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UNDER ONE SKY: Astrologers representing twelve different traditions read the same natal chart - blind! - Rafael Nasser, edited by Jodie Forrest, $24.95
Contents:
Editor's note; Preface; Prologue; Part 1: The astrologer's forum; Part 2: Joyce's story; Part 3: The interpretations:

Thumbnail sketches
Demetra George: Asteroid centered
Evelyn Roberts: Archetypal
Gary Christen: Uranian
Hadley Fitzgerald: Psychological
John Marchesella: Modern western
Ken Bowser: Western sidereal
Kim Roger-Gallagher: Light-hearted
Robert Hand: Medieval
Robert Schmidt: Hellenistic
Ronnie Gayle Dreyer: Vedic
Steven Forrest: Evolutionary
Wendy Z. Ashley: Mythological
Epilogue; Glossary
Comment: This was Nasser's idea, which makes him the producer of the book. He wondered how twelve different astrologers would "read", blind, the same chart. His method was to solicit twelve written interpretations of the same chart, that for "Joyce", born January 16, 1943, 4:18 pm CWT, Pryor, OK. The book suffers from two conceptual flaws: Astrologers were not chosen for their ability at blind readings, nor were they chosen for their ability at written interpretations. All have, or believe they have, strong writing skills. (At least eight have written books.) The result reads like twelve advertisments ("buy me!" "buy me!"), but, for the most part, cannot be indicative of actual reading styles, which are usually oral. For that matter, "Joyce" herself has strong writing skills: Her autobiography runs 41 pages & reads like a novel.
It is said that, based on "Joyce's" own story (which, of course, none of the astrologers read until after their interpretations were finalized), some astrologers got things more right than others. As "Joyce's" self-described history is subjective & as none of the astrologers provide their own birth-data, terms such as "right" or "wrong", "correct" or "incorrect", with regards to the readings, are meaningless. With these caveats, this is an interesting book.
Seven Paws Press, 489 pages.

Nicholas Campion
SKY & PSYCHE: The relationship between cosmos & consciousness - edited by Nicholas Campion & Patrick Curry, $35.00
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sky & Psyche, heaven & soul, by Nicholas Campion
Part 1: The Alchemical Sky:
1. Love & the alchemical Saturn, by Liz Greene
2. The azure vault: The caelum as experience, by James Hillman
Part 2: Sky & Psyche:
3. Chartres Cathedral & the role of the Sun in the cathedral's Christian Platonist theology, by Bernadette Brady
4. Life across the cosmos, by Neville Brown
5. Imagining eternity: Weaving "The Heavens' embroidered cloth", by Jules Cashford
6. The soul of the sky, by Noel Cobb
7. The Russian spirit of place, by Cherry Gilchrist
8. A dimensional model for the relationship of consciousness & cosmos: Mathematical abstraction vs: conscious experience, by Robert Hand
9. Sun gods & moon deities in Africa, by Jarita C. Holbrook
10. Where the heavens meet the earth: Inspirations from the lives of Carl Jung, Jalal-u-din Rumi & Mahatma Gandhi, by Nicholas Pearson
11. Understanding the modern disenchantment of the cosmos, by Richard Tarnas
12. The secret life of statues, by Angela Voss
The Sophia Center
Contributors
Comment: Nicholas Campion's Introduction will set the stage. He is the director of the Sophia Centre at Bath Spa University.
The chapters in this book are based on lectures delivered at two conferences held in Bath on May 1 [Sunday] & July 1-2 [Friday-Saturday], 2005, respectively: "The Alchemical Sky" and "Sky & Psyche". Both events were initiated by Bath Spa University's Sophia Centre, and were designed, as the title of the second event suggests, to address the question of the relationship of between sky & psyche - in their broadest sense. Psyche, in particular, has a double meaning as soul and mind. Until the seventeenth century the two were indistinguishable; soul was that part of mind which could communicate with, travel to, and/or unite with, God. Alchemical sky, meanwhile, points to the possibility of transmutation - or tramsformation; that the psyche's ability to reflect on the heavens necessarily involves what we might nowadays call an evolutionary process.
The question of the relationship between the soul & the stars has been central to cosmology for thousands of years. The belief in the soul's journey to the stars permeated Egyptian thought. It appeared amongst the Greek Orphics, perhaps under Egyptian influence, from where it made its way into Plato's teachings in fourth century BCE Athens. Thanks to Plato's impact on the Church Fathers, his theories became a persistent, if controversial, part of Christian theology. In fact, one could argue that the entire Christian notion of soul is pagan. The belief that the soul could embark on a celestial journey draws attention to the cosmos as a real, physical space, one in which morality varies with the region within which one finds one's self. For medieval Christians, Heaven, the soul's natural home, was located above earth - beyond the stars.
To paraphrase Rob Hand, who spoke at the "Sky & Psyche" conference, the relationship of soul to stars was the central problem in cosmology during the centuries when Christian theology was being formulated and was fighting for supremacy over its pagan & heretical rivals. Did the soul come from the stars? If so, how did it return? Could it return? Did it even want to? These were the sort of questions that pervaded discussions of humanity's relationship with the divine.
While much modern psychology has become almost entirely dissociated from psyche in its original sense, the reaction to such ideas began with Jung in the 1910s and has found a home in the various schools of post-Jungian and transpersonal psychology. Plato's idea of the rational mind, that part of the psyche which was in contact with the divine, survives in various forms. His Idealism, which presented mind as independent of matter, flourishes, unrecognized, in a world in which most academic disciplines take materialism as their starting point. Plato's cosmic order though, survives in one other significant area apart from depth psychology, and that is pure mathematics. John Barrow, professor of mathematical sciences at Cambridge University and one of the orginators of of the anthropic principle, in which the universe & human life are to one degree or another mutually dependent, discussed "mathematical Platonism", which he considered "almost religious in the sense that it provides an underpinning necessary to give meaning to life & human activity." Roger Penrose is another mathematical Platonist. Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, he shared the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics with Stephen Hawking. Penrose's explanation for the manner in which mathematics allows for intellectual inquiry is instructive.... (pg. 9-10)
This should be enough to give an idea of the book. It would seem the seminar topic became an excuse for papers on the contributors' pet projects, provided they could work "Platonism" into it. For example, Bernadette Brady's article, on Chartres Cathedral, relates her discovery that at sunrise on Christmas Day, the sun shines directly into the south transept, while, only a few hours later, the Xmas setting sun shines directly through the great western portal, straight up the nave itself. A fabulous feat of architecture, but nothing whatever to do with where your soul goes after you're dead.
Dear Sophia People: Compilations that are on topic will get a better reception than grab-bags. Topics that are relevant, which can be expressed in common terms, will beat out abstractions. Finally, Carl Jung is not God. He's not the Word of God, he's not even a good God substitute. Metaphysically, his ideas are crude. Endless, mindless repetition has not improved them. Given the harm his many crusaders are causing, a moratorium is overdue.
Floris Books, 234 pages.

ASTROLOGY FOR TODAY - Joanna Watters, $22.00
Contents: Introduction
1. Sun signs
2. The planets
3. The horoscope
4. Significance & symbolism
5. Transits & prediction
6. Locating progressions
7. Relationships
8. Astrology in action
Ephemerides; Glossary; Index; Acknowledgments
Comment: This is a very nice book about what astrology is & what it's like to be an astrologer, in practical terms. But on the way to getting itself printed, the text ran into a fancy high street publisher who smothered it with pictures & fancy layouts & turned it into a coffee table book.
Which made it hard to find the author's original text underneath it all. But look hard. It's there. And it's worth a read.
For example, the chapter on Relationships, which form the bulk of Watters' astrological business. First, she offers guidelines: Look at the 7th house, 1st house, planets in the 7th, Venus, Mars, the lights. Then follows brief pointers on synastry, with Catherine Zeta-Jones & Michael Douglas as a romantic couple, a brief comparison of a Cancer/Aries sun sign couple, the "cosmic marriage", which Watters defines as one Sun conjunct the other's Moon, other powerful forms of synastry, a note on Saturn, Saturn & serious love, Saturn in synastry. Then Uranus & John & Yoko, romantic or redeeming love, Neptune in synastry, Pluto & obsessive or healing love. The chapter ends with case studies, which are perhaps the best thing in the book. The author writes directly about her own experiences as a counselor, about the stuff she got right, about the many other times she didn't figure it out until it was all over. There's nothing here that's comprehensive, there's nothing in real depth, but the writing has immediacy.
Carroll & Brown, 160 pages.

ASTROLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - David Cochrane, $17.95
Contents: 1. Historical Perspective: Valid disciplines surpass our expectations; 2. The search for a starting point in astrology; 3. Theories on how & why astrology works; 4. Short digression: How I became interested in astrology; 5. Energy process interpretation of the planets; 6. Energy process interpretation of the Zodiac signs; 7. Energy process interpretation of the houses; 8. Harmonics!; 9. Degree meanings; 10. Compatibility analysis; 11. Treasure maps; 12. September 11, 2001; 13. A research study; 14. A second research study; Bibliography.
Comment: David Cochrane is the guy behind Cosmic Patterns astrology software (the famous Kepler program, among others).
This book is the culmination of 30 years of wrestling the beast of astrology. By beast I mean that astrology is so vast & immense that every astrologer carves out only a few inroads into this daunting field. (pg 23)
Surveying the book, Cochrane has read a variety of authors (only some of which are listed in the bibliography). His view of planets is influenced by Bailey's Esoteric Astrology (though he doesn't do much with it), he's also been influenced by Charles Jayne & Reinhold Ebertin & a number of others. It is impressive to read Cochrane's book if only for the sheer depth of his studies. He has a good deal of practical experience with harmonics. He combines harmonics with Vedic divisional charts (Vargas) to take another look at degree symbols, such as those by Jones & Charubel - both of which he mentions. The result is his own set of degree symbols, based, as he says, on a combination of harmonics & Vargas. In this, he reminded me of Mohan Koparkar's Degrees of the Zodiac Magnified, which, if I am not mistaken, was also based on the Vargas. So far as I am aware, Cochrane & Koparkar are unaware of each other's work, which, superficially at least, appear unrelated. This is a book that will repay close study.
Cosmic Press, 232 pages.

SEX & THE OUTER PLANETS - Barbara Watters, $5.95
Contents: List of illustrations; 1. The inner planets; 2. The middle planets; 3. The expanding universe;
4. Sexual distortion in the Saturn dominated chart: i. Adolf Hitler, ii. The Marquis de Sade;
5. Sexual distortion in the Jupiter dominated chart;
6. The outer planets: i. Uranus, ii. Neptune, iii. Pluto
7. Uranus as a sex significator: i. Homosexuality - rebellion, ii. Somerset Maugham & Gertrude Stein;
8. Neptune as a sex significator: i. Masochism, ii. Impotence;
9. Pluto as a sex signficator: i. Violence & delinquency, ii. Rape;
10. Pluto & genius: i. Sublimation of sex & violence, ii. Pasteur, iii. Van Gogh, iv. Eugene O'Neill
Appendices: A. Formula for casting Johndro charts; B. Source data for the horoscopes used in this book; C. Karl Marx - horoscope data.
Comment: Contrasts American & European sexuality & how Charlemagne's coronation turns up in Hitler's chart. Among other highlights: Sexual attitudes of European civilization: the predatory male, sex as sin, the female principle as evil. Sexual attitudes in the US: emerging matriarchy, guns & money as substitutes for sex. Sexual distortions of Saturn: sadism, guilt, anal eroticism. Sexual distortions of Jupiter: voyeurism, exhibitionism, promiscuity. Uranus as sexual significator: homosexuality, rebellion, fanaticism, the castration complex. Neptune as sex significator: masochism, impotence, narcissism, drugs. Pluto as sex significator: violence, rape, the criminal gang, group sex.
Valhalla, 222 pages.

SELF EVIDENT ASTROLOGY (TM!) BOOK 1: DECODING THE SOLAR SYSTEM - Jeffrey Sayer Close, $13.95
Contents:

Introduction
The Sun, Moon & eight planets
Symbols of the planets decoded
The eight planetary companions
Further evidence & comments on use in interpretation
Mathematics, the solar system, and rulerships
Appendices:
1. Planet data
2. Planetary moon data
Illustrations

Comment:

The best way to understand this book is to let it speak for itself. Here is the Self Evident (TM) pairing of the planets:
Mercury & Pluto (Humanity)
Here is a list of reasons why these two planets should be paired together:

They are both difficult to see
They have the most eccentric orbits
They have the greatest two orbital inclines from the plane of the solar system
They are each at the end positions in the solar system
They are the two smallest planets

Venus & Mars (Individual)
In the case of these two planets, I have suggested that it is their relationship to Earth that makes them a pair & that the Earth is the reference. So here is a look at how each of these planets compares with the Earth.
First Venus:

Venus is very similar in size to Earth
Both have atmospheres held to a hard surfaced planet
The are sequential in orbit
They have similar compositions
The orbit of Venus is synchronized so when Venus makes its closest approach to Earth, the same side of Venus is always facing the Earth. (The opposite is not true.)

Now Mars:

Earth & Mars are sequential in orbit
They have similar compositions
They both have atmospheres
They both have four seasons (similar axial tilt).
They both have polar ice caps
They both have at least one moon. (all from page 55)

Here is how the author describes individual planets:
Venus as integrational:

Venus has the next orbit inside of, or integrated with, Earth's orbit
As mentioned, Venus has an orbit that is synchronized (integrated with) Earth's
Venus is the only planet which has its day equal to its year. It could be said that they day & year on Venus are integrated into each other.
The atmosphere on Venus is tightly held in, almost integrated into the surface of the planet.

Jupiter, the king of separational:

Ajacent to the Mars-Jupiter asteroid belt
The first of the gas giant planets
Not counting Saturn's rings, Jupiter is the largest planet
Jupiter & its moons are almost like their own solar system trying to separate from our solar system.
The four small inner moons of Jupiter, like Phobos of Mars, are slowly falling into Jupiter & will either eventually smash into Jupiter or be thrown out of Jupiter's orbit - both results being separational in nature.
Jupiter is the only planet with more than one giant moon (Jupiter has four)
These four large moons of Jupiter strongly suggest the concept of separation. The three inner moons, Io, Europa & Ganymede are in synchronous orbits. The outermost moon, Callisto is just barely out of synchronization. Callisto emphasizes its separation from the orbital timings of the other three giant moons. (pgs. 57-8)

Okay, it's strange. So what do we do with it? Here's part of his analysis of George W. Bush, the recent US president:
The Sun & Moon in Astrological Charts . . .
The Sun is at 13 degrees Cancer 47 minutes in the twelfth house in George W. Bush's chart.
Sun: Source, point of radiation, outflow
Cancer: Starting family
Twelfth house: Self-separated from commmunity - Endings
Put together, these considerations suggest that George W. Bush instigates actions (Sun) that, taken together (Cancer), form a new family of endings (twelfth house). (page 3)
Elsewhere, Sayer is the very first astrological author to attempt to assign independent values to the moons of other planets:
As can be seen in Figure 25, there are a great number of large moons in the solar system. Several are larger than the Earth's Moon. Hence it is logical to ask if Earth's Moon has so much meaning, why don't astrologers have meanings for these large planetary moons?
SELF EVIDENT ASTROLOGY (TM) suggests a logical answer to this question. If we look at a planet with any rings & moons that it may have & treat this grouping as a planetary system, the meanings become more evident. Perhaps one can derive the meanings of the moons, in particular, by their characteristics. Since the vast majority of the planetary moons rotate around one of the four gas giants, there is an evident parent/child relationship between these planets & their moons. Hence it would be natural to assume a degree of inheritance of meaning from a planet to each of its moons. (pgs. 35-6)
Two people at the AFA published this book. They're friends of mine, or so I would hope. One of them edited the text. The other designed the cover (one of Jack's best covers, by the way). Should I tell you this is an okay - sorta - kinda - book & encourage you to buy it & not upset my friends, or should I simply say that despite the best efforts of people I respect, this is one of the most stupid books I have ever read? Why are the moons of Jupiter not a factor in astrology? Because if you plot the position of Jupiter to the nearest sixtieth of a second of a minute of a degree (which is impossible) you will still not be able to distinguish the planet from any of its moons. Ascribing value to planetary moons, such as make any difference to humans on Earth, failing to realize the importance of the Earth's Moon is because it's the Earth's Moon, is mindless stupidity. It's as if I said, well, I have a wife, and you have a wife and since my wife is important to me, your wife is important to me, too. It takes my breath away. And we are promised more books like this !!!

AFA, 94 pages.
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ASTROLOGY: WOMAN TO WOMAN - Gloria Star, $19.95
Contents: Introduction; 1. An overall glimpse of your astrological chart; 2. Projection of your real self; 3. Understanding your inner feminine self; 4. Owning your inner masculine self; 5. Developing your mind; 6. Your special edge; 7. Nurturing & creating a home; 8. Meeting the world on your own terms; 9. Opening your heart; 10. Power issues: sex, money & control. Bibliography, Index.
Comment: This is how to read a natal chart if you happen to be a white, middle class American female around the age of 35, circa 1995 (this book copyright 1999). And if you accept all the cultural baggage that implies, this is a useful book.
But as far as Female Horoscopy is concerned, the book is silent. That study starts with the chart for the onset of menses, the moment a child becomes a woman. If I am not mistaken, the menses chart should provide definitive answers to questions such as: If she will have children or not, and if so, how many children will she bear, which will be male, which female, which will survive, if the woman will give birth easily or not (or if she may die in childbirth), if she will enjoy procreation or not, etc. The onset of menses is the defining moment in a woman's life, when she forever becomes different from the male. In Vedic astrology, this is an entire study. For more, see Female Horoscopy (Strijataka), by B. Suryanarain Rao, as revised by his grandson, B.V. Raman.
Llewellyn, 465 pages.

ASTROLOGY FOR SELF-EMPOWERMENT: Techniques for reclaiming your sacred power - Dovid Strusiner, $12.95
Contents: List of illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue
1. The magic of astrology; 2. Celestial self-discovery; 3. Astrology for self-empowerment; 4. The signs of the zodiac; 5. The planets; 6. The ascendant & the houses; 7. Aspects of sacred change; 8. Astrological affirmations & invocations; 9. Zodiacal & planetary visualizations; 10. Aspects & crystal energy transformation; 11. Finding the major themes in your birth chart; 12. Creating your program for self-change; Epilogue; Glossary; Index.
Comment: Here's the essence of this book, a five step process:

Step one involves learning about the signs, planets, houses & aspects & their part in the practice of Sacred Astrology.
In step two you will be introduced to the specific techniques of the astrology of self-empowerment, including affirmation, visualization, and crystal energy transformation. As you study these techniques you will learn how to affect fundamental changes in your psycho-spiritual nature.
Step three teaches you how to find the major themes & potential in your birth chart. This knowledge not only allows you to determine which planetary & zodiacal symbols to work with to affect sacred soul alchemy, but significantly, it also facilitates learning to unleash your creative force & invoke the healing energy within.
Step four is the design of your personalized astrological program of self-change - a program centered upon your major themes, patterns, & inner potentiality. At this point in the process you decide which areas of your life you wish to work on. You also choose specific exercises & therapies from those provided (affirmations, invocations, visualizations, and crystal energy therapies) or you create your own personalized exercises & therapies.
Step five is the ongoing practice of the techniques of Sacred Astrology. (from pgs 20-21)
Some quotes:
Alchemy is nothing but the art which makes the impure into the pure through fire - Paracelsus (pg. xi).
Astrology awaits its renaissance in the hearts of each of us. (pg. xiv).
We are, potentially, both the controlling center & the dynamic point of self-awareness that determines how a crisis or an event is integrated into our consciousness. (pg. 18).
An invocation of Mars: Come to me mighty warrior. I invoke the daring courage & power of Mars to enter my life. I feel your passion & strength. I call forth the spirit hero within myself to resonate with your energy. I am now vitalized with initiative, drive & masculine force (pg. 121). (Am glad he hasn't a clue what he just tried to do.)
Whole of Zodiac Breathing Exercise (pg. 127).
Planetary Rainbow Dance Exercise (pg. 129).
Solar Uranian Visualization Exercise (pg. 132).
If this speaks to you, get this book.
Llewellyn, 168 pages.

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Nicholas Campion	SKY & PSYCHE: The relationship between cosmos & consciousness - edited by Nicholas Campion & Patrick Curry, $35.00 *Contents:* Acknowledgments Introduction: Sky & Psyche, heaven & soul, by Nicholas Campion Part 1: The Alchemical Sky: 1. Love & the alchemical Saturn, by Liz Greene 2. The azure vault: The caelum as experience, by James Hillman Part 2: Sky & Psyche: 3. Chartres Cathedral & the role of the Sun in the cathedral's Christian Platonist theology, by Bernadette Brady 4. Life across the cosmos, by Neville Brown 5. Imagining eternity: Weaving "The Heavens' embroidered cloth", by Jules Cashford 6. The soul of the sky, by Noel Cobb 7. The Russian spirit of place, by Cherry Gilchrist 8. A dimensional model for the relationship of consciousness & cosmos: Mathematical abstraction vs: conscious experience, by Robert Hand 9. Sun gods & moon deities in Africa, by Jarita C. Holbrook 10. Where the heavens meet the earth: Inspirations from the lives of Carl Jung, Jalal-u-din Rumi & Mahatma Gandhi, by Nicholas Pearson 11. Understanding the modern disenchantment of the cosmos, by Richard Tarnas 12. The secret life of statues, by Angela Voss The Sophia Center Contributors *Comment:* Nicholas Campion's Introduction will set the stage. He is the director of the Sophia Centre at Bath Spa University. The chapters in this book are based on lectures delivered at two conferences held in Bath on May 1 [Sunday] & July 1-2 [Friday-Saturday], 2005, respectively: "The Alchemical Sky" and "Sky & Psyche". Both events were initiated by Bath Spa University's Sophia Centre, and were designed, as the title of the second event suggests, to address the question of the relationship of between sky & psyche - in their broadest sense. Psyche, in particular, has a double meaning as soul and mind. Until the seventeenth century the two were indistinguishable; soul was that part of mind which could communicate with, travel to, and/or unite with, God. Alchemical sky, meanwhile, points to the possibility of transmutation - or tramsformation; that the psyche's ability to reflect on the heavens necessarily involves what we might nowadays call an evolutionary process. The question of the relationship between the soul & the stars has been central to cosmology for thousands of years. The belief in the soul's journey to the stars permeated Egyptian thought. It appeared amongst the Greek Orphics, perhaps under Egyptian influence, from where it made its way into Plato's teachings in fourth century BCE Athens. Thanks to Plato's impact on the Church Fathers, his theories became a persistent, if controversial, part of Christian theology. In fact, one could argue that the entire Christian notion of soul is pagan. The belief that the soul could embark on a celestial journey draws attention to the cosmos as a real, physical space, one in which morality varies with the region within which one finds one's self. For medieval Christians, Heaven, the soul's natural home, was located above earth - beyond the stars. To paraphrase Rob Hand, who spoke at the "Sky & Psyche" conference, the relationship of soul to stars was the central problem in cosmology during the centuries when Christian theology was being formulated and was fighting for supremacy over its pagan & heretical rivals. Did the soul come from the stars? If so, how did it return? Could it return? Did it even want to? These were the sort of questions that pervaded discussions of humanity's relationship with the divine. While much modern psychology has become almost entirely dissociated from psyche in its original sense, the reaction to such ideas began with Jung in the 1910s and has found a home in the various schools of post-Jungian and transpersonal psychology. Plato's idea of the rational mind, that part of the psyche which was in contact with the divine, survives in various forms. His Idealism, which presented mind as independent of matter, flourishes, unrecognized, in a world in which most academic disciplines take materialism as their starting point. Plato's cosmic order though, survives in one other significant area apart from depth psychology, and that is pure mathematics. John Barrow, professor of mathematical sciences at Cambridge University and one of the orginators of of the anthropic principle, in which the universe & human life are to one degree or another mutually dependent, discussed "mathematical Platonism", which he considered "almost religious in the sense that it provides an underpinning necessary to give meaning to life & human activity." Roger Penrose is another mathematical Platonist. Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, he shared the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics with Stephen Hawking. Penrose's explanation for the manner in which mathematics allows for intellectual inquiry is instructive.... (pg. 9-10) This should be enough to give an idea of the book. It would seem the seminar topic became an excuse for papers on the contributors' pet projects, provided they could work "Platonism" into it. For example, Bernadette Brady's article, on Chartres Cathedral, relates her discovery that at sunrise on Christmas Day, the sun shines directly into the south transept, while, only a few hours later, the Xmas setting sun shines directly through the great western portal, straight up the nave itself. A fabulous feat of architecture, but nothing whatever to do with where your soul goes after you're dead. Dear Sophia People: Compilations that are on topic will get a better reception than grab-bags. Topics that are relevant, which can be expressed in common terms, will beat out abstractions. Finally, Carl Jung is not God. He's not the Word of God, he's not even a good God substitute. Metaphysically, his ideas are crude. Endless, mindless repetition has not improved them. Given the harm his many crusaders are causing, a moratorium is overdue. Floris Books, 234 pages.