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Gently Used, Part 4 (Technical Edition)

Gently Used, Part 4 (Technical Edition)

This is the fourth, and hopefully last, installment of Gently Used for the summer. I made one more trip to Magus and collected some more niche titles; none of these are terribly hard to find online but it’s nice to be able to pull them off an actual shelf. Here’s what I found, in the [...]

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Gently Used, Part 3 (Nerd Edition)

Gently Used, Part 3 (Nerd Edition)

Ok. I lied, and I’m sorry.
In my last book post, I said I had enough books to last me a month, and I wasn’t going to pick up anything new until I was finished with what I had. That didn’t work out so well; the siren song of my beloved Magus Books was too strong [...]

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Gently Used, Part 2

Gently Used, Part 2

I’ve gotten carried away with the used books this week, but there are some real gems coming to me. Most of these ones I’ve read before, but it’s nice to have my own copies now.

Astrology for the Soul by Jan Spiller
Complete Book of Tarot Spreads by Evelin Burger and Johannes Fiebig
Foreseeing the Future: Evangeline Adams [...]

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Gently Used

Gently Used

Yesterday afternoon I stopped in my local woowoo bookstore for a minute, and walked out with a stack of great books. Only the first one here is physically new; the others are used book treasures. I found:

Noel Tyl’s Guide to Astrological Consultation, by Noel Tyl
The Astrology of Fate, by Liz Greene
Saturn: A New Look at [...]

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planetseries

The Planet Series: 8 Classic Reference Works

Quite a few years ago, Para Research published a series of “cookbooks” that for many astrologers have become instrumental in erecting a horoscope. Published as “The Planet Series”, their original run is now long out of print. However, since some things never go out of style, some have been reprinted by other publishing houses, and [...]

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Choosing a Tarot Deck

Choosing a Tarot Deck

(I originally wrote this page for the Seattle Tarot Meetup; it’s been localized for South Florida now.)
Here are some points to consider if you are choosing your first deck:

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Astro-Databank

Current Obsession: the Astro-Databank

I spend a lot of time on Astrodienst anyway, but lately I’ve been really getting into public figures and event charts. This could be due partly to the freebie copy of TimePassages I picked up last month, or maybe it’s for the same reason people read Vanity Fair…
The Astro-Databank wiki contains a massive collection of [...]

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