Margaret Ethelwyn Hone was an important astrologer in the mid 1900s, yet modern use of her great work has been largely lost in the New-Age-heavy "Modern Astrology" of the turn of this century. Ms. Hone is remembered mostly as a text-book astrologer, of which she was honored to be, and as an Englishwoman. She counted among her close friends Charles E. O. Carter, Marc Edmund Jones, and Dane Rudhyar. Clearly, Charles Carter was impressed with Margaret Hone, as his preface to her well-known book, The Modern Text Book of Astrology bears out. He felt that Ms. Hone's work was a milestone in the English astrology of the day.

Margaret Hone, Charles Carter, and others founded an educating body called the The Faculty of Astrological Studies in 1948 in England. Carter was the first principal, succeeded by Hone, who was herself succeeded by Jeff Mayo. And while the FAS doesn't today call itself a teaching body as Hone and Carter did in the 1950s and 1960s, its courses are available online through Deb Houlding's excellent site. The course of study is operated by other thoughtful English astrologers. The Astrological Association they cofounded there ten years later still exists.

NOTE: For a more complete bio plus excerpts from some of Margaret Hone's books, visit Carlo's on-line tribute

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