This is a ‘must own’ book for any serious astrologer who thinks
it unhealthy to look at a computer screen for hours on end. Essentially it is
a list of tables from ephemerides. There are lists of all sorts of phenomena;
ingresses, eclipses, outer planet aspects, stations - all so useful as to be
essential and presented in the way you would want them. Planetary history and planetary futures are in these pages - the tables run to 2020, 2050 or further and reach back a long way too. For example there was a Neptune-Pluto conjunction in 83BC and there will be seven planets in the 20 degrees of zodiac from 14 degrees and 49 minutes Gemini on 7th June 2032. At the end of the book there are beautiful colour mandalas generated from the interrelationships between planetary pairs.
The book came about because the ACS ephemeris guru Michelsen was often asked
to generate special reports of phenomena by interested parties, who were often
astrologers. This started in the early 1970s, and the honing down of what astrologers truly wanted must have gone on until publication in 1990; it shows in the product. When it came
to putting this book together, he and his team had obviously isolated the choice
items to print. The result? An incredibly well-presented, useful and fascinating reference book.
Please note that contrary to the picture, it is also the biggest format of those in this top ten, with pages a little smaller than A4.
