Demetra George on Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Episode 188 features an interview with astrologer Demetra George about her new book titled Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice, A Manual of Traditional Techniques – Volume One: Assessing Planetary Condition. This is the first of two volumes where Demetra provides a detailed treatment of ancient Hellenistic astrology, which is the type of astrology that […]

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0:00.0	and Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the
0:23.2	Astrology Podcast. This episode was recorded on Friday, November 9th, 2018,
0:28.6	starting at 133 p.m. in Denver, Colorado, and this is the 180th episode of the show.
0:35.0	For more information about how to subscribe to the podcast and help support the production of future episodes by becoming a patron,
0:41.0	please visit the astrology podcast.com slash subscribe.
0:44.9	In this episode I'm going to be talking with Demetra George about her new book titled
0:48.3	Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice, a manual of traditional techniques.
0:54.0	Hi Dimitri, thanks for joining me today.
0:55.6	Hi Chris.
0:56.6	Hey, so I'm really excited about this.
0:59.9	We're literally on the cusp of the release of your book finally, which I believe is going to come out sometime in the next 24 hours, right?
1:08.0	Yes, that's my understanding.
1:10.0	Okay. And I've already got a proof copy. We've been reading through and like proofing it over the course of the past month and it's a really amazing book.
1:20.0	I'm actually really excited, actually really excited to talk to you about this today. So first
1:25.1	congratulations on the release of the book. I know this is something you've been
1:27.8	working on for quite a while, right? Right. It has been a long time. I think really it's been 20 years in the making and then it's probably the actual well I think for each chapter, since then there must be 13 or 14 versions of each
1:50.8	chapter, so it's been a process.
1:54.0	Right and it turned out to be a pretty big book where you guys ended up actually breaking it up into two volumes
2:01.0	so that this is actually it's's almost 600 pages, but this is just part one of two volumes, right?
2:07.0	Right, that's correct. And as I was writing it, on one hand, my intention when I started was to have it be short and simple and concise in a workbook that just dealt with the fundamental principles.
2:22.0	But as I started writing, more and more details kept coming out.
2:28.0	And then I go back and try to delete and rewrite passages and pages and sections only to find out that the material kept
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