The Art of Synthesis

Alan Leo · 1912

About the book

Leo's book on the planets themselves, one chapter each: the Sun as life-giver, the Moon as mother, Mercury the thinker, Venus the unifier, Mars the energiser, Saturn the subduer. Synthesis is his word for the step that makes an astrologer — holding a whole chart in mind at once instead of adding up its pieces.

Inside the course

18 parts

Man and the planets: the universe mirrored in a nativity
Planets and consciousness — action, feeling, cognition
The planets and the seven principles; personality and individuality
The Sun, life-giver: rising, setting, on the midheaven
The Moon, mother: the pre-natal epoch and the lunar periods
Mercury, the thinker: perception, discrimination, types of mind
Venus, the unifier: feeling, intellect, and her quarrel with Mars
Mars, the energiser: passion, accidents, fevers
Jupiter, the uplifter: the magnetic aura, money, wisdom
Saturn, the subduer: duty, renunciation, the mineral kingdom
Uranus, the awakener, and the changes he does not undo
Neptune, the mystic: the planet astrologers still argue about
The planets in combination: reading two testimonies as one
Esoteric and exoteric rulership, and the keyword of each planet
Signs, houses and planets synthesised into a single judgment
The horoscope of the whole: type, temperament, and the note of a life
Worked syntheses from nativities of known people
The astrologer's own development, and what synthesis asks of him

Questions

Is The Art of Synthesis free to read in Astra Trainer?

Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.

What is the short course?

18 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz.

Where do I get the app?

Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. The Art of Synthesis is waiting in the app’s library.