The Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the astrology podcast.

In this episode I'm going to be talking with Dr. Benjamin Dykes about his new translation

of the work of Abu Mashar, who was an astrologer that lived in the ninth century, and this book is titled On the

revolutions of the Years of Nativity, which is a medieval approach to doing solar return

charts. So this episode was recorded on Friday, August 2nd,

2019, starting at 4.19 PM in Denver, Colorado, and this is the 218th episode of the show.

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com slash subscribe. Hey Ben, thanks for joining me today. Thanks. podcast. with your

book of nativity of Salab in Bissure

and you're already back with another huge translation

this time of the main work on solar returns by Abu

Mushar.

Yeah, it's been a number of years that I've been working on both of these books.

Yeah.

Happy to have it done.

When did you start working on this book? This translation? I want to say maybe three or four years ago.

Okay, so three or four years. Yeah, because somebody, a friend sent me a text today when I posted I was doing this interview on

Instagram saying something to the effect that how does he translate books

faster than I can read them but the answer to that is that not that you're a, like I like to say a machine sent from the future to translate all the existing astrological texts,

but you just are actually working on them behind the scenes over a very extended period of time, and then sometimes they just all come out relatively close together?

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