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You need to be an astrologer to understand what she wrote in the book, too complex for a common man.
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Pure, simply and plain amazingly, freakingly accurate and true. A good tool to understand (and manage) relationships.
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I bought this book hoping that it was going to be user friendly, for people who dont know much about astrology. I dont know if I lost the ability how to count or Im really bad in math, because Linda's example (Ryan and Maria) on how to find the aspects like the sextiles, conjunctions, oppositions, trines, etc just doesnt match with the way I calculated them. Its really frustrating and confusing! I wish she had been more specific and had given more examples as guidelines. Because finding the aspects accurately, is really the main point on this book in order to get a good relationship reading.
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I bought this book a few years ago when I was seeing a particular Taurus, and I wanted to find out our compatibility. At the time, I was not as well versed in Astrology as I am now, but I did have both of our charts printed from an online source, and I just matched up the details and looked them up in this book.
I found some things to be accurate which I would never have wished to be so! But the book "told it like it was" and I soon found that some of the Saturn aspects could not be avoided, and I was quite shocked to discover that Linda was totally right about a Moon-Uranus transit which spelled disaster! She talks about how a Moon square Uranus will cause breakups and separations galore and that you've got to have some heavy aspects to counter-act this one. Even to this day, that particular excerpt stands out in my mind because it proved to be so true.
I will say that it can be a little difficult to navigate through this book because you are constantly flipping back and forth. Linda also has a section in the front of the book called "Love Aspects" which are also covered later in the book, so you'll end up reading those twice (though the information is slightly different for the same aspect). A little bit of patience and discernment is required. I only wish that there was something in the book to indicate the weight of a given aspect. You'll get a wide range of interpretations which could contradict one another because there are so many potential aspects in a synastry analysis.
If you are determined and you have your chart done before-hand, you can get benefit out of this book. I would still get a professional synastry interpretation done so that you can get a better sense of what issues are likely to effect you the most because some aspects will only come into play during extreme circumstances and aren't likely to be present in your day to day experience.
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I've loved Linda's work for so many years. But to me, in this book the writing is strained, while the humor is often flippant during passages that could have been otherwise profound. Also, the jocular, light tone repeatedly used while discussing difficult aspects struck me as excessive.
Way too much energy was spent on trying to make this book accessible to an audience completely unversed in astrology. For a book focusing on the definition of aspects, that is asking a lot of a novice reader. Many will likely be dismayed by the first 50 pages that are required knowledge for understanding the rest of the book. And afterwards, turned off by the last 200 pages dedicated to erroneous ephemeris detail.
If you don't know astrology, save yourself a lot of trouble and get your natal chart computed for free on the many internet sites that exist beforehand. This book's valiant, but useless, effort at trying to provide for everyone with rounded figures won't get you anything reliably accurate. It's nice to learn to how do your own chart, but this is the wrong book to start with.
Furthermore, no data in this book will tell what degree your planets are in - and you can't know any aspects without knowing degrees. So why 200+ pages were wasted on this section is beyond me.
As for the aspect definitions (pages 55-255) -- the only part of the book I think, actually written by Linda Goodman -- it is very good in parts. I definitely gained interesting insights there, and consider it to be worth the purchase just for those. Not her best work though. In addition, the section on rising signs was superficial and stereotyped. I can't even believe she wrote it.
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