Reviews for Sydney Omarr's Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for the Year 2011: Aquarius

The average rating for Sydney Omarr's Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for the Year 2011: Aquarius based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-07-03 00:00:00 Sofia Riska It may seem strange for a man to read a "women's book," and vice-versa, but it seems to me that understanding comes from being willing to be made uncomfortable. Jean Shinoda Bolen has written several books exploring Jungian archetypes of deities, both for men and for women. I haven't read any of her previous books, but having written my dissertation on Asherah (which is my first book listed on my profile page), I have had a long interest in how goddesses are interpreted. Archetypes are one such form of interpretation. The book is primarily for post-menopausal women who are trying to sort out their mental and spiritual lives, as I note elsewhere Sects and Violence in the Ancient World. Nevertheless, it is important to listen, across genders. To find this book useful, readers must be willing to credit Jungian archetypes with some kind of reality. Given Bolen's medical credentials, it is hopefully not too far a stretch for most who would pick up such a book as this. It's clear from the perspective of someone who has researched goddesses that the author has done considerable work on them, probing ancient stories for modern lessons. Reading this book in the era of Trump and world-wide reactionary governments, it seems as if the optimism put into it only about a decade ago has been set back. Society seemed poised to improve for everyone, but the cold, dark nature of personal profit has shifted everything back to a more masculine paradigm of the worst kind. Books like this are important in such an era as this. There is a wisdom we could gain should the voices of women be given equal volume with that of men. We can only hope the goddesses are still there, for without their leadership there's not much of a future.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-12-10 00:00:00 Robert Hernandez I have a longstanding interest in goddess archetypes and their history, so this book caught my attention in a Totnes second hand bookshop on hols. I wasn't disappointed. It's the perfect companion for women on the threshold fifty, or later, encouraging you to find and live out your juicy crone self. A book to dip into when direction or inspiration is needed. I was already familiar with my dominant archetype but enthralled to see how she is getting left behind as her crone version steps up after years of waiting patiently in the shadows because most people couldn't cope with her. Shinola Boden talks about the grief some women experience when they have to reject their natural dominant archetype(s) in this way, saying: Most women of any complexity have several important and active goddess archetypes in them. Depending upon the "climate" of family and culture, some fit in and others spell trouble, even at a time when women are not burned at the stake or stoned for expressing suppressed goddesses. In the first two phases of our adult lives, we may not have been able to embody a particular archetype and yet longed to do so. In the third phase, we may feel grief or depression at this missed possibility. Some women deny that they are older, and in maintaining the illusion of being younger become increasingly inauthentic. Psychological and soul growth comes through the crone archetypes and through the evolution of the "goddesses in everywoman."