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Venus: The Evolution of the Goddess and her Planet

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This book provides a pretty good overview of the Goddesses from Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures linked to the planet we know as Venus. The information on these Goddesses is only an overview - for in-depth studies I would recommend sources more specific to each particular Deity - but the author is thorough and scholarly, and does an excellent job of staying on point by returning again and again to the relationship of the Goddess to Her planet. This is very significant, given the strong connections of astrology and religion in the ancient world.

The originality and importance of the book lies in the author's interest in exploring these Goddesses together with astrological information regarding the planet Venus. She discusses in detail the two signs governed by the planet - Taurus and Libra - and compares the ditinctions between them with the distinctions which Plato made between Aphrodite Pandemos and Aphrodite Ourania. She then describes the influence of Venus through the signs, houses, and in aspect.

A very good book with an admirable amount of originality.

The Goddess Aphrodite/Venus has too often been overlooked as a subject for spiritual and scholarly study.

This book addresses so many important topics such as the history of Goddess worship in ancient Mesopotamia and Babylon, astrology then and now and the evolving Goddess as Inanna (Sumerian), Ishtar (Babylonian), Aphrodite (Greek) and Venus (Roman). I was impressed with the accuracy of the placements of Venus in the signs and houses of one's natal chart. I have Venus in Scorpio (pg. 159) and the description is dead on! If you're into astrology, Goddess worship and how the Matriarch once flourished before the rise of Christianity, this is the book for you! Very well researched and a valuable asset to any serious library of occult, philosophy and religious studies.