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The Perfect Horoscope: Following the Astrological Guidelines Established by Edgar Cayce

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John Willner sticks to the subject and gets to the point regarding astrological truths. His research is verified about spiritual horoscopes. He proves the validity of spitiual horoscopes and offers a systematic approach to proving any horoscope. Astrology needs John Willner. Why? There is only one truth and John brings it out in his book. He solves the differences between Edgar Cayces' astrological readings and traditional non substantiated astrology. Astrology has been sloppy and un-proveable untill John Willner came along. Now a person can use Willners astrological methods as stepping stones to a superior life. Bottom-line John makes his case and backs it up 100%. The results are fantastic.

I've read The Perfect Horoscope, and I would like to say to its author (John Willner): Thank you! This book has given me a much more thorough, logical, consistent understanding of astrology, by having definite principles upon which it is based. The book is brilliantly, originally, logically, consistently---scientically written! (!!)

For the past two-and-a-half to three years, I have been aggravated by the many different astrology books that I've read that are so contradictory to one another---filled with bromides, and so superficially written. Nothing of depth or substance is being said in many of those books, and the frustration of trying to make sense of all the contradictory methods being used within the same field has literally caused me mental anguish, to say the least!

That's where John Willner stands apart! He has depth (and logic---and proof!) in everything he says. He identifies, defines, and shows the one and only correct way astrology should be practice: by using astrological fundamentals. Based solely on the Edgar Cayce readings, John Willner tells anyone how to arrive at a "perfect horoscope".

This book should definitely be read by any astrologer who is serious about arriving at "exact" and "repeatable" horoscopes for each and every individual---thereby allowing astrology to be recognized as an exact science, which it is, when practiced properly!

The goals of this book are laudable, particularly the emphasis on rigor in applying astrological fundamentals to the problem of determining the time of a "functional" horoscope. I also agree with the author's conclusions that there are many situations where only one valid technique can logically exist, and that astrologers are fooling themselves entertaining variants. For the sake of advancing astrological knowledge, I'm not much of a fan of "it works for me".

But there we part ways. Although I agree with many of his conclusions, his proofs are not as strong as he contends, mainly because of contextual oversights and some outright errors in his technical foundations. The use of geocentric latitude is widely considered incorrect for the construction of an accurate horoscope; his True Local Time correction shows a misunderstanding of horoscope calculation (as what he is correcting for is already taken care of when determining local sidereal time from UT); his description of the Regiomontanus house system is incorrect (the equator is evenly divided, not the horizon). His emphasis on the preponderance of progressed aspects in declination overlooks the fact that using the same orb as for aspects in longitude gives as much as 7x greater likelihood of the former aspects occurring than longitudinal conjunctions or oppositions. There is also a question as to the method used to progress the angles: as described in the book, the correct quotidian method appears to be used (angles move 360 degrees per year, based on determing elapsed time, applying the Naibod multiplier to determine the progressed time, and erecting a horoscope for it). Yet one of his disciple's web pages shows the conventional Naibod in right ascension method where the Naibod multiplier is applied to elapsed years to determine the RAMC. That leaves aside the question as to which of the mean (Naibod) or true tropical solar motions should be correlated to the sidereal day. Given the emphasis on the use of progressions to validate horoscopes, these issues related to the calculation and use of progressions are serious.

Finally, none of the examples in the appendix come with events against which one could duplicate his claims of proof.

That said, the book is still a fascinating read with many good ideas, especially that of a spiritual (or astrologically effective) birth time as distinct from the physical time (which is exactly as vague as he claims).

Definitely not a book for beginners; intermediate to advanced students can gain a lot from it, bearing in mind the need to question some of the technical aspects of the presentation.

Unless you have some foundation in astrology, this book does pose a challenge. Yes, I was familiar with some of the chief charactersistics of the zodiological signs, but I was not prepared for the language this book encompassed. Do you know what "one sidereal year is" or what "Arabian parts" are (14,10)? The author tosses these terms about with no explanation. There are other aspects of astrology the author references such as "astrological houses" and "Sidereal and Tropical forms of astrology" that as a beginner I never knew existed and felt totally lost (26).

However, I do not wish to give the impression that Willner is incapable of understanding. If you do your homework and/or are versed in astrology, I am confident you will benfit by reading this book. Willner goes into great painstaking detail that, had I been more versed in astrology, I would have gained greater insight from the wealth of knowlege this author has to offer.

Because of my lack of knowledge, this book inspired me to become more educated so that I can better understand myself, not to mention the book. I now know what my ascendant astrolgical sign is and what sign was in the moon at the time of my physical birth. All of these things influences behavior. I've even tried to discover what my spiritual birth time is, for I too wish to obtain the perfect horoscope.

So, for those who are novices and wish to advance themselves in this field, I would highly recomend this book. Just understand that you may have to do some work on your own in order to fully grasp some of the concepts.