The New Dictionary of Astrology

Due to the significant progress of Astronomy, Statistics and of calculation techniques, the discipline of Astrology is constantly evolving. In this work Ciro Discepolo aims at recapitulating and systematizing contemporary astrological knowledge. The present volume follows the famous attempt of Henri-J. Gouchon (Dictionnaire astrologique, Dervy-Livres, 1975), of which Discepolo's work is an update. In his "summa astrologica", Discepolo: - informs his readers about the news in the field of Astrology, of which he is a leading figure in Italy today; - complements Gouchon's work with a number of new entries or updates (such as Aids, Astrocartography, Courage, Drowning, Libido, Suicide, Synchronicity); - offers a generous contribution of original and first-hand interpretations; - provides hundreds of Natal Charts illustrating a high number of entries with a specific didactic purpose. This volume is intended for consultation; it is exhaustive and concise at the same time, and its reading from A to Z will prove extremely pleasant for its fresh and lively style.

Ciro Discepolo is an astrologer, journalist and writer, he 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 for five years at the CNR (National Research Council) and, for two years 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 250 short Astrology Essays on Google Books. In 1990 he founded the quarterly Ricerca ’90, which he has been editing and publishing since then. 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. The astrological rules #1 and #2, published in his Transits and Solar Returns have been statistically demonstrated by Didier Castille - the greatest astrological statistic researcher in the world - on the entire French population, and this is probably the most convincing evidence in Astrology of the possibility to statistically demonstrate some astrological items. 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 (covering the years 1970 to 2012). He is deeply interested in informatics. Astrologically speaking, he followed the school of André Barbault. He founded the school of the Active Astrology.