Certainly Isthmus,
The central theme of Frawley's book is that modern Astrology is but a pale and indeed distorted reflection of Traditional (i.e. 'Real') Astrology.
The book is written in an extremely humerous and often hilarious way - though to be honest it often breaks the forum guidelines of Aeclectic
- there is a fairly devastating critique of psychological Astrology, and of the materialism and scientism of our age . To him Modern Astrology is rubbish.
He accuses modern psychological Astrologers of producing character readings, which cannot be checked (for him Astrology is about prediction') and which basically reduce to the following
'Your are important' 'People do not fully understand you'. Your vices are quite endearing. really'
Everyone wants to here this, so they don't complain that there is nothing of real substance there.
His arguments about astrological time vs clock time are not only fascinating but often hilarious. for example he argues that modern science treats every hour as having the same qualities - time is measured materialy by clocks. He goes on to point out that Astrologically each hour is ruled by a planet and has quite different characteristics - his example is Monday - the day of the Moon. The first hour (astrological days start at sunrise) is rule by the Moon - this is an hour where we feel babyish, want to be nurtured and snuggle up and sleep. However the second hour is ruled by Saturn - the planet of work, discipline, duty and time itself - a most unwelcome visitor. He asks if those who argue that all hours have the same quality have never thrown the alarm clock across the room first thing on a Monday morning.
You will find a discussion of the geocentric universe, the planets, houses, aspects and the various branches of Astrology - but all from the point of view that Astrology should be useful and help us in our day to day decision making. Traditional Astrologers were employed to provide accurate predicitions on business, diplomacy, warfare, politics, etc. If they had not been at least mainly accurate they would never have survived. The did so by applying clear rules - no intuition, or psychic stuff.
This book has cause uproar and controversy in Astrological circles - there are even side swipes at Liz Greene - and you should prepare to be shocked but you will learn much of positive value from it. You will also get a different perspective on what Astrology is and more particularly, why it works.
In a nutshell, the book is about why we should throw out Jung and bring back Lilly.