About the author

I Gargatholil

Gargatholil's interest in astrology began in the early 1970s when he discovered Dane Rudhyar and Alan Leo.&nbsp; Further exploring the field in the 1980s, Gargatholil read Stephen Arroyo, Diane Cunningham and Liz Greene.&nbsp; Predisposed to transcendent metaphysics since their teens, Gargatholil quickly gravitated to depth astrology, viewing astrology as a tool for personal growth and a deeper understanding of the self inhabiting the personality of this lifetime.&nbsp; In the early 1990s, Gargatholil realized that there were no standard manuals of the meanings of astrological symbols written from a depth astrology approach.&nbsp; They then decided to provide one.&nbsp; Having substantially completed a multi-year spurt of poetry composition, reprising a passion of their high school years (the genesis of <em>The Trembling Tear</em>​​​​​​​), Gargatholil began the project of composing the four-volume work,&nbsp;<em>Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>Working on their lunch hour while holding their straight job, Gargatholil took ten years to complete the manuscript.&nbsp; However, they found no publisher willing to print the book and, so, decided to generate an audience by creating a website (www.depthastrology2.com) and uploading the manuscript, chapter by chapter.&nbsp; This, in itself, took a number of years.&nbsp; <br><br>By 2010, the site had thousands of views per month and, as the site approached full construction, Gargatholil heard about e-publishing.&nbsp; Immediately recognizing the overwhelming advantages for the author over the standard book publisher route, Gargatholil began converting the html pages of their website into a format that could be published as an e-book.&nbsp; This process was finally completed in 2014 and published (via a D2D competitor).&nbsp; The book quickly reached the $2,000 sale threshold to appear on Amazon.&nbsp; Altogether,&nbsp;<em>Depth Astrology&nbsp;</em>has sold more than 1,800 copies worldwide.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>After publishing&nbsp;<em>Depth Astrology</em>, Gargatholil began work on&nbsp;<em>Sign-to-Sign Dynamics: A Depth Astrology Approach.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>By this time, Gargatholil had left their job in municipal government and was successfully consulting in their field.&nbsp; They decided to use the Depth Astrology website again to pre-publish the chapters in this book, loading one chapter per month over a 6 1/2 year period.&nbsp; This book was published in March, 2021,<br><br>Gargatholil has Sun in Libra, a Taurus Ascendant and a Capricorn cusp Aquarius Moon.&nbsp; Resonating to this cusp, the Moon is the Finger point of a Yadh involving Saturn (Capricorn's ruler) and Uranus (Aquarius' ruler).&nbsp; Their ruling planets, Venus and Saturn, are also conjunct.&nbsp; Gargatholil's life has, thus, been challenged to balance and integrate the radical and Higher Mind energy of Uranus with the temperamentally conservative, physical-plane oriented energy of Saturn.&nbsp; One manifestation of this configuration has been structuring their insights into the astrological symbol set to produce these books.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>Gargatholil is currently working on two other writing projects, which also demonstrate the power of the Yadh in their creative efforts.&nbsp; One is a commentary on more than 800 songs released during the Countercultural years of the sixties.&nbsp; This work, entitled&nbsp;<em>The Pouring,&nbsp;</em>is being edited.&nbsp; Very challenging has been the intransigence of the music industry in demanding exhorbitant fees for&nbsp;the use of any portion of a song lyric.&nbsp; Except for the permission of a few enlightened copyright holders, readers will need to independently reference the lyrics interpreted in this book.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>The other work, which will be published under the author's real name, is a professional manual describing, in detail, a new methodology developed by Gargatholil to conduct quantitative-qualitative analysis pertaining to a particular public policy decision (given the arcane nature of this area of analysis, I risk revealing my identity if I described this further, LoL).&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>Gargatholil has other diverse writing projects in mind to keep them occupied well into retirement.<br>