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Still today in Hamburg School Astrology
the danger exists of neglecting psychologically suitable
consultation and prognosis techniques due to
preoccupation with technical operations and calculations. This potential hazard arises almost automatically from
the complex storehouse of assorted Hamburg School methods
which, if not handled correctly, can prove most anything
one wishes to verify; this can result naturally from the
fundamentally event-oriented philosophy which predominated
in the early stages of the Hamburg School. One can,
however, say that since that time, the School has taken a
positive turn toward a psychological focus, illustrated
essentially by the writings of Ruth Brummund, and particularly by her major efforts to revise the
authoritative Rulebook to include psychological insights. The work of Ruth Brummund has demonstrated that
psychological and even psychoanalytic work with the
Transneptunian points, as well as with the planetary
midpoints and sums, is perfectly feasible. Just as astrology has been successful in re-examining classical principles,
and taking an evolutionary path from
traditional, event-oriented astrology toward a
psychologically-conscious astrology, it is similarly possible for the Hamburg School,
within the context of its own system, to master such a process. Nonetheless,
meanwhile, certain users of Hamburg School approaches have remained in line with classical models in
their practice.
FREE-WILL OR FATE: HERMANN LEFELDT AND HIS
FOLLOWERS
The strongly event-oriented approach in
the early stages of the Hamburg School and the resulting
techniques, where planetary configurations may seem to
account for each event in an individual's life, has in
fact led to a variant which seems to yield to the natal
chart as a sort of blueprint for every impulse and event
in an individual's life.
Whatever went on in the work of the Hamburg
School in the period between the two World Wars, it is
noteworthy that Alfred Witte himself in his numerous
essays, as well as Ludwig Rudolph in his standard work Leitfaden
der Astrologie, dealt with the fundamental question
of determination due to fate or free will. Certainly
among leading advocates of Hamburg School Astrology today
there are strong theosophical leanings. ...
for
more information, refer to Dr Schubert Weller's German-language
history of astrological methodologies "Wege
der Astrologie"
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