This book doesn’t have to be read from beginning to end. You can do what you like with it. The chapters are presented in an order which you might enjoy to follow if you are starting off in astrology. If you want to pick around, however, give each chapter a good scan, for this book offers an approach which sees things in wholes, and you’ll miss the point if you simply seek bits!

Contents

Rules for being human
Foreword  by the late Charles Harvey
Poem
Prependix: Astrological symbols
The astrological glyphs in use in this book.

Introduction: what this book is about
Time, learning astrology, cycles and choice.
1.   Gyrating spheres: the astronomy of astrology
Or some of it. Earth, the solar system, zodiac, seasons, moons, cycles and energy-weather.
2.  The lunation cycle
Sidereal and synodic lunar cycles, alrightness, responses, hemicycles, phases, eclipses.
3.  Ancient festivals and the four seasons
Years, solstices and equinoxes, fire festivals and the seasons.
4.  The zodiac cycle
Seasonal undercurrents, modes, round the zodiac three times, observation.
5.  Using an ephemeris
Doing it with Raphael’s and Neil Michelson’s help.
6.  Pure energy: the planets
Tapestries of time, planets and signs, energies, modulations, stations and retrogrades, dreamweaving.
7.  Wheels within wheels
Cycles, hemicycles, aspects, challenges and developments, orbs, application-separation and planetary panegyrations.
8.  Facets of the diamond: the cycle of aspects
A cyclical tour of interrelationship between planets.
9.  Nuances: more about the zodiac signs
What they do, genders, modes, elements, rulerships, the zodiacal tapestry.
10.  Power points in time
Back to the roots, awareness, ancient remains, major and lesser power points, using time.
11.  Identifying power points in time
Points and periods of special significance, working time-energy.
12.  Configurations
Multiple planetary configurations and what they do.
13.  Planetary combinations
The alchemy of planets in resonance with each other.
14.  Planetary arrays
Overall spreads of planets around the heavens.
15.  The slower-moving planets and their capers
World change, longterm cycles, the outer planets through the signs, undercurrents.
16.  Making history: living in modern times
Industrial revolution and twentieth century, quantum leaps, working history.
17.  About astrological charts
What charts show, houses, events charts, birth charts, horary and electional charts, voids and transits.
18.  Self as a river: about transits
Principles, processes of personal change, durations, types of transits.
19.  Working with transits
Options, wallcharts, diaries, aspect tables, computers, transits – a friend for life.
20.  Time and motion studies
Perceptions on the use of astrology, changes, levels of time, life.
Glossary