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2006 Daily Planetary Guide (Llewellyn's Daily Planetary Guide)

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Since I use the asteroids, I was disappointed that they left them out this year and, also, printed only very small ephemeris pages (four months to a page). Other than that, they have added advice to the listing of aspects for each day, which should be interesting to follow, day by day.

I religiously purchase the Llewellyn Planetary Guide every year but this year I was so disgusted that the MERCURY IN RETROGRADE information was left out in some places and wrong in the tables (back of book) that I called the publisher, wrote a complaint to the publisher, and threw the book away.

Buy the Llewellyn's 2006 POCKET PLANNER. The information there is acurate.

I love Llewellyn's Daily Planetary Guide. I've used them since 1996 when I first began studying astrology.

While they're packed with information, there's still plenty of room to write your appointments and notes on each day. Each day shows the planetary aspects, where the Moon is, and what phase it's in.

A light-hearted, easy-to-understand astrology intro is in the front, with brief explanations of planets, signs, houses, retrogrades, etc. Also in the front are general forecasts for each week. There's even a business guide (best times to sell, buy, etc.).

In the back, there's room for names, addresses, phone numbers, fax, email, bday, as well as space for notes.

The spiral binding makes them easy to open, and the size fits nicely in a purse or backpack. And that's just part of what these nifty guides have to offer.

What more can I say? I think these daily guides are a must-have for beginners as well as more advanced astrologers.

Another reviewer mentioned they don't list asteroids--I haven't received my 2006 version yet, but if this is the only thing missing, the guides are still a terrific deal.

Up until this year there was a useful calendar. I've been buying the Daily Planetary Guide for over 10 years. Over the past few years the text quality of the predictions and other astrological information has been declining. But I really bought this book for the amount of daily information on transits, ingresses, etc., it gave, and regarded the text as superfluous. After purchasing this item, I promptly returned it for the following reasons:

- They've omitted the asteroids and Chiron.

- They've omitted 3 of the aspects: The Semi-Sextile, The Semisquare, and the Sesquiauadrate.

- And they have added the Best Opportunity Periods which are visually distracting, as well as being overly vague and unhelpful.

The omissions are the biggest negatives for me as I've been accustomed to being able to look up this information at a glance. If this is not corrected in future editions I won't be buying this calendar again.

I've bee buying these calendars for years and I love them. One year I didn't get one in time and they were no longer available. I bought a similar item but it just wasn't as well put together as these are. It's great to be able to check at a glance when a retrograde is taking place or look up the meaning of some transit.

This is the best version of the datebook yet. GONE are the Asteroids and "Chriron"...(If you need those for your astrology to "work",You need to go back and study the fundamentals)and Kudos to Llewellyn for hooking up with Jim Shawvan and giving us the opportunity periods based on Traditional Astrology and the Moons last aspect before going Void.used in conjunction with your personal transits, one can find some sweet times(rare as they may be)I could do without the Quincunx aspect in this Planner; I've yet to see the aspects manifestation in daily transit to transit action. The "Weekly Horoscopes" section is another waste.trying to predict for the masses without personal data is futile. The space could be filled with more fundamentals like how to use the guide with your own personal transits or a more in depth houses section.
Overall, Llewellyn has done a fine job of trimming the fat here and keeping it as real as possible. I use mine daily, and I have every Major Astrology program out there. I recommend this guide to my clients as a poor man's electional alternative. Good work.

Llewellyn's Daily Planetary Guide (DPG) is a Helpful Tool For Clock Watching. It is the only Astrological book I buy every year and use daily.

On 12/17 I ordered this guide from Amazon (received 12/27).

In past years I've picked it up at a metaphysical storefront, incense included, treating myself on my birthday in October to a trip to the "city" with retail outlets of a size and bent to stock this type of tool for professional astrologers, though it also works nicely for the novice. Though I usually look forward to the ethereal incense and twinkling New Age music, this time my annual trek & treat didn't happen, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Amazon stocks this item. The convenience of having Llewellyn's Daily Planetary Guide brought by USPS to my rural mailbox made me feel like a kid waiting for a New Year's package instead of a mature woman treating herself to an outing. I admit to enjoying what feels like a game, checking the progress of my orders as they crosses the US byways to me.

I've religiously used this enormously helpful guide since 1980 when I became a consulting parapsychologist and began researching astrological cycles, though astrology is neither a religion nor a science to me. I believe something, or use it as a tool or guide until it proves itself to be off base, incorrect, or wrong.

This useful guide's recent addition of the 5 major asteroids' daily aspects being listed on each day's page has been tremendously helpful in continued research on those mythical goddess, feminine role players. If the review here is correct that these have been discontinued to allow space for additional interpretations on timing for various pursuits, I will miss the asteroid daily aspects, but am hoping they will still be included in the ephemeris at the back of the guide.

(Upon receipt of my 2006 DPG I saw that the asteroids are not included at all, but I'll assume that the majority of the users of this guide would willingly accept the trade offs. And the smaller type used for the condensed ephemeris at the back of the notebook, is in bolder type so that it's easier rather than harder to read for bifocal folks. In fact, the condensation of 2 months/pg instead of the prior 1/pg allows a quicker glance across a few months when looking for a pattern spanning more than a month.)

If this alteration (of removing references to asteroids) described is correct (it was), it would seem to follow a trend of more package interpretation (in this case of the planetary placements/aspects), and less specific, geometric, ephemeric data which each individual interprets for himself. I prefer to make my own interpretations from base data, because, in my 25 years of study I've found that some interpretive astrological texts impregnate their conclusions (supposedly drawn from actual data of planetary placements) with their personal philosophical, cultural mind-sets and prejudices.

(I apologize for being wrong in the above assessment. I hadn't meant to imply that the DPG ever gave canned or prejudiced information; I was referring in my comments here, above and below this insert, to some of the texts and CD's of popular astrology available to the general public rather that for professional use. The addition of the Opportunity Periods from Jim Shawvan appear to be a very useful and accurate, quick assessment tool, and I can guarantee that it is not "canned" and most certainly does NOT "clank"!)

To give an example of what I would call a "canned" interpretation, a popular computer program CD which gives interpretations of astrological data (this was NOT Llewellyn's DPG) warned that a natal chart with Pisces on the Mid-heaven doomed that person to a lifetime of disappointment in career endeavors, and insured a lack of any type of success in that area of life. Should this person commit suicide at the time of reading the label on that can, or wait a while, take time to enjoy spinning his wheels on skid row?

I've observed several interpretations of Pisces on the Mid-heaven, and none of these were poor fishes floundering through life. One of my uncles, in fact, had that aspect. A few years ago, he died at 80-years-old, a self-made millionaire, a man content with life who expired at home, surrounded by the warmth of his wife and family. My brother also has a Pisces Mid-heaven. He concluded his career life, after working every day at a cement plant to support his children successfully until they grew up, by supporting himself in his own business as an auto mechanic working out of a small town gas station. In my book, both those men led successful lives.

According to my natal chart (if interpreted by some of the older, negative astrological assumptions, and, again I should note that this does NOT refer to the DPG) I should have been born dead from a heart attack. I'm 58 years old, and have only had a couple heart attacks attempt to take hold of me in the last couple years. Both were halted in their tracks by a simple use of lavender, which I've explained very briefly in my reviews on essential oils. The first caught me by surprise, so it was able to establish itself enough to give the classic, undeniable symptoms of "the vice" and feeling like someone was sitting on my chest. The second one, I was ready for, and had a bottle of lavender EO in my purse. Breathing it's aroma halted the onset prior to the "heavy heart" feelings, in fact, prior to any symptoms anyone would be able to recognize other than a person as self-aware as I've trained myself to be.

My belief is that everything in life has a positive purpose, including a Pisces Mid-heaven. What I attempt to do is first isolate and identify that positive essence, then look at how humans at this infant stage of consciousness might push to pervert that essence, in order to help clients get the best out of everything in and outside of them, especially including getting the best out of their astrological Mandalas.

I no longer work with clients, however, as my career focus has been, since 1985 when I wrote my first sci fi novel, on producing and getting published in the arena of best-seller escape fiction. Escaping in fiction is one of the best remedies I've discovered for resting from, and sometimes even healing from, the perversions in life brought on by youthful, mass-conclusion-jumping by some of the hotly hostile members of a species with a long way to grow. Are we getting there? You bettcha.

Give me my asteroids!

Okay, all right. I'll get them elsewhere; the trades are worth the inconvenience to my maverick studies.

I apologize heartily for a prior statement, which I've edited out of this review, about "canned conclusions" being in the DPG!! As I'm still munching on my toes, please allow me to spit out that the statement was in reference to what I normally do when reading any canned blurbs on some of my older, mostly non-professional astrological texts and computer fill-in-the-blanks. The blurbs in the DPG have always been some of the best summaries I've read anywhere!

Referring to the foot-in-mouth, lost humor of a few paragraphs above, I'll admit to being immature (in too many senses); I retain the effervescence of that state-of-being by conscious choice, as I simultaneously choose to reserve judgment on any interpretation of any slant of statistic or empirical observation which tries to get me or anyone else to believe he's doomed, damaged, or depressed (when he's MERELY resting or taking a break from the youthful shenanigans of our species or from the catastrophic creaking and groaning of the Universe). Prozac is a landmark product, but not if it's pushed by telling a poor, temporarily grieving (or recharging) soul he'd better take it or else. Or else what? Or else he'll die from a heart attack at birth, or else if he lives he's going to become a detrimental dreg on society as he slithers through live in the gutter lanes of HIS life?

Whose thoughts are in the gutter, I ask you?

I'm clean. Chust took a shower day before yesterday. And I blow the cobwebs out of my brain every time my fingers touch the keypad. Readers are gifted with my silver-spun-cobwebs, which read like words of lace (composed by an egomaniac).

See? I make good use of everything. Waste not want not?

Holy Sh.. is, to me, Sacred Fertilizer, not that barrel of smelly, slimy excrement I just fell into over my head. I be a Scarab Beetle. Be warned to stay away until I'm finished and thoroughly showered.

I coined the term Sacred Fertilizer in 1986, in MORNING COMES, a sci fi manuscript, carrying on a series through the spirit of my fictional character, Mya Gem. Maybe it'll be published in 2006, when time has caught up with it. It's about time. Actually it is, about the Quantum Quality of Time Itself. In that series I contemplate how Time, Energy, Matter, and Consciousness relate to each other to allow physical reality to take place. Such a deal.

To me, untainted, un-canned Astrological observation is the study of the giant Time-clock which is our universe in motion. Unfortunately, some astro interps go for the throat instead seeking the Truth. I try to read negative nonfiction with a grain-of-salt, a pat-of-butter, and a tall glass of water, to ward off attacks on body and soul, and to retain the healthy function, strength, and clarity of my brain (which sometimes blinks "on") and backbone.

I'm cheering Life as we might yet come to know it!

My Mom gave me a pillow with these words printed on its face:

"Before you louse something up, thimk."

That could serve as advice to those who legislate their conclusion leaps, try to take control of Life, then choke all varieties of flavor out of it. To them I say, "Get one."

To myself I say, "Get your FOOT outta your MOUTH! And KEEP it out! Thimk before you sthpeak."

Now with my 2006 DPG in hand, I can back up my words when I say, with both feet clinging to the rungs of my stool, that Llewellyn's DPG is a steal even without asteroids. The guide still tells me what I want to know most, where our solar system's players are at any given moment, in relationship to where we (try to) live.

And this year thanks to Jim Shawvan and his 30-year-observed-and-practiced Opportunity Periods, I have an interesting, promising new tool to test for myself.

I repeat my words above: "This is the only Astrological book I buy every year and use daily."

On Earth. For the Moment.

Linda G. Shelnutt

P.S. For a glimpse at some of my research, and additional hair singing from my dragon's breath humor, feel free to visit my web site, Shenanigans of Stars, Suns, & Moons:

http://hometown.aol.com/lgshelnutt/myhomepage/club.html