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I highly recommend this book.

Jessica Murray's new book,
Soul-Sick Nation: An Astrologer's View of America
is now available at AuthorHouse. http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=41780

Also available at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and other outlets.

For anyone dismayed by the current state of the world, Soul-Sick Nation provides a visionary perspective as extraordinary as the times we are living in. Using the principles of ancient wisdom to make sense of the current global situation, this book invites us to look at the USA from the biggest possible picture: that of cosmic meaning. With a rare blend of compassion, humor and fearless taboo-busting, Soul-Sick Nation reveals America's noble potential without sentiment and diagnoses its neuroses without delusion, shedding new light on troubling issues that the pundits and culture wars inflame but leave painfully unresolved: the WTC bombings, the war in Iraq, Islamic jihad, media propaganda, consumerism and the American Dream. This keenly intelligent book elucidates the meaning of an epoch in distress, and proposes a path towards healing-of the country and of its individual citizens. This book will leave you shorn of illusions and full of hope.

Astrology and geopolitics may seem strange bedfellows, but Soul-Sick Nation puts the two together to provide a perspective as extraordinary as the times we are living in. Using the principles of ancient wisdom to make sense of the current global situation, this book invites us to look at the USA from the biggest possible picture: that of cosmic meaning. With a rare blend of compassion, humor and fearless taboo-busting, Soul-Sick Nation reveals America’s noble potential without sentiment and diagnoses its neuroses without delusion, shedding new light on troubling issues that the pundits and culture wars inflame but leave painfully unresolved: the WTC bombings, the war in Iraq, Islamic jihad, media propaganda, consumerism and the American Dream.

In her interpretation of the birth chart of the entity born July 4, 1776, Murray offers an in-depth analysis of America’s essential destiny--uncovering, chapter by chapter, the greater purpose motivating this group soul. She shows how this purpose has been distorted, and how it can be re-embraced in the decades to come. She decodes current astrological transits that express the key themes the USA must learn in this period of millennial crisis—including that of the responsibility of power—spelling out the profound lessons the nation will face in the next few years.

Combining the rigor of a political theorist with the vision of a master astrologer, this keenly intelligent book elucidates the meaning of an epoch in distress, and proposes a path towards healing—of the country and of its individual citizens. Murray explains how each of us can come to terms with this moment in history and arrive at a response that is unique and creative. This book will leave you revitalized, shorn of illusions and full of hope.
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"Jessica Murray's Soul-Sick Nation raises the symbol-system of astrology to the level of a finely-honed tool for the critical work of social insight and commentary. Her unflinching, in-depth analysis answers a crying need of our time. Murray's application of laser beam-lucid common sense analysis to the mire of illusions we've sunken into as a nation is a courageous step in the right direction... Just breathtaking!"

--Raye Robertson, author of Culture, Media and the Collective Mind


" Jessica Murray,..a choice-centered, psychospiritually-oriented astrologer... has quietly made a real difference in the lives of her clients, one at a time. In "Soul Sick Nation," she applies exactly those same skills to understanding America as a whole. Starting from the premise that the United States is currently a troubled adolescent, she applies an unflinching gaze to reach an ultimately compassionate conclusion about how we can heal ourselves and grow up."
- Steven Forrest, author of The Inner Sky and The Changing Sky
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Folks of a metaphysical persuasion tend not to resonate to the “political” label, and political thinkers tend not to give astrology the time of day. But it is time to shake off the constraints of both labels.

In its popular usage politics connotes something far narrower than its dictionary meaning, which is the study of systems of power. For many Americans the term evokes no more than the national infighting between two grotesquely stage-managed political parties. Why take it seriously, if it’s just about a bunch of corrupt rich guys posing for photo ops? Meanwhile, the media hypes “politics” at the same time that it oversimplifies and compartmentalizes it, like a promoter putting on a big, meaningless show.

Thus do many Americans justify ignoring the most pressing questions that exist in the world today. Many who would self-describe as “apolitical” seem to believe that the fouling of the Earth’s waterways, or their government’s use of torture, or child soldiers in the Congo are of interest only to those who are “into politics.” This marginalization of political awareness has resulted in America’s failure to face the rest of the planet—and even its own struggling citizens—with empathy, a cornerstone of spiritual health. Neither a person nor a group can opt out of empathy without becoming soul-sick. To begin healing as a collective we must first of all recognize that what is being dismissed here is the arena where critical humanitarian, moral and spiritual dramas are being played out in the world. This isn’t “politics”; it’s real life. To shrug it off is to turn one’s back on this moment in history.

It is time to consider astrology, too, in a larger way. The stakes are too high at this point in human evolution to keep the great truths of the ancients in a stuffy old library, or pursue them as a mere hobby. We need to pull out all the stops right now to see what is really going on in the world, and ancient wisdom confers the perspective without which such seeing is impossible. This book will seek to shed light on difficult and confusing global issues by looking at them from a celestial distance: a point of view that is vastly higher up and farther away than sociopolitical viewpoints alone can offer.

Astrology is a system of symbols that confers meaning on other kinds of systems, and as such it appeals to those whose primary drive is the search for meaning (a search which is, according to the positive psychology movement, far more predictive of life satisfaction than the pursuit of pleasure). More a spiritual language than a science, astrology requires a leap of faith—something astrologers ought not to be shy about asserting. It is an act of trust to believe that our birth-day means something—something very particular and very important—about who we are. It takes unconditional confidence in the cosmos to believe that we were put on the Earth in a specific location for a reason. Astrology is a very useful tool—not the only one, of course; it is one of a multitude—that can steer us back to this meaning, once our leap of faith has been taken.

A deep faith in cosmic appropriateness does not preclude skepticism; quite the contrary. A distinction needs to be drawn between our confidence in human beings and their societies, which are by definition flawed and often undeserving of our trust, and our confidence in that which is eternal and essential—let us call it Natural Law—in which our trust is always rewarded. “Trust in God,” says an old proverb, “but tie up your camel.” Our belief in the workings of the universe can be quite literally unconditional at the same time that our awareness of the imperfections of human agencies can be, and should be, sharp as a tack.

This book will look at the entity that is the USA as a collective soul whose high and noble potential has become dangerously distorted, to the point where the nation is in desperate need of the clear, critical vision of its citizens to turn it around. The airwaves and cyber-sphere are buzzing with critiques already, of course—some creative and some not so creative. Citizen criticism of an ailing society is crucial, but cataloguing flaws without perspective is destructive; and the last thing we need in this fraught scenario is more destructiveness. We need criticism that is intelligent, imaginative and healing.

Astrology is an ideal way to approach issues that are rancorous and frightening, because it is a way of perceiving that is exceptionally pure and abstract. When the state of the world is described in the language of cosmic principles, it helps us remember that the strivings and errors of human beings, as immense and all-involving as they are, are still just components of an immeasurably larger whole. And when we remember this, the folly we see around us takes on a cosmic sense. We start to glimpse the meaning in it, and the meaning of our presence in it.

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The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. --Albert Schweitzer

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