RULES FOR PLANETARY PICTURES Ludwig Rudolph & Hermann Lefeldt:
RULES FOR PLANETARY PICTURES
Witte-Verlag Pub., Hamburg, Germany
324 pages
Softcover 29.95 Euro + 5€ shipping (PRIORITY)
ISBN 978-3-920807-46-1
Hardcover 39.95 Euro + 9€ shipping (PRIORITY)
ISBN 978-3-920807-47-8
ISBN 978-3-920807-46-1
Hardcover 39.95 Euro + 9€ shipping (PRIORITY)
ISBN 978-3-920807-47-8
(hardcover edition)
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Please note: The RPP book will be shipped with PRIORITY (worldwide), but that doesn't mean much today. Please take into account longer duration for shipping, because of COVID, means a duration up to 2 months from Europe to the Untited States.
Please note: The RPP book will be shipped with PRIORITY (worldwide), but that doesn't mean much today. Please take into account longer duration for shipping, because of COVID, means a duration up to 2 months from Europe to the Untited States.
In 1946 the history of the 2nd rulebook period began. Hermann Lefeldt took over the task to integrate Pluto and Friedrich Sieggrün’s transneptunian planets into the rulebook which double the number of combinations in the book. It was the rebirth of astrology in Germany after the ban, but an English edition was still far away.
In the 1970s Fredrick “Fritz” Reider, Wisconsin, USA, became the new representative of the »Hamburg School« in North America. Reider then began selling materials and conducted classes in a bookstore, but an authorized English rulebook of the 2nd period was not available. Ludwig Rudolph decided to publish an English edition in Germany and commissioned Curt Knupfer with the translation, who was local member of Hamburg School and fluent in 7 languages. The book was first published in 1974 and remained nearly unchanged for almost 50 years.
Lefeldt’s son Ekkehard, encouraged me many years ago to modernize the book. The first step was a slightly revised German edition in 2012, but the new revised English edition is truly the first real modernization of the book. While I was working on the revision, I noticed that some changes could make the content more usable. The structure of the book contains repetitions of two-factor combinations for practical reasons. Unfortunately, structural two-factor repetitions were reproduced often without the same interpretation texts in the book. In short, the original rulebook had contained more information about two-factor combinations than was assumed. However, this information was spread over several pages. For the current compilation, which is available now, I’ve merged several connected interpretations together. The repetitions of two-factors combinations appear on different pages with the same text now. Repetitions of this kind may seem superfluous, but you will find that repetitions make the book much easier to work with.
The new edition come with a new introductory section. The original section by Ludwig Rudolph and Hermann Lefeldt is no longer included in the English edition. This decision was difficult for me, but it was necessary. The previous text was compiled in a hurry and a lot of the information given in the wider-ranging German introduction – a third of the German book – was missing. The new introductory section is not as extensive as in the original German, but it should still give a more comprehensive overview of the Uranian System of Astrology than before. Overall, the new revised English rulebook is the most modern edition of the rulebook available today. — Michael Feist
Content:
Preface
Set of Rules – first period
Set of Rules – second period
Revised English Compilation 2020
Correct Application of the Rulebook
Combinatorics
Structure and Application
Short Introduction to Uranian Astrology
Historical beginnings
Planetary pictures in symmetrical structures and symmetrical divisions
Planetary pictures, a mathematical-symmetrical principle
Modern Astrology
The Theory of the Houses according to Uranian Astrology
The Transneptunians (Uranian Planets)
The Vernal Point in Uranian Astrology
Factors
Meanings & Interpretations
Meanings of the Factors and Planets
Meanings of the hypothetical Planets
Meaning of the Houses
Set of Rules
In the 1970s Fredrick “Fritz” Reider, Wisconsin, USA, became the new representative of the »Hamburg School« in North America. Reider then began selling materials and conducted classes in a bookstore, but an authorized English rulebook of the 2nd period was not available. Ludwig Rudolph decided to publish an English edition in Germany and commissioned Curt Knupfer with the translation, who was local member of Hamburg School and fluent in 7 languages. The book was first published in 1974 and remained nearly unchanged for almost 50 years.
Lefeldt’s son Ekkehard, encouraged me many years ago to modernize the book. The first step was a slightly revised German edition in 2012, but the new revised English edition is truly the first real modernization of the book. While I was working on the revision, I noticed that some changes could make the content more usable. The structure of the book contains repetitions of two-factor combinations for practical reasons. Unfortunately, structural two-factor repetitions were reproduced often without the same interpretation texts in the book. In short, the original rulebook had contained more information about two-factor combinations than was assumed. However, this information was spread over several pages. For the current compilation, which is available now, I’ve merged several connected interpretations together. The repetitions of two-factors combinations appear on different pages with the same text now. Repetitions of this kind may seem superfluous, but you will find that repetitions make the book much easier to work with.
The new edition come with a new introductory section. The original section by Ludwig Rudolph and Hermann Lefeldt is no longer included in the English edition. This decision was difficult for me, but it was necessary. The previous text was compiled in a hurry and a lot of the information given in the wider-ranging German introduction – a third of the German book – was missing. The new introductory section is not as extensive as in the original German, but it should still give a more comprehensive overview of the Uranian System of Astrology than before. Overall, the new revised English rulebook is the most modern edition of the rulebook available today. — Michael Feist
Content:
Preface
Set of Rules – first period
Set of Rules – second period
Revised English Compilation 2020
Correct Application of the Rulebook
Combinatorics
Structure and Application
Short Introduction to Uranian Astrology
Historical beginnings
Planetary pictures in symmetrical structures and symmetrical divisions
Planetary pictures, a mathematical-symmetrical principle
Modern Astrology
The Theory of the Houses according to Uranian Astrology
The Transneptunians (Uranian Planets)
The Vernal Point in Uranian Astrology
Factors
Meanings & Interpretations
Meanings of the Factors and Planets
Meanings of the hypothetical Planets
Meaning of the Houses
Set of Rules