Morin's Book 21: Of the Active Determination of the Celestial Bodies & the Passive Determination of Sublunary...

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Penelope Sitter

Morin's Book 21

Of the Active Determination of the Celestial Bodies & the Passive Determination of Sublunary...

Penelope Sitter

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Wessex Astrologer Ltd
30 May 2024

Astrology

With this publication of Book 21, we at last have a definitive English-language translation of the crown jewel of Astrologia Gallica, Jean-Baptiste Morin de Villefranche’s 26-volume magnum opus. In this one slim volume, Morin, a 17th c. French astrologer, physician, and mathematician, sets out the rules for a rational approach to horoscope interpretation that he summarizes in two compact phrases that encapsulate his entire tradition: “Of the Active Determination of the Celestial Bodies and the Passive Determination of Sublunary Things.”

Beginning in 1950, Zoltan Mason made Morin’s approach available to English-speaking students for many years through the classes he held in his New York City bookstore. Three abridged English-language paraphrases of Book 21 were published in the early to mid-1970s. But not until this translation from Penelope Sitter has a full and reliable rendering of the centrally important volume of Morin’s masterwork been available in English. This translation of Book 21 brings Morin’s voice to life, and provides comprehensive endnotes, a detailed subject index, and an index of persons. It will be the authoritative and complete text in English for contemporary students and a foundation for future university level programs on our perennial art.

By: Penelope Sitter
Imprint: Wessex Astrologer Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781916625112
ISBN 10: 1916625118
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 30 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Penelope Sitter, now a retired attorney, began to study astrology in the 1980s. Dissatisfied with contemporary method, she made some study of the Project Hindsight materials, and for several years studied Jyotish, the astrology of India, with Hart de Fouw. Upon discovering Morin's work in the early 2000s through Robert Corre's online classes, Sitter found the astrological method she sought. Since then she has studied, practiced, and taught the method that is Morin's indispensable gift to all those who practice the great art, and to those who for other reasons wish to truly understand horoscopic astrology.