Description
These Volumes (five in total) are based on the former ASA (Australian Society of Astrologers, Inc.) ‘Certificate of Astrology’ level – the ASA primarily existed for more than 10 years as a teaching society. If one continues with ongoing volumes than it becomes essential to include and use a Midnight Ephemeris and a Scientific Calculator for calculating birth charts (or popularly and wrongly referred to as ‘horoscopes’). It is also recommended (although not essential) that the International and American Atlases be included and used! Still in this day and age it’s perhaps simpler to buy astrology software that does any and all such calculations for you – for user-friendly ease and convenience we highly recommend that you use ‘Solar Fire’ – log onto:
www.esotech.com.au
Here and in all following volumes we will endeavour to be as graphically-informative as possible with step by step drawings all the way through, which will allow the use of not only the intellectual left brain but also the abstract-incorporating right brain hemispheres, in turn allowing all readers to learn that much faster through greater visual impact. On this premise I would therefore strongly recommend that each volume of ‘Teach Yourself Astrology, Visually’ be read and studied quite a number times, as much greater and additional absorbing of knowledge will be experienced each time. Astrological information and symbolism is as rich as any world language and it is therefore essential that our participating reader, and perhaps future astrologer, becomes adequately conversant with the language (basics) of astrology.
About the Author
Peter Whitewood began his philosophical direction in life by studying Chinese and Western Astrology. His interest for the next 14 years remained and he studied throughout this period but kept this interest at the level of a hobby. It was not until 1987, when Peter began his in-depth study of Western Astrology with Bonny Matthes, a well know Adelaide astrologer, that this interest began to manifest more strongly, and he eventually began to pursue a career in this art form. As an astrologer Peter has written a number of books, two of which are called ‘Gaia Our Earth Alive’ and ‘The Missing Link in Astrology’ which had been in development over many years. He has also produced five graphically informative textbooks on astrology, which became the official Australian Society of Astrologers (ASA) textbooks – and have now of late (2020) been expanded into these five ‘Teach Yourself Astrology, Visually’ booklets (Volumes).
