While Carter said he intended this book for beginners , he didn't quite mean that. While he does spin you through the basic signs & houses, while he tells you how to construct a chart (both north
and south of the equator), if you've already grasped that, you'll be prepared for the amazing details, the practical, hard-won, sharply observed things that you simply won't find anywhere else. Open the book anywhere & you'll be surprised. Mutable signs rising tend to slouch. What's
another way to spot a Leo rising? They love fur. Did you ever really want to know what death looks like in a chart? How about infant mortality? Carter gives you the good, and the bad, and so much more as well. Get this book (and the companion,
Some Principles of Horoscopic Delineation, and, using them, learn astrology and unlock his other books, among them:
Astrology of Accidents,
Encyclopaedia of Psychological Astrology,
Symbolic Directions in Modern Astrology, and, The Astrological Aspects But here is Carter, himself. From the Foreword to the first edition of this book:
The present work is designed to give a clear and concise presentation of the essential facts of modern Astrology.
A good deal of experience in teaching the average beginner has convinced me that, while there are several text-books suitable for the use of the more advanced student or of a novice who has the advantage of personal tuition, the majority are either too prolix or too condensed for one who is compelled to be his own instructor. Moreover, Astrology is now to some extent in the melting-pot : on the one hand, many new ideas are being introduced ; on the other, statistical research, such as earlier astrologers could not carry out for lack of sufficient data, has cast considerable doubt on the validity of portions of the rather incoherent mass of tradition that till recent years represented astrological science.
The beginner does not wish to be confronted with clSz
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