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Astrology, a Cosmic Science
This is a new approach to astrology that has for too long been neglected in astrological textbooks. This book combines the inner and outer aspects of astrology in a unique and inspirational manner. The blueprint we call the horoscope deals with the personality, showing the tendencies and the habit patterns brought into this lifetime from other lifetimes. Some are good, some destructive. There is nothing fatalistic about astrology. Behind the personality (the unlit self) lies the Power of the Real Self that can change the outer self completely. Character is destiny. Change your character and you change your destiny. The right use of astrology shows you what needs changing and how to change. This is what this book is all about. Good going!
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First published January 1, 1975
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March 4, 2017
EDITED: To reflect that, while my "essential" astrology texts have shifted dramatically, and while my knowledge and interests in the field have become incredibly specific and "advanced," this book is still my first recommendation for an individual looking to take astrology "seriously" (after Arroyo). The textbook analogy I use below has a lot of water—Hickey provides an excellent cursory overview of psychological natal astrology, leaving the reader (as their own professor) to find supplementary material and craft context.
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I've learned most of what I know about astrology through mentors, pop-psychology-myth-reading, and a vague osmosis... Hickey's masterwork is the closest I've ever gotten to traditional, pedagogical, textbook study so far.
My first attempt, sometime last year, went super over my head. I tapped out after the first few chapters, way past my capacity to get the more sophisticated concepts Hickey presents.
Once you've sauntered past sun signs, the vast density of elements at play on the chart can be overwhelming to say the least... Astrology is truly a science of time, of being patient enough to allow ideas to permeate past the barriers of the subconscious/unconscious until they register and click... There is still much I don't understand, but Hickey proves over and over that when I finally do understand, it's a science that works.
Nothing really out-of-date or anachronistic here... Hickey (alongside Arroyo, who introduces the book), are very interested in "karmic" astrology... Not everyone's bag (my devotion emerges from a pseudo-Jungian-archetypical lens over authentic faith in reincarnation, though I've yet to rule anything out), but not so distractingly omnipresent that it dictates the meaning of every argument.
Of course, you can go through your internet-generated birth chart with Hickey's incredibly detailed explanations for every planet/sign/house combo up to Pluto and get a kick out of it that way... The most tempting attraction of any astrological text relating to the natal chart... And on that account, Hickey kicks ass. Her insights are spot-on and oftentimes "too real" in a discomfiting, soul-search-y way. She is unafraid to dwell on negative aspects and refuses to couch hard truths in flowery, Polly Anna sobriquets... I absolutely, 100% must have done just that when I first purchased A Cosmic Science in 2016. But I don't really remember any major takeaways from that first look-see. The slow, creeping satisfaction of understanding the chapters after years of study is what makes me recommend this volume so highly; especially as a tangible, paper thing to carry along as I continue this journey.
I anticipate returning to A Cosmic Science again and again as my purview broadens and welcomes heavier truth bombs. Until then...
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I've learned most of what I know about astrology through mentors, pop-psychology-myth-reading, and a vague osmosis... Hickey's masterwork is the closest I've ever gotten to traditional, pedagogical, textbook study so far.
My first attempt, sometime last year, went super over my head. I tapped out after the first few chapters, way past my capacity to get the more sophisticated concepts Hickey presents.
Once you've sauntered past sun signs, the vast density of elements at play on the chart can be overwhelming to say the least... Astrology is truly a science of time, of being patient enough to allow ideas to permeate past the barriers of the subconscious/unconscious until they register and click... There is still much I don't understand, but Hickey proves over and over that when I finally do understand, it's a science that works.
Nothing really out-of-date or anachronistic here... Hickey (alongside Arroyo, who introduces the book), are very interested in "karmic" astrology... Not everyone's bag (my devotion emerges from a pseudo-Jungian-archetypical lens over authentic faith in reincarnation, though I've yet to rule anything out), but not so distractingly omnipresent that it dictates the meaning of every argument.
Of course, you can go through your internet-generated birth chart with Hickey's incredibly detailed explanations for every planet/sign/house combo up to Pluto and get a kick out of it that way... The most tempting attraction of any astrological text relating to the natal chart... And on that account, Hickey kicks ass. Her insights are spot-on and oftentimes "too real" in a discomfiting, soul-search-y way. She is unafraid to dwell on negative aspects and refuses to couch hard truths in flowery, Polly Anna sobriquets... I absolutely, 100% must have done just that when I first purchased A Cosmic Science in 2016. But I don't really remember any major takeaways from that first look-see. The slow, creeping satisfaction of understanding the chapters after years of study is what makes me recommend this volume so highly; especially as a tangible, paper thing to carry along as I continue this journey.
I anticipate returning to A Cosmic Science again and again as my purview broadens and welcomes heavier truth bombs. Until then...
September 4, 2015
It was difficult for me to get into this book at first because of its dated language and gender politics. These are still valid concerns, but I'm glad I kept reading in spite of them because this book is so full of wisdom. After reading it my outlook on astrology and life in general will never be quite the same.
April 29, 2008
Astrology: A Cosmic Science is, to me, one of the best books ever written on astrology. Isabel Hickey probes planetary placements from a very spiritual point of view. If you want to delve into astrology beyond the basic newspaper horoscope, this would be an excellent book to read. It truly is my astrological "bible".
October 9, 2007
The best astrology book ever for the birth chart.
November 11, 2021
It's a nice book. A lot of the things said in the book is very out-dated. And I really don't appreciate it when astrologers talk about a placement being marked for death by *insert anything here* with such great conviction. But oh well. You can't really complain about an old book. It's no use. Read this if you're a beginner. This book is helpful. But don't stop here.
Unrelated tangent: Sometimes, you think you know how old astrology is. But you don't really realize it until the book -- which isn't that ancient by the way. It's originally written in a language you can read and understand well -- doesn't include your generation because it was too far away from the author's point of view. And that's only what? A few decades at most? But astrology has been alive and well since thousands of years ago. It just... it's... overwhelming to see and know and realize that we, humans, are connected by a language of stars and planets across thousands of years. I'm very emotional right now.
Unrelated tangent: Sometimes, you think you know how old astrology is. But you don't really realize it until the book -- which isn't that ancient by the way. It's originally written in a language you can read and understand well -- doesn't include your generation because it was too far away from the author's point of view. And that's only what? A few decades at most? But astrology has been alive and well since thousands of years ago. It just... it's... overwhelming to see and know and realize that we, humans, are connected by a language of stars and planets across thousands of years. I'm very emotional right now.
August 1, 2008
This is a deep study into astrology. It analyzes the psychological angles, personality, life path, and lots of interesting ways to use this science. This book really helped me connected the dots in my varried knowledge of the stars.
September 21, 2010
Excellent introduction to astrology. Made me want to be an astrologer! Inspiring because it shows how astrology can be used to create happiness for oneself and others, and what more can be expected of a book or a discipline?
February 6, 2014
Amazing, one of the best astrology books out there. Her insight is very profound, beautiful, & concise. The only thing that frustrated me was that I kept wanting more and more information from her. I wish this book was 3 times as large.
April 9, 2014
This is one of the first astrology books I read. A good comprehensive guide written by Liz Greene's teacher (who told Liz that she would never be a good astrologer).
February 19, 2014
Astrology books are not exactly like literature but they have a writing style that clearly defines the astrologer/writer's relationship to the subject whether intended or not and to make it more confusing astrology has its own language that is somewhat universal but bleeds into the writer's own interpretation, and this makes rating any astrology book very hard because they all have some wisdom or insight to help a student but that doesn't mean they are all well written, or well thought out. I should also add that an American student circa 2014 is going to have a hard time finding any astrology book that wasn't written in the 20th or 21st century and that would pretty much make it a 'modern astrology' book as opposed to what is now being referred to as 'traditional astrology' an all encompassing word that defines any western astrology practiced from the Hellenistic period through the middle ages and Italian Renaissance, nor does this take into account 'vedic astrology,' which is similar to western astrology, and even absorbed by many western astrologer's (Hickey's book included), and yet is its own branch of astrology that no astrologer, not even the most mediocre cheesy hippie era one, would think of conflating because there are enough subtle distinctions between the two to boggle an astrologer's mind, but not a novice. Indian culture was very popular in the Sixties (think of the sitar) and this extended to astrology, so I'd say that Hickey's book introduced the hippies to some Eastern ideas about astrology, but Hickey herself was an American from Massachussetts born at the turn of the 20th century, who must've been inluenced by Madame Blavatsky's theosophy, or freemasonry, or some new spiritual ideas at the time, that were trying to fuse a lot of the world's spiritual beliefs into one, or that would be my conjecture. "Astrology, A Cosmic Science," was published in the Sixties but must've seemed like a hard astrology book back then compared to the L.S.D. inspired astrology that was starting to become popular, and later mocked to death when I was growing up ('what's your sign, baby?') making it almost impossible for me to even like astrology let alone study it but this wasn't fair to astrology; like art, astrology will survive as long as the human race does, going in and out of vogue, with different popular interpretations of what it means or doesn't depending on who adheres to it, and yet we're all political creatures and it's hard to get over our biases. I'm not sure when it started but around the Thirties and Forties, but most definitely by the Sixties, astrology was taking on a lot of ideas from humanistic psychology, and trying to incorporate them into a reading, and while we could argue the merits of this and what will survive (this would also take a big conversation on psychology), it's fair to say that a Gen X'er was raised on 'humanistic psychological astrology,' that saw Jung as an almost mystic figure, who'd somehow discovered the key to human consciousness. I'm sure Hickey was influenced by this too but as an adult, and probably after having studied it for a long time, so that the humanistic ideas were secondary to her rather 'karma bound' way of looking at a horoscope, as a series of challenges brought over from a past life, and that it was our duty to overcome them as spiritual lessons for this incarnation, but she made it clear she believed in reincarnation, and this was a pretty spiritual dogmatic idea for the time. I'm not saying I agree with Hickey's notion of reincarnation that I'd imagine is similar to a Hindu's, but the spiritual belief that pours through every sentence and word of this book is just plain overwhelming, Jungian or not. I really felt like Hickey had a vision when she wrote this book, but one she'd been working on her whole life, so that it was free of all the flakiness of most Sixties-era modern astrology books, because she had really absorbed the fundamental rules and lessons of astrology, before sitting down to write this, I'm sure, and yet the writing is lit with illumination, so that I can only believe that she had waited her whole life for this moment, and wrote purely and potently from her heart, like a saint after having a vision, or any ascetic who has trained long and hard to see God. Nothing in this book feels fake or false, or like Hickey was talking out of her ass, which happens in a lot of astrology books, because I really think she meant "Astrology, A Cosmic Science" to be exactly what the title implies 'cosmic,' and that she was as intent on teaching a deep spirtual lesson on karma, as much as writing a 'how-to book,' and that is quite a feat. It doesn't hurt that her sentences and words are also beautifully composed in a sort of Gertrude Stein/Hemmingway short sentence way, so that each one feels like it's building on the other, and before you know it she has built a castle in words.
"Astrology, A Cosmic Science," is also a very good primer for beginning students needing the purely pragmatic. She organized the book very well, and it's one of those rare astrolgoy books that could be read by an advanced student, or a beginner, and probably both would get something out of it, but as a disclaimer you are not reading 'traditional astrology' when you open up this book and let its magic surge through you, so if you're interested in that you're going to have to go down a different road, and to be honest I wouldn't even know where to tell you to begin. Some traditional astrology books are being translated today, and you could buy them online for a normal price, but you wouldn't know the language, or the basic rules, and to my knowledge very few of these books would even begin to do this for you because they assume you already know those, and this might be because astrology wasn't for the people back in those days like it is today, so maybe I'd say that if you're going to study astrology in 2014, you'd probably have to start with modern western astrology, just to learn the basic rules, like the rulers of the signs, the aspects, and the houses, before you could even begin to go on, but I feel strange saying this, because I can easily imagine wanting to study traditional astrology when I first started, but I didn't even know it existed, so I'm sort of telling you what I did, but I think there might not be another way to do it, unless you have a tutor teaching you the rules, or a good friend. Organization is the key to any astrological book and often good organization can make a not so great book on astrology alright and bad organization absoultely impossible to read but it should be remembered that astrology books aren't novels meant to be read from the beginning to the end once or twice and then put on a shelf but are consulted over and over again like a physicain consults a book of diseases because each one has an astrolger's insight, or a way they looked at a configuration in a chart that is special to them and finding this should be easy, or at least make sense, and yet not all astrological books get this down, but maybe that's not a surprise because it's a lot like organizing your thoughts for an essay where one has to follow the other for the composition to make sense, no easy task considering how few people write well. "Astrology, A Cosmic Science," is very well organizled and Hickey has a lengthy 'cookbook' section and that's something most beginners like a lot (myself included, though not as much now), and that's where she'll go over the essential meaning of a planet in a sign (Mars in Aquarius, Moon in Aquarius, etc.) and give a brief description of the karma of this position, and then goes on to do the same with the aspects, but even more so, describing the karmic challenges that each one poses for this life, and what we must do to meet it. Most books just end there and indeed that's a lot for any student, but I can say after years of poring through it there's almost always some new insight you can find, or a chapter you missed, so that it really feels like a comphrehensive almost sacred book. "Astrology, A Cosmic Science," would be my reccomendation for a new student because it lays down the rules well and offers a real spiritual vision of the chart, but it's not the humanistic psychological view of the signs that most people expect. Hickey looks at the chart from a more spiritual perspective that can make people feel chained to their life in a way that humanistic astrology doesn't do so much, but I can see Hickey arguing that only seeing your chains could let you break them.
"Astrology, A Cosmic Science," is also a very good primer for beginning students needing the purely pragmatic. She organized the book very well, and it's one of those rare astrolgoy books that could be read by an advanced student, or a beginner, and probably both would get something out of it, but as a disclaimer you are not reading 'traditional astrology' when you open up this book and let its magic surge through you, so if you're interested in that you're going to have to go down a different road, and to be honest I wouldn't even know where to tell you to begin. Some traditional astrology books are being translated today, and you could buy them online for a normal price, but you wouldn't know the language, or the basic rules, and to my knowledge very few of these books would even begin to do this for you because they assume you already know those, and this might be because astrology wasn't for the people back in those days like it is today, so maybe I'd say that if you're going to study astrology in 2014, you'd probably have to start with modern western astrology, just to learn the basic rules, like the rulers of the signs, the aspects, and the houses, before you could even begin to go on, but I feel strange saying this, because I can easily imagine wanting to study traditional astrology when I first started, but I didn't even know it existed, so I'm sort of telling you what I did, but I think there might not be another way to do it, unless you have a tutor teaching you the rules, or a good friend. Organization is the key to any astrological book and often good organization can make a not so great book on astrology alright and bad organization absoultely impossible to read but it should be remembered that astrology books aren't novels meant to be read from the beginning to the end once or twice and then put on a shelf but are consulted over and over again like a physicain consults a book of diseases because each one has an astrolger's insight, or a way they looked at a configuration in a chart that is special to them and finding this should be easy, or at least make sense, and yet not all astrological books get this down, but maybe that's not a surprise because it's a lot like organizing your thoughts for an essay where one has to follow the other for the composition to make sense, no easy task considering how few people write well. "Astrology, A Cosmic Science," is very well organizled and Hickey has a lengthy 'cookbook' section and that's something most beginners like a lot (myself included, though not as much now), and that's where she'll go over the essential meaning of a planet in a sign (Mars in Aquarius, Moon in Aquarius, etc.) and give a brief description of the karma of this position, and then goes on to do the same with the aspects, but even more so, describing the karmic challenges that each one poses for this life, and what we must do to meet it. Most books just end there and indeed that's a lot for any student, but I can say after years of poring through it there's almost always some new insight you can find, or a chapter you missed, so that it really feels like a comphrehensive almost sacred book. "Astrology, A Cosmic Science," would be my reccomendation for a new student because it lays down the rules well and offers a real spiritual vision of the chart, but it's not the humanistic psychological view of the signs that most people expect. Hickey looks at the chart from a more spiritual perspective that can make people feel chained to their life in a way that humanistic astrology doesn't do so much, but I can see Hickey arguing that only seeing your chains could let you break them.
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December 31, 2024(Goodreads says this is 100 pages…it’s actually 350😜)
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January 29, 2024Excellent introductory material with a clever structure that makes interpreting charts easy. It's commendable that author does not shy away from very specific or negative readings.
August 10, 2020
Summary: This book is great and does a good job describing houses, aspects, and planets. I do think you have to be careful and realize that she is describing a particular way.
Hickey's book is known as one of the core starting places for beginners. I finally got to read it and it really enlightened me to how people might take her words and miss the point. She's quite careful in how she describes things, but if you're a beginner and latch on to the words incorrectly, you'll miss what she's trying to say. Also, she's speaking from earlier times where words IMO had less nuance in Astrology.
What I appreciate the most is that she does treat astrology like it has 3D, not 2d. There is plenty of discussion on how the planet in a particular house at a particular angle matters. I think this is missed in most books. that said, I think her organization makes it very tough to realize what she's trying to say. For instance, the signs on the House Cusps. I had to re-read that multiple times to figure out what precisely she meant as relates to what planet and where. I wish this was more illustrated to just make it easier to see.
I really like her consistency in verbalization. Everyone speaks from their point of view of sign. Some can then translate what it might mean to a different point of view. This book doesn't go there, but because it is consistent, it's easy to translate the words she's using from her point of view so that you can use it in your practice.
Very cool book. Glad to have a chance to review it.
Hickey's book is known as one of the core starting places for beginners. I finally got to read it and it really enlightened me to how people might take her words and miss the point. She's quite careful in how she describes things, but if you're a beginner and latch on to the words incorrectly, you'll miss what she's trying to say. Also, she's speaking from earlier times where words IMO had less nuance in Astrology.
What I appreciate the most is that she does treat astrology like it has 3D, not 2d. There is plenty of discussion on how the planet in a particular house at a particular angle matters. I think this is missed in most books. that said, I think her organization makes it very tough to realize what she's trying to say. For instance, the signs on the House Cusps. I had to re-read that multiple times to figure out what precisely she meant as relates to what planet and where. I wish this was more illustrated to just make it easier to see.
I really like her consistency in verbalization. Everyone speaks from their point of view of sign. Some can then translate what it might mean to a different point of view. This book doesn't go there, but because it is consistent, it's easy to translate the words she's using from her point of view so that you can use it in your practice.
Very cool book. Glad to have a chance to review it.
June 18, 2020
Today, you're better off to start with a batch of these, if not all of em:
Only Way to Learn Astrology - Volume I - Basic Principles - March/McEvers
Only Way To Learn Astrology - Volume II - Math and Interpretation Techniquess - March/McEvers
Only Way to Learn Astrology - Volume III - Horoscope Analysis - March/McEvers
Only Way to Learn About Tomorrow - Volume IV - March/McEvers
A Beginner's Guide to Practical Astrology - Vivian Robson
Astrology for Dummies - Rae Orion
Alan Oken's Complete Astrology - Alan Oken
Llewellyn's Complete Book of Astrology: The Easy Way to Learn Astrology - Kris Brandt Riske
Astrology: Classic Guide To Understanding Your Horoscope - Ronald Davison
Astrology: A Cosmic Science - Isabel Hickey
The Astrologer's Handbook - Sakoian/Acker
Secrets From a Stargazer's Notebook - Debbi Kempton-Smith
Astrology, A Comprehensive Guide to Classical Interpretation - Kevin Burke
I got a soft spot for March-Hickey-Sakoian-Oken
as the absolute must haves....
Only Way to Learn Astrology - Volume I - Basic Principles - March/McEvers
Only Way To Learn Astrology - Volume II - Math and Interpretation Techniquess - March/McEvers
Only Way to Learn Astrology - Volume III - Horoscope Analysis - March/McEvers
Only Way to Learn About Tomorrow - Volume IV - March/McEvers
A Beginner's Guide to Practical Astrology - Vivian Robson
Astrology for Dummies - Rae Orion
Alan Oken's Complete Astrology - Alan Oken
Llewellyn's Complete Book of Astrology: The Easy Way to Learn Astrology - Kris Brandt Riske
Astrology: Classic Guide To Understanding Your Horoscope - Ronald Davison
Astrology: A Cosmic Science - Isabel Hickey
The Astrologer's Handbook - Sakoian/Acker
Secrets From a Stargazer's Notebook - Debbi Kempton-Smith
Astrology, A Comprehensive Guide to Classical Interpretation - Kevin Burke
I got a soft spot for March-Hickey-Sakoian-Oken
as the absolute must haves....
January 9, 2021
I couldn't decide if I should consider this book profound, because of the subtle and profound aspects of human understanding that it conveyed, or harsh, because especially the zodiac signs description was closed minded and fatalistic to the point of comical. I have read at least 3-4 better astrology books describing the astrological signs in a much more open-minded, accepting and positive way, concentrating more on the potential aspects of the signs and their tendencies, than fixed, judgmental conclusion regarding the psyches and even ("assured") physical problems of persons based on their sun sign.. I'm not saying it is completely wrong or negative, just be sure to not be programmed with certain beliefs regarding certain individuals based on some concepts in a book.
August 7, 2008
OK, mostly read... I've always been fascinated with astrology and was trying to get a better handle on it. This book has so much detail, I think I'm now more confused than I was before I read it. But the subject still continues to fascinate me....
September 26, 2010
Hickey offers new insights into the art/science of astrology from a spiritual point of view. The book is not well written from a professional perspective but her wisdom, experience and expertise of astrology is profound.
January 27, 2016
I liked the way Isabel organized and broke everything down into digestible facts with imagery. And finally an astrology book that doesn't have a heavy emphasis on type casting the zodiac signs. I found new insight into sun signs with her unbiased descriptions.
July 2, 2008
Phenomenal book with easy-to-read basics totally covered. Comprehensive, thorough and insightful. A delight and a must-have for all aspiring astrologers.
August 3, 2014
This is the first astrology book I've purchased and its a wonderful, complete & comprehensive guide.
November 3, 2018
"The horoscope is a blueprint of our character. Character IS destiny. There is nothing static in this universe in which we dwell. We can change by changing our attitudes and patterns of behavior. In so doing, we change our destiny. Yes, the blueprint or birth chart shows your character and your personality pattern - your human nature, but you are spirit too. The stars impel but do not compel. An understanding of planetary influences allows you to take your life into your own hands and intelligently utilize the planetary influences that will help you in your evolution if you but will."
And so begins an inspired and comprehensive foray into the wisdom of the Planets and all that they are capable of teaching us. This is a guide for the intermediate and adept student. An earnest novice could find it instructive in some areas, but possibly slightly too advanced in others such as the Transits and Progressions. Isabel was from a different age, so the Spiritual aspect is more Christian informed than a Feminist, Goddess Loving Pagan such as myself finds compelling; however, I appreciate the intent with which it was Written and didn't allow Isabel's personal religious views to limit the Learning.
And so begins an inspired and comprehensive foray into the wisdom of the Planets and all that they are capable of teaching us. This is a guide for the intermediate and adept student. An earnest novice could find it instructive in some areas, but possibly slightly too advanced in others such as the Transits and Progressions. Isabel was from a different age, so the Spiritual aspect is more Christian informed than a Feminist, Goddess Loving Pagan such as myself finds compelling; however, I appreciate the intent with which it was Written and didn't allow Isabel's personal religious views to limit the Learning.
March 27, 2017
Very well written and easy to understand with lots of deep wisdom between the lines. However, as far as I know, it contains some serious flaws and erroneous facts, e.g. the present age we are living in is not determined by the vernal equinox but by the autumnal equinox. So the notion that the world already transitioned into the Golden Age of the sign of Aquarius has no foundation in reality, this is a hyppie era mith. Also a full precession of the equinoxes takes roughly 24'000 years based on ancient Indian scriptures and not 25'000 years as the rate of the precession is not fixed at the current speed bit varies over time.
January 9, 2025
"When the child utters the first cry, it takes into its body the life breath charged with the vibrations manifesting that day and that hour at that particular spot on the earth."
Amazing quote right at the first page: "Man is not what he is because he was born when he was. He was born when he was because he was potentially what he is.” Astrology doesn't determine who you are, but you determine that astrology because of your soul. You are meant to be where you are.
Amazing quote right at the first page: "Man is not what he is because he was born when he was. He was born when he was because he was potentially what he is.” Astrology doesn't determine who you are, but you determine that astrology because of your soul. You are meant to be where you are.
April 15, 2020
I’ll tell you why it’s a 3. I found the chart casting portion completely confusing. Couldn’t follow. Had to abandon & move along.
Also super sexist language. Almost to the point of comedy.
With that exception. I loved the wisdom. So many gems within the pages. Not just astrological, but spiritual.
A very good, all encompassing astrology book. I would recommend.
Also super sexist language. Almost to the point of comedy.
With that exception. I loved the wisdom. So many gems within the pages. Not just astrological, but spiritual.
A very good, all encompassing astrology book. I would recommend.
October 28, 2020
It's a pretty outdated book in regards to some gender references and stuff, but if you can get past that - it's a great book. Lots of useful knowledge and delves into the spiritual depths behind astrology and natal charts.
March 3, 2022
Love this. I will continue to go back to it again and again and also keep my birth chart with it to hopefully better understand more about me and my tendencies and how to make the most of it.
March 29, 2023
A dated but decent primer.
June 20, 2023
WOW… read this on and off but always pick it up again for more information. Lots to get into and easy to learn if astrology is something you wanna dig into.
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September 15, 2025Wouldn't read this wanting to understand Astrology. It was interesting sure, but outdated to hell.
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