Eclipses: Predicting World Events & Personal Transformation (Special Topics in Astrology) (Paperback)

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"Deeply engaging and well-organized, Teal's Eclipses would make a top-notch addition to any astrologer's library." -- Dell Horoscope, June 2006

"Patrons interested in horoscopes, current... events, and how eclipses can assist in personal development would find it an interesting read." -- Library Journal, January 25, 2006

...Eclipses would fit in well in a public library or subject-specific library with New Age materials. -- Library Journal, February 15, 2006

Product Description

Eclipses play a crucial role in the fates of nations and the lives of individuals. Nationally known astrologer Celeste Teal draws on nearly thirty years of astrological experience to explain and illustrate how eclipses act as cosmic telegrams about the current state of our world, our personal lives, and our relationships with others.

Eclipses illustrates how recent and historical events can be linked directly to eclipses, and provides predictions for their effects on world events in the next decade and beyond. Readers will explore the effects of prenatal eclipses on the natal chart, as well as past, present, and future eclipses. While eclipses are often mentioned in monthly horoscopes, no other book has ever attempted to demonstrate how these heavenly events are observably connected to both world events and personal affairs.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (March 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738707716
• ISBN-13: 978-0738707716
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #247,372 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book I Can Use On A Planetary Scale, January 7, 2007

By	A. Walker (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is NOT one of those books on astrology with a title that sounds like its something you need, that starts off well-intended and becomes a wallowing, multi-tangented meandering about the landscape, dragging you through endless cul-de-sacs of examples you can never use in real life.

Then there are other astrologers who seem intended on using astrology like a pipe wrench to twist your perspective to their world view with a seemingly Stalinist interpretation of an innocent Zodiac. When will astrologers get it through their heads that we, the book-buying public want the principles of astrology, not the endless chopstick-picking through of individual natal charts or their useless, blind personal biases?

I was looking for clarity. I found it here in Eclipses, and this book eclipses those mindsets!

I found "Eclipses" to be everything I'd hoped (but hadn't expected) it to be when I'd ordered it. First off, it was a truly interesting read the first time through. Rather than slogging through a few chapters at a time, holding my nose and eating Rolaids while taking notes of the precious few details of information as I would with most other astrology books, I was surprised to find myself looking forward to each successive chapter, and ended up reading it in one enjoyable sitting. I really must commend Ms. Teal on this book. It must have a nice natal chart.

It's logical in format, uncluttered and concise, intelligent, precise in content, unbiased and yes, I actually have it at my desk to use frequently as a reference. This book is remarkable in how it spotlighted the information and cut a path from a logical beginning through the present and into the future. Great information included up through 2012. She even intuited what questions you would've asked and had some great chapters on future events having to do with the economy and the U.S. and world events already worked out.

This is one book that will never share company with those other books in that special place on the bottom of my bookshelf, where I allow my cats to practice their paper recycling techniques.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A pioneering work, May 6, 2006

By	Steven M. Johnson (Torrance, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have long been curious about the astrology of eclipses and was glad to find Teal's book. I had forgotten that a while ago I had purchased her previous book, "Identifying Planetary Triggers" but never had time to read it. I set aside time to read "Eclipses," and was hooked. I was so impressed with "Eclipses" that I purchased a used, yellow-highlighted and underlined copy of her first book, "Predicting Events with Astrology," and have embarked on a program of reading all her books. She is a master teacher. Her writing is so clear that a hobbyist like myself can follow the principles without getting lost. She expresses her ideas compactly in beautifully clear English. Her enthusiasm for astrological research is infectious. Soon I was using her charts to find correlations between eclipses and events in my life. There was an eclipse negatively aspecting my natal Mars before each of my three surgeries. Looking at recent eclipses, I correctly foretold an event in my son's life, based on an eclipse that touched planets in my wife's and son's birth charts. Teal has a deep memory for all she has learned in 30 years of study and is able to meld conclusions reached by ancient researchers with her own unique theories. This is a pioneering work.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A valuable addition to the astrological literature on eclipses, August 27, 2006

By	Anthony Louis (USA) - See all my reviews

Celeste Teal has put together a thoughtful and well researched book on eclipses. She has clearly done her homework and read the relevant literature, but with a questioning mind. Rather than take traditional beliefs about eclipses for granted, she has put them to the test and come up with some new findings of her own. For example, she demonstrates convincingly that lunar eclipses have an effect for much longer than was traditionally taught. She explains that there are two ways to "end" an eclipse, either by its natural cycle or by a pass of Saturn, which was new to me. She gives a useful rating system for determining how powerful an eclipse is likely to be in world events. Much of the book is devoted to mundane astrology with a discussion of charts of world leaders or events. She does spend some time on the charts of ordinary individuals but does not provide their birth data, so the reader does not have the opportunity to study the individuals' charts along side the eclipses that affected them. I found myself wishing for that data as I read the chapter on Real People & Their Eclipse Stories. For the reader's convenience there is an appendix with a listing of all solar and lunar eclipses from 1900 through 2054.
Unfortunately this listing has some minor errors and typos. The absence of the "real people's" charts and the typos in the appendix are the reason I gave only 4 stars. Otherwise, this book is well worth the effort. I learned a lot about eclipses and have been using them more in my astrological work as a result. This book would be a valuable addition to any astrologer's library.