Mercury Hour 47th Edition October 1985

47th Edition
October 1985

Mercury Hour
Issue Highlights

Book Reviews
By Marion March:
Celestial Psychology: An Astrological Guide to Growth and Transformation by Doris A. Hebel
Astrochemistry: A Study of Metal-Planet Affinities by Nick Kellerstrom
Instant Astrology by Mary Orser, Rick and Glory Brightfield
The Astrology of Deep Space by Philip Sedgwick
Spiritual Astrology: A Layperson’s Guide to Self-Unfoldment by Jan Spiller
The Practice and Profession of Astrology by Stephen Arroyo
Birth Pattern Psychology by Tamise Van Pelt
The Astrological Prayer Book by Alda Marian Jangl
Your Key to Astrology [book plus] Astrological Key Cards: Planets, Signs, Houses, Aspects by Bill
Hansen – Edith Custer
Articles
Astrology and the Weather – Dorothy Willis
Lunar Return Notes, Part II – Joan McEvers
Calculation Without Tables of the Julian Day & Century, Obliquity of the Ecliptic, MC, ASC, and
Houses, Part I – John F. Gay, III
The Tree of Life: An Overview – Fran Rosen
Astrological Hall of Fame Awards – Fraternity for Canadian Astrologers [2nd National Conference]
Along the Tarot Path – Fran Rosen
How I Survived my Pluto Square Pluto and Other Transits – Carol Hemingway
The Luscher Color Test, A Symbolic Testing Model – Zan Key
Observations on Astrology, Original & Borrowed – John F. Gay, III
I’m Mad at You!!!! – Mary Ellen Glass
The Horoscope of Russia – Marc Penfield
Chart Mart – Marc Penfield
A Trip Round the Hawaiian Zodiac, Part II – Cheryl Niggle
Astrology and the Weather: Forecasting the Weather, Part I – Dorothy Willis
Horary Astrology: A Definition – Gilbert Navarro
The Business Cycle, Part II – Bill Hansen
Neptune, The Collective Fantasy, and Popular Music – Amy Franco
The Mystery of the Chinese Zodiac, Now Revealed for the First Time – Frank Hampton
The Qualities of Time, Part I – Tundra Wind
Discussions
Astrology, licensure, & ethics
Quadrant house systems vs. Equal Houses
Radix-based Tarot technique
Natal location in Return chart
Birth time of Ronald Reagan
Seven Hill Astrological Conference [reports]
Mercury retrograde
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Chart data
(some incomplete or in question)
(see next page for Marc Penfield’s Chart Mart charts)
Anderson, Loni
Benetar, Haley
(daughter of Pat Benetar)
Bowie, David
Eddy, Mary Baker
Eisenhower, Melanie
(daughter of Julie Nixon
and David Eisenhower)
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Jagger, Elizabeth
(daughter of Mick Jagger
and Jerri Hall)
Kennedy III, Robert F.

Morgan, Vicki
Neves, Tancredo
Pace, Canio and Thomas
(cross-year twins)
Reagan, Ronald
Schwab, Loluis and Leona
(cross-year twins)
Spielberg, Max
(son of Steven Spielberg
and Amy Irving)
Vaughn, Sarah

Frustaci sextuplets
Czar Nicholas II
Prince Henry
Air India 747 jetliner crash
Christian Science Church
Formation of the Soviet
Union
Founding of Tel Aviv
Halley’s Comet return
Live Aid Concert 1985

Notable contributors
Joylyn Hill (Chart of Israel, chart of Robert E. Lee, the nature of Venus)
Olivia Barclay (astrological signature of fires and explosions)
Misty Kuceris (7 Hills Conference)
Robert Pelletier (7 Hills Conference)
Zane Stein (Solstice points, Sabian symbols)
Erin Sullivan (Mercury retrograde)
Michael and Margaret Erlewine (Matrix Heart Center)
Eleanor Bach (Marc Edmond Jones Award)
J. Lee Lehman (Kundalini and asteroid Sappho)

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Additional Chart Data
From Chart Mart – Marc Penfield
Cosby, Bill
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Ping, Deng Xiao
Wayne, John
Rather, Dan

Hexum, John Eric
Hong Kong/Treaty of Nanking
Incorporation of the city of
Miami

“More corrections and additions from Lois Rodden on the Tobias collection.”
Gable, Clark
Gandhi, Mohandes
Gardner, Erle Stanley
Garfield, James
Garret, Leif
Gerulaitis, Vitas
Gish, Lillian
Gleason, Jackie
Goldwyn, Samuel
Grant, Cary
Guillaume, Robert
Harding, Warren G.

Harrison, William H.
Hauptmann, Bruno
Hendrix, Jim (sic)
Heyerdahl, Thor
Hollander, Xaviera
Hope, Bob
Horne, Marilyn
Hudson, Rock
Hussein of Jordan
Huxley, Aldous
Irving, John
Jackson, Jesse

Joel, Billy
Johannsson, Ingemar
Joplin, Janis
Juan Carlos, King
Keaton, Diane
Kennedy, John F.
Killy, Jean Claude
King, Martin Luther
Koestler, Arthur
Kunstler, William

“More corrections and additions from Lois Rodden on the Tobias Collection, Part II, July ’85 MH:”
Carter, Billy
Cartland, Barbara
Caruso, Enrico
Cugat, Xavier
Dietrich, Marlene
Fonda, Jane

Fonda, Peter
Judd, Winnie Ruth
Roberts, Jane
Watkins, Susan
Fidel Castro

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