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by Ciro Discepolo (Author)
This short volume condenses the Author's 42 year-long experience in the field of Elective Astrology, meaning by this that branch of Astrology aimed at choosing the best moment to baptize - in an astrological sense - the birth of a new business, or the living in a new house, or the beginning of a new love affair, or the signing of a contract before a notary, or the start in a good way of anything we care about. This book was published for the first time in Italy in 1988 and re-published in the same place in 2002. However, the Author has saved only about ten pages of that book because in all these years he has realised that he was making some methodological mistakes that later he has been able to correct through a long experience of direct consultations, having thousands of people asking him for the right day and hour in which they could give birth to something. For this reason the book is completely different from the Italian edition and he purposefully wanted to stop before he reached one hundred pages because he followed that conviction of his - which has always been much appreciated by his readers - that an example is worth one thousand words. The Author has thus tried to eliminate any repetition, addressing directly the core of practical problems that are useful for students in Astrology as well as for his colleagues.
Author Biography
An astrologer, journalist and writer, Ciro Discepolo was born in Naples in 1948 (on the 17th of July, at 5:40 am). He worked for twenty years for the most popular daily of Naples, Il Mattino, writing articles on science, medicine, informatics, literature and astrology. He has always refused to cast the so-called 'horoscopes of the solar signs' for that newspaper, as well as for any other newspaper or magazine. He worked (at the age of 20) for five years at the CNR (National Research Council) as Research Helper and, for two years, as Electronic Measures Laboratory's head in the Istituto Motori of Naples, CNR. He has been dealing with astrology since 1970. He has written over 70 books, most of them best-sellers in Italy as well as abroad and he has published over 1,000 astrological lessons on YouTube and about 150 short Astrology Essays on Google Books. In 1990 he founded the quarterly Ricerca '90. He has been doing statistical researches from the very beginning of his interest in astrology. During the early '90s, he obtained brilliant results with researches on astral heredity on a sample of over 75,000 subjects, in different years and always under the control of different experts of statistics. The astrological rules #1 and #2, published in his Transits and Solar Returns but already described decades earlier in other publications of his, have been statistically demonstrated by Didier Castille. These rules were also demonstrated in over 40 years of studies by some researchers of Zurich University and they are the only statements of an astrologer, of every time, demonstrated by Official Science. He has been holding seminars, courses and lectures in different universities and cultural centres in Italy and abroad. He particularly deals with Predictive Astrology, Aimed Solar Returns and Aimed Lunar Returns. According to many colleagues, he may be considered the greatest living expert of this area of study. Not only has he written many texts on this specific segment of the art of Urania - he can also rely on the experience of more than 25,000 aimed birthdays. The outcomes of these aimed birthdays have been recorded and analyzed by his consultants and himself at the end of each year after the consultant's departure for the aimed birthday. He is deeply interested in informatics. Astrologically speaking, he followed the school of André Barbault. He founded the school of the Active Astrology.
