4. Learning the Language

"Nobody can understand the magnitude of the challenge astrology presents to the accepted view of the universe without learning a little of its symbolic language.", 

and this "little effort" will be one of the most rewarding things you'll ever do, I would say. The author presents the basic symbolism of astrology: fire, air, earth, water, cardinal, mutable and fixed signs, the polarity dry - moist or cold - warm.

Also we can find here a long story about Chiron and some practical examples about the relations between Saturn - Neptune, Jupiter - Venus, Saturn - Mercury, etc.

5. Consciousness is the Currency  

In this chapter one can find some very interesting observations about the periods when Uranus, Neptune were discovered. For example, Uranus discovery in 1781 was symbolised by revolutions (American, French revolutions) and words which appeared or received their modern meaning in that period, like: reform, individual, revolutionary, originality, unortodoxy. 

Neptune discovery in 1846 was symbolised by the 1848 revolutions which was described by EJ Hobsbawn in The Age of Capital (1975):

"all possessed a common mood or style, a curious romantic - utopian atmosphere and similar rhetoric, for which the French have invented the word quarante - huitard. Every historian recognises it immediately: the beards, flowing cravats and broad - brimmed hats of the militants, the tricolours, the ubiquitous barricades, the initial sense of liberation, of immense hope and optimistic confusion.", 

by the publication of the Communist Manifesto in 1848, increase of international shipping by sea and words which appeared or received their modern meaning in that period, like: idealism, humanitarian.

6. Is there a Cosmic Will?

In a rather elaborate essay the author argues that there is a cosmic will (even he states that everybody should answer for himself) and we should try to act according to that will, being aware of it through astrology.  

7. Your Cosmic Self

"The astrologer has this piece of paper he often consults, which he comes to regard as "his" chart. But this chart does not really belong to him: in a more meaningful way he belongs to it. The chart represents a moment of time of which his birth was a part, and he is not the exclusive possessor of the potentialities of that moment. Everything else being born around that time belongs to that time too, not only other people, but creatures of all sort, from microbes, up through dung beetles, to the higher orders. And not only living organism, but projects, physical objects, ideas."  

Can one find a more beautiful description of the astrological chart? With other words, we are a "screen capture" on the time - universe display, a "moment" in the development of the world. In fact we are a way of development of that "moment" which can manifest in everything which took life (started) in that moment like: ideas, material things, animals etc. Very nice and subtle idea. It seems like it really is a book for the "intelligent inquirer", as I wrote in the beginning of the review.

The time - birth chart is a seed which may not develop as it should, or, with the author words:

"So we are not automatically the person we are created to be. We do not invariably make the contribution we were designed to make. There are so many obstacles, psychological and circumstantial."

This conception makes place for free will, we can see that the author is not an adept of faith, destiny, but he believes that people have liberty of choice.

Chapter 7 it really is a chapter of wisdom.