Hello Kim,

A review copy of Flirting with the Zodaic has just arrived. Nice cover. Will have a look at it later today.

Yes, yes, it's still retrograde. A good time to be a fool & say stupid things that I'll regret later.

Dave

I haven't got a copy yet!

Well, you'll be the first person to read it who hasn't been involved somehow (if Garry's looking, a wave and it's been changed a lot).

A good time to be a fool & say stupid things that I'll regret later.

So long as they're relatively nice stupid things, all fine by me

So...have you finished it yet?

Kim

So...have you finished it yet?

I had a look this afternoon, and I liked what I saw. Have the cover scanned. Will go on-line at http://www.astroamerica.com/history.html , probably Saturday.

I know I'm supposed to be some kind of horrible ogre (the plaid variety, actually), but I really appreciate a good book. There just aren't that many. Congrats.

Dave

PS: Any idea what the US price is? (I.e., do you know Margaret's home phone?)

Congrats.

PS: Any idea what the US price is? (I.e., do you know Margaret's home phone?)

Sorry, no. Definitely a Margaret question for Monday.

Kim

Hello Kim,

My notes on your new book are on-line. You can see them here:

www.astroamerica.com/history.html#f48

I think it's an excellent book & a good compliment to Benson Bobrick's Fated Sky. Which, if you've not seen it, you should.

On Cheiro. You mention his encounter with HP Blavatasky, who said that he was Cagliostro reincarnated. Some Theosophists believe that HPB herself was Cagliostro. It might be they have misconstrued the Cheiro story, or it might be that stories about meeting HPB are like stories of meeting JFK, I do not know.

However, I am convinced that charts for two consecutive lives, of highly developed people, will show strong similarites, and by this means such claims may be judged. Planets strong by sign in one chart will generally be strong by sign in the next, though, of course, the actual signs will change considerably. With a nod to M.E. Jones, those with a bundle pattern in one life will not have a splay in the next. What most fascinated me was the casual discovery that houses occupied in one chart will tend to be occupied in the next chart, or, in the case of bundles, similar houses. By this means, if the time of birth is known in one life, it may be deduced in the other.

Dave

Hi all,
behind on my reading and writing of posts.

Dave, let us know when Flirting is ready to ship in the states.

Per the Fated Sky, the author may have taken some liberties with a small portion of the quoted materials. Be careful whereever an ellipsis breaks up a text quote...sometimes Bobrick excises a sentence or two that is not supportive to his point. Or so I've been told by individuals who have double checked the original sources and been unpleasantly surprised by what they found.

Not good academics, that!

Philip , thanks for the explanation about the original edition of Pearce's Textbook.

Kim, it will be nice to have another volume of astro-history on the bookshelf. but...what if one wanted to read your original academic thesis?
What can I say? I like all the BIG WORDS and little footnotes.

Scott

I believe Margaret has shipped to New Leaf, who distributes. So there is stock.

Dave

Kim, it will be nice to have another volume of astro-history on the bookshelf. but...what if one wanted to read your original academic thesis?
What can I say? I like all the BIG WORDS and little footnotes.

No big words or little footnotes in that thesis

My thesis only covers a part of what I wrote about in the book - the period from the late nineteenth century onwards. The only real difference apart from that, is that it's much more strictly referenced - APA style, hence the lack of footnotes. It can be ordered through libraries like all theses, but the only gain reading it instead of the book would be if you wanted to see specific citations for parctically everything I said about the nineteenth century. The book is much better, honestly

Kim