Star-Crossed: Astrology, Personality Theory, and the Meeting of Opposites, by Clare Martin, The Wessex Astrologer (wessexastrologer.com). 152 pages, paperback, $20.00. Digital edition available.
Natal astrology and psychology seem to go together, as part of a natural partnership for the obvious reason that both deal with the same subject, people. Perhaps the most famous crossing of these paths involves the work of C. G. Jung, whose symbolism and imagination fit well with what we might call the astrological mind, though there is more to the connection between these two subjects than that. Author Clare Martin has an MA in Integrative Psychotherapy, and a key part of her career as an astrologer since 1990 included nine years as President of the Faculty for Astrological Studies, and her biography mentions that “her personal…