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In astrology, a planetary return refers to the moment when a planet returns to the same position in the sky as it was at the time of a person’s birth. Take the Saturn return, for instance. It’s a pivotal time of maturity. While there are a few books on Saturn returns, they tend to focus solely on the first return at age twenty-eight. This is a disservice, as most of us will live well beyond fifty-seven or even into our eighties when we experience the second and third returns, respectively.

Humans are pattern-matching creatures, and astrology is our grandest pattern-matching game. In this ingenious work of history, data scientist Alexander Boxer examines a treasure trove of esoteric classical sources to expose the deep imaginative framework by which - for millennia - we made sense of our fates. Astrology, he argues, was the ancient world's most ambitious applied mathematics problem, a grand data-analysis enterprise sustained by some of history's most brilliant minds, from Ptolemy to al-Kindi to Kepler.

You're likely a bit of an expert on your own star sign, but did you know you actually have all twelve zodiac signs in your natal chart? Imagine having a roadmap to navigate the maze of astrology and, in turn, better understand yourself and the world around you.