Delineation Book Preface

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Delineation Book

Preface

I have been writing for a few years now, and for themost part it has been very rewarding for me to be able tofinally have a chance to share my experiences as anastrologer with my peers.

It would seem that I started with my passions right off,the first book having been on my observances of twentyyears of working in the psychiatric system, and observingand collecting birth data, of people diagnosed withpsychiatric difficulties and diagnoses. The experience of

working in astrology with a background knowledge of astrology was indeed, very insightful and rewarding.

My second book on Mid-Life Crisis according toastrology was a labor of love as a Saturn-Sun conjunctdevelopmentalist. All the great psychologists who emphasizethe developmental aspects of human growth have aprominent Saturn placement and I am no exception. ThoughMid-life crisis has that additional sociological attraction to it,

that hook that mid-lifers might want to find out what is goingon, to me it was just part of the greater developmentalpicture of our lives that Betty Lundsted writes so capablyabout in her book "Planetary Cycles". It is unacceptable thatpsychology is unable to come up with a cogent blueprint forthe life span that does not end at age 21. Now that they areacknowledging the mid-life and beyond developmentalstages, it was time to give astrology it's due.

My third book, (one so eclectic that of course, no-onewill ever read it), is again combining my passion for musicwith my passion for astrology. My look at the famouscomposers and the equally famous musicians is not in itself,a brilliant treatise in astrological insights. No; it is more acommentary from an astrological point on just how thesemusicians were able to translate and channel through them

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the brilliance of the celestial music of the spheres, asmodified by the planetary configurations that they chose tobe incarnated in.

I have found that it is through watching how well known

people live their lives and express themselves (without themknowing astrology) that we can learn a great deal about theastrological underpinnings of their chart. In the case of music, it demonstrates the actual meanings of the aspectsand planetary configurations of those composers throughtheir expression of these through music.

No matter how modern science has modified JohannesKepler's work, he continues to inspire me with his Music of the Spheres. He certainly had most of the physics right, and Ithink sometimes we all hear the music of the celestial

spheres. (I just hope someone reads the work…)This, my fourth book, on delineation techniques, holds

all the promise of living up to the designation of the 4th book.The number 4 in astrology, and numerology has all themeaning of a hard but square work, a solid work.Beethoven's 4th Symphony was solid and true, but it held allthat he knew of the past, of his mentor Handel, of thecurrent symphonic structure that he was about to transcendin the fifth symphony.

I guess that I would like to take that a step further inthis book number four. I do want to talk about and honor thepast teachers that have lead our way in their thoughtprocesses and techniques, and affirm their knowledge andinsights that hold true today. That said, in the true form of the square I want to break from some of the ideas that havebeen promoted though the years, ideas that stay becausethey remain unchallenged by real life observations. Thiswould be true of all astrologers, that their actual readingswould help us to further understand if indeed a certainaspect of positioning of a planet actually works, or if thatcommonly accepted knowledge is inaccurate or outdated.

I have long been unhappy with the delineators that Ihave had to work with through out the years, not becausethey are always lacking, but because it is always a variablewhether what they say will be accurate or pertinent to the

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client that I am reading. More often than not, I find myself giving the client the delineation book and asking them toread what it says about that aspect, then tell me which partspertain to them and which don't, and why.

The reasons that a delineator would be inaccurate aremany, but it is a given that one paragraph written todescribe one set of variables is not going to be able to fit allpeople, due to the many factors affecting the description. Itis here that the astrologer has to take into account the manyvariables that modify the aspect, such as other aspectingplanets, current transits, and the demographics of theperson being read.

The above is also why I am so resistant to using thepre-printed aspectarians that have become so popular in thelast 15 years. Though they also contain much accuratematerial, they also equally contain much in the way of contradictory material, as they would need to. They areprinting out pre programmed comments on specific aspectswhich will of course be voided by other conflicting aspects. Itis not that I do not think the experienced astrologer cannotbenefit from these and make sense of them, but they cannot

help but to confuse clients who order them with theconflicting information presented. In this case theastrologer's brain is the superior tool.

My work is based in seeing four to six hundred peopleper year and asking each and every one of them how thesesaspects work in their life. I then take into account all thevariables that I can in the reading and modify back to themwhat astrology would say about those experiences, how theycould vary in their chart, and how I would read the chart oraspect based on those variables and my experience inreading. This is how any experienced astrologer helps sortthrough the many conflicting inputs in a reading andsynthesizes insights that are extremely valuable to theirclients.

The reason for this book then is to help both beginnerand intermediate astrologers come up with ways that they

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are able to sort out all the parameters in a reading and knowthat they are doing their best to synthesize all the variablesinto a cogent reading for the client. I am writing essentiallyto astrologers in their 20's and 30's, to assist in formulating

their own heuristics. I am not being critical of any astrologerover 40ish, as though there is nothing I can share with them,but by that time they have probably formulated their ownmethodologies by that time, and could also write a book likethis.

I feel that in formulating a reading there are necessaryas well as optional methods that astrologers need to utilizeto incorporate all the important parameters in a reading. Ihave my methodologies, as do other astrologers, and eachhas it's efficacy, but there are still a set of necessary

parameters that I feel all astrologers should be able toelucidate to have the fullest understanding that an astrologyreading is able to give. It is these parameters that I will talkabout at length in this book, in the hope that the astrologerwhen finished has an insight into greater scope of ideas thatthey will be able to wield, and should be able to wield in areading, even if there is not time for all of these ideas to bediscussed.

This is, in a sense, a duty book. Tropically, Saturn is in

Virgo, and I have felt for some time that this book needed tob e written, to help alleviate some of the chaos indelineation, and bring about a methodology to our art. Thatsaid, as a Neptunian/ Saturnian with moon in Pisces, myheuristics remain a solid knowledge base that I thenregularly transcend with leaps of faith and intuition in areading. I am not sure that I truly felt the need to share all of my methods with others, but I am impatient with the lack of methodology out there since the initial generational burst of astrological writing that took place in the 1960's and 1970's,so I felt this needed to be written.

I also felt that, in the manner of method books, thisshould not be a wordy tome, but a concise handbook, (a traitthat my Saturn has and my Neptune regularly washes over).One of my literary heroes is E.B.White, of Strunk and White;"Styles in Composition", Univ. of Chicago press. His writing

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was concise, almost sparse, yet said everything that heneeded to say. I shall endeavor to emulate him in this bookand keep it to almost a handbook size, one easily digested if not referenced.

*Not so my next and hopefully last work. I hope to finishone more work while I am still a progressed Gemini rising.My great love in astrology is watching how the progressionof the planets gives form and structure to successivegenerations in their endeavors. To follow just one planet inits successive orbits gives a great deal of insight into whatits current effect might be in the present. It also gives us themost satisfying looks at the greater picture of humanity'sgrowth and repetitive struggles. I know that this will be a

work of Wagnerian operatic grandiosity and scope, and willbe difficult to contain in any easily limited formula. Wish meluck, and if I do extend into the time that my progressedascendant turns to Cancer, perhaps I will gain in historicalacknowledgement what I lose in time creating the work.

Wish me luck.

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