Astrology and the Lives of People
Wessex Astrologer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-910531-84-6 (ISBN)
How have the original significance of these planets been reduced in modern astrology and at what cost? By reclaiming and redeveloping the significance of these seven planetary bodies, astrology can become more relevant to the real issues that people have.
This book gives fascinating background on the development of these planets in the pre-modern world, as well as exploring new ways their traditions can be looked at today. Joseph Crane's scholarship and profound reverence for the importance of virtue and character in our troubled world is evident in his exploration of solar and lunar heroism, wisdom, friendship, and love, and his discussion of how to find these qualities in the natal chart. Wisdom seekers and astrologers of all kinds, looking to deepen their understanding and practice, will find this book a worthy guide.
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction: Origins and Purposes ix
Our Connected and Singular Lives xii
Some Conventions and What Is Ahead xiii
Chapter One: Astrology's Many Voices 1
Natal Astrology, Newer and Older 1
We All Want to Be Happy - But What is That? 3
Astrology's Polyphony 10
Astrological Applications 15
Part One: Living The Luminaries 25
Chapter Two: Soul and Will, After-Life and In-Life 27
Lunar and Solar Souls 27
The "I Will", "I Won't", and "I Can't" 31
Survival and Possibility: Two Examples 38
Calling and Being Called 43
Addiction: Paths of Misery and Redemption 46
Changes of Life: Spiritual Tranformations 49
Chapter Three: The Moon's Many Appearances 53
Astrology's Traditional Moon 53
The Body Moon 55
What Is Happening Right Now 61
The Rhythm (and Adaptation) Section 67
Moon and Saturn - Other Possibilities 69
Envy, Resentment, and the Lunar Side of Bigotry 70
Lunar Values and Heroics 72
Chapter Four: Astrology's Sun, Its Shadows, and the Stories We Tell 77
The Traditional Sun 77
How to Recognize a Solar Person 82
The Solar Luminary Develops Within Us 88
Pride Before, During, After the Fall 89
Identity and the Stories We Tell 92
The Imprint of History, Personal and Cultural 95
Chapter Five: Twelve Ways to Be Heroic 101
Solar and Lunar Heroes 100
Heracles as Solar-Hero and Everybody 102
Zodiacal Identity and Solar Heroism 105
Part Two: Planetary Excellence and Not So Much 115
Chapter Six: Planetary Character 117
Planets Dignified and Disposing 118
Who is in Charge Around Here? 126
Chapter Seven: The Wit and Wisdom of Mercury 131
Mercury's Households and a Tall Tale 132
Mercury and Realpolitik 134
The Excellences and Corruptions of Mercury 138
Great Things Come from Debilitated Planets 143
Mercury in Decline, Saturn as Remedy 148
Chapter Eight: Venus, For a Good Time 155
A Glittering Example 155
"The Fair Planet that Inclines Us to Love" 158
Venus in Contrast 159
The Sensory and the Sublime 161
Music and Love 163
Transcendent and Practical: Music and Marriage 166
Power and Sociability 170
Sex and Being Funny 173
The Life of The Rose 175
Venus and "Obscenity" 178
Chapter Nine: Mars: Good-Doer and No-Good Doer 183
Medieval Literary Elemental Mars 183
Quality, Sect and Dignity 184
Mars as People 186
My Favorite "Martian" 187
Mars with Other Purposes 189
Adversarial Mars 195
Erscheinungsdatum | 22.02.2023 |
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Verlagsort | Bournemouth |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Astrologie |
ISBN-10 | 1-910531-84-7 / 1910531847 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-910531-84-6 / 9781910531846 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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