“No. It’s a sin to bore people,” I said, quoting our mother with a snicker.
“Yes. We were taught that. So go find this guy’s books so you won’t be bored. Are you bored right now?"
“Well, yeah. I’m pregnant,” I said with a chuckle. “I’m hugely pregnant as can be.”
“I know. I hated that too. So go get this new guy’s books. They’ll cheer you up. Something good to read. Whatever he has out there, I’d say just buy it. I don’t think you can go wrong. And his books are cheap for some reason. This is a big book and it costs half what it should.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. He needs a manager. He needs someone like you to tell him not to sell a book this good, this cheap.”
I laughed.
“So on the Vedic part, I think you’ll find it interesting. I did. And I wouldn’t be surprised if you decided to learn Vedic someday, though I’m not going to.”
“Why not?”
“Because I’m psychic! You’re the real astrologer in the family. I was jealous when I realized this, but I’ve come to terms with it. I can deal with you being the better astrologer in this family because I am the only psychic.”
We both laughed.
“So anyway, half the book is Vedic and you can just consider that a bonus. Because this is a complete book on the (Western) transits as well. You know. It’s a cookbook and it’s worth the price of the book for that half alone. In fact, this guy is so good… I think it’s worth the price of the book for what he’s got to say on just Pluto transits and nothing more.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah, he’s a Vedic astrologer writing about Pluto but he’s doing a hell of a job. So go get this okay? And I think he has another book on the aspects (How To Be A Great Astrologer). I can’t find it but if you do, I’d get that one as well. This is a non-boring writer/astrologer, so you know. Are you getting in your car yet? You’ll have to go to a metaphysical bookstore...” (This was pre-Amazon)
“Yeah, I’m sold.”
This is how I was introduced to James Braha, and this is me, paying it forward.
Check out How to Predict Your Future: Secrets of Eastern and Western Astrology. If it’s your first book by Braha, I doubt it will be your last.
Article comments
1 - Matthew Currie
As both a Western and Vedic astrologer myself, I can honestly say... Braha rules! Wait until you find Richard Houck...