Essence and Application: A View From Chiron
Essence and Application: A View From Chiron is an updated version of the book published in 1995. The author elicits the meaning of Chiron from several reference points. He elaborates on many keywords and phrases - the maverick, healing and "wholemaking," turning point, pulling the plug, quest, etc. - and offers ideas from Buddhist and Christian thought, medicine and healing, quantum physics, and more. The astrological applications of Chiron are covered very thoroughly. Stein writes about Chiron's natal sign and house, transits (and the significance of the first square), aspects (including 135, 165 and 72 degree), and its use in synastry, progressions, and return charts. Even if you are an experienced Chiron watcher, you will learn a lot from Zane Stein's book. I know of no other source that investigates Chiron's meaning with such breadth and depth; many other astrologers have been influenced by Stein's ideas. One of the many terms he uses to define Chiron is synergism, defined as "the simultaneous action of separate agencies which, together, have greater total effect than the sum of their individual efforts." He sees a part of Chiron that "forces us to accept that something in us needs to change," and it helps us "to perceive the direction we need to go to do so." Zane Stein understands Chiron in a very intelligent and magical way. Astrologers who have not known of his work until now will be enchanted with A View From Chiron. The title seems to have special significance - the author shows his birth chart, and Chiron is the most elevated body in the chart. ----Mary Plumb, The Mountain Astrologer, October-November 2012Zane Stein, who presciently linked Chiron to computers in his book, Essence and Application: A View from Chiron, likens Chiron to a seed that uses the power of something extremely small to bring about changes in the world around----The Astrology of Computers, by Philip BrownThis is a marvelous book fun, sparkling, seriously useful, absolutely necessary, and wholly original. But Essence and Application: A View From Chiron turns out to be more than that. Its author, Zane Stein, has produced an historic, breakthrough book of heroic scholarship. It has changed the game, blown the field wide open, and forever altered the ways we look at the wondrous art/science/language we call astrology. ----Debbi Kempton-Smith, author of Secrets from a Stargazer's Notebook