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4.49 AVERAGE
Highly recommend cho bạn nào muốn tìm hiểu về chiêm tinh học từ những cái cơ bản nhất.
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If anyone curious about astrology could only read one book, this would be the one I'd recommend.
Although I'm an astrology skeptic, I do think it's a brilliant lens to examine ourselves. Instead of making statements about who we are, I like studying it as an exploration of the psyche. It's one of the most fleshed-out maps of the inner world ever made, and this book walks you through it step by step, familiarizing you with all the different facets that make you who you are.
5/5 stars. Steven Forrest knows how to bring these archetypes to life, showing you how to experience them as dynamic energies rather than stale, generic theories.
Although I'm an astrology skeptic, I do think it's a brilliant lens to examine ourselves. Instead of making statements about who we are, I like studying it as an exploration of the psyche. It's one of the most fleshed-out maps of the inner world ever made, and this book walks you through it step by step, familiarizing you with all the different facets that make you who you are.
5/5 stars. Steven Forrest knows how to bring these archetypes to life, showing you how to experience them as dynamic energies rather than stale, generic theories.
On the one hand, this is the most comprehensive and easy to understand beginner's astrology book I've read to date. Instead of the "give a man a fish" formula a lot of books employ by listing out different planet/sign combinations ("if you have Mercury in Gemini you're quick-witted and chatty," etc) Forrest teaches you how to fish--with the what/why/how of each planet/sign/house, you learn to piece it all together rather than relying on slap-dash pop astrology blurbs.
On the other hand, I could not overlook how much this book Othered anyone who is not white or American. The assumption with every astrological description is that the reader or the client fits that "default," and there are often questionable and offensive references to the Orient, "primitive tribes," use of the g*psy slur, etc. The first edition of this was published in the 80's, but you'd think with subsequent editions someone would look at the world we live in and edit with inclusivity in mind. (Then again, the book is strewn with so many distracting typos that it's clear no one's given it a close look in a while.) I hesitate to recommend it for these reasons, even though it's otherwise a solid beginner's astrology text.
On the other hand, I could not overlook how much this book Othered anyone who is not white or American. The assumption with every astrological description is that the reader or the client fits that "default," and there are often questionable and offensive references to the Orient, "primitive tribes," use of the g*psy slur, etc. The first edition of this was published in the 80's, but you'd think with subsequent editions someone would look at the world we live in and edit with inclusivity in mind. (Then again, the book is strewn with so many distracting typos that it's clear no one's given it a close look in a while.) I hesitate to recommend it for these reasons, even though it's otherwise a solid beginner's astrology text.
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A friend of mine (who I think of as a life/soul coach) who is a wonderful astrologer recommended this book to me when I asked her, where can I learn a basic understanding of what you do (Evolutionary Astrology). If you're going to pick up a book and try to understand the complex language that is astrology, this is the book. It breaks it down, step by step, to where you can understand it (or at least halfway understand it), in simple language. I have never thought that astrology made any sense and I never put faith into those little daily horoscopes. Astrology is much, much more than that. Actually, just scratch that out completely.
After reading this book, I definitely have a better understanding of the zodiac signs, and the birth chart doesn't look quite as much like Welsh to me. I'm not saying that I have a good understanding of astrology now, or that I can pick apart my birth chart easily, because I'm not there.
So what is Evolutionary Astrology? It's the map of YOU. The map tells you why you're here, where you need to go, and how to get there. (Reincarnation and astrology are hand in hand together). After reading this, I can see the similarities of my readings (past life) and I can definitely see the connection with that and my zodiac. So...I'm getting a print made of my birth chart, so I can try to understand it a little more, a piece at a time.
After reading this book, I definitely have a better understanding of the zodiac signs, and the birth chart doesn't look quite as much like Welsh to me. I'm not saying that I have a good understanding of astrology now, or that I can pick apart my birth chart easily, because I'm not there.
So what is Evolutionary Astrology? It's the map of YOU. The map tells you why you're here, where you need to go, and how to get there. (Reincarnation and astrology are hand in hand together). After reading this, I can see the similarities of my readings (past life) and I can definitely see the connection with that and my zodiac. So...I'm getting a print made of my birth chart, so I can try to understand it a little more, a piece at a time.
You could call it, a “good read” ;) But, seriously I ate this up and have only absorbed half of it. Which is fine, because astrology is a language. In other words, becoming fluent is a process.
informative
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