The Digested Astrologer

By Joanne Wickenburg

People are still asking for it! This little book was originally published in 1972 as a teachers' aid. Soon, bookstores around the country were asking for it. The Digested Astrologer is a sixty page booklet containing the condensed wisdom from the works of Rudhyar and Jones and other influential astrologers of the early 20th Century. Its clarity and conciseness made it a favorite for students around the country and abroad.

Jinni and Joanne took broad and abstract ideas and brought them down to earth. The authors have defined, in the most precise form, how the signs interrelate as well as how the houses function sequentially to integrate one experience into the next.

The importance of considering Qualities and Elements is explained and the authors tell you how they work together as well as how they influence the interpretation of aspects. The Chapter on aspects includes information on some interesting minor aspects (Rudhyar considered them very important) as well as aspect patterns such as the Grand Square, Grand Trine, T-square and Yod.

The Chapter on planets includes information on the Moon’s Nodes, Part of Fortune and the importance of considering rulerships and dispositors in the interpretation of charts. The last chapter, “The Highest & Lowest Potential of the Signs and Houses,” provides an in-depth analysis of signs and houses from a more esoteric or spiritual viewpoint. It offers some immediate and direct answers to those who are “on a personal search,” and who find the philosophical books of Rudhyar difficult to read or too advanced at this point. Much of the material in these deeper interpretations are simplified and compiled from concepts in his three books, “Triptych,” “New Mansions for New Men,” and “The Pulse of Life.”

We are so pleased to be able, now, through the web, to share it again with old and new readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joanne Wickenburg
• Release date: Feb 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310509384

Joanne Wickenburg

Joanne Wickenburg http://www.joannewickenburg.com Joanne Wickenburg was one of the first authors to develop the psychological dimension of astrology in straightforward language. A practicing astrologer for over 40 years, she has conducted classes and workshops throughout the USA and Canada, and has also designed and still offers an internationally recognized Home Study Course in astrology. She has just published her 1st novel, Twisted Innocence, which is available as an ebook. Astrology Books by Joanne “A Journey through the Birth Chart” “In Search of a Fulfilling Career” “Your Hidden Powers - Intercepted Signs & Retrograde Planets” Co-author of: “The Spiral of Life”- now available www.joannewickenburg.com as an e-book “The Digested Astrologer” available on the above site as an e-book “When Your Sun Returns” – currently out of print Special Achievement Awards Regulus Award in Education - 2002. "The Education Award recognizes the work of teaching through the published and spoken word, or the founding of schools and study programs. The recipient's work inspires and guides others to master astrology, and thereby encourages future generations of astrologers." Dr. Marc Edmond Jones Award -2000. "The Marc Edmund Jones Award is one of the most prestigious awards in astrology. Named after Marc Edmund Jones, who created this award to honor innovative excellence of benefit to all astrologers." Dr. F. Sims Pound Award- 1996. The best speaker at the American Federation of Astrologers Conference 1996

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THE DIGESTED ASTROLOGER

Copyright © 1972

By Virginia Ewbank (Meyer) & Joanne Wickenburg

Seattle, WA

E-Book Edition, Copyright © 2009 by Joanne Wickenburg & Virginia Meyer

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One: Overview

Chapter Two: Signs of the Zodiac

Negative Characteristics of the Signs

Intercepted Signs

Chapter Three: Qualities and Elements

Elements & Qualities

Chapter Four: The Houses

Kinds of Houses

Chapter Five: The Planets

Part of Fortune

Moon’s Nodes

Dispositors & Rulerships

Chapter Six: The Aspects

Planetary Speed

Table of Major Aspects

Multiple Aspect Patterns

Chapter Seven: Dynamic Interpretation of the Chart

Chapter Eight: Highest and Potential of the Signs and Houses

Spiritual Side of the Signs

Spiritual Side of the Houses

CHAPTER ONE: The Overview

THE HORIZON is the horizontal line across the middle of the chart.

THE MERIDIAN is the vertical line through the middle of the chart.

THE HOUSES are the twelve divisions of the chart or circle. They represent the areas of life experience, and are usually numbered at the center of the wheel. The lines dividing each house are called house cusps. Houses are numbered counter-clockwise starting at the 1st house, which begins on the ascendant.

Imagine that you are standing in the middle of the chart (horoscope) at the moment of your birth, looking south. On your left is the place where the sun rises, and the sign rising over the horizon is…

THE ASCENDANT, or Rising Sign. Self-awareness begins here and develops through the first quadrant (1st, 2nd and 3rd houses.) Beneath your feet, at the 4th house cusp, is…

THE NADIR, or midnight point. It is literally and figuratively the foundations beneath you, physically and psychologically. Your emotional reactions form around this point and develop through the 2nd quadrant (4th, 5th and 6th houses.) To your right is the place where the Sun sets, which is called…

THE DESCENDANT. Here you experience sensory facts and relate to what is outside yourself on the basis of those facts, continuing through the 3rd quadrant (7th, 8th and 9th houses,) to…

THE MIDHEAVEN, or noon point. It is said by some that this point represents the spiritual qualities of the soul coming into incarnation, and therefore those energies that need to be bent to the purpose of the Sun. Here your soul energies come into your life and are expressed in the world where all can see. This quadrant (10th, 11th and 12th houses) is the area of logical thinking and here you may establish yourself as a rational being.

THE SIGNS

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The signs of the zodiac represent attitudes and needs. Where they are placed in relation to the houses show your individual attitudes and needs in each of the houses (areas of life.) The signs are marked around the outside of the wheel at the intersections of the house divisions, and their influences operate counter-clockwise.

Everyone has all twelve signs somewhere in their horoscope and are demonstrating the needs and attitudes of all signs—all the time.

THE PLANETS

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Planets represent psychological urges, or personality functions.

The sign a planet is in shows the kind of energy that is working through that