Also, I am myself partly responsible for the decline in interest in harmonics.
Why should this be? Partly it is because John Addey died in 1982, at the age of only 61, when his work on harmonics was far from complete. I have not found a single reference to harmonics in recent issues of the Astrological Journal. Astrology has not been reborn, and the concept of harmonics has been largely forgotten. Now at last we appear to be in sight of such a vision…The picture that has so emerged is one of the harmonics, that is, the rhythms and sub-rhythms of cosmic periods, which can be demonstrated to provide the basis of all astrological doctrine, both ancient and modern.īut this has not happened. What is needed is a vision of the underlying realities of our science in the light of which astrological concepts can be coordinated, simplified and unified. And then in 1976 he published his book Harmonics in Astrology(2), in which he wrote: In 1971, John Addey, the co-founder and second President of the Astrological Association, delivered the Carter Memorial lecture, ‘Astrology Reborn’ (now available as a pamphlet(1)), in which he claimed that astrology would be ‘reborn’ as a result of the introduction of the concept of harmonics. Harmonics had seemed to have fallen into disuse but there are signs of a revival – they can yield fascinating new insights into the interpretation of charts which otherwise would not be available.
And in our May-June 2022 issue we shall be running a full remembrance with appreciations. Only a few days before his death, he had written notes to friends and colleagues informing them of his terminal prognosis.īelow, we are rerunning one of his essays on harmonics, first published in Journal in the Jan-Feb 2020 issue, in tribute to his contribution to astrology. She wrote: ‘He was suffering from lung cancer and fortunately we managed to get him from hospital, and he died peacefully at home where he most wanted to be’. Died 21 January 2022ĪJ Editor's Note: We were all greatly saddened by the news of David’s passing on 21 January 2022 at 4 pm (as reported by his daughter Bella on Facebook). David Hamblin at the Astrological Association Conference 2021.īorn: 8 August 1935 at 21:50, Manchester, UK.
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