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Los dioses del cambio: El despertar y las crisis transpersonales de los tránsitos de Urano, Neptuno y Plutón
This is a technical but readable account of the outer planets' effects as they transit a birthchart.
480 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1990
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June 3, 2020
With the major transits these three planets are taking through the sky right now, this is a must read!
November 9, 2018
This book is incredible. I refer to it and send chapters from it to clients and friends when I know they have an upcoming Uranus, Neptune or Pluto transit. It's a must for any astrologer and incredibly insightful information about planets that might otherwise be swept under a rug during readings. The writing is clear and engaging as well as emotive. The examples of clients help ground the information tremendously.
August 4, 2011
This is an excellent intermediate level astrology textbook. It takes the usual cookbook approach of planets in houses, but it adds the deep mythological implications of same, which gives the information added and more psychologically sophisticated value.
February 12, 2013
Great book for understanding the sometimes difficult circumstances corresponding to transits of these outer planets. Those who are into the more intense aspects of the human psyche will also find this interesting.
May 3, 2026
I found The Gods of Change deeply disappointing. For a book on Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto transits, I expected something more substantial: evidence of long observation, serious client work, concrete case material, and insights that could only have come from years of astrological practice. Instead, the book often reads like a generic cookbook treatment of outer-planet astrology.
The main problem is not that the material is wrong in every detail, but that it feels thin. The interpretations are repetitive, heavily keyword-driven, and often assembled in a predictable way: Uranus means disruption and liberation; Neptune means dissolution and confusion; Pluto means death, transformation, and power. These themes are then applied to signs, houses, and aspects with little freshness or depth.
What I wanted was an astrologer showing what he had personally discovered through practice: patterns that surprised him, distinctions that only become clear after working with many charts, examples where the symbolism behaved in unexpected ways, or refinements that go beyond the usual textbook language. Very little of that came through for me.
The book may be useful for someone with almost no background in astrology who wants a basic introduction to outer-planet transit symbolism. But for anyone already familiar with standard astrological keywords, it offers little that feels original, rigorous, or hard-won.
Overall, I found it lazy, repetitive, and largely a waste of time. It felt less like a serious astrological study and more like an expanded cookbook entry stretched into book form.
The main problem is not that the material is wrong in every detail, but that it feels thin. The interpretations are repetitive, heavily keyword-driven, and often assembled in a predictable way: Uranus means disruption and liberation; Neptune means dissolution and confusion; Pluto means death, transformation, and power. These themes are then applied to signs, houses, and aspects with little freshness or depth.
What I wanted was an astrologer showing what he had personally discovered through practice: patterns that surprised him, distinctions that only become clear after working with many charts, examples where the symbolism behaved in unexpected ways, or refinements that go beyond the usual textbook language. Very little of that came through for me.
The book may be useful for someone with almost no background in astrology who wants a basic introduction to outer-planet transit symbolism. But for anyone already familiar with standard astrological keywords, it offers little that feels original, rigorous, or hard-won.
Overall, I found it lazy, repetitive, and largely a waste of time. It felt less like a serious astrological study and more like an expanded cookbook entry stretched into book form.
May 13, 2024
Original editions of Howard's marvellous book change hands for a lot of money these days; he himself went through crisis, passing from AIDS after a short but brilliant career with Liz Greene, pioneering psychological astrology. This is the book so many turn to, when dealing with the transits of the slow-moving outer planets. Anyone who has been living through Pluto in Capricorn since 2008, for example, would benefit from seeing Howard's take on this symbol in the chart. Then there is the radical, revolutionary shock of Uranus (now in Taurus) which has been in opposition to so many Scorpio placements in the natal horoscopes of entire generations. This book was written years before anybody had even heard of Bitcoin but reading it today, even just in terms of the Uranus analysis, it hits the spot repeatedly. It takes a great astrologer to be pinpoint accurate years after publication, and Sasportas was and is a great astrologer.
June 29, 2019
Excellent book... Had mine for 20 years. And read many times
February 13, 2020
Great book for studying transpersonal planets and their associated mythologies
November 24, 2020
Very profound book that cut through the core of the subject and beyond.
January 16, 2023
If you interested in astrology, this book is highly recommended.
December 18, 2023
One of my favorite astrology books. Can't begin to express how insightful it is. A must-have for anyone interested in the topic and in in personal transformation and healing.
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