MarkC wrote:. Kirk posted this link a while back under the News, Notices, Books & Links section of the website. The thread is entitled Hand's Talk: Towards a Post-Modern Astrology. Lots of people contributed to that thread discussion. As Tom suggests Hand's article is an excellent contribution to the traditional/modern astrology debate. Nevertheless, it contains the odd conclusion which is open to debate.
I suggest that people who haven't seen or contributed to that earlier thread take a look at what has already been posted on this topic.
I cannot find it through search, perhaps you would be kind enough to supply a link?
I am sure there are NEW and different people responding since the last time.
We all digress in long threads and I truly enjoy being involved or just passively reading ya'all's posts because this is the ONLY forum I have found that is not almost entirely responded to by table top astrologers.
Most (if not all) here are serious practitioners......that is a TREAT!
Monk, come back. if there are those who don't understand your rather eclectic style, that should not matter, for there are those of us who do.
I for one, enjoy it.....it stirs the spirit.
as for the main topic:
I use mostly traditional.......I get results.
What I have kept from modern is that which was originally traditional (as I have learned it......and continue to learn).
I do keep notes on the outer 3, especially in electional, mundane and horary. In natal charts I leave them out of the chart but note them elsewhere towards gleaning "essense" and strengths, debilities of them whic someday-perhaps when I retire and the children have gone on their own- I will compile and study them.
I make exercise with charts that other "in the public eye" astrologers interpret and I will delienate those charts using traditional ways to see if all those extra's were even necessary......or if perhaps I arrive at a totally different outcome.
Sometimes I give up when it just makes no sense (to me) and will probably go back over it in the future after events unfold.
I will use harmonic's in mundane charts and sometimes I look at the different house systems in natal, but rely on whole sign houses for that which I have questions or trouble on/with.
I do not use progressions but I do use transits in conjunction with returns, profections and firdaria. Primary directives are still confusing to me in delinating them.
Traditional is a lot more work but I have found it is worth it.
I cannot read minds nor am I psychic and usually don't want to know what someone else thinks since I believe action's speak louder then words. And as a female I'd get caught up in "intentions" rather than results and if one thing my degree in psychology has taught me is that "that labyrinth has no exit and you end up where you started" (pun intended).
Otherwise, that's about it.