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Cosmic Love: Secrets of the Astrology of Intimacy Revealed

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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.

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.

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! :)

Over the last few years I have become more and more interested in the astrology and how it aligns to people and their personality traits. As an analytical person, I am often shocked about how people seem to emanate traits relative to their the signs. It wasn't until earlier this year that I discovered Jan Spiller and the New Moon Astrology. I found her readings to be fairly accurate. I recently bought Cosmic Love and have just started to dive into it. I am amazed at what I have found.. it has impacted me so much that it has transformed some of my relationships.

Things I didn't understand before.. like an intense connection with someone from the moment we met and the dynamics of our relationship, it has caused me to look at it from a completely new angle with glad acceptance. When I did the cosmic connection test that is where i found the best part of the book, because sure enough almost every person I had a significant relationship with family, friends and loved ones turned out to be fairly accurate. From identifying my best friend, to identifying one of the most challenging, to identifying the one that would open me up to love. I can't speak for the other experiences here, but I have always tackled the human experience as a learning one, and for me I see my life opening up in front of me with endless options. I appreciate this book for helping me identify some potential positive and negative aspects in my relationships and how I can make the most of them.

I thought that this would be as accurate as her other book but it wasnt. I think that it is hard to find a relationship between you and someone else.

Very little of interest here. Every other sentence seems to start with "I had a client who".. Tiresome writing and nothing new, even if you can get through the terrible editing.

This is my first Amazon review. I'm writing because I depend on user reviews when I make my purchases here. This book, Cosmic Love by Jan Spiller, is invaluable to me because of its synastry section. It continually allows me to help many awakened individuals explore their relationships at the soul level.

For instance, two of my friends were feeling a little hesitant or cautious about becoming closer in their relationship when they came to me. They didn't understand why they felt uneasy with eachother. Then I ran a synastry chart and discovered their Nodal/planetary conjunctions. I read to them the significance of where their North Nodes fell in eachother's houses and how their conjunctions revealed exactly what was going on at the subconscious level. Everything made sense to them and so they consciously began transmuting the energies. Much healing and self-awareness has taken place because of this book.

Personally, it helped me understand a particular 2-way soul contract of a soul-mate relationship in which I was involved. It reaffirmed what I was feeling, allowed me to see the bigger picture, and enabled me to communicate more efficiently to the other person about the karmic debt, so that we could bring the relationship to completion.

To quote from Jan Spiller, "The astrological connections between you and another will show what past life interactions were involved, the unfinished business that remains and the specific ways you can resolve any karma with this particular Soul." "If you truly desire to create a win-win resolution with the other person, Love will be the overriding energy." So I would highly recommend this book to astrologers or students of astrology who want to help themselves or others resolve conflicts in relationships.

An interesting read with very insightful information and easy to understand for the beginner to the advanced astrology student

this book helps put things into perspective!Cosmic Love: Secrets of the Astrology of Intimacy Revealed

If you're astrologically inclined (and even if you're not) and feel stuck in matters of intimacy and relatedness (romantic and friends and family), or just want to become more conscious of the dynamics underlying, READ THIS BOOK. I'm floored, and it takes a lot to impress me. I'm an astrologer myself, and I've studied my chart no end, but Jan Spiller's take on the Moon's Nodes in COSMIC LOVE is absolutely stellar (no pun intended). I can ALREADY see how the wisdom within is helping me to live a happier, more harmonious life in relation with others. Thanks to Jan Spiller, and thanks to astrology, once again!