I didn’t expect to be this book anywhere near as fascinating as it was. Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas have so much personality. The four sections were divided equally between Greene and Sasportas, and I can’t help feel that I’d love to sit in their lectures. Sasportas is a bit more cerebral, and his chapter on subpersonalities was particularly illuminating. Greene, on the other hand, is incredibly poetic and dives straight to the heart of myths being played out in our modern experiences.

All of the chapters deal with archetypes represented in astrological charts. There’s a heavy dose of Uranus and Neptune represented, although there’s no planets that are really missed. Zeus and Hera, Hades and Persophone, Aphrodite and Hephaestus–all of these stories have a role to play here. One thing I didn’t know anything about before picking up the book was the archetype of the puer, on one hand, and the senex on the other. This is the eternal youth (e.g. Hermes, Icarus, Dionysius to some extent) and the old man looking back on a lifetime (represented especially by Cronos/Saturn).

Astrology is a form of storytelling about our lives, and it’s intriguing to see the sorts of interpretation that come out in the lectures and discussions here. There is a long segment in Greene’s first chapter, on the parental marriage, where Greene and those in attendance analyze the natal chart of one man. It expands to include the birth chart of his sister, and they pay close attention to how both experience relations with their parents. It was illuminating, to say the least.

Highly impressed!