Transits And Solar Returns; A New System of Analysis for Two Ancient Methods [Paperback]

Ciro Discepolo (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 2007

<div>ITransits and Solar Returns is a unique text in its genre, for it allows the reader to evaluate the realism of a method illustrated through several well known events from the execution of Benito Mussolini to the incarceration of Sophia Loren in Italy, including the most important victories of many acclaimed champions of sports. Starting from historical data, Ciro Discepolo explains how and why each event took place. As a best seller in Italy and France, this book has been reprinted and republished several times in the span of a few years. New, important sections have been added. Its main quality is the exposure of a method that any student of astrology - experts as well as beginners - may apply. It aspires to demonstrate that such events as the abysmal fall of famous financiers or the tragic death of the cyclist Marco Pantani can be all explained word for word by the thirty rules written by Ciro Discepolo, who invites the reader to verify personally (studying events of the future as well as past chronicles) whether those rules match reality or not. The author has been studying aimed solar returns since 1970. He has been the instigator of more than 20,000 aimed birthdays (up to 2007). He has written over 50 books - most of them on this particular subject. For this reason he is considered the greatest expert by many colleagues in the world on this specific segment of astrology. This is a text of practical astrology, based on many-many years of observations and studies in practice. It addresses itself mainly to those who wish to verify the truth of the assertion: Prediction is a feasible exercise in astrology.</div>

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About the Author

Ciro Discepolo was born in Naples in 1948, where he works as a journalist and writer. He worked for twenty years with the most popular daily of his town, Il Mattino . He worked for five years at the CNR (National Research Council). He has been dealing with astrology since 1970. He has published over 50 books, most of them bestsellers in Italy as well as abroad. In 1990 he founded the quarterly Ricerca '90 , which has been publishing since then. He has been doing statistical researches from the very beginning of his interest in astrology. At the beginning of the 90s, he obtained very brilliant results with researches on astral heredity on a sample of over 75,000 subjects. He has held seminars, courses and lectures in different universities in Italy and abroad, and in several culture clubs. He is deeply interested in informatics. Astrologically speaking, he followed the school of André Barbault. He founded the school of Active Astrology.

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• Paperback: 556 pages
• Publisher: Ricerca '90 Publisher; Reprint edition (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0981462006
• ISBN-13: 978-0981462004
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
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• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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An astrologer, journalist and writer, he was born in Naples in 1948 (on the 17th of July, at 5:40 am)

He worked for twenty years at the most popular daily of Naples, Il Mattino, writing articles on science, medicine, informatics, literature and astrology. He always refused to cast the so-called 'horoscopes of the solar signs' for that newspaper and for any other newspaper or magazine.
He worked (at 20 years old) for five years at the CNR (National Research Council) as Researcher Helper and, for two years, as Electronic Measures Laboratory's head in the Istituto Motori of Naples, CNR.
He has been dealing with astrology since 1970. He has written over 65 books, most of them best-sellers in Italy as well as abroad (France, the United States of America, Spanish, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia and Russia) and he has published over 800 lessons of Astrology on YouTube. In 1990 he founded the quarterly Ricerca '90, which he's been directing since then.

He's been doing statistical researches from the very beginning of his interest in astrology.
At the beginning of the '90s, he obtained very brilliant results with researches on astral heredity on a sample of over 75,000 subjects.

He's been holding seminars, courses and lectures in different universities and cultural centres in Italy and abroad.
He particularly deals with Predictive Astrology and Aimed Solar Returns. According to many colleagues he may be considered the greatest living expert of this sector. In fact not only he wrote a dozen of texts on this specific segment of the art of Urania - he can also rely on an experience of more than 20,000 aimed birthdays (covering the years 1970 to 2007) that he suggested, whose outcomes he collected at an interval of one year.

He developed extremely advanced software packages for the study of Predictive Astrology, also projecting an innovative algorithm which is particularly useful for the dating of events within one year for individuals or groups of people.

He is deeply interested in informatics. Astrologically speaking, he followed the school of André Barbault.
He founded the school of the Active Astrology.


The Active Astrology

The Active Astrology is a school of Astrology founded by Ciro Discepolo at the beginning of the 90's, based on researched that the Author carried out beginning from 1970.
It relies on two main subjects: the Aimed Solar Returns and the Exorcism of the symbols.
The main notion on which the Active Astrology relies is represented by the fact that the beneficiary of this school undertake to try to mitigate the so-called 'negative influences' that supposedly arrives from 'dissonant' positions of the celestials in our solar system in the day and the time of the solar return on its own position of birth (of the native's sky), and at the same time, to potentiate the positive implications that may refer to the native in the same way.

An Aimed Solar Return consists in changing one's place on the day of one's birthday, thus relocating the solar return according to consolidated rules, and spending one day only (few minutes) in a place accurately chosen; which place may, year by year, be distant a few miles from home, or in a different continent.

The exorcism of symbol, on the contrary, relates to the possibility of activating a symbol and therefore discharging it, according to the school of Carl Gustav Jung.


Main works

Nuova guida all'astrologia (4th edition, revised) - Armenia, Milan, 817 pages, 1998. First edition 1979
Transiti e Rivoluzioni solari [Transits and Solar Returns] - Armenia, Milan, 508 pages, October 1997
Nuovo Trattato delle Rivoluzioni Solari [New Treatise of the Solar Returns] - Armenia, Milan, 216 pages, September 2003
Nuovo Trattato di Astrologia [The new Treatise of Astrology] - Armenia, Milan, ca. 800 pages, February 2004
I Fondamenti dell'Astrologia Medica [The Basics of Medical Astrology] - Armenia, Milan, 246 pages - end of January 2006
L'Interpretazione del tema natale [The Interpretation of the Birth Chart] - Armenia, Milano, 336 pages September 2007
Effemeridi e Tavole delle Case [Ephemerides and Tables of Houses], many volumes, different publishers
Astrologia Attiva [Active Astrology], Mediterranee, Rome, 144 pages, autumn 1998
Traité complet d'interprétation des transits et des Révolutions solaires en astrologie - Éditions Traditionnelles, Paris, 504 pages, December 2001
Transits and Solar Returns - Ricerca '90 Publisher, Naples, 560 pages, September 2007
365 nap alatt a Föld körül a szolárhoroszkóppal - DFT Húngaria, 190 pages, May 2006
Temelji medicinske astrologije - Založba Astrološkega inštituta, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 260 pages, March 2007
Prontuari di calcoli, atlanti geografici ed esercizi vari [Prontuari di calcoli, atlanti geografici ed esercizi vari] - many volumes, different publishers
Recherche astrologique sur la schizophrénie - Psychologie et astrologie, Numéro 38 - 1977 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles
La libido et l'investigation astrologique - Psychologie et astrologie, Numéro 47 - 1979 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles
Astralités d'Alberto Moravia - Etude de thème, Numéro 54 de l'astrologue 1981 - Éditions Traditionnelles
Un millénaire de conjoncture mondiale - Astrologie mondiale, Numéro spécial 61, Astrologie mondiale 1983 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles
Enquête sur l'hérédité astrale - Statistiques, Numéro 63 - 1983 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles
Nouvelle enquête sur l'hérédité astrale - Statistiques, Numéro 67 - 1984 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles
Statistique sur 834 nominations ministérielles - Statistiques - Numéro 75 - 1986 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles
Nouvelle recherche sur l'hérédité astrale - Statistiques, Numéro 94 - 1991 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles
L'Hérédité astrale sur 50000 naissances - Statistiques, Numéro 106 - 1994 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles
Astrologie activiste - Réflexions sur l'astrologie, Numéro 125 - 1999 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles
Transits et Révolutions solaires - French edition of "Transits and Solar Returns" - 466 p., 2008
DIE TRANSITE UND DAS SOLARHOROSKOP, German edition of "Transits and Solar Returns" , 646 p., 2008
TRÁNSITOS Y RETORNOS SOLARES, Spanish edition of "Transits and Solar Returns", 664 p., 2009
Lunar Returns and Earth Returns, 304 p., 2009, English edition, modified and expanded, of "Rivoluzioni Lunari e Rivoluzioni Terrestri"
Aimed Solar and Lunar Returns, 220 pages, 2009. It is possible to buy it here: http://www.cirodiscepolo.it/english_corner/English_corner.htm
Новый трактат о Солнечных Революциях, Чиро Дешиполо (Ciro Discepolo), 208 pages, June 2009. Russian edition of "Nuovo trattato di astrologia". See here:
www.astrolog.ru



Complete bibliography: http://www.cirodiscepolo.it/english_corner/bibliography.htm


Main seminars

La soggettività e la oggettività nelle scelte di indirizzo astrologico [The subjectivity and objectivity in the astrologically oriented choices], University of the Studies of Padua, Faculty of Sciences of Communication, in the course conceived by Professor Maurizio Barbagallo, 9th of May 2001 (Link where you can download the relevant video, ca. 80 Mb)
Miti, simboli, archetipi, astrologia, letteratura [Myths, symbols, archetypes, astrology, literature], University of the Studies of Naples "L'Orientale", Department of Compared Studies and Italian Institutes for the Philosophical Studies, edited by Professor Vittorio Marmo and Professor Anna Maria Pedullà, 9th of May 2006 (Link where you can download the relevant audio file)
Miti, simboli, archetipi, astrologia, letteratura [Myths, symbols, archetypes, astrology, literature], Budapest University (ELTE BTK Romanisztikai Intézet), 10th of October 2006 (link)
Astrologia: sì o no?[Astrology: yes or no?], Italian Institute of Culture, Budapest (1088, Bródy S. u. 8.), 12th of October 2006 (Link)



A very short selection of the works in which Ciro Discepolo's works are quoted

Italian Institutes for the Philosophical Studies - managed by Gerardo Marotta - Palazzo Serra di Cassano - Naples, Annuario 1975-2000. In the premises of the Institute
(it quotes three conferences and a seminar held by Ciro Discepolo in different years)
L´uomo che sa leggere nei segreti delle stelle, [The man who can read in the secrets of stars] by Mimmo Carratelli, La Repubblica.it, 4th of February 2007 (Link)
The only guest in the TV programme GAP (Generazioni alla prova), broadcast by RAITRE on the 16th of April 2004 on the subject: The young and the astrology. The program GAP is part of Format, a television space edited by Giovanni Minoli. You can download the video of the program (ca 80 MB) here.
Guest, together with the president of CICAP Steno Ferluga, of the radio program La notte dei misteri, broadcast by RAI Radiouno on the 8th of August 2002 (it lasted all night long), hosted by Gabriella Vasile and Elio Cadelo.
You can download the audio files of the radio broadcast here.
Giorgio Galli - Stelle Rosse, Astrologia neo-illuminista a uso della sinistra [Red Stars - Neo-Enlightenement Astrology for the use of the Left wing], 374 pages, Alacràn Edizioni, Milan, 2006, ISBN: 88-89603-24-0
A letter of Piero Chiara to Ciro Discepolo (Link)
Camilla Cederna - Casa Nostra [Our Home] - Mondadori, Milan, 1983
Luciana Marinangeli - Risonanze Celesti [Celestial Resonances] - Marsilio, Venice 2007, 334 pages
André Barbault - Un siècle de statistiques astrologiques, Éditions Traditionnelles, Paris
Astrologia e Informatica [Astrologia e Informatica] - Magazine BIT, Gruppo Editoriale Jackson, Year IV, number 19
Third Eysenck Research Seminar in Astrology - edited by Professor Hans J. Eysenck, former holder of the chair of Psychology at London University, known for having created psychological tests named after him, Museo Villa Pignatelli di Napoli, 3-4-5 of June 1988. Edition sponsored by the Regional Authority of Campania.
Contributions to the correction of data relevant to the various time zones (Link)
If you search Solar Returns (the astrological subject to which he is mostly committed) on www.yahoo.it, his name appears in the first six documents in a list of about 37 millions (www.cirodiscepolo.it/images/Yahoo20Novembre2011.jpg).





Ciro Discepolo's birth chart: http://www.cirodiscepolo.it/images/TN_Ciro.jpg
http://cirodiscepolo.blogspot.com
www.solarreturns.com
www.lunarreturns.com
www.cirodiscepolo.it

Some my photos: http://www.cirodiscepolo.it/Images_of_Ciro_Discepolo_and_Active_Astrology.htm

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Transits and Solar Returns, January 21, 2008

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Raven Hawk "Raven" (Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Transits and Solar Returns: A new system of analysis for two ancient methods (Paperback)

Being a Professional Astrologer and writer myself, I found this to be one of the best books I have reasd in sometime on the subject of Solar Returns.
I strongly recomend it to anyone with an interest in this area.
The read was easy enough for the student to understand and yet would hold the interest of any professional as well.
Well done, 5 stars!!
CS, Tucson Az

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A dangerous book, August 18, 2010

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I had not heard of this author prior to purchasing this book. As I understand it, he is thought to be one of the best Italian astrologers with years of experience.
Now, about the book. The thing that I liked was that he doesn't mince his words. Good is good and bad is bad. Yes, "bad" very often signifies psychological growth and he mentions that, but this doesn't prevent it from being unpleasant. So, he seems to have a traditional mentality towards astrology. I like that.
The good things however end here. Transits, in my opinion, is by far the most unreliable predictive method. Yet, half of the book is devoted to them in the usual cookbook manner. Mr Discepolo seems to indirectly agree about the unreliability of transits, since in many of his example charts at the end of the book he says something like "by transits alone, no astrologer could have predicted such a horrible year...". However, this didn't stop him from delineating even the Sun transits. Useless.
The most important part of the book is, naturally, not his average interpretation of transits, but what he says about solar returns. He says that if the SR (solar return) ascendant falls in the natal 12th, 1st or 6th houses, you are going to have a terrible year, an "annus horribilis" as he calls it. About the 12th house, he says that although there have been some nasty stuff associated with it, no one has demonized it before him. That's not true. If he were familiar with traditional astrology, he wouldn't be saying things like that. Apparently, he is not.
We can understand why a 12th or a 6th house year can be a problem, but what about the first house? He doesn't offer any explanation. It is so, because experience has shown it is so, that's what he says. But when you come up with a discovery like that, you have to make changes in your astrology. You have to change perhaps your delineation of the first house. Are we to understand that the natal first house is not bad, but the SR 1st house is? If so, why?
What he doesn't say, but other authors have done so, is that when the SR Ascendant is the same as the natal Ascendant, this promises a year to remember. But, whether that's for good or for ill, it depends on the natal chart itself. It's as if this is a year when your natal chart can show its potential. Mr Discepolo, however, seems to treat solar return charts as stand alone charts. He doesn't make any connections between the natal chart and the SR chart, only when it comes to transits.
Now, I've had some 12th and 6th house returns, but I can't recall anything out of the ordinary happening. Ah, he says. Those returns are worse for old people. But when somebody is 80 years old he doesn't need a 6th house return for him to have health problems. These problems come with age.
He goes on by saying that you will also have an "annus horribilis" when there is a stellium of planets in the 12th, 6th and 1st house of the Solar Return chart. So, three more possibilities for a terrible year. But he is not quite finished yet. A terrible year is also promised when Mars is in the 12th, 6th, or 1st house of the SR chart and, of course, when the Sun of the SR Chart is in these houses. Six more possibilities. You can also have a year of bereavement when the Sun is in the 11th house. Why this is so, he doesn't explain. If he had thought about it, he would have realized that the 11th house is the 8th from the 4th. Death (8th) of family members (4th). Now, I'm not saying that you should worry, I'm just trying to give an explanation, because he doesn't feel the need to do so. Furthermore, a 10th house year (SR ascendant falling in the natal 10th house) can also be a problem. Not to mention angular malefic planets (judging from his example charts) in the SR chart. OK, what this boils down to is that half (or perhaps more) of your solar return charts will have one of the above. So, half our life is going to be terrible. It doesn't matter if you have a wonderful birth chart, Mr Discepolo doesn't care. As he points out, bad things happen much more often than good ones.
What he does is find the "index of risk" of the year, based on an algorithm that he doesn't disclose, and warns the client. But what areas of life will be affected? He doesn't know. Anything is possible. It doesn't matter that it's a 6th house year, your health may be fine, but you can get a divorce or get arrested. All it matters is that his index of risk is high, even though (judging again from his examples) sometimes it isn't and people still have horrible years, which of course means that their birth data is incorrect. So, if you are a practicing astrologer, read the first few pages of the book where all the rules are laid out, don't read the rest because no explanations are given and then tell your client that he is going to have a horrible year. Nothing further. If they refuse to pay you, give them a copy of this book.
Wait! He does more than warn his clients. He sends them away from home so that the houses of the SR chart change and cease to be a problem. But where does he send them, I wonder? He has to avoid the natal 6th, 12th and 1st houses, Mars and stelliums in the same SR houses, perhaps avoid the 8th house because it is tricky, avoid the 4th/10th house axis because of angularity, avoid the 11th house because of bereavement. There's not much left, is there?
To sum up, this is a book from an arrogant astrologer, who probably has no idea what he is talking about, but refuses to learn because he believes he knows everything already. A dangerous book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The SECOND Best Book on Solar Returns and Transits in the History of Astrological Literature, January 15, 2010

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As of this writing, I realize that I'm the first person to give this book a four-star rating. Seven reviewers behind me all gave it five stars, but there are just one or two minor details that prevent this book from getting a full five stars.

There is no shadow of a doubt that Ciro Discepolo is an accomplished and knowledgeable astrologer. That goes without saying. "Transits and Solar Returns" is a monumental effort, being one of the few books in astrological literature today to thoroughly examine the intricate individual meanings of both transits AND solar return planets in the houses and by aspect.

However, the one-star deduction mostly comes with the personal attitude he displays in his writing style. He appears to be very condescending at times and overbearing. For example, take a look at his descriptions for Mars in the 1st, 6th, and 12th Houses (or the Ascendant lying in those houses of the natal chart, more specifically). He completely brandishes those placements as negative and something to be avoided, when in fact, you should NOT take those descriptions seriously at all!

For example, I have Mars in the 12th House in Scorpio for my 2012 Solar Return. I will be in Los Angeles at that time going for my Ph.D., and it is during that specific year (beginning around my birthday of Sept. 24th, when the new school year begins) that I will start my Ph.D. research. Wouldn't Mars in the 12th House in Scorpio here clearly indicate vigorously pursuing an activity behind-the-scenes with something research-oriented? YES. It does not indicate "general troubles in every field of life, or one specific and very serious harm." Also, for 2013 and 2014, I have Mars in the 6th House for BOTH those years (in Leo and Sagittarius fire signs, respectively). I will still be in the research phase of my Ph.D. education, or just about to start writing my thesis and making those results public (which if I do make them public, it will be with great enthusiasm, as indicated by the Mars fire sign placements). I really don't see how this would relate to a serious health condition at all. I mean, sure, maybe my Ph.D. education could mentally tax myself, but in my case, that's highly unlikely.

Overall, Ciro needs to infuse a more psychological take of astrology with (what appears to be) his more empirical and fact-based approach. His book is only second to Mary Fortier Shea's "Planets in Solar Returns: Yearly Cycles of Transformation and Growth." If you want the best interpretations for Mars in those three houses, read her! She's got the real answers there.

Other points worth mentioning: I feel that Ciro's inclusion of those example charts is just filler material. That many examples are very unnecessary. Also, with regard to "The Index of Risk for the Year," you could only find that out with a specific software package. Why can't you also find that out manually by yourself? Mr. Discepolo should create a methodology whereby the reader or astrologer could assess certain aspects, positions, placements, etc. for each solar return year and tally up those values (given by Ciro in a table of sorts) to find the Risk Index. I think that in his next edition (which there should be one), he should consider adding this idea into the text.