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Astrology Books Rectification
Astrology Books Rectification
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Rectification
Rectification is what you should do to a chart when you're not so sure the birth time is accurate. Traditional methods are all
mechanical in nature. Many are mathematical as well, ie, this is not the place for the arithmatically challenged. In addition, there
are many ancient techniques that have only recently been rediscovered.
William Lilly surveys medieval techniques in Christian Astrology book 3, pgs. 500-508, and gives an excellent overview. Among
the various methods, the Trutine of Hermes and the Animodar of Ptolemy.
The best known methods of rectification are by accident, by which is not meant the accident of guesswork, or of pendulums or
dowsing. Accidents in rectification are events in the life, related, one way or another, to transits to the ascendant. Transits to the
ascendant can include secondary progressions (direct and/or converse), primary directions, profections, solar returns, plain old
transits, midpoints and various other means. Lilly himself rectified by accident. The Uranian and Cosmobiology crowds can
rectify to a few seconds of time. If that's of interest, go to those pages & have a look. Marc Penfield once sent me an unpublished
monograph on Nadi Rectification. I'd gladly print that, if he would let me.
Myself, it's not that I can't make the numbers work, but that I've an everlasting distrust of mathematics when I don't quite understand
the process at hand. For those like me, there is rectification by character, which is an offshoot of Placidian houses, as, so far as I
am aware, it has only been successfuly done with that house system. As I find time, I will describe the system in a note at the
bottom of this page.
Also in this section, the Prenatal Epoch, as it relates directly to rectification.
Now, my brothers, Go Forth and Rectify!
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Comment: Not a book for the faint-hearted. Charts, tables, diagrams, 90 degree graphic ephemerides are found on nearly
every page. (Which accounts, I think, for the high price: A lot of work went into this book.) Notably, Tebbs did not choose just any
charts to rectify. Her first two examples are Elizabeth Taylor & Johnny Cash. I was amazed to learn these two were born just 18
hours apart! Making them time twins.
Follow the detailed instructions in this book, and you, too, can learn to rectify. Carol's rectifications are to one to two degrees on
the ascendant, ie, 5 to 10 minutes of time. Which is to say it isn't the ear-splitting nearest-second-of-time Uranian method, which
I always found unsettling. If you want more accuracy with Tebb's method, you will need to closely observe subsequent transits.
But this is well-known already. All rectifications are tentative, none are ever completely proven.
As impressed as I am with this book, I was surprised with Tebbs's contrast of Taylor's & Cash's charts. In chapter 5 she strains
to show the actual differences between the two charts, the two human lives in question, in which every planet in one chart, save
the moon, is exactly conjunct the same planet in the other chart. She contrasts Taylor & Cash's angles from ascendant to
midheaven, the dwads of the angles, she analyzes outer planet transits activate Cash's & Taylor's close natal aspect patterns
simultaneously (head, pg. 79) but while she knows that differences in houses have something to do with their individual transit
responses, she is unable to make house structures themselves come to life to account for them. Surely it cannot be that I am the
only person who can read a chart!?
This is a fabulous book. You can almost learn the technique by reading the table of contents, above. This book will repay study
many times over.
Llewellyn, 198 pages.
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Comment: Ivy's prenatal chart is a straightforward exchange of natal moon & ascendant, which is one of four possibilities
discussed in E.H. Bailey's Prenatal Epoch. Among many interesting observations is that Mars, in the natural chart, rules both
the incarnating 1st house, as well as the 8th, the house of death. Planetary rulers are given for each of the 9 prenatal charts: 1.
Saturn. 2. Jupiter. 3. Mars. 4. Sun. 5. Venus. 6. Mercury. 7. Saturn. 8. Moon. 9. Mars. Ivy uses the example chart to show how
prenatal afflictions ended a woman's life at age 33. She advances a unique explanation for adjacent houses with the same sign:
The first house acts as a drag on the second.
Ivy's Age Arcs are better known to us as Solar Arcs. She does a lot with them, including using them in rectification. There are
several detailed examples. Ivy also tells how to use the Johndro chart, not merely as a substitute for the natal, but as a means of
rectifying it. Ivy gives an extensive set of rules for delineating the ruler of the ascendant.
It is moreover true that a mutual reception gets us into & out of conditions & situations with ease. (pg. 89)
As fine a definition of mutual reception as I have yet read. In this book, innovative ways to read a natal chart, find transits,
determine death, useful notes on horary, the use of planetary hours, how to determine vocation, mundane/national astrology,
much more. After her famous book on Horary, this is easily her finest book.
Self-published, 233 pages, 53 charts, hardcover.
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A RECTIFICATION MANUAL: The American Presidency - Regulus Astrology LLC, aka "Dr. H.", $59.95
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Prerequisites
Key
Part 1: Delineation
1. Planets in signs
2. Modern planets
3. Planets in houses
4. Arcus Vitae ("Arc of Life")
Part 2: Prediction
5. The problem of under specification
6. Temporal indicators
7. Planetary period methods
8. Directions & progressions
9. Solar returns: Profections & time lords
10. Solar returns: Delineation & prediction
11. Solar returns: Arabic Parts
12. Lunar nodes & eclipses
13. Transits
Part 3: Rectification
14. Preparing the event database
15. Three stages of rectification
16. Rectification case studies
Afterword
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Appendices:
A. Tests of Egyptian versus Ptolemaic Bounds
B. Tests of Sect influence: Part of Fortune / Fidaria
C. The Presidential database
D. The First Ladies database
References
Index
Comment: This is several books in one volume. It is, first, a database of rectified charts of US Presidents & their wives, which
comprises the back half of the book. Second, it is a study in medieval rectification techniques, and, third & most importantly, it is
a masterful tour de force of medieval astrological techniques generally. In this, the mysterious "Dr. H" has produced by far the
most demanding of all the many recent modern revival books.
And I'm not joking. On pg. xv are the Prerequites:
Before studying this manual, readers should be familiar with:
Essential nature of planets
Essential nature of the twelve zodiacal signs
How the essential dignities of sign & exaltation govern planetary behavior
Definition of minor dignities: triplicity, bound, decan, 9ths, 12ths (duads)
Assignment of life affairs to the twelve houses
Computation of derived houses
Definition of derivative angles, eg, Vertex & Equatorial Ascendant
Formulas for & computation of Arabic Parts
Calculation of a natal & solar return chart
Primary & secondary motion
Calculation of progressions
Direct & converse motion
Solar arc directions
Aspects, antiscia & contra-antiscia
Reception, translation of light, and other methods which perfect or deny a planetary configuration
To be fair, the many case studies presented throughout the book give practical instruction for many of these topics. In the
extensive References (aka Bibliography) in the back, Dr. H gives all his sources, both astrological and biographical. Among the
principal references, cited again & again in the text, are Al Biruni, Dorotheus, Firmicus, and perhaps above all, Guido
Bonati. Which only makes me wish Prof. Dykes, the translator, will soon publish an inexpensive paperback edition of his
massive work.
Unmentioned in Dr. H's list above, but of critical importance, are Primary Directions. Dr. H has discoverred the Primary Direction
Sequence, which he describes as the Holy Grail of rectification. He writes:
Locking Down a Rectification with Primary Direction Sequences
Low odds against a random finding. The value in primary direction sequences for rectification is based on the extremely low odds of finding
pairs of events, sometimes months or years apart, which match start and end dates for a primary direction sequence. It's fairly easy to find
close matches of individual directions to a smattering of events. But matching several pairs of events to sequences of Ascendant and
Midheaven directions is a mathematical feat which is virtually impossible to achieve unless the rectified birth time is accurate to the
second. And not just a second of time. For some Presidents with a large event database, it was possible to narrow the birth time to one
second of degree. Such is the case for FDR, whose proposed Ascendant of 20 Virgo 57' 52" implies an accuracy of a fraction of one
second of a minute of time. Such precision is unheard of in astrological circles. I propose this type of accuracy is possible with
sequences. (pg. 133)
Again & again in this book, Dr. H takes medieval techniques, such as primaries & the prenatal epoch (SAN: Syzygy Ante
Navitatem), and, page after page demonstrates the most amazing grasp, produces the most brilliant results, from these many
techniques. Nowhere in this book will you find warmed-over hash. In the process, he pushes existing computer programs to their
limits. (Janus 3.0, if you're interested: pg. 133.)
See two examples of his work: Here is the Preface & list of revision to the Third Edition (from the book), and as well as the
rectification of presidential wanna-be for Mike Huckabee, taken from Dr. H's website.
Yes, you will learn rectification with this book. But you will learn so much more. After you finish this book, you will never look at
charts the same way again.
Regulus Astrology LLC, 791 pages.
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AMERICA IS BORN: Introducing the Regulus USA national horoscope - Regulus Astrology LLC, $39.95
Contents:
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Preface
Introduction
User's guide
Part 1: The Sibley USA National Horoscope:
1. National horoscopes in mundane astrology
2. Revisiting the Sibley USA National Horoscope
3. Divination & rectification
Part 2: The Regulus USA National Horoscope:
4. Abu Ma'shar's system of distributors & participators
5. Calculation: Distributors & participants
6. Distributor results: Directing through the bounds
7. Participator results: Ascendant directions
8. Participators: Moon
9. Participators: Sun
10. Participators: Lunar nodes
11. Participators: Saturn
12. Participators: Mars
13. Participators: Mercury
14. Participators: Venus
15. Participators: Jupiter
16. Final thoughts
Appendices:
A. Event catalog for initial rectification phase
B. Catalog of ascendant directions
C. Supplement: Directing through the bounds
D. Tests of Egyptian versus Ptolemaic bounds
E. Solar arc directions
End notes
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Comment: Many people ask, why do astrologers study birth charts, why do they not study the moment of conception? This is not
a new question.
The reason for birth charts is that birth is a significant, easily determined moment in time. The reason against conception is that
it's darn hard, in most cases, to figure out exactly when that was. You need a technique.
The standard technique, which was not new to Bailey - nor Sepharial, his muse - was to go back nine months, interchange
ascendant & moon, and call that the Epoch, or moment of conception. This is as far as Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson ever took it.
The problem was the simple interchange did not work in all that many cases. The solution, which both Sepharial & Bailey
gradually arrived at, was an additional three epochs. Which one applies to you depends on where the moon is by house, and the
angular relationship it has to the sun.
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As to the various goodies in this book, read the Table of Contents (above) carefully: The prenatal epoch is a factor in
rectification, twins & multiple births, and birth defects. It can also be used with directions, primary directions & more. Which
amounts to an entire school of astrology, if anyone wants to push it. Towards the end of Bailey's life (1876-1959), Hans
Niggemann, of Uranian astrology fame, got him to admit there should be even more rules & epochs, but until someone else is so
inspired, E.H. Bailey's work is the standard which all others must meet.
Click here for an extract (pdf).
Astrology Classics, 239 pages.
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Comment:
This is a reprint of an earlier edition. The author is a Theosophist and spends the first two chapters going over
Theosophical matters. I have read extensively in Theosophy. I used to be more impressed with it, but it could be that
the times have changed, or that my interests have shifted. The justification in this book is that Jayne's "teacher"
(identity unknown) outlined some 49 prenatal epochs, of which 33 were found to relate to the various sub-races as
given by Madame Blavatsky, the remaining 16 still to come. (pg. 7) This book really should be in the Esoteric page,
but putting it next to Bailey's book on prenatal (above) made for a nice grouping.
Chapter 2, Astrology of the Soul, gives us geometry. In chapter 3, Procedure, we get down to business in working out
prenatal charts. You must follow along closely.
AFA, 73 pages.
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Comment: The author starts with the account of the young midwife who delivered Lincoln, on a cold Sunday morning in 1809.
Using the midwife's account of a sunrise birth as a starting point, the author (a female) uses clues & hunches to narrow the birth
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time. She also uses heliocentric positions, as heliocentric astrology was one of her interests.
On the day that Lincoln & Darwin were both born, February 9, 1809, the moon shifted from Capricorn to Aquarius. Lincoln's 8:36
am (CST) chart gave him a melancholy Capricorn moon. Offhand, I'd say Charles Darwin got the Aquarius moon.
AFA, paper, 138 pages.
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Comment:
This is a book on rectification using the natal chart of the late Edward Kennedy. It was written in 1975, only a few years after the
tragic Chappaquiddick accident. The publishers have updated the Timeline (Appendix A) to include Kennedy's death on August
26, 2009, as Zip Dobyns passed away in 2003. As the title of the book suggests, Dobyns uses progressions and directions as
her primary means of rectification.
Note the tables for minor progressions (1 lunar month = 1 solar year) and tertiary progressions (1 day = 1 month) as these are
both quite rare. Dobyns uses both of them in her rectification.
September, 2011: The AFA has brought out a nicely reset edition. AFA, 106 pages
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