Midpoints: Identify & Integrate Midpoints Into Horoscope Synthesis

By Don McBroom

Midpoints add nuance, detail, and depth to your astrological interpretations. Yet some astrologers shy away from this valuable analysis, perhaps daunted by the sheer volume of measurements involved. Don McBroom offers an easy approach to midpoints for professionals and individuals. You'll learn how to single out the most significant midpoint pictures and interpret them. McBroom explores many focal points-including the Sun/Moon midpoint, which defines core values. Midpoint significance is illuminated in examples based on the birth charts of Walt Disney, Meryl Streep, Thomas Edison, Steven Spielberg, Janis Joplin, and many other historical and contemporary icons. By integrating these dynamic planetary relationships into your natal chart analysis, you'll uncover exciting characteristics that will enrich your overall interpretation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738709832
• ISBN13: 9780738709833
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Masterful Guide to Midpoints

"After teaching advanced students for more than a decade I have been continually disappointed and frus-trated by the lack of a comprehensive text on midpoints. Until now. Don McBroom's new book, "Midpoints" combines theory and application into an incredibly accessible synthesis of an otherwise complicated subject. Reading this book is like sitting with a master astrologer who takes you by the hand and expertly guides you through every twist and turn that comes with learning this technique. Bountiful examples and illustrations provide visual explanations of this tool and blend seamlessly with Don's relaxed instruction. Basic concepts including midpoint pictures are quickly dispatched and build the foundation for more ad-vanced applications including unaspected planets, the Aries point, and special aspect structures. Don then finishes the book with a basic introduction to how progressions, transits and solar arcs affect midpoints, per-haps laying the groundwork for a follow-up volume devoted to forecasting. What more can one say about this book? Only that I will make it a required text for my intermediate and ad-vanced classes and will have it close at hand as I prepare my own client' charts."

Carol Bellis

Author Don McBroom presents a brilliant and easily accessible method integrating midpoint analysis into natal chart interpretation. He provides numerous examples of high profile celebrities to elucidate the value of this technique with amazing clarity, depth and detail. Midpoint analysis is the "icing on the cake" in horoscope preparation, providing a wealth of important and enlightening information in horoscope preparation. This accessible book should be on every astrologer's bookshelf, whether student, novice or advanced practitioner.

essential reading for astrolgers at all levels

I take this book everywhere. The layout of it is structured and easy to read. So many problems that I had with midpoints have now dissolved. It's a much-needed accessory to my learning astrology. I love the formula method for midpoints you use and I am now trying to use this method interpreting aspects such as Natal ones more accurately. It is very easy to read and for a topic such as midpoints, it is crucially important to have a methodical and logical structure to understand midpoints. I feel certain that Don has achieved this. I think this is really essential reading for astrolgers at all levels.

Wonderful clarity

This book is fabulous. Don took a confusing topic (at least to me) and explained midpoints in such a way that they made full sense. Additionally, I can clearly see now how looking at the midpoint picture in a person's horoscope can be put to practical use in helping a client understand their potential and accomplish their goals and ambitions. Don's book is not only a wonderful and educational read on the topic of midpoints, but he brings clarity to the planets symbolism, sheds life on their polarity, and shows how simple the process of chart delineation can be. This book is well-written, no extra tedious or confusing verbiage, with just the right amount of explanation to cause the reader many ah-ha moments. I hope to see many more books by Don in the future.

Midpoints not a mystery any longer!

For many astrologers midpoint pictures are a mystery. A seemingly busy forest of confusion. But not anymore! Don's book takes you step by step through the forest, revealing the most important underlying trees. Aware that "people make things happen - not planets" Don demonstrates how these trees, our midpoint energies, are used to resolve our needs. It's not another book of descriptions that you have to memorize. If you're an astrologer you already have the "raw materials" needed to understand and process a midpoint picture. But what you're probably missing is a simple, structured, humanistic formula that allows your mind to use what it knows. And in this Don's book excels! I whole-heartedly give this book two thumbs up!