Mystic Medusa's Astroscape 2010

Mystic Medusa is a Sydney-based astrologer who has a witty column in the Weekend Australian newspaper, and the monthly In Style magazine. According to her, 2010 is going to be the year of the Suave Individualist, where you get to explore your leadership potential. It’s a year filled with some stunning and powerful astrological alignments.

Chapters in this helpful book include: Moon Mastery, How Not to Let Mercury Retrograde Send You Mental, and of course, there’s a detailed section showing you when to expect romance, more money and that new job opportunity you have been waiting for.

When I turned to the calendar for my sign (Cancer) I found that an amazing year is lined up for me! Apart from the travel (the week of departure was predicted correctly) a new philosophy will realign my life and revolutionise my everyday reality. Great! But then I looked at the other zodiac signs and realised that everyone is in for a fantastic year. Maybe us Cancerians are not so special after all.

Aries will be the beneficiaries of spiritual breakthroughs. Taurus will have an expansive social life and is ultra-lucky this year. Gemini will be sparkling and unsinkable. Leo scores undreamt-of sex, power & money rewards with decadent, mystical love as well! Virgo may have been struggling a bit for the past twelve years, but now she enters a lucky phase for true love. Libra has a sensationally thrilling time ahead. Scorpio becomes mentally, physically and financially fertile. Sagittarius will have good fortune in real estate and domestic areas. Capricorn begins a 14 year cycle that revamps life in unprecedented ways. Aquarius can expect a status upgrade due to a financial boon. And Pisces has ‘a cosmic dollop of fab luck & opportunities’ with the ‘luckiest year in yonks’!

Maybe Mystic Medusa just wants us all to be fired up and enthusiastic about the changes ahead. Or maybe the planetary conjunctions are just especially favourable this year. I choose to believe the latter possibility.

On the plus side, the book is enjoyable to read, and gives useful tips for dealing with that nuisance called Mercury Retrograde. We get four lots of Mercury Retrograde this year, but it’s not all bad news. Apart from possibly having problems with computers, gadgets, and anything related to communication, we’re told it can be a good time for a wilderness retreat, for reading trashy novels, or for doing ancestor worship! Mystic Medusa also has some great ideas for worthwhile activities for when the moon is in certain signs. For example, when the moon is in Cancer, take naps, bake scones, get a boob check, drink gin and tonic while listening to country music, and reread a favourite book from your childhood.

On the negative side, the overuse of the quirky vocab gets tiresome. It doesn’t take long to become bored with terms like, administrivia, peeps, crappo, shitzone, and festering merde - especially when you consider that most of the above words turned up in one page! And my other complaint is that the pages of my copy have started falling out already. Hopefully that was just a production error that occurred during the printing of my book.

This pocket-sized volume of astro-lore and prediction is an entertaining way to find out about the year ahead, and while you are giggling at Mystic Medusa’s humorous way of expressing herself, you’ll find yourself being educated about astrological terms and trends at the same time. Obviously, seeing a real astrologer and getting a chart specifically designed for you would be the best way to get accurate advice, but the pages of Mystic Medusa’s book will give you an inkling of what’s likely to happen in the coming year.

Author: Mystic Medusa
Published by: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781741759068
RRP: AUD $22.99