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Mercury Hour Magazine
Issue Highlights
Book Review
Working with Astrology by Michael Harding & Charles Harvey – Doris Greaves
Articles
Missing Visa Book – Marie DeLeone
Student’s Corner [the Ascendant] – Annibale F. Verzumo
Jupiter-Neptune, The Celestial Twins, Part I – Ted George
NCGR Conference [report] – Edith Custer
Indications of a Winner *or* Do You Have a Gambling Chart? – Cammille Adams
Planet Watch – Paul O. Hewit
The Natural Disposition, Part II – M.J. Makransky
Michel Gauquelin 1928-1991 – J. Lee Lehman
[USSR charts] Part I – Annibale Verzumo
The Three Amigos, Part II, Conclusion [Saddam Hussein, Jim Jones, Adolph
Hitler]– Susan J. Kientz
[Risks of publishing astrological materials] Part II, Conclusion – C. J. Puotinen
Central American Data – M.J. Makransky
Her Proudest Moment [Helen Herron Taft] – T. Patrick Davis
Pluto, Part II, Transpluto – Joyce Wehrman [transcription of talk]
The Gemini Theme, Using the Astrological Language, Part III, Conclusion
– Anne Foley
Autumn Equinox September 23, 1991 – Dorothy S. Willis
Discussions
Astrological weather prediction
Solar returns
Chart of Napoleon
Neptune
Gulf War chart
Heliocentric charts
Finding the time of sunrise in birthchart
Chart data
(some incomplete or in question)
Napoleon
Taft, Helen Herron
Iraq War
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Notable contributors
Marion March (semi-sextiles)
J. Lee Lehman (classical astrology techniques; homosexuality & astrology)
Marc Penfield (the astrology of Orlando, FL & Disney World)

04th Edition
January 1975
Issue Highlights
Articles
House Systems – Michael Munkasey
Four Questionable Practices of Astrologers – Dr. James T. Hayes
Excerpt from Foundation of the Astrological Chart – Ivy Jacobson (Johndro
Locality Charts)
The Cosmic Structure – Inge Aach (continuation of the Cosmobiology Series)
The Vertex (series continuation) – Ruth Dewey
Discussion
Carl Payne Tobey’s Astrology of Inner Space (various contributors)
Chart data
Gerald Ford
Muhammed Ali
James Dean
Marlon Brando
Clark Gable
Henry Kissinger
Notable contributors
Stephen Arroyo (Mars in Scorpio; Polarity Therapy)
Zip Dobyns (formation of International Astrological Abstracts – IAA)
Isabel Hickey (short bio & involvement in astrology

14th Extra Edition
April 1985
Issue Highlights
Articles
Published Birthtimes for Ronald Reagan – Raul Davila
Sampling of the Research from the Astro-Punology of Names – Judy Goodwin
The State of Israel – Marc Penfield
Geo & Helio Mars-to-Moon Aspects in 150 Charts – T. Patrick Davis
Excerpts From Letters to Michael Erlewine – John McCormick
The Basic Meaning of Configurations – Marion March
Atlantis and Astrology – Joylyn Hill
Discussions
Gauquelin’s “Mars effect”
Astrological triggers for agoraphobia
Commentary on Marion March’s “The Many Faces of Pluto”
John H. Nelson’s heliocentric planetary aspects & ham radio operation
Pearl Harbor attack
Birth of Astrology
Chart data
(some incomplete or in question)
Cuomo, Mario
Duncan, Isadora
Gacy, John Wayne
Liddell, Alice
(daughter of Lewis Carroll)
Mondale, Walter
Sepeda, Loren Faith
(abducted child & related charts)
Spungen, Nancy
AFA (Sideral/Lavagnini Houses)
Pact between Hitler and Stalin,
Aug 1939
Pearl Harbor attack, Dec 1941
State of Israel
Weizman-Peres Agreement,
Tel Aviv, Aug 1984
Notable contributors
Mark Melton (scientific method in astrological research)
Marc Penfield (birthtime/rectification of chart of Ronald Reagan; numerological axioms
of the American Presidents)
Al H. Morrison (house systems; natal Moon void-of course; astrology and the federal
Dictionary of Occupational Terms)
Ivy Goldstein-Jacobs (brief non-astrological piece on the escalation of medication)
Zane Stein (Halley’s Comet; Chiron; beginning of the Aquarian Age; rulership of body
parts)

26th Edition
July 1980
Issue Highlights
Articles
Book Review
Relationships & Life Cycles, Modern Dimensions of Astrology by Stephen Arroyo
– Rochelle Gordon
Articles
Saturn Through the Signs – Bil Tierney
Crisis in the Near East – Gregg Castellucci
Chiron and Group Fusion – Tom McNamara
The Discovery of the Asteroids – Joylyn Hill
In the Winter of our Discontent – Marc Robertson (Jupiter-Saturn cycles)
Pluto (Part III) – R.C. Davison
Discussions
AFA Conventions
Void of Course Moon
Ted Bundy
Inherited family traits
Chart data
Israel
Joan Crawford
Candice Bergen
John B. Anderson
Mohammad Ali
Jim Jones
Notable contributors
Marion March (Fiji conference)
Lois Rodden (mostly notes on chart data)
Jim Lewis (notes on A*C*G* maps of US Presidential candidates)
Lee Lehman (research on astrology & homosexuality)

33rd Edition
April 1982
Issue Highlights
Articles
Chart Mart – Marc Penfield (charts included in “Chart data”, below)
Tragedy at Tanque Verde Falls: A Case for Midpoints - Barbara May
Khomeini’s Days Are Numbered – Manik Chand Jain
Mercury – Erin Sullivan
An Astrological Review of Passages (by Gail Sheedy) – Bil Tierney
Astrology vs. Psychology: A Minor Dilemma for the 80’s – Stanley Kustesky
Discussions
Astrological research on incest
Astrological birth control (human and equine)
Ayatollah Khomeini
Pluto transits
Heliocentric astrology
Charts of Israel
Chart of Ronald Reagan
Astro*Carto*Graphy
Crash of AirFlorida Jet, Jan 13, 1982
Chart data
(some incomplete or
in question)
Lucille Ball
Tallulah Bankhead
Constance Bennett
Rosa Bonheur
John Browning
Horst Bucholz
Bernard Buffet
James Caan
James Callaghan
Julie Christie
Van Cliburn
Joan Crawford
Bing Crosby
Arlene Dahl
Bobby Darin
Bette Davis
Deanna Durbin
Jane Fonda
Peggy Ann Garner
Robert Guillaume
Marilyn Horne
Carole King
Hedy Lamarr
John Lennon
George Lucas
Jeanette MacDonald
Archbishop Makarios
Penny Marshall
Bette Midler
Harvey Milk
George Moscone
Alla Nazimova
Mabel Normand
Elvis Presley
Louise Rainer
Ruth St. Denis
Ann Sheridan
Beverly Sills
Edith Sitwell
Elke Sommer
Cat Stevens
Susan Strasberg
Margaret Sullavan
Constance Talmadge
Renata Tebaldi
Dame Sybil Thorndike
Dorothy Tutin
Lupe Velez
Betty White
Dan White
Mary Wilson
Leigh Taylor Young
Pope John Paul II
Kansas City, MO
Lebanon
Poland
First US test tube baby
Notable contributors
Zane Stein (eclipses, quincunxes, Association for Studying Chiron (ASC)
Michael Erlewine (Heliocentric astrology)
Al H. Morrison (Void-of-Course Moon in the birth chart)
Erin Sullivan (various topics)

36th Edition
January 1983
Issue Highlights
Articles
The Vertex - Jan Popelka
Student’s Section: A Visit to Astrologers in the U.S.A. – Ann Stevens-Patacchiola
The Catch-30 Passage: [28-32], Part III – Bil Tierney [life stages]
[Uranus age cycle] Part II – Dale Huckeby
Mysterious Neptune, Part II [Continuing of delineation of Marcia Moore’s chart and death]
– Manik Chand Jain
Moon Void of Course in the Signs, Part I – Ted George
Is Nuclear War in Our Future? [An Astrological Call to Action] – Virginia Miller
The Pshaw Report – Jayj Jacobs [humor]
The Role of the Moon’s Nodes in World Events – Alan Richter
The New Orleans Air Crash of July 1982 – Jeff Jawer
The Effects of Saturn Transits in the Lives of the Pacific Club Members – Dona Shaw
A Royal Baby – Judith Gee [Prince William]
Determining the Winner of a Game – Sophia Mason
The Psychological Patterns of Jesus Christ [book excerpt] – Frank Jakubowsky
Discussions
Astro*Carto*Graphy/Geodetic Equivalent system/mundane predictions [Jim Lewis/Eva McCabe]
Chart of Israel
Astrology hardware and software (report on Osborne and Astro Star)
Sunspot activity & the stock market
Gauquelin studies and statistics
Chart of Vincent Van Gogh
Lindbergh baby kidnapping
Calculation of the Part of Fortune
Fraternity for Canadian Astrologers 1st National Conference [list of awards]
Heliocentric planetary nodes
Parallax
Intruder in the Queen’s Bedroom [Elizabeth II]
Horoscope of Jesus
Chart data
(some incomplete or in question)
August Belmont
David Crosby
Richard Dreyfuss
Michael Fagan
Andy Gibb
Bruno Hauptmann
Charley Pride
Victoria Principal
Ronald Reagan
Michael Trestrail
Israel (& Partition)
United Kingdom
Intruder in Queen’s Bedroom
[Elizabeth II]
Invasion of Falkland Islands
Lindberg Baby kidnapping
Notable contributors
Jim Lewis (chart of Ronald Reagan; Astro*Carto*Graphy)
Jeff Jawer (First Canadian National Conference)
Barbara Watters (Grand trines; her book Sex and the Outer Planets)
Tracy Marks (financial compensation for astrologers)
Kay Taylor (astrology of poltergeist activity)
Zane Stein (Chiron)
Erin Sullivan (astrology of sexuality, hetero- vs. homo-)

42nd Edition
July 1984
Issue Highlights
Book Reviews
Interpreting Your Retrograde Planets by Linda Carbone – Marion March
The Jupiter/Saturn Conference Lectures by Liz Greene and Stephen Arroyo – Marion March
Astroeconomics: The Union of Astrology and Economics by Barry Lynes – Marguerite Dar
Boggia
The Astrology of Choice by Roy Alexander – Carolyn Dodson
The Cosmic Informer by Robert Pelletier and Leonard Cataldo – Edith Custer
Articles
An Astrological Anatomy of Behavior, Part IIB – Danni Herman
Paragon, the Twin of Mercury – Ted George
IAO Research Center News – Robin Armstrong (President)
Houses – Marc Penfield
Uranian Astrology – Penny Bertucelli
Neptune – Terri Kerins
AIDS Data – Jack Fertig
Creativity – Defiance Gregg
AFA/AFAN – Jeff Jawer
Astrology and the Law – Angel Thompson
Magic, Madness, and a Cancer Stellium – Amy M. Franco
Astrology and its Implications for Education of the Gifted – Lynette Nygaard
Astrology Now – Bonnie Parker [Humanistic Astrology]
Discussions
Karma and reincarnation
Charts of Ronald Reagan and George Bush
1984 Korean airliner shooting
Chart of Kansas City
San Jose, CA and Los Angeles, CA “Fortune Telling” legal cases
Chiron
Charts of USA and American Civil War
Taurus degrees
Chart data
(some incomplete or in question)
(see next page for Marc Penfield’s Chart Mart charts)
Andropov, Yuri
Diamond, Neil
Jackson, Jesse
Glenn, John
Olivier, Lawrence
Westmoreland, William
Williams, Tennessee
Foundation of Russia
Notable contributors
Al H. Morrison
Marion March

47th Edition
October 1985
Issue Highlights
Book Reviews
By Marion March:
Celestial Psychology: An Astrological Guide to Growth and Transformation by Doris A. Hebel
Astrochemistry: A Study of Metal-Planet Affinities by Nick Kellerstrom
Instant Astrology by Mary Orser, Rick and Glory Brightfield
The Astrology of Deep Space by Philip Sedgwick
Spiritual Astrology: A Layperson’s Guide to Self-Unfoldment by Jan Spiller
The Practice and Profession of Astrology by Stephen Arroyo
Birth Pattern Psychology by Tamise Van Pelt
The Astrological Prayer Book by Alda Marian Jangl
Your Key to Astrology [book plus] Astrological Key Cards: Planets, Signs, Houses, Aspects by Bill
Hansen – Edith Custer
Articles
Astrology and the Weather – Dorothy Willis
Lunar Return Notes, Part II – Joan McEvers
Calculation Without Tables of the Julian Day & Century, Obliquity of the Ecliptic, MC, ASC, and
Houses, Part I – John F. Gay, III
The Tree of Life: An Overview – Fran Rosen
Astrological Hall of Fame Awards – Fraternity for Canadian Astrologers [2nd National Conference]
Along the Tarot Path – Fran Rosen
How I Survived my Pluto Square Pluto and Other Transits – Carol Hemingway
The Luscher Color Test, A Symbolic Testing Model – Zan Key
Observations on Astrology, Original & Borrowed – John F. Gay, III
I’m Mad at You!!!! – Mary Ellen Glass
The Horoscope of Russia – Marc Penfield
Chart Mart – Marc Penfield
A Trip Round the Hawaiian Zodiac, Part II – Cheryl Niggle
Astrology and the Weather: Forecasting the Weather, Part I – Dorothy Willis
Horary Astrology: A Definition – Gilbert Navarro
The Business Cycle, Part II – Bill Hansen
Neptune, The Collective Fantasy, and Popular Music – Amy Franco
The Mystery of the Chinese Zodiac, Now Revealed for the First Time – Frank Hampton
The Qualities of Time, Part I – Tundra Wind
Discussions
Astrology, licensure, & ethics
Quadrant house systems vs. Equal Houses
Radix-based Tarot technique
Natal location in Return chart
Birth time of Ronald Reagan
Seven Hill Astrological Conference [reports]
Mercury retrograde
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Chart data
(some incomplete or in question)
(see next page for Marc Penfield’s Chart Mar

52nd Edition
January 1987
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
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Articles (continued from previous page)
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

53rd Edition
April 1987
Issue Highlights
Book Reviews
By Marion March
Your Fertile Hours – Emily Faugno
The Book of Houses – Robert Cole
Life Clock, Volume II – Bruno and Louise Huber
The Twelve Healers of the Zodiac, The Astrology Handbook of the Bach Flower
Remedies – Peter Damian
The Art of Chart Interpretation – Tracy Marks
Astrological Megatrends 1996 – Edward J. Kluska
Your Greatest Strength – Grant Lewi
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A Graphic Ephemeris of Sensitive Degrees – Eleanor Bach by Rochelle Gordon
Delineation of Progression – Sophia Mason by Jorja Brentwood
Articles
Astrology and the Weather, Vernal Equinox 1987 – Dorothy Willis
Unreliable Data in “The International Atlas” – Thomas G. Shanks [from Jack F.
Chandu]
Saturn/Uranus in Sagittarius: Conceptual Repatterning – Ann Kreilkamp
TONALPOHUALLI, The Prophecy Calendar of the Aztecs, Part I – Sigvard Mahlerdam
The Heart Center Library – Michael Erlewine
Art and Astrology – Ellen Price
Prospects for a Golden Age – E. Alan Meece
Astrology and the Weather, Forecasting the Weather – Dorothy Willis
Sideral Astrology: Influence of the Houses, Part II – Keven W. Barrett
Relationships and Astrology, Part II – Klara Henderson [Reprinted from “Astrology”]
Tragedies in San Francisco – Marc Penfield
The World’s Biggest Franchise – Marc Penfield
Tourette Syndrome, A Bewitching Disease – Ted George
Down to Earth Astrology [statistics]– Howard Stephen Berg [column]
Astrological Bible Quotes – Elizabeth McCumsey
The Progressed Horoscope of the United States of America, Part I – Marc Penfield
Hiroshima – Stephen Brown
The Language of Astrology – Mindy Krupp
Sunny Von Bulow’s Chart, A Modest Speculative Proposal and The Wynn Key Cycle
Formula, A Valuable Predictive Tool – Charlotte Tuton
Numerology and the Names of Cities – Marc Penfield
Reagan’s Real Ascendant?, Part II – John Kalus
Reinterpreting the Basics, Part II – John H. Roth, Jr.
Lunar Notes – Wendy Hawks
Astrology in Brazil – Jeff Jawer
Discussions
First of the year Ephemeris for the Christian Era.
Astrological correspondences of chemical elements, glands, health conditions.
Neptune.
Eli Cohen, Israeli spy.
Astrological weather forecasting in the Southern Hemisphere.
Mass/serial killers.
The Pymander and Hermes-Thoth.
AFA/AFAN controversy.
Chart data
(some incomplete or in question)
Casey, William
McFarlane, Robert
Meese, Edwin
Poindexter, John
Regan, Donald T.
Schultz, George
Weinberger, Casper W.
(above charts related to Iran-Contra
scandal)
Iacocca, Lido
Knight, Ted
Lennox, Annie
Savitch, Jessica (correction)
Marc Penfield’s Chart Mart charts
Bergman, Ingrid
Eklund, Britt
Garbo, Greta
Shepherd, Cybil
Castro, Fidel
Boyd, Malcolm
Stuyvesant, Peter
City of Los Angeles
Notable contributors
Joylyn Hill (Neptune/Tarot-astrology correspondences.)
Marion March and Lillian Huber (Critique of AFA column “Basic Horoscope
Interpretation” and rebuttal from Dorothy B. Maass.
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