8 Horoscope Guide

Book

Reviews

Book

Reviews

by Kenneth Irving

A

t a certain point in my long

career of doing mostly what

I am doing now, by which I

mean either writing about astrology

or editing what someone else has

written about astrology, I have

picked up a few favorites along the

way, both individual astrologers

and the books those astrologers

have written. I suppose that working

on the article in this issue on the

Saturn-Neptune sextile has made me

a little nostalgic since it included

quite a bit about Marc Edmund

Jones. It did bring up thoughts of a

time in my life when I

could be seen walking

around on a campus

with a book bag filled

with notebooks and

books related to things

I ought to be doing,

yet always including a

book or two related to

things I was actually

doing.

It occurred to me

while working on that

article that it would

be nice to bring some

classic authors and the

books they wrote out of the dusty

dark corners where time had hidden

them, and bring them into the light

of day, at least for a paragraph or

two. Despite the fact that we live

in a world that moves along at the

speed of light, and which has gone

through several waves from interest

to disinterest about astrology over

the decades since, say, Jones and

Elsie Wheeler did their experiment

to produce the Sabian Symbols,

it is interesting to take a look

occasionally along a timeline from

there to here.

One of the books

I remember carrying

around and reading

often on a night job

when the foreman was

not around was written

by British astrologer

Ronald C. Davison: a

175-page tome simply

titled Astrology. The

contents were just as

unassuming and straight–

forward in that they

covered only those

basics I just mentioned,

but Davison had a gift