Book Reviews

ome readers may not realize that astrology, once banned from academia, has done its homework diligently over the last few decades and has slowly made its way back into the fold. Perhaps the most durable sign of that progress has happened in the United Kingdom, evidence of which we can see in the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The Sophia Centre that produced this publication is a research/ and look into what the Centre is doing. The volume reviewed here is the 10th in a series and consists of papers from a conference on “Astrology as Art: Representation and Practice.” Artistic works based on or drawn from astrological symbols are everywhere around us, and the papers you find in this volume make this evident with a depth and scope that readers will find both enlightening and useful. Martin Gansten’s in–troduction considers astrology in a historical perspective, and the eight papers that follow look at astrology as art across a broad range of cultures and a setting in time that covers centuries. It is available for purchase online and through bookstores, and is well worth reading and study.