The Integrated Astrological Guide to Self-Empowerment, Vol. 1: The Chalice of Arcturus (The Integrated Astrological Guide Series Number 1)

This academically integrated text offers the first in-depth astrological/psychological guide to empower and transform one's life and perspective. All cross-disciplined and academic subjects that can be integrated into this philosophic structure, are referenced and explained. This text is complete with all basic astrological significators delineated with new and expanded insight, with a complete explanation of how we bring our early environment and beliefs into adulthood and create our reality and experiences. These dynamics are explored and explained psychologically, metaphysically and pragmatically.
This book blends many different philosophies and gives the message that using astrology can be a tool to self-understanding and transformation; that it is not a mysterious tool of divination but that it can be used to examine our existing beliefs, and that it is up to us what we do with that knowledge.The ideas in this book challenge the reader to look at the responsibility they have for their own lives, and begin to teach how to do this using astrology.
The individual interpretations of placements are basic. The author has delved to the core of the meanings of the archetypes from a psychological perspective. The results are dynamic, all-encompassing (yet specific to the placement) keys, with which to begin delineations. This is something that has been lacking in many other astrology books with more shallow definitions.
There are several example delineations of charts which take the reader through the process of using this information in a complete chart, showing how the insight from the previous chapters can be used to "read" a chart.
Definitely a work of text-book caliber, not a coffee-table book.

Edmond was born in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of 9 he moved to New Mexico where he lived with his family on a ranch in Los Chavez, New Mexico until the age of 21 when he moved to southern California. At the age of 15 he became interested in astrology, and received his professional certification in August of 1979 from the American Federation of Astrologers. His articles on astrology/psychology have been published internationally in Dell Horoscope Magazine, and Aspects Magazine beginning in 1985. He is an accomplished life drawing artist, wildlife enthusiast, and Falconer. As a student of astrology since 1970 and a counseling astrologer since 1979, Edmond Wollmann holds a professional certification in astrology and a double degree in psychology/studio art from San Diego State University. His self-empowering psychological and metaphysical approach to the application of astrology is inclusive and unique. Born: Cleveland, Ohio: Edmond became a life drawing and painting artist by the age of 11. An accomplished Falconer, Edmond spent most of his childhood raising, training and rescuing wildlife. Edmond became an astrologer at age 15; professional Astrologer at age 24.