AstroBookReviews with Evangeline Adams

I found a couple of books by her in the library.

"Astrology for Everyone" is basically a beginner book, introducing the concepts and whatnot. The interesting thing is that her voice is JUST as fresh and modern as anything I read that is more contemporary. The one quirk I really noticed is that she seems to have been told to avoid using technical language like "trine", so when discussing examples of famous people (actresses and presidents/military men), she'll say stuff like, "the Sun is friendly to Saturn." But seriously, she could be writing today. It astonishes me, since I generally cannot get into older books much.

I just started "The Bowl of Heaven" with her. This is not a full-on review yet, but it starts out darned good so far. I've had issues figuring out horary in the past- I am fascinated, but oh so confused trying to juggle it all. (Horary Astrology Plain and Simple tries....but, well...). But she's got a method of using it that any old fool can do, including me.

"The ancients, in their Horary Astrology, considered only the mundane positions of the heavens at the time the individual sought an answer to his query. I consider also the position of the heavens in relation to the individual's own chart. The difference may seem trivial. But every competent Astrologer who reads these words will know that it is fundamental and I assert as a fact, which I have established after years of research and experimentation, that if I draw my conclusions from the position of the planets in combination with the chart of the individual at the moment I am asked to decide a given question, I will get my answer- and it will be the right answer.
This is my method. I note the degree that is rising at the moment my client enters. I then adjust his chart so the corresponding degree in the chart will be an "Accidental Ascendant," and procceed to read the horoscope as if it were the chart."

Planetary indications:

• Position of Saturn indicates the source of worry
• When the moon appears in the accidental ascendant, it indicates a journey or change.
• If Mars is rising, she sees an operation, accident, or quarrel as the first thing happening to the person.
• If Neptune is ascendant, some form of intrigue or camouflage is coming, or that the individual is self-deceived.
• If Uranus is rising, don't take seriously any seemingly promised good or threatened misfortune, because the unexpected will happen.
• If Venus, Sun, or Jupiter is the rising planet, new love, new honor, or new blessing is coming. "Regardless of the position of other planets in the chart, indicating either ill or good fortune, I know that my consultant's own life and happiness is assured for the moment, and that his immediate future will be rosy."

I had to go try this out...at 7:35 in the morning. Here is the chart.

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