| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| 1. Some Basic Ideas |
1 |
| 2. Many Happy Returns - The Technique of Alexander Volguine |
15 |
| 3. The Annual Ascendant and Midheaven, the Superimposition of Houses, and the Dignities of the Planets |
30 |
| 4. A Look at the Holy See, the Precessed Solar Return and a Crisis in the Life of Salvador Dali |
49 |
| 5. To Precess or not to Precess - That is the Question |
61 |
| 6. The Importance of the Ascendant - A Personal Example |
80 |
| 7. Issues of Timing and Emmerson's Point of Death |
90 |
| 8. The Contributions of Jean-Baptiste Morin |
122 |
| 9. The Death of Jean-Baptiste Morin |
150 |
| 10. Morin's Thirty-One Aphorisms for Judging Revolutions |
167 |
| 11. Tales of Two Musicians |
181 |
| 12. Some Influential Modern Writers |
192 |
| 13. Solar Returns When the Birth Time is Unknown |
221 |
| 14. A Cookbook of Aspects in Solar Returns |
243 |
| 15. Pulling It All Together |
271 |
| .......Appendix A: Table to Determine the Time Interval by Which to Pprogress the Solar Return Chart |
297 |
| .......Appendix B: Sample Firdaria for Day and Night Births |
302 |
| .......Appendix C: William Lilly on Solar Returns |
304 |
| .......Recommended Reading |
311 |
| .......Index |
313 |