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Midpoints: Identify & Integrate Midpoints Into Horoscope Synthesis (Special Topics in Astrology)

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"After teaching advanced students for more than a decade I have been continually disappointed and frus-trated by the lack of a comprehensive text on midpoints. Until now. Don McBroom's new book, "Midpoints" combines theory and application into an incredibly accessible synthesis of an otherwise complicated subject.

Reading this book is like sitting with a master astrologer who takes you by the hand and expertly guides you through every twist and turn that comes with learning this technique. Bountiful examples and illustrations provide visual explanations of this tool and blend seamlessly with Don's relaxed instruction.

Basic concepts including midpoint pictures are quickly dispatched and build the foundation for more ad-vanced applications including unaspected planets, the Aries point, and special aspect structures. Don then finishes the book with a basic introduction to how progressions, transits and solar arcs affect midpoints, per-haps laying the groundwork for a follow-up volume devoted to forecasting.

What more can one say about this book? Only that I will make it a required text for my intermediate and ad-vanced classes and will have it close at hand as I prepare my own client' charts."

This book is fabulous. Don took a confusing topic (at least to me) and explained midpoints in such a way that they made full sense. Additionally, I can clearly see now how looking at the midpoint picture in a person's horoscope can be put to practical use in helping a client understand their potential and accomplish their goals and ambitions.

Don's book is not only a wonderful and educational read on the topic of midpoints, but he brings clarity to the planets symbolism, sheds life on their polarity, and shows how simple the process of chart delineation can be.

This book is well-written, no extra tedious or confusing verbiage, with just the right amount of explanation to cause the reader many ah-ha moments. I hope to see many more books by Don in the future.

Author Don McBroom presents a brilliant and easily accessible method integrating midpoint analysis into natal chart interpretation. He provides numerous examples of high profile celebrities to elucidate the value of this technique with amazing clarity, depth and detail. Midpoint analysis is the "icing on the cake" in horoscope preparation, providing a wealth of important and enlightening information in horoscope preparation. This accessible book should be on every astrologer's bookshelf, whether student, novice or advanced practitioner.

For many astrologers midpoint pictures are a mystery. A seemingly busy forest of confusion. But not anymore! Don's book takes you step by step through the forest, revealing the most important underlying trees. Aware that "people make things happen - not planets" Don demonstrates how these trees, our midpoint energies, are used to resolve our needs.

It's not another book of descriptions that you have to memorize. If you're an astrologer you already have the "raw materials" needed to understand and process a midpoint picture. But what you're probably missing is a simple, structured, humanistic formula that allows your mind to use what it knows. And in this Don's book excels!

I whole-heartedly give this book two thumbs up!

I take this book everywhere. The layout of it is structured and easy to read. So many problems that I had with midpoints have now dissolved. It's a much-needed accessory to my learning astrology. I love the formula method for midpoints you use and I am now trying to use this method interpreting aspects such as Natal ones more accurately.

It is very easy to read and for a topic such as midpoints, it is crucially important to have a methodical and logical structure to understand midpoints. I feel certain that Don has achieved this.

I think this is really essential reading for astrolgers at all levels.

Coming from his former life as a pharmacist, Don McBroom carries the physician's caduceus into the alchemical world of planetary symbolism. With this beautifully written book he helps us to understand that we are who we become by responding to our compounds. Midpoints in astrology are little-understood amalgams, so much simpler in design than one would imagine. Every astrology student except the most elementary will surely shout a big "Aha!" after an enjoyable sit with Don's first book. I look forward to many more wonderful ideas from the McBroom closet.

Now that computers have freed astrologers from much of the drudgery involved in calculating horoscopes, computers have also enabled the more time-consuming techniques to reach a much broader base of people. The technique of "midpointology" is one of those formerly obscure techniques. Don McBroom has brought the analysis and synthesis of midoint interpretation into a place where all astrologers can utilize it. Don gives many practical examples and even more tips on fine-tuning generalized delineations that enable the astrologer to fit a client's own personal reality.

Uses well-known people's midpoints to make a point! Informative and useful, but stresses natal midpoints, not transits to midpoints.

Easy to use with the correct midpoint sort, which I was able to do in Kepler easily. Provides insight into the interpretation of midpoints, which ones are important and what the important ones mean.

One of my favorite astrology books. One reading and you add a depth of detail to fill in the blanks on a nativity when aspects are sparse.

5 Stars for sure!