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Future Signs: How to Make Astrological Predictions

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With "Future Signs", Maria Kay Simms has written a clear and insightful work on how to make astrological predictions using transits. This is the easiest method of using astrology to look ahead and this makes the book accessible to those relatively inexperienced in astrology. The opening chapters are a good overview of how transits work. There are many practical suggestions such as the importance of looking at your astrological past to help understand your astrological present and future. The author also gives an intelligent and balanced consideration look at the eternal question of whether our lives are fated or whether we have free will. Throughout the book Maria often refers to astrology as "a tool of choice", and her attitude to fate is summed up by the following: "The only thing that makes any sense at all is to behave as though what you think and choose and do... matters! You have free will! Believe it!".

Unlike some older books dealing with transits, the more powerful outer planets of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are sensibly featured at the beginning, gradually working down to New Moons and transits of the personal planets. Similarly, transits to the ascendant and midheaven are at the beginning of each planet's section.

For the more experienced astrologer, there is little in "Future Signs" that they won't have come across in previous definitive transit books such as "Planets In Transit" by Robert Hand or "Transits: The Time Of Your Life" by Betty Lundsted. But to those not familiar with such or other previous classics, I recommend "Future Signs" as a preferable modern alternative.