Venus Rising: Rediscovering the Goddess and Her Planet

by Ronnie Gale Dreyer

Book Overview

The Goddess Venus has long been an inspiration to artists, writers and composers, while the word 'Venus' itself conjures up images of the perfect woman - an ideal of feminine beauty. This image works... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855380064
• ISBN13: 9781855380066
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An important contribution to astrological studies

This book provides a pretty good overview of the Goddesses from Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures linked to the planet we know as Venus. The information on these Goddesses is only an overview - for in-depth studies I would recommend sources more specific to each particular Deity - but the author is thorough and scholarly, and does an excellent job of staying on point by returning again and again to the relationship of the Goddess to Her planet. This is very significant, given the strong connections of astrology and religion in the ancient world.The originality and importance of the book lies in the author's interest in exploring these Goddesses together with astrological information regarding the planet Venus. She discusses in detail the two signs governed by the planet - Taurus and Libra - and compares the ditinctions between them with the distinctions which Plato made between Aphrodite Pandemos and Aphrodite Ourania. She then describes the influence of Venus through the signs, houses, and in aspect.A very good book with an admirable amount of originality. The Goddess Aphrodite/Venus has too often been overlooked as a subject for spiritual and scholarly study.