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Lunar Returns

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I was happy to find this book about Lunar returns, a topic on which you will not find much literature. However, I was quite disappointed with the content. It's just another cookbook delineating planets in houses and aspects between planets. The delineations are well-written though. There is a short chapter on transits to the natal planets too and a (very) short chapter on New and Full Moon, retrogrades and eclipses. You will not find anything about the real standouts in the Lunar returns, nor about progressing the Lunar return chart, nor about important midpoint configurations, nor about the relationship with progressions or solar returns, nor about sensitive degree areas or exact conjunctions to prominent Fixed stars. There is nothing on the Lunar parallax. This book is a good beginning though and I'm glad somebody has written a book about Lunar returns.

Please do not buy it! It is not worthwhile at all. No matter if you are a beginner or an advance student of astrology, the book is useless. The author has underestimated the reader using a kind of "copy/paste" method from any other kind of superficial book of astrology in order to explain the meaning of the planets in the houses and the aspects between the planets in a lunar return chart. You cannot learn a bit from it. Astrology is a very serious matter and books like this should not have to be published ever. I am very disappointed.

This is a great book both in writing and analysing Lunar Returns profoundly. Townley has a wonderful way of explaining complex astrological meanings in a short and as entertaining, but meaningful sentences. He is very gifted writer and astrologer (the combination is not as usual as one should assume). This IMHO the best of (sadly) very few astrological book about the interesting Lunar Returns. He should write one about Solar Returns too, it would surely be a contributation besides to all existing books about that topic. Townley talks about house positions of all planets and the nodes, their respective angles, angles to natal chart, even Full and New Moon positions/transits to both chart types. Really great!

I am a practising astrologer for almost 30 years and have always regarded the moon's placement to be as important as the ascendant when casting a chart. The Moon is the Soul of the chart, and the ascendant is the Personality. John Townley has done a lot of research before publishing this book, and I would recommend it to other astrologers and to those who are interested in astrology. I must give John Townley 5 stars for this wonderful book.