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Special Connections – Astrology and Watkins Bookstore (by Wendy Stokes)
Sep 5th
by Wendy Stokes
During the Victorian era, the intelligentsia and the rich and fashionable of London were fascinated by mysticism and spirituality and, in this era of excitement, one of the leading lights of the day, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, encouraged her friend John Watkins to open the first ever specialist esoteric bookshop. It bears the ‘Watkins’ name to this day. It is situated in the dignified elegance of Cecil Court, off Charing Cross Road. The shop’s logo depicts Thoth, Egyptian God of Wisdom in the act of writing with pen and paper. The store stocks the UK’s widest selection of esoteric information in 60,000 book titles, cards, CD’s, DVDs, talismans, artefacts and other interesting items. In its early years, its customers included W B Yeats, Aleister Crowley, G R S Mead, Carl Jung and Aldous Huxley to name a few. Many people, from unassuming Sufis to specialists in ciphers, codes and covert communications found valuable knowledge on these shelves.
John’s son Geoffrey had been educated in Germany and was commissioned by British Intelligence during WWI. Then, early in WWII, Adolf Hitler was having immense military success, perhaps due to the employment of Karl Ernst Krafft who was Hitler’s personal astrologer! It was known that More >
Top 10 Astrology Books for Saturnalia
Dec 23rd
“O Urania! Io Urania! Great Muse of Astronomy & Astrology Glorious Heav’n Urania Great watcher of the Empyrean’s dance Traced constellations and swirling globes Those cosmic Harmonies shared with her sister Euterpe Muses of Sacred Mount Parnassus Near Zeus’ Omphalos & Apollo’s Pythia Beautiful intergalactic Urania Please help us sing the songs of the stars”
Here comes our selection of astrology books the celebrate winter solstice and Saturnalia, a Roman winter festival, from which Yule possibly originated, as well as its traditions of special markets and giving presents (though the customary massive orgies don’t seem to have made it to present day celebrations …
1. Far Out – A Space-Time Chronicle by Michael Benson Over 50 years of jaw-dropping astronomical photography from the great telescopic wonders of the modern world. From the furthest galactic clusters and deep range filaments to the immense clouds of cosmic matter and galactic fold-outs of the local yet still grandiose Milky-way, the sheer scale and resolution of these beautiful quality photographic prints pushes your imagination as the mind reaches to comprehend the incredible distances and humbling periods of time involved. Gaze with wonder on the supernova remnants and feel holy awe as the book moves out through the patterns More >
