This is to announce the release of the new Project Hindsight audio tutorial Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit: Charting Career with Hellenistic Astrology. It is designed to demonstrate the power of a single Hellenistic timing procedure, one that Hellenistic astrologers devised specifically for the examination of one's overall working life.
This tutorial is also an excellent way to get acquainted with the Hellenistic way of thinking astrologically, and serves as a practical introduction to the subject. It includes a presentation of the basic Hellenistic astrological concepts along with the few specific techniques required to properly use this remarkable time lord system. We spent the better part of a year testing this procedure, and it is our opinion that it is a must-have for every serious astrologer. If you don't have it in your astrological toolbox, you will be at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to the examination of the topic of profession in a client's chart. For our part, we now wonder how we ever thought to do astrology without it.
The Hellenistic Lot of Spirit is the place in a natal chart symmetrical to the Lot of Fortune (a.k.a. Part of Fortune) around the ASC/DSC axis. It signifies the power of the Sun to awaken the native to movement, work and action. As such, has special relevance for the study of career and profession.
Like the construction preceding a geometrical demonstration, the application of Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit reveals hidden information that is invisible to simple inspection of a natal chart. From this technique you will learn that the house most relevant for the study of current career matters changes during the course of the native's life, depending on the natal position of the Lot of Spirit.
Here are some of the things you can do with Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit :
• Block out the professional life of the native into distinct episodes, and gain some insight into the character of the native's successes and failures during these periods.
• Pinpoint when the working life changes course abruptly, as in the case of changes of career.
• Note when job changes occur within a given career.
• Distinguish occasional employment from one's “life work.”
• Identify key or defining moments in the professional life, such as when the native first comes on the scene as a person of distinction, reaches some pinnacle of accomplishment, or even gains recognition beyond his or her chosen field to achieve some sort of iconic status.
For instance, the application of Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit to the chart of Albert Einstein clearly marks out his initial failure to obtain employment in his chosen profession, his stint as a civil servant in the patent office for a period of seven or eight years, and his subsequent success at obtaining a position more suited to his life work. It also times quite dramatically his meteoric rise to iconic status after the Eddington eclipse expedition confirmed general relativity, and his subsequent reception of the Nobel Prize (albeit tardy by professional standards but right on time astrologically).
In the case of Mohammad Ali, this technique points to an imminent and serious disruption in his boxing career after his string of successful title defenses, as well as his later comeback when as a 7 to 1 underdog he defeated George Foreman to regain the heavyweight title.
Again, it indicates quite tellingly that that ne'er-do-well Gene Hackman would set out on an entirely new career path right around age 30, and that this would lead to his eventual success.
For one familiar with Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit , it would comes as no surprise that John Travolta had a triumphant return to the acting scene with the release of Pulp Fiction , even though his career had been for the most part in the doldrums since his early successes as a dancing star.
And it immediately shows that George Bush had a distinct astrological advantage over his opponents in both of the last two presidential elections. The Hellenistic indicator in question would have been totally invisible to modern astrologers.
Now, because this is a time-lord procedure—meaning that it deals with blocks or stretches of time rather than isolated moments—it also provides a framework for the interpretation of transits, progressions, and directions. It was a Hellenistic dictum that such direct timing devices were to be interpreted within the context of time-lords procedures. Here again, these mainstays of modern astrological timing only show their true meaning and efficacy once the profile of the current time-lord has been delineated.
In this tutorial, you will find Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit fully explained and exemplified with the charts of various well-known individuals from a variety of professions:
Albert Einstein Muhammad Ali
John Travolta Bob Dylan
George W. Bush George Foreman
Gene Hackman Al Gore
John Kerry Elvis Presley
Dustin Hoffman Dane Rudhyar
Adolf Hitler
You will see how this one technique, applied with the very same logic to radically different charts, can account for and make sense of the professional lives of these various individuals without fudging or metaphorical interpretation. In fact, any astrologer who sufficiently mastered the use of this timing tool would come to the same conclusions.
We did not “cherry-pick” these persons simply because the technique worked well on their natal charts. On the contrary, we initially investigated them because they each exhibited some unusual feature in their biographies that would help us test the procedure in various extreme cases: persons who only found their life work later in life, those who had two or more dramatic peaks in their careers, those whose celebrity eventually extended beyond their chosen profession, etc. Some of these charts are paired up with another possessing the same natal factor to make the demonstrations all the more convincing. We can honestly say that we have not had anything resembling a failure up to this point.
The value of this technique is not restricted to the study of distinguished individuals. We have seen it work very well on our own charts and the charts of friends and acquaintances. It is just that the peaks and valleys, the changes of direction, are often less pronounced and somewhat harder to see, although they are nonetheless there.
In any case, ultimate value of Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit is that it helps make sense of one's working life as a whole.
In this tutorial we are reading these charts in astrological hindsight, so to speak. It is of course harder to make astrological predictions than to account for a life that has already been lived. This is true just as much of Hellenistic astrology as it is of modern. But the basic principles are the same. It just takes more care, skill, and acquaintance with the rest of the native's life to use it responsibly.
As an added attraction, this Hellenistic timing procedure could also be used as an aid to chart rectification.
Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit provides a sterling example of how the recovery of Hellenistic astrology can open up an entirely new dimension to modern astrological practice, how its techniques can unconceal what hitherto lay hidden in the natal chart. I know that we at Project Hindsight feel like “we once were blind, but now can see,” to paraphrase a line. We are convinced that you will have the same experience.
The price for this ten hour, professional-level tutorial is $249 plus $5 shipping and handling.
The tutorial is supplied on CD in Mp3 format; example charts are included as .pdf files. Mp3 CDs can be played on home computers; the audio files can also be downloaded to portable Mp3 players such as the iPod. In addition, many newer CD players, including portable Diskman-style players, which can be purchased for around $40, can automatically detect and play Mp3-format audio files. You will need a computer to print out the example charts; if you don't have access to a computer and would like us to supply print-outs with the disk, let us know.
To order, contact bill@projecthindsight.com or call us by any of the usual means:
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