The ABC of the Old Science of Astrology

Astrology has a great future before it. The children of the new era will be educated not by ignorant parents and teachers with out-of-date ideas but by their educated parents and teachers who will have their horoscopes correctly cast for the exact time of birth. -from the Introduction There was a time not so long ago when the new promise of scientific astrology was on the verge of making life infinitely better from the prospect of a more intimate self-knowledge to the wonderful help a correct horoscope is to medical diagnosis. This charming didactic 1917 primer from that optimistic era takes a can-do educational tone in its quest to help young people become their own astrologers. Here are all the astrological lessons any at-home forecaster needs including... . the importance of the time of birth . how to deal with sidereal time . the meaning of retrograde . how to place the planets properly in a horoscope map . orbs aspects trines and quincunxes . how to read an astrological fortune . understanding houses . and more.