Alan Oken's Complete Astrology (Revised Edition)including As Above, So Below (1973); The Horoscope, The Road and Its Travelers(1974); Astrology: Evolution and Revolution (1976).
Alan Oken (1980/88) 620pages

There are in reality only two main facets of astrology, no matter how varied and numerous the many avenues of its application and study: exoteric and esoteric. These corresponds to the primary duality of life: the inner and the outer, essence and form, the life of the Soul and that of the personality. Exoteric astrology is based on and applied to what is termed as the "three lower worlds" of the personality: physical, emotional-desire, and the lower mental (reason). Esoteric astrology is centered in the "three higher worlds" of the Soul: abstract mind (pure mental substance), intuition (perception into the movement and quality of energy), and what , for lack of a better term, we may call "the spiritual world."...The Complete Astrologer is a book written primarily for the application of the exoteric. I have, however endeavored to give it a definitive spiritual undertone as well as an openly humanistic approach. This is in keeping with my own beliefs about astrology's usefulness and application as a definite aid to personal growth and the expansion of individual and social consciousness. Should the reader be inspired to study the more metaphysical and esoteric form of this subject, he or she is advised first to gain a good, solid grasp of exoteric astrology. I hope that the Complete Astrology will be a right use in this respect. Then one is ready to move on to those volumes suggested in the bibliography on p. 592. - from the author's Foreword to the 1988 Edition (Bantam)

The Astrological Houses: The Spectrum of Individual Experience
Dane Rudhyar (1972) 208pages Among Dane Rudhyar's vast astrological writings, this book is one of the most accessible and practical, hence especially appropriate for beginning and intermediate students. For example, in addition to an extensive discussion of each house's meaning, The Astrological Houses includes: interpretation guidelines for each of the planets in each house; explanations of all the sign pairs on the Ascendant & Descendant, crucial factors in every chart; an exploration of the entire cycle of houses as a complete cycle of individual experience.(CRCS Publication)

Astrological Insights into the Spiritual Life
Dane Rudhyar (1979) 151pages

Astrological Insights provides a penetrating, sensitive, poetic and visual insight into the 12 qualities required for the spiritual life. Using the astrological signs and houses, Rudhyar build a framework for impregnating the seeker with an awareness of how to use basic life challenges, as a process through which an individual human being evolves. Twelve exquisite artistic renderings - drawings by Judge from the original pencil sketches by Rudhyar in 1938 - evoke the archetypal, intuitive level of each sign. (Aurora Press)

An Astrological Mandala: The Cycle of Transformation and its 360 Symbolic Phases
Dane Rudhyar (1973) 392pages

In 1953 Marc Jones published his book The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, in which he used the brief original descriptions of the symbols obtained in 1925 in San Diego...And in 1954 and 1955 American Astrology printed four articles I had written presenting some new ideas about the symbols and particularly about the possibility of making them serve a purpose similar to that which people today seek to satisfy through the use of the symbols of the I Ching. I shall discuss the validity and the limits of such a use of the Sabian symbols in the last chapter of this book. Part Two, the largest section of this volume, is consecrated to a reformulation and complete reinterpretation of the entire series of symbols, considered as a cyclic and structured series which formalizes and reveals the archetypal meaning of 360 basic phases of human experience. Part One introduces the whole subject and discusses the meaning of symbols when used in such a cyclic frame of reference and its relation to a structured process of growth in consciousness. Part Three discusses in greater detail the different ways in which this factor of structured unfoldment can be analyzed and the quite extraordinary results which can be produced by such an analysis. The book ends with considerations of the use to which this series of Sabian symbols can be put for might be called, somewhat inaccurately, the purpose of "divination." (Vintage)

The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption
Liz Greene (1996) 506pages

The longing for redemption is an ancient, strange, and many-headed daimon, which dwells within even the most earthbound and prosaic souls. Astrology has a planetary symbol to describe this longing - it is called Neptune. Any attempt to understand Neptune necessitates traveling indirect waterways, and Greene has taken this symbol through many channels. She explores Neptune themes in literature, myth, politics, religion, fashion, and art to show how its energy is manifested. Deception, illusion, addiction, renunciation, karmic obligation, creativity, love, relationships - all are explored. The Mythology of Neptune (Fons et Origo), The Psychology of Neptune (Hysteria Coniunctionis), Neptune and the Collective (Anima Mundi), and The Neptune Cookbook (Ferculum Piscarium) exhaustively treat the subject for astrologers and student of astrology. (Samuel Weiser)

Astrology Alive: A Guide to Experiential Astrology and the Healing Arts
Barbara Schermer (1998) 261 pages

We have forgotten that our original encounter with the heavens was immediate, direct and alive. ...With metaphor, music, myth, spiritual practice, and dramatic and artistic expression, we can move into more direct contact with planetary energies, and in so doing, we rediscover the depths of ourselves. Astrology becomes then, not just a tool for abstraction and intellectualization, but a way of self-knowledge and a means to vital, primal communion with that which is transcendent. And that brings me to the purpose of this book: Astrology Alive is intended to introduce and to teach what has come to be called "experiential astrology" - from the author's Introduction (Crossing Press)

The Astrology of Transformation: A Multi-Level Approach
Dane Rudhyar (1980) 205pages

The Astrology of Transformation describes the interplay of astrological influences in the mind and soul and places readers in partnership with the power of human transcendence. The result is an astrological roadmap - the journey of the spiritual Self to fulfillment as shown in the horoscope.
* Recognize the potentials in the birthchart as tools for radical change.
* Learn to interpret astrological data at four levels: biological, sociocultural, individualistic, and transpersonal.
* Examine the transformational energies of astrological progressions and transits. (Quest Books)

The Development of the Personality: Seminars in Psychological Astrology v.1
Liz Greene & Howard Sasportas (1987) 319pages

In this first volume of the Seminars in Psychological Astrology series, Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas team up to show how the dynamics of depth psychology work with your birth chart, and in four seminars illustrate the process and problems we all encounter in the development of individual identity. Includes: the Stages of Childhood - a psychological and astrological perspective that shows how early traumas and experiences affect adult life. Learn how the Parental Marriage affects development and how we repeat relationship patterns of parents. Subpersonalities relate to archetypal principles of signs and planets that are indicated in the natal horoscope. The final section, Puer and Senex, compares symbolisms of the eternal youth and the old man, reflecting the archetypal complex caused by the vision of unbounded possibilities and the limits of time and mortality. Both authors explore real life problems, and you may reevaluate your own life as you experience these seminars. (Samuel Weiser)

Dynamics of the Unconscious: Seminars in Psychological Astrology v.2
Liz Greene & Howard Sasportas (1988) 367pages

This work sheds light on the darker side of the adult personality - those unconscious dynamics that need to be confronted so we can grow to find the wisdom within. Howard Sasportas discusses the astrology and psychology of aggression. He focuses on the two faces of Mars - as destructive blind aggression and as an affirmation of autonomy and individuality. He then investigates the quest for the sublime -the experience of meaning- as it expresses through Jupiter in the birthchart, and focuses on the deep fears that keep us from reaching the Higher Self. Liz Greene talks about the other side of aggression: depression. She suggests that depression is a part of a process that leads to fuller life expression, and shows how depression reveals itself astrologically. She ends the book with the alchemical symbolism contained in the horoscope, helping the readers understand various stages of psychological and spiritual development and how alchemy can be used to illuminate the developmental meanings of particular astrological aspects, transits and progression. (Samuel Weiser)

Gods of Change: Pain, Crisis, and the Transits of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
Howard Sasportas 386pages

(Arkana)

Inner Planets: Building Blocks of Personal Reality
Liz Greene & Howard Sasportas

(Samuel Weiser)

Light on Life: An Introduction to the Astrology of India
Hart deFouw and Robert Svoboda 438pages

(Penguin Arkana)

Luminaries: The Psychology of the Sun and Moon in Horoscope
Liz Greene & Howard Sasportas

(Samuel Weiser)

The Lunation Cycle: A Key to the Understanding of Personality
Dane Rudhyar (1967) 196pages including The Lunation Process in Astrological Guidance by Leyla Rael Rudhyar

The Lunation Cycle reveals the significance of the cyclic relationship of the Sun and Moon as phases of a larger process. Rudhyar formulates and describes the eight Soli-Lunar types of personalities and the importance of the New Moon Before Birth and the Progressed New Moon charts. This book includes: The Sun and Moon as a dynamic pattern of relationship. The Part of Fortune as an index of personality and happiness. The Part of Fortune in the houses and zodiacal signs. The Part of Spirit. The Planets in relation to the Lunation Cycle. Rudhyar's innovative presentation of the Progressed Lunation Cycle is an invaluable technique providing insight into how to use all life events in the actualization of inner potentials. The meaning of specific events are viewed as an ordered series of Lunation phases, within the context of your whole life pattern, from birth to death. (Aurora Press)

The Magic Thread: Astrological Chart Interpretation Using Depth Psychology
Richard Idemon / Edited by Gina Ceaglio (1996)

Our title comes from the wonderful tale of how Adriane, out of her love for the Greek hero Theseus, betrays her father King Minos of Crete and gives her lover the marvelous magic thread to guide him through the inextricable maze known as the Labyrinth. The magic thread, twisting and turning and ever unraveling, always avoiding the cunningly devised false passages, unerringly finds the true road and leads swiftly downward to its secret heart. For ages philosophers, alchemists, and psychologists have been fascinated with the intricacies of the Labyrinth, viewing it as a many-faceted metaphor of the human condition and as a model for the complex but ordered universe. The journey to the center of the labyrinth was referred to as an initiation into sanctity and a commitment to absolute reality through facing the innermost core of one's being. The astrological chart, as a symbolic model of inherent universal order, is like the Labyrinth - a logical but complicated and elusive structure. The interwoven symbols in the horoscope are made up of a single thread that, when unraveled like the magic thread of Adriadne, will lead us through the maze to the heart of the chart and our own nature. - Preface by Richard Idemon (1986)

Transcribed from a six-day seminar given in 1986, this innovative presentation synthesizes depth psychology, myth, Jungian archetypal imagery, dreams, and astrology. Idemon presents an exciting investigation into natal chart interpretation, using the charts of 10 people, and provides a thorough analysis of the personality. (Samuel Weiser)

New Mansions for New Men
Dane Rudhyar (1971) 273pages

This book, understood as a whole, is in truth an epic revealing through symbols taken from ancient astrological lore the basic cycles of the development of human consciousness....In "Mansions of the Self" the spiral-like process of formation of the individual Soul through the twelvefold field of experience is outlined. In "Music of the Spheres" the functions, powers and faculties which this Soul must use and harmonize, if it is to reach fulfillment and operative wholeness, are evoked and linked with those "wandering stars"- sun, moon, planets, planetoids - which trace orbits of light round our planetary abode. The "Meditations" leads us finally to the realm of light which is the substance of the Soul on its own plane. They seek to convey the significance of those cyclic modifications of the light - symbolized by the zodiacal signs - which mark not only the passage of the year but the spiritual changes of attitude of man to his divine Source. It is these changes that tell of the Soul's progress in its adventure in spiritual realization, that reveals its trials and its hopes on the path toward the inward communion with the essence of all meaning: the goal of all consciousness. - from the author's Foreword (Hunter House)

Person Centered Astrology
Dane Rudhyar (1976) 384pages

Dane Rudhyar pioneered a new approach to Astrology, reformulating it with a holistic, psychological and spiritual dimension. Person Centered Astrology encapsulates the scope and breath of his astrological thinking into six essays covering Astrology in New Age Guidance. Event oriented vs. Person Centered. Astrology as Karma Yoga. Planetary Patterns. Planetary & Lunar Nodes. Aspect Patterns. The Moment of Interpretation. Birth Charts as a Whole. Sample horoscopes of well known people, Assagioli, Freud, Nietzsche and others illustrate clearly the techniques described. Two complete detailed case histories are given, enabling the reader to concretely experience Rudhyar's holistic approach in action. (Aurora Press)

Prometheus the Awakener: An Essay on the Archetypal Meaning of the Planet Uranus
Richard Tarnas (1995) 149pages

Tarnas focuses on Uranus, the first planet discovered by telescope, as entry into the depths of astrology, showing how personal biography and collective history can be linked to planetary movements. Unlike the planets named by the ancients, the astrological Uranus shares little with its mythological namesake but rather demonstrates a remarkable coherence with the mythic Prometheus. This book explores this coherence by examining the historical period of the planet's discovery in 1781, the birth charts of major cultural figures with prominent Uranus, and the Uranus transit cycles in the lives of such notables as Freud, Jung, Darwin, and Oscar Wilde. Further, many paradigmatic Promethean events in history coincided with major Uranus alignments - the Bastille revolt, the fall of the Berlin Wall. An afterword discusses the Uranus-Neptune conjunction of present times, as well as the Uranus-Neptune cycle in history. (Spring) (Spring)

Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil
Liz Greene (1976) 196pages

"Saturn symbolizes a psychic process as well as a quality or kind of experience. He is not merely a representative of pain, restriction, and discipline; he is also a symbol of the psychic process, natural to all human beings, by which an individual may utilize the experience of pain, restriction, and discipline, as a means for greater consciousness and fulfillment." Saturn's darker persona is recognized universally in myth and fairytale. Here, Dr. Greene traces his character through sign, house, aspect, and synastry in a brilliant analysis which reveals his other face: that of the Initiator who, for the price of our honesty, offers us greater consciousness, self-understanding and eventually, freedom. (Samuel Weiser)

Through the Looking Glass: A Search for the Self in the Mirror of Relationships
(Seminars in Psychological Astrology, v.5)
Richard Idemon / Edited by Howard Sasportas (1992)267pages

In this book, Richard Idemon teaches us how to look at the natal chart to gain rich, new insight into our deepest nature so we can gain greater understanding of our "personal mythology"- the hidden agendas, childhood patterns, and the belief systems that invariably shape our lives and our relationships. Combining the symbolism of astrology, mythology, and Jungian psychology, he teaches us how to break free of entrenched attitudes that limit and restrict our life-experience. He tells us that the important people in our lives are like looking glasses- mirrors of our unfolding process toward a fuller consciousness. (Samuel Weiser)

Twelve Houses: Understanding the Importance of the Houses in Your Astrological Birthchart
Howard Sasportas 400pages

(Thorsons)