Hey was reminded by my entery into the satern-return cycle of this great book... For anyone who likes astrology or phycology (jung in particular, *loves c.g.jung*). I highly suggest Richard Tarnas' work.

 Richard Tarnas is a cultural historian, and philosophy... and a Harvard graduate. he's become deeply interested in the work of Carl Gustav Jung (father of jungian pscho-analysis), and especially his "theory of acheytypes" (which happens to work quite well with a pagan world view).

 Anyhow, as the story goes he was introduced to the idea of astrology by a colligue, intitially didn't give it much thought, till he started to notice lots of collabrative trends to peoples birth charts and biographies. This spured him to investigate it logically and lead to this remarkable (and rather large) book. I't not another instruction manual on how-to astrology, and he takes a rather different (non-fatalistic) approach to the subject.

 There are a few tiring, "research study" like, sections. But all and all I throughly enjoyed it myself and suggest you at least have apage through the first 3 sections and their sub-chapters. It is a v ery intiguing and informative perspective on astological works.

 but then I'm just practically giddy if to hand me some 3 ton tome of obscure knowledge... well I'll be re-reading this 492 page wonder myself... anyone wanna book club it?

Always glad to hear others opinions. Thanks for sharing!

Hey DN, yes sounds amazing but for the foreseeable future my book buying is largely curbed to the sidelines.

Have you managed to re-read the book yet? How does it match with "traditional" astrological perspectives? For years now I've heard psychologist friends of mine commenting on the virtues of natal charts in deigning someone's personality traits but never talking it much further. Also I hear a lot of work on archetypes has been done since Jung doe the book take this into account?

It focuses mostly on transits of world events... As far as it's relationship to traditional astrology, it denounces any ability to predict spicific events, only probable tendancies, and takes a very non-fatelistic approch to the subject.