rOPICS IN Ast, -ciAL ee opt “OGy MIDPOINTS @ Identify & Integrate Midpoints Into Horoscope Synthesis DON McBROOM Llewellyn Publications Woodbury, MinnesoraContents List of Figures... ix Acknowledgments... xi Foreword by Noel Ijl.. «siti Preface .. xvii Introduction... 1 CHAPTER ONE—MIDPOINT IDENTIFICATION AND ORGANIZATION « Midpoint Definitions and Terminology... 3 Identification of Midpoint Pictures... 4 ‘The 90° Midpoint Sort... 6 Orbs... 8 The 90° Midpoint ‘Tice... 11 CHAPTER TWO—MIDPOINT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS... 15 Utilization of Keywords in Midpoine Analysis... 15 ‘The Importance of Polarities .. . 17 Interpreting Midpoints . .. 18 Examples of Polatities in Midpoint Analysis . .. 19 CHAPTER THREE—SIGNIFICANT MIDPOINTS . . . 25 Beginning with che Focal Point. . . 25 The Sun/Moon Midpoine . .. 47 The Ascendant/Midheaven Midpoint . .. 60 Midpoint Pictures and Unaspected Planets .. 67 ABit More on Orbs... 83 “The Closest Midpoint Picture... 85 The Aries Point... 101 Charts with No Focal Point in the Ari Point Region... 121vin) ConTENTS Special AP Midpoint Pictures... 122 The Closest Aries Point Midpoint Picture... 123 CHAPTER FOUR—INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS . . . 131 Midpoint Analysis Example. .. 131 Midpoint Analysis with an Unknown Birth Time... 147 CHAPTER FIVE—ADVANCED MIDPOINT TECHNIQUES . . . 159 ‘Transits, Progressions, and Solar Arcs to Midpoints . . . 159 Special Aspect Structures and Their Midpoint Pictures... 162 Appendix I: 90° Midpoint Sort and 90° Midpoint Tree Comparison... 181 Appendix Il: Focal Point and Midpoint Keywords ... 183 Appendis Ill: Natal Midpoint Analysis Interpretation Guidelines... 187 Appendix: IV: Symbolic Manifestations of Unaspected Planets... 199 Appendis: Vs Midpoint Worksheet... 201 Appendise VI: Midpoine Worksheet for Unknown Birth Times... 203 Bibliography... 205 Index... 207Figures 1. Jim Henson's Natal Chart Showing ©=8/¥ and a Saturn-Neptune-Jupiter T-Square .. .5 Visual Explanation of 90° Midpoint Sort... 6 . 90° Midpoint Sort... 7 . Jim Henson's 90° Midpoint Sort... 9 Aw N 5, Jim Henson's Midpoint Pictures Using a 2° Orb... 11 6. Jim Henson's 90° Midpoint Tree... 12 7. Suggested Prolemaic Orbs... 67 8. Napoleon Bonaparte’s Unaspected Sun . . . 69 9. Sigmund Freud's 90° Midpoint Tree Showing the Closest Midpoint Pictures . . . 87 10, Aries Point Locations. . . 102 11. Using the 90 Midpoint Sort to Identify Aries Point Midpoints and Midpoint Pictures... 104 12. Interpretation Guidelines for Focal Points at the Aries Point... 105 13. Charles Dickens's 90° Midpoint Sort . . . 124 14, George Lucas's 90° Midpoint Sore. . . 126 15, Midpoint Worksheet Example . . . 133 16. Midpoint Analysis Example 90° Midpoint Sore... . 134 17. Midpoint Analysis Example 90° Midpoint Tree . . . 135 18. Template Analysis Example Chart... 138 19A and B. Filtered 90° Midpoint Sort for Unknown Birth Time (Moon, Ascendant, and Midheaven Excluded) . . . 148x Fiaures 20. 90° Midpoint Tree for Unknown Birth Tim« . 150 21, Filtered 90° Midpoint Tree for Unknown Birth Time Example (Moon, Ascendant, and Midheaven Excluded)... 151 22. Midpoint Worksheet for Unknown Birth Times Example . . . 153 23. Jim Henson, Transit Chart for November 11, 1969... 161 24, The T-Square. . . 164 25. Two Sextiles Connected by a Trine . . . 166 26. Two Semisextiles Connected by a Sextile. .. 168, 27. The Grand Trine . . .170 28, Two Quincunxes Connected by a Sextile ... 173 29, ‘Two Quindeciles Connected by a Semisextile . .. 174 30. Two Quindeciles Connected by a Semisextile II. . . 176 31. Two Sesquiquadrates Connected by a Square. .. 177 32. Two Semisquares Connected by a Square... 179Acknowledgments I would like co gratefully acknowledge and express my sincere appreciation to all those who have made the development of this book a reality. To Noel Tyl, a modern-day pioneer in psychological astrology, whose techniques, in- sight, patience, generosity, and encouragement were instrumental in the conception of and creation of this book, | offer my profound heartfelt respecc and gratitude. Thanks to the developers and the technical support staff at Matrix Software—the pro- ducers of Win'Star Astrological Sofiware—whose chart forms are used exclusively through out this book. Thanks also to Lois Rodden, Mark McDonough, and the entire staff of AstroDara- bank™ Software, whos astrological research roaring into the computer age. dedicated gathering and compilation of birth dara have brought ‘To all my students, from whom I have probably learned much more than I have taught, thank you and remember that there is always more to learn, A special thank you to Laura O'Bagy, for the contribution of her editorial skills and as- sistance in the development of this book. Lastly, and most importantly, to my wife, Diana, for her unwavering love, support, and cencouragement—thank you.Foreword Working with midpoints presents quite a quandary to many: managing a planet or a point tied in by aspect with the middle ground of two or more other planets or points! That's a high level of synthesis, and that’s what analytical astrology is all about. Bur, astrology is rough enough! Do we need these extra complications? And there are some 858 of them! —“You mean I’ve got to learn all of those descriptions?” Gratefully, the answer is, “No, you don't!” And Don McBroom proves this to you in this remarkably clear, immediately illuminating textbook ‘The first step for us to learn is that midpoint pictures (units of synthesis) are not static descriptions; instead, midpoint pictures show process. Think about that for a moment midpoint pictures are not describing anything chat exists; rather, they are showing what can happen when astrological components get together. There is a major difference there! Under- standing the principle of potentials solves the learning problem. The potential of a nice hearty breakfast is realized through your bringing together bacon and eggs. If you have bacon and eggs together, then you have the potential of a nice hearty breakfast. Its as simple as that!xiv FOREWORD Therefore, i's not memorization of “this means that when that which means this and this which means that are blended together.” Instead, you learn so easily that something can be accomplished through the blending of this and that. Midpoint pictures capture the dynamic common sense of astrological synthesis. You know the symbolisms already: ask yourself, what are their potentials when brought together in different combinations? This book tells you how to think that through... in a flash! For example, thunder can be accomplished through a warm front coming, together with a cold front—simple as that! (th = wf/cf) Creating a child can be accomplished through a male merging with a female. (c = m/f) Those magical words can be accomplished through belong to Don McBroom, one of the most patient and skilled teachers and finest writers in astrology today. Believe me, this book is a world-class presentation of a subject that all coo easily appears scarily compli- cated: midpoint synthesis. And see that equals sign in the equation, in the picture notation? That makes it look off-puttingly scientific and technical, right? But it isn’t. The equals sign is simply short hand for McBroom’s action phrase can be accomplished through, and it cells us about a strong aspect relationship With all my enchusiasm for whac Don has accomplished here (I can't stop using chat wonderful phrase!), my job is to tell you that this book will enrich your talent, that you will use this book for the rest of your study years in astrology. This book will ignite your thinking process so easily, and it will never cool down! What do midpoints do for horoscope analysis? When we realize that every planet in the horoscope is actually in dynamic relationship with every other planet—putting our organizational use of orbs aside—we get the sense of the wholeness of personality. Every part is somchow going to reflect the identity of that whole. And our of midpointology, to coin a phrase, approaches that wholeness, adds to it, and brings us further toward the individual’ reality. ‘Avast majority of the midpoint pictures our computer gives us will echo what we glean from our analytical preparation of the horoscope proper. BUT, in every horoscope, several pictures will ADD dramatically to that initial preparation. These are dynamic glimpses of synthesis chat suggest much about the individual that we may not have suspected. In my