Phoebe Wyss, an experienced astrologer, here examines all aspects of astrology in the light of the emerging worldview known as archetypal cosmology. She sets out by exploring the classical roots of astrology in sources of wisdom found in the ancient Egyptian mysteries. She then follows the tradition to modern times through C.G. Jung's ideas on the nature of the psyche. She also discovers that the claims of astrology are entirely compatible with new cosmological thinking as envisioned by post-modern physics and chaos theory. In the second part of the book, she proposes that the mathematical basis of astrology and the components of astrological charts are both archetypal and cosmic in scope. She argues that the twelve astrological archetypes make up a single 'cosmic mind', whose patterns are imprinted on all our individual minds. Finally, she exemplifies this radical approach to astrology through an interpretation of the chart of William Blake.

Following in the footsteps of Alice Bailey, this book takes up the myth of Hercules to use the story of his twelve labours as an allegory for the evolutionary path of spiritual development. The myths of Hercules' labours are interpreted astrologically, following Bailey's allocation of each myth to a specific astrological principle. Through referring to their birth charts, readers will hear the archetypes speaking to them personally.