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Astrology - John Frawley
£20 + £3 p&p
Apprentice Books
Available from www.johnfrawley.com
Reviewed by Claire Chandler in Astrology Quarterly Winter 2007/8
Building on his excellent offering, The
Horary Textbook, Sports Astrology escorts the student amongst the
various techniques which Frawley has used to predict sporting results.
He reduces the various sporting problems into the essential underlying
questions: Will WE win - partisan competitions, Will the King loose his
crown - title competitions such as boxing, Will I make Building on his
excellent offering, The Horary Textbook, Sports Astrology escorts the
student amongst the various techniques which Frawley has used to predict
sporting results. He reduces the various sporting problems into the essential
underlying questions: Will WE win – partisan competitions such as
football matches, Will the King loose his crown – title competitions
such as boxing, Will I make profit – gambling questions. For horse
races he uses John Addey’s technique involving the fifth house and
for events a variant of contest charts. All of which stands up to repeated
use.
Frawley uses a variant on standard horary technique to answer these
specific questions and gives plenty of worked examples. You can either
read straight through or use it as a workbook. Beware making assumptions
as you would in standard horary; sometimes positions of strength don’t
translate into sporting success. For instance, the Rugby World Cup final
coincided with my reaching the chapter of sporting events. Not having
read it properly I gave advantage to the England team seeing them as ruler
of the seventh in dignity in the seventh. However, on the field of play
it meant that they failed to engage with the favourites, shown by the
first house. Make sure you read it properly.
All of the techniques used are tested and give good results over time
and for different practitioners. This is not a theoretical treatise, it
wreaks of practical application.
Those who have issues with Frawley’s style and sense of humour
may have to grit their teeth. The material is presented as the exchange
between a master astrologer, living in his cave in the hills, and a student
seeking knowledge. Accompanying the master are a raven, Sedna, and a yak,
Britney. The conversation format does help the explanation of some points
and does reinforce the repetition of ideas which you would get with a
teacher. He even takes you through some of the questions which might arise
in your mind and refutes them. Though Frawley is a TRADITIONAL
ASTROLOGER, he is not precious about his material. The following
quote from p136 demonstrates his desire for astrology to live, breath
and perform:
“You are right to ask, boy. We cannot accept things only because
they are written in books. Even if the books are very old! As my good
friend Nicky Culpeper, wrote:
Let everyone that desires to be called by the name of artist have his
wits in his head (for that’s the place ordained for them) and
not in his books.”
Dr Reason
This is an excellent book which I would recommend to anyone, even those
without a robust sense of humour. Frawley’s approach to astrology
is less abrasive than in his earlier books but he keeps his uncompromising
style. There are, and must be, rules for this type of astrology so it’s
as well you understand what they are. You can’t do a horary for
a sporting question if you don’t side with one or other of the competitors,
hence the underlying question is “Will we win?” Read and digest
this book and you will have no excuse. Practice, Practice, Practice.
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