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Essays on Astrology is a compilation of Robert Hand's hard to find early articles. The collected essays are valuable to both the beginner and the advanced professional astrologer. The origins to his later works and deepest ideas can be discovered in this compiled collection of early essays and articles.
Robert Hand's Planets in Transit is the beginning basic resource for all astrologers. The book delineates the major aspects of transiting planets to the natal chart, angles and houses - conjunction, sextile, square, trine and opposition - that can occur throughout the life span. The cookbook format makes it a valuable resource for teaching and learning astrology as well as for professional research. The 720 lucid delineations are full of insight for both the professional astrologer and the beginner.
Have questions about a relationship? Love, work, family & friends all are important to understand for happiness and success. Planets in Composite: Analyzing Human Relationships presents the "Composite Technique," used for interpreting the meaning of important relationships in your life. Robert Hand discusses how to cast and read the composite horoscope for major relationships. The book includes five case studies illustrating the use and interpretation of the Composite Horoscope, along with twelve chapters of delineations in easy to read cookbook format. There are delineations for all planets, Sun and Moon, in each house and every major aspect: conjunction, sextile, square, trine, and opposition). 374 interpretations in all, plus 41 delineations for the Moon's nodes. The book is thumb-indexed for easy reference.
Night and Day in print since 1995 is the first work to introduce in any detail the ancient and medieval doctrines of sect. The sects were the followers of the Sun and of the Moon respectively from among the planets. But the most important aspect of the doctrine is way in which charts of daytime and nighttime births are read differently. Sect issues affect dignities, and even the manner of reading the individual planets. The text is aimed at any astrologer who has a reasonable basic knowledge of modern astrology. No extensive knowledge of traditional astrology is required. The contents include basic introductory material and definitions understandable by anyone with a decent knowledge of modern astrology, plus case studies, a discussion of the ways in which the various planets change their meanings in day and night charts, and several other issues affected by sect such as the computation of the Parts, planetary periods, and calculations involving health and life-expectancy. 68 Pages Comb-bound or Saddle-stitched Paper
The newly revised and expanded version of the Chronology is a compilation in outline form of the major events in the history of astrology along with the major events of the history of the time. The sections covered are as follows:
In addition there has been added a revised version of my essay on the origins of astrology in ancient times now entitled "On the Roots of Horoscopic Astrology." This essay clarifies a number of murky areas in the early history of astrology such as where astrology originated and what is the relationship between Western and Eastern astrology. 38 Pages Paper
This is one of the earliest texts that we have of horary astrology. Not only that but it has fully worked out examples. For all students of traditional horary, this is a must especially since it challenges basic principles commonly found in later works. Summary of content:
98 Pages: Perfect-bound Paper
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The First
English Translation Ever of Avraham Ibn Ezra's
From the translator's introduction: Rabbi Avraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (1089-1164) was a renowned Jewish scholar, whose accomplishments and prolific writing encompassed Biblical exegeses, Hebrew grammar, personal, national and liturgical poetry, philosophy, mathematics, geometry, astronomy and astrology. Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Spain, but spent most of his adult life wandering throughout the Jewish communities in southern Spain, North Africa, Italy, France and England. It was Italy and France (about 1140 - 1160) where he wrote his astrological works. The Book of Nativities and Revolutions (Sefer Ha'Moladot) is the third publication in the series of English translations of Avraham Ibn Ezra's astrological works. The other two are The Beginning of Wisdom (Reshit Hokhma), ARHAT 1998, and The Book of Reasons (Sefer Ha'Te'amim), 1994 (soon to be re-issued in a revised edition by ARHAT). Together, these three, written by Ibn Ezra in this sequence, make one integral body of the basic astrological doctrine: Introduction of fundamentals, further theoretical explanations and the application to the individual birth chart. Here is a partial Table of Contents:
The Book of Nativities and Revolutions
Appendix A: Ibn Ezra's Astrological Works
The most important things about this book are these: It is an especially clear account of the major issues of medieval natal astrology, dealing with both practical issues and important philosophical issues. Also, scattered among the text are many jewels of medieval astrological technique not covered, or not covered as well in other texts. Ibn Ezra was not only a master astrologer, he was one of the most brilliant minds ever to practice astrology. (Rob Hand) 116 Pages: Perfect-bound Paper
The Beginning of Wisdom is a one of the most important of the basic medieval texts of astrology. Originally written in Hebrew by Ibn Ezra it was translated into old French by Hagin de Juif and thence into Latin by Peter of Abano among others. It served as the backbone to an extensive and quite complete textbook of astrology by Ibn Ezra which which also included The Book of Reasons, The Book of Nativities and others which we expect to have from Ms. Epstein over the next few years. We can do no better to summarize the contents of Ibn Ezra's books than to give you Ibn Ezra's own introduction to The Beginning of Wisdom. Ibn Ezra's Introduction to The Beginning of Wisdom: The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God, for it is the instruction. For when a man does not follow his eyes and heart to fulfill his [worldly] desire, then wisdom will rest in him. Moreover, the fear of God will protect him from the laws and ordinances of the heavens all the days of his life, and when his soul separates from his body, it (the fear of God) will endow him with eternity and he shall live forever. So, here I shall begin to interpret the laws of the heavens according to the rules as practiced by the ancients, generation after generation, and after I complete this book I shall compose a book of interpretation of the reasons, and to God I shall pray for help, amen. This Book Is Divided into Ten Chapters.
168 Pages Perfect-bound Paper
The Correspondence is a short work which consists of two letters. The first was written by rabbis from the south of France to Maimonides and posed the question of the legitimacy of divinitory astrology and its compatibility with Jewish Law and Religion. The second letter consists of Maimonides' response. This work is an important document in the history of Judaism and its relationship with astrology because it raises some of the most fundamental objections that have been raised to astrology by its religious opponents. 21 Pages Saddle-stitched Paper
Professional astrologer, psychotherapist and teacher, Joseph Crane writes openly to modern astrologers about ideas and techniques from the past. A gifted teacher, Crane conveys the most difficult material from the late Hellenistic and medieval periods in a manner that is easy to read, understand and apply to your own charts. As our first secondary source work, A Practical Guide to Traditional Astrology is a first must read for all astrologers. Crane is empowered with an understanding of both ancient and modern technique that is difficult to master, and for this deserves much respect. A Practical Guide to Traditional Astrology consists of an introduction plus six chapters. The first chapter, titled Traditional Planetary Dignity and Disposition, is a thorough introduction to nature and usage of the five essential dignities, both in the ancient and medieval traditions. The second chapter, Angles and Houses, covers the differences between ancient and modern uses of houses and pays special attention to the most ancient house system of all, still in use in Jyotish or Hindu Astrology, the whole-sign or sign-as-house system in which each sign makes up one entire house. The third chapter, Aspects in Hellenistic and Medieval Astrology, covers the uses of aspects in both ancient and medieval astrology and reveals a number of facets of ancient aspect theory largely unknown to modern astrologers. The fourth chapter, Planets as Significators in Ancient Astrology, reveals the role of the planets in indicating types of personality, categories of employment and many other functions which modern astrology tends to assign to signs or houses. The fifth chapter, Planetary Sect, is a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to the behavior of astrological symbols in daytime and nighttime births, also known as sect. Other important issues described include the symbolism of the four qualities, Dry, Hot, Wet, Cold, which are much less well known than the four elements but which are more fundamental than the elements and actually are the basis of the elements. The sixth chapter, The Phases of the Planets, deals with one of the most difficult areas of traditional Western Astrology, the movements of the planets with respect to the Sun. The tradition is split on basic definitions and how to employ them. This chapter goes a long way to clarifying the issues involved. Each chapter is liberally illustrated with examples from modern practice designed to illustrate the principles clearly in a way that modern astrologers can understand. 115 Pages Perfect-bound Paper
This is a special edition of the previous work published by Brill. Edited by Cornelius, Tobyn, and Wells under Dr. Burnett's supervision, this edition of the Abbreviation, (also known as the Lesser Introduction) has been specially prepared for the use of astrologers interested in both the techniques and their history. Extensive notes have been added to the text explaining all of the important technical terms and their history. The translation from the Arabic (which forms the basis of this edition) has been cross-referenced to the Latin translation of Adelard of Bath so as to supply portions missing from the Arabic as well to note differences between the Latin and the Arabic no doubt resulting from different manuscript traditions. This was one of the most important introductory texts for both Arabic and Latin astrologers. And it is now accessible to the astrological community. 58 Pages
The Nativity of Lewis the Fourteenth is one of Gadbury's short little handbooks in which he delineates the chart of a major personage of his period. This is a fascinating glimpse into the methods of 17th century astrologers complete with hylegs, alcochodens, primary directions, solar revolutions, etc. This edition has been prepared from a copy of the original, but has been edited in bitmaps to repair broken letters, remove spots and spurious lines, and all of the other printing glitches that make facsimiles from this period hard to read. 36 Pages Paper
After several years of research into the oldest texts of our astrological tradition we now know what the earliest house system was. And in a way it was not a house system at all as we understand house systems. Rather, it was the signs of the zodiac, themselves, used as a house system. In this system the rising degree of the zodiac marks the sign it is located in as the 1st house. The rising sign itself thus becomes the 1st house, as we would refer to it, from its very beginning to its end, regardless of where in the sign the rising degree may fall. The next sign to rise after the rising sign becomes the 2nd house, the next sign the 3rd house, and so forth. Actually, to understand this properly, one has to know that it is not that the signs were used as houses so much as there were no houses at all, merely the signs of the zodiac used as we would use houses, with no second, separate, twelve-fold division of the chart at all. Whole Sign Houses describes this oldest way of dealing with houses, and shows how effective it can be in modern astrology, so effective in fact that the author (as well as many other students of traditional astrology) has completely given up on modern house systems not just for historical reasons but, even more importantly, because whole sign houses simply work better. The following is the table of contents.
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Schoener's work the Three Books on the Judgment of Nativities is one of the most complete texts on late medieval natal astrology that we have, giving a detailed view of the astrological methods of the time that is rivaled by no other book of the medieval and early modern periods with the possible exception of Bonatti's ninth tractatus. This translation consists of Book I of the three books, the "basics" of natal astrology. (Books II and III will be published in another volume.) Each of the classic questions of natal astrology as formulated by Ptolemy in Books III and IV of the Tetrabiblos is addressed in enormous detail using methods derived from a variety of medieval authors, both Latin and Arabic. And in addition to an almost overwhelming wealth of detail concerning each of these questions, Schoener also lists great numbers of traditional aphorisms from the major medieval sources. This is medieval astrology as it was before it was "purged" by would-be reformers who often did not have a clear understanding of its bases. The following is the table of contents.
248 Pages Perfect-bound Paper in a large 8.25 x 11 inch format
Late Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus contains works which offer the most complete look at the Astrology of late Classical Antiquity. It shows this tradition just on the verge of making the leap to the Medieval Arabic world in which it was combined with Persian and Indian traditions. From this came the synthesis that gave rise to the Astrology of Medieval Europe, the immediate ancestor of modern Western Astrology. No other body of Greek texts gives quite this view of Astrology in transition. This is the third translation of Paulus' Introduction, but this is the first time that the work has been published along with the commentaries of later Greek astrologers as well as the extensive commentary now attributed to Olympiodorus, a noted Neoplatonist of early sixth century Alexandria. The Olympiodorus work is itself as extensive as the Introduction of Paulus to which it was to serve as commentary. The Paulus by itself has proven to be a rather terse and unclear work which is of limited value by itself as an introdcution to late Greek astrology, but when it is combined with the scholia and the Olympiodorus Commentary, we have a much more complete description of this school of astrology. 178 Pages in a large 8.5 x 11 inch format FORTHCOMING:
A new book by Robert Hand This is an original work by Robert Hand based on his studies of ancient and medieval astrology. It is a comprehensive study of the nature of the signs, the dignities of the signs, and how these were used in ancient and medieval astrology. It covers material from the most basic issues of how the qualities of the signs were described up through essential dignities, reception, Almutens, and complex uses of the Almuten technique to cover life expectancy, and the rulership of the various areas of life including the chart as a whole. This is a new work but its material is based closely on ancient and medieval material.
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