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Uranus, Neptune & Pluto in Astrology


Planets: The Moon Mercury-Saturn Uranus-Pluto Leftovers!


Here are a few books about Uranus & Neptune & the many books about Pluto.

Indicates a book on our Top Ten list. If you would like to find more books like it, click on the star.

- Uranus -
PROMETHEUS THE AWAKENER - Richard Tarnas, $20.00

Contents:

Preface

1. Uranus & Prometheus
2. The Uranus transit cycle
3. Uranus aspects with inner planets
4. Prometheus & astrology

Afterword

Comment: In 1978, Richard Tarnas had the breakthrough idea that the mythical symbology of the god Uranus did not fit the planet Uranus as well as the mythical symbology of the god (Titan) Prometheus. In other words, that Uranus was misnamed. As Tarnas explains,

I had been conscious of this discrepancy for some time when, one day, I noticed that those same astrological qualities fit another figure in Greek mythology with extraordinary precision. This figure was Prometheus, the Titan who rebelled against the gods, helped overthrow the tyranical Kronos, tricked Zeus, and stole fire from Mount Olympus to liberate humanity from the gods' power.... The more I examined the matter, the more I realized that every quality astrologers associate with the planet Uranus was reflected in the myth of Prometheus: the initiation of radical change, the passion for freedom, the defiance of authority, the act of cosmic rebellion against a universal structure to free humanity of bondage, the urge to transcend limitation, the intellectual brilliance & genius, the element of excitement and risk. (pg. 18)
Uranus was discovered in 1781. Tarnas continues with an examination of Uranus in the natal charts of notable intellectual & social revolutionaries over the past three centuries (among them, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Freud, Keats, Jefferson, Margaret Mead, George Sand, Jung, Orson Wells, Mozart, Oscar Wilde, etc.).

In the second chapter, Tarnas looks at the Uranus cycle as a bringer of revolutionary or transformative change to the lives of various individuals. You break free of your conditioning when Uranus opposes itself, around age 40, etc. Which is here described as the activation of the Prometheus archetype.

In the third chapter, Uranus in aspect with inner planets, Tarnas considers that revolutionaries in all fields would have Uranus in aspect with the planet ruling the subject in question. Therefore, Napoleon, a revolutionary military commander, would have Uranus in aspect with Mars (trine). Leonardo would have Uranus in aspect with Venus (sextile). Goethe would have Uranus in aspect with his Mercury (opposition). In this chapter Tarnas mentions around 90 individuals, but none of the charts are worked out, all the observations are casual. In my case, I, like Napoleon, have Uranus trine Mars, but am not a military commander. I, like Richard Wagner, have Uranus opposed to Venus, but am not a composer. (I might have fancies of both, but I didn't make the cut.)

Chapter 4, Prometheus & astrology, deals with Uranus & cocaine, Uranus & Pluto, Uranus & Jupiter, Uranus & Saturn, which gets an extended section under Prometheus & Saturn. Much of the writing here is similar to what he would later write in Cosmos & Psyche.

This is by far the best book on Uranus, though it notably lacks a cookbook section. You must gather up Tarnas's ideas & apply them, but it will be worth the work.

Spring Publications, the publisher, is headed by James Hillman. It specializes in archetypal psychology, especially those authors inspired by the work of C.G. Jung.

Spring Publications, 95 pages.


- Neptune -

ALIVE & WELL WITH NEPTUNE, Transits of Heart & Soul - Bil Tierney, $14.95
 Contents: Introduction
1. Setting the scene
2. Swimming with Neptune
3. A Neptunian tour of our natal planets
4. A Neputnian tour of our natal houses
5. Dreams & visions of oneness: Neptune transiting a natal house, Neptune transiting a natal planet

6. Neptune transiting the first house, Neptune/Mars transits
7. Neptune transiting the second house, Neptune/Earth Venus transits
8. Neptune transiting the third house, Neptune/Air Mercury transits
9. Neptune transiting the fourth house, Neptune/Moon transits
10. Neptune transiting the fifth house, Neptune/Sun transits
11. Neptune transiting the sixth house, Neptune/Earth Mercury transits
12. Neptune transiting the seventh house, Neptune/Air Venus transits
13. Neptune transiting the eighth house, Neptune/Pluto transits
14. Neptune transiting the ninth house, Neptune/Jupiter transits
15. Neptune transiting the tenth house, Neptune/Saturn transits
16. Neptune transiting the eleventh house, Neptune/Uranus transits
17. Neptune transiting the twelfth house, Neptune/Neptune transits

Bibliography.

Comment: From the back cover: "Take a fascinating astrological look at a planet associated with our emotional waves of highs and lows, and with our spiritual yearnings. Learn how to effectively dream to unfold your hidden talents and direct them towards creative fulfillment and future success." Chatty.

Llewellyn, 285 pages, paper.


FOCUS ON NEPTUNE - Virginia Elenbaas, $12.00
 Contents:
1. Data
2. The Neptune principle

3. Living the dream: The Neptune cycle: Neptune in Taurus, Neptune in Gemini, Neptune in Cancer, Neptune in Leo, Neptune in Virgo, Neptune in Libra, Neptune in Scorpio, Neptune in Sagittarius, Summary

4. Neptune & associates: The Neptune groups
5. Tuning in: Neptune in aspect
6. The mission: Neptune through the houses
7. Solutions: Transits

Reflections, Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.

Comment: From 1977. In the first half, Neptune through the decades as it influenced society & the arts, and as the author hoped it would influence the future. In many of the post WWII books, up to the early 1980s's or so, there was the expectation that a wonderful new world was just around the corner. This book was one of them, it has a cheerful outlook. Nowadays only hard core new agers still think the world is getting better.

The second half gives delineations of Neptune with the various planets in the natal chart. These are quite good, some of the better delineations I've seen, though she tends to emphasize conjunctions & squares.

AFA, 141 pages.


NEPTUNE, THE 12TH HOUSE & PISCES: The end of hope, the beginning of truth - Maurice Fernandez, $29.50
 Contents: Acknowledgements; Foreword by Jeffrey Wolf Green; Preface; Introduction: The end of hope, the beginning of truth

1. The Pisces Archetype: The ego & the forces of life

  • Phase 1: The miracle of life
  • Phase 2: The effort to live
  • Phase 3: Predator & prey
  • Phase 4: Surviving reality
  • Phase 5: Immunity
  • Phase 6: The rise to decency & potency
  • Phase 7: Hopes & ideals
  • Phase 8: Public exposure & pain
  • Phase 9: Defying fear
  • Phase 10: Egocentric limitation
  • Phase 11: The absolute truth
  • Phase 12: Spiritual ambition
  • Phase 13: Masochism
  • Phase 14: The end of hope, the wake of illumination
  • Conclusion

2. Neptune through the houses & signs, the archetype of Pisces synthesized with other archetypes; Introduction

  • The phases of evolution under the Pisces archetype
  • Neputne in the first house or Aries
  • Neptune in the second house or Taurus
  • Neptune in the third house or Gemini
  • Neptune in the fourth house or Cancer
  • Neptune in the fifth hosue or Leo
  • Neptune in the sixth house or Virgo
  • Neptune in the seventh house or Libra
  • Neptuje in the eighth house or Scorpio
  • Neptune in the ninth house or Sagittarius
  • Neputne in the tenth house or Capricorn
  • Neptune in the eleventh house or Aquarius
  • Neptune in the twelfth house or Pisces
Neptune & the nodal axis of the moon
A note on Neptune retrograde
Case study: Hadar

3. The 12th house & the ascendant: "Closing cycles & cycles of new beginnings"

  • Pisces in the 12th house, Aries on the ascendant
  • Aries in the 12th house, Taurus on the ascendant
  • Taurus in the 12th house, Gemini on the ascendant
  • Gemini in the 12thh house, Cancer on the ascendant
  • Cancer in the 12th house, Leo on the ascendant
  • Leo in the 12th house, Virgo on the ascendant
  • Virgo in the 12th house, Libra on the ascendant
  • Libra in the 12th house, Scorpio on the ascendant
  • Scorpio in the 12th house, Sagittarius on the ascendant
  • Sagittarius in the 12th house, Capricorn on the ascendant
  • Capricorn in the 12th house, Aquarius on the ascendant
  • Aquarius in the 12th house, Pisces on the ascendant

4. Neptune in transit: Guidelines; The transit of Neptune through Aquarius; The transit of Neptune through Pisces

Comment: The first words of the first chapter set the tone for the book:

The Pisces archetype encompasses the placement of the constellation Pisces in a chart, all issues pertaining to the 12th house, and the placement of Neptune by house, sign, and aspect. (pg. 1)
I wonder if there will come a time when those who deliberately conflate a sign, a house and a planet will be asked why they do so? To me, Pisces, the 12th house, and Neptune are three distinctly different things, with little in common. To me, the combination of just these three can produce many interesting variations.

The fourteen phases of the first chapter lay out some sort of overarching philosophy of life. Piscean if you wish: The free fall from the place of freedom and innocence of God's womb is extremely severe. (pg. 11, Phase 4: Surviving Reality, opening sentence)

Chapter 2 does more than conflate Pisces, the 12th house & Neptune as they move through the houses in the natal chart. Neptune in Aries or the first house is expanded to include Neptune in aspect to Mars, or to planets in Aries, or in aspect to planets in the first house, or Mars domiciled in Pisces or in the 12th house (any sign), or Aries in the 12th, Pisces in the first. As we can see, this is just about every possible conflation involving the first house or Aries with Pisces or Neptune. The extensive text for each of the twelve master house/sign possibilities (1st/Aries, 2nd/Taurus, 3rd/Gemini, etc.) never distinguishes the various parts that have been conflated. Each section is, however, subdivided into the following topics:

Introduction; Innocence in the miraculous aspect of life; The loss of innocence in chaos; Strengthing immunity in developing consciousness; Public function & potential fame: becoming the instrument of life; Defying fear; Egocentric limitation & readjustment; and, Innocence, deception & maturity in spirituality.
The example charts for Aries & the first house: Vincent Van Gogh (Mars in Pisces [in the 10th] squaring the nodes), Michael Jackson (Mars in the 12th [in Taurus] ruling the south node in Aries), and Simone de Beauvoir (Mars in Pisces [in the fourth]). None of these examples have Neptune in Aries or the first house. This is typical of all the chart examples in the book.

The third chapter links the 12th house to the first. This is a useful exercise & one not done often enough. Every house has a relationship to its immediate neighbors, and, for that matter, a particular kind of relationship to every other house, and this irrespective of what the ruling planets may indicate (see Vedic astrology for more).

Fernandez says that we are born expressing the values of the sign on the 12th house, and only gradually, through hardship and pain, come to express the values of the sign on the ascendant. This is not how we usually understand the relationship between these two houses, so let us think about it for a moment. Myself, I don't remember being a lazy Taurus, I don't remember being force-fed to learn to read, for example (in the first grade, the teacher told me to read, so I did), but I am 50-something & maybe I don't remember so well. So I thought about my 5 year old daughter, Vera. She's a sun-sign Scorpio, with Scorpio on the 12th. I love Scorpios. They're some of my best friends. But Vera? She's Sagittarian through & through: Light, carefree, breezy, cannot be bothered with details, has no focus, generally happy & a delight to have around. PS: She's afraid of the dark.

In the Preface, Fernandez says he wrote the outline of this book in a week, in July of 2000 & then subsequently became hypnotized by it. (In his words, The material that ensued had a radical impact on me & changed my life forever. (pg. xi)) The front cover features a painting of the female genitalia. The artist asks that I not mention his name.

February, 2006:The author emails, says I am not being fair. I replied that, judging by his book, he's not much of an astrologer. What does Maurice's book say about me?

The individual may also go through severe disappointments & victimization as a result of trusting people & situations from their external features, and find out they are inwardly tainted. This may manifest in sexual abuse or financial frauds. (pg. 323, in a discussion of why Taurus 12th house consciousness must inevitably become 1st house Gemini consciousness)
Funny, but I don't remember being raped or filing for bankruptcy. I ran this past the author, who replied that I just didn't get it. Let him have the last word. Here is his web site.

In sum, it may be that I am taking the book too literally, but, on the other hand, when you mush everything together, you usually get a mess. Which makes this book about Neptune truly Neptunian in spirit.

Trafford, 366 pages.


- Pluto -
HEALING PLUTO PROBLEMS - Donna Cunningham, $19.95
 Contents: Introduction: By the time I get to Phoenix

1. Understanding Pluto in Your Chart: The meanings of the planet Pluto, an overview of Pluto's placements, how to use the delineations, delineations of Pluto placements, Pluto as a generational planet

2. The Personality & Character of the Plutonian: Recognizing Plutonians, how they got that way, the power of the family secret, emotional secrets & their contribution to isolation, Plutonians in relationship, sex & the Plutonian, the vengeful victim, Plutonians & the death wish, the hermit, the scholar & the researcher, the Plutonian as healer, psychotherapist & reformer, charts of positive Plutonians, helpful books for Pluto problems

3. Healing Tools for Pluto Problems: The purpose of this book is not only to give insight into Plutonian problems but to find tools to help heal them, the healing crisis, astrology & metaphysics, visualizations & affirmations, explanations of the flower remedies & how to use them, light & color therapy, the chakra system, easy does it, bibliography of books on healing

4. Guilt, Resentment & Pluto: Don't be beguiled by guilt, the guilt trip as a power trip, guilt as resentment turned inward, getting caught as a ploy in the revenge game, a litmus test for guilt, existential guilt & where it comes from, when guilt is justified & transformative, symbiosis, power & resentment, resentment as poison, how to get free of resentment & guilt, flower remedies for guilt & resentment, guided meditations, forgiveness & its healing power, bibliography of helpful books

5. Incest & Domestic Violence: Pluto in Scorpio - why it's all coming out into the open, facts & statistics on incest & domestic violence, the psychology of the perpetrator as Plutonian, the long range of psychological effects of being a victim, charts & case histories of incest & domestic violence victims, help for the victim, bibliography on sex abuse & domestic violence

6. Pluto, Death & the Transformative Power of Giref: How grief became gauche, death & the Pluto in Leo generation, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross & the liberation of the dying (her chart), what to expect from grief, being a friend to the bereaved, resentment as a component of mourning, guilt toward the deceased, consequences of avoiding grief, transformation of the lliving as a result of a death, dying with dignity despite it all (a case example of an AIDS victim with chart), mediumship as a form of healing (case example with chart), indications of mediumship, can you - and should you - predict death astrologically, healing tools for grief, bibliographies on grief, death & life after death

7. Transits: If This is Transformation, How Come It Hurts So Much: There's got to be a pony somewhere, what in the world is transformation, why does it hurt so much, the concept of theraputic isolation, power & empowerment, Pluto & the pregnancy trap, Pluto transits to natal planets & chart angles, affirmations, beating the post-transformation blues, is it possible to predict absolutely for Pluto transits?

8. Counseling People with Pluto Problems: Counseling considerations in dealing with Pluto people who come to you, advantages & disadvantages of working with Plutonians, healing tools to use, metaphysics & counseling, Kundalini rising - sex & the single astrologer, counseling the potentially suicidal Plutonian, the issue of separation

Appendix: Help for the beginner: For the person who is new to astrology, sources of computer charts & how to find your Pluto aspects in the birth chart & your Pluto transits, in order to make the most use of this book. Bibliography of recommended basic astrology books.

Comment: Our favorite book on Pluto & not what you would expect. Understanding Pluto in the chart, the Plutonian personality, healing tools for Pluto problems, guilt & resentment, incest, domestic violence, death & the transformative power of grief, why Pluto transits hurt so much, counseling people with Pluto problems, and, in an appendix, help for the astrological beginner (all those whose first taste of astrology was from Plutonian desperation). One of the classic Pluto books.

Weiser, 218 pages, paper.
THE BOOK OF PLUTO: Turning Darkness to Wisdom with Astrology - Steven Forrest, $15.95
 Contents: Acknowledgements; Foreword

1. The Dark: Let's have lunch; An ambivalence

2. The Parable of the Beer Can: Existential navigation; Repression comes in three flavors; Where we carry the wound; Paradise?; Where the psychologists roam; Karmic wounds; It takes energy

3. Think It Out or Live It Out: Wham!; New hope for Sam; An unsavory analogy; The hour of prayer; What Barbara said; Let's go get stoned; So what good is Pluto & do I really need to have it in my birth chart?

4. Hope, Purpose & Possibility: Remember Sam?; Witch; Shadow; Sex; Whaddayawant?; No shadow, no light; Heaven is energy

5. Fire: Spirituality?; Magick; Oh no... hell again; And quickly back to heaven; Send money!!!; The hall of judgement; Sitting on a rock; What Henry taught me; Where's your Pluto?

6. Grammer School: Signs; Interpreting planets in signs & houses

7. Pluto in the houses

8. Pluto through the signs

9. Recognizing Plutonian Passages: A morality play; Transits & progressions upon the birth chart; Back to Pluto; Aspects; Confused yet?; Another morality play

10. The Plutonian Triggers: Take heart; The tools; The fast transits; Instant transits; Instant astrology, part 2; Progressions; Perspective; Planets in progression; Instant astrology, part 3

11. Pluto & the Planets (including with itself)

12. Living with the Dark: Rose windows; The world according to Pluto; What's love got to do with it?; Shrinkspeak; Where astrology fits in; Beware the good king; The proverbs of Hades: Under Plutonian stimulus

Appendices: 1. Sample delineations, The Parables of Pluto; 2. How to find out about your own birthchart

Recommended reading; Index.

Comment: Steve's book on Pluto. Plutonian in Steve's unique style. Chapter 1: The world is a nasty place, people repress unpleasant memories. Chapter 2: Repressed memories are wounds that can distort our lives. Get Rolfed today, or accept that you were ruined at birth, or at the latest, by the age of two. Chapter 3: If daddy hit you, you'll hit the kids. Plutonian images float to the surface like drowned bodies in a lake. Pray. Having a Pluto crisis? Barbara Schermer says avoid psychiatrists. Steve says get stoned. Congratulations! Isn't Steve a wonderful author?

Chapter 4: How to stop hitting your kids. The witch you ignore is your friend (Robert Bly). Got a new boss? Beat your kids some more! Your friendly witch is really just your shadow. Cold shadows make for hot sex. Don't beat your kids, eat potato chips instead. Polite people live in a sunless world. If you survive Pluto, you'll be a more interesting person. (Didn't the Chinese say that about eras?)

Chapter 5: Intensity is being hungry. Pluto as incarnation into flesh. Meaninglessness is like the first 100,000 drips in Chinese water torture. [Hey Steve: At the rate of one drip per second, that's 27 hours, 40 minutes. I don't think I could survive that long. - Dave] Staring into elderly faces, good & bad. Pluto brings meaning into your life. The hazards of junk mail. What do you say to God on Judgement Day? [Steve has a degree in religion. Shame on him for pandering!] Steve's "Jesus freak" moment in 1973: Jesus appeared as a dark, distant planet.

Chapter 6: The top & bottom, east & west, of a natal chart.

Chapter 7: Pluto in the houses of the natal chart. Subheads for each house: In the Tradition. Your High Destiny. Your Distorting Wound. Your Navigational Error. Your Healing Method. The Energizing Vision. - Steve is here preaching theory, based presumably on years of telling clients what to do & where to go, which, in turn, was presumably based on meeting Jesus disguised as Pluto while sitting on a rock back in 1973. I don't often look at a book word-for-word, but I did that with this chapter. Sadly, I must report that Steven does not give a single example to support any of his delineations. [The classic & fairly well-known example of a first house Pluto is an extraordinary grandparent. Steven cannot find even this, or perhaps has some reason not to include details like it.]

Chapter 8: Pluto in the signs. Subheads for each sign: The Passion. The Style. The Blind Spot. The Shadow. The Saving Grace. Steven says the sign Pluto is in leaves its mark on the generation of people born during that time, which is a common mundane astrology premise. But so far as mundane astrology is concerned, he makes nothing of it. The ideas he has are simply poor. According to Steven, Pluto in Aries makes the Heroic Warrior, but in reality, the era (1822-1851) was a time of relative peace in Europe. If we speak of the adult generation that came of it (c.1842-c.1881), it is still hard to find either Spartans or Klingons in any great number. The American Civil War was the great conflict of the adult Pluto-in-Aries generation, but it is clear the soldiers were compelled, almost none fought for glory or honor.

Chapter 9: Transits, progressions defined. Chapter 10: Instant transits to Pluto: Sun is biography, Moon is moods, Mercury is bad news, Venus is unhappy encounters, Mars is anger & passion. Jupiter: Happily seize a better future, Saturn: Pressure to mature. Uranus: Urge to align biography with nature. Neptune: Relax, you can see it from here. Pluto: Intense self-scrutiny. Instant Progressions: Sun: Nothing worse is possible. Moon: Feel, dream your way into your unconscious. Mercury: Shock your way to reality. Venus: You become a slave. Mars: Desires burst with flaming urgency. Ascendant: You tell people to take you seriously. Midheaven: You get a worse job. People see you as a scapegoat. Jupiter: Create brighter futures. Saturn: Do or die. Uranus: You can't take it any longer, Uranus explodes a plan on you, like it or not. Neptune: Relax, you can see it from here. Pluto: one is challenged to evaluate in a spirit of scrupulous honesty the meaningfulness and authenticity of one's life (pg. 210. Now do you think my parody is better?)

Chapter 11: So I don't want to preach at you here... (pg. 214). Sun/Pluto aspects: Obsession in the sunshine. In Spain I think they call that a bullfight. Fusion. Moon/Pluto: So hard to love. When is a Nadir not a Nadir? Pluto/Mercury: Dirty curiosity (Steven said, "intense"). Reluctant truth-sayer. Pluto/Venus: a drive to reproduce earlier wounding scenarios in one's present intimate relationships. (pg. 250) Dirty sex? Mars/Pluto: Win big, loose big. True desires remain hidden. Jupiter/Pluto: A real sense of destiny. People who put our teeth on edge. Saturn/Pluto: Passion & hard-won excellence. Uranus/Pluto: People who like to hurt people. Neptune/Pluto: If you can sing all the words to a Beatles song, you've got a Pluto/Neptune aspect in your chart... (pg. 290) Pluto/Pluto: The Day of Reckoning! With all fairness to Steven, the Day of Reckoning was initially Saturn/Saturn. It then became Uranus/Uranus, then Neptune/Neptune, and now Pluto/Pluto.

Chapter 12: Pluto as a rose window. See the many colors fusing together in the gloom. The paradox of opposites (ie, his proverbs).

Appendix 1: Charts of Jerry Brown, Joan of Arc, Mestre Gabriel (a Brazilian shaman), Eric Clapton. Recommended Reading would appear to be Steven's library. As astrological libraries go, it is large & typical of its day (a collection up to the year 1994). According to what we thought at the time (I include myself here), the books are generally excellent. (Under the impact of traditional astrology, many of them have faded in importance.) For better or worse, it does not seem that Steven consulted them in the writing of this book. It's my observation that people who meet God while sitting on a rock are not so curious thereafter.

ACS, 365 pages, paper.


FOCUS ON PLUTO - Virginia Elenbaas, $12.00
 Contents: Introduction; Section 1: Data

Section 2: The cycles of Pluto: Pluto in Taurus, Pluto in Gemini, Pluto in Cancer, Pluto in Leo, Pluto in Virgo, Pluto in Libra, Pluto in Scorpio

Section 3: The Pluto principle
Section 4: The Pluto generations
Section 5: Pluto through the houses
Section 6: Pluto in Aspect

Conclusion; Footnotes; Bibliography.

Comment: From 1974, an early treatise on Pluto, before it was eaten alive by the astro-pyschology crowd. What was that? Here is the conclusion of this book (complete):

When we learn to express the finest qualities of Pluto we will be able to annihilate negativities in our world, instead of each other... to push past the barriers which divide people... to use our Plutonian strength to dominate our own weaknesses... to make universal goals such as peace & brotherhood realities. FDR put it well:
"Our earth is but a small star in the great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by fear or hunger, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory."
This is the message of Pluto.
She gives these key phrases for Pluto (pgs. 51 - 55): Pluto intensifies, Pluto standardizes, Pluto breaks barriers, Pluto separates, Pluto reaches extremes, Pluto represents one out of many, Pluto reaches goals.

The underlying concept is that Pluto is both intense and collective, not individualistic. This book is only a sketch, but it is full of ideas that might repay study.

AFA, 85 pages, paper.


THE ALCHEMY OF FUSION: Planetary Pairings in Signs, Volume 1: Pluto - Sioux Rose, $16.00
 Contents: 1. Pluto's alchemy: the gift; 2. Pluto - Sun alchemy; 3. Pluto - Moon alchemy; 4. Pluto - Mercury alchemy; 5. Pluto - Venus alchemy; 6. Pluto - Mars alchemy; 7. Outer planet fusion zones. >

Comment: New age types throw the word "alchemy" around a lot, I've never been sure what they meant by it. In the American Heritage Dictionary 3rd edition (1992), alchemy is defined as either a medieval method of transmuting base metals into gold (which is erroneous, by the way), or "a seemingly magical power or process of transmuting." So far as I can tell, Rose does not define the word herself. In the text of the book, she uses the word, "fusion" instead, which I think is clearer. This book is about Pluto/planet conjunctions in the signs Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius & Pisces, which Pluto will enter January 19, 2044. This looks to be fairly pedestrian writing about Pluto, with all the usual ideas about reincarnation, death, regeneration, etc.

AFA, 135 pages.


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