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Summary: EXCELLENT READ!
Review: A really fun book to read, Caroline has filled it to the brim with astrological and mythological information. She's one of the best writers on the subject, possessing an informed and likeable voice which she uses to teach true practical magic. She makes you realize that magic is still alive and within us all, sleeping within the subconscious, there to be used for self-transformation. If you're even remotely interested in the language of astrology, and enjoy reading authors who love the english language and use it beautifully, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Don't loan this book to anyone!!!
Review: A very intelligent, practical friend of mine makes astrology part of her life. (How did she know i'd find my dream job in June?) Well, to understand astrologicial thinking better, i bought this book. Very lively writing, clear, with quality humor. The author writes many things i've heard previously only from my friend, not from other astrology books. I read bits of it over the phone to my friend, later brought it to her. Now she's having a great time reading it, and i'm still waiting to get it back....THAT's a sign of a good book!
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Summary: More about Making the Gods Work for You
Review: Become an Agent for Maximum Good in the World... How do you make the gods work for you? "By going to work for them," teaches visionary activist astrologer Caroline Casey, "and becoming an active collaborator on the team of creation." In Making the Gods Work for You, ou will learn how to ally yourself with the ten planetary forces - or gods - to help you create very real effects in your life and in the world. with wit, scholarship, and a stunning intuitive grasp of astrology's hidden teachings, Casey reveals what spiritual, magical, and mythic traditions teach us about these planetary forces - and how to create your own rituals, meditations, and acts of celebration to invoke each god's unique gifts. "Believe nothing," suggests Casey,"...but entertain possibilities!" Then get ready to become a fully enlivened agent for change, as you begin Making the Gods Work for You. This is a live recording of a stage presentation by Casey, accompanied by invocative drumming and songs by Jacqui Mac Millan and Amikaeyla Gaston.
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Summary: Read this book and have gobs of fun.
Review: Beware! Yes, be aware. A spell has been cast and tossed into the sea of eternity. There is no escape. What fun. We have a conspiracy of mystics here. I have listened to Caroline Casey's radio program. Although she is clearly creative, intelligent and entertaining, often I have found it redundant, even bording contrite - due mostly to the callers. I always had the feeling that if Caroline could emerse herself in the extended contemplation and focus that comes with writing a book, we would get a truly valuable piece of work. And so it is. Making the Gods Work for You is a living, breathing, dancing alchemy. Fun, insigtful and practical. Whether you know the language of Astrology or not, makes no difference. One thing that got a me smile out of me is how she likes to use the word fierce alot. I did not find anything fierce about it. Dynamic, yes. What was imparted throughout the book is a graceful, delicate, in-depth and respectful offering of the fullness and magic of life. She enters honestly into all the dimensions of ourselves as represented by the signs and planets and invites the reader to explore, experiment, doubt and dance with the scariest parts of ourself - from the most condemend to the most reverent - seducing us into the undeniable understanding that each contains the other. As an astrologer, I was particularly taken with the form of the book. It's inside out. My favorite arrangement. After the usual intro/preparation she begins the journey with Pluto. Wonderful. She then moves on to the rest of the outer planets and closes with the Sun. The layering effect is rich and full of surprises, taking the reader on a juicy pilgrimage, from here to here. She has really contributed a valuable service to our world. Read this book and have gobs of fun.
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Summary: Not the usual astro-psychology,rich with playful insight
Review: Bravo Caroline! This book reads like a playful adventure story rich with vison and keen insight. Rarely could anyone find a text so packed with information from around the world and so well organized to make it all useful. Not the usual astro-psychology, this book is filled with practical magic and laughter at this experience called life. Great for beginners and full-time practitioners alike. A must for any visionary.
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Summary: A New Way to Look at the Planets
Review: For all those who are frustrated or disappointed by the mundane, trite "meanings" of the planets, Caroline Casey's book will be refreshing. She gives the planets new personalities, which will give serious students of astrology a new way to look at the heavenly bodies. For instance, she does not portray Saturn as a dreary, gloomy taskmaster, but as a teacher who wants us to graduate to being our own bosses. Neptune is no longer explained away in one word ("subconscious"), but is shown as the part of us that wants to imagine a better world into existence. Jupiter becomes more than just a lucky, expansive planet: it is the part of us that wants to tell stories--that studies in order to teach. Of course, Miss Casey explains it better than I can with this review. Astrologers and students of astrology will not be the only ones who will find something worthwhile in her book: psychologists who are interested in the ideas of James Hillman, and anybody interested in a new way to look at life will enjoy reading "Making the Gods Work for You" and seeing how the myths of each planet apply to them.
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Summary: A New Way to Look at the Planets
Review: For all those who are frustrated or disappointed by the mundane, trite "meanings" of the planets, Caroline Casey's book will be refreshing. She gives the planets new personalities, which will give serious students of astrology a new way to look at the heavenly bodies. For instance, she does not portray Saturn as a dreary, gloomy taskmaster, but as a teacher who wants us to graduate to being our own bosses. Neptune is no longer explained away in one word ("subconscious"), but is shown as the part of us that wants to imagine a better world into existence. Jupiter becomes more than just a lucky, expansive planet: it is the part of us that wants to tell stories--that studies in order to teach. Of course, Miss Casey explains it better than I can with this review. Astrologers and students of astrology will not be the only ones who will find something worthwhile in her book: psychologists who are interested in the ideas of James Hillman, and anybody interested in a new way to look at life will enjoy reading "Making the Gods Work for You" and seeing how the myths of each planet apply to them.
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Summary: Celebrating the Mythic Language of Liberation!
Review: How can anyone praise such an intelligent, witty, visionary book so full of trickster compassion and graciousness when other reviewers are saying it so well? For thousands of years around the world, a real education which led to wisdom began with the study of numbers, shapes, music and astronomy/astrology. They were considered by antiquity as portals into the archetypal patterns which inform the entire cosmic harmony. Casey has bestowed a gift on us by revealing its astrological door and allowing us to take a tour of ourselves while pointing out the accessible tools we have to maneuver with. She has obviously done her homework and is a great storyteller. She makes us feel how the language of astrological archetypes is our native language and a scorecard for "ordinary" events which play out the timeless mighty mythic dramas. Highly recommended for those interested in re-creating the world and themselves with intelligence, joy and humor, while getting a set of timeless tools in the bargain.
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Summary: Smashingly different
Review: I chanced upon this book going for half-price in an Australian self-help centre. Had I not stopped to look beyond the cheesy purple cover, I would have missed one of the most intriguing and thought-provoking adventures in astrology ever.The difference between reading an academician's view in astrology and that of a layman is huge. For those who aren't ready to go straight into the depth and heaviness of Liz Greene, and want to get out of the tabloid astrology type reading, yet don't want to read candid, matter-of-fact portrayals such as Linda Goodman puts it, Caroline Casey provides a fresh, witty, reverent and yet playful spin on the planets and signs. It's the difference between reading Jung's academic works and reading his made-for-the-normal-person 'Man and His Symbols'. Treating each planet in terms of archetypes, suggesting little rituals for honouring each, and drawing on her own experiences as well as that of myth, it's not your average read. What I especially love is her playful writing style, as well as her comprehensive treatments of each planet. For instance, with the difficult Pluto, Casey redefines what it means to deal with the trials of death, rebirth and transformation: she teaches how to honour the darkness, describes the stages of descent, to release control through broad techniques of ritual and incantations, leaving it up to the reader to do as she wishes. This is not a how-to book, but is for the person who wants to see how these archetypes play out in her life, and how to honour them whilst struggling through them, and realising, as Casey says at the end, 'making the gods you.'
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Summary: Will leave you dreaming of the depths....
Review: I have listened to the three hour tape completely and am in the process of listening again. I imagine I will listen to it often. What a gift this is! Caroline has so much to say and she says it packed full of wisdom that I cannot absorb it in just one sitting. I am entranced! I will be looking for more of her work soon. I want to really grasp her thoughts on this course before I go further, but further I must go! WOW Caroline's gift for weaving her subjects together left me spellbound. The way she forms her thoughts, voice strong and sure, intellect abounds, yet magickal in her delivery with bits of humor throughout. I find myself enraptured with not only her message but with the way in which she gives it. I hope that one day I might be able to attend a seminar given by her. And, the music interjected is wonderful. I find myself singing (a bit off key but when that happens I only sing louder!) We are the Witches.. I am a reader. I love the written word and have shied away from books on tape. What a grave mistake this was - fore I have found this tape to be a joyous experience especially while trapped in my car. I look forward to bumper to bumper traffic - so I may listen more deeply, red lights do not insight anger or frustration at time wasted, but rather quiet rapture, as I listen to her speak of Gods, Peoples, Dreams and Planets. It has made astrology something that I can enjoy, a way of learning that is no longer dry and boring. She has opened my eyes and allowed me to dream more. So for now rather than just awaking from the surface - I will also dream the depths. Ashe
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