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Hi Mike,

>Thanks for all the interesting astrology info. I confess that I

>know next to nothing about even basic astrology, much less the influence

>of asteroids ;-)

>

>Would you have any recommendation for a source of information (book,

>website, etc.) that could satisfy a little of my curiosity about astrology?

 

Sure. For general good reading, pick up Jess Stearn's _A Time for

Astrology_. He is not an astrologer, he's a journalist... but what he's

done is to interview a number of prominent and good astrologers and discuss

their specialties, giving a lot of conversation with them. And because he

zeroes in on each one's special expertise, it's a good book for astrologers

to have too.

 

Alan Oken wrote a series of three books that I have in paperback, and I've

used his _The Horoscope, the Road and Its Travelers_ as a textbook for

beginning classes in astrology. These books are very good, but they aren't

in print now. What you can buy new is his excellent text that combines

most of the three books... I think it's called _Alan Oken's Astrology_.

If you happen to see the original three books in a second-hand store,

you'll save a little money and get some very interesting material that was

left out of the combined book. ) _Don't_ buy his book on soul-centered

astrology by accident... you need to learn basic astrology before tackling

that stuff.

 

There are many good books on astrology, but the most famous American

astrologer was Evangeline Adams, and if you find any of her books in the

second-hand shops, you won't be disappointed.

 

The computer program called Astrolog is FREE on the net... it's in a

number of places and you should be able to find it easily. A horoscope is

a map of the Sun, Moon, planets, etc., for an exact time in relation to an

exact place on Earth... so it shows you what degree was rising in the East

and where every planet was. This program will calculate any horoscope for

you and display it in wonderful graphics. You just have to type in a date

and time and place... you can get the approximate longitude and latitude

from an atlas or a good map. You can ask for NOW and see the position of

the planets right now, in relation to where you are. You can calculate any

horoscope for thousands of years, if you want to download the ephemeris

files for those past years. And you can set the graphics moving... and

watch the solar system in motion during a particular period.

 

This program's calculations are accurate... I checked it out before I

started using it. And the graphics are wonderful and lots of fun.

Unfortunately, if you use a Mac, the program isn't quite so wonderful... I

haven't seen a version yet for the Mac that's menu-driven, and I hate

trying to remember all those commands.

 

Re. astrologers on the net... You can get a horoscope free. You can get

an "analysis" for ten bucks, but that's all it's worth... it's a

computerized job, like picking out some relevant paragraphs from a book and

combining them. A real live astrologer looks at the chart as a whole, at

the patterns that are formed... and with the book knowledge in his/her

head, uses intuition to discuss the horoscope as a whole. It takes time to

write out a really individual analysis, so the good astrologers' work isn't

cheap.

 

The books and the program I've recommended are Western, earth-centered

astrology. If you really get interested in this, you may want to get into

sidereal astrology, which is sun-centered, or the Vedic astrology from

India. But this is where I would start.

 

Enjoy!

 

Love,

Dharma

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In a message dated 7/23/00 4:24:27 AM, fisher1 writes:

>The books and the program I've recommended are Western, earth-centered

>astrology. If you really get interested in this, you may want to get into

>sidereal astrology, which is sun-centered, or the Vedic astrology from

>India. But this is where I would start.

 

Thanks, Dharma, for all the information. I appreciate it.

 

Love,

 

Mike