First, some sort of chronology here. I started studying astrology in 1982, but immediately decided to not become an astrologer. Not really my cup of tea. Initially, I was only interested in what the outstanding astrology pioneer Dane Rudhyar called person-centered astrology, aka psychological astrology. As will be obvious later here, I’m currently entirely doing mundane astrology, aka political astrology. With a vengeance. Really.
It was a small universe then with astrologers like Liz Green, according to my judgement the best astrologer ever. Stephen Arroyo, and Robert Hand (the only astrology celebrity I ever met). Marc Edmund Jones is one of the pillars in modern astrology. Many astrologers use his inventions like horoscope “shapes” and the meaning of the 360 degrees of the horoscope chart without having heard his name. I am not surprised. I have all of his books, but his dense, very precise language make them difficult to read.
Likewise, I assume the Rudhyar disciple Michael R. Meyer is much less famous than he deserves to be. His “A Handbook for the Humanistic Astrologer” (1974) is an outstanding summary of Rudhyar’s ideas as well a an overview of state of the art astrology when it was published. The little I have learned about astrology has this book as the main source. I took a quick look now and it is amazingly comprehensive.
Much later on, I have found very inspiring astrologers like Howard Sasportas, Michael Harding, Charles Harvey, André Barbault, Dennis Elwell and Richard Tarnas, to mention a few. If I had been more interested in organizations and other social environments, I am sure I would have heard of Richard Idemon. I bought his two books a couple of years ago, and his The Magic Thread — Astrological Chart Interpretations using Depth Psychology offered several new and useful insights. It’s one of the best astrology books I own.
I found this now, so I am hopefully totally wrong above: A Handbook for the Humanistic Astrologer is one of the most influential and widely read books on serious astrology published during the 20th century. It is available in both print and as an e-book. Meyer also maintains a website devoted to the work of Dane Rudhyar: khaldea.com/rudhyar. The top level of the site also have a ton of Meyer’s own work. All highly recommended.
The next step on my personal time-line is June/July 2015 when I decided to write something totally lacking profound ambition, apart from the title A Critique of the Scientific Worldview — the path of unknowing. The only astrology to be covered there were the horoscope charts of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. The main reason for this decision was that I spent a lot of time during my first years as an astrology student to study their lives together and separately. The obvious similarity is also amusing: