A fabulous collection of writings! Each article is inspirational and informative, and the work as a whole emanates a true sense of strength and power.

Gloria Star
Transits (Newsletter of the Astrological Association of Great Britain, May 1997)

Made me much more aware of the feminist problem! pioneering work.

Mary Caine
Author of The Glastonbury Zodiac

A very welcome initiative and extremely well put together!

Inspired by the desire to bring the brilliance of the feminist impulse more soundly into contemporary astrology, Kalli Halvorson issued a "call" to women astrologers! Twenty-three women astrologers answered in "response" and all are contained in this small and rich collection. Many address their awareness of a distortion in astrology as it is currently taught, and speak of ways they professionally and personally seek to redress the balance. Some tell stories: of mothers and daughter and various life passages, and teachers, and fellow seekers of the wisdom of the Goddess. She is found by these women everywhere - in the constellations in the sky and in hearth and home. Eloquent voices speak here, some well-known, some unknown, and all thoughtful and wise.

One of the finest collections of astrological writing there is. It filled a huge gap in published works, gave voice to many who needed it, introduced a wonderful new forum for thought, honored the variety of feminist experience!

Fabulous. I realize how starved I am for the voice of inclusion and women's perspective! Although astrology is not my field, I felt at home with all the respondents and enjoyed the format of the forum of voices.

One of those miracles that happen and alter the space forever.

I have been devouring the writing as though it is food for a hungry soul.

I can't stop reading! you have given birth to a very strong, important, wonderful being - a genuine treasure, a medium to communicate in the form of a wave.

A great service to astrology.

I'm continually amazed by the profundity of the writing in the Invocation.

I read little chunks at a time so I can mull over pioneering ideas. This

publication is an historical event.

My inner reaction is so strong, turmoil ensues, new understanding follows! My perspective has been utterly changed.

It's an undebatable fact, a paradox familiar to anyone who has traveled in astrological circles for any length of time at all: take a survey of professional astrologers, astrology students and those Interested Others who keep the rest of us in business and you'll find that 90% of the names on those lists belong to women. Take another survey - this time of published astrologers, internationally-known speakers, and those who make a successful career in our Cosmic Craft - and you'll find that most of those names belong to men.

Go figure.

Kalli Halvorson also noticed that fact. It might have happened when she glanced at the faculty list of an upcoming conference, or the authors' names on the astrology bookshelf at her local Barnes & Noble. Or, like many female astrologers, she may have been in the middle of a chart-reading one day and suddenly realized that only two of the traditional planets she was using in her chart delineation were "feminine" in essence!

The result is Herstar Invocation One, a lovely, heart-felt, and eye-opening book! the essays are delightful, chock full of both personal experience and astrological wisdoms! you'll find all kinds of revelations! So as not to scare the male astrologer off, let me hasten to assure you that the most important theme" prevalent in the book is Equality!

Helping to bring astrology into the next century.

Makes me glad to be alive now! I can see my far-ranging Aquarian visions actually manifest!

I haven't been able to put down my Herstar Invocation One and am so thrilled to find other women who feel the way I do! we must take back our symbol system! I am inspired to take up the study of astrology again.

Made me feel so much better about being an astrologer and about the astrological community!

A wonderful undertaking! we really need more non-patriarchal astrology and symbolism.

Thrilled to see this in print! I've heard practically nothing about the implications of feminism for astrology.

I am absorbing the inspiration of each woman! I pray that the creation of the Circle will give strength and focus to these messages, and that they in turn will impact and transform mainstream astrology.