The Contemporary Astrologer's Handbook

Sue Tompkins is a practicing astrologer and teacher, and this Flare Publications handbook is her practitioner's manual of modern Western astrological interpretation, covering how planets, signs and their combinations such as polarity and element are read within this specific interpretive system. Its value is as a clear, widely used statement of contemporary practitioner method, the kind of source needed to describe accurately what modern Western astrology actually teaches and how its symbolism is applied. Its limit is exactly that character, it is an instructional text written from within one specific living astrological tradition for its own practitioners, not a historical or scientific source, so a claim about astrology's origins, its historical development, or any question of its predictive validity needs a scholarly or empirical source rather than this practitioner handbook.