A handbook for watching time in nature (horoscoping) with which readers may use the Sun, Moon, stars, planets, shooting stars, weather patterns, the farm and garden year, blooming plants and other living creatures to better understand and live with the external forces that shape their lives.
The word horoscope comes from two Greek words, hora, which means hour or time, and skopos, which means observer. The time observer is a horoscoper, and for the horoscoper who watches the seasons, an “almanack horoscope” can offer a useful guide to the galaxy as well as to one’s own neighborhood.
In The Emerald Tablet, an ancient text by Hermes Trismegistus, the author attempts to explain the astrological mysteries of the cosmos. The work contains the phrase: “As above, so below.”
Indeed the land does reflect the sky above it, and the Earth watcher can create constellations and stories no less than the traditional astrologer. For the horoscoper, the landscape is rich with lessons and with possibilities for alignments and predictions.
By focusing on events in nature, the time watcher not only observes how the weather and the movement of the Sun, Moon, stars and planets are connected to the seasons but also how events on Earth reflect what happens in the sky and how all of these events can be related to human emotions.
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More Books by Bill Felker
A Daybook for September in Yellow Springs, Ohio
Contains all my September notes between 1981 and 2017, including daily and weekly weather estimates, summaries of the progress of the season and a calendar of blooming plants, all applicable to the Lower Midwest, the Middle Atlantic region and the East.
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A Daybook for August in Yellow Springs, Ohio
Contains all my August notes between 1981 and 2018, including daily and weekly weather estimates, summaries of the progress of the season and a calendar of blooming plants, all applicable to the Lower Midwest, the Middle Atlantic region and the East.
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