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Are you likely to meet a new love soon? Is the coming year a good time for that major career change you've been contemplating? Are you likely to make a lot of money in your life, or will you always be challenged to make the most of what you have?
The techniques presented in The Art of Predictive Astrology show you how to forecast upcoming trends and life events for yourself, friends and family, and astrological clients. Author Carol Rushman, a practicing astrologer for over twenty-five years, shares her method for astrological prediction, including: the "natal promise" of the birth chart; secondary progressions, including the progressed Moon, and progressed house cusps; transiting planets; lunations (New and Full Moons) and eclipses.
After reading this book you will be able to predict major events such as marriage, and minor events like receiving a small gift. Real-life examples drawn from the author's experience show you firsthand how to practice the art of predictive astrology.
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Customer Reviews
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Very clear and helpful instruction  2008-06-15
This is one of the most clearly written and insightful books that I have read - of many astrology books in my library. Carol has a wonderful way of clarifying what other authors have often made confusing. She goes through the natal promise, prediction, and eclipses and the importance of the lunation cycle. Wonderful read! Couldn't put it down.
Tricky genie in this bottle  2008-03-26
I'm a practicing astrologer and seldom have time to read books on the subject. This one was recommended by a colleague, but I'm not sure why he was so enthusiastic about it.
A reviewer said that this was not for beginners - I thought that was odd because this book is written in very clear language, and is way too general to be considered an intermediate or advanced text. What it will do for beginners though, is reinforce some astrological misconceptions that they will have to unlearn later, and in that sense I agree with that reviewer.
For instance, the book suggests that the Moon progressing into Aries gives the same result as progressed Moon to natal Mars, a very misleading concept. The Hellenistic Greeks did not agree with this sort of thinking 2k years ago - it definitely did not come from the tradition - so where did this idea spring from? The author also makes the common assumption that the houses are analogues of the zodiac signs - this is a very egregious error that has crept into astrology somewhere in the last few centuries - the signs and houses are entirely different critters. The houses have their own origin and logic, even if you use the classical (or Indian) sign-per-house system.
I believe the book is much better at describing what some of the common predictive tools are than it is at how to interpret them, and for that, it could have been much smaller, like one of the AFA pamphlets. There is no mention of Solar and Lunar returns, the most useful transit technique in modern astrology, but I guess that avoids the discussion of precession, angularity, parans, and other basic structural fundamentals of the art.
If you're looking for an easy book that includes progressions, try "the Radix System" by Robson or "Astrologia Gallacia Book 24" by Morinus (you might get addicted to Morinus, or need some of the background material in 21-23, but it is not hard reading). That way, you won't have to re-learn it later. In fact, the translator's introduction of the latter says everything that this book does. If you need something to wile away a summer afternoon, and are good at finding the juicy tidbits, this book should do just fine - there are a number of interesting personal observations in the text - that's why I gave it a star.
Roy
Worth buying, but not the best 2007-12-01
I refer to 'The Art of Predictive Astrology' relatively often. I think Carol Rushman is a competent astrologer. If you don't have anything else, the book is a great guide to the progressed planets, using aspects to predict marriage and divorce, et cetera.
My complaint is in the way it's written. No one likes a dry textbook but her book would be much better in a textbook format. Charts (charts in the traditional sense, not astrological charts) and tables would be useful and in fact, would have worked much better than her fleeting glimpses of what some of the signs denote in certain situations. Equally annoying is how personal she made the book ("I don't like the moon in Cancer, but that's because mine is natally in Aquarius" - ?). Personal anecdotes about having children, divorcing, and making money and blah blah blah just detract from the book.
I have encountered many of the ideas in the book for the first time (for example, early and late degree planets) but again it's tough to make the ideas useful based on what is in the book - she probably means to provoke thought in the reader and have him or her do their own research and discovery, which is good, but the flip side to that is if you're not advanced enough you won't be able to do the predictive astrology that she outlines in the book.
Good for advanced students of astrology, but beginners and intermediate students will need to learn from other sources. econ
An Inaccurate Mess 2007-04-03
I have been studying astrology for twenty years and practicing it for a few. I bought this book based on the glowing recommendations here on Amazon. I wish I had not.
The premise of the book is sound. It is that, unless something is promised in the natal chart, then it will not manifest in the life of a client. But the author almost immediately contradicts herself. On page 42 she says: "We are not stuck with the natal promise of our chart. There is always the potential to outgrow the more difficult aspects." WHAT? Does the natal promise matter or does it not? Please make up your mind!
From there it just gets worse and worse. The chapter called "The Natal Promise" is laughable and exemplary of the rest of this book. The author reduces everything to childish, ridiculous generalizations. For example, the entire section on "Success" is about the Nodes. Apparently, at least if you follow her advice, you have no chance of success unless your North Node is in an angular house (1, 4, 7 or 10). In the section "Violence/Rape," all she discusses are hard aspects between the Moon and Pluto. Try telling my friend who was savagely raped and beaten that she must have imagined it happening to her since she has no aspect in her chart between the Moon and Pluto.
Not only is this book shoddily written and edited, as another reviewer mentioned, but there are some GLARING errors. In the section on "Vocation," page 68, she claims that "Jackie Kennedy had her tenth-house Neptune in Scorpio, and she was a book editor." Well, Neptune did not even enter Scorpio until 1956 so unless Jackie O. was about seven years old when JFK was shot, then this is completely impossible.
Finally, a large bulk of this book, maybe a third of it, is devoted to childish, cookbook interpretations which are vastly oversimplified. But my biggest complaint comes with the author's system of making predictions itself. It ultimately relies on eclipses, progressed house cusps and the position of the progressed Moon in order to pinpoint dates and times of events. This, in my experience as an astrologer, simply doesn't work. And as someone else noted, she makes no mention of Solar Arc Directions whatsoever.
The author's rambling narrative and anecdotes occasionally bring up an interesting observation here and there. But based on all of her other glaring errors and omissions, it makes one wonder if her observations are even worth considering. Ironically, she even promotes in the introduction to the book that astrologers develop a "personal method" in making predictions (in other words, she is suggesting that you may not want to use her method). Honestly, I'm amazed that her method has worked for her, but if you are expecting it to work for you, then you are likely in for a big surprise.
This book was a huge waste of my time and I wish that I had not purchased it.
Very Helpful Book on Advanced Techniques in Astrology 2006-05-21
First of all, I need to forwarn you, this book is NOT for beginers to astrology, it assumes you're already familiar with the basics.
I found this book very helpful in my studies; it was a turning point in my use of this ancient science. Where basic natal astrology is useful for providing a basic pyschological profile for the client, the techniques described in this book point out how the progressions point to the evolution of the individual. It also goes into eclipses and how they describe events in the life.
I would consider this book mandatory reading for anyone beyond the basics. 5+ stars for this one!
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