Astrological Roots: The Hellenistic Tradition is the first systematic presentation of Hellenistic astrology to the modern astrological world.  How did ancient astrologers assess a chart for fame, career, and parents, love, and happiness?  This book surveys ancient depictions of planets, affiliations between the planets and the zodiac, lots, houses or places, aspects, orientality, and fixed stars.  The final chapters survey predictive systems used by ancient astrologers. Ancient natal and predictive techniques are applied to the charts and lives of over forty well-known historical and contemporary figures.
Students and professional astrologers will find this book a treasure of astrological insight, technique, and new interpretative possibilities.   Not only will you gain knowledge of how ancient astrologers practiced their trade, but also have new tools that apply to modern life.

Joseph Cranehas practiced and taught astrology since the late 1980’s.  He is co-founder of the Astrology Institute, which has trained people in astrological technique and in counseling skills since 1992. He began learning Hellenistic astrology in the mid-1990’s and since then has brought it into his teaching and consulting practice.  Has lectured and taught on a variety of topics, including ancient and modern astrologic al technique as well as connecting astrology with works of literature and philosophy.  His first book, A Practical Guide to Traditional Astrology, was published in 1998.  Joseph Crane, who lives in New England, is also a psychotherapist and has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1980.