Updates, Astrological and Otherwise

[ecosophia]

A couple of updates that may be of interest to my readers: 

To begin with, my mundane astrology project is proving to be well worth the time and effort I'm putting into it -- many thanks to everyone who's subscribed to it!  (If you're not familiar with this, by all means check it out on my SubscribeStar or Patreon pages.)

I've decided, after quite a bit of reflection, to move my eclipse charts from now on to the $10-a-month subscription tier. Partly that's because they're taking more time than I'd expected, and partly because I need something to offer my higher-tier subscribers once I finish the current series of posts on the December 21 Grand Mutation. 

The Grand Mutation charts for the US and Britain have already been posted, and I'm working on the delineation of the next 199 years of India's history, with charts for Japan and Australia still to come. After that, I plan on delineating the next Great Conjunction, which will take place in 2040, and then the next Grand Mutation, which won't be until 2219 and will mark the next major turning point in world history. 

In the meantime, I've already posted a delineation for the penumbral lunar eclipse coming up on November 30, and am working on the chart for the December 14 solar eclipse, which will take place the day the Electoral College is scheduled to meet here in the US, and is in the 10th house of politics as seen from Washington DC. (Oog.)  Charts for the Capricorn ingress for the five nations I currently track will be following promptly, and then it's on to the next set of eclipses and ingresses!

***Update to the update:  my predictions for the December 14th solar eclipse are up on both sites. Next up are the Capricorn ingress charts, and I also plan on delineating the inauguration chart for whoever ends up as US president on January 20th, and doing that as a public post. The inauguration -- well, let's just say it's a very, very interesting chart.***

In other news, I've set up an online shop for most of my books with Bookshop.org, an online firm that works with independent booksellers online and off.  The pages on my blog with links to my books -- which I've never really had time to maintain properly -- have been replaced by a connection to my Bookshop page. Full disclosure:  I get a cut from Bookshop.org for sales through my store, which more than makes up for the considerable discounts Bookshop is able to offer.  (It's associated with Ingram, the largest distributor of independent publishers in the market, which is why they can rival the discounts at that big online retailer.) By all means check it out, and let me know if you have any problems with it; currently it's only active in the US, but that should change early next year. 

Despite the crazed gibbering currently coming out of the US political system and a good many of its equivalents elsewhere, in other words, life goes on -- and all things considered, if any of you are thinking of devoting more time to your spiritual lives, a case could be made that this is a very good time for that...

Comments

[hwistle]

The Bookshop looks great! Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work outside the States... :-(

[(Anonymous)]

It's just opened in the UK - redirects to uk.bookshop.org

[d_mekel]

I will be sure to get my circles of power and golden dawn through here....plus whatever else

[ecosophia]

Thank you!

Not in the US

[sea_spray]

Hi JMG

Bookshop.org looks awesome! Unfortunately for me I'm in NZ so not likely to see much from them any time soon. Do you know if there's a way for a book shop that's not in the US of UK to approach them and get the discounted price to ship it to their door as a special order from a customer?

Thanks!

Re: Not in the US

[ecosophia]

I'm not sure how they handle that, but I believe Ingram distributes worldwide -- talk to your favorite local bookstore and see if they have access to Ingram titles.

Reviews

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,
On the bookshop site, there doesn't appear to be a way to leave reviews - I would be very happy to review those of your books that I have read. Perhaps this feature could be added?
Do you have somewhere that you would prefer people left reviews?
Christine S (UK)

Re: Reviews

[ecosophia]

Thanks for asking! I'll inquire and see if Bookshop plans on a customer review feature down the road a bit. In the meantime, I don't have any specific preferences, but I'm always pleased to see reviews of my books -- personal recommendations carry a lot of weight in the book trade.

[phillipwats]

"Despite the crazed gibbering currently coming out of the US political system and a good many of its equivalents elsewhere, in other words, life goes on -- and all things considered, if any of you are thinking of devoting more time to your spiritual lives, a case could be made that this is a very good time for that..."

So my decision to start LRM on November 1 sounds like a good one then...

As for the eclipse, just how ugly does it look like it will get? I tried delinating it, but I'm still learning how to read a chart. Either I'm misreading it or it looks like it'll be a doozy....

[ecosophia]

It sounds like a very good decision to me. As for the eclipse, you're not misreading it; it looks like it's going to be a mess.

A World Full of Gods

[(Anonymous)]

Hi John. I was actually over there this morning, looking for one of your titles, a book that relates (as many of yours do of course) to the last paragraph in your post: A World Full of Gods. I didn't see that one in the bookstore but maybe I'll check again, before I look at a different seller (not the monolith you mentioned however).

Looking forward to the upcoming astrological reports. & congrats on the success of your mundane astrology project.

Re: A World Full of Gods

[ecosophia]

At the moment, AWFOG is unavailable on Ingram, though trhat may change -- by all means pick it up elsewhere for now. Thank you for the congratulations!

Spiritual Life

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I'm sold. Anything that pulls me further away from the mainstream will be welcomed at this point.

Got any books on deck for us?

- Dudley Dawson.

Re: Spiritual Life

[ecosophia]

I'll be announcing a new title in a couple of days, and there's a steady drumbeat lined up for the next year or so!

[esingletary]

I have a feeling this would push your workload into untenable territory, so forgive the question if it overextends, but would you ever consider doing comprehensive retrospectives on some of your charts once they finish playing out? Especially as eventful as 2020 has been, I’d be very interested in seeing your perspectives on what surprised you, what you learned, and on the role the eclipses seem to have had this year in modifying the ingress charts once the astrological rubble of 2020 stops bouncing at the end of March.

[ecosophia]

If I have the time, that would be interesting. We'll see...

Congrats!

[(Anonymous)]

Great move! The independent local bookstores in my area are on Bookstop.org as well.

Re: Congrats!

[ecosophia]

Glad to hear it!

Solar eclipse

[(Anonymous)]

After looking up the details of the electoral process a day or two ago, I noticed there's a new moon on the day the Electoral College meets, and thought it didn't seem particularly auspicious. But I had no idea there was a solar eclipse. From an election standpoint - that's bad, isn't it?

Kevin

Re: Solar eclipse

[ecosophia]

It's not good, and a solar eclipse in the 10th house of government is particularly bad. One way or another things are going to go haywire.

[(Anonymous)]

I notice that the next book of yours I plan to buy, Inside a Magical Lodge, isn't available through Bookshop. Is there a particular reason for that?

[ecosophia]

The original publisher, Llewellyn, let it go out of print. A new edition will be out shortly from Aeon Books, but it's not yet in the Ingram system. If you want to order it directly from the publisher, you can place an advance order here.

[(Anonymous)]

I got coch+mab=carchar in the first triplicity for todays reading, so it appears there are definitely torpedoes in the tube. Prison does not sound very desirable so I fired them at the CosDoc instead. A very good time indeed...

[ecosophia]

Oog. Yeah, that's the kind of reading to inspire serious caution.

Australian chart

[(Anonymous)]

Hi John Michael,

Is it possible to only purchase the Australian chart from you when it is available?

Sorry to not have an interest in other parts of the world. It is perhaps a personal failing, which I'm considering writing about. But yes, your advice in the very last paragraph is wise indeed. Down here in this fragile old land, well, a good case could be made that the spiritual world and the material world are perhaps more closely interlinked than people currently realise.

Cheers

Chris from Fernglade Farm - who is having troubles with OpenID on my domain... Computers...

Re: Australian chart

[ecosophia]

Unfortunately the Patreon and SubscribeStar setup doesn't have a way for me to do that. Sorry!

[syfen]

Sooo the eclipse is on the day the electoral college meet? Oh dear gods that's just freaky.

[ecosophia]

You know, that's what I said, too. ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

This one is also not there:
https://www.routledge.com/Not-the-Future-We-Ordered-Peak-Oil-Psychology-and-the-Myth-of-Progress/Greer/p/book/9781780490885

[ecosophia]

I know. There's an entry for it in the Ingram system but it's defective -- it claims to sell you the hardback edition for US$187.50. Until that gets straightened out, I'm not going to put it up onto the site!

Spirituality

[(Anonymous)]

Ever since deciding to make an effort reading, I've had a lot of spiritual advancement and found more opportunities for expanding it. These experiences and knowledge have been incredibly meaningful, especially during this time. I'm glad to hear that it is in part because now is a good time for it!

I'm also glad you've found a better way to access your books while also making it more profitable to you. The next time I buy one of your books it'll be through Bookshop.org .. Thanks for always making your ideas accessible.

Prizm

Re: Spirituality

[ecosophia]

You're welcome and thank you!

[claire_58]

Very happy to hear about the bookstore. I hope Canada gets added. I didn't see Twilight's Last Gleaming. Our copy got loaned out and never returned to us. Very Sad.

Regarding the astrology blog: I thought the $10 tier was going to involve more teaching. I finally ordered the mundane astrology books you recommended. They arrived today. I haven't found a program that will generate a chart quite like yours but I used AstroSeek's birth chart generator to print a Grand Mutation chart for Canada. Wish me luck.

[ecosophia]

Let me see if I can get TLG up there; it seems unpleasantly timely just now. :-(

My astrology program is SolarFire, if that helps any. AstroSeek's charts are fine, though. As for teaching, we'll see -- at the moment, keeping up with ingress, eclipse, and Grand Mutation charts is as much as I have time for! When I get to work on my book on mundane astrology, though, I'll consider posting first-draft sections there.

Druid Magic Handbook

[(Anonymous)]

Hm, I see in the book shop that Weiser is bringing out a new edition of the Druidry Handbook. That's nice! If they are minded to revisit the Druid Magic Handbook as well, here's one sure customer for a deluxe over-the-top edition like the Dolmen Arch. I'm halfway through the book, and doubt that it will hang together long enough for me to finish it.

Re: Druid Magic Handbook

[ecosophia]

Unfortunately Weiser doesn't do fine hardbacks! If they ever let the DMH go out of print, I'll see if I can place it somewhere that does hardback editions.

[(Anonymous)]

JMG,

all in all, the options of turning the whole life toward transcendence and detachment like you noted in the essay "the Long View" appear as the sanest at this moment.

I was bit uprooted by the pandemic fall-out, here in Poland and it seems that I've not collapsed and avoided the rush in time, but life do go on. Thank you once again for hosting the place where sanity on Internet can be found.

-changeling

[ecosophia]

You're welcome and thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations !
More for you, more for independents and less for Amazon ! Win win win.
I'll have a word with Watkins when they reopen - good for them too.
With all of these and whatever few are not (yet) on this system I make it over 70 books in print. Wowser.
Lurksalong

[ecosophia]

Please do -- I've been to the Watkins store in London, and left with quite a few books to send home. It's a fine place. Yes, I have more than 70 books in print -- what can I say? I enjoy writing, and people seem to like reading my books. ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

JMG,

Have you seen that the senior manager for Dominion Voter Systems has been exposed as an Antifa sympathiser, and his name, believe it or not, is Dr. Coomer. And he has been exposed during No Nut November! This is possibly the most Kekist thing that has ever happened:

https://www.ptnewsnetwork.com/breaking-does-a-former-dominion-voter-systems-vp-and-current-patent-holder-have-ties-to-the-terrorist-group-or-idea-known-as-antifa/

Also worth checking out this new method of augury - "The Law of Funny":

https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1311763494480609285

[ecosophia]

I hadn't seen that but I'm not in the least surprised. Election fraud is as American as apple pie. Does anybody remember that fine 1931 Gershwin musical Of Thee I Sing?



Election fraud is central to the scene where John P. Wintergreen is elected president: "Wintergreen just four votes from victory!" "Wintergreen casts last four votes!" All very prescient, not least because Wintergreen is running on the "Love" platform.

As for the Law of Funny, a case could be made...

[(Anonymous)]

Happy to see the Bookshop site, synchronistically I just found out about Bookshop this week! I’m going to be canceling my Amazon prime and buying all my books through that platform now.
Are you hinting that astrologically it is a good time to work on our spiritual lives, or is it just in general a good idea right now?

[ecosophia]

It's a good idea in general. Astrologically, it depends on how current transits are influencing your natal and progressed charts.

Online book

[(Anonymous)]

Looks like a great platform, congratulations!

I’ve managed to get an online copy of the Druid Magic Handbook. I remember reading that this is not meant to be free, so I’ve not used it yet. It is however in my “virtual possession “. Shall I tip you in the tip jar? Or what would you prefer?

Re: Online book

[ecosophia]

I recommend discarding it and paying for either a print or an e-book copy. Thanks for asking!

Great Conjunction 2020

[(Anonymous)]

Hello JMG

Is there a Great Conjunction in Dec 2020? You mention the next Great Conjunction as taking place in 2040.

SMJ

Re: Great Conjunction 2020

[ecosophia]

December 21, 2020 is the Grand Mutation, the shift of the cycle of Great Conjunctions from earth signs to air signs. According to mundane astrology, it marks the beginning of a new cycle in world history, which will last until the next Grand Mutation in the year 2219. I'll be doing a post about it next month. It's going to be a busy couple of months astrologically -- over and above everything else, one of my readers pointed out that the chart for the inauguration (January 20, 2021) is frightful, and it is -- I don't think I've ever seen a more baleful chart. I'll be doing a post on that, too.

[booklover1973]

In what way is the inauguration chart effective, since it is neither an eclipse chart nor an ingress chart?

[ecosophia]

Ingresses and eclipses are only two of the types of charts used by traditional mundane astrologers, as I noted above. They're the two I've worked with most extensively, and they provide a very good overview of year-by-year political trends, but there are many other kinds of charts used in mundane astrology. The beginning of anything is always important astrologically, thus a chart cast for the beginning of a presidency shows what can be expected during that presidency.