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Summary: BUY THIS BOOK!
Review: I have been tinkering around with astrology for about 10 years and have always come up against brick walls when it came to getting clear answers to my astrological questions, until I found The House Book. Stephanie's down-to-earth, linear thinking is exactly what the majority of "lay-astrologers" have needed for a very long time. My copy of The House Book has been read and re-read so many times that before long, I'll need a new copy.
If you don't already own a copy of this book, please hit the "add to cart" button. You'll be very happy that you did.
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Summary: A New Classic.
Review: I wholeheartedly recommend this book for both amateur and professsional astrologers. It is very well written and the insights are bountiful. Before the influence of a planet is described in the houses, there is a preface containing an excellent (and sometimes poetic) description of the function and meaning of that particular planet. The action of Venus, for instance, is brought to life by the image of the handmaiden "arranging, soothing, tidying, perfecting, and making the environment comfortable and beautiful." Once into the houses, the descriptions are vivid and insightful, and the author will occasionally use a well-chosen archetype to illuminate the mentality of a certain position, e.g. Peter Pan for Neptune in the Third House. The spectrum of concerns is broad, from the practical to the spiritual, but the emphasis - thankfully - is on character traits rather than psychological complexes. Hence there is a surefootedness to the text which is lacking in other books on the same theme. Finally, there are two very useful sections at the end on Rectification and Basic Principles for Beginners. This book is a must for everyone interested in astrology. Congratulations to the author!
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Summary: BUY THIS BOOK!
Review: I would like to gently correct the person who described The House Book as "hideous". The descriptions that this person found offensive are simply points of human behavior that the astrologer should be on the lookout for when doing a chart. Obviously there are many things that must be present in the chart in order for a person to be "homosexual", "sexually frustrated" etc., and I believe that Stephanie explains this plainly in the book.If you want honest, easy to understand astrological guidance, and want to benefit from Stephanie Camilleri's extensive research of astrology, please arm yourself this book. I don't have enough space here to explain how much I have learned from The House Book, but suffice it to say that I am on my second copy as my first one has been worn to shreds! This rotten review only serves to demonstrate that there are some people who really shouldn't dabble in astrology and should leave it to those who know what they're doing.
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Summary: THIS IS A MUST-HAVE BOOK!!! FABULOUS!!!
Review: Ms. Camilleri's book is one of my top five most-used astrology books, and has been for years. Her spot-on descriptions of planets in houses beats almost anything else I own--I rank it right up there with Robert Hand, Sue Tompkins, John Frawley and Karen Hamaker-Zondag, to name a few of my astrology gods. I keep waiting for more books to arrive from the desk of this writer. I couldn't disagree more with the other reviewers who dismissed this book as old-fashioned and lacking depth--what it is, is smart, practical, totally accurate, astonishingly insightful, specific (so many books are so VAGUE) and extremely helpful both to the student or professional astrologer. Unlike some other astrology writers, her language is immediate, direct, easy to grasp, and the content of the book is simply brilliant. It's a real shame that we don't have more books by this talented writer, when the market is so flooded with second-rate work on the subject. Buy the book, you'll always be glad you did. I agree with another reviewer who called this book a classic. You'll keep it long after you've sold or given away most of the others.
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Summary: interesting but nothing news
Review: Stephanie Camilleri has researched a lot of natal charts (some 1500) to write this book. That's a lot of data, but I think that it could be better. With Lois M. Rodden's AstroDatabank (containing 20000 horoscopes) one should be able to look for more indepth interpretations. Stephanie's book is interesting, but I miss some sparkling new and innovate delineations.I miss the rulerships too. It certainly is a good book for beginners.
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Summary: CLEAR AND PRECISE
Review: This book has just recently been published and the author does a great job! Refreshingly and rather uniquely, Camilleri took over 1500 charts and evaluated similarities and peculiarities of each placing of the nine planets in all 12 houses of the zodiac. I was TRULY amazed at the phenomenal accuracy of detail which I discovered while looking up placements in charts of myself and loved ones; I've read hundreds of astrology books: this of one of the most simplex and one of the best!
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Summary: CLEAR AND PRECISE
Review: This book has just recently been published and the author does a great job! Refreshingly and rather uniquely, Camilleri took over 1500 charts and evaluated similarities and peculiarities of each placing of the nine planets in all 12 houses of the zodiac. I was TRULY amazed at the phenomenal accuracy of detail which I discovered while looking up placements in charts of myself and loved ones; I've read hundreds of astrology books: this of one of the most simplex and one of the best!
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Summary: The best, most accurate , insightful astrology book I own
Review: This is the first time I have ever submitted a book review. Thank you so much for your book. I have been reading astrology books for the past 16 years and have aquired a fairly decent reference library. I consider your book to be the best, most accurate, helpful book I own. It was a joy to explore, over and over your observations were right on the mark. Once again, thank you for your contribution to astrology and those of us that study it.
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Summary: A Review for the Romantics
Review: Though I am glad to finally have a good book about the 12 Houses in my library, I am slightly disappointed by "The House Book". This reference takes a very Classical approach to astrology that is dry and crusty when compared to the Romantic approach used by such astrologers as Linda Goodman, Grant Lewi and Sydney Omarr. Thanks to the hundreds of birthcharts that she studied to do research for this book, Stephanie Camilleri was able to reveal a lot more about a certain position, say, Jupiter in the Third House, than she would have been had she merely meditated on the meanings of Jupiter and the Third House, while doing some valid, albeit unscientific, research along with it. However, though her approach has resulted in a text full of "the greenest green, the bluest blue, the reddest red, the blackest black, the whitest white" (as she says in her preface), it says so little about astrological archetypes that the descriptions of the house positions could have been written by _any_ excellent and dedicated professional researcher. Only a few hints here and there remind the reader that astrology is an art as well as an exact science. Before every section, Camilleri gives a short and informative description of a planet that helps readers better understand the planet's influence in a House. For instance, by saying that Jupiter "gives the way a lord gives gifts to his peasants at holiday time, somewhat automatically," it becomes clear why Jupiter in the Third House "gives a golden gift of communication." Sadly, Camilleri doesn't give such deep and insightful information about the 12 Houses themselves. To find out about the Third House, readers will have to jump to the appendix and be satisfied with a short paragraph. This paragraph will do little more than list those things associated with the Third House. It won't reveal any of the archetypes that tie those things together. Granted, some people work a lot better with forthright lists than with slippery archetypal concepts. These people will adore "The House Book", which truly is informative and insightful. Those who look for a little more mysticism and soul in their astrological references, however, should know that they will get very little of it from this book.
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Summary: The little book on houses you've always wanted.
Review: What a sweet, sweet addition to our astrological libraries! Stephanie Camilleri has achieved a deceptively simple guide to the houses and an elegant dynamic picture of the flow of relationships with dispositors. It is the rare astrology book that you find yourself reading through from start to finish; both beginners and masters will find what they want here! Bravo, Stephanie!
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