Book Reviews: Astrology of the United States of Africa
Kevin D. Raphael Fitch’s Celestial Configurations of Africa and the Caribbean (now titled, Astrology of the United States of Africa) is a masterwork of unparalleled breadth. Mr. Fitch’s literary feat provides the astrological charts (in both Tropical and Sidereal formats with well-researched birth data) for all! It includes all the African states plus most Caribbean nation-states. He does not stop there, displaying fascinating birth charts for kings, revolutions, invasions, and similar matters of political impact. It would be impossible to find a book more thorough on this neglected topic of African Mundane Astrology.
Charts are accompanied with brief national/cultural histories enriched with intriguing vignettes. Here is a partial sample lifted from Fitch’s section on the birth of Egypt: “The battle continued until Tuesday, 13 September, in Tel-el-Kebir, when at 5:45 am, British-led troops overtook the last citadel of resistance and an hour later, at 6:45 am, the British began to occupy Egypt. Seventy years later, in 1952, Egypt’s new astrology would overshadow the end of thousands of years of foreign rule.” Additionally, Fitch, who prefers Raphael, weaves an enticing African-based mystical novel into the book in a subject-supportive manner.
Personally, this device stimulated my right brain, balancing the overall factual appeal of the text. This literary approach extends the appeal of the book to both intuitive and scientific readers. This book is required reading for anyone fascinated with the celestial forces and astrological configurations coincident with the rise, fall, and birth of these nations. Mr. Fitch has provided our world lineage of astrological literature with a significant and needed contribution in the political astrology of Africa. Bravo!
—Judith Hill, Astro-Seismic Researcher, Author, Portland Oregon
Raphael. I want to thank for very very much for sending me your grand book. And you’ve really got something here. You’ve worked extremely hard and deserve a great deal of credit. Thank you for sharing it with me. Good luck!
—Noel Tyl, Astrologer, Editor, Author of Synthesis & Counseling in Astrology, Phoenix, Arizona
As Raphael tells us in his introduction, his work started with his desire to collect the independence charts for all the African nations—something that had not been done before. His journey transformed along the way and became this work that ensouls the Spirit of African Brotherhood. It honors the great dramas that each of these nations and their noble peoples have gone through in gaining their freedom that, of course, extended to the Caribbean. Raphael clearly shows that planets and aspects helped to shape these events, yet he urges throughout that Africans, now free, become the masters of their divine destinies.
In this expanded and updated second edition, the now titled Astrology of the United States of Africa, fourteen years since the original, can now reach a new generation of astrologers and history buffs with great interest. In Raphael’s latest work, Astrology, Light & America’s Future, the mythos of Ahmad Jones continues as he “comes home” to expound on the current world stage in matters of great import and enlightenment. And if the reader hasn’t yet seen The End Zone: An Ahmad Jones Novel, this was the exciting beginning of this character’s adventures.
—Denis Ouellette, author of Heal Yourself with Breath, Light, Sound & Water, Livingston, Montana
For those readers investigating the role of astrology in the evolution and maturation of the African and Caribbean nations, this book is invaluable, incomparable, and unsurpassed. Kevin Fitch has written a unique book for mundane astrologers. It’s a wonderful book for anyone who is interested in either mundane astrology or African history. Although based on extensive research, Celestial Configurations of Africa and the Caribbean is far from a dry, empirical record. The data from which the book was sourced is well documented with many footnotes, a bibliography, an index, and miscellaneous information sources. His overlapping of the historical record with astrological detail, as shown in the charts for the moment of independence, makes this work a valuable encyclopedia of mundane astrology.
—Mary Plumb, for The Mountain Astrologer
Raphael, your narratives are insightful and clear, providing a remarkable opportunity to expand my understanding of our world from the cosmic perspective. Your book will be a mainstay for my research as time moves forward!
—Gloria Star, Astrologer, Editor, Author of Astrology: Woman to Woman, Clinton, Connecticut
Kevin D. Raphael Fitch has produced an extremely well-researched book that contains a wealth of information essential to the Western predictive astrologer engaged in the examination of the charts of African and Caribbean nation states. It not only gives consolidated founding charts for those nations but also the reasoning behind their selection and, as such, adds greatly to this area of mundane astrology. I highly recommend it.
—James Chapman, BA, MSc, DMA, Registrar, Academy of Predictive Astrology, New Library, London
Raphael, you have produced a book that will be an important reference to scholars and to informed citizens around the world who have an interest in astrology and the founding histories of Africa and the Caribbean.
—Floyd W. Hayes III, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
All in all, this invaluable work is a ready-made classic that fills a long-empty gap in the understanding of mundane astrology for the nations that individually and collectively make up the evolving halls of history. Much kudos to Mr. Fitch for this welcome culmination of years of devoted and faithful research, to be found nowhere else. This is really a classic and a valuable reference work for all.
—John Townley, Astrologer, Author of Lunar Returns and Composite Charts, Sea Cliff, New York
This magnificent book is a substantial, scholarly, well-written, and an extensively researched account of the significance of the historical and astrological signposts that have guided the development of the title nations on their path to their long-awaited renaissance.
Raphael seamlessly weaves a narrative capable of engaging and satisfying a variety of audiences, each having different interests and priorities. He lightens the text by introducing and interspersing throughout the book accounts of the adventures of the fictitious but clearly relevant astrologer, Ahmad Jones.
—Ron Caruso, School Teacher, East Coast
Raphael’s insightful perspective captures the essence of and fosters a new Brotherhood of Man, where national, ethnic, and political rivalries dissolve and a new Africa emerges.
—David Christopher Lewis, founder of The Hearts Center, author of Now, Zen, and Always
Fitch’s book on the astrology of modern Africa and the Caribbean is a fascinating read for all interested in the sagas of these countries’ independence. He has done a fine job of layering astrological charts over the history to create an excellent tool for novices of astrology and seasoned veterans alike. Through the birth charts for each new government, he reveals its true potential as well as its pitfalls. Definitely recommended!
—Pam Bell, author of Love & Sex by the Numbers and Astronumerology, Issaquah, Washington
With the heart of a mystic and the pen of a poet, Raphael Fitch takes the mystery out of the so-called Dark Continent and brings it figuratively and literally to light.
—Donna Ferri, Visionary Intuitive and Writer, La Jolla, California
The charts and their illumination by Raphael tell the story of Africa from the perspective of divine portents, revealing each nation’s hidden connection with the ethical world. The story tells of an awakening, nation by nation, as if a divine finger had orchestrated their return to freedom, pointing out the appointed time for each nation against the divine ordering of the cosmic clock. And in so doing, hailing the dawn of a new African era.
—Ralph Douwe Raaths, AF&A, Spiritual Science Lecturer and Mythologist, Cape Town, South Africa
Raphael’s book is a first-class, must-read book for anyone interested in African history and astrology. It is as well-written and well-informed as any text of its kind.
—Basil Fearrington, Author of The New Way to Learn Astrology, Newark, Delaware
Astrology, Light and America’s Future
“This is a fascinating Mundane Astrology book! Astrologer, Ahmad Jones, brilliantly addresses facets of American Government, international matters, and current events past, present, and future, often adding the Vedic perspective to the Tropical. You’ll be very interested in what’s said about America’s immediate future and significant matters of other countries. It is a unique presentation that you will enjoy and learn much from.”
—Basil Fearington, Professional Astrologer, author of The New Way To learn Astrology
“I’ve tuned in Raphael… and this resonates authentic for me: Christopher L. Rudy ——— my sworn affidavit and testimonial:) I love picking up Kevin’s new book, and opening it randomly for cosmic synchronicities of metaphoric insight into both the art and science of quantum actuality that we have known as ‘astrology”
—Christopher L. Rudy, Host and Co-producer of BBS Radio’s Cosmic Love
“Astrology Light is an exceptional book which drills down into the astrological charts of countries, national leaders and key events in international relations. For the new astrologer it can raise the awareness of how much one can learn from an astrological chart. For the developing astrologer it provides a template for learning to blend the whole of an astrological chart into the story of the event, place, or person. So often a chart is interpreted based on one feature, here the author shows how many different points of a chart can create a comprehensive and logical analysis. A rare find indeed. To read this book in one sitting would be to minimize the impact of the book. This is a book which one studies one chart at a time until all the knowledge given is digested. And then kept ready on the shelf as a reference to a powerful process of seeing what most never see. Good job Raphael. “
—Dr. Lorrie Bennett, Market Astrologer & Researcher, Stock Market forecasting
“Raphael has brought thorough research to bear on a very timely topic with his book “Astrology, Light, and the Future of America”. In addition to offering detailed accounts of transits and chart interactions, he provides a strong philosophical underpinning, There is both solid, timely information as well as timeless wisdom here.”
—Astrologer K. B., Montana
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