIONSHIP 4 11, sysTEMs oF HOUSE DIVisiON 120 Part Three: Technique and Procedure of Astrological Interpretation; ‘Astrology as an Instrument of Selt- ‘Actualization 1, THE PROCESS OF ASTROLOGICAL MYTERPRETA TioN 133 2. WHOLE PLANETARY PATTERNS 29 3. FOCAL POINTS 151 4. PLANETARY FORMATIONS 166 5, THE LUNATION CYCLE: ‘THE ARCHETYPAL CYCLE OF RELATIONSHIP 191 6. PLANETARY GROUPING: ‘THE REALM OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL INTEGRA- TION 203 7. pmeerive FACULTIES: GUIDES TO LIVING 219 8. SYNTHETIC POINTS: INDICATORS OF STRENGTH AND SENSITIVITY 240 9, THE BIRTH-CHART AS A WHOLE 254 Part Four: The Birth-Chart and Time: Techniques of Astrological Time Analysis 1, THE CONCEPT OF ASTROLOGICAL TIME ANALY sis 259 2. TECHNIQUES OF SYMBOLIC TIME ANALYSIS. 266 3, THE STUDY OF TRANSITS IN ASTROLOGICAL TIME ANALYSIS 25 Epilogue: The Personal Significance ‘of Astrological Stady 279 ‘CONTENTS, ‘Appendixes: 1, CALCULATIONS FOR SYMBOLIC DIRECTIONS. ML BIRTH DATA FOR SAMPLE CHARTS MM, ASTRONOMICAL DATA, Bbliogaphy BBe 299 PREFACE ‘The inner urge to start the Intemational Committee for Human- Isic Astrology (ICHA) came to me rather unexpectedly in the late evening of February 26, 1969. The immediate incentive to make such ‘a move was the reading of printed material that emphasized the need for using the scientific tool of statistical research, and indicectly if not cexplicily downgraded any other approach to astrology. I realized that the time had come to publicize the fact that the scientific analytical and “event-oriented” approach to astrology was not the only and most significant one, even though it was most specifically appealing to the modern mentality, carrying an offcial stamp of “respectability,” as, ‘well as (in the form of fortunetelling) most appealing to the general public, T alo realized that the situation resembled in many ways the one that led to the emergence of humanistic psychology, under the leader- ship of Abraham Maslow, Anitiony Sutch, etc.—a psychology tracing its immediate origin to the work of Carl G, Jung, which in turn had ancient European and Asiatic roots. The humanistic psychologists spoke of their movement as a “third fores” in order to situate it in relation to Freudian psychoanalysis and the experimental laboratory psychology developed in universities especially since the behaviorists and, in Russia, Pavlov. In a similar sense, my approach to astrology

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