Medical Astrology, Mundane Astrology, and Astrological Technique. This archival item is the July 1999 issue (101st Edition) of Mercury Hour, an astrological periodical edited and published quarterly by Edith Custer in Lynchburg, Virginia. Featured contributions include the second installment of Guy de Penguern’s course on 21st-century medical astrology focusing on genetic predispositions to cancer and amino acids, Virginia A. Reyer’s technical guide to calculating and interpreting the Vertex/Anti-Vertex axis alongside a chart analysis of Jack Kevorkian, Mark Pottenger’s mathematical correction regarding the Equation of Time and Local Apparent Time in computer software, and excerpts from Robert P. Blaschke’s treatise on progressions. Additional community discussions cover out-of-bounds planets, solar return methodologies, debates on geographic versus geocentric latitude, and classifications of the three distinct Liliths (Dark Moon, Asteroid, and Black Moon). The issue also preserves mundane astrological commentary on late-1990s events, including the Kosovo conflict and Slobodan Milosevic’s birth data, Y2K software preparedness, the August 1999 Fixed Grand Cross eclipse, and verification efforts regarding natal data for the Columbine High School shooting perpetrators.
Issue Highlights
Articles
21st Century Medical Astrology Course, Part 2 of 3 – Guy de Penguern [extract]
The Case of the Clock Dial – Mark Pottenger
Jack Kevorkian, Part 2 of 2 – Virginia A. Reyer
“Mutable Dilemma”: Do You Mean Apparent? [Apparent vs. Mean Time]
– Mark Pottenger
Discussions
Chart of Bill Clinton
The three Liliths
Astrology & fertility
Solar returns
August 1999 Grand Cross & eclipse
The Vertex
The true “Blue Moon”
Charles Keating event/diurnal chart
Declinations/out-of-bounds planets
Equation of Time in chart calculations
Geocentric vs. heliocentric latitude
Chart data
(some incomplete or in question)
Harris, Eric
Hussein, Saddam
Klebold, Dylan
Milosevic, Slobodan
Nicholson, Jack
Notable contributors
Marion March (astrology & fertility)
Robert Blaschke (Astrology: A Language of Life; Volume I – Progressions [excerpt])