Daughter of Saturn
An Auto-ethnographic Enquiry into Contemporary Astrological Practice
Daughter of Saturn offers a sustained, reflexive examination of Saturnian symbolism as lived experience, situating the author’s personal narrative within contemporary astrological practice and wider cultural discourse. Drawing on an auto-ethnographic Saturn diary, dream material, illness narratives, and an extended professional engagement with astrology, Liz Hathway mobilises her position as a ‘deep insider’ to illuminate how astrologers conceptualise Saturn and Capricorn in relation to mythological, historical, and theoretical frameworks. Through online and in‑person focus groups, close reading of classical and modern sources, and critical engagement with debates around stereotyping, archetypes and insider/outsider status, the book interrogates the construction and circulation of Saturnian and Capricornian types in both scholarly and popular contexts, and offers an important insider perspective on the cultural location of astrology in the modern West.
Foreword by Nicholas Campion (pdf)
Review by Michael York (pdf)
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Table of Contents
Foreword by Nicholas Campion
Introduction
Chapter 1
- Linda Goodman: The Capricorn Woman
Chapter 2
- Methodology
- Beginning my research: how i acquired my data
Chapter 3
- Astrology, Historical Background
Chapter 4
- My Saturn Diary – Exploring Melancholia
- The saturn diary: dreaming the senex
Chapter 5
- Sun-Sign Astrology and the Capricorn Stereotype
- Saturn: Background Research
Chapter 6
Mythology, Symbolism and the Kronos/Saturn
- Archetype
- Ancient mythology
- CG. Jung: archetypal saturn and the zodiac
- Saturn: symbol and cultural memory
- Re-thinking saturn: alan leo and liz greene
Chapter 7
- The Saturn Return
- Historical threads
- Astrological threads
- The rites of passage
- Web-based publications
Chapter 8
- Conversations with Astrologers
- The Saturn Return
- What texts on Saturn do Astrologers read?
- The negative Capricorn stereotype
- The term Malefic
- Saturn and Mythology
- Meet up in Amsterdam
- Summary
Chapter 9
- My Findings
- Sun-sign Astrology and the Capricorn stereotype
- Astrologers and Mythology
- Astrologers and the saturn return
Chapter 10
- Endings
- Select Bibliography
- Index