FOR MY FRENCH, SPANISH, GERMAN, PORTUGUESE AND ITALIAN READERS
I am pleased to announce that my book “SOLAR RETURNS – Interpreting Solar Returns: Predictions”, already published in English, is now also available, thanks to Amazon KDP’s Kindle Translate, in French, Portuguese, Spanish, German and Italian.
This new publication gives me the opportunity to add a few clarifications intended especially for those who are interested in Active Astrology and, in particular, in Aimed Solar Returns.
For the past few days, the fourth edition of my book “Transits and Solar Returns” has also been available, in Italian in print and in several languages on Kindle. Taking as a reference the English edition published by the American Federation of Astrologers in 2013, we have gone from approximately 240 pages in that edition to 673 pages in the current one.
But, in my opinion, for scholars who are particularly interested in this subject, it is also important to understand where we started from and through which stages we arrived at the present work, which has been revised and expanded many times over the entire period during which I have devoted myself to this field—a field that, from the very beginning of my astrological studies, became one of my principal points of reference in the art of Urania.
Here, then, are some of the milestones I would like to recall.
1) Between 1970 and 1975, I published several articles and took part in the first broadcasts of Italy’s independent radio stations, as well as cable television programs, speaking about Aimed Solar Returns, which have nothing whatsoever to do with Alexandre Volguine’s book, often inappropriately cited in this context.
A particularly significant testimony to this path of mine is my study of Luigi Pirandello, which I published several years later in some of my books as well. As anyone can verify, I calculated the great Pirandello’s charts for Rome, where he lived for almost his entire life, and not for Girgenti (Agrigento), where he was born.
2) In 1979, with the publisher Federico Capone, I published my “Prontuario di calcoli” (“Calculation Handbook”), which was also useful for calculating Solar Returns.
3) Also in 1979, with the Milan publisher Giovanni Armenia, I published “Gli Astri del Successo”, containing many portraits of famous people in which I explained the use of Solar Returns and Aimed Solar Returns, also referring to portraits of mine that had already appeared in ASTRA magazine in 1977, 1978 and 1979.
4) In 1984, in my “Guida ai Transiti” (“Guide to Transits”), I devoted approximately one third of the book to Solar Returns and Aimed Solar Returns.
5) In the following years, I published several other books on the subject, both in Italian and in English, including “Trattato Pratico delle Rivoluzioni Solari” and “Nuovo Trattato delle Rivoluzioni Solari” (“Solar Returns” in the United States).
6) This brings us to 1997, the year of the first Italian edition of my “Transiti e Rivoluzioni Solari”.
It is a date I could never forget because throughout 1996 I worked in despair, with the subjective certainty that I was going to lose my mother, who indeed passed away during the night of December 26, 1996.
In that book, I established the famous 30 rules, which several years later would become 34.
The first edition was also very successful in translation: in French with the highly prestigious Éditions Traditionnelles of Paris, and subsequently in Spanish, German and also Russian, in collaboration with the Higher School of Astrology in Moscow.
7) And this brings us to the present day, to the Fourth Edition of “Transits and Solar Returns”, greatly expanded compared with the previous editions, and to the new possibilities that Kindle Translate is opening up for making these studies available to Readers of many different languages.
Within this journey, “Solar Returns” therefore represents an important stage in the history of my studies on Solar Returns and Aimed Solar Returns, together with “Guida ai Transiti”, “Trattato Pratico delle Rivoluzioni Solari” and “Nuovo Trattato delle Rivoluzioni Solari”.
Indeed, I believe that understanding the genesis of a specific cultural and intellectual journey is at least as important as knowing its most recent results.
In the book you will also find examples dating back many years. I remember, for instance, the case of a client of mine who was unable to leave for an Aimed Solar Return and consequently found himself with Mars in the First House. He was a person who was usually incapable of making forceful decisions, and during the following months he experienced a year that we might describe as “galvanizing.”
But, in recounting that experience, I also warned Readers that the same young man, during that year, fell from his Vespa and broke his leg.
It is precisely through hundreds of cases such as this one, studied over the course of more than half a century, that my work on Solar Returns and Aimed Solar Returns has developed.
And this is why I find it particularly moving today to see these texts becoming accessible, almost simultaneously, to Readers of different languages and countries.
As I have already written in connection with my recent publications, I consider Kindle Translate an extraordinary technology.
I particularly appreciate the fact that Amazon also subjects translations to rigorous quality control: KDP states that translations must pass a seven-step verification process, which takes into account, among other things, fidelity to the original, idiomatic expressions, terminological consistency, grammar and spelling. If a translation does not meet the required standards, it is not published.
I have personally experienced this aspect as well with another book of mine: of the four translations I requested, only the Portuguese one initially passed the quality check, while the other three were held back.
And I regard this too as an indication of the great seriousness of the project: I certainly prefer a system that says “this translation is not yet good enough to be published” rather than one that automatically publishes any result.
Amazon also explains that translations rejected because of current technological limitations are automatically processed again as the service improves and are then subjected once more to quality control.
Kindle Translate is still in beta and, therefore, we are probably only at the beginning.
And yet, to be able to see one of my books published today almost simultaneously in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, German and Italian seems extraordinary to me and reinforces my conviction that we are witnessing an epoch-making transformation in the international dissemination of books and written knowledge.
I will therefore continue to follow the evolution of this technology with the greatest interest, and I hope that many more languages will soon be added.
Enjoy your reading, Everyone!
P.S. In this brief overview, I have not mentioned my many books also devoted to Lunar Returns, exercises on Aimed Solar Returns, and Aimed Lunar Returns.
Dear Dr Discepolo,
I hope you are well.
I understand that Jupiter in the 10th house and at 3°13′ from the MC is still within the Gauquelin zone and therefore remains influential.
What I am unsure about is whether, specifically in a Lunar Return, its influence is significantly reduced when it is not within 2°30′ of the MC, but at 3°13′ from it and if this would justify changing the location for the Lunar Return in order to place Jupiter within the cusp of the MC?
Kind regards,
Valentina
Well, Valentina, I have good news for you: a few weeks ago I published the fourth edition, in Italian on paper and on Kindle, and in English on Kindle, of my “Transits and Solar Returns.” It’s grown from the 240 pages of the American edition published by the American Federation of Astrologers to the current 673 pages. I’ve expanded the 34 rules in great detail and have also dedicated a separate section explaining how to read the stars when, within a Solar Return or Lunar Return, they are close to the four corners of the sky, distinguishing between their cusp, Gauquelin zone, and dominant status.
You can find the book here:
https://www.amazon.it/TRANSITI-RIVOLUZIONI-SOLARI-IV-EDIZIONE-ebook/dp/B0H7BZGG88/ref=sr_1_1?crid=232J4XY7VLXVN&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.efrIhC9DC14h9Kp8UCZHpZA4yFo80O1P1y29zV5DSZY4CFfZ4e-JX-y9fO5DegtGkweRGJ2I7pUc87ZNuex8jZEs8DBy3yW3wTW1Sp2wt759wQa4wcp73EUMmY5e6vZS.xQJFOSdJ3qeieMiR6hNmns4BhFBFRoqsOOh6rQ2hGVs&dib_tag=se&keywords=transiti+e+rivoluzioni+solari+ciro+discepolo&qid=1787547996&sprefix=transiti+e+rivoluzioni+solari%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1
Thank you! I look forward to reading it. All the best, Valentina
Dear Ciro,
a question about astrological relocation. While reading the passage about Milan and “Mars relocated to the IC (Imum Coeli)”, I realized that I am still not entirely sure what this means.
So I wonder: how should my relocation chart for Turin be interpreted?
Turin is my city, I love it deeply, and my home is truly my safe haven. It would be very difficult for me to imagine leaving it!
Dear Gianni,
If you like, repost your post tomorrow and add your complete and accurate birth details: enter everything in a single, new post.
Nato Torino 01/07/1962 ore 16:15
Dear Ciro,
a question about astrological relocation. While reading the passage about Milan and “Mars relocated to the IC (Imum Coeli)”, I realized that I am still not entirely sure what this means.
So I wonder: how should my relocation chart for Turin be interpreted?
Turin is my city, I love it deeply, and my home is truly my safe haven. It would be very difficult for me to imagine leaving it!
Dear Gianni,
Astrocartography is an important branch of astrology, and you should delve deeper into it before you can make judgments.
You can read the specific entry in my “New Dictionary of Astrology” or an entire book written by me and Andrea Rossetti (about whom I just learned some great news), which, for now, is only available in English on Amazon, titled Astro&Geography.
You say you love Turin so much and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else; I’ll let you in on a little secret: we all love the shell we were born in, but then, if we travel the world, we find magical places that make our hearts beat twice as fast as normal, as happened to me when I lived for three months in Cape Town, experiencing a relocation with Jupiter on the Descendant and Venus on the Ascendant!! Your dominants in Turin are Neptune, Pluto, and Mars, and you’re thrilled… Great, but try to imagine living in a place with the two dominants I mentioned earlier.
Gianni 01/07/1962 ore 16:15 Torino
Dear Ciro,
At this point, I would like to ask you a very practical question: how can I identify, starting from my natal chart, the places in the world where I might have particularly favourable dominant planets, such as those you mentioned in your example — Jupiter on the Descendant and Venus on the Ascendant?
Looking at my 2026 Solar Return chart for Yonago, if I am reading it correctly, Jupiter does not appear to be on my Descendant. Is that correct?
This leads me to another question: how can I find the places where, in my own case, Jupiter could be on the Descendant or Venus on the Ascendant, or where similarly favourable planets could become dominant?
Is it possible to identify them directly through astrocartography on a world map, or is it necessary to calculate and compare the relocated natal chart for each individual location?
In particular, I would ask you to analyse and compare my relocated chart for Turin and for the Yonago/Izumo area in Japan. I would like to understand precisely:
* which planets are dominant in the two locations;
* which angles of the relocated chart they occupy;
* how the Ascendant, Midheaven and astrological houses change;
* what differences emerge between Turin and Yonago/Izumo on an emotional, relational, professional and personal level;
* whether the configuration of Yonago/Izumo could explain the particular attraction I feel towards that area and towards Japan;
* whether, compared with Turin, there are more favourable or more intense energies in Japan, and in which areas of life they might manifest.
In other words, I would like to understand concretely what changes when living or staying in Turin compared with the Yonago/Izumo area, and whether these differences could explain why certain places have affected me much more deeply than others.
Thank you. I now understand your point of view better, and I will certainly explore astrocartography in greater depth.
In fact, thinking about what you wrote about places capable of making our hearts “beat twice as fast”, I must say that during my travels I have encountered several places that have remained particularly close to my heart.
One of them is certainly Japan, which I have visited twice. I am deeply fascinated by its culture and, above all, by its history: the world of the samurai, its traditions, its discipline, and a way of looking at life that is very different from our own. Over the years, I also practised Aikido for many years and later Shiatsu, so perhaps there has always been a certain attraction to Japanese culture within me.
But Japan is not the only place. I also greatly enjoyed Scotland and London, although for different reasons.
Another experience that particularly fascinated me was Uzbekistan, especially because of its extraordinary history connected with the Silk Road. Beyond the beauty and history of the places themselves, I was also deeply impressed by the people, whom I found extremely respectful and welcoming.
I also have wonderful memories of Ireland, particularly Dublin and Galway, where I felt very much at ease.
So, looking back, perhaps I understand better what you mean: Turin remains my safe haven and the city I love, but that does not mean that I have not discovered other places around the world that have moved me deeply and to which I would gladly return.
This naturally makes me even more curious: if my dominant planets in Turin are Neptune, Pluto and Mars, I would like to understand whether different dominant planets emerge in the Yonago/Izumo area, or whether the same planets appear there but are placed in different houses and angles. I am particularly interested in knowing whether this relocation strengthens or modifies themes related to relationships, creativity, spirituality, career and my sense of belonging.
Warm regards, and thank you, as always, for your explanations.
Gianni
Dear Gianni,
Your many questions are truly stimulating, but—unfortunately—I can’t write a new book to answer them all, so I’ll limit myself to the first one.
How can you see where in the world Jupiter—say—is exactly in the relocated Descendant?
I usually calculate it mentally (it’s not difficult) and then check the accuracy of my calculation on the computer and refine it.
For those who don’t have similar skills, there’s MyAstral, the computer gem I created for Chiara Barbaro:
– Request an Aimed Solar Return for the moment of your birth and specify, as a condition, that you want the Seventh House cusp at 12° 41′ Pisces.
– That’s all.
Have a good day.
Good afternoon Ciro,
I was born on july 17th, 1977 at 12:35 am
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I will prepare the next solar revolution in 2027, I’m hesited about the destination.
I would like to preserve my health.
What’s do you think about this possibilities please :
Cincinatti, Ottawa or Toronto.
Thanks a lot for your return.
Virginie
Good morning, Virginie.
Please remember to include your full birth details next time you post here, otherwise other bloggers won’t know you were born in Avignon.
Regarding your question, I’d choose Cincinnati, with the double cusp of Venus and Jupiter.
Best wishes.