Spirits & Stars: Alcoholism Through the Lens of Traditional Astrology

Can traditional astrology see alcoholism in a birth chart? After forty years of reading charts and two years of sobriety, astrologer Ken Craig-Saunders turned the lens on himself - and then on 884 charts of documented alcoholics from the Astro-Databank. What he found challenged some of his deepest >Nearly seven in ten alcoholic charts are night charts. The out-of-sect malefic is stronger, not weaker. Mars swings to extremes of dignity and debility. Saturn exalted in Libra appears at rates far exceeding the general population. And some of the signatures he'd sworn were common - Moon in Scorpio, Jupiter in detriment - >This book bridges two worlds that rarely speak to each other: traditional astrology and the recovery community. Drawing on Hellenistic and Medieval techniques - essential dignities, sect, temperament, profections, firdaria, and transits - it offers a rigorous, data-driven framework for understanding addiction through the >Part research monograph, part practical handbook, part recovery memoir, Spirits and >- Statistical analysis of 884 alcoholic charts vs. 4,063 general population charts - Essential dignity and sect analysis for all seven classical planets - Timing techniques for identifying crisis points and recovery windows - A complete guide to reading sobriety inception charts >Written with warmth, humor, and the hard-won honesty of someone who couldn't see >The stars incline. They do not compel.