Ciro Discepolo

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 at the most popular daily of Naples, Il Mattino, writing articles on science, medicine, informatics, literature and astrology. He always refused to cast the so-called 'horoscopes of the solar signs' for that newspaper and for any other newspaper or magazine.

He worked (at 20 years old) for five years at the CNR (National Research Council) as Researcher Helper and, for two years, as Electronic Measures Laboratory's head in the Istituto Motori of Naples, CNR.

He has been dealing with astrology since 1970. He has written over 65 books, most of them best-sellers in Italy as well as abroad (France, the United States of America, Spanish, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia and Russia) and he has published over 700 lessons of Astrology on YouTube. In 1990 he founded the quarterly Ricerca '90, which he's been directing since then.

He's been doing statistical researches from the very beginning of his interest in astrology.

At the beginning of the '90s, he obtained very brilliant results with researches on astral heredity on a sample of over 75,000 subjects.

He's been holding seminars, courses and lectures in different universities and cultural centres in Italy and abroad.

He particularly deals with Predictive Astrology and Aimed Solar Returns. According to many colleagues he may be considered the greatest living expert of this sector. In fact not only he wrote a dozen of texts on this specific segment of the art of Urania - he can also rely on an experience of more than 20,000 aimed birthdays (covering the years 1970 to 2007) that he suggested, whose outcomes he collected at an interval of one year.

He developed extremely advanced software packages for the study of Predictive Astrology, also projecting an innovative algorithm which is particularly useful for the dating of events within one year for individuals or groups of people.

He is deeply interested in informatics. Astrologically speaking, he followed the school of André Barbault.

He founded the school of the Active Astrology.

The Active Astrology

The Active Astrology is a school of Astrology founded by Ciro Discepolo at the beginning of the 90's, based on researched that the Author carried out beginning from 1970.

It relies on two main subjects: the Aimed Solar Returns and the Exorcism of the symbols.

The main notion on which the Active Astrology relies is represented by the fact that the beneficiary of this school undertake to try to mitigate the so-called 'negative influences' that supposedly arrives from 'dissonant' positions of the celestials in our solar system in the day and the time of the solar return on its own position of birth (of the native's sky), and at the same time, to potentiate the positive implications that may refer to the native in the same way.

An Aimed Solar Return consists in changing one's place on the day of one's birthday, thus relocating the solar return according to consolidated rules, and spending one day only (few minutes) in a place accurately chosen; which place may, year by year, be distant a few miles from home, or in a different continent.

The exorcism of symbol, on the contrary, relates to the possibility of activating a symbol and therefore discharging it, according to the school of Carl Gustav Jung.

Main works

Nuova guida all'astrologia (4th edition, revised) - Armenia, Milan, 817 pages, 1998. First edition 1979

Transiti e Rivoluzioni solari [Transits and Solar Returns] - Armenia, Milan, 508 pages, October 1997

Nuovo Trattato delle Rivoluzioni Solari [New Treatise of the Solar Returns] - Armenia, Milan, 216 pages, September 2003

Nuovo Trattato di Astrologia [The new Treatise of Astrology] - Armenia, Milan, ca. 800 pages, February 2004

I Fondamenti dell'Astrologia Medica [The Basics of Medical Astrology] - Armenia, Milan, 246 pages - end of January 2006

L'Interpretazione del tema natale [The Interpretation of the Birth Chart] - Armenia, Milano, 336 pages September 2007

Effemeridi e Tavole delle Case [Ephemerides and Tables of Houses], many volumes, different publishers

Astrologia Attiva [Active Astrology], Mediterranee, Rome, 144 pages, autumn 1998

Traité complet d'interprétation des transits et des Révolutions solaires en astrologie - Éditions Traditionnelles, Paris, 504 pages, December 2001

Transits and Solar Returns - Ricerca '90 Publisher, Naples, 560 pages, September 2007

365 nap alatt a Föld körül a szolárhoroszkóppal - DFT Húngaria, 190 pages, May 2006

Temelji medicinske astrologije - Založba Astrološkega inštituta, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 260 pages, March 2007

Prontuari di calcoli, atlanti geografici ed esercizi vari [Prontuari di calcoli, atlanti geografici ed esercizi vari] - many volumes, different publishers

Recherche astrologique sur la schizophrénie - Psychologie et astrologie, Numéro 38 - 1977 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles

La libido et l'investigation astrologique - Psychologie et astrologie, Numéro 47 - 1979 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles

Astralités d'Alberto Moravia - Etude de thème, Numéro 54 de l'astrologue 1981 - Éditions Traditionnelles

Un millénaire de conjoncture mondiale - Astrologie mondiale, Numéro spécial 61, Astrologie mondiale 1983 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles

Enquête sur l'hérédité astrale - Statistiques, Numéro 63 - 1983 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles

Nouvelle enquête sur l'hérédité astrale - Statistiques, Numéro 67 - 1984 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles

Statistique sur 834 nominations ministérielles - Statistiques - Numéro 75 - 1986 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles

Nouvelle recherche sur l'hérédité astrale - Statistiques, Numéro 94 - 1991 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles

L'Hérédité astrale sur 50000 naissances - Statistiques, Numéro 106 - 1994 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles

Astrologie activiste - Réflexions sur l'astrologie, Numéro 125 - 1999 de l'astrologue - Éditions Traditionnelles

Transits et Révolutions solaires - French edition of "Transits and Solar Returns" - 466 p., 2008

DIE TRANSITE UND DAS SOLARHOROSKOP, German edition of "Transits and Solar Returns" , 646 p., 2008

TRÁNSITOS Y RETORNOS SOLARES, Spanish edition of "Transits and Solar Returns", 664 p., 2009

Lunar Returns and Earth Returns, 304 p., 2009, English edition, modified and expanded, of "Rivoluzioni Lunari e Rivoluzioni Terrestri"

Aimed Solar and Lunar Returns, 220 pages, 2009. It is possible to buy it here: http://www.cirodiscepolo.it/english_corner/English_corner.htm

Новый трактат о Солнечных Революциях, Чиро Дешиполо (Ciro Discepolo), 208 pages, June 2009. Russian edition of "Nuovo trattato di astrologia". See here:

www.astrolog.ru

Complete bibliography: http://www.cirodiscepolo.it/english_corner/bibliography.htm

Main seminars

La soggettività e la oggettività nelle scelte di indirizzo astrologico [The subjectivity and objectivity in the astrologically oriented choices], University of the Studies of Padua, Faculty of Sciences of Communication, in the course conceived by Professor Maurizio Barbagallo, 9th of May 2001 (Link where you can download the relevant video, ca. 80 Mb)

Miti, simboli, archetipi, astrologia, letteratura [Myths, symbols, archetypes, astrology, literature], University of the Studies of Naples "L'Orientale", Department of Compared Studies and Italian Institutes for the Philosophical Studies, edited by Professor Vittorio Marmo and Professor Anna Maria Pedullà, 9th of May 2006 (Link where you can download the relevant audio file)

Miti, simboli, archetipi, astrologia, letteratura [Myths, symbols, archetypes, astrology, literature], Budapest University (ELTE BTK Romanisztikai Intézet), 10th of October 2006 (link)

Astrologia: sì o no?[Astrology: yes or no?], Italian Institute of Culture, Budapest (1088, Bródy S. u. 8.), 12th of October 2006 (Link)

A very short selection of the works in which Ciro Discepolo's works are quoted

Italian Institutes for the Philosophical Studies - managed by Gerardo Marotta - Palazzo Serra di Cassano - Naples, Annuario 1975-2000. In the premises of the Institute

(it quotes three conferences and a seminar held by Ciro Discepolo in different years)

L´uomo che sa leggere nei segreti delle stelle, [The man who can read in the secrets of stars] by Mimmo Carratelli, La Repubblica.it, 4th of February 2007 (Link)

The only guest in the TV programme GAP (Generazioni alla prova), broadcast by RAITRE on the 16th of April 2004 on the subject: The young and the astrology. The program GAP is part of Format, a television space edited by Giovanni Minoli. You can download the video of the program (ca 80 MB) here.

Guest, together with the president of CICAP Steno Ferluga, of the radio program La notte dei misteri, broadcast by RAI Radiouno on the 8th of August 2002 (it lasted all night long), hosted by Gabriella Vasile and Elio Cadelo.

You can download the audio files of the radio broadcast here.

Giorgio Galli - Stelle Rosse, Astrologia neo-illuminista a uso della sinistra [Red Stars - Neo-Enlightenement Astrology for the use of the Left wing], 374 pages, Alacràn Edizioni, Milan, 2006, ISBN: 88-89603-24-0

A letter of Piero Chiara to Ciro Discepolo (Link)

Camilla Cederna - Casa Nostra [Our Home] - Mondadori, Milan, 1983

Luciana Marinangeli - Risonanze Celesti [Celestial Resonances] - Marsilio, Venice 2007, 334 pages

André Barbault - Un siècle de statistiques astrologiques, Éditions Traditionnelles, Paris

Astrologia e Informatica [Astrologia e Informatica] - Magazine BIT, Gruppo Editoriale Jackson, Year IV, number 19

Third Eysenck Research Seminar in Astrology - edited by Professor Hans J. Eysenck, former holder of the chair of Psychology at London University, known for having created psychological tests named after him, Museo Villa Pignatelli di Napoli, 3-4-5 of June 1988. Edition sponsored by the Regional Authority of Campania.

Contributions to the correction of data relevant to the various time zones (Link)

If you search for "Ciro Discepolo" on Google (on Google.com, with the option all the languages and using quotes) you can find about 12,500 documents about him and his work.

Ciro Discepolo's birth chart: http://www.cirodiscepolo.it/images/TN_Ciro.jpg

http://cirodiscepolo.blogspot.com

www.solarreturns.com

www.lunarreturns.com

www.cirodiscepolo.it

Some my photos: http://www.cirodiscepolo.it/Images_of_Ciro_Discepolo_and_Active_Astrology.htm

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