Aquarian Bookshelf

This is one of my favorite astrology references.

In the foreword to the 1980 edition, Mr. Oken says

Astrology has helped many to find a personal form for that impulse to serve. It provides a way to link the individual with a conscious attunement to the planetary forces that are part of and affect the whole...

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This book by Thom Cavalli is one of the most interesting reads I've come across in a long time. It make alchemy very approachable and is a lot more fun than wading through old alchemical texts (which if you study alchemy at all are unavoidable). In this book you get a good explanation of why we study alchemy.

This book was edited, and has an introduction, by Carl G. Jung. Anyone who wants to study metaphysics, astrology, alchemy, or psychology must understand symbols and how they affect us. This book is a good beginning.

The part I like best about this book is the introduction by John Freeman. On page x, he begins a description of "a particular characteristic of argumentative method that is common to all the writers of this book -- perhaps of all Jungians." This is the bird-circling-a-tree quote you'll find elsewhere in this blog