Transits and Solar Returns is a unique text in its gender, for it allows the reader to evaluate the realism of a method illustrated through several wellknown events from the execution of Benito Mussolini to the incarceration of Sophia Loren in Italy, including the most important victories of many acclaimed champions of the sports. Starting from the historical data, Ciro Discepolo explains how and why each event took place. As a best seller in Italy and in France, this book has been reprinted and republished several times in the span of a few years. New, important sections have been added. Its main quality is probably the exposure of a method that any student of astrology - experts as well as beginners - may apply. It aspires to demonstrate that such events as the abysmal fall of famous financiers or the tragic death of the cyclist Marco Pantani can be all explained word for word by the 'thirty rules' written by Ciro Discepolo; who invites the reader to verify personally (for example studying the events of the future and the past chronicle) whether those rules match reality or not. The Author has been studying the Aimed Solar Returns since 1970 he has been a guide of more than 20,000 'aimed birthdays' (up to 2007). He has written over fifty books - most of them on this particular subject. For this reason he is considered the greatest expert by many colleagues in the world on this specific segment of astrology. This is a text of practical astrology, based on many-many years of observations and studies in practice. It addresses mainly to those who wish to verify the truth of the assertion: 'prediction is a feasible exercise in astrology'.
Ciro Discepolo is an astrologer, journalist and writer, he was born in Naples in 1948 (on the 17th of July, at 5:40 am). He worked for twenty years for the most popular daily of Naples, Il Mattino, writing articles on science, medicine, informatics, literature and astrology. He has always refused to cast the so-called 'horoscopes of the solar signs' for that newspaper, as well as for any other newspaper or magazine. He worked for five years at the CNR (National Research Council) and, for two years in the Istituto Motori of Naples, CNR. He has been dealing with astrology since 1970. He has written over 80 books, most of them best-sellers in Italy as well as abroad and he has published over 1,000 astrological lessons on YouTube and about 300 short Astrology Essays on Google Books. In 1990 he founded the quarterly Ricerca '90, which he has been editing and publishing since then. He has been doing statistical researches from the very beginning of his interest in astrology. During the early '90s, he obtained brilliant results with researches on astral heredity on a sample of over 75,000 subjects. The astrological rules #1 and #2, published in his Transits and Solar Returns have been statistically demonstrated by Didier Castille - the greatest astrological statistic researcher in the world - on the entire French population, and this is probably the most convincing evidence in Astrology of the possibility to statistically demonstrate some astrological items. These rules were also demonstrated in over 40 years of studies by some researchers of Zurich University and they are the only statements of an astrologer, of every time, demonstrated by Official Science. He has been holding seminars, courses and lectures in different universities and cultural centres in Italy and abroad. He particularly deals with Predictive Astrology, Aimed Solar Returns and Aimed Lunar Returns. According to many colleagues, he may be considered the greatest living expert of this area of study. Not only has he written many texts on this specific segment of the art of Urania - he can also rely on the experience of more than 25,000 aimed birthdays (covering the years 1970 to 2012). He is deeply interested in informatics. Astrologically speaking, he followed the school of Andre Barbault. He founded the school of the Active Astrology.
