Brady’s Book of Fixed Stars: The Invisible Force and Influence of Constellations in the Natal Chart

A richly detailed, in-depth look at fixed stars and their role in affecting astrological predictions.

Since prehistory, humanity has been held in thrall by the night sky, captivated by the mystery of the stars. Seeking to make sense of such a magical overhead landscape, people used the stars to relate beliefs, creation stories, and mythologies. And just as the fixed stars have ancient origins in human life, their astrological interpretations get right to the heart of our lives.

Celebrated astrologer Bernadette Brady melds modern astrological techniques with Egyptian and early Greek mythology to bring astrologers to a deeper understanding of the horoscope and provides delineations for using fixed stars in chart interpretation. Her methods open a window on the fixed stars, revealing how a major star in a person’s chart indicates the stage of life in which it is active and how it affirms the person’s life journey through the mythology that the star represents. Though the fixed stars have been watched and studied for all of human history, Brady’s Book of Fixed Stars continues to be the astrological bible for how to use them in practice. This is an essential resource that should be on every astrologer’s bookshelf.

The book includes

• Paran maps, star maps, star phases, and mythologies for over sixty stars,
• New insights into the natal use of fixed stars, as well as their use in mundane astrology,
• Extensive appendices of graphs and tables to help astrologers find rising or setting dates for any given location,
• And a listing of 176 stars with their 21st-century positions.

Bernadette Brady holds a PhD from University of Wales Trinity Saint David and did her doctorate on beliefs in fate in 20th- and 21st-century astrology. She also holds a masters degree in culture astronomy and astrology from Bath Spa University, UK. In September 2006, she was honored by the Astrological Association of Great Britain by being awarded the prestigious Charles Harvey Award for ＂exceptional service to astrology,＂ and in 2008 with the Regulus Award in Theory and Understanding by the US community at UAC in Denver. She is only one of a handful of UK astrologers to hold this award (others being Nick Campion and Liz Greene).

In her capacity as an astrologer, she lectures, teaches, designs software, and writes. She is renowned for her innovative work in visual astrology, the role of fixed stars in Western astrology, and for her work in predictive astrology. Her MA work was in mapping chaos theory to astrology. She is currently studying Egyptology at Manchester University and lectures internationally on Egyptian astronomy.