| View Larger Image | Planets in Solar Returns: Yearly Cycles of Transformation & Growth | Paperbackby Mary Fortier Shea (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Twin Stars | | Edition: | Revisedth Edition | | Page Count: | 326 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 01, 1999 | | Sales Rank: | 404,603th |
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Product Description
Here is everything you want to know about Solar Returns! Information based on the author's experience interpreting hundreds of Solar Return charts for clients. An explanation of the significance of interceptions, retrogrades, aspects, hemispheric or quadrant emphasis, and preponderance or lack of an element or quality in a Solar Return. An interpretation of each planet in every house of a Solar Return - the most important factors in Mary Fortier Shea's experience. A guide to 'timing' in the Solar Return co-ordinated with transits, secondary progressions, and solar arcs. A chapter on combining natal charts and Solar Returns in a double wheel technique. Through this book, Mary Fortier Shea concentrates on a complete description of possibilities. Her examples range from spiritual transitions, starting a new business, love affairs, marriage, issues involving children and parents, health, education, writing and publishing books, relocation, income changes, career transitions, and much more. She covers both positive and negative possibilities for the different Solar Return placements and configurations she discusses. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 7 reviews)
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A Useful Book on Solar Returns by A Reader (Phoenix, AZ)  4 Stars
July 03, 2009
The author is very detailed about solar return charts, including planets, houses, etc. that show up in the yearly return. Some of the information is very accurate, but like any astrology book, some is based on that particular astrologer's perceptions/experience. Overall, a useful book.
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Excellent book! by Miss Lady James (New England, USA)  5 Stars
October 19, 2007
I bought this book five years ago, and have referred to it so much my copy is tattered and scribbled in. I love this book. I love everything about this book, including the areas I feel Ms. Shea is weak in. Her psychology training shows clearly, as her psychological interpretations of the Solar Return planetary placements is spot-on. She has not been wrong about any one placement on that level.
On the other side of things, her interpretations of the events that accompany a particular placement are usually terrible, or way off the mark. This is fine for someone familiar with astrology enough to know to ignore those parts; I give her five stars for even trying. I wish the aspects would be described more fully, but am glad she included them, and with her usual psychological accuracy.
She goes into some depth about the cycles that pervade Solar Returns, which is lovely since one might not notice that right away (especially if the reader is young). She also describes the effect of hemisphere, quadrant, and element on the Solar Return. This book is highly complete, thoroughly written, and gives you a solid understanding of Solar Returns without cluttering your head with jargon (astrological or psychological).
It's a wonderful book!
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If you only have money for one book on solar returns, this is it! by M. Miller 5 Stars
October 19, 2007
This is a seminal book in 20th century astrology. It is strikingly accurate, and very accessible to a reader who may have never understood the concept of solar returns prior to reading it. The writing style belongs to a professional psychologist without being clinical. The book makes the novice want to check solar returns for the past decade on every chart that they follow, in order to understand how the author's extensive insight applies to real situations.
So what's wrong with the update? Many readers are probably curious how Chiron and the Nodes fit into a Solar Return (SR) picture, but the updated version attempts no new discussion.
A discussion of SR planets that fall very close to the SR Ascendent or Midheaven would have been most useful (the author highlights the possibilities inherent in a SR transit of the Ascendent without considering the unique interpretations associated with such a placement, regardless of transit). In the event that there is no difference, such an insight from an author with Shea's platform would have been instructive for the less experienced.
A little more synthesis of outer planet placements might have also helped. Read this book carefully, and even a novice can figure out that a SR with an 8th house Sun, 1st house Uranus, and 10th house Pluto will be an utter make-or-break year for a subject. To her credit, the author does cover less obvious combinations than this one, but she doesn't do it quite enough to satisfy.
And one other thing that I really hoped to see that wasn't there. Some discussion of folks who have travelled more than once to adjust their SR charts. She relates one example of a woman who overused this strategy until it was no longer effective for her. It would have been interesting to hear from those who began the events of an upcoming SR three months before it became exact, and then experienced a real shift in events subsequent to travel. Accounts from those who have used their "free will" sporadically without abusing this strategy would have satisfied a lot of us who are merely curious.
The book still gets five stars because it deserves it. But a truly updated version would have filled in a lot of the gaps that are still there.
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good, but a bit incomplete by Robert Von Heeren (Bavaria, Germany) 4 Stars
August 31, 2007
In general I like the style and writing of this book. Shea has indepth understanding of astrology and it is refreshing to read a more psychological approach and not just entertaining speech. So she concentrates on both positive and problematic sides of the placements of the solar plaents in the 12houses. My only regret is that she only focuses on the house positions (which is her method of solar interpretation). No angles, no nodes and so on. Therefore only 4 stars and little incomplete feeling.
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the "beach astrologer" by Darrel W. Gunter (Clearwater, FL United States) 5 Stars
July 18, 2006
Ms. Shea puts the annual "solar return" into the larger perspective by giving us the astronomical pattern the "solar returns" follow. This book and Mr. Merriman's revised and updated "solar return" book together will give you everything you need to make your annual "solar return" understandable in both the practical sense and in the larger picture. Then, hopefully, you can take the authors's sugestions on celebrating and using it, as well!
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