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MIDPOINTS

The use of midpoints is an astrological method for helping anyone find chart strengths and weaknesses. Ptolemy in
his First Century AD work "Tetrabiblos" stresses the use of midpoints as helping to locate places of power in a
chart. Midpoints were also used before and during the Middle Ages, although one form of midpoints became
more popularly known as 'Arabic Parts' during those times, and that name carries to this day. Earlier in the 20th
Century, midpoints as a technique were "re-invented" by a group of astrologers living in Hamburg, Germany.
Planetary pictures are a form of midpoints activating midpoints. Arabic Parts and planetary pictures each use a
method of looking for the interaction of either three or four planets or points in a chart. To do this they use a
formula of this type: A + B - C = D. More popularly, for astrologers, this would look like: Ascendant + Moon -
Sun = Jupiter. An astute astrologer would quickly note that this particular formula is saying that the Part of
Fortune for a day birth is conjunct Jupiter. A midpoint oriented astrologer would quickly note that the midpoint
of the Moon and Ascendant (written as Moo/Asc) hits, or activates, the Sun and Jupiter midpoint (Sun/Jup), or,
Moo/Asc = Sun/Jup. It is all the same thing, it is just how you care to label this information.
The Solar Arc is the difference in degrees and minutes between the natal Sun and the secondary progressed Sun.
When the Solar Arc (often abbreviated as "SA"), or half Solar Arc, or double Solar Arc is added to a midpoint or
a natal planet's location, then this new location indicates a place which is sensitive to that time in life.
In Germany in the 1930s, certain members of the Ebertin family, starting with Elsbeth Ebertin and then Reinhold
Ebertin, tried to work with the Hamburg School, but had certain sharp disagreements with them. This led
Reinhold Ebertin to start his own movement, which he titled "Cosmobiology." He went on to write an enormously
successful book in 1940 which was later translated into English in the mid to late 1950s. We know it as "The
Combination of Stellar Influences" or COSI, for short. Through the 1960s and 1970s many new follow-on books
were issued by the Ebertin School, and they also popularized the use of midpoint "trees" during this time. A
midpoint tree is a listing of the various midpoints hit by a planet, in a chart or tree listing. Midpoint trees are an
important organizational tool.
By the 1950s and 1960s the use of midpoints became a very popular technique in the United States, especially
among New York area astrologers. Leading the teaching and use of midpoints were people like Charles Jayne,
Charles Emerson, L. Edward Johndro, Dr. Edgar Wagner (Ph. D, Chemistry), and even Hans Niggemann.
In the late 1980s Michael Munkasey wrote a book on midpoints which emulated the Ebertin format and layout,
but broke with them in the interpretation of the midpoints. The Ebertin book was primarily event oriented, while
Munkasey's book was more psychologically oriented. Munkasey also introduced a new way of "weighting"
midpoints as a way of locating chart strengths and weaknesses. He called his method "The Midpoint Weighting
Analysis" (MWA), and because it is a mathematical method, it lends itself to computer calculation.
The MWA is both a computer program and an astrological tool. The advantage of the MWA over the 90 degree
dial or midpoint trees, is that the MWA "weights" or ranks midpoints, while the 90 degree dial and midpoint trees
simply list midpoints without regard to any ranking or weighting scheme.
Regardless of the method that you care to use, trees or the MWA, the use of midpoints is a powerful tool. The
MWA is introduced here for you to try. Look at the ranking of the midpoints from a chart, and take the top dozen
or so stronger ones and work with those as a group. Do not say that "A" is stronger than "B", but think more like
"these top dozen or so midpoints define the strengths that I have in this life. How should I define and use these
strengths? How should I apply these strengths to my life?" People who use their chart strengths to advantage
tend to be happier and more well adjusted. People who try to strengthen their weaknesses find more frustration
and difficulty. So, find your strengths. Using midpoints is a good way to do this. Then apply these strengths to
your life.

Books which are helpful in interpreting Midpoints include:

"Midpoints: Unleashing the Power of the Planets," Michael Munkasey,


ACS Publishers, 1990, 399 pages, ISBN 0-935127-11-9.

"The Concept Dictionary," Michael Munkasey, Arcturus Publishers, 1990,


288 pages, ISBN 0-9628990-0-3.

"The Dial Detective," Maria Simms, ACS Publishers, 1991.

"The Combinations of Stellar Influences," Reinhold Ebertin, American


Federation of Astrologers, 1972, 256 pages, ISBN 0-86690-087-X.
These books are available through ACS Publishers in San Diego, CA, 1-
800-888-8893 or The American Federation of Astrologers, Inc., P.O.
Box 22040, Tempe, AZ 85282 at 1-602-838-1751.

Please see my articles on cosmodynes included with this program. Look


for the files named CDyne_1.htm, CDyne_2.htm, and CDyne_3.htm. You may
view these files in your browser.
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