Llewellyn Worldwide - Identifying Planetary Triggers: Excerpt

What does my future hold?

This is one of the most common questions asked of any astrologer. When people rely on you to predict upcoming events, you need to be able to deliver accurate answers. Your input may help make or break an important deal. Now you can answer this question easily and precisely using the information and techniques you'll find in Identifying Planetary Triggers by Celeste Teal.

In this one book you'll learn the predictive techniques that most astrologers take years to discover. With numerous examples, Teal thoroughly explains a number of methods that significantly increase the effectiveness of your interpretations:

- Secondary progressions
- Planetary returns
- Precession
- Diurnals
- Converse progressions
- Anlunars
- Sunrise charts
- Return progressions
- Transits

The book consists of three parts. Part one lays out the fundamentals of assembling and interpreting the progressed chart, including the timing of events. By following the systematic approach, even a relatively new student will be guided to accurate forecasting. Included are dynamic case histories with charts to make the ideas more clear.

Part two will show you how to read planetary return charts. The return of a planet to its birth position represents closure of one cycle and the beginning of a new one in regard to that planetary vibration. A chapter is dedicated to each of the returns, from the Moon through Saturn. You will be guided through a series of steps for interpretation, judging points of energy, and timing events with the transits. Actual case histories with chart illustrations and commentary are included to show the principles at work.

There is a great deal of detail in this section. The book reveals various calculation techniques for returns, such as whether or not to precess a chart and what the underlying difference really is. The effects of three returns in short sequence due to a retrograde planet is discussed, along with information on other related techniques.

The third section is dedicated to transits. Although the book is filled with insights and new ideas, it also acknowledges that sometimes going back to the source can be highly beneficial. In this case, the author presents the documented findings of Dr. J. Heber Smith. These pages had been kept in the safekeeping of the American Federation of Astrologers, and are now published in their original language, using terms such as "evil transits" that may leave you laughing.

But beneath the older terminology is wisdom of incredible value. Dr. Smith was the first astrological teacher of one of the most famous astrologers of the last century, Evangeline Adams. Adams singlehandedly brought about the legalization of astrology in the State of New York in 1914 after she proved her accuracy in court. She attributed much of her success to the teaching of Dr. Smith.

If you are ready to take your astrological practice or personal studies to the next level and be able to make accurate and specific predictions, this book is a must.