21 Years of the Hopewell/Huber books – Part 3

The Introductory Volumes

Recap. In the part 2 we told how the books of Bruno & Louise Huber were enabled to stay in print in the English language. This was, at the time, all being orchestrated under the umbrella of supporting the English Huber School, or API(UK)/APA. The Huber books were all in black-and-white, apart from Aspect Pattern Astrology, which we had eventually managed to print with colour illustrations.

In addition to the Huber ‘bibles’, we also wanted to build on the success of the introductory book, The Cosmic Egg Timer, in providing a more friendly and approachable introduction to the Hubers’ work – and particularly aimed, where possible, to exploit colour illustrations, as colour is a fundamental feature of the Huber Method.

First, we wanted to go beyond the introduction in The Cosmic Egg Timer and show the full power of the Huber approach and its possibilities, publishing Joyce Hopewell’s The Living Birth Chart in 2008, still necessarily in black-and-white, for economic reasons.

By 2010, colour printing costs had become viable to the point where we could experiment with production of a slim volume Aspect Patterns in Colour, which covered all the aspect patterns, with illustrations in full colour. This amplified on the content of Aspect Pattern Astrology, providing valuable additional information with all the aspect patterns and example charts in full colour.

Building on this, in 2013 we were able to publish a new volume by Joyce, Using Age Progression, which provided a simpler overview of the contents and interpretation of Life Clock, with full colour illustrations.

We felt that these four volumes together provided a much more approachable way into Astrological Psychology, and particularly its major features of Aspect Patterns and Age Progression.

This set was finally all available in full colour after we published colour versions of The Cosmic Egg Timer in 2018, and The Living Birth Chart in 2019.

Ebooks

Another new technology, that of ebooks, gave us new possibilities for publishing all these books, particularly when the option of colour ebooks on computers and tablets became possible.

A black-and-white version of The Cosmic Egg Timer was published on Kindle in 2011, followed by a full colour version of Aspect Patterns in Colour in 2012, plus experimental versions of The Cosmic Egg Timer in Colour and The Living Birth Chart in Colour.

By 2019 all four books were available as ebooks in colour – but at a lower price than the paperbacks, giving a low starting price to those wanting to get an idea of what Astrological Psychology is all about.