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Llewellyn's 2010 Daily Planetary Guide: Complete Astrology At-A-Glance (Annuals - Daily Planetary Guide)

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While I would still like to see a period of about 2 weeks added from the preceding and succeeding years to make the transition between two editions of this guide easier, I would still highly recommend it. Llewellyn maintains consistency for the casual user (like myself) and keeps the most important information front and center. I usually modify the planner by adding color coding for the void of course Moon periods so they stand out more, but otherwise it's a very useful guide. The opportunity periods that are displayed here are one of the most significant events in our daily lives. In fact, major decisions made during the VOC Moon periods are statistically so prone to failure that using this guide properly could actually save you a bunch of money - like it does for me! I never make major purchases, for example, during the VOC periods, instead I wait (if I can) for the opportunity periods. There are a few other things that, if you'd pay attention to them, would greatly enhance your life, and the guide does mention them, but you have to look and read up if you don't want to miss out. Color coding would have been helpful here too, but of course would make the planner more expensive. An electronic version would of course be the solution. Something else that you might want to consider is using the planetary hours, which you can find under personal daily horoscope on [...], though they are also mentioned in this planner. In other words, it's chock full of information, keeping track of it all is another thing.

I've been getting these for several years now and I'd be lost without them. If you're an astrologer, you can go back through the books from years past to view aspects and events at the time. I write down phone numbers throughout so I can get them again if necessary, I know the aspects when I made my last big purchase ... if I leave it somewhere, which is unlikely because I tend to guard it, I must go back to get it immediately. They're the most useful books I've ever had, and I'm a real book nerd.

Jeanie

I've been using these guides for several years now and I agree with the other reviews. I like the overall layout and easy to understand information. I use these guides regularly. I am still recommending these guides to others.

This is my favorite daily planner. I've been using it for about 5 years and buying it for Christmas gifts. It's great for everyday plans as well as checking the signs.

This planetary guide is a 'must have' astrological tool I purchase every year. Not only is there a daily ephemeris, but also a daily aspecterian between prime planets which gives me beaucoup information literally at my fingertips. Included are adequate areas where I can log necessary business & tax information, as well.

I have used this calendar for a number of years, since it first began to carry the Opportunity Periods of Jim Shawvan. I buy one for home & one for office.

"If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all"
- and I am at best a novice at astrology -
- but the Opportunity Periods help a lot.

It is clear about moon-changes & other astrological moments, so I am able to utilize what little else I know of astrology (e.g., I like it for planting the garden) - and it's clear about my time-zone & what planets are where, when.

Well done book, good explanations in the verbal chapters as well.
Easy to see, easy to read, and space to make notes for each day.

This is the second year I've used this version of spiral, daily ephemeris. For years, I used Jim Maynard's. Maynard's has been subject to several mistakes. Granted, his version is creatively beautiful and Llewellyn's is not, but besides accuracy, the latter provides daily inconjuncts including asteroids, which I find helpful.

This is the most useful astrological calendar available. My only suggestions to Llewellyn would be to add a few more handy articles/tables to the book, to put the week number and day number in the day slots. and to put little indentations for quick access to the ephemeris. But again, these things are more important for students that don't think of them, rather than a practitioner like myself. As for me, let's just say that it hasn't left my desk since it arrived. For me, that's saying a lot. I often take it with me, because doing both horary and electional astrology (answering questions and date selection) are a snap with this handy item.

This is a great week by week guide with easy to use charts
very well written

The annual editions of this guide have been by my side for over 2 decades of use in regular research on planetary shenanigans. If you happen to be interested in a lengthy diatribe, I've explained my background and reasons for this in my review on the buying page for the 2006 Daily Planetary Guide (Llewellyn's Daily Planetary Guide). A few changes occurred in the 2007 DPG from the 2006 version, all of which have been detailed on my and other reviews on that buying page, 2007 Daily Planetary Guide: Llewellyn's Astrology Datebook (Llewellyn's Daily Planetary Guide).

What I'd like to repeat here is the usefulness of the Opportunity Periods from Jim Shawvan. Having used those for a few years, I can say that they continue to be indeed helpful. It has been my practice to observe daily lunar cycles in this way used by Shawvan since the early 80's when I was a practicing professional astrologer and parapsychologist. At that time, I began following my own personally devised system of using (adapting to my perspectives and needs) Horary Rules of Moon Aspects to the planets, sun, and Moon in our Solar System, with the Last Aspect prior to the Moon's going Void of Course being always the overriding answer to any question of timing. It's a complicated system, but produces fascinating results.

I was amazed and impressed to see Shawvan presenting a very similar system in Llewellyn's DPG. Now, I use my own daily research processes in a much more efficient way by basing off the work Shawvan has already done! I do still miss the removed data in the DPG (begun in 2006 year's version) of the less potent aspects (*see my NOTE below), though am happy to see that the monthly Ephemeris placements of Chiron and the 4 major Asteroids have been reinstated. The trade-off of losing the more subtle aspects, but gaining the Opportunity Periods is understandable. As they say in the industry of magazines and newspapers, "Space is at a premium." I'm no longer a practicing professional astrologer, though I always watch cycles and have continued my regular research from those observations. I gradually decreased my regular consulting practice when I began writing novels full time in 1985, when THE ROSE AND THE PYRAMID surprised me by rushing into my mind so fast I had to talk it onto 6 one-hour cassette tapes, then have it transcribed into manuscript form. That novel has continued selling (now in used copies) since its publication in 1987 (even though I took it out of print in 1988). See its buying page here on Amazon, in the Customer Forum, for the "rest of the story."

That novel, along with a paranormal murder mystery, Myrtle's Ultimate Mystery (A Myrtle Drinkwater Astrological Investigator Mystery: 1), are now available on KINDLE, along with 12 other books. Myrtle is an astrologer investigator using Horary to discover what's going on behind the scenes in any situation. Copies of some of the chart wheels Myrtle uses are provided within this latest Kindle edition.

One my other books on Kindle, The DAYS of COFFEE & DONUTS: Non Toxic Soapbox Satire: Who or What is De-Kindling Life? (Nonfiction), offers a section of astrological updates of the type I had been doing regularly, which are similar to those mentioned about provided by Shawvan.

With continued appreciation for this time saving, handy daily data,
Linda G. Shelnutt


* Note: The supposedly less potent aspects (Semi-Square, Semi-Sextile, Sesquaquadrate, Quindecile - for which I have a set of different terms not yet published, hopefully to be published one day on KINDLE) become very much more potent than they had originally been given credit for as their daily motions progress into part of various geometric Formations (called an Aspect Patterns by some astrologers).

Since the beginning of my studies in Astrology in 1979, I have been fascinated with Formations, which are made up of at least three planets in angular aspect with each other, as viewed and experienced from Earth's angle of perspective, and which can look like a Kite, a Grand Cross, T-Square, Mystic Rectangle, or a slender pie shaped figure called a Yod.

When I began noticing additional geometric designs (in Transits and in client's charts) beyond the most commonly used ones, I was compelled to begin studying them. For additional info on those studies, see my KINDLE book noted above, THE DAYS OF COFFEE & DONUTS, Part 4.

The point in this note, however, is that the less potent aspects, indeed all aspects become very potent when they seat in their motions into a tightly designed Formation.

For those continued observations, and for use in my study of 8 lunar phases instead of 4, I do miss the previous (2005 and several years prior) DPG's easy, lazy reference, of daily pre-calculation of these lesser aspects. I can do my own calculations, but I rarely take time to come to the exact minute of a Semi-Square or Sesquaquadrate to know the precise time of "arrival" of one of the 4 additional lunar phases within the usual 4. I definitely miss that timing, because sometimes those lunar phase transitions can be precisely significant. Probably most astrologers won't miss DPG's discontinued listing of lesser aspects on the daily pages.

Chiron and the 4 major Asteroids have been reinstated into the monthly Ephemeris at the back of the guide, and with the current offering, the daily aspects to these have been reinstated. I appreciate their return.
(I've added a few photos related to this review on the Amazon page for the Llewellyn's 2009 Daily Planetary Guide: Complete Astrology At-A-Glance (Llewellyn's Daily Planetary Guide).)