AstroBookReview: Destiny Times Six
Okay, so I originally started this feature to review prediction books, but this is GOOD. I found it in a used bookstore on Saturday and loved it. I highly recommend ordering one off of Amazon (they cost thirteen cents!) for yourself, and I have already put in an order for Katherine de Jersey's other book.
This is more of an astrology mystery novel, but with cases KdJ dealt with during the 60's. It's six extended tales about the lives of people, and it's FASCINATING.
The stories are:
- "Pisces Mystery." Did this woman's emotionally disturbed son shoot his shrink, or was it an accident? His mother asks her to investigate the case. It also goes into the dynamics of the wife's relationship to her husband, and the husband's relationships to his sons. Was her son doomed from the beginning, or could things have been alleviated somewhat via astrological knowledge?
- "Sagittarius Rising." This one goes into two stories of "other women" involved with Sagittarian men. One woman's relationship is doomed, the other is destined to be. This mostly focuses on the second woman, who's worked under her married lover of 20 years. But he's dying, and she wants to know when it's likely to happen. How does their relationship work, and why doesn't he permanently split with his wife?
- "Is Life Worth Living?" deals with suicide. The death of Diana Barrymore is discussed, but this mostly focuses on a Leo teenager whose relationship with his father is rocky. He makes friends with a cute nurse who's into astrology and devoted to service, but can she save him? Can anyone?
- "The Pointless Triangle" is a different sort of triangle. At the start of it, Michael is a teenager who was permanently scarred by the death of his mother, and he's afraid she tried to kill herself. (KdJ says if she did, it was an impulse action, and she was doomed to die young and dangerously anyway.) Meanwhile, his dad wants to remarry for the fourth time, to a woman he's destined to be with. Then when he's older, Michael's mommy issues take a weird turn...
- "Mars for Sex." KdJ is consulted by the wife of an actor who keeps sleeping around. Fame and money is his driving force, and she's devoted herself to him. Will he get over his issues, or will they split?
- "The Girl Who Ran Away" features a couple who KdJ says will get married, and they do. But the man's daughter wants to make all kinds of trouble for her new rival...
It's a really good read. You can make all kinds of interesting ties and comparisons while reading, and they make for good stories as well.
