Midpoints: Identify & Integrate Midpoints Into Horoscope Synthesis (Special Topics in Astrology) Paperback – June 8, 2007

The text is in three sections: Identification and organization, interpretation and analysis, and integration and synthesis. The latter two are especially strong, and include excellent interpretive techniques that make midpoints more readily available to a wider audience. Also included is valuable material on the Aries point; it's a sensitive spot that deserves attention.Less strong is the identification and organization section. This is understandable because by their very bounteous nature midpoints can easily be overwhelming. What would prove valuable in a possible second edition is access to a midpoint sort program designed to strengthen the identification and organization section by relying on two standard facets of aspect theory. They are orb and multiple emphasis -i.e. conjunctions are thought to be more important than sensitive points, and stellia hold greater significance than conjunctions.Mr. Broom suggests that midpoints themselves hold tension. A more likely explanation is that the tension comes from the hard aspects that activate various midpoints; a sort is easily designed to show midpoints that are activated by soft aspects, i.e. akin to squares and trines etc.A typical chart holds 2 to 4 midpoint aspect patterns; a comprehensive understanding of these groupings will yield results little short of amazing. This book will help. (Kindle version works for me...)

This book is fabulous. Don took a confusing topic (at least to me) and explained midpoints in such a way that they made full sense. Additionally, I can clearly see now how looking at the midpoint picture in a person's horoscope can be put to practical use in helping a client understand their potential and accomplish their goals and ambitions.Don's book is not only a wonderful and educational read on the topic of midpoints, but he brings clarity to the planets symbolism, sheds life on their polarity, and shows how simple the process of chart delineation can be.This book is well-written, no extra tedious or confusing verbiage, with just the right amount of explanation to cause the reader many ah-ha moments. I hope to see many more books by Don in the future.

For many astrologers midpoint pictures are a mystery. A seemingly busy forest of confusion. But not anymore! Don's book takes you step by step through the forest, revealing the most important underlying trees. Aware that "people make things happen - not planets" Don demonstrates how these trees, our midpoint energies, are used to resolve our needs.It's not another book of descriptions that you have to memorize. If you're an astrologer you already have the "raw materials" needed to understand and process a midpoint picture. But what you're probably missing is a simple, structured, humanistic formula that allows your mind to use what it knows. And in this Don's book excels!I whole-heartedly give this book two thumbs up!

This book really opened my eyes to a broader perspective of astrology.Don really makes this topic very understandable. However, it definitely isnot for the faint of heart! Understanding astrology at this level can be overwhelming if one has not prepared. This book allows for us to take ourknowledge to a whole new level of expertise. I enjoyed the layering I wasable to discern through midpoints and in turn gave me more info than whatI had hoped for...

After all these decades someone has written something that can replace the "COSI" - Reinhold Ebertin's "The Combination Of Stellar Influences". It is as reviewed by "The Mountain Astrologer Magazine", if you caught that review. I do believe Ebertin's "COSI" would still be useful to use like a dictionary of midpoints because of the way it is laid out and the time tested accuracy of it's interpretations.

It did help me to understand midpoints better, but way too much space is devoted to analyzing public figures' midpoints, which when taken out of the context of their natal chart, are irrelevant. Also, way too much technical jargon and the chauvinistic tone was offsetting.

A useful reference if you are looking for lots of celebrity examples. The interpretation section would have been enhanced by a Synastry chapter

As I have never heard of this author before, I purchased this book purely on it's subject.Midpoints are explained in a thourough, easy way, so that even beginners can work with them.I like this book!

Chap.1。まずミッドポイント（以下MP）とアスペクトとの対比・相違の説明から、「３方向の相互作用」を表す"MP picture"、すなわち、 A=B/Cの説明が行われます。AはFocal Point（以下FP）、B/CはMPで、A,B,Cは10天体、ノース・ノード、Asc、MCのいずれかになります。 B/Cの表し方には天体・感受点に拠り優先順位がある事から、カイロン等小惑星をも入れる話、オーブ等、読者からよくありそうな質問に一つひとつ答えてくれている感じです。 90°MP・ソートの件りも、ともすれば多すぎて寧ろ煩瑣になる処を、絞り込みを経てのMP picture（Fig.5）、MP tree（Fig.6）に至らせる説明が懇切丁寧。 Chap.2、3は解釈にかんする解説。天体・感受点の象徴自体があまたあるわけですから、それらが相互作用した場合の解釈も様々なものとなるのは道理であり、そこは著名人のチャートのサンプル解釈から伺う事が可能になっています。 著者が"the very important"とするMPになります、 ･太陽／月 ･Asc／MCそしてFPとしての太陽、月、…並びに牡羊ポイント（活動宮0°）、ノー・アスペクト天体の解釈が読み処でしょうか。 最後にノエル・ティルN.Tyl−そもそも、わが日本の占星術家達にMPへの関心を促した、仕掛け人の一人といえるでしょう−に拠る序言は、マクブルーム氏が氏の生徒であるとはいえ、心から推奨なさっている様−「マクブルーム」、「占星術」の2語を用いてのMP・ピクチャー迄作成なさってます（笑）−が私達読者にも伝わってくる、微笑ましい文章といえるでしょう。

ミッドポイントにはあまり重きを置いていなかったのですが、少しは勉強しようも思い、購入しました。本の情報量が多くて、お腹いっぱいになりながらも、頑張って読んだ後の (*ﾟ∀ﾟ*)ﾑｯﾊｰ 感がたまりません。ミッドポイントの面白さを教えてくれた本です。洋書だからと怯んでましたが、読んでよかった。