Thanks to Sounds True for the ARC!

I apologize that I wasn't able to give feedback before the pub date. I took longer than I expected to read it, but the reason was that I was actually enjoying and studying each page. I didn't want to miss any details. Even the author said, it's important to feel these words. It's a lot of information, you're not supposed to remember everything just after reading it once. It takes time, but it's worth it.

I got my birth chart online a few years ago, but the website didn't explain it to me. It was kinda frustrating. I wanted to learn more. I wanted to understand what all those planets and signs meant together... But for a while, I forgot all about it. I thought it would be too difficult to find reliable sources for free on the internet. It's not a secret that many people share wrong, vague information just to get hits on their social medias. I think that's the reason why so many people don't believe in astrology... But anyway!

Then, in 2019, I saw this book and I thought: "OMG, I'll finally understand it!!!"

I did not only understood my birth chart, but I also learned a lot about humans. So many things made sense now. I even asked my friends to share their birth charts with me just so I could check the other influences. I was shocked to see how the book was totally describing us.

The reason I'm giving it 4 stars (and not 5) is only because I didn't feel motivated to do all the practices. Some of them were just not for me. At some point I started answering them only in my head, without writing anything... And I know that wasn't the intention.

I am a little concerned that this book tries to present "psychological astrology" as some new form of the art, when that had been the main thrust of astrology in the 20th Century. That said, the exercises provided for each planet are excellent and go beyond every other psychological interpretation of astrology.

Use Your Planets Wisely is full of information on astrology, but not anything on psychology. There are a few exercises in this book for the reader to do. A interesting book for those interested in astrology.

A psychological astrology book that sums up each planet and its behaviour in each sign. Yes, a long read.
The chapters start with the original myth of the planet, followed by a nature based sign (e.g. comparing the characteristics of the planet with a plant).
Moving on to three levels of expression in each zodiac sign; primitive (survival mode), adaptive (maturing) and evolving (serving the collective).
Journaling prompts round off the chapters.
It's well written and easy to follow. I would use this book as a quick refence guide.

I am very interested in astrology and psychology. I was looking forward to reading this book because it claims to be a mix of psychology and astrology.

Unfortunately, I didn't find a lot of psychology in the book. Yes, the author gives us some exercises to do after each chapter but there was no psychology in it.

Coming to astrology, the author mentions right in the beginning that you need a full chart which can be found online. I could find it with relative ease, no problems at all. But the explanations didn't really match for me. It's a small book to read because you will only read the sections that pertain to you.

There were some things that the author did really well, like talking about the myths supporting a planet as well as looking through the lens of primitive, adaptive and evolving.

I think you might like this book if you don't know anything about astrology at all. If you do know a little bit of astrology, like me who knows a bit of vedic astrology, this isn't that great or that accurate.

I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley.

Very interesting book, full of information I have never considered before and is a fantastic reference for the future.