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New Insights into Astrology: Sex Is a T-Square Number Symbolism Harmonics Aspects Asteroids Research

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Nona Gwynn Press has chocked her book so full of information that it's a little dizzying, but similar to this book's other reviewers, I appreciate its content if not its somewhat uneven organisation.

Asteroid details such as their astrological-mythological meanings and symbologies, dates and places and who discovered them (if known), number symbolism, and more astrological theory and practices await you with New Insights.

I've owned this book for years and continue to use it regularly for the name and degree lists of asteroids. Asteroids' numbers are useful to know especially if you want to check an asteroid's position on a certain date (for which I highly recommend [...]) and Press provides them on her lists of their Heliocentric North Nodes (1990.)

If I could change one thing about New Insights it would be the plethora of personal details unto the generations of Press' family. But I'm not one who prefers Astrology books with lots of chart examples - if you are, then you'll like this feature.

Harmonics are covered in ways I've not found in other books (Addey's and Hamblin's are the ones I use) so if you have a yen to understand more about Harmonics charts, this book will add to your knowledge base. Her information on Composite Charts may be a subject of interest as well, and I was happy to find that details on using Arc Transform charts are included - not info you find every day.

Also covered are Lunations and Solar Returns, and you'll find a useful list of Uranian Planets with their glyphs and keywords. Press' brilliance with statistics shines through on all subjects - ex: Delta Correction, a brief discussion on ephemerides' time differences.

On each of Press' subjects, authorities are cited, some quoted, giving readers springboards for further research.

All in all, I'd say New Insights is an Astrology book of a different kind, a little swirling, perhaps occasionally unsatisfying, very wordy, but well worth having on your shelf when you want to read something out of the ordinary from the world of Astrology!

This book tackles such fascinating subjects as Midpoints, Arabic Parts, & more. Once you've mastered basic skills, you'll want to try out some of this stuff for a fresh look at your "old chart"! Lots of new concepts worth digging into and a few gems that really hold the keys to life. I didn't get this bok for the first few years I had it, and then suddenly, the Lightbulb went on in my head. Thanks, Nona!

This is a wonderful book written by someone very experienced in astrological research. It is full of wonderful asteroid work connected to myths. It is not for the beginner, but if you have your meat and potatoes astrology behind you; this book is a mind blower adding the Italian parsley, basil, shallots and capers to the blend.

The nuances and differences are well described by adding asteroids. You will want to add to your astrological vocabulary if you have the basics down. This book will open up new astrological and intellectual horizons!

Think of having a good vocabulary, but upping the ante with a huge vocabulary using the asteroids and other important points. It is also chock full of other interesting finds for the more experienced astrologer with a few years of practice behind them.

I highly recommend this book.

There are some good ideas proposed in this book. Number symbolism (the degree that a planet is in tells something about the age that this planet will work), the asteroids and harmonics to sum up some. But I find that mingling all the mentioned systems is wrong. The author finds relevant events in one's life by using the asteroids, minor aspects, etc. This way one can prove anything! This is not a good system if you want to predict. You should read the book but you will not learn what is really important in a natal chart.