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Title: Cosmic Love: Secrets of the Astrology of Intimacy Revealed
ISBN: 0553383116
Author:
Jan Spiller
Publicate Date: 2007-12-26
Publish: 2007-12-26
List Price: $18.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Great resource!
Jan Spiller offers good to great insights on individual node positions and synastry between two charts, including house position for both parties (the one who receives the planet in a house and the one whose planet lands there)and conjunction/opposition to North and South Nodes. Scenarios suggested for conjunctions to South Nodes were amazingly correct in my experiences - and they are delineated for both the South Node and the planet persons. Spiller also includes blurbs on Node position in composite charts. Since she is so knowledgeable in regard to Nodes, I really wished she would have gone further into composite charts with aspects as well. I recommend this book for any level of astrological student or practicioner.
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2: Wonderful and Different Enough From the Original
I picked up this book, not knowing what to expect and I really think it lives up to its description and actually delivers more than it says. It's really insightful and provides nodal information in an interactive light. I love that it includes the aspects and recommendations for what to encourage and discourage in certain nodal positions.
Now to apply the information to myself and my peers! :)
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3: Finally, the Nodes give up their wisdom...
This book is so good that I can't understand why no one has reviewed it. Finally, Western wisdom conquers the Nodes - this may be the first book that matches what Vedic astrology offers on the Nodes. Astrology for the Soul established her reputation in the field, but Cosmic Love is a culminating work that will eventually get as much if not more use among astrologers.
The author does a wonderful job of making the nodes accessible to novices while managing not to water it down for the rest of us. Let the accompanying website cosmiclove.com to run the synastry calculations for you. Even those who are used to spotting synastry connections among horoscopes will appreciate how much time and effort this saves.
Now what's so good about this book? When I read Astrology For The Soul, I didn't really get the archetypes behind the Node in each sign. Cosmic Love avoids this problem by showing how the nodes shape interactions among you and everyone you know. Let's say you don't have enough self-awareness to get a real sense of the way a Node operates from reading a description of your own behavior. You will grasp it a lot more easily when you can relate it to your interactions with your special love, siblings, friends, and parents.
The descriptions fit. You find yourself thinking, "I always knew this friend or grandparent or nephew brought that into my life". Particularly in cases where the Nodes of those you know overlap positions in your own houses, you will really spot some similarities in interactions that you might not have been aware of before.
Where does this book fall short? Although Spiller describes the South Node as karmic issues carrying over from a previous life, the premise that people operate primarily from their North Node doesn't always ring true. Some people really seem more strongly oriented to their South Node. It may be more accurate to think in terms of an energy axis between the Nodes, with the "current" potentially accumulating at either Node, not just the North Node. In terms of figuring out synastry, however, the North Node seems to work fairly consistently.
This book is a must-read for anyone who read Astrology For The Soul, and I think most will agree that the sequel is stronger. You will use this book when you interpret horoscopes, even if you do the Nodes primarily from a Vedic standpoint. It is astrology-lite, but Spiller's "pop" astrology can be pretty darn good.
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