and Welcome to this episode of the astrology podcast. My name is Chris Brennan and today I'm talking with

author Priscilla Costello, who's the author of Shakespeare and the Stars, the hidden astrological keys to understanding

the world's greatest playwright.

Thanks for joining me today.

Thank you for having me on your podcast.

All right, so you're in town and you gave a really successful and well attended talk at

the Tattered Cover Bookstore, which is the main local

independent book chain here in Denver on your book last night.

And the book actually came out a year or two ago, right?

It came out in 2016.

This was an agreement that I had with the publisher

to have it come out on the 400th anniversary

of the passing of William Shakespeare back in 1616.

Okay, and let's talk a little bit about your background.

So when did you first discover astrology or when did you get into it?

I discovered astrology the first year you get into it?

I discovered astrology the first year I went to college because I was systematically reading

through a section of the library, if anybody remembers the old Dewey Decimal System,

it's 133, that'sock full of all kinds of

interesting esoteric toms, and I hadn't had access to much in Toronto, Canada,

before I had gone to college, I had been reading things in the local library,

and luckily, amongst all these books on this shelf of 133 listed books was a book on astrology.

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