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This book is for everyone who can accept there is an afterlife. The rituals are guided meditations, and the work has been generalized to accommodate any spiritual path. I've already used two exercises out of this book with good results.

A magical realism western. The prose is very beautiful in places. The pace is a little uneven, but never slogs.

I'm grateful to Castaneda for sharing Don Juan's wisdom. This is a series I will definitely re-read.

Contemporary ghost stories with a heavy feminist undercurrent. Mold shattering storytelling.

Saturn: the great boner killer, the disciplinarian, the Roman god who ate his children. I attended a Lights for Liberty rally to take a stand against racist immigration policy. I read Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh by Matt Fox (not specifically Saturn energy, but very good medicine).

Bought this on Halloween. Perfect Scorpio season diversion.

This book marries Christian and Easter Mysticism by relating the seven cardinal sins as misdirected energy in their corresponding chakras. It is eloquently written and very inspiring so far. I just finished Part I.

I read Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda, which I feel embodied Mars energy.

Jupiter invites expansion of your horizons, intellectual and geographical, and your sense of self. I read: Meeting the Madwoman by Linda Schierse Leonard and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

For Venus, I read two works by Erica Jong, A General Theory of Love (nonfiction), and Stoner by John Williams.

Two more Venus books: Autobiography of an Orgasm by Indianapolis native Betsy Blankenbaker and The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

This book marries philosophy and science. It is both elegantly written and rigorously researched. The style immediately brought the late, great Oliver Sacks to mind. On a personal note, I'm discouraged by the findings presented in chapter four. The science implies a pattern of insecure attachment was hard-wired into me as an infant, and it's something I will have to learn to live with rather than be able to heal.

I already love this book. It speaks directly to me. A lot of the psychology I've figured out for myself (I've been doing Jungian-style self awareness development since 2016), but the depth of information and exercises here are illuminating. I will definitely be purchasing my own copy. (I "try before I buy" from the library when possible.)

I'm pausing after each planet to read a book or two I feel embodies the essence of each. For Mercury, I read Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde. I'm reading Venus stories now, and will until I understand her power. (In case you're curious, I have Sun, Mercury, and Mars in Leo, Venus in Cancer, Moon and Ascending Scorpio.)

i break my world, over and over without end
trickster revealed the trap
and pissed on the bait
so i won't get caught again.

I'm either finishing this book over the weekend or dropping it at the library unfinished. Getting bored.

Finished part one: Combray