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Volume 46, Issue 2: August 2017

  • Writer: ISAR
    ISAR
  • Jan 20
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 21


Table of Contents


Announcements, Information and Special Offerings

Officers and Leadership contact information – 3

Advertising in the ISAR Journal – 4

Guidelines for Article Submission to the ISAR Journal – 5

Advertisers Index – 103


Regular Columns

Presidents Message – Raymond Merriman – 6

Editorial Perspective – Victoria Smoot – 9

One World, Our World: ISAR Certifications – Richard & Victoria Smoot – 10

Interview with Anne Ortelee – Victoria & Richard Smoot – 14 

Book Reviews – Donna Van Toen – 99


Featured Articles, Essays & Discussions

Reframing Jupiter and Saturn: 

A Critique of Jovian Culture In America – Brad Kochunas – 22

Across Their Universe: 

The Astrology of The Beatles - Part 2 – Ra Rishikavi Raghudas – 30

Great American Eclipses 

and Presidents of the United States, 

An Astrological Perspective – Alan Mayeda – 40

Eclipse Points: an International View – Smiljana Gavrančić – 45

NATO: Part 2 - Wars and Expansion – Maurice Lavenant – 53

Saturn and Pluto: Wars of Interests – Vassilis Papadolias – 71

Outer Planet Returns In Infancy: 

Uranus, Neptune and Pluto – Sylvia Jean Smith – 78 

History Corner 

Quaternions Dawn upon William Hamilton – Nick Kollerstrom – 86

Days of the Week as a Mapping of the Rasi Chakra – R. Purushothaman Nair – 89

The Derivative Houses to Validate an Event – Marguerite dar Boggia – 96


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