What makes the Student’s Text-Book of Astrology unique is its unparalleled wealth of detail. Topics include Personal Appearance, Character and Mind, Health and Accidents, Finance, Occupation, and much more. For each, Robson gives specific rules of judgment and then supplies aphorisms collected from many ancient sources. The result is one of the most comprehensive astrology books ever written.
Author’s Introduction:
For many years there has been a demand for an up-to-date, concise and comprehensive text book of Astrology that is complete in itself and does away with the necessity of purchasing one or more additional volumes, and it is primarily to meet this need that the present work has been undertaken. The method of arrangement that has finally been adopted is in some respects new, inasmuch as it has been my endeavour to make each chapter complete in itself and so dispense with the usual annoying necessity of turning back to the introductory chapters in order to find the influence of the planets and signs on the particular matter under consideration.
Each chapter is, therefore, arranged so as to include the general rules applicable to that section, the specific effects of planets and signs, and a number of special rules or aphorisms. By including the latter I am aware that I lay myself open to the charge of treating the subject in too cut-and-dried a manner, but I have endeavoured to correct any such view of astrology itself in the chapter on general principles of judgment, and moreover, many of the rules are of such value that it seemed a pity to omit them, especially as accuracy and definition of judgment are the qualities most needed in present day astrological practice.
A good deal of hitherto unpublished material will be found scattered throughout the book, and as much detail in every case as could be convenien’tly compressed in a manner consistent with clearness. Had space been no object I should have endeavoured to have illustrated each important statement by an example nativity but this would have expanded the work to an unmanageable size, and was found to be impracticable.
Contents:
- The Fundamental Principles of Astrology
- The Alphabet of Astrology
- Casting the Horoscope
- General Principles of Judgment
- Infant Mortality and Length of Life
- Penonal Appearance and Physical Peculiarities
- Character and Mind
- Health and Accidents
- Finance
- Occupation and Position
- Parents, Relatives and Home
- Friends and Enemies, and the Comparison of Horoscopes
- Love and Marriage
- Children
- Travel
- Death
- Esoteric Astrology
- An Example Nativity
- Secondary Directions
- Interpretation of Directions
- Primary Directions
- Minor Methods of Directing
- Rectification
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