Mundane Astrology, Weather Forecasting, and Celebrity Natal Charts. serve as the primary focus areas of this historical astrological literature. This archival item is the January 1987 issue (52nd Edition) of Mercury Hour, “The Astrologer’s Astrological Magazine,” a reader-driven periodical edited by Edith Custer and produced in Lynchburg, Virginia. The issue is built largely from member correspondence, chart data exchanges, and columns rather than a single feature, and it gathers contributions from a wide network of working astrologers including Marc Penfield, Robert Cole, Ann Kreilkamp, Dorothy Willis, and Al H. Morrison. The digital file preserves an extensive spread of practical and speculative material: long-range weather forecasting keyed to Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus configurations; Ann Kreilkamp’s generational study of children born under the 1962-68 Uranus/Pluto conjunction in Virgo; Marc Penfield’s mundane and rectification work on stock market cycles, the Romanov family, and the incorporation dates of American counties and cities; John Kalus on Ronald Reagan’s disputed ascendant; and dense Data Corner and Chart Mart sections trading birth data for public figures, alongside book reviews, conference reports, and advertisements documenting the mid-1980s astrological trade.
Mercury Hour
Issue Highlights
Book Reviews
By Marion March
The Changing Sky, A Practical Guide to the New Predictive Astrology
by Steven Forrest
Toward a New Astrology [The Approach of Edgar Cayce] by Ry Redd
Interpreting Solar Returns by James Eshelman
Complete Horoscope Interpretation: Putting Together Your Planetary Profile
by Maritha Pottenger
Seven Paths to Understanding by Zipporah Dobyns and William Wrobel
Asteroid Goddesses by Demetra George with Douglas Bloch
Astro-Data III by Lois M. Rodden
Healing Pluto Problems by Donna Cunningham
The Timing of Events: Electional Astrology by Bruce Scofield
Generations and the Outer Planet Cycles by Steve Cozzi
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The Astrological Art Calendar 1987 – Ellin Yassky
Llewellyn Astrological Calendar 1987 & Llewellyn Daily Planetary Guide –
Mindy Krupp
The Moon in Your Life by Arlene Robertson – Edith Custer
Classical Scientific Astrology by George C. Noonan – Olivia Barclay
Astro-Data III by Lois Rodden – T. Patrick Davis
Articles
A Flood Warning for New Year’s – Nancy Ray
UAC Conference – Marion D. March [report]
The Uranus/Pluto in Virgo Generation 1962-68 – Ann Kreilkamp
The Prediction Game – Robert Cole
The Market Goes Up and Down – Marc Penfield
Massacre or Escape? – Marc Penfield
The Aquarian Agenda – Robert Cole
Astrology in the Bible, Part I – Lew Paxton Price
Down to Earth Astrology – Howard Stephen Berg
Reagan’s Real Ascendant, Part I – John Kalus
Astrology & The Weather, Forecasting the Weather – Dorothy Willis
Sidereal Astrology: Influence of the Houses, Part 1 – Kevin W. Barrett
Relationships and Astrology, Part 1 – Klara Henderson
The Southern States of the Confederacy – Marc Penfield [“readmission” dates]
The Counties of America – Marc Penfield [dates of incorporation]
Corrections or Errata Sheet to 2001 – Marc Penfield [book corrections]
Hot Legs from Nutbush: The Chart of Tina Turner – Marc Heereen Penfield
Reinterpreting the Basics – John H. Roth, Jr.
The Tenth Aquarian Age – Robert Cole
Comments on our Marvelous Solar System – Wendy Hawks
This and That – Marc Penfield
Horoscope Du Jour – T. Patrick Davis [chart of the AFA]
Discussions
“Key to the Universe”/astrology/numerology/Einstein’s unified theory
AFA
Chart data
(some incomplete or in question)
(see below for Marc Penfield’s Chart Mart charts)
Sunny von Bulow
The Montgolfier Balloon [first manned, untethered flight]
NASA
Steamboat “Clermont” [first run]
Notable contributors
Lillian Huber (completion of Metro Atlanta Astrological Society HQ)
Al H. Morrison (Chiron glyph)
Reinhold Ebertin [notes on his book COSMOPOLITICS]
Joylyn Hill [India/Israel; US Presidents with afflicted Moons]
Additional Chart Data
From Chart Mart – Marc Penfield
Castro, Fidel
Geldof, Bob
Iacocca, Lee
Knight, Ted
Lansbury, Angela
Leakey, Richard
Lennon, Julian
Rossellini, Roberto
