Category: Review
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Irreducible
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Many (most?) astrologers know that their astrology ‘works’. It provides them with valuable insight into their lives or the outside world. They may not be particularly interested in ‘how’ this works. Scientists and technologists, on the other hand, are very much concerned with how things work, and tend to be rather sceptical of astrology. Having…
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The Journey of Psychosynthesis
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Joyce Hopewell reviews Will Parfitt’s new book The Journey of Psychosynthesis: Lessons in Self-Awareness and Making Your Best Choices, hot off the press.
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The Nature of Astrology
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Astrological psychology is mostly used as a practice to help the personal development and evolution of an individual human being. Most practitioners are not particularly concerned with the philosophical underpinnings of a practice that they know works for them. This has perhaps been the case for most astrologers over the ages. Yet we live in…
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Who am I?
‘Who am I?’ How astrological psychology can help this fundamental psychological/spiritual/philosophical question. Plus the spiritual search of Ravi Ravindra.
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Psychosynthesis – The Magnificent Seven
Astrological Psychology was created in collaboration with Roberto Assagioli, the founder of psychosynthesis, the ‘psychology with a soul’. The psychosynthesis model of humans is as spiritual beings. It is useful to remind ourselves from time to time of what this really means for us in our individual growth process. I recently read Kenneth Sørensen’s 2016…
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Astro Mirror on Android
Just checking through the website, I notice that no one has recorded any review of the first Huber software on Android – Astro Mirror, so I thought I’d take a quick look. The idea is seductive: just imagine, you could be chatting to someone and quickly throw up their birth chart on your smartphone or…
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The Nodes: The Doorway Into Your Karmic Story
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Linda Tinsley suggests an approach to the Moon’s Nodes and the Moon Node chart, inspired by a recent book by American astrologer Steven Forrest, one of the founders of the school of Evolutionary Astrology. The nodes have always been of great interest to me, in fact it’s through the nodes that I begin to understand…
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Under the Stars
If you’ve ever gazed up at the night sky, dotted with stars, and have felt a sense of wonder at the immensity of it all, you’ll probably enjoy this book by Matt Gaw. You don’t need to be an astrologer or an astronomer to appreciate the night sky, simply someone who likes to look up…
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Alan Leo (1860-1917) and Kim Farnell’s biography, Modern Astrologers: The Lives of Alan & Bessie Leo (2019)
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As Nicholas Campion wrote in his review of Kim Farnell’s Modern Astrologers for the Astrology Quarterly 84/3 (Autumn 2019): “Alan Leo was a monumental figure in the history of modern Western astrology, his influence still felt in all forms of esoteric and karmic astrology… his emphasis on self-knowledge and the soul is an ancestor of…
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Astrocalc 6.5
The Astrocalc software programme has been around for a long time. Although it produced Huber charts they were not deemed to be of a quality suitable for studying the APA Diploma, so Astrocalc did not appear in our list of recommended software. The latest version Astrocalc 6.5 has been made available as a free download,…
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The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
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This book was a Christmas gift (thank you daughter) and its simple message, full of wisdom and magic, bears hope and significance for the times we are living in as 2020 and the new decade begins. It’s about love, friendship and kindness. I’ve read it through cover to cover, I’ve dipped into it, and I’ve…
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The Magic of Psychosynthesis: Initiation and Self Development by Will Parfitt
Joyce Hopewell reviews Will Parfitt’s new book We are living in troubled, unsettling times, not just here in the UK where I sit and write, but in many countries around the world. Brexit, now exposed for what it really is, has morphed into an unpleasant can of worms and the effects reverberate not only in…
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