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To coordinate with this Fall's opening lecture, Fixed Stars, as presented by OIivia Woodford, the NTA Book Nook spotlights the following books on the subject:

BRADY'S BOOK OF FIXED STARS - Bernadette Brady

Brady organizes her book by constellation, then by the stars in them. For each star, Brady gives its rising and setting parans and for each, a paran map, star phase and heliacal rising and acronychal setting tables. Stars are said to be in paran if they rise or set at the same time. Going beyond Vivian Robson (The Fixed Stars & Constellations in Astrology, 1923/ pub. Astrology Classics, 2005), Brady says that when planets rise and set with stars, they are in paran aspect to them. This greatly enlarges the influence of fixed stars in most nativities. She bases her work on a close study of ancient Greek astrologers and has attempted to reconstruct their methods of observation. With each star, Brady briefly cites the opinions of Ptolemy, Robson, Rigor (now out of print, alas) and Ebertin. This is the best book on fixed stars since Robson's and an excellent addition to your library.

STAR & PLANET COMBINATIONS - Bernadette Brady

This book deals with stars and parans. A paran (short for paranatellonatato) is a relationship among stars, planets, and the local horizon. Stars and planets that seem to rise and/or set together, i.e., at the same time, in your neck of the woods, are said to be in paran. Stars rising and/or setting are also in paran with the local midheaven and whatever may be passing through it. Which means parans are what is visibly angular, the IC being ignored.

Brady develops this in terms of star-worship. The Egyptians divided the zodiac, aka year, into 28 unequal segments and assigned a rising star to each -- each of which was worshiped as it came over the horizon with the rising sun as the most recently resurrrected god. Stars that set in the west when the sun is rising in the east are said to be setting. These setting stars, visible at night, are said to have left the realm of mortal earth and are transiting through the world of the immortals. Such stars -- collectively, all those invisible at night -- are said to be unavailable for worship or guidance.

FIXED STARS & THEIR INTERPRETATION - Reinhold Ebertin & Georg Hoffmann

This book describes the influence of 73 major stars. This book is comprised of original research by Ebertin's mother, Elsbeth (a noted astrologer in her day), along with Ebertin and a mutual friend, who finished the book. Personality traits and health influences of the stars, notes on charts with these stars prominent, their actual effects are highlighted.

Any of the above texts is a great source on the subject of fixed stars, so why not pickup one of these fascinating books and begin applying the astrology of fixed stars to your own nativity and astrological work.

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