The Real Astrology Applied Paperback – March 1, 2002

Hella funny. Lol. I love the humor and how he destroys new age astrology. If you're new agey AF you will probably hate it. If you're over all the new age bs and want to learn real astrology then pick up this book. I'm glad I purchased this book. It has really opened my eyes about astrology. I wasted 10 years (not really wasted) learning new age (bs) astrology. I felt like i exhausted all the possibilities (i was left extremely unsatisfied) and now i realize i haven't hit any of them. I'm happy that I still have much more to research and learn. I picked up a couple more frawley books and benjamin dykes books as well. Also i bought ancient astrology in theory and practice and that is extremely interesting as well. Also bought Christian astrology by lilly which appears to be absolutely essential. Looking forward to more frawley books in the future. New pop age astrology is utter bs. Save yourself while you can!The only thing i don't like about this book is it feels like it takes forever to get through even tho it's short.

John Frawleys books have completely changed my perspective on astrology. I thought I knew a thing or two... now I see that I'm barely in kindergarten. I loved this book. FYI it's not really... instructional. Yes, it is loaded with information but it's not a "how to" manual.

A sound, rational, informative, accurate, and occasionally caustic introduction to astrology. This is real astrology, of the tradition. Modern "astrology" is nothing of the sort. It is psychoanalytical garbage that has co-opted the tools and terminology of astrology. Frawley is also a busy practitioner, not a translator of old texts. He has tested the ancients, and knows where they were right, and where they were wrong. He is an invaluable link in the chain of the astrological tradition. His work on -- probably discovery of -- the value of receptions is unparalleled. Not just in modern times. *ANY* time.

Unlike many of the reviewers here, I am not a practicing astrologer but rather a "lay person" who uses astrology and is conversant in the theory.Previous reviews have enumerated the merits of this work. I concur with all of them. I knew nothing of traditional/horary astrology and this work certainly gave me a good overview. So intrigued was I that I immediately sought out one of Frawley's students for a reading. For a historical perspective, please see the fascinating book "The Fated Sky" by historian Benson Bobrick. There you will gain an understanding of the power of Traditional Astrology as it has been practiced over the ages and the geniuses who have used and developed it.Mr. Frawley rightfully (and with derisive humor!) takes modern astrology to task. Much of modern astrology is overladen with pop-psychology and a lot of modern astrologers have projected onto the unfortunate planets the latest in vogue psychobabble to issue from Marin County, California. In regards to this, Terence McKenna once noted that the various schools of psychology sound like hawkers at a medieval faire...each different and each trying to sell his wares. Tainting astrology with such ephemeral waste bastardizes the art.On the other hand, Frawley appears to be dismissive of ANY new trends in astrology. I am not sure of the value of, say, archetypal astrology whose source of inspiration are the works of CG Jung. However, unlike the pop-psychology/astrology mentioned above, it does have a serious school of thought from which it springs and some rather important intellectuals, such as Richard Tarnas, in its camp. Rather than engage in serious polemics with the archetypal school, Frawley skirts the issue by wisecracks.The author's attitude towards anything new in astrology can be summed up by the biblical passage: "there's nothing new under the sun". That is indeed true in many ways but that does not mean that our instruments of investigation cannot improve. There is nothing fundamentally new about the physical world; it's remained essentially unchanged for a long time. But that does not mean that we know all there is to know about it. So it is that we learn new things about it through the ever-developing sciences such as geology, chemistry, physics. In the same way, we agree with Frawley that human beings have not fundamentally changed; however we do not know everything there is to know and should continue to deepen our understanding of humans through the scope of new methodologies in additon to long-standing traditional ones.Mr. Frawley seems to find the discoveries of the outerplanets- Uranus, Neptune, Pluto- as impertinent...after all, there is nothing new under the sun. In my admittedly limited experience, these planets are important from an astrological perspective. I might be wrong. These planets may be inconsequential, but Frawley's retort that "there is nothing new" is unconvincing.I hope that these criticisms do not overshadow the praises for the book that I have also recorded. Four stars!

Fun book to read. Tons to learn. Even more to practise.

This is the third book of John Frawley that I have read. I strongly recommend it for those who really wants to learn Astrology. Frawley is a real master!

One of the best astrology books ever written!

loved it