Too much in modern assumptions (recolocated RS, precessed, etc), modern techniques (using uranus as ruler of aquarius, “death point”, etc) and modern authors (merryman, shea, etc). Just a little bit of morin, a little bit of ptolomy, and that´s it.

Some delineations are very modern (“her mercury is conjunct uranus, trine neptune and square pluto” – but no word about opposition saturn) and to me way off mark.

It may be of interested to english readers because you don´t have an translation of volguine, but I have the translation to both spanish and portuguese so it wasn´t very helpful to me.

Also, no word about Abu Mashar which wrote the book (“on solar revolutions”) and no word about profections, that to me are much more important than the ASC of the SR.

I REALLY don´t like the author´s position about precession (SR without precession work, but with precession work too. Oh, and for the natal location works, but sometimes it works as well to recolocated place).

This smells like hindsight to me. When we do predictions we need consistent, coherent, precise methods so we can get to conclusions. When “it all works in someway”, it is probably that we are looking what we want, and don´t have the ways to rule it out.

The good side is that I am more willing to try SR in a systematic way in a great number of charts.

Overall I give only a “blahh”.

I certainly wouldn’t use the outer planets, etc., like the author does, but the real value of the book is in the way he lays out various techniques. He does a pretty good job sourcing the techniques, so one can pick out the traditional methods and leave the rest.

Combining charts: I like to look at the chart both ways. In Solar Fire, it’s easy to swap them.

I don’t use precessed charts, myself, but if you get good results, more power to you

Best wishes,
Nina

The book introduce two way of combining the native chart and annual chart, to superimpse native’s planets and angles on annual chart, and to superimpose annual’s on native chart. Which way may tends to have a better result? Can you share your ideas? I myself prefer the latter.

And how do you think of the precessed chart? Have you tried it?

Thanks.