This app contains Solar Biology by Hiram E. Butler dated 1887.

The next time someone asks you "what's your sign" as an icebreaker, remember Mr. Hiram E. Butler. Hiram Butler put forward a radically simplified version of astrology during the 19th century. Up until then, astrologers had laboriously plotted out the configuration of the planets, including exact angles between planets, houses (which are specific to a geographic location and time), ascending nodes, descending nodes, rising signs, and so on. And this is still what a professional astrologer will base his or her advice on. Whether or not you believe, one has to admit that this not the easiest method of divination ever invented. One can't just learn this on a whim.

However, the vernacular astrology, with everyone divided into twelve pigeonholes based on their natal sun sign, can be traced back to Mr. Butler, and particularly this book, Solar Biology. Butler actually divided everyone into 144 pigeonholes, based on their natal sun and moon signs. The planets are also used, but only the sign they occupy is important; the angles between them are ignored. This makes it easy to create a horoscope, as the time and place of birth are no longer required. The tricky computation of the rising signs and houses is skipped. You just look up the positions in any ephemeris, then read the matching page in this book. The result is a system so simple, practically anyone can do it.

Although not well known today, Butler is the missing link in the chain from Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos to the astrology column in the back of your daily paper.

Included in this Solar Biology app:

-Author's Preface

Diagrams

-Introduction

-Chapter I. Preliminary Philosophy

-Chapter II. The Mechanism of Solar Biology

-Chapter III. The Twelve Signs or Functions of the Zodiac

-Chapter IV. Polarity and Quality

-Chapter V. Courage and Consolation for All

-Chapter VI. The Twelve Polarities of Aries

-Chapter VII. The Twelve Polarities of Taurus

-Chapter VIII. The Twelve Polarities of Gemini

-Chapter IX. The Twelve Polarities of Cancer

-Chapter X. The Twelve Polarities of Leo

-Chapter XI. The Twelve Polarities of Virgo

-Chapter XII. The Twelve Polarities of Libra

-Chapter XIII. The Twelve Polarities of Scorpio

-Chapter XIV. The Twelve Polarities of Sagittarius

-Chapter XV. The Twelve Polarities of Capricorn

-Chapter XVI. The Twelve Polarities of Aquarius

-Chapter XVII. The Twelve Polarities of Pisces

-Chapter XVIII. The Planets

-Chapter XIX. The Twelve Positions of Mercury

-Chapter XX. The Twelve Positions of Venus

-Chapter XXI. The Twelve Positions of Mars

-Chapter XXII. The Twelve Positions of Jupiter

-Chapter XXIII. The Twelve Positions of Saturn

-Chapter XXIV. The Twelve Positions of Uranus, or Herschel

-Chapter XXV. Parental Conditions

-Chapter XXVI. Critical Periods in the Life of Woman

-Chapter XXVII. Direction for Reading Character by the System of Solar Biology

-Appendix

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