Written by london swaminathan
Date: 4 February 2016
Post No. 2508
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A new astrology book by the British astrologer Russell Grant has been published a few months ago. This is a colouring book! One may wonder what astrology has to do with colouring. Is it not children’s work?
I bought it for six pounds through amazon.co.uk. Though I wouldn’t recommend anyone to buy it, it features a novel approach to astrology.
Sometime ago I read an interview by Russell grant in the Metro newspaper of London. His views on astrology are strange and interesting.
Astrology can’t predict!
When we go to an astrologer we always ask him questions about our future. But Russell Grant says astrology can’t predict your future. You may wonder then what else astrology does.
Here are some of the questions about his new book “Art of Astrology”
From Metro’s 60 Seconds with Russell Grant
What is your involvement with the book? You haven’t drawn the pictures, right?
Russell: No, but I wrote everything the most important thing was the section about colour. As someone who has used colour all his life – my father was a set designer at Pinewood – I wanted to include the information about colours and what they mean.
What is the point of adult colouring book?
It is about mindfulness. It concentrates the mid—you can forget your anxieties and worries because you are fully focussed on what you are doing in that moment.
(Then some questions about his period of depression and how he came out of it.)
How did you get into astrology?
As a hobby. I was an actor doing a lot of theatre and some TV. I bought a book called Teach yourself Astrology as research at first. I thought it was a load of rubbish – I thought surely humanity is not divided into 12 signs—but when you study it you realise it is not about predictions. You don’t tell the future, it’s about self-potential and the ability to unlock the creative energy within you. Then in 11978 I took part in a presentation about astrology at the Ideal Home Exhibition. I met the Queen Mother, who was supposed to talk to me for three minutes, but the conversation lasted 33 minutes. The next day there was a big picture in the paper calling me ‘astrologer royal’ I never described myself in that way – it was a newspaper headline. That is how it took over my life and it was never meant to.
If astrology isn’t about prediction what is it?
In the paper you can use only sun signs. The whole chart works on an individual’s date, time and place of birth, which is unique to them. When someone comes to me for advice they are not asking if they are going to meet a tall dark stranger, they are saying, “I am restless – is now the time to move on? And I will say ‘yes, it is’ or may be ‘wait a while’, I could say. ‘This is great time to go off and live in America, but they can say they don’t want to. We all have free will and choice. A proper astrologer is there to say this is a good time or it is not. If you look at life, what is it all about? Trends and cycles.
So is there any point in reading horoscopes in newspapers?
It will give you a nugget if it is written by a proper astrologer – it may inspire you. If it is written by a non- astrologer there is no point. Before e mail existed I know of some instances where newspapers – none that I wrote for- had made them up if the horoscope hadn’t arrived in the post in time.
Now from his book Art of Astrology
“In the last 50 years or so I have been involved in teaching and studying Astrology, people seem to have become more and more confused about what it actually is.
The problem lies, in part, with the incredible growth of the internet and social media, and the mixed messages they have spread.
Today, people have access to so many sources, from print articles to websites and apps dedicated to ‘predicting the future’ via ‘star signs’, that there has been a widespread misconception that this is astrology’s sole purpose. It might surprise you to know that astrology does not predict.
I believe that Astrology is a key, a tool, a passport that unlocks the door to a detailed understanding of who we are, what forces are at work within us and we can capitalise on them. Essentially Astrology tells us what we as individuals can do and what we are capable of it reveals our potential. Once we understand this, we are free to fulfil that potential to the absolute maximum.
Colouring book
The book has got lot of illustrations running to 90 pages under 12 zodiac signs. At the end of the book there is colourscopes running to 20 pages.
Russell says
Start playing with colours. Once you have finished your art work, you might find one colour dominates all others; make a note of the colours that standout and also those colours that are missing. One you have listed the colours that dominate, read its interpretation in my rainbow guide. Ask yourself: is something I am missing in my personality of life? You might find it strikes a chord, as the colour sparks off something inside you, perhaps filling in spiritual, psychological or personality link.
My summary:- So it is basically a colouring book with lot of information on 12 signs and the rainbow guide at the end will reveal your personality when you finished colouring!
–Subham–
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