The Year: An Ecology of the Zodiac

Author:   Spike Bucklow
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
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Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 May 2025
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Author:   Spike Bucklow
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
Imprint:   Reaktion Books
ISBN:  

9781836390787


ISBN 10:   1836390785
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Prologue: Ecology and the Zodiac Chapter One       March–April: Cardinal Fire, ‘Emergence’ Chapter Two       April–May: Fixed Earth, ‘Flowering’ Chapter Three    May–June: Mutable Air, ‘Mixing’ First Interlude: Summer Solstice Chapter Four      June–July: Cardinal Water, ‘Nurturing’ Chapter Five       July–August: Fixed Fire, ‘Ruling’ Chapter Six         August–September: Mutable Earth, ‘Serving’ Second Interlude: Autumn Equinox Chapter Seven   September–October: Cardinal Air, ‘Journey to the Other’ Chapter Eight     October–November: Fixed Water, ‘Dwelling in Darkness’ Chapter Nine      November–December: Mutable Fire, ‘Sharing Wealth’ Third Interlude: Winter Solstice Chapter Ten        December–January: Cardinal Earth, ‘Return of the Light’ Chapter Eleven   January–February: Fixed Air, ‘Information’ Chapter Twelve   February–March: Mutable Water, ‘Ensoulment’ Fourth Interlude: Spring Equinox Epilogue: ‘Next Year’ Glossary References Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index

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""Elegantly shows the potential of traditional astrology to deepen our understanding of the most important single issue of our times, namely the ecology of the more-than-human natural world and our impacts upon it. And it does so by quietly correcting the prejudices that have come to dominate modern cultural life. . . . Invaluable.""--Patrick Curry, author of ""Ecological Ethics"" ""Provides a cultural-historical frame for readers to unpack the way Western and secular forms of time are indebted to, or expropriate concepts from, non-Western cultures. A wonderful book that invites you to read its words in ebbs and flows: a historical-cultural-aesthetic-poetic almanac to carry in your pocket, its sentences in your head.""--Julian Yates, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of English, University of Delaware ""The Year is a contemplative almanac charting nature and culture through the zodiac, with a powerful message for our time of grave disjuncture between the two.""--Ferdinand Saumarez Smith, author of ""Eleusis and Enlightenment""


'A contemplative almanac charting nature and culture through the zodiac, with a powerful message for our time of grave disjuncture between the two.' – Ferdinand Saumarez Smith, author of Eleusis and Enlightenment 'Elegantly shows the potential of traditional astrology to deepen our understanding of the most important single issue of our times, namely the ecology of the more-than-human natural world and our impacts upon it. And it does so by quietly correcting the prejudices that have come to dominate modern cultural life . . . invaluable.' – Patrick Curry, author of Ecological Ethics 'Provides a cultural-historical frame for readers to unpack the way Western and secular forms of time are indebted to, or expropriate concepts from, non-Western cultures. A wonderful book that invites you to read its words in ebbs and flows: a historical-cultural-aesthetic-poetic almanac to carry in your pocket, its sentences in your head.' – Julian Yates, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of English, University of Delaware


The Year is a contemplative almanac charting nature and culture through the zodiac, with a powerful message for our time of grave disjuncture between the two. * Ferdinand Saumarez Smith, author of Eleusis and Enlightenment * The Year elegantly enacts the deep, encoded wisdom of traditional astrology as a key part of the indigenous Western worldview, a baby of truth repeatedly thrown out with the bathwater of “superstition”. In particular, this book shows the potential of that model to deepen our understanding of the most important single issue of our times, namely the ecology of the more-than-human natural world and our impacts upon it. And it does so by quietly correcting the prejudices that have come to dominate modern cultural life: the isolated individual over inter-connections, essences over relationships, becoming over Being, and humans over all other animals. These culminate in dangerous hubris which The Year both reveals and corrects. It is thus invaluable as both diagnosis and prescription. * Patrick Curry, author of Ecological Ethics * The Year provides a cultural-historical frame for readers to unpack the way Western and secular forms of time are indebted to, or expropriate concepts from, non-Western cultures. A wonderful book that invites you to read its words in ebbs and flows: a historical-cultural-aesthetic-poetic almanac to carry in your pocket, its sentences in your head. It is a joy to read as the year turns, but it also makes you think about the way global warming and anthropogenic climate change are altering our sense of the seasons, and our place within the world. * Julian Yates, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of English and Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware * Blending ancient wisdom with modern science, this ‘lyrical, poetic’ chronicle of nature’s annual cycle aims to provide a positive perspective on ecological, global and personal change. * The Bookseller *


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Spike Bucklow is the author of numerous books on artists and their materials and methods, including Children of Mercury: The Lives of the Painters (Reaktion, 2022). He was previously Professor of Material Culture at the University of Cambridge.

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