Astrological Timing of Critical Illness [Paperback]

Noel Tyl (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 8, 1998

Astrologer Noel Tyl shows how astrology can predict the onset of serious illness. He explains how aspect patterns in natal/transit charts relate to the onset and development of specific body weaknesses and illness. Case studies, including those of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ernest Hemingway, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Ford and Carl Sagan are presented. The history of medical astrology, and the predisposition to pathologies as indicated by the chart, are explored.

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Plenty of people believe that astrology can be a reasonable guide to personality traits, and many also believe that it is a fairly accurate tool for divination. So why not use astrology as an early-warning system to guard against physical ailments? Noel Tyl has done just this in Astrological Timing of Critical Illness, offering the experienced astrologer a set of guidelines for assessing his or her clients' potential health risks, including congenital problems, cancer, lifestyle-related troubles like heart attack, and even suicide. Tyl's sample analyses get fairly complex, but charts from his clients and celebrities, like Carl Sagan and Theodore Roosevelt, accompany each example, and Tyl is quite clear in presenting the evidence for each of his conclusions. It is important to realize that Tyl is not offering a replacement for proper medical diagnosis, nor are his efforts a method of divining the nature of a person's demise. Instead Tyl suggests a partnership with modern medicine, and a tactic to ward off disaster before it happens. --Brian Patterson

About the Author

Noel Tyl is one of the foremost astrologers in the world. His twenty textbooks have guided astrologers for two generations, and his lecture activities reach out through sixteen countries and some 200,000 miles a year.

Tyl has written the definitive professional manual in the astrology counseling field, the 1,000 page Synthesis & Counseling In Astrology; is consulted regularly by individuals and corporations throughout the world, and directs the Master’s Degree Correspondence Course for Certification of professional astrologers from his office in the Phoenix, Arizona area.

Tyl, a Harvard  University graduate, is also the Presiding Officer of AFAN ( The Association for Astrological Networking), astrology’s world organization. His most recent titles include Solar Arcs, Predictions for a New Millennium, and Astrology of Intimacy, Sexuality, & Relationship, all published by Llewellyn Publications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (May 8, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567187382
• ISBN-13: 978-1567187380
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #553,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The beginnings of a valuable research approach, October 25, 2000

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This review is from: Astrological Timing of Critical Illness (Paperback)

After nearly 30 years studying astrology and tarot, and teaching them as a single unified subject on simegen.com, in seminars, and in my book series The Biblical Tarot, I now see Noel Tyl's entire approach to astrology as fundamentally different from anyone else's (except his own students perhaps).

Some people thrive on this angle of approach, others are mystified and think his writing style is at fault, and others reject it in their bones and believe his astrology faulty.

As a professional writer of fiction and nonfiction, and teacher of writing (also on simegen.com ) I judge Tyl's writing style as exactly appropriate to project the underlying philosophy of his approach to astrology.

Tyl's is a psychological approach and his style is an exceptionally lucid version of the style you will find in most psychology textbooks. By reading a few paragraphs of his work, you can probably decide if his approach is for you.

As a mystic who is also a science fiction writer trained in Chemistry, I find that Tyl modernizes astrology by correlating and re-interpreting the Ancient Wisdom in terms of what modern science has discovered about the human psyche, personality development process, and the scars left by even the most benign upbringing. In the Tyl approach, nature, nurture and karma come together into a picture of the whole person, and the wholeness of Life as an ongoing developmental process.

ASTROLOGICAL TIMING OF CRITICAL ILLNESS is not a book that can be easily read and understood outside the context of Tyl's basic approach. This one is an advanced book for the student of Tyl's version of astrology. It would seem opaque even to an accomplished practicing professional astrologer if that astrologer were steeped in a different set of assumptions about Life and where astrology can fit into Life.

If your skills aren't up to comprehending an advanced astrology textbook on an extremely specialized branch of astrology, buy this book and put it away on your top shelf. You'll get to it eventually, and it could save someone's life. So many of Tyl's books are out of print, I wouldn't let the chance to stock this one go by.

In the meantime, read it quickly for the definition of the quindecile aspect and the way Pluto tends to show up as a harbinger of a health-challenge. Then notice those elements in the charts you analyze, take notes, track your clients, and see if these clues help you help them. If so, sit down one weekend and really read this book cover to cover.

To get the most out of this book you'll probably need to follow the footnotes that refer to many of Tyl's other works -- on midpoints, developmental deficit and the moon's nodes, and especially on the Pluto involvement in extreme Prominence and fame (which is treated in Synthesis & Counseling in Astrology : The Professional Manual by Noel Tyl ).

Most of Tyl's life work in astrology consists of contributions which are just the start of a line of research that will have to be carried out by teams with serious funding at their disposal. Some enterprising medical student may one day use this book to design a project and apply for a research grant.

Even if you don't like or subscribe to Tyl's approach, you should come to understand his theories so you'll understand that research when it's published. And it will be.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Difficult and eccentric; heavy sledding for beginners, July 4, 1999

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This review is from: Astrological Timing of Critical Illness (Paperback)

Tyl's usual combination of gobbledygook, pendantry, and his annoying push to create acceptance for an aspect he terms the "quindecile" an aspect whose degree no other astrologer agrees with, not even Karen Hamaker-Zondag, all make this book just one more of Tyl's attempts to define himself as the age's leading astrological intellectual. As usual with most of his writing, he fails to clearly define his terms, and the conclusions that he leaps to in his many example charts will startle and mystify most seasoned astrologers. Why, for example, Neptune/Pisces/12th House emphasis should indicate potential blood problems is not very clearly discussed--usually the body part attributed to this complex is the feet--and Tyl acknowledges a few contemporary medical astrologers, while dismissing others who had decades of practical medical experience and tutelage. If you've got the patience, you can probably learn something here, but you probably won't figure out how to predict and avoid your own or others' maladies--at least not based on this material.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For Careful Readers Only, August 8, 1999

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Larry Martin ([e-mail]) (Dayton, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Astrological Timing of Critical Illness (Paperback)

Noel has once again written an astrological text based on his extensive research. It's important to note that this book is simply not for those who want an instant answer. You will have to READ the book and admit that more study is needed. Noel breaks new ground by introducing the Quindecile and the importance of the 12th house. Anytime someone discovers something new, it warrants study. In spite of the lack of clarity in parts, a careful read will deliver a far better understanding of medical astrology than any other text in print. This is an absolute must have on any astrologer's shelf. This is a job very well done! ...hopefully a sequel is in the works!