A review by glitterdyke
Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets Through Capital, Power, and Labor by Alice Sparkly Kat

5.0

okay, this book is INCREDIBLE. it is dense, i learned something new with every sentence. there are entire pages i highlighted!! it does require a little bit of background knowledge- if you're going in thinking this will be relatable as your sun sign, that's not what the book is about. this book is about etymology of planets, with an analysis of power, rome/western (capital)ist empire, and labor. each planet gets a chapter devoted to themselves as well as one in conjunction with other aspects. post colonial astrology pushes us to view astrology for what it is: a "cosmology that has accumulated meaning through the histories of the west." she says, "good astrologists are storytellers. good astrology acknowledges and resists capital, power, and labor. good astrology shrinks the west. there is no one way to practice good astrology.