THE PRINCIPLES OF ASTROLOGY: Intermediate astrology book 1 - C.E.O.

Carter, $21.95

Contents:

Foreword to the first edition

Foreword to the second edition
Foreword to the third edition

1. Astrology & its subject-matter:

1. The uses & nature of astrological knowledge
2. The Sun, Moon & planets
3. The signs of the zodiac, sign rulership & lord of the horoscope
4. The houses of the horoscope
5. The nature of the aspects
6. Minor considerations

2. The erection of the horoscope

3. The Sun, Moon & planets in detail:

1. Planetary strength
2. The Sun
3. The Moon
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Venus
7. Mercury

8. Saturn
9. Uranus
10. Neptune
11. Pluto
12. Tabulation of basic psychological concepts respecting the planets

4. The qualities, elements & signs in detail:

1. Their mutual relations
2. The qualities
3. The elements
4. The signs considered in detail

5. The houses in detail:

1. Their meanings
2. Secondary house influences
3. House-orbs
4. Methods of house-division

6. The judgment of the horoscope: Character:

1. Character & destiny in child & adult
2. Moral status
3. Disposition & temperament. The effects of the planets in the signs
4. Intellectual abilities
5. A table of the effects of the aspects

7. The judgment of the horoscope: Destiny:

1. Health & death

2. Relatives, marriage & friends
3. Vocation & finance
4. Accidents & violent deaths
5. Parents & children
6. Travel
7. Religion, mysticism & occultism

8. Examples of delineation

9. Personal appearance

10. Prognostication:
1. Classification of factors
2. Transits, lunations, revolutions & the diurnal horoscope
3. Secondary progressions
4. Primary directions
5. Symbolic directions
6. Rectification

11. Horary & electional horoscopes:

1. Horary questions
2. Elections

12. Theoretical considerations

Bibliography
Index

Comment:

While Carter said he intended this book for "beginners", he didn't quite mean
that. While he does spin you through the basic signs & houses, while he tells
you how to construct a chart (both north and south of the equator), if you've
already grasped that, you'll be prepared for the amazing details, the
practical, hard-won, sharply observed things that you simply won't find
anywhere else. Open the book anywhere & you'll be surprised. Mutable signs
rising tend to slouch. What's another way to spot a Leo rising? They love fur.
Did you ever really want to know what death looks like in a chart? How about
infant mortality? Carter gives you the good, and the bad, and so much more
as well. Get this book (and the companion, Some Principles of Horoscopic
Delineation, below), and, using them, learn astrology and unlock his other
books, among them: Astrology of Accidents, Encyclopaedia of Psychological
Astrology, Symbolic Directions in Modern Astrology, all of which you will find
elsewhere on this page.

But enough of me. Here is Carter, himself. From the Foreword to the first
edition:

The present work is designed to give a clear and concise presentation of the
essential facts of modern Astrology.

A good deal of experience in teaching the average beginner has convinced

me that, while there are several text-books suitable for the use of the more
advanced student or of a novice who has the advantage of personal tuition,
the majority are either too prolix or too condensed for one who is compelled
to be his own instructor. Moreover, Astrology is now to some extent in the
melting-pot : on the one hand, many new ideas are being introduced ; on the
other, statistical research, such as earlier astrologers could not carry out for
lack of sufficient data, has cast considerable doubt on the validity of portions
of the rather incoherent mass of tradition that till recent years represented
astrological science.

The beginner does not wish to be confronted with controversial matters,

however attractive he may find them later. He requires, firstly, a statement of
what may be regarded as known astrological facts ; and secondly, an
explanation as to how these facts affect human life. It is this that I have
aimed at giving him.

An endeavour is made not to neglect the theoretical aspects of Astrology, for

the modern student dislikes what appear to him as isolated statements, and
looks for a logical and synthetic aspect to our teaching, without, of course,
wishing to plunge at the outset into metaphysical speculation. I trust that the
Index will be of considerable use in practice, since it should enable the
student to find readily those passages that deal with any matter that may
trouble him.

Finally, I would express my sincere hope that this book may be of some value
in assisting its readers to grasp something of the true nature and worth of
astrological science, both in the commonest and the most sublime aspects of
human life. Those who have realized what this may mean to the individual
are reluctant to set any bounds to their estimate of the beneficial effects that
its universal recognition, in a proper form, would mean to the human race.

- Charles Carter
Click here for a PDF extract.

Astrology Classics, 216 pages.