by (author) Ted Denmark
My newly published Revisioning Astrology: A New Look at an Old Squeaky Wheel is now up on Amazon as a Kindle ebook and a color paperback. It was exciting to finally get proof print copies to see how accurately the publish-on-demand digital technology pipeline was going to portray my PDF submission file … and the good news is that it looks really good—especially the cover (though I should have made the background shade of green a little darker)—with the only major glitch being that, for some reason, some of the early illustrations look faded out, and the numerous astrology charts are a little small on the page to read the smaller characters and numerics. I was afraid of the latter going in, but the astrology charts can still be partially used or interpreted from the positions of key colored symbols (planets and aspect lines) at least for an initial assessment by position in the wheel (I hope) for experienced chart readers. I will offer here to send a free PDF copy of the book to anyone who purchases the paperback edition and wants the ebook version to look at blowups of the images for additional details … please just send me a request note (ted.denmark@gmail.com).
It’s hard to know how to do publicity for a book like this; it is fairly deep and intricate and would have a steep learning curve for anyone not familiar with reading charts, and there is so much new material … These days at the quarter century mark of Century 21 there is so much astrology content available on the Internet for chart interpretation and consultation (not sure about metaphysical book stores anymore that were the go-to place for astrology material in my earlier days), but I hope the cover will be able to attract and draw in at least a few curious readers among those now looking for new quality astrology material to read. Every time I find myself talking to someone about the book, I begin to feel that it could be one of the most important titles on the subject in the new post-modern era to attain publication—if for no other reason than to reach students about the featured concept of the “Soul Entry Time Chart.”
This was the main interest for the book’s most significantly inspiring coach and supporter, Hilarion (‘the astrologer’s master astrologer’), to have the book appear (and to whom the book is dedicated). I must admit I agree, but there is so much else that is so valuable and noteworthy to potentially gain attention), and I have myself learned so much of primary significance in understanding the ancient celebrated subject from the new SET chart concept, really, in every situation that I was able to use it—particularly for Julie and myself—which changed my practice like nothing else before it was floated by Hilarion thirty years ago. Of course in the early days it took me much longer to try to figure out and evaluate than I ever imagined.
Perhaps one of the most exciting things that has just happened in the last few weeks that is of major relevance for a main topic in the book concerns the so-called Planet X or Planet 9. A careful comparison of telescopic images of the sky made more than 20 years ago with images made very recently has shown one single slightly relocated pinpoint of light in the starscape that one group of astronomer/ astrophysicists think must be this new massive planet in the solar system on a long 10,000 or more year orbit. This is a really big deal since many scientists who have been aware of various obvious perturbations of trans-neptunian objects for some time, have become convinced that some unknown but very massive cosmic object must be out there, making these otherwise unexpected orbital distortions happen. Discovery of numerous exo-planets and their positions in various observed star systems show that large planets like Planet 9 in long outer orbits are relatively common. I have called this new object Planet Athena for reasons that make a lot of sense based on new material concatenated in the book regarding astrology’s Cycle of Ages and the Vedic Yugas. You might also be interested to learn that this new Planet Athena is the appropriate and now sanctioned new ruler of Libra (and the Golden Age), allowing Planet Venus to be more closely associated with the sign Taurus.
For a second salute to Hilarion, his formulations of the basic understanding of the most fundamental concepts used in astrology—which are somewhat at variance with many conventional mainstream interpretations—yes, even the meanings of Ascendant and Midheaven as well as many others (!)—will be of interest to anyone who gets through the longish appendices at the end. Of course, apologies are in order for this longish read, the distillation of three decades of observation and analysis—if you have time for such reading at all—in a video dominated world of information retrieval, but the Hilarion perspective alone makes it all worthwhile if you are really trying to understand nuances in the subject matter that are not obvious in the toss-up of astrology buzzwords being cast about online these days. Of course, nothing is more democratic than Aquarian astrology, so everyone has a voice to offer an opinion, but astrology is somewhat like dance: it really takes about ten years to really get good at it. So, don’t worry if it feels overwhelming at the start to understand the levels of complexity because the universe itself is infinitely complex at every level; the trick is to realize how simple patterns seemingly hidden within the complexity (the old pars pro tota principle—“the part stands for the whole,” now the Holographic Universe Principle) apply universally and fractally at every level of scale which resonate together as harmonics and sub-harmonics Astrology in the era of the now second generation of quantum field science takes on a whole new logic of coherence.
~Ted