E.C. Matthews

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At 05:34 PM 9/12/04 -0000, Andrew wrote:

><[Therese] Marc Edmund Jones and Dane Rudhyar are two of my

incomprehensibles.

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>[Andrew] I concur. But this opinion is anathema in humanistic astrology

circles

>where the Sabian symbols seem to be elevated to the status of a divine

>oracle!

 

This just shows how muddle headed astrologers can be. I never say, " I'm an

astrologer. " I say that I'm a student who researches astrology.

 

>...I tend to use Charubel but John Ballantrae recommends Kozminsky

>also Axel Harvey recommends the work of EC Matthews (who was a famous

>painter as well as an astrologer with an interest in the fixed stars).

>Is anyone on this list familiar with the Matthews degree symbols?

 

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I have his degree book. Matthews is intelligent and level headed and

studied up on all the other books on degree symbols. His book was first

published in 1947. He says his degree meanings are based on the study of

hundreds of charts. This is a much more plausible number than Kozminsky's

thousands. Matthews incorporated the fixed stars in their 1947 positions,

but says that since degreee meanings seem to be stable over more than 200

hundred years the stars may not contribute much to degree meanings. The

full title of his book is 'Fixed Stars and Degrees of the Zodiac Analyzed.'

 

The book has the feel of a work-in-progress. There's not a whole lot of

definite information for each degree. Here is an example, converted from

the Tropical, 10 to 11 Libra:

 

17 sidereal Virgo: " Progressive: Often interested in child welfare, hygiene

or social service. "

 

This is all he says. Then he lists various people who have planets there

among them Annie Besant-Venus. He lists planets/people for all the degrees

which does indicate that he worked from horoscopes in coming up with his

degree meanings.

 

Since I had the book stashed away, I must not have found it especially

useful. The book was typed on a manual typewriter with the planets and

signs drawn in by hand.

 

Therese