Profound, beautifully explained, optimistic and empowering
“This is a first-class book, written with a clarity that allows astrology’s depths to be revealed when its complexities might easily descend into obscure density. It works on several levels. Pam Gregory draws on earlier studies which provide the evidence that astrology’s patterns really do work. She illustrates with many examples just how these various patterns can manifest in our lives and she explores the relationship of astrology with philosophy and scientific knowledge to show how such patterns of connectedness might come about. Perhaps most profoundly of all, and with a degree of optimism and excitement, the last parts of the book show how mistaken is the usual perception that planets physically influence our lives day-to-day, a perception that also encourages both the trivialisation and the widespread dismissal of a genuinely deep subject. In its place the book offers a much more profound understanding of the cycles of nature, the nature of archetypes and meaning-making in a conscious universe as well as an empowering message that if we understand better the influences present in our individual patternings, we can make better and more knowledgeable choices of how we play the instruments that are available to us.
As a footnote, I have been present in the audience when Pam has given, with jaw-dropping effect, the “instant” readings that she describes and I have heard her bravely rise to the challenge of doing the same with radio phone-in listeners. I bought this book with high expectations which were, if anything, exceeded.”