Solar Arc Directions: How to Read Life’s Roadmap

151 Pages·2015·2.9 MB·English

by  Carole Devine

SOLAR ARC DIRECTIONS

How to Read Life’s Roadmap

Carole Devine
Copyright © 2000 by Carole Devine All rights reserved. No part of this book
may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form
by any means whether electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or
other, without the prior written permission of the author.

Cover Illustration by Kenneth DeMott First published by: L.A.B.
Professional Publishing P.O. Box 4130Woodbridge, Virginia 22194
Website: www.labpublish.com First printing - December 2000
Second printing - July 2001

ISBN: 0-9700696 -0-X

Printed in U.S.A.
For my sons, Joseph, Gregory, Ralph and Kenneth
DeMott,
who are my inspiration,
and for Duane Urban, my literary mentor, for
interminable encouragement.
Acknowledgments
No book is a one-
person effort. I want to extend special appreciation to
those clients who were so gracious to anonymously let
me use their stories, and who took the time to write them
in their own words. It helped to give their histories more
immediacy.
Very special thanks to the meticulous expertise of Lora
Blackburn, whose work produced the final design of the whole book.
Thank you to all my friends (too numerous to mention by name)
who were encouraging and patient with me as I bounced ideas off them.
Especially, I thank Maureen Demot, a very well-known South African
Jungian Astrologer transplanted to Culpeper, VA, who was the most
inundated with it all and wrote the foreword. I bless the day she emailed me
and said she believed she lived just down the road from me.
And thank you to my son, Kenneth DeMott, who painted a cover
that was exactly what I wanted and even exceeded my expectations.
Thank you to Jeff Jawer for reading and commenting on the
manuscript, and to Joe Anne Bridge, a psychologist, who also read the
manuscript and added her special expertise.
All charts are derived from the Solar Fire v.5 computer program
available through "Astrolabe" (www.alabe.com).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Chapters
1. Basic Principles
2. As the Twig is Bent
3. Introduction to Cosmobiology
4. The Mid-Life Shift Into Reverse
5. Charts That Affect a Nation
6. Solar Arc in Composite Charts
7. Counseling the Client
8. Rectification Using Solar Arc
FOREWORD

In true Aries fashion, Carole is a pioneer. In my almost twenty-five years as
a counseling astrologer I have seen many new ideas surface in the
astrological field. But this book is truly a breakthrough. A long time ago,
when she first told me about this new way of examining a chart I was
excited. As astrologers we know that life, [our growth, development, and
the situations we experience] operate in cycles. With her unique way of
tracking repetitive situations in our lives, Carole has introduced us to a
wonderful tool to help our clients understand why “history repeats itself”.
Not only is this an innovative work on solar arc directions, it is also a very
practical and valuable tool for both astrologers and their clients.
Carole is a certified professional astrologer. Not only is she a
superb teacher, who brings a dynamism and vitality to her lectures, she also
provides a highly acclaimed correspondence course for students. In
addition, she has an innovative mind and is a fine writer.
As a woman, Carole is full of fun, and a warm and vital person,
whom I consider a wonderful friend who has made my life richer for
knowing her. She has tolerated my wildly outrageous sense of humour,
and has been kind and understanding in times when I needed a shoulder to
cry on. Her awareness of the human condition makes her a rare human
being and an excellent astrologer. It is with honour that I call her friend and
professional associate.
I hope you enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed watching it grow,
develop, and come to fruition. Further, my wish is that you derive the
benefit of Carole’s many years of knowledge and this exciting technique.
Rev. Maureen Demot, Ph.D.
August 2000

Sadly, Maureen Demot made her passing on February 17, 2001 in an
automobile accident. She owned Galaxy House, a thriving astrological
center which was the hub of astrological activity in Johannesburg, South
Africa in the 80's. Although well—known in South Africa and throughout
Europe, she was only beginning to share her wealth of knowledge with us
in the USA.
INTRODUCTION

Imagine an Anasazi Indian in Chaco Canyon, NM watching the sky year
after year, first noticing a rhythm to solar cycles and then laboriously
recording it with rocks, sweat and probably blood so accurately that today
those rock carvings are still reliable. To these people, compared to many
things in life, the Sun was stable. Along with the Moon, it was the one thing
they could count on to continue a cyclic pattern year after year no matter
what else was unpredictable around them. As they came to depend on
these annual rhythms, a culture developed around them. Planting schedules,
religious rites and surely many other observances were tied with this
reliable pattern. It had to have given them a sense of stability, security and
connection with the universe.
In our understanding of Astrology today, the Sun is a major factor
in a chart. In secondary progressions, it is the most powerful indicator of
change, and with the eclipses added, the scaffolding of a lifetime can be
built. As we grow in understanding of the laws of quantum mechanics,
chaos theory and fractal geometry, we learn that there is order in
everything, and all of reality is interdependent. Therefore, it is not hard to
reason that the planets could be given a solar rhythm that is just as valid as
their own.
The planets are reliable too, but from a geocentric point of view,
their cycles are not as smooth as the Sun's steady, forward, predictable
apparent motion. When we use the transits of the planets to trigger dormant
and waiting progressed aspects, some points are triggered several times due
to retrograde periods. This makes it very hard to time anything precisely.
Furthermore, the outer planets remain in orb of contacting a point for
many years due to their slow orbital motion. Granted, they are effective for
as long as the orb is in range, but much is happening within that time frame
that is important. Taken together, these methods of prediction are accurate
enough when examined after a drama, but are hard to pin down before
events unfold. The one body that seems more dramatically accurate than
the others, when progressed, is the Sun. Since all secondary progressions
are based on the premise that one day equals a year, it is not so far-fetched
to move the planets the same motion as the Sun's daily increment for each
year.
It is also hard to see life as a pattern using progressions and transits.
We have the reliable Saturn cycle to build a lifetime structure, and along with
it, other outer planetary cycles and the most reliable progressed Moon. But
these are still cycles. They are repetitive for the same number of years for
everyone. There isn't a great deal that is personally unique about them
except the order in which they contact the various components of the chart
and the houses being affected at a given time. No life unfolds in quite that
orderly a manner. Further, it is interesting that one contact from a planet at
one time in the life may be far less important than an identical contact at
another time. It is the combination of other factors occurring simultaneously
that makes the difference.
Solar arc directions have been around for a long time and are
commonly used by many Astrologers. There are even books with lists of
what various planetary combinations mean when they are activated by solar
arc directions. However, as far as I know, there is no body of work that
shows the pattern of a life, as shown by the unfolding of solar arc contacts,
in quite the way this book does. In fact, I’m not sure that anyone has even
noticed that there is a pattern at all. There is one, however, that is quite
unique for each person; in fact, there are patterns within patterns. The main
theme of this book is to explain these patterns and show examples from the
lives of ordinary people so that we can use solar arcs more effectively in
guiding our clients through a seemingly endless maze of events that seem
to have no common thread. The thread is there and not really so hard to
discover!
The first couple of chapters of this book contain simplified example
charts; i.e. they will show the traditional components of a chart, and mostly
solar arc contacts will be used. I am primarily a teacher and have found that
the most effective way of teaching anything is to isolate each part of a new
study to see it in its purity without confusing it with too much information
too soon. Solar arc directions do not stand alone, but I wanted to
demonstrate that they do, indeed, provide a life outline that is quite valid.
In some of the examples later in the book, asteroids are added, and
in others transits and secondary progressions are included. I did not include
secondary progressions in any great detail in this book, although I use them
in my practice. Again, it is for the purpose of simplicity. Cosmobiology is
introduced, but since it is a major subject in itself, and because there are