Product Description

Solar Arcs --Astrology's Most Successful Prediction System

Improve your predictive techniques with the latest Noel Tyl volume, Solar Arcs --Astrology's Most Successful Prediction System.  This is the definitive work on the subject of solar arc directions, and includes:

-Rectification techniques
-Tertiary progressions
-A special 100-year ephemeris
-An index of the meanings for over 1000 midpoint combinations

Noel has used this system for nearly 30 years and now shares his deep insight into this predictive system with astrologers in the U.S. and around the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #434814 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780738700540
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
• Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices

Review
Solar Arcs is an absolute "must buy" for anyone interested in Tyl's methodology. -- Dell Horoscope Magazine, February 2002

About the Author
Noel Tyl is one of the foremost astrologers in the world. His twenty textbooks have guided astrologers for two generations, and his lecture activities reach out through sixteen countries and some 200,000 miles a year.

Tyl has written the definitive professional manual in the astrology counseling field, the 1,000 page Synthesis & Counseling In Astrology; is consulted regularly by individuals and corporations throughout the world, and directs the Master’s Degree Correspondence Course for Certification of professional astrologers from his office in the Phoenix, Arizona area.

Tyl, a Harvard  University graduate, is also the Presiding Officer of AFAN ( The Association for Astrological Networking), astrology’s world organization. His most recent titles include Solar Arcs, Predictions for a New Millennium, and Astrology of Intimacy, Sexuality, & Relationship, all published by Llewellyn Publications.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
1Timing the Circle

The Development of Solar Arc Theory The Circle. How does this shape, this spatial form, enter consciousness; how does it take on meaning; how does it come to be divided into 360 units; and how is it used as a measurement standard to capture the time of our lives? Initially, man must have learned to identify the circle from the pupils of maternal eyes, and then from reading the eyes of others. Above, overseeing all, there were the moving disks of the godly Sun and the Moon. There were the intricate centers of so many flowers. Even when worked by a stick into the sand or earth, the circle had uniqueness among forms: with a cross, there was the sense of division (the beginning of the concept of 2); but with the fashioning of a circle, there was the sense of unity, of wholeness, of inviolable symmetry. We can speculate that, in development, man then began to grasp the concept of magnitude: there were different sizes of trees, rocks, animals, squares, and circles. Thought-tools were developed to express the relationships between things in terms of size, to capture comparisons and set standards. (This phase of evolution is often cited as the dawn of mathematics.) With the development of language, thoughts became communication. The sense of possession-what defines you and what defines me-was linked with the relativity of magnitude. Counting systems and measurements were then required to describe things accurately, to define location and property, to plan building. And through continuous long-time measurement experimentation, rules emerged-certain measurement practices and relationships that were always valid. The square was understood: all sides were equal! Then, the observation that a square divided by a line drawn diagonally between opposite corners yielded two identical triangles led to understanding triangles; then to the rectangle and other polygons (configured by squares and triangles, a geometry accomplished through subdivision and rearrangement), but with the circle, rules were harder to discover. The observations about the circle that must have been dominant are, first, that there is no beginning or end to the circle (the concept of constant development, of eternal continuity) and, second, that the wider the circle is, the longer the distance is around it (the concept of containment, of boundary).1 Mathematician-engineer Petr Beckmann gives us an extremely clear suggestion of the development of the properties of the circle, as shown on page 3. So we find a fairly flat patch of wet sand along the Nile, drive in a stake, attach a piece of rope to it by loop and knot, tie the other end to another stake with a sharp point, and keeping the rope taut, we draw a circle in the sand. We pull out the central stake, leaving a hole O (see drawing below). Now we take a longer piece of rope, choose any point A on the circle and stretch the rope from A across the hole O until it intersects the circle at B. We mark the length AB on the rope (with charcoal); this is the diameter of the circle and our unit of length. Now we take the rope and lay it into the circular groove (inscribed) in the sand, starting at A. The charcoal mark is at C; we have laid off the diameter along the circumference once. Then we lay it off a second time from C to D, and a third time from D to E, so that the diameter goes into the circumference three (plus a little bit) times.2 We discover that the circumference of the circle (the distance around its boundary) is equal to 3 times the diameter, plus a little bit. Experimentation shows that this is always the case no matter what the diameter of the circle is. This coefficient (characteristic relationship) is called a constant, and for the circle it is labeled Pi, shown by the Greek letter .3 Research shows that, some 5,000 years ago, the coefficient of the circle was known in these close terms, in terms accurate enough to allow reliable measurement of the circle: the circumference of a circle was determined by 3+ times the diameter (C=Pi D or, more customarily, C=2 Pi r, where r is the radius, one-half the diameter of the circle).4 The Egyptians and Babylonians pursed the “” that little bit over 3, the distance EA in the drawing on page 3. We presume that they tried to define EA in terms of the diameter AB, as a fractional part of that key unit distance. If we mark EA on a rope and lay it off as many times as it will go on (into) the diameter distance AB of any circle, it will go down between 7 and 8 times, i.e., EA is something between 1/7 (0.142857) and 1/8 (0.125) of the unit distance AB. The modern study of Pi does not get much closer; the decimals never end. The basic standard coefficient now used is 3.14159265 (i.e., 3 + .1416). Learning to calculate the area of a circle (the space within the circumference) was another problem, a complex one indeed. Determining the area of a square was easy: subdividing the space bounded by the perimeter gave us a measurement of the space in terms of one side multiplied by the other side, a x b (see diagram, p. 5). With two units per side (2 feet, for example), we get an area of 4 square feet. When the square is increased to a rectangle (oblong), the same rule applies: 3 units on one side and 2 units on the other side gives us an area of six “quare”units. When we subdivide a rectangle or square by a diagonal, we get two triangles, i.e., the area of the triangle in this case is measured as one-half the product of the...(Continues)

Customer Reviews

Essential for the professional astrologer or serious student
Incredibly powerful - yet deceptively simple to comprehend and use - Solar Arc theory and application is clearly explained, demonstrated, and reinforced using major events in the lives of well-known individuals.   The reader is quickly compelled to examine his/her own chart and explore Solar Arcs on a more personal level.

Solar Arcs can easily be incorporated into the Astrologer's arsenal of techniques, helping to better explain past and current events, and prepare a meaningful strategy for the future. Also, individual chapters focus on the use of Solar Arcs in birth time rectification, using Solar Arcs with Midpoint pictures, and the use of Tertiary Progressions to fine-tune astrological timing.
 
The helpful appendices include the "100-year Quick-Glance Ephemeris", and detailed interpretive guidelines for "all 1,130 possible Natal and Solar Arc Midpoint pictures..." 

Don't miss this one! 

Solar Arcs Reviewed
I have just finished reading "Solar Arcs" a second time and am completely fascinated by the presentation of the solar arc measurement. Most intriguing and eductional was the easy step-by-step preparation guide and explanation of solar arc(s) interpretation. It all makes perfect sense!

Barely through the first two chapters, I rushed off to apply this method to my chart. Again and again, significant life events showed up precisely on target, corresponding to the appropriate solar arc configuration.

The additional discussion of Tertiary Progressions was insightful. The astrological picture of my significant life events was flushed out in detail, as Tertiary progressions highlighted exact time frames. Amazing.

The chapter on Rectification: clearly illustrates the inherent timing complexities and only should be attempted by an astrologer schooled in these understandings. The explanation of this astrological art was clear and precise.

The sensitive and graceful personal sharing (presented in an astrologer-client format) of current life circumstances provided such rich education. Demonstration of this sort clearly puts the author firmly in the ranks of "walking their astrological talk."

Other examples of verbatim astrologer-client interactions exquisitely captured "real life/astrologically relevant linkage: planetary configurations (Solar Arcs) accurately related to real life circumstances.

Reader-friendly language makes this book equally appealing to the novice or expert astrologer.

Excellent book on predicting future circumstances
In this complex but extremely educational book, Tyl describes the Solar Arc theory amongst others to show you how to exactly progress your NATAL chart foward in order to see the new aspects formed. This book focuses little on basic planetary triggers, but leans heavily on the concept of midpoints (which are far more productive in Transits) I would say, that this book is not for the first-time astrologer; I would highly recommend "The New Way to Learn Astrology: Presenting the Noel Tyl Method" by Basil Fearrington. It is geared more like a school text book, with chapters and quizes at the end of each chapter. I own over 15 Astrology books, and I think Basil and Tyl have it down. Solar Arc theory is highly recommended, but make sure you have a basic knowledge of houses, signs, planets, and the combinations of. If you do, or at least have the concept, buy this book.