Lehman, J. Lee. The Ultimate Asteroid Book.West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1988.
Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia.St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.HILLIS-DINEEN, MADALYN
Madalyn Hillis-Dineen is the director of marketing of Astrolabe, Inc., the largest pri-
vately owned astrological software company in the world. She is also a well-known
Uranian astrologer, teacher, author, and lecturer and is a certified Astro*Carto*Gra-
phy interpreter. She began her study of astrology in 1979 and started working as an
astrologer full time in 1990. From 1990 to 1994, she served as executive secretary of
the National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR) where she concentrated her
efforts on conference planning and public relations. She also edited the NCGR mem-
bership letter from 1986 to 1994. Hillis-Dineen is active in a number of astrological
organizations and she was the winner of the 1995 United Astrology Congress (UAC)
Regulus Award for Community Service. Currently, she serves as the Clerk and Parlia-
mentarian of the NCGR National Board of Directors.
During the course of her astrological career, she has been a frequent lecturer at
astrology conferences throughout the United States and Canada. She was UAC’s track
coordinator for Uranian/Cosmobiology in 1992, 1995, and 2002. Her astrological con-
sultations center around relationships, women’s issues, relocation (Astro*Carto*Gra-
phy) and choosing good times to begin ventures (electional astrology). From 1991 to
1993, Hillis-Dineen had a monthly column on astrological money management in
Horoscope Guidemagazine. She is the author of a chapter called “On Singleness:
Choosing to Be Me” in the Llewellyn anthology entitled Astrology for Women: Roles
and Relationships.She was also a frequent contributor for http://www.stariq.com. She holds a
certification as a consulting astrologer from the NCGR and is a certified
Astro*Carto*Graphy interpreter. She is also an active member of the Business and
Professional Women/USA and was president of the Lower Cape Cod (MA) Chapter.
Hillis-Dineen was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and was educated
in a small, private Catholic girl’s academy during the 1950s and 1960s. Interestingly
enough, two other professional astrologers also attended that same academy during
those years. She earned a B.S. degree in marketing from St. John’s University in 1972.HIPPARCHUS
Hipparchus, the preeminent ancient Greek astronomer, lived from approximately 190
B.C.E. to 120 B.C.E. He developed trigonometry, recorded the location of more than a
thousand stars, and originated the idea of latitude and longitude. He is said to have
discovered the phenomenon known as the precession of the equinoxes. Hipparchus
was also a practicing astrologer.HISTORY OFASTROLOGY INAMERICA
Astrology came to America during the colonial era along with the entire body of
occult teachings available in Europe in the seventeenth century. The first AmericanHillis-Dineen, Madalyn
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