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In this episode I'm going to be talking with astrologer John Green

about the concept of sinistry in Western astrology.

Hi John, thanks for joining me today.

Hi Chris, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for asking me along.

Yeah, I'm excited about this discussion.

As I told you before, I've been wanting to do an episode on Sinistry for quite a while now and I know a few

listeners have been asking me for that for a few years but it just hadn't come together because I hadn't found a good person to talk about the subject,

even though a lot of people, you know, use Sinistry on some level in their practice.

I didn't know a lot of people who specialized in it or who had written a book on the topic and they're actually, even though it's kind of a long-standing practice, it doesn't seem like there are that many books on the topic, but you actually just published a book specifically

dedicated to Sinistry a few years ago, right?

Yeah, that's correct. I mean, I felt there was a lack of sort of gap in the market for a sinistry book. It's always been one of my favorite sort of tools of astrology. And when I was studying myself, I kept looking for a book

that felt right to me.

And then when I was teaching students would say,

can you recommend me a sinistry book? I was sort of having to say no.

I can't stop my head. And so I had the plan to write it and that sort of you know

finally spurred me into to actually writing it to fill that gap if you like. Right. Well I got the book I've read it and it's an

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