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Printed to Order The Star Wisdom series (previously Journal for Star Wisdom) includes articles of interest on star wisdom (Astrosophy), as well as a guide to the correspondences between stellar configurations during the life of Christ and those of today. This guide comprises a complete sidereal ephemeris and aspectarian, geocentric and heliocentric, for each day throughout the year. Published yearly, new editions are generally available beginning in October or November for the coming new year. According to Rudolf Steiner, every step taken by Christ during his ministry between the baptism in the Jordan and the resurrection was in harmony with--and an expression of--the cosmos. Star Wisdom is concerned with these heavenly correspondences during the life of Christ and is intended to help provide a foundation for cosmic Christianity, the cosmic dimension of Christianity. It is this dimension that, by and large, has been missing until now from Christianity and its the 2,000-year history. Readers can begin on this path by contemplating the movements of the Sun, Moon, and planets against the background of the zodiacal constellations (sidereal signs) today in relation to corresponding stellar events during the life of Christ. In this way, the possibility is opened for attuning in a living way to the life of Christ, who is now--since the onset of his Second Coming in 1933--spiritually present in the etheric aura of the Earth This year sees the publication of volume one of the series Star Wisdom. The title was chosen in commemoration of a 1919 lecture by Rudolf Steiner, "Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism," in which he indicates the development of a living Cosmology to be the task of the Anglo-American West. The first article in this volume (by Joel Park) illumines that lecture from the standpoint of Astrogeography. It is followed by an article by Robert Powell, describing the development of Astrosophy and introduc