With an updated and expanded ephemeris (1920-2120), Robert Blaschke's classic Progressions is an essential fixture on any serious astrologer's bookshelf. Blaschke takes you well beyond secondary progressions and demonstrates how the time keys of tertiary and minor progressions interface with the secondary progressed time scale. In addition, you will learn about converse progressions, progressions and synastry, as well as a thorough check-list to help you apply this material in a consultation setting.
From the foreword to the first edition, by Rob Hand:
"This book by Robert Blaschke on progressions is quite accessible to astrological readers of many levels, but it is not a beginner's book. It does not just give the basics of progressions. It goes beyond that to provide a practical and theoretical foundation for integrating the various methods of progression into a single body of method in which each method has its place and there is as little overlap as possible. [...] this book should advance the study of progressions in astrology on both the practical and theoretical level and for this we owe Robert Blaschke a vote of thanks."
From the foreword to the second edition by Jenn Zahrt:
"Twenty-six years after its first publication, Robert Blaschke's Progressions remains a definitive work on the theory and application of progressing natal charts. It was in this book that I first came across the concepts of tertiary and minor progressed time scales, converse progressions, and progressed time twins. These techniques grip me, and I see them coming to life all around me through my relationships. I happen to know an uncanny amount of people born within a month of me, and the secondary direct and converse progressions unfurl in a symphony of synastry. Astrology chooses you, and chooses you to transmit its living wisdom. It clearly chose Robert, and his work has been a major inspiration for my own, and that of so many astrologers in our community.
"Progressions is the first book in his five-volume Astrology: A Language of Life series. Robert had two more books planned before cancer took him from this world far too soon. As his great friend Mary Plumb wrote in a blog post for The Mountain Astrologer, "he passed away peacefully on January 18, 2011." He was 57.
"Through his Earthwalk School of Astrology, Robert proudly bootstrapped his own publications. This means he had to maximize every millimeter of the page to squeeze the most value out of the print run. Thanks to the generous permission of Carol Cilliers Blaschke, Robert's books will be re-typeset and updated in second editions through Revelore Press to allow ample breathing room for his magnificent ideas to shine through. As pertains to Progressions, the ephemeris in the first edition provided data from 1920-2010; the second edition expands the ephemeris by another century to make this book a complete resource for decades to come.
"At the 2012 United Astrology Conference in New Orleans, Robert was posthumously nominated for-and won-the Marion D. March Regulus Award for Discovery, Innovation, and Research. When you read his volumes of Astrology: A Language of Life, you will know why."
Robert Hand is one of the world's leading and most esteemed astrologers and historians. Born in New Jersey in December 1942, he began his work in astrology at the age of 17. His father, Wilfred Hand, pioneered in the study of the applications of astronomical cycles to financial markets in the 1950's and early 60's. As a result, Rob learned the basics of casting charts from his father. Robert Hand has been a student of astrology since 1960 and a full-time professional astrologer since 1972. He was known in his early career as the first practicing astrologer to write astrology programs for microcomputers so that the benefits of computers would be available to astrologers. From this effort, he founded Astro-Graphics Services in 1979, which later became Astrolabe. In his early career, Rob taught high school Chemistry and History. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and The Catholic University of America. Along with many awards and accomplishments, Robert Hand is the foremost expert in Military Astrology in Late Medieval Italy.Mr. Hand has served in many astrology and historical organizations. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Kepler College. He is a former Chairman of the National Council of Geocosmic Research, and holds memberships in other organizations including, at present, the American Historical Association and, formerly, the American Federation of Astrologers (AFA), the Association for Astrological Networking (AFAN), the International Society for Astrological Research (ISAR), the Astrological Lodge of London, the Astrological Association of Great Britain and currently serves as a patron of the Faculty of Astrological Studies of Great Britain.Robert Hand is the author of best sellers Planets in Transit, Horoscope Symbols, Planets in Composite (Whitford Press, Schiffer Publishing) as well as Night & Day, Whole Sign Houses, Essays on Astrology and others. He lectures in Webinars, conferences, seminars, and workshops worldwide. In 1997 he co-founded Arhat Media, a research archive and publishing company to procure, protect and publish historical astrological and related manuscripts. Robert Hand offers professional astrological media and services to other astrologers and to the general public, using tropical, heliocentric, sidereal, Uranian, cosmobiological, Astrological Mapping and in mundo techniques with ancient, medieval and modern methods.
