Navigating by the Stars: Astrology and the Art of Decision-Making (Llewellyn Modern Astrology Library)

Hathaway, Edith

ISBN 10: 0875423663 / ISBN 13: 9780875423661

Published by Llewellyn Publications, 1991

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Title: Navigating by the Stars: Astrology and the ...

Publisher: Llewellyn Publications

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: paperback

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

This book provides a clear introduction to the how, where and when of astrology. It presents reliable timing and relocation tools, using the Uranian system, with its preference for Meridian houses and equatorial ascendants; also, cyclical patterns, solar arcs, planetary returns, secondary progressed quarti-lunar charts and Astrocartography maps (75 pp. on that topic).

Navigating by the Stars was the author's first published book.  It was written in 1988-89 on Western tropical astrology. Her gradual transition into Vedic astrology also began in the late 1980s. After publishing numerous articles, some available at her website, her 2012 book (In Search of Destiny) is her first published book since 1991, and is on Vedic astrology.  American astrologer and Astrocartography maverick Jim Lewis called Navigating by the Stars "a Geminian feast for the mind."  American astrologer Rob Hand called the book "genuinely different, and not merely a rehash as are so many new books today... showing not only the brain of an astrological approach but its heart as well."  British astrologer Charles Harvey called Hathaway "a real working astrologer speaking in the light of her own work and observation.  More please!"  In 2012, she finally fulfills Charles Harvey's request, though she now writes primarily on Vedic astrology.

From the Back Cover:

"Navigating by the Stars is a unique book.  It discusses a number of techniques that many astrologers regard as advanced and not part of the mainstream of astrological practice, Uranian Astrology, the 90 degree dial, transit graphs, Astro-Mapping and Cycles, among others. Ms. Hathaway takes these techniques and shows how to use them in actual counseling practice.  She shows that these techniques are not merely for use by the advanced technician.  These methods provide information useful to the client, useful to the astrologer and not available to them through other methods.
In so doing, the author has presented us with a book that is genuinely different, and not merely a rehash as are so many new books today.  And it is a book which makes the material accessible to any practitioner.  While the author presents the material in the context of her way of doing astrology, she does so in a way that makes it possible for virtually anyone to take a particular method and apply it to his or her own practice.
However, the book is not merely technical.  This is one of its chief strengths. It deals with philosophical and counseling issues as well, showing not only the brain of an astrological approach but its heart as well.
All of the above serve to makes this a book that astrologers should acquire both to expand their technical repertoire and to change their way of looking at astrology. There is no other book quite like it."
-Robert S. Hand, Astrologer, author, President of Astrolabe, Inc.