Astrological Timing of Critical Illness (Paperback)

by Noel Tyl (Author) "In the beginning, when learning astrology, the student is presented with lists of meanings: sharply defined descriptive labels of what the Signs of the Zodiac..." (more)
Key Phrases: accumulated developmental deficit, high developmental tension, cursory diagnostics, Geocentric Tropical, Geo Lon Ded, Solar Arc (more...)

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Plenty of people believe that astrology can be a reasonable guide to personality traits, and many also believe that it is a fairly accurate tool for divination. So why not use astrology as an early-warning system to guard against physical ailments? Noel Tyl has done just this in Astrological Timing of Critical Illness, offering the experienced astrologer a set of guidelines for assessing his or her clients' potential health risks, including congenital problems, cancer, lifestyle-related troubles like heart attack, and even suicide. Tyl's sample analyses get fairly complex, but charts from his clients and celebrities, like Carl Sagan and Theodore Roosevelt, accompany each example, and Tyl is quite clear in presenting the evidence for each of his conclusions. It is important to realize that Tyl is not offering a replacement for proper medical diagnosis, nor are his efforts a method of divining the nature of a person's demise. Instead Tyl suggests a partnership with modern medicine, and a tactic to ward off disaster before it happens. --Brian Patterson

Product Description
Master astrologer Noel Tyl shows that by using transits and other timing techniques, a skilled astrologer can achieve amazing accuracy in predicting a client's predisposition to a host of critical illnesses, including breast and prostate cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and more. You, too, can learn how to use Tyl's techniques through his more than 70 case studies presented here.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 302 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (May 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567187382
• ISBN-13: 978-1567187380
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,165,831 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The beginnings of a valuable research approach, October 25, 2000

By	Jacqueline Lichtenberg "sf/f writer" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After nearly 30 years studying astrology and tarot, and teaching them as a single unified subject on simegen.com, in seminars, and in my book series The Biblical Tarot, I now see Noel Tyl's entire approach to astrology as fundamentally different from anyone else's (except his own students perhaps).

Some people thrive on this angle of approach, others are mystified and think his writing style is at fault, and others reject it in their bones and believe his astrology faulty.

As a professional writer of fiction and nonfiction, and teacher of writing (also on simegen.com ) I judge Tyl's writing style as exactly appropriate to project the underlying philosophy of his approach to astrology.

Tyl's is a psychological approach and his style is an exceptionally lucid version of the style you will find in most psychology textbooks. By reading a few paragraphs of his work, you can probably decide if his approach is for you.

As a mystic who is also a science fiction writer trained in Chemistry, I find that Tyl modernizes astrology by correlating and re-interpreting the Ancient Wisdom in terms of what modern science has discovered about the human psyche, personality development process, and the scars left by even the most benign upbringing. In the Tyl approach, nature, nurture and karma come together into a picture of the whole person, and the wholeness of Life as an ongoing developmental process.

ASTROLOGICAL TIMING OF CRITICAL ILLNESS is not a book that can be easily read and understood outside the context of Tyl's basic approach. This one is an advanced book for the student of Tyl's version of astrology. It would seem opaque even to an accomplished practicing professional astrologer if that astrologer were steeped in a different set of assumptions about Life and where astrology can fit into Life.

If your skills aren't up to comprehending an advanced astrology textbook on an extremely specialized branch of astrology, buy this book and put it away on your top shelf. You'll get to it eventually, and it could save someone's life. So many of Tyl's books are out of print, I wouldn't let the chance to stock this one go by.

In the meantime, read it quickly for the definition of the quindecile aspect and the way Pluto tends to show up as a harbinger of a health-challenge. Then notice those elements in the charts you analyze, take notes, track your clients, and see if these clues help you help them. If so, sit down one weekend and really read this book cover to cover.

To get the most out of this book you'll probably need to follow the footnotes that refer to many of Tyl's other works -- on midpoints, developmental deficit and the moon's nodes, and especially on the Pluto involvement in extreme Prominence and fame (which is treated in Synthesis & Counseling in Astrology : The Professional Manual by Noel Tyl ).

Most of Tyl's life work in astrology consists of contributions which are just the start of a line of research that will have to be carried out by teams with serious funding at their disposal. Some enterprising medical student may one day use this book to design a project and apply for a research grant.

Even if you don't like or subscribe to Tyl's approach, you should come to understand his theories so you'll understand that research when it's published. And it will be.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Difficult and eccentric; heavy sledding for beginners, July 4, 1999

By A Customer

Tyl's usual combination of gobbledygook, pendantry, and his annoying push to create acceptance for an aspect he terms the "quindecile" an aspect whose degree no other astrologer agrees with, not even Karen Hamaker-Zondag, all make this book just one more of Tyl's attempts to define himself as the age's leading astrological intellectual. As usual with most of his writing, he fails to clearly define his terms, and the conclusions that he leaps to in his many example charts will startle and mystify most seasoned astrologers. Why, for example, Neptune/Pisces/12th House emphasis should indicate potential blood problems is not very clearly discussed--usually the body part attributed to this complex is the feet--and Tyl acknowledges a few contemporary medical astrologers, while dismissing others who had decades of practical medical experience and tutelage. If you've got the patience, you can probably learn something here, but you probably won't figure out how to predict and avoid your own or others' maladies--at least not based on this material.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but pedantic and overblown, November 7, 1999

By A Customer

This book presents interesting case histories and studies of small groups of people with the same illness from an astrological point of view. The book could have used a good editor because the writing is often dense and overly verbose and pendantic so that the main points get lost in the verbiage. I think the book is worth reading, but it is hard-going and confusing in many parts.