Postcolonial Astrology

Postcolonial Astrology

Author: Alice Sparkly Kat

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1623175305

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Tapping into the political power of magic and astrology for social, community, and personal transformation. In a cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical language, Alice Sparkly Kat unmasks the political power of astrology, showing how it can be channeled as a force for collective healing and liberation. Too often, magic and astrology are divorced from their potency and cultural contexts: co-opted by neoliberalism, used as a force of oppression, or distilled beyond recognition into applications that belie their individual and collective power. By looking at the symbolic and etymological histories of the sun, moon, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter, we can trace and understand the politics of magic--and challenge our own practices, interrogate our truths, and reshape our institutions to build better frameworks for communities of care. Fearless, radical, and fresh, Sparkly Kat's Postcolonial Astrology ushers in a new wave of astrology revival, refusing to apologize for its magickism and connecting its power to the spirituality and politics we need now. Intersectional, inclusive, and geared towards queer and POC communities, it uses our historical and collective constructs of the planets, sun, and moon to re-chart our subconscious history, redefine the body in the world, and assert our politics of the personal, in astrology and all things.


Astrology for Mystics

Astrology for Mystics

Author: Tayannah Lee McQuillar

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1644110520

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A guide to discovering and developing the spiritual and mystical talents hidden in your astrological chart • Explores the 4th, 8th, and 12th houses of the natal astrological chart—those connected with the water signs, the deepest and darkest areas of the individual psyche, profound spiritual insights, and hidden knowledge • Explains how to interpret the signs and planets in the water houses of your birth chart, including how to develop the innate talents and spiritual powers you discover • Reveals the occult and psychic significance of water and shows how this significance is expressed in each of the three water signs: Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, the rulers of the water houses Your astrological birth chart, or natal chart, shows the positions of the planets, sun, and moon at the time of your birth. Shaped like a circle or wheel, it is divided into 12 sections, or “houses,” each connected with a different area of life or self. The positions of the planets within the houses offer deep and often complex insight into your unique gifts and your life’s path. In Astrology for Mystics, Tayannah Lee McQuillar explores the 4th, 8th, and 12th houses--those connected with the element of water and all things occult, mystical, and spiritual. The fourth house, ruled by water sign Cancer, is traditionally the house of family, home, ancestors, and suffering. The eighth house, ruled by water sign Scorpio, is the house of sex, death, secret powers, and transformation. The twelfth house, ruled by Pisces, is the house of karma, loss, unspoken expectations, fantasy, and confinement. As McQuillar explains, these are the houses that reveal the deepest and darkest areas of the individual psyche, which many people are reluctant to explore, yet this triad is the key to profound spiritual insights as well as the discovery of hidden knowledge and abilities. The author guides you through interpreting the signs and planets that inhabit the water houses in your natal chart and shows how they reveal specific innate talents. She describes how to develop the hidden powers revealed by your chart and offers practical advice for incorporating this knowledge into your daily life for spiritual growth and self-improvement. Sharing interpretation examples from her practice, she also explores how to embrace the challenge of the occult water houses so you can claim the many treasures that can only be found on the ocean floor of the psyche.


You Were Born for This

You Were Born for This

Author: Chani Nicholas

Publisher: HarperOne

Published: 2021-01-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780063043770

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From beloved astrologer Chani Nicholas comes an essential guide for radical self-acceptance. Your weekly horoscope is merely one crumb of astrology's cake. In her first book You Were Born For This, Chani shows how your birth chart--a snapshot of the sky at the moment you took your first breath--reveals your unique talents, challenges, and opportunities. Fortified with this knowledge, you can live out the life you were born to. Marrying the historic traditions of astrology with a modern approach, You Were Born for This explains the key components of your birth chart in an easy to use, choose your own adventure style. With journal prompts, reflection questions, and affirmations personal to your astrological makeup, this book guides you along the path your chart has laid out for you. Chani makes the wisdom of your birth chart accessible with three foundational keys: The First Key: Your Sun (Your Life's Purpose) The Second Key: Your Moon (Your Physical and Emotional Needs) The Third Key: Your Ascendant and Its Ruler (Your Motivation for Life and the Steersperson of Your Ship) Astrology is not therapy, but it is therapeutic. In a world in which we are taught to look outside of ourselves for validation, You Were Born for This brings us inward to commit to ourselves and our life's purpose. --Los Angeles Magazine


Untamed

Untamed

Author: P. C. Cast

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1429931825

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Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. Just ask Zoey Redbird – she's become an expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends who trusted and supported her, to being an outcast. Speaking of friends, the only two Zoey has left are undead and unMarked. And Neferet has declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her heart is wrong. But will anyone listen to her? Zoey's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened in PC and Kristin Cast's spellbinding fourth House of Night novel. (Recommended for readers age 13 and older)


The Clockwise House System

The Clockwise House System

Author: Jacques Dorsan

Publisher: SteinerBooks

Published: 2011-06

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1584201029

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Meekelorr, lying near a stream in the Easternlands with a small troop of his soldiers sleeping nearby, woke suddenly from a strange dream. He sat up, pushing away both the blankets and the grogginess. He wanted to think about the dream, to fix it in his mind so he could tell it to Pohl. A young man was standing over a grave. Then, as happens in dreams, the young man was walking in the mountain forest heading somewhere with great determination. In the dream, his friend Pohl had shaken him awake. "Be aware and be wary, Meekelorr; that boy's destiny is woven into yours." "I see him," Meekelorr assured Pohl. "The boy seems simple, pleasant, hardly a threat." "You are shortsighted, friend. That boy is like a sleepwalker. He doesn't know what it is he is moving toward, yet he will be a determining player in the world events that are nearly upon us." "He will aid us?" "That," Pohl said, "or destroy us; then there will be little hope left for this world." Meekelorr, fully awake now, reached over and shook his friend Pohl, who was snoring peacefully next to him. The older man sat up quickly and grabbed his sword. "Whoa, Pohl, no danger. But I must tell you this dream while I can recall it." .... Auragole of the Mountains is the first novel in Shirley Latessa's exciting quartet "Auragole's Journey." Aurogole's Journey: 1. Auragole of the Mountains 2. Auragole of the Way 3. Auragole of Mattelmead 4. Auragole and the Last Battle 5. Meekelorr: The Early Years (the prequel)


Healing Pluto Problems

Healing Pluto Problems

Author: Donna Cunningham

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 2023-12-04

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1633413160

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An in-depth but highly readable account of Pluto in the natal chart and how Pluto aspects can affect childhood, adulthood, and life in general. Pluto's energy is extremely potent and powerful. Within Astrology, it is considered to be a "generational planet" as it influences both individuals and entire generations. The planet governs our compulsive behavior, all those things we know we shouldn't do but feel compelled to do anyway. It also represents the hidden dimension of our emotional lives, all the parts of ourselves that we'd rather bury in our subconscious and not reveal to others. In Healing Pluto Problems, Donna Cunningham explains how Pluto functions in the birth chart and shows how Plutonian problems can manifest. Cunningham presents her material with warmth and compassion, without avoiding the tough lessons that Pluto has to offer. Cunningham addresses such topics as: • Guilt, resentment, and fear • Emotional secrets and their contribution to self-isolation • Incest, abuse, and domestic violence • Pluto and the need for power and control • The psychology of being a victim • Death and transformation • The consequences of avoiding grief Interested not only in diagnosing Pluto problems, Cunningham also gives us tools for healing those problems—affirmations, flower remedies, exercises for working with the chakras—and shows us how to use Pluto transits for growth. This Weiser Classics edition replaces the previously published edition (9780877283980).


The Jewel of Annual Astrology

The Jewel of Annual Astrology

Author: Martin Gansten

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-08-03

Total Pages: 1044

ISBN-13: 9004433716

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The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology, dealing particularly with the casting and interpretation of anniversary horoscopes. Authored in 1649 CE by Balabhadra Daivajña, court astrologer to Shāh Shujāʿ – governor of Bengal and second son of the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān – it casts light on the historical development of the Tājika school by extensive quotations from earlier works spanning five centuries. With this first-ever scholarly edition and translation of a Tājika text, Martin Gansten makes a significant contribution not only to the study of an important but little known knowledge tradition, but also to the intellectual historiography of Asia and the transmission of horoscopic astrology in the medieval and early modern periods.


Houses

Houses

Author: Deborah Houlding

Publisher: The Wessex Astrologer

Published: 2006-04-24

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1910531200

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Deborah Houlding is a well known and highly respected teacher and practitioner of horary astrology. Her original version of this book came out in 1998 but has been out of circulation for several years. Its welcome return comes in the form of a newly revised and very much updated version of the 1998 edition. The author has included an excellent Appendix on traditional terms, and a Preliminary Guide to the concept of house systems. In depth information is also given on many traditional techniques, which will prove invaluable to the astrology student. An essential source book and almost required reading for any serious astrologer.


Astrology and Aptitude

Astrology and Aptitude

Author: Kim Falconer

Publisher: American Federation of Astr

Published: 2005-07

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0866905367

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Joseph Campbell advised everyone to live authentically by following our bliss, but how many of us do? Somewhere along the way, we lose sight of our aims. We forget the myths that guide us and end up lost in the dark. This book is a light in that darkness, a guide to our own natural talents, aptitudes and potential. With Astrology and Aptitude you will: Explore abilities related to the planets, signs and houses. Discover over 30 minor asteroids linked to career and creativity. Follow practical delineations and chart examples. Learn about talents hidden in the fixed stars, Vertex and Aries Point. Become the person you are most capable of being. Focusing on the symbolic meaning of the signs, houses, planetary aspects and transits, this book describes ways to identify and boost the natural modes of expression, bringing them out into the open. Included are delineations of asteroid gods and goddesses, fixed stars, Arabic parts, the Vertex, Aries Point, midpoints and Lunar Nodes. Also included is a reference guide to vocational rulerships and a comprehensive index. Astrology and Aptitude is a must read for everyone serious about becoming everything they can possibly be, and supporting others to do the same.