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The following is from the Foreword by Ben Dykes.
In The Cycle of the Year, my friend and colleague Charlie Obert is doing a great service to students of astrology and the traditional revival in particular. The traditional approach to prediction not only included a number of techniques not widely known today, but combined them in special ways to include both symbolic and real-time motions. The “cycle” or “revolution” of the year refers not just to solar revolutions (solar returns), but all of these techniques taken together and revisited on an annual basis.
Charlie begins by providing a solid but easy overview of key interpretive concepts, especially the idea of “time lords,” and explaining that these techniques combine both symbolic time and motion, with real-time motion (such as transits); we could even say that solar revolutions bridge the gap between them, because a solar revolution is a set of transits at a symbolically important time (a year). Further chapters use numerous natal charts to explain and illustrate transits, profections, primary directions, the fuller technique for directions called “distributions,” solar revolutions, and then directions of the solar revolution Ascendant.
Charlie’s book is also valuable because a number of nativities are addressed more than once, with multiple techniques. And happily for the student, he explains how to program and use the free Morinus astrology program. Finally, he includes advice on what to prepare for client consultations when you use these techniques.
I know that you will appreciate Charlie’s straightforward approach to training people in these powerful techniques, and your astrology will improve as a result!
Benjamin Dykes
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