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Aspects in Astrology: A Guide to Understanding Planetary Relationships in the Horoscope

Aspects in Astrology: A Guide to Understanding Planetary Relationships in the Horoscope

bySue Tompkins
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J&D
5.0 out of 5 starsFantastic Book
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 23, 2019
This book is amazing. I first found it on Scribd and after 5 months of consistently coming back to it, I decided to go ahead and purchase the hard copy.

Sue Tompkins takes a grounded approach to explaining the planets and aspects, which I really appreciate. Sometimes astrologers can be too flowery with their language which is lovely but not really down-to-earth. What I love about this book is that Sue addresses and decodes some of those common elusive terms you hear (e.g., “creative self-expression” when talking about the sun) and offers practical information and interpretations throughout the entire book.

If you’re interested in learning more about the relationships between the planets in your natal chart, this is the book for you.
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Toasan
3.0 out of 5 starsRead it but don't take it too seriously...
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 26, 2020
Well, this seems to be a "classic" book of aspect for many modern astrologers and there is definitely some good information in there but it is not written in a coherent right to the point way. She goes all over the map with things, and at times I some times feel she is making up stuff. Her arguments are subjective and anecdotal, for instance, she makes a rule based on two examples she had come across among 1000 charts (not unusual for modern Western astrologrrs though).
In terms of techniques and nuances (for instance, which planet/sign is stronger in a given aspect) the book has zero value (again, modern western astrology for you).
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Keeping It Real
1.0 out of 5 stars Seriously??
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 11, 2011
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I'm very surprised that this book has been out for so long and has never received less than 4-stars. I was extremely displeased with the book and here are the reasons why:

1) Almost all of the book, more than 2/3 I would say, is a cookbook. Normally, I don't have a big problem with cookbooks. In this case, however, I take major issue. The cookbook gives about 3-pages worth on the connections between each of the planets. For example, 3-pages will be dedicated to sun/Saturn connections, 3-pages for sun/Jupiter connections, etc, until all combinations of all planets have been accounted for. The problem is that it doesn't differentiate between the ASPECTS that these planets have. There is only ONE description of sun/Saturn connections even though there are about 7-different aspects, or types of "relationship" that the sun and Saturn could have. In other words, it would have students interpret a sun/Saturn trine the same way as a sun/Saturn opposition or square. One description fits all in this book, but not so in real life.

2) Only 21 pages of the book actually go into detail describing the meanings of each aspect. And two of those descriptions are questionable. Here are the two that I take issue with and the reasons why:

THE QUINCUNX
At the beginning of this description, the author says, "Signs in quincunx [...] are coming from such completely different places and heading in such different directions that they don't even see each other, rather like two planes on unrelated flight-paths." This is in agreement with all respectable accounts of this aspect that I've run across. Other sources have demonstrated that this is not an aspect between planets that are working with or against each other. Its just that when one planet is working, the other is taking a break. They are never working the same shift. Yet this author goes on to describe the aspect as one of FRICTION between the two planets. How can you have friction between things that never meet?

She also says that the quincunx is a major aspect found in synastry charts, though she adds that it is mostly by whole sign, rather than actual 150 degree aspect. Her logic was that they have so little in common that they benefit each other. This made no sense. We all know that relationships don't work well between people that have nothing in common. Studies have proven this. So I did a study of my own. I collected a list of strong couples and studied their synastry aspects. The opposition and quincunx aspects are almost always the least found aspects in all synastry grids - bottom two. Trines and conjunctions are almost always the top two.

Although I didn't look for the quincunx aspect from a whole sign perspective, it should be remembered that the perfect world of "whole sign aspects" doesn't really exist. Bi-quintile and sesquiquadrate aspects can also fall in the same whole sign combinations as the otherwise perfect, whole-sign quincunx defines.

THE SEMI-SQUARE AND SESQUIQUADRATE
She acknowledges that she doesn't know the difference between these two aspects. (If you want a description from someone that does, check out "Predictive Astrolgy: The Eagle and the Lark"). She "suggests" that these aspects are the same as squares and are common in accidents (even though she also says she doesn't commonly find squares in accidents). For those reluctant to accept her theory, she gives an example intended to "banish any such doubts forever." Unfortunately, her example falls seriously short. She uses the example of a passenger ship that sank in 1987, but she only describes the transits that were happening in the sky at that moment. She doesn't compare it with the chart of the ship, which makes it too generalized to apply to anything or anyone specific. She does acknowldge that that same transiting chart will apply the world over at different times of the day. So she mentions the chart of the ships COMPANY at the top of page 59 but she neglects to meaningfully tie that chart in with the events of the day and her reasoning becomes muddled. The contacts between the important transiting planets and the angles of the company chart are not semi-square's or sesquiquadrates and the orbs she's using are very large. We're talking about an 8-degree orb for transiting Pluto. She definitely did not banish my doubts of her theories.

These are the things I would have wanted to know before buying this book - and I probably would've passed it up.
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sannyasi
1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money
Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on February 8, 2022
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A waste of money and time. Dane rudhyar's, Bill Tierney's or any other books on aspect are way better than this one. Sorry Sue, you'll have to do better than this...
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Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on October 13, 2015
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The book is not up to my expectations.
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